I went to Sparta on Saturday, and while I'm not looking to move there, I didn't hate it, I understand the appeal of Lake Mohawk. I kind of like Newton (baby Morristown) too. It's really the northern part of Sussex where it really feels like you're in the middle of nowhere.
NYC has made real reforms on housing, but they need tax fairness to be start bringing down rents. You take the Mamdani coalition, Black/Hispanic homeowners outside of Manhattan, and conservatives on Staten Island, all of whom get screwed by status quo, maybe there's a path.
www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/n... The biggest challenge @stevenfulop.bsky.social has in NY imo is lobbying the legislature to fix the biased tax system that stymies new housing construction, or effectively limits projects to 99 units that use 485x.
Wish a mayoral candidate would strike the balance of enforcing anti-loitering on the Grove St pedestrian plaza without wanting to rip it out and turn it into parking.
Having over a hundred thousand renters who treat your city as essentially another NYC neighborhood with cheaper housing and worse transit isn't a burden, it's an asset. There are so many cities, even the likes of Chicago and Phila, who would love to have that "problem."
Newark is going NIMBY. The purpose of a planning board is to see if plans are compliant, not to do complex social engineering. www.tapinto.net/towns/newark...
I think there's a range of implicit to explicit anti-Asian sentiment in opposition to development. "It's not for us," "they're all transients," etc... It's sick, gross, and wrong
Walking past the fully leased Journal Squared towers a few min ago, I can't help but wonder. Those are hundreds of residents. If those and similar projects weren't built, where do you expect those people to go, and what do you think would happen to rents?
Acknowledge? This fall's campaigns range from implicit to explicit anti-Asian messaging. Development's not "for us," they're all transients, etc... it's sick and gross shit.
The building at 10 Park Place in Newark will be transformed into a mixed-use development featuring 196 affordable housing units and ground-floor commercial retail space.
Annoying they only used the Mount Holly forecast. Seems like NJ shore and South Shore of Long Island will get hit hard. There will be some rain, but wind is going to be the main issue.
This week's mail count - 3 McG, 1 Solomon. Also, a 50% off Wonder coupon if anyone wants that, lol. But this is probably the most negative ad of the mayoral race so far.
dunno, but it seems like the ticket to financial success is to target Asians. That sector has seen huge growth and is still imo under retailed compared to the % of the population.
The Chinese restaurant at Harborside actually has customers, which is a huge change for Harborside at a night or weekend, or really any time post pandemic. And I'm stuck here an extra 15 min bc HBLR still refuses to stagger its train lines to not be within 4 min of each other.
