Mr. Frono has me second-guessing myself, though I know I successfully tried a set of "beatle-bass" strings from one of the brands (I think they were LaBellas) on my old JS-II bass which has the same scale length and bridge as Starfires do. In any case, it has been around 8 years since I had them, so I can't guarantee that they didn't change something, but their website does say: "Fits Hofner “Beatle” basses and similar models that require 34″ distance from ball-end to silk." Which makes sense since the string also has a ways to travel from the Hofner tailpiece to the floating saddle.
That being said, I have learned a lot from (and in collaboration with) Frono over the last almost-decade and he has tons of good insights and info. So by no means do I want the above statement to come across as a suggestion that I am wiser than he. Much respect and love for all my LTG brothers and sisters!
As per Lungimsam's comment, I forgot that the Newark Street Starfires have the modern Fender-style tuning pegs, so there would be no need to trim the outer winding of the E string. The vintage Starfire tuners have thinner pegs with a hole through the center much like a lot of guitar tuning pegs have, which is too small to fit the entire girth of the E string through it, thus my comment on stripping some of the outer winding.