Welcome to Coffee Shop Awareness Month at Rahway Rising. After last week’s sharp back-and-forth among readers about the new coffee shop in the SkyView development, and the news about a coffeehouse in the Park Square project, NJ Transit expects the former Moca Motion Cafe to be open by the end of June.
The proprietor is in the process of obtaining inspection approvals, according to a spokesman for NJ Transit, and if all goes well, the shop is expected to open by the end of this month. The sign in the window (photo at right) says Express Cafe, but the spokesman indicated it would be called Metro News and Cafe. Let the debates ensue!
It was referenced in last week’s raging Cuppy’s debate, so in case you missed the marigolds spelling out Rahway, here they are. They’re located below the NJ Transit stairs off the northbound platform on Irving Street, near East Cherry (across the street from David Drake).
That’s three straight posts about coffee downtown. I’ll be sure to mix it up a bit more later this week…as long as everyone agrees to cut back on the caffeine…
I hate to be negative about NJ Transit, but do they mean opening June 08 or 09? We sure could use some ice coffee this week!!!Thanks for the marigold shot Mark.
As I wrote before, the state of decent coffee in downtown Rahway can only go up at this point, so I’ll give this new place the benefit of the doubt and pray that it serves better fare than MocaMotion.And those marigolds look spiffy!
MocaMotion was kind of skin and bones. When I first walked inside you kind of got the feeling they didn’t expect it to last. Like they didn’t want to put much effort into it.The more coffee the merrier. But it may be tough for the economy to support 3 coffee centered establishments.
I agree three may be too many. I think it was Lewis Black that said he new the end was near when he walked out of a Starbucks looked across the street and saw another Starbucks. If you ever go to 42nd and 6th in Manhattan there is a Starbucks kiosk on the corner at Bryant park and a store on the other side of the street. Could Lewis be right?