FallenMatt
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eek, Newark is not that bad. I used to live in there for over two years. Yes, it may look scary but a lot of things changed (for example they dynamited most of the projects by the highway 280.
It used to have the third largest little Itally in the states but unfortunatelly in the 60-ies the city did "urban renewal" and destroyed it all and built the infamous projects instead. Fortunatelly most of them are gone now
You have bunch of schools in there: Rutgers University, New Jersey Institute of Technology (used to go there), New Jersey School Of Medicine and Dentistry.... SO there is bunch of starving foreign student from all over the world living nearby
.. mostly Harrison/Kearny though.They pumped bunch of money into police in there so most of the wierd people moved out of newark to some other towns nearby.
It is mighty close to NYC (30 minute ride on a PATH or NJ Transit train). Great connection hub (Newark International, Railroad links to mostl interesting places in NJ - you can take a ride to Point Pleasant and go to the beach
Kearny/Harrison are very itneresting towns with a lot of diversity - almost every new wave of immigration ends up staying there for some time so you can get a lot of influences from all over the world.
Plus, that's where the Sopranos are being filmed
Newark Museum is one with one of the biggest collections in the nations (if i remember coreclty, the biggest collection of tybetan art in the states)
ANyway, sorry for this non-diving related stuff but Newark being kind of wierd looking town (lost half its population since the '50), Nothing bad ever happened to me (living in a "bad" part, being mostly poor and white
)One stolen car (friends', recovered), one break in to the car (radio stolen from my '82 volvo), my fault: parked on the street in the dark corner. But no other accidents and i used to walk on the streets on the wierdest times of night (mostly to catch one of the PATH trains to NYC, they go 24/7)
yeah.. i got to do a research projects about Newark in my undergrad times
Oh well, miss the town, miss the NYC, Orlando seems like living in a village compared to those times...
