Great romantic getaway!
No, seriously fol;ks, my wife and I have taken our "just us" holiday jaunts to Newark for years!
Stay at one of the smart, affordable, downtown hotels - not the sterile airport ones
The Hilton Gateway is connected by footbridge to the rail station.
The Robert Treat is the city's elegant grande dame on Military Park
The new Hampton Inn Riverwalk is a few blocks more, just across
the Passaic River from the baseball stadium.
All are an easy walk to a world class concert hall and stage, excellent art museum, sports and concert arena, an unbelievable retaurant district with Portugese, Spanish, and Brazilian offerings,
AND ONLY FIFTEEN MINUTES from midtown Manhattan's
Penn Station by rail!
Newark itself has a quaint "City Subway" light rail: clean with all
brand new equipment . It can take you out to beautiful Branch Brook Park in the shadow of the gigantic Norman French Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Newark is probably going to get more expensive -but never nearly as expensive as similar accommodations in New York City)
Try it.
Heh... Eric sez the corpse has a pulse, but it ain't walkin' just yet. As long as the State has confiscatory tax rates and some of the worst schools in the nation on the one hand and the Mob on the other, entrepreneurs and the middle classes will vote elsewhere with their futures.
Posted at 2007-12-31 14:19:49 [PermaLink]Joseph,
I didn't say I wanted to live there.
I said you can get a nice hotel room near a lot of nice stuff.
Sort of like NYC thirty years ago.
Happy New Year,
Eric
"its population jumped nearly 3 percent, to 281,402, from 2000 to 2006."
That's corresponds to a population growth rate of less than 0.5% a year. The estimated growth rate of the U.S. population (for 2007) is 0.894%