Newark doesn't have much to offer that JC doesn't have.

Newark and JC are in the top 5 least car dependent cities in America, but you wouldn't know it walking around in Newark. Jersey City on the other hand is pretty walkable downtown with a pedestrian plaza (definitely not perfect by any means). Newark's downtown is barely open at night.

These billboards have popped up along the M&E lines in Greater Newark area. ( This photo South Orange station)

Got me thinking....I've never seen Newark advertise itself in JC....in Fact, Newark doesn't exist to anyone looking for travel info in the NJTPK or GSP travel kiosks. But I've seen brochures for Toronto,Montreal,Boston, DC, Philly, Baltimore & of course ..NYC.

Newark needs to step up to the plate & prejucided NJ needs to acknowledge Newark as its flagship city, instead of saying "NJ this, NJ that!"

JERSEY GARDENS MALL at the Mills has a large beautiful "WELCOME TO ELIZABETH" poster.

Newark airports new terminal A has a giant "NJ" "WELCOME TO NJ".

(Maybe this should be under "rant"? LOL) I rest my case.

I also like Wasabi in West Orange. Good luck!

Damn

Yeah the future for Newark is bright and it will improve but it’s definitely limited in a lot of ways given how tiny it is.

All we can do is dream, but hey atleast we can still have a good population, just going to have to build up

Yeah Newark would be a top 20-30 city if we included a good chunk of the immediate suburbs of Essex county like Montclair, the oranges, millburn, etc

Man if I could go back town and redraw Newark borders man this city would be large. Probably keep downtown in the east near the river and have every major road head towards it. Have the most western part of Newark look more green and hilly, the type of area were dears are eating grass in your yard

Yeah by population but land area we’re smaller than a lot of towns. The largest “city” by land area is Vineland in south jersey but it’s a city in name only and would appear rural to most people

Can’t believe we’re the largest city, must be by population

Yup that’s the other thing. That 24 square miles includes a lot of airport and port land that isn’t useable for the general population so the city is really even smaller than that. Maybe like 18-20 miles of usable space.

If the airport was outside the city limits instead of in like the majority of American cities we would have more room for people

I thought I saw it on their website but now I can't find it.

Newark is quite small especially by American city standards. We have the population of Pittsburgh ~300k but only about half the land that Pittsburgh does (24 square miles for Newark while Pittsburgh is almost 50 miles total).

Baraka doesn’t care but it gives him good press to make it seem like he does. It’s good regardless but dude is a political chameleon who will morph himself into whatever he needs to in order to gain positive attention.

Oh shit it’s reopening? Thank god.

I miss Golden Krust

closest I can say is Swedish Bakery/lite eats in Hackensack called Bageriet

an Austrian restaurant in neighboring Harrison called Charley's.

good luck, NYC would def cater to your friend much easier.

The chef may very well have been Gallego.

I thought the previous chef from Casa Vasca was from Galicia? And is now at Casa d’Paco.

Says guy who has never been to Galicia. Casa Vasca's owner is also Basque, I believe.

Yes but from the part of Spain that might as well be Portugal.

Overpriced ugly glass and steel wins every time

Awesome rec. Hoping my Library has a copy.

Manu's is Brazilian-Japanese. Has hibachi and sushi. Its pretty good.

Ramen Gami reopens finally on Feb 19th apparently. That place was also really good.