Posted December 31, 200519 yr i went out here today and hung around, its always such a steady & great place --- yepper i highly rec you spend some time in newark if in the nyc area! fyi -- newark & the ironbound is a $1.50 path train ride from midtown. also, the ironbound nabe is right next to the newark penn train station. ***keep in mind as newark crumbled over the many years this area has always stayed strong! there are never any empty storefronts and that says a lot. since the 1970's this has been a strong portuguese and brazillian neighborhood. so anyway first here are a couple links for interesting info on the 'ol working class ironbound, the wiki is short & the nytimes is long: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironbound http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E0DD1E31F932A25752C0A9629C8B63 ok say "bom dia" to ironbound & on with the show ---- starting with my fav pic of the whole bunch: these two are the port authority offices ferry street is the main drag of the ironbound this restaurant building is nuts, supa-kitsch! nice sky !!! these guys were putting up a new sign laughing workers and crabby crabs!!! foosball is big -- thats cool on a side street, i went to this one for lunch some housing -- many homes are partly tiled and even have patron saint tiles attached a row of new stuff brazillian style pizza delivery? i'll take it! do not park here...or....umm...something bad...! hey some new stuff too lastly was one of my destinations, seabras grocery, its just unbelieveable what do i mean? hmm where to start....! ****i hope you enjoyed a mini day trip to ironbound newark, one of america's very best ethnic neighborhoods -- happy new year!****
December 31, 200519 yr Gracias! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 1, 200619 yr Nice! Newark pictures seem to be a rarity. I don't know Newark well, but my cousin goes to school at Rutgers-Newark. Where is this hood in relation to that? (Of course, Newark is so tiny that nothing could be very far away.)
January 1, 200619 yr pigboy rutgers-newark is just on the opposite side of the newark penn train station. its an easy walk along i think raymond avenue (?) from the train station right to the campus. i'll get shots of it next visit. when you get the chance ask your cuz about the ironbound, i am sure he spends time there, esp if he wants to eat well in newark!
January 5, 200619 yr I really thank you for these pix...I always wondered what the Ironbound looked like.....liked those tile facades! very interesting to see that... ....the place is actually somewhat "known" in urbanist or urban affairs/urban history circles...one of the great US working class neighborhoods...sort of like Bridgeport or Pilsen in Chicago or the Mission in SF....I guess here in Ohio Over the Rhine? the folksinger Suzanne Vega even wrote a song about the place...or set there: Ironbound/Fancy Poultry In the ironbound section near Avenue L where the Portuguese women come to see what you sell the clouds so low the morning so slow as the wires cut through the sky The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round through the rust and the heat the light and sweet coffee color of her skin Bound up in wire and fate watching her walk him up to the gate in front of the ironbound school yard. Kids will grow like weeds on a fence She says they look for the light they try to make sense. They come up through the cracks Like grass on the tracks She touches him goodbye. Steps off the curb and into the street the blood and feathers near her feet into the ironbound market In the ironbound section near Avenue L where the Portuguese women come to see what you sell the clouds so low the morning so slow as the wires cut through the sky She stops at the stall fingers the ring opens her purse feels a longing away from the ironbound border "Fancy poulty parts sold here. Breasts and thighs and hearts. Backs are cheap and wings are nearly free. Nearly free" The Ironbound at Wikipedia The Ironbound buisness association site
January 5, 200619 yr mrnyc, I was in Newark a bit today with my cousin ("she", not "he", BTW :wink:), and I mentioned that I'd seen your pictures of the Ironbound, and her comment on the place was "bangin' food." So I guess you were spot on with the eating comment!
January 5, 200619 yr ah cuz is a she my bad! so pigboy did you get some campus or downtown newark shots or other nj stuff? how does she like the campus -- i have only walked around there i have no other feel for it. did you get to the ironbound (sounds like no)? i tried to take some shots inside the newark penn station but they yelled at me. aww well, i'll be back there & maybe you will too --- i like newark, despite those negative media stereotypes (um, like that scene in harold and kumar go to white castle) but really newark is alright isnt it?!
January 5, 200619 yr So instead of ripping off the cornice/entablature/hangovers, they just clad at an angle. Wierd. Neat thread, BTW. Eye opening.
January 6, 200619 yr ah cuz is a she my bad! so pigboy did you get some campus or downtown newark shots or other nj stuff? how does she like the campus -- i have only walked around there i have no other feel for it. did you get to the ironbound (sounds like no)? i tried to take some shots inside the newark penn station but they yelled at me. aww well, i'll be back there & maybe you will too --- i like newark, despite those negative media stereotypes (um, like that scene in harold and kumar go to white castle) but really newark is alright isnt it?! Sorry, I didn't get any Newark shots. And we didn't get to the Ironbound either. :-( My sister and I only got the very brief mini-tour of Newark as we walked with our cousin from Newark Penn Station to her apartment by the R-N campus. We'd spent a short day in New York (I do have pictures of that :-)), but she had to get back home for something and there was not really any time for pictures. Maybe next time we can get a tour. My cousin seems to really like being in Newark. I haven't heard much from her about the R-N campus in particular, but since there haven't been any complaints I guess she must like it well enough. The little bit of Newark I've seen doesn't seem as awful as the stereotypes would have you believe. It's not in great shape, but it seems all right to me.
January 14, 200619 yr Great example of urban Jersey that's still active. Sad to say I haven't been in Newark in about 40 years. Maybe a weekend trip is in order. Great shots mrnyc, thanks. btw, when are they gonna install sidewalks like the ones in Rio? :wink:
January 25, 200619 yr RN is the good heart of the city, north newark is safe,its south newark like weequaic park, central springfield ave, chancellor ave, avon, those are where you can get robbed, i was raised in south ward now i live in north newark, im not tryin to act like a a-hole but i love people who walk in the downtown and college sections and little proximity around and say it doesnt look bad, if you are white you cant walk in those areas they are heavy gangs, vicelords and nietas on chancellor, hawthorne is crips, springfield is bloods and you will get tested if you walk through, cats will check you to see where your heart is, they knocked down a lot of projects and built these little row houses like roseville. you used to have to wait for the person you have a problem with walk out of the building, now with these rinky dink houses people do drivebys and the bullets go through the house and hit everyone except for the intended victim north newark is safe because its diverse, blacks, italians, jews, latinos, but central is black, south is black and latino west is black and borders east orange and irvington which are basically newark and are all black, im black im not racist but im assuming the RN students you talking about are white, you have to see both sides of the coin, BTW born in cincinnati but mover out of the rhine and then the white folks in hamilton burned my house down and we got up outta there
January 25, 200619 yr hey welcome. sure, any city is like that, there is always a place to find problems. to newark's credit the bad areas do not detract from the good, safer areas. i 100% agree you have to see both sides of the coin, have patience, more threads will come. for now you might wanna scroll down and check out my 3-part harlem thread. i hope you get a chance put up a photo thread or three here nasttyman. for one thing we could use more newark & jersey, i think this thread is all there is.
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