It’s a large format illustration collage of a white woman with red lips rolling a joint. It’s the kind of thing that is only sexually evocative for those who are repressed.

Heaven forbid you could buy weed at Broad and Market.

This is so stupid at this point with marijuana objections. Just old farts that need to move to Florida already. If anything I'm more offended by him naming it after a neighborhood in Queens and not Newark or NJ

Wait they were going to keep that super ugly sliding covering the building?

Here is the link. Page 7 of the drawing which is the second PDF. https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1nEOdHmdin-15Ir1melldfZhZj7gltqmp/1ZYJpZ81wO_nsO8f9EXO_35-qdbYBh53Z?sort=13&direction=a

It can be viewed here. It’s on page 7 of the drawings. https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1nEOdHmdin-15Ir1melldfZhZj7gltqmp/1ZYJpZ81wO_nsO8f9EXO_35-qdbYBh53Z?sort=13&direction=a

I really need to see this rendering now.

Idk it was mentioned in the article

where can the rendering be viewed?

And the rendering wasn’t even going to be on the building, it was a placeholder. Sad

"Newark’s Central Planning Board stomped on a lot of buzzes Monday night, denying an application by Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon to open a cannabis lounge a block from the Prudential Center arena after church elders protested and one board member complained that the rendering was offensive." (Subscriber Access Restricted)

That's ghetto Thug nonsense and I myself used to think that way when I was in high school in Newark. It's all part of the mentality "keep it real". These are idiots that consider Newark to be garbage and that is the real Newark in their opinion. They actually take pride in the negative perception because it is gold in the hip hop culture. These are the same clowns that later cry "they're pushing us out for gentrification"

theres 2 bball courts in Harrison, one on frank e rodgers behind the soccer field, and one next to the fire station in harrison. Both have people playing all the time when weather is being nice.

Ironbound good luck .. I mean we used to go down to mosquito park (east side high school) and play against them people down the neck and it was amazing!! But idk now but we also played off Frankie Rogers and Harrison ave basketball court in Harrison 2 minutes from ironbound and I just drove pass there Sunday and it was packed ! Those courts are nice and gated too separated from soccer field .. but if you not scared and can really ball .. we be at weequahic park every Sunday morning starting next month

This is a good one if you don’t want to play with other people LOL

ill check it out this week thanks

thanks i will try it out this week

Riverbank park has a court

Oklahoma City, the most conservative big city in America, with a Republican mayor, has had a persistent issue with homeless camps for years. Were liberals responsible for that, too?

Broken windows theory. If a broken window is left unfixed, soon all the windows will be broken

People are always playing on the court in independence park

Liberals

Doesn’t having all the answers get exhausting?

The homeless at Penn Station don't bother me much, but I understand that the attendant issues do bother a lot of other people, and I empathize with them.

My girlfriend for example will not travel through Penn Station unaccompanied, and I know her concerns are not way out of the norm. Yes, the fear of crime is generally disproportionate to the risk of victimization. The chances of victimization to her at the station are likely quite low. But the appearance of disorder and norm violation has a psychic cost, making people uneasy and motivating them to avoid the place.

Any location in which a large number of street people congregate will likely become known for pungent body odor, the smell of human refuse and psychotic episodes. I don't blame the homeless for these issues, but I also don't blame the large segment of the population who will do what they can to avoid such unpleasantness. Norms are important to people everywhere, and norm violations are, in every society treated with some measure of avoidance and shunning.

My understanding is that the LA Metro, currently undergoing a multi-billion dollar expansion, has low ridership due in part to its common use as a place to live and do drugs. Once a location or system becomes well-known for norm violations, the people interested in those things will flock there, and those people not interested or disgusted by those things will stay away.

Newark Penn Station is of course not at that extreme level. Its the seventh busiest train station in the US, as I understand. But I think the OP's concerns are valid. The state of things is a deterrent to people traveling through the station, visiting Newark, and living here. And if the police had a completely live-and-let-live attitude about Penn Station, then I think it would go the way of the LA Metro, or worse.

There have been times I have come back late through Penn Station and found certain parts of the station essentially taken over by station residents. By taken over I mean that they blocked egress and diverted passengers elsewhere.

I think it's far from unreasonable to suggest that the police contain the issue to a greater extent, though that would require more coercion on their part.

I don't see how homeless people threaten Penn Station being a train station. They aren't sitting on the tracks.