Public transportation is cheaper than maintaining a car, said Robert Noland, director of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
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‘We Don’t Give Up, We Move Forward’: Breaking Down Jersey City’s 15.15% Property Tax Increase And What You Can Do
“There are very few criminal statutes affecting how governments run their finances, the big one is consciously approving over expenditures of budget line items,” said Marc Pfeiffer.
What Is Gray Divorce? Understanding Divorce Later in Life
Isolation can be particularly difficult for men. “Men are the ones who usually face a social ‘gray divorce penalty,’” says Jocelyn Crowley, author of “Gray Divorce: What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits.”
Andrews Testifies on Need for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Investment in New Jersey
“It’s part of a clear evolution from a world where we had horses and then bikes and then automobiles,” says Dr. Andrews at Rutgers.
How modern local chains are flattening neighborhood character in both New York and Amsterdam
A quiet uniformity is sweeping through New York’s neighborhoods. Not because there is a Starbucks on every corner, but due to a new generation of mini-chains that started as authentic single locations and now pop up in every popular, gentrified district of the city....
NYC firms overhauled security after 9/11. How NJ played a major role
Other factors such as the Great Recession, as well as the widespread telecommuting born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, hastened the movement of companies back to urban centers, Hughes said.
LBI building boom: Why houses got so big and construction is king
APP.com reports on LBI’s building boom, quoting Marc Pfeiffer, noting a 2024 Rutgers study found that the beach on the island’s southern tip saw a net loss of about 27,500 cubic meters of sediment from October 2020 through May 2021 and that beach nourishment costs an...
Jersey City Is Growing Fast. So Why Is It in Such a Financial Mess?
The glassy towers along the waterfront here are a reminder that this city of 302,000 is a rarity among its Northeast peers: It is a postindustrial town on a serious growth streak. Yet Jersey City is in trouble. Moody’s downgraded New Jersey’s second-largest city to a...
‘Go Get Your Kicks’: The Europeans Obsessed With a U.S. Highway
Every year, thousands of travelers cross America on Historic Route 66, a 2,500-mile stretch that was once the country’s most famous roadway. About a third of these road warriors are from overseas, and they’re often searching for a glimpse of a lost era filled with motels, neon signs and hokey roadside attractions. This summer, New York Times writer Ken Belson followed a dozen German and Swiss bikers on Harleys to to experience America through their eyes. The article references a 2011 Rutgers University study on the economic impact of Route 66.
Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say
“This is sufficiently unusual and a very long period of time that it is worth asking the question: Is OMB just sitting on it?” said Stuart Shapiro, a former OMB staffer and dean at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey. He said reviews typically take around 60 days.