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 [...]
The summer memories that last a lifetime
Another piece on the excellent Fresh Air Fund, which gives Newark kids the opportunity to leave the city and spend time away at camp. Application information is also below, if you’d like to sign up your child for camp this summer.
photo credit: Chris (archi3d)This year, the poor [...]
Booker markets Newark to retailers
Booker is again attending the ICSC in Vegas in an attempt to draw big retail into Newark. The results so far, pointed out by the Ledger, have been mixed: an Old Navy and Kinko’s left town, but many Dunkin Donuts and Subway stores have popped up in their place.
The ICSC [...]
$1 Million Donated for Park Repairs
Arthur F. Ryan, former CEO of Prudential Financial Inc., and his wife, Patricia Ryan, co-chairwoman of the Branch Brook Park Alliance, made a personal gift of $1 million to the alliance for improvements at the Essex County park. The grant was announced yesterday and will be used for continued renovations [...]
Jerseyans spend their Saturday showing they care about Newark
Lameira was among more than 1,200 volunteers from across the state who gathered in Newark yesterday to help beautify the city’s schools and parks in the 10th annual Jersey Cares Day.
Volunteers from corporations, local organizations and communities worked together to paint, garden and clean 10 sites around [...]
As Newark Rebuilds, Help From Beyond City Limits
A number of the city’s new benefactors are wealthy individuals who say they are motivated by the messenger as much as by the message. Mr. Ackman described his first meeting with Mr. Booker as one of the most inspirational of his life. Mr. Katz was charmed by him [...]
Evidently, Newark had the most centralized downtown in the nation, making it extremely fragile and debilitating. The businesses, however, held a firm belief that people would always bring prosperity to Downtown, no matter where they lived, as long as accessibility was provided. In the above short period of ten years, as the figures indicate, American people’s understanding of “accessibility” shifted drastically from mass transit (e.g., trolley cars) to their beloved private motor cars. This meant not only could they drive to Downtown Newark, but also they had to find a place to park. As Miller McClintock of Harvard told the National Association of Building Owners in 1926, it would not profit a central business district with even the most convenient arteries of travel if there was not sufficient parking. After Raymond Boulevard was created above the old Morris Cannel in 1930, the corner near Military Park turned into the most congested spot and, a few years later, came the corner of Broad, Orange, and Bridge Streets. After the 1970s, the deadly congestion moved to Penn Station.
NJ.com: Woman is struck and killed by van in Newark
A young woman was struck and killed by a van this morning outside Penn Station in Newark, police said.
The woman, who has not yet been identified, was described by police as Hispanic in her 20s or 30s. She was hit by a white van near the [...]