Damn I Remember the arcade it was a spooky time

Burger wallah was good as hell

Is 27 mix still open?

I was talking to someone who was telling me how he got robbed in newark and how bad it was, yadda yadda yadda, right?

As I started to ask questions and the conversation progressed, I found out he was in the projects @ 9pm trying to buy something.

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Yea, no shit.

Nah m, you’re on point.

As a person who’s been on both sides of the fence in my multiple lives on this earth (not proud of it), I can attest that Newark is mostly a “mind your business” city.

Obviously you need to have street smarts and situational awareness, but most of the violent crime is done to gang members/street people against other gang members & street people.

That’s not to say that innocent people aren’t victims of crime and random acts of violence or thievery… but that’s usually done by desperate people like crackheads.

The neighborhood’s robbing crews are usually robbing other drug dealers & people they think have some real money. The neighborhood shooters are usually shooting at people they perceive a threat or already shot at one of their own.

The people snatching women’s purses or robbing innocent people for their phones are usually drug addicts, homeless people or young kids who are generally considered “crumbs” in the underworld. Crimes against civilians civilians brings police aka “makes shit hot”.

Increased Police presence & patrols isn’t ever good for anyone who makes a living doing crime.

Look… I know shit happens to innocent people and I swear I’m not minimizing that at all… but minding your business goes a long way in the city & believe it or not there are some great blocks in what people call “bad neighborhoods”.

I don’t see anything I disagree with here

Newark simply isn’t a place people think of as one to “hang out” or have a night on the town

I’m from newark … and if I want to have a bar crawl or take my lady to a nice eatery, it’ll be somewhere in Hudson county.

Newark doesn’t offer that currently.

It is what it is.

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Nice! Good shit!

Yea those identifiers narrow it down for sure, it’s a brotherhood within the brotherhood.

If we didn’t know each other, I definitely wouldn’t be surprised if we knew the same people

Although I think you’re right, its possible that it could be BX; I’ve seen both installed in baseboards

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This is an interesting question.

Damn, how much does it cost to plant a tree?

I’m born, raised, lived and work in newark and the downtown has never been good, clean, maintained or attractive

Obviously I know there’s other factors at play with poverty, homelessness, drug addiction, etc… and I don’t want to minimize the effects of these problems & their impacts on on the mainstay population

But man, It’s embarrassing.

I can’t lie, it’s nice to see other towns’ downtown area welcoming to small businesses, nightlife and foot traffic.

Exactly!

Downtown newark in general is a complete joke

Lol @ shore & central.

All that shit is south Jersey to me.

In all my years, I have never set foot inside the riviera

But the stories I’ve heard let’s me know that whatever this plan is would’ve been way better