BayonneJoe wrote:
Hello, everyone. This is my first post and I seem to now be resurrecting a dead topic. However, I wanted to discuss the future of Newport now that the wretched waste of space Pay/Half is now gone after 15 years.

If you haven't seen, the Pay/Half space is being divided into two restaurant spaces (something the mall desperately needed to be completely honest). The construction has begun on the outside of this space directly across from the light rail. It looks like the former truck dock (specifically used for Pay/Half and former Filene's Basement) is being demolished and these two restaurants will have outdoor entrances and hopefully outdoor patio seating, with a gorgeous view of the lovely light rail station and its charming riders of course.

As for what will take over these two spots, nothing has been made official yet. The big rumor is The Cheesecake Factory, which I will not be surprised if it is true. Although I am quite frankly sick of the abundance of CFs in NJ (8 locations now and Short Hills being the closest), I welcome it. The location and spot works too. The CF in Trumbull, CT is what comes to mind when I envision the finished product.

No clue as for the second spot. I have heard rumors about Legal Sea Foods and McCormick and Schmicks. If not one of these two, I can see P.F. Chang's or Brio Tuscan Grille. Something along those lines.

As for new stores, I am hoping for a J. Crew or Banana, but hopefully those will come with the changing of Metro Plaza into a new high rise development. For some weird reason, American Apparel is opening upstairs, even though they are right next to the seemingly successful Hoboken store. I have a feeling this store won't make it here. A Uniqlo would be great instead.

RUinHamiltonPark wrote:
Jersey Journal just announced G Star Raw, Potatotopia, and Panera coming to Newport Mall.

I just wonder why G Star Raw (and its cheapest t shirt at $40) didn't choose a more exclusive locale like Communipaw, instead of ghetto Newport and its roommates gone wild.

user1111 wrote:
Newport looks good on paper but don't be fooled there are plenty of folks living in a roommate situation there more so than any other part of the city. I know two personally who share a 4k a month apt with 3 others.

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jcguy05 wrote:

I wish they build a mall in 07304/5

Like the one already there?

jcguy05 wrote:

I wish they build a mall in 07304/5

07310 wrote:

When the RE market was hot realtors were telling people Greenville and Bergen/Lafayette would be the next hot areas for development and rising values. I had friends who believed the hype and sold their Hoboken condo and bought in that area. They sold the house got out of there 6 months later a bit wiser.

RUinHamiltonPark wrote:
The average income in 07310 is over 100k and just under in 07302 with Hoboken just in between, not to mention the neighborhoods on the other side of the Hudson.

That area isn't the "hood"...yeah DTJC is so hood with projects like Crystal Pointe and bodegas like Cosi and you can barely walk the street you may get slashed with the pen of Wall Street type buried in his Blackberry.

I guess the Mall caters to the Hood. I'm sure Teavana, Qdoba and Michael Kors are all the rage on Ocean Ave.

And Newport is just so hood...Morton Williams, Komegashi, Skylark on the Hudson...I mean if only we could be more like Greenville and get a Kennedy Fried Chicken over here!

I live within walking distance of the mall and I don't want it to go anywhere. Thanks for the concern though. I'd much rather it stay and continue.

I do appreciate the hipster denigration of any enterprise not some organic or hand me down or overpriced baloney, and I do always, always appreciate the envy of non-downtowners with real estate envy who show it through the aspersion cast on the city's best districts.

Carry on, the rest of us will enjoy the convenience.

RUinHamiltonPark wrote:

Unfortunately for him, google exists. I don't understand how people end up over there with the knowledge out there. But it does explain all the downtown-trashing.

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Memo to you, Mr. Grittier, more authentic than thou - life existed before you came along. Just because you "discovered" where you live doesn't mean that people weren't there long before you living their lives - imagine it: they weren't even waiting for you to arrive, to deem it the hip, hidden gem that you've decided it is. As for what is and isn't in JC (and yes, I've been around long enough to have a very well-informed opinion and don't need to scrape yours off the bottom of my shoe...) there are two Jersey City's: the one entrenched in poverty and urban blight and there's downtown. Is downtown perfect? Hell no. Compared to a lot of other places with a similar cost of living, it sucks. Does crime happen downtown, of course it does - with greater regularity than most people realize or care to admit. But most of the census tracts downtown have median incomes that fall in the upper 5% of the country. Many of the census tracts in Greenville and Bergen Lafayette have median incomes that are below the poverty level. The Times has this in a very user-friendly interactive map that I'm sure you can google and find.

So.... get you head out of your ass. No matter how much you want to stroke yourself into thinking you are just a little smarter and know the real story... the real story is you have chosen to live in the ghetto and not everyone else has.

I remember from another thread the User was planning to sell his properties in GV and move back to Brooklyn. He's just hyping the area like RE agents have been doing to sell properties. He won't get a good price if potential buyers are staying away.

user1111 wrote:
Newport looks good on paper but don't be fooled there are plenty of folks living in a roommate situation...

JSleeze wrote:


Memo to you, Mr. Grittier, more authentic than thou - life existed before you came along. Just because you "discovered" where you live doesn't mean that people weren't there long before you living their lives - imagine it: they weren't even waiting for you to arrive, to deem it the hip, hidden gem that you've decided it is. As for what is and isn't in JC (and yes, I've been around long enough to have a very well-informed opinion and don't need to scrape yours off the bottom of my shoe...) there are two Jersey City's: the one entrenched in poverty and urban blight and there's downtown. Is downtown perfect? Hell no. Compared to a lot of other places with a similar cost of living, it sucks. Does crime happen downtown, of course it does - with greater regularity than most people realize or care to admit. But most of the census tracts downtown have median incomes that fall in the upper 5% of the country. Many of the census tracts in Greenville and Bergen Lafayette have median incomes that are below the poverty level. The Times has this in a very user-friendly interactive map that I'm sure you can google and find.

So.... get you head out of your ass. No matter how much you want to stroke yourself into thinking you are just a little smarter and know the real story... the real story is you have chosen to live in the ghetto and not everyone else has.

vindication15 wrote:
at the end of the day, there are two groups of jc'listers

first group are those that think there are no differences in jersey city and think greenville is just as good or just as bad of a neighborhood as newport or hamilton park, etc. They will always try to label dtjc as being just as dangerous, just as crime ridden or they go the route of "omg dtjc overrun with hipsters, yuppies, wall street types, etc."

Then there's the other group who live in reality and pray for greenville everyday....

That reminds me, I must say my daily prayers...

user1111 wrote:
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user1111 wrote:

LMAO I think people are mad, Newport is doing well because people from other areas outside of dtjc support it heavily. Stand next to the Danforth or Richard st light rail on Saturday or Sunday and count the many people with 4-8 shopping bags coming from the mall.

So here's a win/win then: move it to the hood. Your neighbours can frequent it much more easily (and cheaply - no light rail necessary) and the people who actually live near the mall can have what they want. Which is not the current iteration of the Newport Mall.

You haven't gotten the memo, Jersey City is Hood and the mall is fine where it is. To all you pretentious a$$holes you started off as a cream-pie in your mom just like the rest of us, so knock it off.

user1111 wrote:
Newport looks good on paper but don't be fooled there are plenty of folks living in a roommate situation there more so than any other part of the city. I know two personally who share a 4k a month apt with 3 others.




A typical Sunday at the mall. I doubt Saks Fifth Ave wants any part of this.

user1111 wrote:
Newport looks good on paper but don't be fooled there are plenty of folks living in a roommate situation there more so than any other part of the city. I know two personally who share a 4k a month apt with 3 others.




A typical Sunday at the mall. I doubt Saks Fifth Ave wants any part of this.

And your friends with kids moved because they want to send their kids to good schools, not because they couldn't afford to live in JC. Many people I know planned to live in Hoboken or JC up until the point when the kids enter school, then they head west. And that's exactly what they did.

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vindication15 wrote:
newport mall is located in the newport section of jersey city, probably the neighborhood with the highest median incomes in JC.

I find it funny that people here think that just because there are ghettos in JC in other neighborhoods, that will influence what stores open in newport mall...

It's like saying that what happens in harlem influences what stores open on saks fifth avenue. very laughable

http://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code/073 ... ode-07310-2010-census.asp

07310, Newport's zip code was 65% Asian in 2010, mostly Indians. That they are well paid is one thing, that they would spend their money in upscale stores is a question best answered by merchants and market researchers. In any case Newport is a regional mall and caters to a larger area than its immediate neighbors.
Personally, for important purchases I go into Manhattan, easy peasy.

Go stand at the Light Rail platform and look who goes shopping at Newport.

Monroe wrote:
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vindication15 wrote:
newport mall is located in the newport section of jersey city, probably the neighborhood with the highest median incomes in JC.

I find it funny that people here think that just because there are ghettos in JC in other neighborhoods, that will influence what stores open in newport mall...

It's like saying that what happens in harlem influences what stores open on saks fifth avenue. very laughable

http://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code/073 ... ode-07310-2010-census.asp

07310, Newport's zip code was 65% Asian in 2010, mostly Indians. That they are well paid is one thing, that they would spend their money in upscale stores is a question best answered by merchants and market researchers. In any case Newport is a regional mall and caters to a larger area than its immediate neighbors.
Personally, for important purchases I go into Manhattan, easy peasy.

Go stand at the Light Rail platform and look who goes shopping at Newport.