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The old pj's Newark use to have
Yea all the townhouses in the city were once projects at one time (ie Prince st, Stella Wrights, Hayes Homes, Hill Manor, Columbus Homes in the North Ward, etc)
This is crazy to me, I pass this area all the time and never realized it look liked this. It's all townhouses now.
Shoutout to Newark, always fun.
This is bigNewark officials praise PATH $1.7B airport extension plan that includes new station
There will be a new PATH station serving the public in Newark's South Ward, built as part of the commuter rail line's extension to Newark Liberty International Airport, under a vote by the Port Authority authorizing $57 million in planning and design work on the extension project. (Photo by Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media)
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NEWARK -- Newark officials are applauding a decision by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to include a new PATH station in Newark's South Ward in plans to extend the commuter rail system to Newark Liberty International Airport.
"I thank the Port Authority Commissioners for keeping the PATH extension on track," Mayor Ras Baraka said in a statement Sunday evening. "This is another step forward for a project that will have an enormous impact on Newark's economy and that of the region. In addition to spurring housing and economic development of the Dayton neighborhood, the new South Ward PATH transportation hub will provide increased access to jobs for Newark residents."
On Thursday, the Port Authority Board of Commissioners voted to authorize $57 million for planning and design work on the proposed 2-mile extension of the PATH system from Newark Penn Station to Newark Liberty.
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The extension, estimated to cost a total of $1.7 billion and be completed in 2026, would provide a direct link from the World Trade Center PATH station in Manhattan and points in between to the airport monorail, which would then carry passengers, airport employees and others to the terminals.
In announcing the approval of the planning funds, the Port Authority specifically noted that, barring environmental or other obstacles, the extension project would include a new PATH station in Newark's South Ward.
"Subject to completion of the environmental review process and project authorization by the Port Authority board, the project would include a new station in Newark's South Ward Dayton Street neighborhood," the Port Authority said in an announcement of Thursday's vote.
PA backtracks, says South Ward station still in PATH plans
Port Authority officials said the station, to be built across the tracks from the NJ Transit airport station near Weequahic Park, remains a key part of the proposed PATH extension
Thursday's action including the new station follows an episode in January that angered Newark elected officials and forced the bi-state agency to retract statements by two of its executives. On Jan. 17, the executives testified during a legislative hearing in Trenton that a new South Ward station would not be included in the project due, after all, to physical constraints.
Word of the testimony angered proponents of the new station, including Baraka, South Ward Councilman John Sharpe James, and state Sen. M. Theresa Ruiz (D-Essex). They and others envision the new station as a key to redevelopment of the South Ward's Dayton/Seth Boyden neighborhood, just east of Weequahic Park, where Frelinghuysen and Haynes avenues meet.
Ruiz is a member of the Joint Legislative Oversight committee, before whom the executives were testifying about the PATH extension and other projects in the Port Authority's 10-year, $32 billion capital plan, and she and other committtee members immediately expressed their concerns. Baraka and James soon followed suit, issuing angry statements demanding the South Ward station be included, and the next day the Port Authority assured them it would be.
An agency official who insisted on anonymity told NJ Advance Media at the time that the executives had confused talk of a South Ward station with a separate, defunct proposal to construct a station near South Street in Newark's Ironbound neighborhood.
Officially, project documents refer to the South Ward station as the Dayton Street Neighborhood Station, the official said.
Newark officials praise PATH $1.7B airport extension plan that includes new station