Newark, New Jersey What are the bad neighborhoods? (Camden, East Orange: living in, richest)

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Take A Ride Thru Da Projects

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Either Get Out Or Be Carried Out

[Busch Boy]

I have friends from Newark and they told me the Newark/East Orange border is pretty bad.

[girl-973-908-732]

Originally Posted by city3bg

I am doing a 5 page paper on the poverty of cities in America. I was assigned Newark and I was wondering if a few can please help me and tell me a couple of neighborhoods that are bad. 4-5 neighborhoods would much be appreciated.

You've been a member since October 2007. Don't you know how this works? You mention the word Newark and you insight an online riot. Why would you even ask here when it's nothing but OPINIONS.

Google Newark and do your lil so-called research paper on 4 sections of Newark. The portugese, the hispanic, the black and the area they call Little China and how about this.....compare them all.

You're asking for 4-5 neighborhoods....but guess what.......they don't know. What do you want somebody to say? Um, well, the area of Springfield Avenue and 10th street is pretty bad . . and yeah, the area of Frelinghuysen Avenue and Hawthorne avenue is bad....I mean this topic makes no sense.


it's fun to watch some of these cretins argue back and forth though. I enjoy the drama.

[mike0421]

There was an article in the Star Ledger back in 1997 displaying a map that sub-divided all the neighborhoods, with chronicled crime events, literally by the parcel, and the worst neighborhood in that article was unquestionably the Central Ward. At the time, the Stella Wright projects predominated with regard to these incidents. I think that project was razed to the ground back in 2002, though. The Columbus projects were another horrible place. Incidentally, when I was in small business, I was in Newark practically every day, but to give you a perspective, the last time I was in Newark extensively was around late 2000. Back then, in addition to the Central Ward, the worst areas in my mind included the section of North Newark where Boulevard ran parallel to Rt 21, or the McCarter Highway. Again, it may have changed in the last 7 years. Another really bad area was the Halsted area in Vailsburg, just south of the E.O. border. The one time I was attacked in all my years of working in Newark was here. This is the area of Springfield Ave a mile east of Seton Hall. Finally, the area just south of the Central Ward, on Frelinghuysen Ave headed towards Rt 78 is just awful.

[JERSEY201973]

Central and South Wards are the worst in my opinion. Parts of the North and parts of the West have problems as well. As for streets and projects, check 18th ave, South Orange Ave, Avon Ave, Clinton Ave, Frelinghauysen Ave, MLK, 14th Ave, Chancellor, Muhammed Ali Blvd, Irvine Turner Blvd, Seth Boyden projects, Baxter Terrace, Felix Fuld, Hyatt Courts, soon these public housing projects won't even exist. Springfield ave, Central ave, Jeliff ave, Madison, Bergen, Baldwin, Hawthorne ave, Elizabeth ave, N Broad st, Dayton st, Stuyvesant ave, Jefferson ave, etc

[todd72173]

Originally Posted by natalayjones

That has got to be the funniest thing I've ever heard of in my life. All this time I've been scared of white men and I should have been watching out for the darker persuasion.

Please... Which race has the highest incarceration rate??? There is truth to that statement.

[j1n]

Interesting that so many people are jumping all over apvbguy. The comments that I read of his were right on target. I lived near, and was in and out of, various parts of Newark for 36 years. I have never seen a "good" area of Newark. Some of you who have grandparents that have lived in NJ all their lives...talk to them. They will probably tell you about what a beautiful city Newark once was. Then what happened? The bad overwhelmed the good and Newark became notorious for the previously mentioned violence, drugs, prostitution, gangs, and poverty. They can "pretty it up" all they want...it's like polishing a turd. Until a majority of the folks in Newark come to their senses and show some pride and responsibility, it's a losing battle.

That said, here's a hypothetical scenario:
If your small-town midwestern cousin (with his wife and two daughters) needed to relo to NJ for a job offer...and needed to be within practical distance of NYC for that job...
Would you recommend Newark as a legitimately good place to live and raise a family?

[JERSEY201973]

I took a ride after dinner to show some friends of mine the old Italian neighborhood in Nerwark. I went from Bloomfield ave to Roseville ave, and Roseville to Orange St. Orange St was bad news. It's a shame Newark's North Ward isn't what it was many years ago, but that's old news.

[midori29]

Newark is HELL on earth.Horrible lost people. I am black by the way and was very very uncomfortable there. I got out fast. I will never set foot in Newark again, ever.

I barely got out alive.