Head to head yes, but the entire NYC area comes with Newark so not so cut and dry.

Depends on what your needs and budget are, but Irvington has the least amenities of the three you listed (small town, big pockets of underdeveloped, no train station).

Irvington has some nice quiet parts, but if you’re going to deal with urban issues, you might as well live in a larger city if the home prices are comparable.

Heaven forbid you could buy weed at Broad and Market.

Casa D’ Paco

Check to see if there are any smaller places for rent around Halsey Street.

If you can afford it, major buildings like 1180 are worth a look.

Practice.

FYI the NJ Tree Foundation does free plantings. Contact them:

https://njtrees.org/

Paterson's PD is a major source of crime in that city. That alone makes it a different context.

Depending on where you are in Bloomfield, the Grove Street stop of the Newark Light Rail takes you directly into Newark Penn Station.

High rise luxury apartment construction has been been happening downtown for the last decade.

Even outside of downtown, literally everything has improved in the last 10 years.

It burned down.

This is the Conan O’Brien/Cory Booker feud all over again.

Barcode is Elizabeth is an impressively big operation.

Lol

The sexy mini film was something.

Charles Schwab over here.

Quasimodo predicted this.

Have you hung out in Jersey City or Newark? Those are actual cities in their own right with easy transit access to NYC.

“a bunch of ghetto radicals actually killed a Wawa proposed to McCarter Highway and Governor Street.”

It was actually a small group of Lower Broadway homeowners who blocked anything that WASN’T high rent. Their pie in the sky plan was to get Trader Joe’s to come to that spot. So it’s the opposite, they were actively trying to gentrify the neighborhood.

Last I heard, the ringleader of the opposition moved to a luxury apartment downtown. That lot currently has trucks on it, obviously worse than a WAWA.

The crushing economic inequality.

With the exception of a couple of small trouble spots, nothing on this map is "dangerous" by Newark standards.

Omar’s Cafe in North Newark is great for sandwiches.

What kind of vibe are you looking for?

Website works fine on my end. You can also see updates on their IG.

JC has no equal to NJPAC, Prudential Center, our art Museum, Essex County Parks & the Ironbound.

Grove Street in JC is nice , but it’s mostly less cool versions of stuff that’s in Manhattan and Brooklyn.