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View Poll Results: Is Newark a World Class City?
YES 2 2.78%
NO 57 79.17%
Newark has NYC to thank for that !!! 😄😄😄 13 18.06%
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Old Posted Oct 20, 2017, 1:53 PM
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Please, I used to live that way. Newark has a distinct core. Long Beach has a core too but it's not all that distinguishable from just being another SoCal city.

For certain there's no way you can say Long Beach is more distinct than Newark. There's no way.
He's kinda right. Yes, Newark does have a distinct core/ identity but also tends to get lost in the general Northern Jersey identity; it's not the Newark Devils or the Newark Nets, but the NJ Devils and NJ (now Brooklyn) Nets.
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And Sublime!

I actually think that Long Beach has a MORE distinct cultural identity than Newark, and to say otherwise is just East Coast bias.

Newark has no identity distinct from "Jersey", which again people think of as an outlying area of NYC, not unlike Long Island.
Really? Newark definitely has its own distinct identity, even just driving in your car you know when you hit Newark. It developed as its own distinct city for hundreds of years, becoming the biggest city in its state, and it anchors its own region roughly the size of Cleveland. As other poster mentioned, if we are talking cultural identity.. it even has its own regional accent.

P.S. Snoop Dogg definitely reps LA.
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Really? Newark definitely has its own distinct identity, even just driving in your car you know when you hit Newark. It developed as its own distinct city for hundreds of years, becoming the biggest city in its state, and it anchors its own region roughly the size of Cleveland. As other poster mentioned, if we are talking cultural identity.. it even has its own regional accent.

P.S. Snoop Dogg definitely reps LA.
You've never listened to Snoop extensively if you think he reps LA. I mean, he occasionally says he's from LA such as in the song "Signs" but he pretty clearly reps the LBC i.e. Long Beach.
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But how does Newark's skyline compare to Jacksonville's?
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But how does Newark's skyline compare to Jacksonville's?
Much better! Newark can be surprisingly urban in some areas. Always poppin'. Can be fast paced, very gritty, and at night, a down-right ghost town at times.

Its an underrated city IMO, and gets no love.

Ain't no love in the heart of the city
I said, where's the love?
Ain't no love in the heart of town


Plus, the streets of Newark are tougher than Jacksonville. The place makes you stronger and tougher, and if they don't like, ya punch em in the mouth.

A nice aerial tour:

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Old Posted Oct 20, 2017, 10:59 PM
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Not many can compare.

At least in NJ but even if you look nationwide, its still looks aesthetically nice. What most urbanists like in a city.

Also if we recall, the tripods invaded this part of town, and Tom Cruise saved the day!


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Where are the landfills and toxic waste people often associate with New Jersey?
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Where are the landfills and toxic waste people often associate with New Jersey?
The state has been cleaned up a lot. I believe it's the superfund capital of the U.S.. It's a far cry from the 40's and 50's. Tom's River has a particularly bad case of environmental sacrilege. The Ceiba-Ceiba superfund. That place use to be a disaster but its gone a long way. I did some environmental work there a few years ago. They have a nice carbon filtration system going on. The buried drums have been recovered, and right now, its more in tune with a Phase III remediation.

But in terms of the "toxic waste people" you speak of, they are a proud peoples. Now that Trump is in office, and destroying the EPA, they can live their lives in peace, and rebuild their civilization.
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Where are the landfills and toxic waste people often associate with New Jersey?
Places like Hackensack and Secaucus but a lot of it has been cleaned up.


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"New York City. The year: 2000. The most wasteful society in the history of the galaxy,
and it was running out of places to bury its neverending output of garbage. The landfills were full. New Jersey was full…”
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I was just joking, relax.
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"New York City. The year: 2000. The most wasteful society in the history of the galaxy,
and it was running out of places to bury its neverending output of garbage. The landfills were full. New Jersey was full…”
I wish there were rep points on this board. That's pretty much exactly what I was getting at.

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