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WOW .... describe a culture of corruption in the early days of Mayor Cory Booker's administration as seen through Salahuddin's eyes. "In Newark everyone is cutting out their little niche," Salahuddin is alleged to have said in FBI surveillance recordings. "The demolition is what I'm interested in..... http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/opening_arguments_made_in_corr.html

NEWARK — Newark Deputy Mayor Stefan Pryor, one of Mayor Cory Booker's most influential aides, is leaving Newark to become Connecticut's education commissioner, according to Connecticut Board of Education Chairman Allan Taylor. If you guys don't know this is Cory Bookers man for Newark's Redevelopment.. he use to live on my side of 1180 and I would see him every so often... and he is now bailing on Newark. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/newark_mayor_cory_bookers_aide.html

I disagree, money is obviously being spent on low income housing like wildfire while no movement is made on a zero dollar generating park in a stadium that is about to lose its NBA team with very slim chance of another team coming

A little out of the way but in the same city, Blockheads hair cuts is closed I think or is restaggering their already staggered summer hours as I drove by at 3pm and saw a closed sign.. they already have summer hours of 11-7pm http://blockheadhair.com/ Again folks you can't just day dream that redevelopment is going to happen. YOu have to plan things very carefully... anyone that followed my ID by now knows I've been calling out all these stores that are opening up with 0 to no business model on top of all the crime.

oh man i was half asleep when i read this... scully's is that irish place on clinton ave right? That is a massive blow! I remember it opening when I lived in 1180 and that place would have a decent crowd on a devil's game night... now imagine that closed think how Uber Burger is going to last and they don't even come close to pulling the same size crowd. Its reality.

I'm waiting for Uber Burger and the coffee place to close.. a place can't survive with a light crowd 1-2 days out of the week and dead emtpy all the rest. Once the tax cuts are gone these shops are going to close.. further proving enough people do not live downtown for these businesses to survive.

Port 44 The brewery that's only about a year old has closed?? http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2011/08/braun_great_expectations_aside.html "But Scully’s is under contract and in the process of being sold. " "That’s gone, closed for a year." "Then there was the City Chop House on Commerce Street, imagined as a white-tablecloth restaurant, complete with a rooftop Tiki bar, offering wine and top-of-the-line entrees, edgily named for the Palace Chop House — where gangster Arthur Flegenheimer, aka Dutch Schultz, was gunned down. The City Chop House never got beyond the imagining stage. "Downtown wasn’t ready for a place like that," says McGovern." At 60 Park Place, one of his partners — his maitre’d — was Richard Codey, the former governor and still state senator. Codey came into the business with a splash, talking about the "investment in Newark’s future" and suggesting the place would be a mecca for political and news junkies who would mingle with sports fans and jazz devotees. Never happened. "The worst investment I ever made," said Codey. He didn’t explain and didn’t respond to a request for a comment for this article. The fate of 60 Park Place is the most worrying. It didn’t make it five years ago as Arthur’s Downtown; it didn’t make it three years ago as The Savoy Grill. Now it is once again shuttered and gathering dust, a symbol of a downtown that, unlike similar areas in Philadelphia and Baltimore, hasn’t been able to draw crowds for nearly five decades.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_barry_carter/2011/08/carter_branford_place_in_newar.html

Never going to happen as new spots aren't being opened. The only way an affiliation would happen is if a minor league team is bought out and brought to newark. Affiliations work just like liquor licenses or NY taxi drivers licenses. With the operating losses and debt and what seems like very poor management, this isn't going to happen especially with the Yankees and Mets 30 minutes away.

Wow I just finished reading the article, the bears are dead. The only reason the last season was played was that schmuck doctor spiel got ripped off and paid the entire bill. What a dummy, so the only hope is to turn the team into a reality series?!? some business plan.

Court battles, unpaid bills and a would-be reality show sidetracked the Newark Bears franchise http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/how_court_battles_unpaid_bills.html Even with an affiliation, this team is going nowhere but bankrupt. Meanwhile, the taxpayers continue to pick up the tab for Riverfront Stadium, which was funded by bonds and built at a cost of more than $30 million. Essex County and Newark each must pay $1.1 million annually until 2029 to cover the debt service on the stadium, a county official confirmed Friday. Adding to their troubles, the Bears owe nearly $800,000 in back rent to the Essex County Improvement Authority. The team is currently making yearly payments that continue to escalate until 2022, when the debt is scheduled to be paid off, according to Jim Paganelli, the executive director of the ECIA. Bill collectors from PSE&G, seed companies and clothiers are asking for their money, and payroll was delayed for some employees this season, according to court papers and interviews with current and past employees. Jim Hague, the team’s former public relations director, who also served as the stadium announcer, resigned in late June, calling the team a "circus" on his blog.

LOL http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/newarks_baxter_terrace_to_be_r.html#comments "The first phase of Baxter Park will cost $21.7 million and feature 90 residential units and 3,000 square feet of retail space. All of these units will be either affordable or Section 8, housing officials said." Yeah then the middle class will slowly come in ..... Once the section 8 people are there then the crips and blood nitwits related to the section 8 voucher holders will move in and idiots will be hanging out on the streets trying to get their street creds which starts the violence all over again. FAIL. Just bulldoze the land and give it to NJIT or Rutgers to expand their campus so there is some return on investment... otherwise this plan is trash. Hurry a new generation of hoodlums need a place to live and they are broke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRRgaVLIZ4&playnext=1&list=PL27C8FD76BBA80618

With More Than 200 People Shot This Year, Newark Residents Say City Crime Is Getting Worse http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/07/14/newark-residents-say-city-crime-is-getting-worse/

What chicken shack was near this one: Off-duty Newark police officer carjacked, injured in the Ironbound http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/off-duty_newark_cop_carjacked.html

Newark: http://www.spotcrime.com/nj/newark to many gun shots to count NYC: http://www.spotcrime.com/ny/new%20york 2 gunshots downtown and then clean till you get to Harlem Winning!

LOL just noticed: http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-jersey/1324968-newark-restaurants-who-want-stay-open.html Multi board battle

http://spotcrime.com/crime/10144220-7988d4229cdd6c8fab49ef2a7c015867 http://spotcrime.com/crime/14600956-68912214aae6b0653d49ff0fe9936baa http://spotcrime.com/crime/10127977-25aaba2b1f6343dbeb282d3a839a89d5

Closing chicken shacks won't do anything, Newark isn't safe as random violence can explode anywhere at anytime as the idiots can drive to any point in Newark and cause havoc. Something this brazen never happens in downtown New York and if so the perps are caught REAL fast, same with hoboken and downtown Jersey City. The most damning piece is "It does not appear that the two are connected" http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/15-year-old_dead_12_injured_in.html "Four hours earlier, three men and a woman were wounded at a shooting in downtown Newark, said city police spokesman Detective Hubert Henderson. All were expected to survive. At about 6 p.m., police found a gunshot victim near the scene of the shooting at Branford Place and Halsey Street, Henderson said. Investigators later learned from hospital officials that three other gunshot victims were being treated at University Hospital in Newark, and they had been shot at the Halsey Street location, he said. "It does not appear that the two are connected," DeMaio said last night. Lastly, a woman was wounded in the buttocks by gunfire near the intersection of Gareis and Blum streets in the city’s Central Ward." http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/shootings_in_downtown_newark_l.html "One measure taken by Acting Police Director Samuel DeMaio when he took the position in May was to establish a permanent police presence near the intersection of Broad and Market Streets, two blocks from the site of tonight’s shootings. A month after the shooting in April, undercover narcotics detectives were shot at by a suspect they were approaching on Treat Place and Branford Place, a block from today’s shooting."

"Fact of the matter is crime really determines where you want to live as well as schools, quality of life, etc. Do you really think people who are already scared of the Newark Abbot District school system, high crime rate are willing to move in cause a few wine bars and art galleries?" And you really nailed it.. good SCHOOLS are what is going to attract a middle class into Newark.. either public or private. Right now the only good school in Newark is Robert Treat and that is based on a very competitive lottery system. If you don't get in you are S C R E W ED.

African stores?!? Please take your racist comments elsewhere.

Its a dead business model in Newark, they should of built a nice luxury high rise there instead as its by the waterfront, trains, light rail and schools and is generally low on crime and close to NJ Pac Bad financial planning as usual.

Outside of the parking lot, nothing is blocking Triangle Park. Its just being poorly mismanaged... can you imagine 12 million for a park when Newark's budget is off by 45 million causing layoffs?!? And if you go over what the expenses were ($8,000 a connected politician's daughter to google the history of parks in newark?!?) you will understand why development suffers in newark and why this city is a money pit that people keep ripping off.

LOL yeah you tell'em! Then Golden Krust right on Market next to Browers Bldg would be included which is a shame. Basically Newark's police can't protect you

http://www.nj.com/sports/njsports/index.ssf/2011/07/newark_bears_ownership_changes.html With attendance plummeting and ownership squabbling about everything but balls and strikes, the Newark Bears baseball team has once again changed hands, one of the team's owners confirmed today.

Better Bites? LOL I was just there today for lunch from 12:10 to 1:15 and there only 3 of us there. They even pulled out chairs and tables to create a CAFE style atmosphere and still little to no bites. Bars will not gentrify an area do you think the middle class are just a bunch of drunks?? First you need low cost areas for the artists, just out of college and hipsters to be able to move in, crime goes down. Then other amenities will open up like grocery stores, coffee shops, book stores . When Hoboken was turning around "LOFTS" were dirty, grimey CHEAP places for artists to move in which was the trigger for gentrification. In Newark the rent is sky high and is much cheaper out in the burbs hence the cost opportunities are not there for gentrification to occur the same way the waterfront in Jersey city or the Hoboken occurred. Today "LOFTS" mean a 200k condo with 300-500 dollar monthly community fee or rent (1180) for 1500 for a Studio. With the out of control crime: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/third_person_is_dead_following.html http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/newark_men_arrested_in_stabbin.html Things won't change for a long LONG time, even under Booker its the same old game: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/after_5_years_12m_spent_newark.html .. actually its worse. I've never heard of a teenager making 8,000 for a report on Newark parks... so much for change.