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It might be a walk for you but there are garages for rent near me on belvidere avenue in between Kensington and Gautier near Lincoln Park. Theres about 15 garages behind the only house on the street. Also St. Als church might rent you a spot but Im not sure.
Steven Porada Hudson Building Services www.HudsonBuildingServices.com
Posted on: 2008/7/1 4:07
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Re: Too much lead found in water at 7 schools by Jersey City Board of Education tests.
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Erin Brocovich, where are you?
Is there anyone out there who is up to the task? Sounds like a MAJOR LAWSUIT to me.
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Re: BEWARE Crack down on parking and permits etc.
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Some of Jersey City's assanine rules and city policies that are soooooooo...
ASSANINE!!!!! I have a Pkg. Permit, AND, I think that it would have been nice if the PA would have informed me that I needed to replace my permit with another one to be placed in the rear window of my car before going for my scheduled NJ state car inspection. Because I have tinted glass, this yrs. instructions for placement of the permit states to place the permit above my cars inspection sticker on the front shield left hand corner. Well, guess what? My car didn't pass inspection because the permit is a view obstruction! Why is it that there was no thought to detail? Why did they not check with NJ State law? Now I have to go to the PA!, get another permit, and go back to get my car inspected!!!! This wastes my precious time and GAS!!!! Also, let's say, you have 50 people who visit one of many neighborhood libraries, for let's say...The summer Reading Club, or for any other reason, is the city supplying permits for these people to visit the libraries so they won't get booted?
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This was published today by the Animal Welfare Federation of NJ in the July newsletter.
http://www.awfnj.org/Appellate_Decision_6_24.pdf
Posted on: 2008/6/30 20:35
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Why do you say its the worst development ever? It looks pretty innovative to me- both in the style and in the mix of use. Some of the workmanship, however, looks a little shoddy (the brick face is this faux veneer on the new buildings). Yes, there will be more traffic, but our neighborhood is underpopulated now and, this is a city after all which is suppossed to have density. Density allows one to have stores, etc. I think that the project will make Lafayette Park, which is really very nice, more user friendly. What kid wants to play in an empty park?
Posted on: 2008/6/30 19:48
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In all seriousness...the sign only says "PARKED over 2 hours". If you drive your car around the block and go to another store, it has not been PARKED for 2 hours. I think that what the JC Parking Authority does is highly illegal.
Posted on: 2008/6/30 19:38
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You need a copy of your lease and a notarized letter from you stating that he lives with you (not sure if you need one if you are with him) ...They will give him a 3 week temporary permit.
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Thanks, DanL! That link is very helpful.
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Whitlock and the rest of the construction in this area has been a disaster with no coordination and planning. They keep saying they will be finished but as usual Lafayette gets hit with the worst development ever and they got a 40 year tax abatement, Go figure!
Posted on: 2008/6/30 18:28
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Re: Jersey Journal 's Politicial Insider: A moment with Bret Schundler, once and (maybe) future mayor
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Posted on: 2008/6/30 18:27
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Ianmac you are absolutely right! .....I completely disagree with offsite affordable housing. I have nothing against low income housing but Bergen -Lafayette is getting bombarded from all angles with all these ugly cheap off -site affordable housing projects...just look at the Harriet Tubman project on MLK drive...it is horrible looking and frankly I am insulted.
I am also disappointed that the people of Lafayette allow Downtown to create "a tale of two cities" with the haves on one side (downtown) the Have -nots on the other. They will hit resistance in future projects. If they owe COAH standard affordable then keep them inside the High rises the developers are building.. .Its great when people can co-mingle but unfortunately this is not the feeling of many people in Jersey City but as a community we need to let our voices be heard in city hall and at city council.
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Yes, Snowbird... a quick search lists the address at 401 Thomas McGovern Drive, (201) 451-2000
I found it while wandering around JC with my camera a couple months ago. They have a self-service machine, but I don't know if it's in operation.
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someone told me there's a water company around liberty state park that sells/fills the big water bottles used for water coolers. is there such a place?
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I haven't heard anything, but in this town, you never know.
Posted on: 2008/6/30 18:01
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in Al Sullivan's Political Column in yesterday's JC Reporter, he commented that Brett Schundler will face fundraising challenges, because Mayor Healy has already given developers everything they want.....
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yes, see this link - http://www.greenway.org/ for the East Coast Greenway, not only an off road bike/ped route from Jersey City to Newark, but also from Maine to Florida...
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Violent incidents fueled by gang rivalries at public housing complexes How is this news? I wonder if anyone reading this thread remember who the Jersey City BONES were? Or the Sons of Marion? Or the Brothers of the Jersey City Heights? Historically, Jersey City has been a hotbed of gangs and cliques, and the responses to the gang culture have been ineffective, toothless, and lacking in real results. Some kids will grow out of it and others will die or go to jail from it--no different from the past. This is not The Wire... Welcome to Jersey City my friends. It's still an okay place to call home as long you don't mind the occasional B.S. 
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Anyone else feel like we are living in The Wire?
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Anyone go? How was it?
Posted on: 2008/6/30 16:01
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Ianmac,
That is exactly my point. People should not be allowed to export or send the obligation elsewhere. Whether it is Toll Brothers sending it to some other locale in Jersey City or whether it is a municipality sending it to another municipality. I agree with you about building in the burbs in general and think that this country made a wrong turn when it decided years ago to subsidize highway development into rural areas (now burbs) instead of investing in and improving inner cities. Thing is...I have the benefit of the past in my analysis. I dont know that I would've said the same thing if asked when these decisions were being made. I think a part of the reason this country moved in that direction at the time was because the US had a TON of undeveloped land and energy was dirt-cheap. Tide may change as we become more aware of how our actions impact our environment and our future. But if the price of energy continues to go up we will def. change because MONEY is what we most clearly understand in this country.
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ValidQs....I think we have different ideologies on the role of people in a society. I think that as a member of a community/society it is my responsibility to help people who have less than I do. I also believe that it should be the larger society's responsibility to help its less fortunate citizens. Does it mean that I will be helping some people who are gaming the system? Yes. Does it mean I will be helping some idiots who had the same opportunities I had and squandered them? Yes. However even with that I believe that a society should not ignore its most vulnerable citizens and should try to help them to improve/change their situation. There will be people who are perpetually just taking from such a system but there will also be people who use the help to better their own life and the lives of current and future family members.
The thought of leaving poor people to fend for themselves in a capitalist society makes me very uncomfortable. Capitalism supports the creation of wealth, it also supports the creation of poverty.
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IP address cross-check on aisle 6!
Posted on: 2008/6/30 15:19
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The government should be discouraging suburban development, bottom line. Its environmentally unsustainable, regardless of the race of people living in suburbs. If you want to talk about actually helping people, maybe the state should have eliminated clauses that allow urban developments to build low income housing requirements off site.
Jersey City's biggest low income housing problem is not that there are too many poor people, but that there are too many poor people living too closely to other poor people. For instance, whether or not you agree with the Toll Brothers proposal in the PAD, the biggest mistake of that proposal is allowing the construction of low income housing obligations off site. A small number of low income housing units interspersed between a large number of upper middle and upper income housing units will never generate the same problems as large scale housing projects do. You want to talk about racism, well, look no further than the city's approval of off site low income housing.
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You can stay on top of this by reading PCUE's blog. And you can get on their mailing list too to be notified of events as they occur. They have been the driving force behind making the powers that be accountable on this. And, yes, they knew.
Posted on: 2008/6/30 15:04
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The nomenclature assigned to people in the new is often very telling. Whether an 18 yo male is a boy, a teen, a student, a man, or a perp depends on the POV of the writer.
One of the things that made reading "Into the Wild" excruciating was the author constantly calling a 24 yo man a "boy", thus absolving him of adult responsibility for his actions.
Posted on: 2008/6/30 15:00
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These are the type of comments that might be funny if it wasn't so sad to know that people really buy into this silliness.
Mount Laurel housing and Abbott school districts are two examples of NJ's efforts to appear politically correct, to act as though we're doing something to improve people's lives when, in reality, things are only getting worse. Things are getting worse because these programs do little or nothing to promote their claimed goals. The urban school districts continue to spend more money per pupil and provide less educational benefits. Even with state oversight these districts continue to spend money recklessly and the kids suffer. Show me how Mount Laurel has changed anything in this state except taking more tax dollars from those who work and pay taxes. God forbid we should ask the people who need the help to earn their way to a better life. If this approach helped one generation of our needy get ahead and then the next generation took advantage of that benefit and established themselves as educated, working, taxpaying citizens there would be a valid argument for continuing with these concepts. Instead we have spent decades and other peoples money (that's what taxes are) giving away temporary solutions like candy to the hungry. It's time to recognize that the same hard work and focus on education that got the suburban residents their better life will work for others. We just need to let them have the freedom to make it on their own instead of pretending they can't. Or ease your conscience, keep taking other peoples' money and inventing phony solutions that sound right but don't work. This will be politically correct and a continuing failure.
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You are right about Mt. Laurel being a disaster. The execution has been disastrous but the basic point of the decision stands on its own merits. No town should be able to send their affordable housing obligations someplace else JUST because they dont want to build the units within their own borders. A policy like that does nothing but allows those with more financial means to push lower income people into areas like Newark, Jersey City, Trenton, Camden, Paterson, etc..thus creating islands of poverty in a sea of wealth. Those places were not desirable places in the 70's, 80's, 90's. Some of these places are starting to turn around now but I think that the financial "benefits" that these places got, while it did help some of these cities in the short-term, have not been good for these cities if you take a long-term view.
Take Trenton for example. The city is filled with more than its share of these units. Is it good that these people can find a place within the State to live? Yes. Is it good after more wealthy towns that surround Trenton have neglected their obligation that Trenton is able to do it because the other towns PAID them to do so? Yes. Have many of these cities become dependent on these payments? Yes. But today, Trenton is fighting a uphill battle trying to encourage middle-income families to move there, due to crime, quality of life, etc.. RCA's contributes to that because in this country any area with a HUGE percentage of poor people has significant challenges. That is the gift that RCA's has given to Trenton and the city will spend decades trying to correct it, if it ever does. The point is that RCA's should not be allowed in the first place because it goes against the basic premise of the Mt. Laurel decision and good public policy. In much the same way that someone should not get away with murder because they are wealthy, I should not be able to ignore the court decision and State law simply because I have the money to do so. Allowing the laws to be applied in this manner would make this country no better than nations that we view with dismay as they operate with one set of rules for the wealthy and another set for everyone else. RCA's have already done irreparable damage to many cities in NJ. It should've been challenged and stopped the first time a town or declining city tried to do it because the result is that poor people are lumped together in what were declining cities. In the short-term it may seem as if everyone benefits but in the long-term, RCA's do not help these cities and they def. do not help poor people to get out of poverty. A policy which in practice bundles NJ's poor into declining cities may sustain many mostly white suburbs, but bundling poor people together does not help them. Question: Which is more important, keeping many suburbs mostly white or helping NJ residents who are most vulnerable? Part of the legacy of RCA's is that although NJ is probably the most diverse state in the country it is also one of the most segregated. That is something this State should be utterly ashamed of. That was way too long. Sorry.
Posted on: 2008/6/30 14:53
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