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In the event of a fire or other emergency, everyone knows to call 911. And like the Ghostbusters, the Jersey City Fire Department or local cops are on the scene within minutes.

Yet how responsive are city services when lives are not immediately being threatened but help is needed all the same? A look at three recent and random examples shows that the city?s responsiveness can vary.

?Disgusted? in the Heights

Since January, resident Paul D. Fitzgerald has been trying to get the trash picked up in his Jersey City Heights neighborhood.

In an e-mail dated Jan. 2 to retiring Ward D City Councilman William Gaughan, Fitzgerald described the hellish daily walk to his son?s day care center.

?This morning has hit a tipping point that needs to be addressed,? Fitzgerald begins. ?I walked my son over to his daycare today [in the Heights] and the level of garbage everywhere was deplorable! It was as if we live in a Third World country. I mean bags and bags of garbage strewn in the streets and the sidewalks, plus there is dog feces everywhere! The quality of life is getting worse by the day. I know there is street cleaning twice a week, but if you follow the trucks, they barely clean at all and garbage just gets flung around?Something needs to be done, I implore you, please! I hate walking my children through this every day.?

Gaughan responded on Jan. 10, stating, ?I am in contact regularly with [Jersey City Incinerator Authority Director Oren] Dabney with regard to trash problems. It will be brought to his attention.?

Fitzgerald and his wife, Cyndi Fitzgerald, responded later that day, thanking Gaughan for his time.
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?Can we please correct this issue?? ? John Lynch
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But they continued the e-mail by further complaining about the filth in their community, noting that ?all the way down past 59 Webster Ave. to the corner of Webster and Hutton there is a grand total of one public garbage can. One. Do you think people generally have no concern for the neighborhood and freely leave their dog feces everywhere. Yes. But even if they pick it up, there is nowhere to put garbage. Are you going to carry three pounds of dog crap five blocks? Probably not. There are hundreds of apartments/homes on this road and the incinerator department set us an e-mail that they gave out six warnings. They sent the e-mail like it was impressive. ?We gave out six warnings?? Really? Hundreds of dwellings, crap everywhere, garbage blowing up and down the street and the answer? Six warnings.?

At the beginning of March, Fitzgerald contacted Gaughan by e-mail again. In an e-mail dated March 5, he wrote, ?I have not seen a hair of improvement in this neighborhood. In fact, it may be worse.?

Fed up by March 7, Fitzgerald contacted the Reporter. A day earlier, on March 6, he had also reached out to Ward C City Councilwoman Nidia Lopez, whose ward includes a portion of the Heights community.

?That is the No. 1 complaint I receive,? Lopez said recently, referring to the city?s dirty streets.

In an interview last year, Dabney said, ?All main thorough-streets are swept six times per week, and all secondary streets are swept four times per week, twice on each side. For example Tuesday and Friday we?ll do the north side and Monday and Thursday we?ll do the south side. Street sweeping takes place citywide and is broken down into 11 routes.?

In addition to the street sweeping schedule, Dabney added that the JCIA also responds to residential complaints each day regarding trash, both on city-owned and private property.

?Our Division of Environmental Compliance inspectors are assigned to different areas throughout the city,? said Dabney. ?They take pictures and monitor locations such as abandoned properties, common areas, vacant lots, graffiti, and other violators who don?t maintain properties. From that point our Division of Property Maintenance responds by removing litter, debris, vegetation, and graffiti from these locations.?

Those who fail to maintain vacant property can be fined.

Members of the Washington Park Association and the Riverview Neighborhood Association team up several times a year to hold their own community clean-up days to improve the appearance of streets in the Heights. A similar clean-up day that focused on commercial properties was held last summer along West Side Avenue. These efforts were all organized and spearheaded by residents who said they were fed up with the filth in their neighborhoods. At the behest of Ward B resident and activist Esther Wintner, the city did a power wash of West Side Avenue last summer.

Rocky road

More recently another Heights resident, John Lynch, has renewed his plea to get a rock wall repaired along Reservoir No. 3. His complaints to the city date back to July 2012.

Last summer, on July 10, Lynch noticed that a large rock had fallen from the stone wall and alerted the city. At the time he requested that the fallen rock be removed from the sidewalk and that the wall be inspected to see if it was safe.

Two days after raising his concerns, city engineer Chuck Lee asked the city?s Department of Public Works to ?move the stone away from the sidewalk area and assess the integrity of the wall. We will discuss our options afterward.?

That same day, Lee was informed that the rock had been removed and Assistant City Engineer Jeffrey Reeves suggested that the wall be inspected the week of July 16.

On March 17, Lee wrote an e-mail to Rosemary McFadden, chief of staff to Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, DPW Director Rodney Hadley, and John Hanussak, president of the Highland Avenue Neighborhood Association. In that e-mail, Lee stated: ?Our DPW crew removed the hazardous condition from the sidewalk last week and also determined that the wall was not in any imminent dangerous condition. Therefore, the Division of Engineering scheduled a structural integrity inspection for sometime during this week.?

Two weeks later an angry Lynch, however, wrote back saying the fallen rocks had not been removed. The rocks were finally removed after this second complaint.

Two weeks ago, Lynch was back at, it after he noticed that more rocks had fallen from the Reservoir No. 3 wall.

?Can we please correct this issue?? he wrote in an e-mail dated March 24. ?Obviously, whoever determined the wall is not a dangerous situation?is incorrect. Parents with children, seniors, and residents pass by this wall. If someone trips over a rock on the sidewalk, or a rock falls off the wall and someone gets injured, it is the city?s fault.?

As of April 3, this new round of fallen rocks had not been repaired.

STOP in the name of safety

Despite the experiences of Fitzgerald and Lynch, occasionally action is taken quickly to alleviate a problem.

Acting in her capacity as a private citizen, this reporter was able to get a stop sign replaced that had been removed earlier this year by PSE&G.

As part of some project that was never explained to the community, utility giant PSE&G last year ripped up several blocks of roadway along Pavonia Avenue in the Journal Square community. As a part of this work, the pavement at several street corners was also jackhammered and the stop sign at the corner of Pavonia Avenue and Garrison Avenue was removed. This one-way stop had regulated traffic on Garrison at the approach to Pavonia.

When PSE&G repaved the street corners, the one-way stop sign at Garrison and Pavonia was not replaced. Since there was no stop sign at this intersection on Pavonia, there was nothing at this corner to regulate traffic on either street, creating a serious safety hazard.

On March 25 this reporter contacted Rosemary McFadden, chief of staff to Mayor Healy; Ward C City Councilwoman Nidia Lopez, and Council members At-large Rolando Lavarro Jr., Viola Richardson, and Peter Brennan. McFadden immediately asked Chuck Lee and the city?s Engineering Department to address the problem, and council members Lavarro and Lopez also followed-up quickly.

Within four days, a stop sign was returned to this corner.

Hey Mayor Healy, Some???? Actually Most of you promises were not fulfilled in the 8 years you have been Mayor. So there you have it Jersey City Resident's he proves why you should not vote him, he is not capable of keeping promises and running Jersey City. Why would anyone in right mind give him another 4 years to fail on fulfilling promises. As they say, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expected a different result!

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Now that Dan is with Team Healy and seems to agree with every move they make, wouldn't one say he is now bought and paid for by Healy! If Healy was to win, Dan would isolated on the council with the Healy rubber stamps.

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Now that Dan is with Team Healy and seems to agree with every move they make, wouldn't one say he is now bought and paid for by Healy! If Healy was to win, Dan would isolated on the council with the Healy rubber stamps.

The mayoral campaign of Jersey City City Councilman Steve Fulop today revealed its plans to combat crime in New Jersey's second largest city.
Here is Steven Fulop's crime policy.
Will Healy and Walker publish a crime policy too?


http://stevenfulop.com/sites/default/ ... op_public_safety_plan.pdf

Meanwhile while they try to dress Healy up for election time, he still looks sloppy and like a slob. I guess you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig!

On Central Ave between Hopkins & St Pauls Ave, along the #6 school parking lot there are a bucnch of large piles of dog shit, I'm hoping to see the owners of the dogs who don't pick up the shit, perhaps stick their face in it. It is disgusting!!

No matter how Mayor Healy tries to convince us that crime is down and not an issue he is incorrect. Where is the police presence he promised. What is happening with the eye in the sky? How is that gun buy back working? I guess another gun that was not turned in.
It just s**cks that you can't be coming home from work, or wherever you might be coming from without worrying about being robbed, or held up at gunpoint.

The streets in the heights were getting clean?

Great point - ever since Dan joined Healy's ticket you have hardly heard anything from him...HMMMMMM!


{You certainly are unwilling to actually answer the tough and very real questions and you certainly have done nothing to show you are independent. Everything points to you willing to keep your mouth shut ever since you joined the ticket, which is incredibly sad}

Mayor Healy will tell you crime is down according to statistics, and it is good there are less murders, however in an article I saw the other day it mentioned "Aggravated assault and burglary each went up"

Here is a sampling of crime issues, quite a few shootings may I add..guess they were not good enough shots to kill someone.

JC felon charged after trying to toss loaded gun
JC Carjacker flees car after seeing sleeping boys in back seat
Good Samaritan thwarts armed robbery at JC pizzeria
JCPD say 2 men attacked arresting officers after brutal beating of 49-year-old
NFL star Kenny Britt mum with cops after taking stabbing victim to hospital
Shots ring out, JC man, 20, suffers stomach wound
Kearny 14-year-old tells cops he was kidnapped, beaten, robbed in JC
JC man hit in face with gun during daylight robbery on Garfield Avenue
JCPD say 3 teen purse snatchers may have done second robbery nearby
New mother struck by stray bullet in JC, neighbor says
JC police say man punched and robbed by duo in Heights
Police investigating afternoon shooting on Myrtle Avenue in JC
Man is found shot dead in JC housing complex building
Driver gets mad, stabs passenger in fight over where to get dropped off
Police searching for man who stabbed JC resident
19-year-old shot in buttocks, Jersey City police say
JCPD say Bayonne man, 21,clubbed and stomped during sneaker theft
Man killed in Jersey City Near St. Peters College McGinley Square area
Elizabeth man stabbed while breaking up fight on JC street
Gunfire erupts during fight in Jersey City
Woman's BMW carjacked in Heights section of JC
Woman grazed by stray bullet in apparent Jersey City drive-by
Front door of Jersey City man's home blasted with gun after parking dispute:
JC bank robber gets $4,000 with 'Don't be a hero' note
Man's face slashed during robbery in DTJC

Why is there no mention on his Website or Endorsements from:

Disgraced former Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini is now prisoner No. 30118-050

Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega Jr. sentenced to 30 months in federal prison

Jersey City Councilman Philip Kenny gets one year for corruption

Healy Political consultant Jack Shaw found dead in Jersey City. Shaw was charged by the FBI with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right. He allegedly accepted tens of thousands of dollars from a purported developer (?CW?) in exchange for exploiting his ?very good relationship? with an unnamed Jersey City official later revealed to be Mayor Jerramiah Healy (?Official 4″) on projects CW was pursuing. Some of the money Shaw allegedly accepted was to have been turned over to Healy?s reelection campaign.

You must remember the man is delusional all the drinking has caught up to him as he thinks he is doing a great job.

Healy Legacy - Skyrocketing Taxes, Crime Issues, Filthy Streets, Atrocious Roads, Failed Education System, Corruption, Patronage, Cronyism, Failed Administration.

Council Members, Directors, Deputy Mayors have either gone to jail or are currently in jail.

One Word describes Healy - FAILURE!!!!!

Come join us tomorrow at The Distillery Gallery & Artspace 7 Hutton Street, Jersey City, NJ for the fundraiser for Councilman Steven Fulop, our next Mayor as we, the citizens of Jersey City, make the change we give become the change we need!

Jersey City will be holding the fourth and final public safety meeting tonight, Monday, April 30th at P.S. #28 (167 Hancock Avenue) at 6pm. The meeting comes as part of a citywide effort to better address the public?s very vocal concern over crime. The second meeting, held at the Ocean Avenue Baptist Church, sought to reassure residents that police service is provided throughout the city equally.

The public will have an opportunity to meet members of the Police Department?s Community Response Team, the unit responsible for handling public complaints on issues ranging from crime to quality of life. Police Chief Comey will be on hand to answer questions from residents.

?These meetings are an opportunity for the public to express their concerns and issues and for them to meet with the newly-appointed detectives who are leading the Community Response Teams in their communities? said Mayor Jerramiah Healy in a statement. ?We know that the last meeting held at City Hall was a positive interaction with the community and are hoping that the public takes advantage of this meeting so that we can work as partners to continue to improve the quality of life in our communities.?

Well said CapnJon

Jersey City is hosting a town hall on public safety Monday night at School 28, the fourth in a series of meetings called to address complaints about city crime.

The first of the four meetings was held on March 1, after weeks of complaints from a group of residents that city officials were ignoring their belief that crime in Jersey City is on the rise.

At previous meetings, Mayor Jerramiah Healy and Police Chief Tom Comey have said the city has implemented some series to address fears of crime, which include sending police detectives regularly to local community meetings and implementing an online police blotter so residents can track arrests.

The meeting will begin Monday at 6 p.m. at School 28, 167 Hancock Ave., in The Heights.

We need to start by paving our roads, they are atrocious. They are dangerous enough driving an automobile on them with all the potholes and torn up roads, how are you suppose to be safe riding a bike on them. Nice job by the clueless Healy administration. They drive on the JC roads too, you think they would have to common sense to realize how bad they are to drive on.

ExUWSguy - Lucky you..I live over by Pershing Field..there have been quite a few incidents...Deli on Beacon and Central held up at gun point as was the Getty Station on Central and State Hwy...both separate incidents.

A woman was mugged on Prospect and Central at knife-point last week. Two houses over the summer broken into on Jefferson Ave.

Here are some other incidents too:


Robbers grab Jersey City teen by neck, take $400 in items

Jersey City man tries to grab gun from robber before chasing him in car

Robbers ask St. Peter's College student for time, then snatch cell phone

Jersey City man was robbed at gunpoint by two men Monday night

Four assault, shoot at Jersey City man to steal his boots

"DO YOU FEEL SAFE"
In Your Home?
On The Streets?
In Jersey City?
"Take Action Get Involved!
STOP CRIME........
COME MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD!

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
CITY HALL CHAMBERS COUNCIL MEETING
280 Grove Street, 2nd Floor 6PM (arrive @5:30PM)

NOTE: to get on the speakers list:
Contact/City Clerk's Office (201)547-5150
BY: 4PM Feb.7thFor additional info contact:
JCAGAINSTCRIME@YAHOOGROUPS.COM

Did you see the front page of The Jersey Journal ("3 Slain in 1 Night")? The Healy administration must step up on public safety. Where is the mayor on this? We have not heard a word from him calling these murders unacceptable in Jersey City. We need outside help, bring in the National Guard, State Police -- do something, mayor, to make the residents feel safe. No matter how you tout your statistics, Jersey City residents do not feel safe.
It is amazing how Mayor Healy and his captive council have money to provide benefits to a volunteer board that meets once a month. They have money for their take home cars. They have money to give Kevin Lyons a raise. They have money for Steve Lipski. There is always money for families, friends, cronies on the payroll. They have money for cultural affairs and parades. But they have no money for public safety!
Mayor Healy keeps talking about the New Great Depression, and yes, these are economically challenging times, however, the Healy administration has run City Hall long enough to have addressed the economic challenges we are facing. In fact, they created the mess we are in, spending money we don't have.
Jersey City should be the economic engine of the state with the major corporations we have there, along with being right across the river from NYC. Team Healy and his appointees are clueless when it comes to raising revenue.
For example, we have major hotels, good colleges, a nice waterfront -- and they can't figure out how to raise revenue. There is a shortage of taxi cabs in Jersey City. Sell taxi medallions. Just adding 20 cabs, selling medallions for $100,000, would raise $2 million.
I have been at many council meetings and residents also provided great ideas towards raising revenue, saving tax dollars, suggestions on budget issues, and this administration ignores them.
Where is all the money from the abatements? Why has it not been reinvested into Jersey City?
We can only hope people decide not to vote for the two people Healy endorsed. Ray "don't take away my car and perks" Velazquez and Kalimah "I'm an independent thinker" Ahmad. We have yet to see one independent thought; they both have been rubber stamps.
David Donnelly, who won his election, still has not come through on his campaign promises -- a desk by desk audit and cameras on West Side Avenue.
So we need to elect intelligent, smart-thinking individuals. Otherwise, Jersey City is doomed.
JOHN LYNCH
JERSEY CITY
http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index ... _is_failing_city_let.html

What is Jersey City Council President Peter Brennan trying to hide.
In the first ten seconds of this video, Brennan leans over and says...
"Esther Wintner doesn't know.......""Esther Wintner doesn't know if it's true...
Can anyone understand what he said?

http://jc1tv.com/meetings1.html#part2

Esther has many times spoke at council meeting, standing up for the residents of Jersey City, questioning how they spend our tax dollars.

Residents of Jersey City - Attend the Rally tomorrow at Healy's Fund Raiser at Puccini's Restaurant RALLY TO "STOP THE LAYOFFS" with the Police Union. Starts at 4PM!

The Recall Team will be there too to support the Police.

Now wake up JC Residents, you have been giving a second chance to get rid of this incompetent, self-serving team..Support, Join the Recall Movement.

Here is the contact information:
Phone: (201) 855 4606
eMail: jcrecall@yahoo.com
You can also go to http://jcpac.org/ for more information.

Do something, get involved rather than just be a keyboard commando!

Healy and his team keep touting crime is at a 30 year low...how delusional are they?
This is every reason why not to vote for David Donnelly, he is part of Team Healy.
David Donnelly is the Machine Candidate for Ward B, loyalties are to Healy and the Machine.
He has long been associated and worked for Mayor Healy and the Administration, he was appointed out of patronize.
David Donnelly is everything what is wrong with the current administration and it patronizing ways.
David Donnelly voted to keep paying benefits for the volunteer workers who meet once a month with most, if not all of them being from someones family for Healy to his Captive Council.
David Donnelly uses a city car, rather trying to set an example and give up the car which is also used for personal use and cost the taxpayers of Jersey City.
David Donnelly also voted the Team Healy way on over 80 million dollars of bonds which will come out of the Jersey City residents pockets.
Now they want to cut the police bidget by 8 million, we need our police.
Jersey City cannot continue with the Healy agenda running Jersey City, we must remove this young Healy from the council.
Residents of Ward B, come out and VOTE FOR ESTHER WINTNER 10E on Tuesday November 2nd.