If the story of Newark’s revitalization is all about buildings, Hall, a 60-year-old principal at a charter school here, is living inside one of its newest characters. Her eclectic, fifth-floor apartment is one of the residential units in Teachers Village, a $150 million, mixed-use project financed through a consortium of private and public investments and blessed with mammoth government tax credits. The development lives along five blocks of Halsey Street, just off of the city’s main thoroughfare and was designed to convert into residents some of the 6,000 teachers and administrators who commute to this city of 280,000 each workday.
8. "lots of artists fled NY for Newark" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Mar-20-15 11:48 AM by teefiveten
i spun an artists weekend last fall out there they have some GREAT spaces. downtown in office buildings (subletted out. some chick. she's doing what i wanted to do in bed stuy )
but riding around w/ some of the artists afterwards they feel the end is near for affordability
i spun in an old post office that was vacant but every corner around that building there was major construction going on. mostly condos/luxury rental.
they were talking about how the largely portuguese part, which was pretty insular, is now getting chains and other things. folks sitting on property for decades now priming themselves to cash in
it won't be brooklyn (shit, if jersey city aint bk, then newark DEF won't be), but it will go the way of BK
10. "and JC is kinda close" In response to Reply # 8
there's JC outposts of at least 2 brooklyn spots downtown is super close from manhattan and there's mad places to eat and drink and it isn't douchey like hoboken
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