Unknown substance sickens dozens in Newark
Creepy hazmat situation in the West Ward.
Emergency responders were called around 11:25 a.m. to the six-family, three-floor apartment building at 521 S. 17th St. after residents complained of light headedness, sore throats and itchy eyes. The building was evacuated.
The city’s Hazmat team is investigating. A crew from PSE&G was [...]
I received a flyer from the City Hall the other day describing the new parks coming to the city. The city is partnering with philanthropists to bring playgrounds, sports fields, pools and walkable green space to Newark neighborhoods.
Mayor Cory A. Booker and the City Council create the largest historic fund for City Parks
Through Green [...]
Rat-tainted chicken was sold in Newark store
This is just horrifying.
A Newark man pleaded guilty in federal court today to wholesaling poultry from a store in the city’s Ironbound section that had been gnawed on by rats and tainted with rodent feces, urine and hair, authorities said.
Ben A. Abit, the owner of Triple A Foods and [...]
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 [...]
Feds announce $80M cleanup of Passaic River
London has the Thames, Paris has the Seine, Florence has the Arno—Newark, on the other hand, has the Passaic.
The Passaic River, once the dumping grounds for over seventy companies that took up residence along its banks, will receive a limited cleanup of some key “hotspots” by the EPA. [...]
Group urges a greener Newark
Kim Gaddy, a West Ward resident and mother of three asth matic children, organized the UEI program using funds from the New Jersey Environmental Federation, Clean Water Fund and Quest Ink! Inc.
“After seeing some of the air quality studies that were coming out about the area, we just had to [...]
Suburbs a Mile Too Far for Some
A tipster sent in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal story on the New Urbanism phenomenon. The article cites demographic changes and rising energy costs as the culprit for the shift in housing preference away from drive-in suburbs—a model that’s been in place since World War II—to cities and walkable communities. [...]
Is America’s suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
This piece in from a tipster about the changing American landscape. While I found it a bit reactionary about the upward tick in crime in some suburban communities as a result of subprime-related vacancies, the trends outlined by urban planning professor Christopher Leinberger seemed to reflect some [...]
Council proposes container taxation
As the city seeks to derive between $2 and $4 million in tax revenues from “parked” shipping containers in Port Newark, it’s unclear if Newark residents who live with the view of the containers day in and day out will actually see relief.
The city is seeking to charge shipping companies about a [...]
City of Newark Holds Registration for Camp Watershed
Sign your kids up for free summer camp!
Mayor Cory A. Booker announced today that registration is going on now for Camp Watershed, the annual FREE two-week day camp for Newark youngsters aged 7 through 14. The camp, located at Pequannock Watershed in West Milford, offers Newark [...]
