Is Weehawken, WNY, and rest of JC starting to gentrify (Union City: 2014, apartment)

[NJ Brazen_3133]

Is Weehawken, WNY and rest of JC starting to gentrify?

I am looking on NJMLS, and some places are renting for $3000 plus for three bedroom newly renovated.

What about Union City, North Bergen etc?

[lammius]

Originally Posted by NJ Brazen_3133

Is Weehawken, WNY and rest of JC starting to gentrify?

I am looking on NJMLS, and some places are renting for $3000 plus for three bedroom newly renovated.

What about Union City, North Bergen etc?

Hi, Ted Williams, welcome to 2018. A lot has happened while you were cryogenically frozen.

[vision33r]

I don't consider having a few developments is consider gentrifying. Even places like Edgewater where there is substantial developments still have lots of poorer communities surrounding the expensive ones. How else are they going to get cheap labor if gentrification took over.

[HudsonCoNJ]

Originally Posted by vision33r

I don't consider having a few developments is consider gentrifying. Even places like Edgewater where there is substantial developments still have lots of poorer communities surrounding the expensive ones. How else are they going to get cheap labor if gentrification took over.

What are the poor communities surrounding Edgewater?

[vision33r]

Originally Posted by HudsonCoNJ

What are the poor communities surrounding Edgewater?

Back roads up on the hill, lots of Hispanics lived spilled over from Union City. Edgewater used to be a swamp near the river full of weed and grass. Funny how in 20 years they made it desirable. Near the burned down Avalon apts there are still some old homes serve as history of how the area used to be. How the dollar stores suddenly became Trader Joes.

[HudsonCoNJ]

All the towns mentioned here have gentrified to an extent. Maybe not every part of town, but certainly the parts closest to the river.

[nybbler]

There's a few new apartment buildings in West New York, but the people I know who live there say the rest of the town is not so hot.

Weehawken's been gentrified for a long time now.

Union City and North Bergen are still pretty dumpy, unless I've missed some new developments (also I'm never sure where all the little towns start and end in that area)

[JG183]

Originally Posted by NJ Brazen_3133

Is Weehawken, WNY and rest of JC starting to gentrify?

I am looking on NJMLS, and some places are renting for $3000 plus for three bedroom newly renovated.

What about Union City, North Bergen etc?

In all of these towns, one truism remains -- the closer you are to the water, the better.


The further inland you go, the more it becomes 3rd world

[NJ Brazen_3133]

Originally Posted by lammius

Hi, Ted Williams, welcome to 2018. A lot has happened while you were cryogenically frozen.

Nah last time I was there was in 2014. DTJC, and Hoboken have been nice since 2005, but the rest did not change. So I am checking back now.

[DannyHobkins]

Yep hispanics came in and made the prices of building and land drop to basically nothing. Investors and developers came in and bought up all the good land redeveloped it and are now renting them back to white people at high rates.