Popular for weekend getaways, casual dates, and Christmas shopping, the suburban mall collapsed. Online shopping and anchor store closures impact NJ mall traffic, attitude, and emptiness. Lots of malls survive. To avoid the “retail apocalypse,” restorations, repurposing, and upgrades continue. New Jersey mall developers are repurposing abandoned wings, department stores, and corridors as retail, housing,…
Have you ever thought, “I could do a better job than this engineer” when riding a slow NJ Transit train? A new train simulation game shows how difficult commuter train operation is. Dovetail Games, which makes TrainSim World, released TrainSim 6 on September 30. Players may operate the Morristown Line of NJ Transit in this…
Woodbury Heights will celebrate a new brewery. The Sons of Barley Beer Company at 998 Mantua Pike will open from 2 to 10 p.m. on December 6. Gloucester County’s craft beer culture benefits from this community-based event where residents and visitors can enjoy local brews. Sons of Barley begins gently in November before launching. This…
A food truck called Tunkas Bolivian Baked Goods will launch in northern New Jersey. The Bolivian street food bakery will build a 911-square-foot Livingston café with distinctive meals. The bakery is famous for its salteñas, a classic Bolivian meat pie. Bolivian cakes with a golden, slightly sweet surface and savory, broth-filled inside are rare outside…
Two Camden Housing Authority employees were unlawfully fired for exposing misbehavior, and a federal jury awarded them $1.7 million. Public institution accountability whistleblowers won big. On December 19, 2018, security director Gary Evangelista and housing specialist Kaberia Fussell were sacked. After complaining about unpaid rent, housing unit misuse, theft, fraud, and preferential treatment, they were…
New Jersey is full of possibility and burdened by long-standing inequalities when Mikie Sherrill becomes governor. Voters supported her affordability message during the campaign, but the struggle ahead is broader than cutting daily costs. New Jersey’s affordability dilemma is linked to a historic racial wealth inequality that has influenced generations of families’ lives and finances….
Bridge Industrial’s warehouse in Middlesex County, between Point Piscataway and Bridge, got a $27.1 million bridging loan. JLL Capital Markets put money into important logistics and industries. The Piscataway warehouse at 10 Constitution Avenue has 147,620 square feet of space and is easy to get to. The distribution and logistics building has 36-foot clear ceilings,…
A New Jersey family must pay more than $41,000 in school tuition after state education officials ruled that their children attended Milltown schools while living in another town. The dispute lasted nearly two years and involved detailed residency claims, housing moves, and a delayed construction project. The family relocated out of Milltown in late 2023…
The latest Jersey Supreme Court’s latest decision could have an impact on cases of shaken infant syndrome, such as the case of a Texas man on death row. Expert testimony about shaken baby syndrome or traumatic head trauma may not be scientifically sound in jury trials. Six justices voted yes and one voted no on…
On Sunday afternoon, two NYC citizens were found dead in a Borgata Hotel room. A major government review followed. At 4:55 p.m., police found Staten Islanders Baoyi Bowie Zheng, 36, and Brooklynite Wei Guo Liang, 68, dead at the hotel. Zheng died of a broken neck and Liang of self-inflicted stab wounds, police said. Police…
