Dear Editor:
I love this area, downtown feels like home more and more each day. This city is the real future of Hudson County, not that rich suburb on the other side of the tunnel. We will never achieve our full potential as a community as long as we cling to the “old way of doing things”.
You want to attract shoppers to downtown? How about attracting a few stores other then the 99 cent stores? Until this area is cleaner and the roads going towards and through this area are improved, don’t expect anyone driving into downtown to shop. Also how about stopping the one or two stores who feel they have to blare at very loud volumes music onto Newark Aveue; come on, is this civilized?
Until industry figures out that people live in the buildings that they plow past and the police enforce the laws that are supposed to keep these huge trucks off our streets, you can’t expect the kids to grow up and respect their neighborhoods. Just watch a kid for a few minutes when you get a chance…as they walk out of a bodega and throw their wrappers on the ground when a garbage can is a few feet away.
It’s not any one thing that is keeping Downtown down, it’s a combination. What is going on with our paved streets? What are all these mysterious sink holes? What is going on at City Hall, don’t they at least drive through downtown on their way to work? There is a strip of Coles Street starting at the best high school in the state (something else we should be proud of) that hasn’t been repaved since Eisenhower was president. I drive down Palisades Aveue on the way home from work everyday, and in some places the ride feels like a third world country.
Concerned on Coles