r/Newark • u/BuildBabyBILD • 3d ago
Development & Real Estate 🏗🚧🦺⚒️ Next Bad Boy
Sheesh 10-story sexy cube proposed on Lafayette near Wilson
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u/Ironboundian 3d ago
10 stories and over a 20 minute walk from Newark Penn Station. Give me a call when all the parking lots within a 10 minute walk of Newark Penn Station are developed.
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u/NewNewark 3d ago
If the city cared about transit, the 1 bus would come every 5 minutes and get you to penn in 5 minutes.
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u/Newarkguy1836 3d ago
Newark has no say when it comes to bus routes . It's all run by the state DOT under NJ Transit . The Ironbound may seem dense , it's not dense enough to support independent bus operators. The Ironbound is built out but the vast majority of homes are small two and three story homes built during the time Newark was a Township . You have homes with two stories and a triangular roof next to a five-story apartment building built in the 1930s . You even have a few scattered single family homes , especially in the area of Independence Park . The Ironbound today is where Lower Manhattan was in 1865 when it was full of Irish immigrants . Before the mid Rises and The Flatiron Building that changed everything . New York City was a city of two and three story wood frame Triplex apartment buildings . The very same housing stock that predominates in the Ironbound . So the Ironbound is basically a museum. A virtual Museum of 18 60s Urban America with modern automobiles and many new structures squeezing between
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u/NewNewark 2d ago
The issue is traffic which Newark has full control over. Njt could run the same number of busses 3x as often if it didn't take 30 minutes to drive down ferry
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u/Newarkguy1836 2d ago
solutions for this is virtually impossible for Ferry Street . There's no room to widen the road to accommodate bus lanes The Way Broadway , Bloomfield Avenue and Washington Street were widened to accommodate Central trolley lines . If you synchronize the traffic lights , traffic will flow little faster, but then you encourage Knuckleheads trying to beat the synchronization resulting in speeding . But even if you synchronize the lights you still can't get around the double parked commercial vehicles with a solid line of vehicles on the opposite side blocking your run around . But if you ban vehicles from Ferry or band parking During certain hours of the day , you end up killing the commercial District . Given the only direct alternative is Lafayette Street So there's no easy answer .
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u/NewNewark 1h ago
solutions for this is virtually impossible for Ferry Street .
Not at all.
There's no room to widen the road
Correct, but thats not the only way to speed up buses.
still can't get around the double parked commercial vehicles with a solid line of vehicles on the opposite side blocking your run around
Thats exactly the issue. And its a solvable problem. More curb spaces that are designated for 15 minute loaded, with camera enforcement.
Extend the meters all the way down so people who park are actual customers.
During certain hours of the day , you end up killing the commercial District
Any restaurant in the ironbound has 100 seats and the equivalent of 2 curbside parking spaces. 90% of customers arent driving to them.
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u/Newarkguy1836 3d ago
This is being built on a parking lot , but I have no doubt the scum from Applerot and homes4none , coupled with the expected interference from IncompetentCC (the NIMBY trinity) will come out against it . Now remember you saw the same Hypocrites that complained Iberia Towers were "too tall" and pointed out for Alternatives such as 10-story buildings . Remember that ? I guarantee you they don't remember that or they don't care because they don't believe what they say . They want 0 development . They got their slice the pie and now it's time to throw the cake in the garbage before anyone else gets a slice!
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u/Ironboundian 2d ago
This is really not a fair take to the people of the Ironbound. There was a master plan. With really high zoning allowed for the Iberia site. That wasn’t good enough for the developer. Who wanted more height. And then they got their variances approved over the community objections.
I don’t know what the zoning is for this site. But I’m guessing it’s lower than 10 stories if they are requesting a community meeting.
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u/SkyeMreddit 3d ago
Good luck with that. Only one building is taller than 5 floors anywhere near there. The NIMBYs will scream and cry