Damn, people really dislike vegetarians in this subreddit.

What are you talking about? There haven't been factories in the Ironbound for decades and no, deindustrialization did not lead to better wages in other industries for the majority of the working class.

It's so beautiful

Our rent freeze is decided by the mayor not the president you absolute moron.

Landlord's are claiming this article is lying.

It's very dangerous here. My grandmother lives in Newark and she slipped on orange juice that someone spilled in the Shoprite.

High inflation is the perfect time for a rent freeze that will protect tenants.

The landlords and developers have arrived to respond.

These landlords are the absolute scum of the earth and the city won't do much because all of their campaigns from the mayor down are funded by the same landlords they are supposed to be regulating.

There aren't enough Dunkin Donuts.

Dinosaurs are extinct so you might have some difficulty finding a butcher who sells their ribs.

Yes, but people deserve options.

Ok Karen.

Conservative racism and hatred of the poor has to be the most boring frontier of modern "thought."

Walk into any mom and pop bagel shop in small town NJ and it will be many times better than Zaro's. Let's get a real bagel place to replace these shitty train station bagels.

I see a lot of black folks hanging out on that corner so I'm wondering what you mean by "wrong element."

The patrons of this 7/11 are largely poor people. In Silva's eyes the "wrong" kind of people, which is why he is so happy it's closing. Don't get me wrong. I don't love 7/11 but this is clearly an attempt to get poor people to stop hanging out on that corner. Not everything needs to be a cocktail lounge. Poor people need a place to buy things too.

Don't be a rat bro. She's just a poor person who needs diapers.

Lol at 7/11, a store that sells heat lamp hot dogs and diabetes in a giant cup, being a "powerhouse company."

Thank god Bolsonaro lost. May all these stupid assholes now drive their trucks into the Passaic River.

And I would feel bad for Brazilians if those Americans decided to have a Trump caravan in the middle of their city.

Unfortunately these fascists are all over the Ironbound. A real blight on an otherwise great neighborhood. And Bolsonaro is worse than Trump and may actually be able to pull of a coup if he loses.

You misunderstand. The broken window is a conceptual piece of art meant to represent the broken nature of our democracy.

Agreed

Can we stop calling him the "Hip Hop Councilman" in every headline? He is just a councilman now.