Recent comments in /f/Newark

Jimmy_kong253 t1_jduno8y wrote

How am I monster there are services to help people and as long as activists keep pushing the they have to get help when they feel like it and until then they can sleep anywhere they want narrative it's never going to get better. In fact some of the hardest defenders of homeless people I feel like have never truly dealt with them on a daily basis. Do you want to walk around and have your kids see some of the things I've seen around penn over the years? I don't think you would appreciate a homeless masturbating in the middle of the street, Someone screaming at you because you didn't buy them what they wanted in McDonald's or my all time favorite someone taking a shit in 1 track stairwell then throwing it at people. I'm a believer in bringing back the asylums because some people can't be left alone to function in society. If you don't like my position then be the force for change take em home with you when the government fails it's the citizens that have to pick up the slack

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Jimmy_kong253 t1_jduggfi wrote

Because they have everything they need in that area charities feed them and give them clothes, The drug dealers are there as much as the charities are. Plus they can come and go on the PATH since that railroad barely ever enforces fare jumping. Also except for the hour's of weekday rush hour they usually are allowed free rein over penn. Now as far as new york Penn and Newark goes new York penn has a even worse homeless issue. That mainly because of all the methadone clinics

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felsonj t1_jdugdcb wrote

The previous poster answered your question in spite of himself. You raise a perfectly legitimate question. Is it possible that a train station operate simply for that purpose — a way station for passengers, or must it also inevitably double as a homeless shelter? But of course in the current political environment there are those who will become apoplectic about you even raising the question. And take the opportunity to insult you and virtue signal. And so then of course the answer is that the status quo must remain because even to question that a train station be exclusively a train station is to be a horrible person. It’s absurd but this is now what we’re dealing with.

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Jimmy_kong253 t1_jdug631 wrote

Honestly in the case of newark penn they are really are you get hounded by them from the moment you enter till the time you get on the train. That's why when they announced the renovations at Newark Penn as far as the benches and AC goes most peoples reaction was on the homeless there will appreciate it

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Keilz t1_jdtiq3x wrote

I would ask current students at Seton Hall. Their advice is probably more tailored to law school life and demands in the city.

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GhostOfRobertTreat t1_jdtepel wrote

Reply to comment by sutisuc in Leasing Sign up at Shaq II by recnilcram

Downtown Newark needs more wealthy people to help spur local businesses. The city has a lot of affordable and middle-income housing (though not enough of that is new) but it doesn’t have much in the way of actual luxury buildings.

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Newarkguy1836 t1_jdr7ed8 wrote

Reply to comment by Marv95 in Leasing Sign up at Shaq II by recnilcram

Newark does not have the housing stock that attracts people to bump out current residence. Newark is a city of wooden tenements just like Boston. It is not a city like New York and Philly where you have blocks and miles of uniform brick and Brownstone Rowhouses. The development in Newark is taking place where vacant and parking lots currently sit. Once you get 100% buildout in downtown, and that won't happen for years, then you'll see gentrification into the lower income surrounding neighborhoods. That's at least 20 years away.

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