Remember when the restaurant at Upper Montclair Train Station was scheduled to open months ago, possibly for the holidays? That never happened and commuters have been wondering about the hold-up for some time. Today a reader writes to report a new development…

After all the bumbling they got the station up 3 months ago but have yet to open. I was patient when the makeshift shelter had some animal’s droppings (maybe human) left there to slowly wash away over the last week but today’s grafitti on the unopened station has finally got me. Everyone in this town is looking to fix quote un quote problems that in earlier times you just dealt with while this gross mismanagement now spreads well over two councils’ and one manager’s oversight.
I will call the city today but I thought you might have more luck getting the grafitti cleaned before it becomes the new derelict station in town that gets tagged everynight.
Concerned Montclairian

Click through for a picture of the graffiti…

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It’s officially happy hour, but forget about that vodka martini. Montclair author Pamela Redmond Satran is back at it — sharing all the tells that reveal you to be neither young nor hip. Her blog How Not To Act Old scolds us for drinking vodka and showing our age, now that the youngsters have given it up for other fashionable liquors.

Cantor Meredith of Bloomfield’s Temple Ner Tamid will be singing both the Israeli and USA national anthems to open the Newark Bears game tomorrow night, Thursday June 25, to celebrate Jewish Heritage Day at the stadium.
Tickets are $10 at the door. Game starts at 6:30 p.m.

Comedian and Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel is performing live at the bergenPAC this Saturday June 27th. at 8 p.m. We’ve got two pairs of tickets to give away. Mandel has mysophobia — the first two readers who can identify the disorder correctly with an email to tips, will claim the tickets. Go…

UPDATE: Thanks for playing. We have two winners who both correctly identified Mandel’s phobia (a fear of dirt and germs). Opening up comments now — talk about your fears or anything else. It’s a germ-free open thread…

What would Jerry Garcia say? Grateful Dead fans — meet the next generation on Barista Kids.

Good news for neighbors of the Benson Street train station in Glen Ridge: The dilapidated structure has finally been sold by NJ Transit — for $150,100 or $100 above asking — to a Glen Ridge couple with experience restoring a total wreck.
NJ Transit said the property changed hands last Thursday, and was purchased by Richard and Edna Moriarty of Glen Ridge. The same couple bought a blighted property on Woodland Avenue in Glen Ridge in 1998, which had been seized by the town under eminent domain, and successfully restored it the condition shown above, right. The house won the Glen Ridge Historical Society’s preservation award in 2001.

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