Adega is where you want to be. Maybe a 10 minute walk from Penn.

Bello’s is the closest bar to the station. It’s a commuter bar. Decent food and good beer selection.

Burke’s is new and wants to be the hipster bar but it’s lacking a crowd yet. I really like it though.

Bar Vanquish is like THE downtown bar for Black professionals in Newark right now.

Mompou is good for tapas. Small bar area.

If you want to try to meet girls, Adega, Manu, Little Tijuana, Lit 21.

Ah, yeah. Newark doesn’t have that. We at least have council agendas and land use meetings online. Not the building permit stuff. Would be nice!

Where do you go to look up permits online?!

Did they win the landmarks demolition app? Or is this an appeal?

Are the fences down? I don’t think it’s officially open yet.

Good luck!

We sent every building we were interested in a letter to see if they were thinking of selling and the only response we got back was some guy who wanted to rent us an apartment.

I’ll also note a lot of the buildings that look like row houses are condos not entire buildings for sale.

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One issue is when people don’t use garbage cans. Animals rip apart bags and then it’s spread down the block. The city should do more to insist on cans and dumpsters instead of bags just piled on the curb.

I think November? Maybe October. So not that long ago. I do recall my wife called and we had to wait a week or two. Maybe wait till after the new year and ask again.

The Lupus charity will come to your house. https://www.lupus.org/ways-to-give/donate-household-goods

But they will also take your Amazon package if it’s all out in the same place. 😖 Had to call them and by some miracle they found it and were able to return it.

I mean, not everyone can afford pay cash for a car. Or the ones they can afford need repairs more often.

You’re not wrong as to what’s best but those aren’t always options for people. Where to live, where to work and how to get there don’t always line up great for folks.

Car payment, plus gas and maintenance can get high quick. I had to pay $1600 to repair my car once. It’s like adding $130 a month to my yearly transportation budget.

The 30% should be considered only if you’re paying 15% or so in transportation. If your transportation costs are less, you can shift that to housing. Here’s a good resource on thinking behind that: https://htaindex.cnt.org/

Housing and transportation should make up no more than 40%-45% of your take home after tax income. You can put more of your budget to an apartment if your transportation costs are lower.

And like, you can pay more but things will be tighter. Somewhere in the 60k range before tax should work I think assuming you have no other major mandatory expenses. (Like is your student loan bill really high?)

I had a landlady who wanted to see our pay stubs so she could confirm we made three times the rent and wouldn’t have a problem paying.

Could probably fit a protected two-way bike lane on most of Broad. But need the Parking authority or police to enforce double parking. Lots of cars park illegally on Broad by Harriet Tubman Square so three lanes merge to two.

In like 1940 it was 10% and Essex, Bergen, Hudson combined was like the bulk of the state. We really suburbanized after that.

Casa d’Paco has been the best restaurant in the city since it opened.

If you do the math, Newark is only like 3% of the state’s population now.

I got no problem with him playing music. But if you walk your kids past him they’re going to damage their hearing with it that loud. Living in a city means being respectful of other people because we’re all on top of each other. When you blast your music that loud you’re saying you don’t care about other people and that your preferences are more important.

Again, I’m not calling the cops on people doing that. I’m not calling the cops on people who litter. I don’t even call the cops on people I see run red lights. But they’re still selfish assholes.

Buddy, it’s way too loud. I love city life. I grew up in cities. He’s blasting it way too loud and certainly against the City ordinance. I haven’t called anyone about it to complain because I’m not “fragile” but it’s still a selfish thing to be doing in public.

If he had a permit and the right to be there, then this is messed up. Sometimes the truck looks too close to the intersection. I believe 25 feet is the state law. And most times this guy’s music is so loud it’s actually painful to walk past. Like so loud it’s actually physically painful. (Or am I mixing him up with someone else on that corner?)

I can see if the music was too loud or it was too close to the intersection and he was gone the cops calling the tow truck. If he was there, I would hope they would just ask him to turn it down and/or back up a bit from the stoplight. Trying to get under the bus is a weird and bad decision and probably freaked out the cops.

Where does it say this was a car accident or road rage?

Yes and no. Making an area nicer and more attractive is going to drive up rents in that area because more people will want to live there. If the area is already attractive, then rents of existing units will go up regardless. But if the region as a whole doesn’t add enough units, rental pressure for existing units will be worse. So we need to add more market rate, more income-restricted units, and enforce the city’s rent control ordinance for the older existing stock.

I think the Ironbound in particular is a good example. If we don’t add enough supply close to Penn Station and downtown, people moving to the area will push deeper into the neighborhood looking for housing. It happened to me when we first moved here. We ended up much farther away from Penn than we had planned because there weren’t enough housing units available.

Burlington has been pussyfooting with that site for several years. FWIW, the landlord once mentioned the tenants were often way behind. “They pay rent when they can.”

Really serving up a mix of good and bad news here.