Of course it was a waste.
Newark New Jersey is a lost cause - and it has been for about 40 years.
“Newark New Jersey is a lost cause - and it has been for about 40 years.”
The Newark Bears just went out of business (who could have seen that coming? /s); the Nets escaped to Brooklyn rather than be coerced into Newark like the Devils (whose owner has subsequently stated publicly that he would never have moved the team there if he knew how the city intended to squeeze him for money). These pathetic attempts to keep these welfare reservations viable with public/private combinations are tiresome and fruitless; they desperately want white people to stay after 5 pm and spend money there, but won’t address the primary reason for the daily late afternoon exodus. Jersey City, on the otherhand, has basically expelled The Problem from whole areas leading to a renaissance along the “Gold Coast” on the Hudson River.