file photo Boyd Loving
Cory Booker faulted for not fixing a house he owned in Newark
Sunday September 15, 2013, 12:31 AM
BY MICHAEL LINHORST
STATE HO– USE BUREAU
The Record
On a block of Court Street in Newark between the Gigi Foushee Towers public-housing project and the abandoned, decaying Krueger-Scott Mansion is a boarded row house with a “NO LOITERING” sign above the door.
Until a few months ago, the building was owned by Newark’s mayor, Cory Booker — now in the home¬stretch of a run for the U.S. Senate — who paid $175,000 for it in 2009.
Less than three weeks after Frank Lautenberg said he would retire from the U.S. Senate — formally opening up the race for his seat — Booker sold the property, one of two he purchased while mayor, for $1. The gift to Newark Now, the non-profit Booker founded in 2003, was “an opportunity to give back to Newark,” his campaign said on Friday.
To neighbors who’ve complained about the overgrown back yard and the squatters who live inside, the property stands as a marked contrast to Booker’s public image as an urban crusader, a politician building a national reputation by confronting inner-city blight.
“He bought it and promised to be a good neighbor, but that hasn’t occurred,” said Robert El, who owns the row house attached to Booker’s. “Shortly after he bought it, the squatters started moving in.”
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Anything good that was completed in Newark was spearheaded by Sharpe James; i.e. the Riverwalk, NJPAC, Riverfront Stadium, etc.
Being Mayor of Newark was just a steppingstone for Booker.
Booker has a 35% lead of Lonegan. We’ll be sending an empty suit to Washington DC. Again.
“Being Mayor of Newark was just a steppingstone for Booker”
reminds me of a mayor of a certain village…
Lonegan’s internal polls show differently. I learned from the campaign event with Rand Paul last week that according to their information, Booker’s lead is in the single digits.