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Jerz2florida t1_jc51q65 wrote
Reply to Valley National, Bank Leumi, Be-Aviv Lend $50M on Newark Multifamily Build (50 Sussex Ave.) by madsheb
Looks like that new apartment building that got built in East Orange a few years back.
kzapwn t1_jc50u0r wrote
Reply to comment by Newarkguy1836 in This is what Mayor Baraka thinks of pre-1967 Newark History!! City said Columbus statue it took down was in storage. It’s outside, in a vacant lot, on the ground. by Newarkguy1836
The Underground Railroad occurred before 1967 I think. It’s not like he put up a statue of shaq or something to replace Columbus
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Newarkguy1836 OP t1_jc50dnm wrote
Reply to comment by kzapwn in This is what Mayor Baraka thinks of pre-1967 Newark History!! City said Columbus statue it took down was in storage. It’s outside, in a vacant lot, on the ground. by Newarkguy1836
The reference to pre-1967 s in reference to Elizabeth Del tufo's correct assessment the mayor has no respect for anything historical that pre- dates the 1967 riot and black majority.
Newarkguy1836 t1_jc4zxn4 wrote
Reply to comment by Njmomneedz in Living in East orange? by granitellama
That's true no matter where.
Newarkguy1836 t1_jc4z25x wrote
Reply to comment by Nexis4Jersey in Living in East orange? by granitellama
That's the Rahway River East Branch. It flows South on its way to Millburn where it meets the West Branch Rahway coming down South Mountain reservation to form the greater Rahway River.
Also, the Elizabeth river begins in Newark at the old Vailsburg / Irvington boundary at West End ave.
Newarkguy1836 t1_jc4yugf wrote
Reply to Living in East orange? by granitellama
It is a good neighborhood. You've got the VA hospital in South Orange just blocks away. West of Monte Irving Orange Park you have a section of orange that looks identical to South Orange minus the gaslamps. The only sketchy area is between Montrose Avenue and South Orange Avenue. Where the Vailsburg area of Newark Zig Zags in and out.
Newarkguy1836 t1_jc4y8z0 wrote
The bottom floor used to be a beautiful 2 story & basement Store known as Kresge's . Just like McCrory's across Cedar Ave, it had it's on subway station on the eastbound side. Eventually the larger Kresge went on to become Kresge Mart/ later Kmart. The Newark Kresge morphed into the two guys department store chain.
Newarkguy1836 t1_jc4wyl2 wrote
Reply to comment by SkyeMreddit in Two-story addition proposed by the Hanini Group for 707 Broad Street by felsonj
I wish I saw your post earlier. Would have saved me the effort. LOL
Newarkguy1836 t1_jc4wozk wrote
Reply to comment by g11235p in Two-story addition proposed by the Hanini Group for 707 Broad Street by felsonj
You figured it all out at the end of your post. A lot of these developers are scum with no intention of building anything. You buy a plot of land for a million dollars in downtown, propose a 50 story Skyscraper the city can only dream of. The city enthusiastically approves the project. Now the land explodes in value at the very least because of the potential. Now they sell the land for many millions more based on the new speculative value of what has been approved.
Newarkguy1836 t1_jc4vsqr wrote
Reply to comment by 1Pichi in Valley National, Bank Leumi, Be-Aviv Lend $50M on Newark Multifamily Build (50 Sussex Ave.) by madsheb
Tona is planning another similar height structure a "few blocks away" plus the apartment building on Central Avenue near the intersection with 1st Street directly across from the old Cablevision headquarters.
Newarkguy1836 t1_jc4vk6y wrote
Reply to comment by Ironboundian in Valley National, Bank Leumi, Be-Aviv Lend $50M on Newark Multifamily Build (50 Sussex Ave.) by madsheb
It's great to see developers have enough confidence in Newark to actually put their own money and get things going.
Newarkguy1836 OP t1_jc4s8eg wrote
Reply to comment by Ironboundian in Despite the lies from activists (The "Ghetto Lobby")..little to no gentrification in Newark. Measuring and Explaining Stalled Gentrification in Newark, NJ: The Role of Racial Politics | Urban Affairs Forum by Newarkguy1836
You should see a gray bar directly below the skyline image of Newark saying " urbanaffairsreview.com "
Urbanaffairsreview.com/newark
Usually just tapping the picture will take you there.
Ironboundian t1_jc4pqsb wrote
Nwk_NJ t1_jc42g81 wrote
Reply to This is what Mayor Baraka thinks of pre-1967 Newark History!! City said Columbus statue it took down was in storage. It’s outside, in a vacant lot, on the ground. by Newarkguy1836
Columbus was a clown. Baraka is a clown. The Communist movement on this sub and in this city are clowns.
That being said, what Baraka cares about is virtue signaling to keep people's minds off the fact that he is an ineffective Mayor.
1Pichi t1_jc3ecks wrote
Ironboundian t1_jc30agj wrote
Reply to comment by thebruns in Valley National, Bank Leumi, Be-Aviv Lend $50M on Newark Multifamily Build (50 Sussex Ave.) by madsheb
“….Pollack noted that Tona used its own funds to pour 12 floors of concrete before the loan closed. “
thebruns t1_jc2ytqg wrote
Reply to Valley National, Bank Leumi, Be-Aviv Lend $50M on Newark Multifamily Build (50 Sussex Ave.) by madsheb
This building is like halfway done already
ScrollHectic t1_jc2w5a4 wrote
First week of April? I feel as if it gets earlier every year...
Electronic-Minute-74 t1_jc2pcb9 wrote
Reply to comment by g11235p in Two-story addition proposed by the Hanini Group for 707 Broad Street by felsonj
yea i dont think hanini is that type of developer but it is true overall..
SkyeMreddit t1_jc2lp8h wrote
Are they still going ahead with the rooftop bar and glass elevator on that building?
SkyeMreddit t1_jc2ljs9 wrote
Reply to comment by g11235p in Two-story addition proposed by the Hanini Group for 707 Broad Street by felsonj
Some get built eventually but it can take several years between planning board approvals and construction financing and permits. Especially if they redesign it again. Those eventually happen, but COVID messed things up.
For others, yes they are scheming to get wealthy without having any actual plans to build. Buy a forgotten site for like $250K, put together plans and get planning/zoning approval for a big tower, and then sell it for $5 Million saying “Fully Approved for a 25 story tower”
Quantumbrotherlord OP t1_jc0tr36 wrote
Reply to comment by Ironboundian in Looking for a place to stay near NJIT for 1 month by Quantumbrotherlord
Too pricey!
Newarkguy1836 OP t1_jc52tjk wrote
Reply to comment by srddave in This is what Mayor Baraka thinks of pre-1967 Newark History!! City said Columbus statue it took down was in storage. It’s outside, in a vacant lot, on the ground. by Newarkguy1836
Well the Columbus homes were built for Italians displaced by urban renewal. The idea what's the Italians to live there and the wealthy Irish and Jewish (both groups by now financially successful and included in America's elastic category) would live in the fancy Colonnade Towers. When the federal government and the City took and demolished Little Italy with eminent domain claiming the area was dilapidated and in need of Redevelopment. Black and Italian neighborhoods were targeted for urban renewal because Italians were not considered white at the time. As Italians began moving into Belleville Nutley and other places nationally they became openly racist against black people as a way of asserting their whiteness. This culminated through the rights when the Italians form the human chain to keep blacks from the north Ward with Tony Imperiale becoming notorious figure. It would also kill ed the original Kawaida Towers
Of course that's not how it turned out. Thanks to the GI Bill all the youngsters of Little Italy wound up moving to the suburbs and Columbus homes /7th ave Lower Broadway became home to poor blacks and Puerto Ricans.