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"Four square miles populated in large part by Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American immigrants and their descendants, the Ironbound has the intimacy and hustle of a European market town. “We walk to the bakery, the fishmonger, the wine store,” said Mr. Kern, 58, the museum’s director. (He also walks to work.) “It really is an extraordinarily agreeable lifestyle.”"
To the geniuses posting on here. Have you visited the Ironbound? Such ignorant people on here.
University Heights and some of surrounding is pretty nice (general area around Rutgers). The glass Prudential buildings and the nearby Starbucks, Whole Foods now, there's a cool healthy place called Grabba Greens, the kosher/Arabic Green Chickpea, there's a Qdoba. The area's popular amongst students and businesspeople and it's seriously not bad, even pretty attractive for the most part. Some cool row houses, older architecture.
I'm from Europe and I've stayed in Newark. It looks nothing like European cities, it's a typical rough looking American city. The roughness is what makes American cities interesting to me.
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Why do people always think that something being "European" makes it better?
Because European cities are walkable, lively, liveable, and come without the over the top crime rates, the urban decay, and the sprawl.
I'm from Europe and I've stayed in Newark. It looks nothing like European cities, it's a typical rough looking American city. The roughness is what makes American cities interesting to me.
Because European cities are walkable, lively, liveable, and come without the over the top crime rates, the urban decay, and the sprawl.
You do realize they focused the article on the Ironbound section right? Not the rest of Newark
No offense to Newark, but they've been writing these types of Newark stories for 20 years
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