Baristanet Profile: Ari Laing
Name: Ari Laing
Where do you live? Montclair, NJ
When did you move there? May 2020
Where did you grow up? Tampa, Florida
How do you make a living? I am a food photographer, stylist, and recipe developer. In...
Baristanet Profile: Pete Simon
Name: Pete Simon
Where do you live? In the neighborhood of laddered streets between Grove Street and Ridgewood Avenue that have the border between Montclair and Glen Ridge running through them. I like to refer to it...
Baristanet Profile: Apryl Sneed
Name: Apryl Sneed
Where do you live? Montclair, NJ
When did you move there? I have lived in Montclair for over 20 years.
Where did you grow up? Newark, NJ
How do you make a living? OR What is your...
Baristanet Profile: Molli Dowd
Name: Molli Dowd
Where do you live? Verona
When did you move there? 2000
Where did you grow up? Tucson, Arizona. My husband is from Montclair, which brought us to the area.
How do you make a living?...
Remembering Bill Nigh
We learned the news today that a longtime friend to Baristanet on Twitter, Bill Nigh, died earlier this month. Nigh had amassed close to 25,000 followers on Twitter and was proud of his following.
The...
Baristanet Profile: 2020 Year in Review
2020 has been a helluva year. With everyone staying closer to home, many of us have gotten to know our towns and the residents even better despite being socially distant. The weekly Friday Profile...
Baristanet Profile: Natalie Haddad
Name: Natalie Haddad
Where do you live? Upper Montclair
When did you move there? I’ve been here almost six years.
Where did you grow up? Not here! I’m originally from Seattle, Washington (born in Tacoma if you really want to...
Baristanet Profile: Maiko Shimizu
Name: Maiko Shimizu
Where do you live? Upper Montclair
When did you move there? Summer, 2016
Where did you grow up? Tokyo, Japan
How do you make a living? OR what is your everyday passion? Full-time mom by...
Baristanet Profile: Natalie Pitts
Name: Natalie Pitts
Where do you live? I live in the culturally rich historic South End of Montclair, NJ
When did you move there? I moved to Montclair from East Orange in 1993 with son Jimmy and...
Baristanet Profile: Karlene Palmer-Mcleod
Name: Karlene Palmer- Mcleod
Where do you live? We live on Grove Street in Montclair, NJ.
When did you move here? 2017 - We moved from Hoboken, NJ after moving from Miami, FL in 2013.
Where did you...
Baristanet Profile: Daniela Costanzo
Name: Daniela Costanzo
Where do you live? Bloomfield!
When did you move there? I moved to Bloomfield from Montclair in 2015
Where did you grow up? Paterson!
How do you make a living? OR What is your everyday passion?
I am the...
Baristanet Profile: Sarah Reppert
Name: Sarah Reppert
Where do you live? Downtown Montclair
When did you move here? 10+ years ago
Where did you grow up? Woodbridge, NJ.
How do you make a living? OR What is your everyday passion? I co-own architect studios located in Lackawanna...
Baristanet Profile: David Wharton
Name: David Wharton
Where do you live? Montclair
When did you move there? We moved here in 2013.
Where did you grow up? New York and Texas
How do you make a living? OR What is your everyday passion?...
Baristanet Profile: Claudia Sherwood
Name: Claudia Sherwood
Where do you live? Upper Montclair, NJ
When did you move there? From Manhattan, 11 years ago. A new life for my young daughter in a nurturing community.
Where did you grow up? Upstate NY. I loved forests,...