I came thru. Peeps was cool,.. Just a suggestion.. Fire the cook
"BRICK CITY" THE OFFICIAL NEWARK DISCUSSION THREAD
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I came thru. Peeps was cool,.. Just a suggestion.. Fire the cook
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@skeetsinternal It's that bad?
My order was cold and no flavor plus slow service. I just ordered one meal to show love and went down to the seafood spot . Im thinking maybe its a place you JUST get breakfast from. Peeps cool tho...
Rell Lauren
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The last week in Newark has been out of control. Anti violence activist killed in front of her home and a carjacking on Thanksgiving that resulted in a murder.
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I fukks with Taste of Flava on Broadway (90 Broadway). Them my peeps. African joint but food is combination soul and african. Everything is delicious.
Newark88
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You went today? It's been closed down for about a week.
get these nets
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nurse stabbed leaving work in parking lot of College Hospital after attempted robbery
Nurse stabbed in parking lot outside University Hospital in Newark
People talking that "the white man"'systemic racism""prison industrial complex" shyt can kiss my ENTIRE ASS!!!!!!!!!
14 yr old kid killed her too
Couple months back when I forgot who suggested we support, I did that same day since I was downtown
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The art of Uggie: Newark's beloved street dancer honored with statue | Carter
The abstract statue, is of a black figure, wiry and tall, made from sheet metal that is flexible and has movement, much like the subject of the piece.
Eric "Uggie" Bowens was always on the move. He walked everywhere in Newark, stopping only to dance, the one thing that made everyone in the city know him. He loved to dance, and was often seen with a boom box in his hand blasting House music.
Then he was taken from us last year on Nov. 7, when he was shot and killed, gunned down 45 minutes before his 45th birthday. Newark was angry and hurt.
Thousands attended his funeral. Uggie -- we all knew him by this name -- had a developmental disability. He was a harmless soul who didn't bother anyone. From the streets to Newark City Hall, people loved this guy, who may have been the city's most recognizable resident.
The Essex County Sheriff's Department offered a $20,000 reward, which was increased to $30,000 last week. A street sign was erected in May with his name on Winans Avenue, but the city has gone a step further by installing the metal sculpture to honor him again, and to continue its vision of displaying public art in neighborhoods.
MORE: Recent Barry Carter columns
"The mayor wanted to utilize arts and culture to represent something that Uggie was and have that be connected to the spirit of what we have going on in the city,'' said Keith Hamilton, Newark's manager of city-owned property, who works with artists on public art projects.
NAVC does so every week with rallies in tough Newark neighborhoods. If it weren't for them, many of the victims would be forgotten.
Not Uggie. People still talk about him, stunned that the streets have not coughed up the killer.
The statue in his memory can't be missed. It's been up for three weeks now. Newark is finishing a placard with his name and an inscription that suits Uggie to a T.
Dance as though no one is watching.
Love as though you have never been hurt before.
Sing as though no one can hear you.
Live as though heaven is on earth.
And with each rush of the wind, Uggie, or at least this figure of him, will fleetingly move among us once again.
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For the nearly 10-feet-high piece, Newark tapped Jerry Gant, a renowned local artist, who has murals in every ward and sculptures throughout the city.
Gant said Uggie's artwork, at the corner of Muhammad Ali Avenue and Bergen Street, is crafted from Corten metal and painted with a black powder coating. Its unique flexible feature, Gant said, was intentional because Uggie was a dancer. It's not rigid like other statues often seen in downtown parks.
"I wanted it to have some flexibility, so when the wind hits it, it has some movement,'' said Gant. "I wanted it to be accessible so people could come up to it and take pictures. I want people to touch it."
The statue sits on a concrete island at the Central Ward intersection, where Uggie's mother, the late Lula Bowens, used to sit in a chair and sell Katydids, tasty chocolate-covered caramel candy packaged in a tin container.
Bowens and her son lived across the street in a townhouse complex that is now closed. Uggie would sit with his mother, then take off walking, sometimes getting lost until someone in Newark would see him and give him a ride home.
Stanley McElroy did, after Uggie would come by to visit. He was Uggie's self-appointed big brother, who looked after him growing up and into his adult life, as did others in Newark.
"There couldn't have been a better angel to have come across my path,'' McElroy said. "It's still rough on me when I go thinking about him when I'm by myself in the truck. I can't believe it's been a whole year.''
Uggie was found with a gunshot wound on the ground in front of an empty house on Bergen Street near Fourteenth Avenue. Despite the initial $20,000 reward, his killer has not been found. The investigation by the Essex County Prosecutors Office continues, and authorities hope that the increase in reward money will entice people to come forward with information.
MORE CARTER: Newark school playground is returned to kids | Carter
"It's a sad, sad thing,'' said Sheriff Armando Fontoura. "Somebody out there knows something. Thirty thousand is not a problem. But it's not enough for a life that meant a lot to folks in this community.''
A few weeks before the reward was announced, members of the Newark Anti-Violence Coalition stood in the cold, in front of the statue, calling for an increased reward as they paid tribute to Uggie while demanding justice for innocent victims like him.
"We are dealing with so many unsolved murders. We need to send a message that this can't be business as usual,'' said NAVC chair LaKeesha Eure. "After things happen, we have to keep the momentum.''
The abstract statue, is of a black figure, wiry and tall, made from sheet metal that is flexible and has movement, much like the subject of the piece.
Eric "Uggie" Bowens was always on the move. He walked everywhere in Newark, stopping only to dance, the one thing that made everyone in the city know him. He loved to dance, and was often seen with a boom box in his hand blasting House music.
Then he was taken from us last year on Nov. 7, when he was shot and killed, gunned down 45 minutes before his 45th birthday. Newark was angry and hurt.
Thousands attended his funeral. Uggie -- we all knew him by this name -- had a developmental disability. He was a harmless soul who didn't bother anyone. From the streets to Newark City Hall, people loved this guy, who may have been the city's most recognizable resident.
The Essex County Sheriff's Department offered a $20,000 reward, which was increased to $30,000 last week. A street sign was erected in May with his name on Winans Avenue, but the city has gone a step further by installing the metal sculpture to honor him again, and to continue its vision of displaying public art in neighborhoods.
MORE: Recent Barry Carter columns
"The mayor wanted to utilize arts and culture to represent something that Uggie was and have that be connected to the spirit of what we have going on in the city,'' said Keith Hamilton, Newark's manager of city-owned property, who works with artists on public art projects.
NAVC does so every week with rallies in tough Newark neighborhoods. If it weren't for them, many of the victims would be forgotten.
Not Uggie. People still talk about him, stunned that the streets have not coughed up the killer.
The statue in his memory can't be missed. It's been up for three weeks now. Newark is finishing a placard with his name and an inscription that suits Uggie to a T.
Dance as though no one is watching.
Love as though you have never been hurt before.
Sing as though no one can hear you.
Live as though heaven is on earth.
And with each rush of the wind, Uggie, or at least this figure of him, will fleetingly move among us once again.
inRead invented by Teads
For the nearly 10-feet-high piece, Newark tapped Jerry Gant, a renowned local artist, who has murals in every ward and sculptures throughout the city.
Gant said Uggie's artwork, at the corner of Muhammad Ali Avenue and Bergen Street, is crafted from Corten metal and painted with a black powder coating. Its unique flexible feature, Gant said, was intentional because Uggie was a dancer. It's not rigid like other statues often seen in downtown parks.
"I wanted it to have some flexibility, so when the wind hits it, it has some movement,'' said Gant. "I wanted it to be accessible so people could come up to it and take pictures. I want people to touch it."
The statue sits on a concrete island at the Central Ward intersection, where Uggie's mother, the late Lula Bowens, used to sit in a chair and sell Katydids, tasty chocolate-covered caramel candy packaged in a tin container.
Bowens and her son lived across the street in a townhouse complex that is now closed. Uggie would sit with his mother, then take off walking, sometimes getting lost until someone in Newark would see him and give him a ride home.
Stanley McElroy did, after Uggie would come by to visit. He was Uggie's self-appointed big brother, who looked after him growing up and into his adult life, as did others in Newark.
"There couldn't have been a better angel to have come across my path,'' McElroy said. "It's still rough on me when I go thinking about him when I'm by myself in the truck. I can't believe it's been a whole year.''
Uggie was found with a gunshot wound on the ground in front of an empty house on Bergen Street near Fourteenth Avenue. Despite the initial $20,000 reward, his killer has not been found. The investigation by the Essex County Prosecutors Office continues, and authorities hope that the increase in reward money will entice people to come forward with information.
MORE CARTER: Newark school playground is returned to kids | Carter
"It's a sad, sad thing,'' said Sheriff Armando Fontoura. "Somebody out there knows something. Thirty thousand is not a problem. But it's not enough for a life that meant a lot to folks in this community.''
A few weeks before the reward was announced, members of the Newark Anti-Violence Coalition stood in the cold, in front of the statue, calling for an increased reward as they paid tribute to Uggie while demanding justice for innocent victims like him.
"We are dealing with so many unsolved murders. We need to send a message that this can't be business as usual,'' said NAVC chair LaKeesha Eure. "After things happen, we have to keep the momentum.''
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Newark Bears Stadium Redevelopment Plan Now Includes 240-Room Hotel
By
Jared Kofsky
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November 30, 2017
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The former Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium in Newark.
The plans for the redevelopment of the Newark Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium property and surrounding area have expanded, and the public will soon get a chance to weigh in on whether it should go forward.
The latest plans now call for 2,526 residential units, 48 live/work units, a hotel with 240 rooms, 102,144 square feet of retail space, a performance space, 2,216,820 square feet of office and commercial space, and 2,923 parking spaces to accompany the existing Essex County Improvement Authority parking garage. The entrance to the new parking facility will be along McCarter Highway/Route 21. All of that is according to a legal notice regarding a public hearing on the proposal.
The 450 Broad Street site is apparently not the only property where developer LEG 450 Broad Street, LLC, an affiliate of the Manhattan-based Lotus Equity Group, plans new development. It has also filed an application for 422 Broad Street, a large vacant lot that sits just across Division Street from the stadium. According to a different legal notice, the company wants to subdivide the tract into three lots in connection with “the development of a mixed-use retail, office, hotel, performance space and residential project” as proposed in the other application.
The 422 Broad Street property was home to the Lincoln Motel and Club Zanzibar until 2007, but has sat empty in the years since except for occasional carnivals and other events. Last year, the Berger Organization proposed constructing a casino hotel and convention center at the site, but the plans fell through when casino legalization outside of Atlantic City was rejected by voters.
The Newark Central Planning Board is scheduled to take up both applications at City Hall on December 4 at 6:30 p.m.
The developer’s plan to tear down the former baseball stadium and replace it with a new mixed-use neighborhood was first revealed in March 2016 when the city of Newark and Essex County announced plans to sell the property.
In October 2016, the site was officially transferred for $23.5 million from the Essex County Improvement Authority to the developer. Renderings for the project were released this summer, along with the announcement that the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), Michael Green Architecture, TEN Arquitectos, and Minno & Wasko Architects and Planners would be involved.
At the time, Lotus Equity Group founder Ben Korman told Jersey Digs that there were plans for 1,400 residential units, 400,000 square feet of office space that he expected to be largely occupied by tech sector businesses, 25,000 square feet of dedicated live-work maker spaces for local artists and artisans, 2,000 parking spaces, three acres of public space, and an attraction such as a food hall or bowling alley.
By
Jared Kofsky
-
November 30, 2017
0
The former Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium in Newark.
The plans for the redevelopment of the Newark Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium property and surrounding area have expanded, and the public will soon get a chance to weigh in on whether it should go forward.
The latest plans now call for 2,526 residential units, 48 live/work units, a hotel with 240 rooms, 102,144 square feet of retail space, a performance space, 2,216,820 square feet of office and commercial space, and 2,923 parking spaces to accompany the existing Essex County Improvement Authority parking garage. The entrance to the new parking facility will be along McCarter Highway/Route 21. All of that is according to a legal notice regarding a public hearing on the proposal.
The 450 Broad Street site is apparently not the only property where developer LEG 450 Broad Street, LLC, an affiliate of the Manhattan-based Lotus Equity Group, plans new development. It has also filed an application for 422 Broad Street, a large vacant lot that sits just across Division Street from the stadium. According to a different legal notice, the company wants to subdivide the tract into three lots in connection with “the development of a mixed-use retail, office, hotel, performance space and residential project” as proposed in the other application.
The 422 Broad Street property was home to the Lincoln Motel and Club Zanzibar until 2007, but has sat empty in the years since except for occasional carnivals and other events. Last year, the Berger Organization proposed constructing a casino hotel and convention center at the site, but the plans fell through when casino legalization outside of Atlantic City was rejected by voters.
The Newark Central Planning Board is scheduled to take up both applications at City Hall on December 4 at 6:30 p.m.
The developer’s plan to tear down the former baseball stadium and replace it with a new mixed-use neighborhood was first revealed in March 2016 when the city of Newark and Essex County announced plans to sell the property.
In October 2016, the site was officially transferred for $23.5 million from the Essex County Improvement Authority to the developer. Renderings for the project were released this summer, along with the announcement that the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), Michael Green Architecture, TEN Arquitectos, and Minno & Wasko Architects and Planners would be involved.
At the time, Lotus Equity Group founder Ben Korman told Jersey Digs that there were plans for 1,400 residential units, 400,000 square feet of office space that he expected to be largely occupied by tech sector businesses, 25,000 square feet of dedicated live-work maker spaces for local artists and artisans, 2,000 parking spaces, three acres of public space, and an attraction such as a food hall or bowling alley.
Newark88
Superstar
The View at Lincoln Park Looks to Bridge History and Fill a Void in Newark
By
Chris Fry
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November 20, 2017
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Rendering of The View at Lincoln Park. Credit: C+C Architecture.
A long-vacant lot in Newark’s Lincoln Park section may soon be home to a 15-unit apartment building, one that features a unique blend of facades that’s part of an effort to transition between modern and historic neighborhoods.
Newark-based Fast Construction, under the name The View at Lincoln Park LLC, purchased the lot at 21 Lincoln Park, on the corner with Halsey Street, in April for $125,000. The company has built two other condominium projects in Lincoln Park, and has completed several other new construction projects in Orange and East Orange.
Rendering of The View at Lincoln Park. Credit: C+C Architecture.
Rendering of The View at Lincoln Park, with details of materials. Credit: C+C Architecture.
The property at hand was once home to a container garden and is across the street from the Iglesia Roca De Salvacion Church. One fronts the Lincoln Park Historic District and is adjacent to an existing row of brownstones. However, the rear section of the land goes all the way back to Beecher Street, is surrounded by more modern developments, and falls within the Lincoln Park Redevelopment Plan.
To address this reality, Fast Construction has called on Jersey City-based C+C Architectureto design a development that honors both worlds. The project has been designed to reflect the historic character of the Lincoln Park frontage, but the Halsey Street façade blends to a more contemporary building at the rear of the site facing Beecher Street.
“In order to bring the two distinct areas together, we employed a design strategy to create a gradient blend between the historic facade at one end and a contemporary look at the other,” C+C Architecture’s Frederick Cooke told Jersey Digs. The more traditional red brick wall will sport a softer character, while the charcoal brick section will feature a satin finish, giving it a clean and modern look.
The development will rise four stories and feature a total of 15 units, mostly a mix of one and two-bedrooms. The top stories will feature two deluxe three-bedroom duplexes, and two two-car garages will be accessed via Halsey Street. The floor-to-floor heights of the development have been replicated from the adjacent structures in order to maintain the consistency of the row of homes along the Lincoln Park frontage.
The Newark Landmarks & Historic Preservation Commission signed off on the project earlier this month, and Fast Construction hopes to go before the city’s Zoning Board in December or January. They aim to have shovels in the ground at the property, which they say has been vacant for almost 30 years, in March of 2018.
By
Chris Fry
-
November 20, 2017
0
Rendering of The View at Lincoln Park. Credit: C+C Architecture.
A long-vacant lot in Newark’s Lincoln Park section may soon be home to a 15-unit apartment building, one that features a unique blend of facades that’s part of an effort to transition between modern and historic neighborhoods.
Rendering of The View at Lincoln Park. Credit: C+C Architecture.
Rendering of The View at Lincoln Park, with details of materials. Credit: C+C Architecture.
The property at hand was once home to a container garden and is across the street from the Iglesia Roca De Salvacion Church. One fronts the Lincoln Park Historic District and is adjacent to an existing row of brownstones. However, the rear section of the land goes all the way back to Beecher Street, is surrounded by more modern developments, and falls within the Lincoln Park Redevelopment Plan.
To address this reality, Fast Construction has called on Jersey City-based C+C Architectureto design a development that honors both worlds. The project has been designed to reflect the historic character of the Lincoln Park frontage, but the Halsey Street façade blends to a more contemporary building at the rear of the site facing Beecher Street.
“In order to bring the two distinct areas together, we employed a design strategy to create a gradient blend between the historic facade at one end and a contemporary look at the other,” C+C Architecture’s Frederick Cooke told Jersey Digs. The more traditional red brick wall will sport a softer character, while the charcoal brick section will feature a satin finish, giving it a clean and modern look.
The development will rise four stories and feature a total of 15 units, mostly a mix of one and two-bedrooms. The top stories will feature two deluxe three-bedroom duplexes, and two two-car garages will be accessed via Halsey Street. The floor-to-floor heights of the development have been replicated from the adjacent structures in order to maintain the consistency of the row of homes along the Lincoln Park frontage.
The Newark Landmarks & Historic Preservation Commission signed off on the project earlier this month, and Fast Construction hopes to go before the city’s Zoning Board in December or January. They aim to have shovels in the ground at the property, which they say has been vacant for almost 30 years, in March of 2018.