Ha, thought I was the only one who remembered that. I loved the subtle, come spend money like these attractive Iberian women message.

In 1910 relations wouldn't have been particularly difficult; Germany was no more anti-semetic than other European countries at the time. A lot of the sections on the map labled "German" might have actually included many German Jews that had migrated in the 1840s-60s, and identified more as German than Jewish. The actual "Jewish" section on the map, the old Third Ward, was mostly more recently-arrived eastern European Jews.

By the 1930s though, there were tensions between the Jews and Germans. By that point, many Germans had moved to either the far western edge of the city, or to Irvington, while the Jews had begun to move into Clinton Hill. The pro-Nazi German-American Bund operated out of a headquarters on Springfield Avenue and battled in the streets with Jewish Newarkers. Newark Jews organized a self-protection group, known as the Minutemen, with the help of Jewish mobster Abner Zwillman, and basically crushed the Germans' power.

Check out Warren Grover's Nazis in Newark to learn more,

Yeah, I was curious what the actual incidents were. The article doesn't offer much detail, though the students interviewed seem quite upset about the situation.

Jeeze I was being serious! Sorry if it came off that way. Your posts always make me smile that someone is out there doing good.

Truly the hero Newark deserves and needs.

West Ward has the oldest housing stock and is the furthest from train and light rail. I'd guess the strip west of West Side Park headed towards Grove Street will have a hard time attracting investment.

Loved the article on Bayonne Boxes. More discussion of infill housing is always a good thing.

Great point. I really hate that there's almost nothing left of the old Third Ward, which was once the main German neighborhood, then Jewish, the. black after 1920. Now it's just a smattering of garden complexes.

It's weird, I know Newark's population, and I know NJ's, but it never clicked that Newark comprised such a small percentage until you pointed it out.

I can't see Ras as a viable statewide candidate. Newark really doesn't seem to be on the radar of anyone outside of the immediate area. Phil Murphy, an affable rich white guy had enough trouble getting reelected. Undecided suburbanites will see a republican attack ad quoting Ras's father and vote for whoever the other candidate is.

Those are some nice sounding districts, everything from well-off rural to solid middle class to urban poor. I think it's great that you want to teach to a disadvantages population...but I would definitely have to think it over given your other offers.

Not really the rowhomes like you see on James Street. Moreso if you stroll any street in Roseville or Clinton Hill there are usually just a mix of 2-3 story detached wooden houses. The eclecticism vs. uniformity led to criticisms, as did their wood construction. The three-floor tenements were more harshly criticized. In 1913 the city funded a housing study that suggested the city build more detached single family homes instead of higher density housing.

Author also romanticizes 19th century housing. A lot of Newark homes were financed by building and loan associations that had...questionable...methods. Others were built by big developers or in conjunction with corrupt trolley companies. Not pictured were the 3-floor, 6 family homes that were crammed full of immigrant families and were never intended as anything more than a cheap copy of the refined middle-class housing the author is so high on. And, even if we're just talking aesthetics, even in their heydey Newark neighborhoods were mostly eclectic mixtures of wooden victorian's that many observers criticized in comparison to the classic brick rowhomes of Philadelphia or Brooklyn.

Loved that place!