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Newarkguy1836 t1_izrea5w wrote

Reply to comment by VroomRutabaga in 55 Union St - lights by effort268

You don't grow the city population by moving people from one block of the city to another. Development is meant to increase the population. The city used to have close to half a million residents. The city fathers built an infrastructure to support 1 million people because the expected to expand Newark into all of Essex County. But lo and behold racist anti Italian and anti Irish bigotry dominating the 19th century NJ legislature passed laws to prohibit Newark, Camden & JC from growing further and introduced the dead end obstacle & referendum process to annexations. Newark has the same square mileage as Manhattan. Obviously Newark is not going to get manhattanized, but it can easily support half a million.

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Newarkguy1836 t1_izrdk0n wrote

Reply to So 569 Broad street is up for its third meeting with the HPC at 6pm by Kalebxtentacion

So basically the ghetto Lobby wins. That's what I call all these Pro ghetto blight groups that want to keep the city and a limbo status quo of poverty and blight in order for them to continue living their lives and complete Oblivion to the world around them. These are simply groups that want nothing built in their neighborhoods because they are part of the problem and they don't care. You feel like shouting at them when you hear their stupid ridiculous objections. Some of these people will get up over and over and over again during hearing

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Newarkguy1836 t1_izraz2a wrote

Reply to Opinion article: extend Hudson-Bergen lightrail into Ironbound by 66nexus

Will never happen. New Jersey is a state that ignores and hates its largest city and insists on worshiping New York and Philadelphia. You can drive the NJ turnpike from Delaware to Exit 14 and you will never see the name Newark on the control cities header sign. But if you drive south on the turnpike you see constantly the names Trenton and Camden even though the turnpike misses these two cities by over 5 miles to the east! New Jersey's only interested in serving New York and Philadelphia. And besides, the article is wrong. Most of the right way is gone in the Ironbound between the old Ballantine Factory on ferry and Jackson Street

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GhostOfRobertTreat t1_iznq8xi wrote

Reply to comment by ScrollHectic in Application to Tear Down Century-Old Ironbound Row House for 11-Story Tower to Be Heard | Jersey Digs by calambre10

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.

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ScrollHectic t1_iznazpr wrote

Reply to Application to Tear Down Century-Old Ironbound Row House for 11-Story Tower to Be Heard | Jersey Digs by calambre10

I'm not an Ironbound resident but I do try to spend time in some of the "off the beaten path" sections. I've visited restaurants and bars where literally no one spoke English and have hung out in cafes where everyone knows each other. It's a tight knit community and is beautiful to see. I think those who live and love the Ironbound are trying to preserve that and I don't blame them.

Along with easy transit and NYC accessibility, part of what these new developments are selling is the feel and culture of the neighborhood itself. Every article you read about the Ironbound touches on it. You displace those people, you lose that culture.

There's room for more people in our city but not at the cost of displacing others. There has to be balance.

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Kalebxtentacion OP t1_izmeoxz wrote

Reply to comment by Juicey_J_Hammerman in So 569 Broad street is up for its third meeting with the HPC at 6pm by Kalebxtentacion

Not sure but I bet it got denied, the building is getting denied over petty shit. Sorry for my language and they won’t approve it because they know a taller building would replace it. The fact the members know and want this building to get knocked down they say no because the developer didn’t meet with James street association. I wish they approve the demolition so we can see the new changed design then make a final decision based off that, don’t complain about seeing the same project again if you keep doing the same thing to it.

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