Category Archives: Featured

Shifting Forward: Newark 2025

Saturday, 9 August 2008 – 8:00 am

Newark has yet to see its bright day since 1930 when its population (490,000) and its manufacturing and retail power were at its peak. Now, that day has been set for 2025. Toni Griffin, Director of Planning and Community Development, is presenting a “majestic” vision, in Deputy Mayor Stefan Pryor’s words, about the [...]

By Zemin | Also posted in Culture, Development, Race | Comments (5)

Interview: Brick City Urban Farms

Monday, 28 July 2008 – 2:00 am

Urban farming is changing how you eat your food. By closing the gap from halfway across the country to halfway across town, urban farms can bring healthier, tastier and cheaper food to your table.

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit Brick City Urban Farms, an urban farming project right here [...]

By Ken | Also posted in Business, Community, Downtown (Central Ward), Environment | Comments (0)

Thanks to Our Advertisers: Newark Art Supply

Friday, 4 July 2008 – 8:00 am

This week, I want to thank the Newark Art Supply for their sponsorship of the Daily Newarker.

The store, located downtown around the corner from Rutgers University and down the street from 27 Mix on Halsey, provides art supplies and a forum for conversation about the arts in Newark. The store frequently hosts exhibitions and [...]

By Ken | Also posted in The Daily Newarker | Comments (0)

Today: Sounds of the City Free Concert at NJPAC

Thursday, 3 July 2008 – 8:09 am

NJPAC will continue with its series of free outdoor concerts this summer, starting today at 5:45 PM. The “genre-bending” concert series features everything from jazz to hip hop to salsa to gospel, and are held in the performing arts center courtyard.

Tonight’s acts include:

DJ Jihad Muhammed
Berkana feat. Nat Janoff
Jubilation Gospel Choir
and Andre

Food and [...]

By Ken | Also posted in Music, New Jersey Performing Arts Center | Comments (0)

NPD Reports 37% Decline in the Murder Rate, on Track for Record Low for the Year

Tuesday, 1 July 2008 – 8:44 pm

Newark’s murder rate on track to beat all-time low

The NPD may be on pace to cut the murder rate nearly in half by the end of 2008. With the market going to crap, commodities prices going through the roof, and the potential (well, okay, rumor) of mayhem in the Middle East, this news is [...]

By Ken | Also posted in Cory Booker, Crime, Garry McCarthy, Newark Police Department | Comments (0)

Bicycles, Trains, and Children

Monday, 30 June 2008 – 6:36 am

Early Saturday morning, my 11-year-old son and I rode our bicycles in the middle of Market Street, once the most automobile-congested street in the country. Of course, we could not do it without over a hundred fellow Newarkers, who joined the Brick City Bike Tour.

“That’s how it feels in a city without cars,” my [...]

By Zemin | Also posted in Children, Community, Development, Events, Infrastructure | Comments (5)

Interview: Darius Sollohub of the NJIT School of Architecture

Thursday, 26 June 2008 – 6:47 am

Newark is the fastest growing city in the Northeast, leading the nationwide trend of people migrating into cities. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece describing the demographic aspect of this move—boomers and millennials, mostly—and identifying higher energy prices as one of the main reasons for this trend.

The Journal (and a similar CNN piece [...]

By Ken | Also posted in Architecture, Bayonne Box, Community, Crime, Culture, Development, Downtown (Central Ward), Environment, Fire, Podcast | Comments (1)

New Lifestyle Apartments and Condos Open for Business

Friday, 20 June 2008 – 12:04 am

The Colleoni apartments have opened in the heart of a community that’s been reinventing itself as the Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District: Regan Completes $6M Apartment Rehab.

Originally constructed as a grand-style apartment building, Colleoni Apartments was later divided into smaller, lower-quality units before ultimately being shuttered in the mid-’90s. Regan’s rehab has returned [...]

By Ken | Also posted in Development | Comments (0)

Bookstore, Café, and Imagination

Monday, 9 June 2008 – 5:00 am

In 1997, Jonathan Cole, the Provost of Columbia University, walked around the Morningside neighborhood in New York City, disturbed by the shabby conditions of a few older bookstores. After failing to lure the legendary bookseller Jack Cella from the Seminary Co-op Bookstore of Chicago, Columbia offered Chris Doeblin and his partner Cliff Simms a university-owned [...]

By Zemin | Also posted in Business, Community, Development | Comments (1)

The Portugal Day Experience

Saturday, 7 June 2008 – 9:00 am

So, we really puzzled over a way to share the Portugal Day Festival experience here on the blog. Truth be told, from the art shows this week, to the festival tonight, to the parade tomorrow, there are so many things to experience that we just couldn’t possibly attend them all.

But you can. This [...]

By Ken | Also posted in Portugal Day, The Daily Newarker | Comments (0)