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View Larger Map Gee willikers, paw! What's that? A gigantic lot on the corner of Grand Street and Marin Blvd, from Gull's Cove to Grand and from Marin almost all the way to Grove Street. I'm sure nothing's gonna go up there, and if something does, I'm sure they won't require plumbing or sewers. I second parkman's point entirely, which is why, until things change to a system where developers pay for their impact on their neighbors, every unnecessary dollar spent hurts property taxpayers all the more. Quote: by GrovePath on 2008/6/26 21:47:57 Sal/NON you really should keep your nasty attitude for your weirdojc website, Grand between Grove and Marin is not empty lots but pretty built up already - so your point is lost. I think parkman already hit the point I was chiming in on: Quote:
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Re: I Saw Someone Riding A Bicycle On the Pulaski Skyway This Morning
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No, you can cross the Whittpenn, but once you get down as far as the Northeast Corridor Tracks there are signs that say no pedestrians, I believe on both 7 and the JC-Newark Turnpike.
One pedestrian route out of JC would be by way of County Road, which has a sidewalk separated from the roadway with a guardrail, however, the rail yards next to county road do not maintain the sidewalk and the wilds of the meadowlands have basically grown over the sidewalk. Route and the Turnpike don't have sidewalks, either.
Posted on: 2008/6/27 1:52
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Re: 2008 Street paving - Councilman Steven Fulop
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I would be satisfied with at least one way out of the city that didn't involve new axles, but I'm sure that making that happen will not be the city's responsibility.
Posted on: 2008/6/27 1:47
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Re: 2008 Street paving - Councilman Steven Fulop
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Sal/NON you really should keep your nasty attitude for your weirdojc website, Grand between Grove and Marin is not empty lots but pretty built up already - so your point is lost.
I think parkman already hit the point I was chiming in on: Quote:
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Re: 2008 Street paving - Councilman Steven Fulop
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Second St and Washington could use some 'touch up', but I doubt it would happen until Crystal Pointe is done and the intersection is set up .
Posted on: 2008/6/27 1:44
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Think that's a coincidence, genius? Let's see, why would the city want to pave over a section of road adjacent to development that has completed all its utility and sewer hookups, but not a stretch of road next to a completely empty lot?
It's a waste of taxpayer money to completely repave roads that are certain to be ripped apart in the next few years due to development, just so graphic designers can zip around on their foldup bikes without chafing. Quote:
Posted on: 2008/6/27 1:29
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Re: I Saw Someone Riding A Bicycle On the Pulaski Skyway This Morning
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Ian did you mean to say the Pulaski? I rode route 7 (wittpenn bridge) several times in 2006 and bikes/peds were allowed.
Have they put up signs recently? Maybe my complaining got them to ban bikes/peds rather than fix the mess. The fact that there is no easy way West of Jersey City by bike is a real shame and hampers cycling in the area.
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Re: Fighting a ticket for stalled car?
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It's definitely worth a try. But the J.C. courts are not as easy since replacing the judges that served there for many years. Bring all documents as many as possible. The parking authority has to enforce any illegal parked vehicle.
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Fighting a ticket for stalled car?
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The alternator went on my wife coming up St Pauls, so she manages to roll backwards onto Stillman and park facing the wrong way, and leaves a note on the dash saying she broke down. Naturally she gets a ticket for "incorrect parking" in the hrs before AAA tows us to Joe's.
Do you think I can get the ticket pitched by showing up with the towing record?
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Re: I Saw Someone Riding A Bicycle On the Pulaski Skyway This Morning
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I for one am rather offended that its virtually impossible to leave Jersey City by foot. Not that you really would want to walk to someplace like say Newark, but there are no pedestrian signs all over route 7. Maybe this will change when we are all paying $19.47 a gallon.
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Re: I Saw Someone Riding A Bicycle On the Pulaski Skyway This Morning
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Can't help but to crackup from this thread and the replies. I guess I just have too vivid an imagination and find it humourous yet incomprehensible that someone would actually do this but I have a dear dear friend who would do something crazy like this and I plan on giving him a call...
Posted on: 2008/6/26 23:51
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Re: 2008 Street paving - Councilman Steven Fulop
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Yeah, but there are a whole lot of new condos between Jersey & Grove on Grand...
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Re: 2008 Street paving - Councilman Steven Fulop
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Your are being generous... Grand between Grove and Marin is in just as bad shape. Hopefully this gets added to the list if it cannot be paved in this round.
Posted on: 2008/6/26 23:32
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Re: I Saw Someone Riding A Bicycle On the Pulaski Skyway This Morning
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It is virtually impossible for cyclists in Hudson County to cross the Hackensack and Passaic rivers. The closest semi-safe crossing happens just north of Hudson County in Ridgefield, NJ (Winant ave rt 46 the next one occurs a couple of miles North (Main Street Fort Lee).
It is illegal to cross the Hackensack and Passaic River via the Pulaski Skyway and I-78 by bicycle. It is however legal to cross via 1/9 Lincoln Ave Bridge (now named after the two officers who tragically lost their lives there) and Newark Ave-Belleville Turnpike (Wittpenn Bridge). Both bridges are supposed to have pedestrian walkways but they are littered with dangerous debris making them impassable even by foot. In addition the entrances to the walkways are overgrown with small trees and bended-in guard rails. Traffic patterns and road design make crossing extremely dangerous. Here is a picture I took of the pedestrian/bikepath on the Wittpenn back when I was crazy enough to ride it:  On several occasions I have written to County officials about how dangerous these crossings are. It would be an improvement even if they just cleaned up the path and made access to it easier. They of course never respond. The Wittpenn bridge is supposed to be replaced by a new structure. Construction is supposed to start by next year. Originally they were going to build a serious bikeway on the new bridge. It would have been a connection point for the East Coast Greenway.East Coast greenway. Last I heard they nixed that idea due to a slashed budget.
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Re: Liberty National golf course
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I Love Golf. I agree that this land would probably just end up being more condos or high-rises. I like golf courses as they are often an oasis from city/urban life and crowding. It just plain sucks that 99.9% of Hudson County residents will never get to even walk on this course. Even St. Andrews is accessable to the public. Oh well, I am off to buy a lottery ticket or maybe I will try the PGA qualifying school. My wife is a distant cousin of Rocco Mediate. Hell! I can carry his bag!
Posted on: 2008/6/26 23:05
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Re: 2008 Street paving - Councilman Steven Fulop
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New, smooth streets? Get ready for the speeders and daily accidents to increase ten-fold.
Posted on: 2008/6/26 22:53
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Re: Stop Signs on Erie Street - Steven FUlop
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Why does the city bother? The other day I watched a woman stare down a cop as she casually drove thru the STOP sign at Coles and Pavonia. The cop, who was with a work crew, did nothing. And no, he had not waved her thru.
Posted on: 2008/6/26 22:47
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Sounds like a Darwin Award just waiting to happen in this thread...
Posted on: 2008/6/26 22:33
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Re: Where are all the BJ shopping carts coming from?
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Annod, that is what cell phone cameras are for!
Posted on: 2008/6/26 22:28
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Re: 2008 Street paving - Councilman Steven Fulop
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Steve,
What I?d like know is, why aren?t the developers, who continue to get generous tax abatements, required because of those abatements, to repave the roads (i.e. Grand) they are digging up to run new lines for their properties. Why should it come out of our budget?
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Re: Where are all the BJ shopping carts coming from?
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Several weeks ago, I saw two Indian girls take the BJ's cart onto the Light Rail at Harsimus Cove, and then got off at Essex St. They then took it to Clermont Cove.
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No kidding. If I were paying $2400/mo in rent and saw some tacky person wheeling a shopping cart into my building, there would be hell to pay. Just proof that money doesn't buy class, I guess.
Posted on: 2008/6/26 22:02
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Is this a cultural thing? Is it acceptable and normal to do this in other countries? Are we just so tightly wound and ethnocentric that we are missing a larger cultural behavior? The people I have actually seen pushing carts down the street recently have been well-heeled Asians. I can say for a fact that this is NOT done where they come from - certainly not in uptight Japan or in Singapore or Taiwan. Nor have I seen it in other parts of Asia. I've lived in western Europe, too, and I've never ever witnessed people wheeling shopping carts off the premises. My only guess as to why people here do this is that they can - they see other people doing it, and figure it's OK. They're aided and abetted by a don't-give-a-shit retail establishment and apartment building management.
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Priceless!
Posted on: 2008/6/26 21:41
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Councilman Fulop, Really nothing for Newark Avenue??? How can that be? As I asked on your other thread entitled: "Councilman Steven Fulop - Jersey City Summer 2008 Update" Don't you recognize how bad Newark Avenue is -- it is in dire need of resurfacing right away. Has the city even applied for grants to do Newark Avenue? How can it not be scheduled to be repaved soon? It is as just bad as CC and just as widely used. New paving should be based on what streets are most in need not on who you think are the squeakiest wheels / "constituent/community group feedback." I voted for you but you are now making me wonder if that was an error. When and if Newark Avenue ever does get re-done, it should certainly get paved all the way to the Fire Station on Fourth Street. I really hope we don't get some partial job -- just the few blocks near the Grove Pointe tower/PATH Station! I can't believe you are doing Brunswick first - is that because of all the new condo conversions over there? I hope that I am just missing something -- I thought Newark Avenue was getting redone soon as part of a whole Newark Avenue beautification push.... I hope I am wrong about what is happening here...
Posted on: 2008/6/26 21:33
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Is this a cultural thing? Is it acceptable and normal to do this in other countries? Are we just so tightly wound and ethnocentric that we are missing a larger cultural behavior?
Could it be that this is just not done HERE but where some people come from it is perfectly fine? That they don't even know? It's the only legitimate explanation as to how the hell the carts are showing up in the hallways of these fancy high rises. They know not what they do.
Posted on: 2008/6/26 21:26
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And I wasn't talking about patching potholes. Patch falls out of the hole two weeks after crews fill it in. A properly paved street should last several years, but paper thin layer of asphalt doesn't.
Posted on: 2008/6/26 21:24
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Re: From the Jersey Journal: Sea Story - Arthouse Productions
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only Three shows left!
Tonight (6.26.08), Friday & Saturday. TICKETS $20 general admission To purchase, visit www.arthouseproductions.org or call (201) 915-9911 (Adult show, suitable for 15 yrs+)
Posted on: 2008/6/26 21:22
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i'm not sure of any jersey city special permitting regulations, however, i can tell you that there is no incentive in place in NJ right now.
NY just passed an incentive today, though: http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/4844 ...maybe NJ won't be too far behind. ...and yes, there are many things you'll need to be aware of, first being the weight load your roof can support (a decent bare minimum green roof would be 15lbs/sqft). anyway, there's lots of info online, and several companies in the area that design and install green roofs (i work for one myself), but first you'll need to consult with a structural engineer to see if it's even an option.
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wow, they wheeled it all the way up the to 21st fl and left it in the hallway?! mo' fo' should be fined by his building.
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