Rate This City: Day 39 - Newark

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

-Any given night in Newark after 1am, you will hear a car going 100 mph on a residential street doing donuts at the end of the road and circling back
-Election time - don't try to get any sleep or naps during the day; local political candidates riding in car caravans in neighborhoods, telling people to vote from the loudspeakers or a bullhorn
and the afternoon Newark PD gang or drug sweeps. Police cars 15 deep.
-The neighborhood ice cream truck is suspect, what ice cream truck do you know that's selling ice cream to little kids at 9:30 at night
-Driving through certain streets in Newark with out of state tags
-Newark has huuuuuge apartments and condos for reasonable prices in comparison to other larger East Coast cities. Nice clusters of newly constructed or modernized townhouses, multi-family homes, and subsidized rentals based on income.
-Can't pump your own gas, it's all full service
-Decent food places of different varieties.

 

[Thanos]

6/10, but I dig going back home but that airport trashola.

 

[Kliq_Souf]

I like Newark...
good black Muslim population.
Its right by New York, but their style and manner are completely different.

All that said, I wouldn't want to live there. It's still Newark

 

[Yinny]

As a resident I rate it a 6 I stay going elsewhere

 

[ColdSlither]

We separating burbs from the city proper in this series?

If that's the case I think atlanta should be a lot lower on the list.

 

[Self_Born7]

stayed on elizabeth ave, between keer and hansbury.. used to ball at weequahic park. moved from the bricks in 96.. before it got gang heavy..
my cuzo stayed on poe, and i used to see most Boom Skwad cats.

 

[Unknown Poster]

I'll always have a soft spot for Newark sinply because my aunts, uncles, and cousins lived there for a long time and my family would visit them when we would go to Jersey...then we'd visit my aunt in the Bronx.

So...yeah. 8.

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

I'll always have a soft spot for Newark sinply because my aunts, uncles, and cousins lived there for a long time and my family would visit them when we would go to Jersey...then we'd visit my aunt in the Bronx.

So...yeah. 8.

U from brooklyn

 

[patscorpio]

Newark is grimey as fukk outside of certain district. Highly efficient public transportation system though

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

Newark is grimey as fukk outside of certain district. Highly efficient public transportation system though

u from Newark pat

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Newark is a gigantic Brownsville.

Good luck parking your car there.

There was a time when Downtown Newark and Downtown Brooklyn were essentially the exact same thing. Of course one got gentrified and took the Nets from the other lookalike.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Pros - Easy access to things and black city. East coast accents

Cons - Very dark feeling and lots of messed up property. High murder rate.

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

Newark is a gigantic Brownsville.

Good luck parking your car there.

There was a time when Downtown Newark and Downtown Brooklyn were essentially the exact same thing. Of course one got gentrified and took the Nets from the other lookalike.

u be in Newark sometimes

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

I have always been surprised by how small the actual cities are in jersey but how big north jersey is. You can literally pass thru all the big cities on the NJ turnpike and never realize NJ is dope.

on another note the Delaware Water Gap on I-80 is one of the most beautiful roadways in America

I wouldn’t mind moving to the area

 

[UberEatsDriver]

u be in Newark sometimes

Yea all the time.

Newark, Irvington, Hillside, Elizabeth, East Orange.

plus I always fly out of Newark Airport