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I for one welcome our marsupial overlords. ;)
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Re: Jersey City gun violence leaves at least two dead, some dozen injured over week
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If what you say is true, then he is a failure. NYC had some of the most violent areas which have been cleaned up Bed Stuy, LES, and Harlem. If he can not clean up Jersey City then he will be voted out 2017. Ward A voted for him because we had hope he can do what the big dogs did in NYC which is way bigger than this hole in the wall. Besides he must have some sort of plan to clean up, why else would he be moving to the hood (Bergen Lafayette) which is more gangsta than GV
Posted on: 2013/5/20 12:57
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Re: What has Nidia Lopez accomplished in Ward C?
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My fascination with Lopez has moved on past the residency scandal. That scandal was certainly unfortunate but I think it makes more sense to bring the discussion to the present and what is going on here and now. Im more interested in the mystery of how she got so many votes without ever engaging with the public on any level, she had an invisible campaign in which I never saw a single poster with her name on it, I never heard any talking points about her intentions and she failed to show up for the one debate she was asked to attend. The only time she popped up in the news was when she denounced Healy for mentioning hispanic women durring the "front porch scandal". its the only time I have seen her quoted in years. If she had any other sort of public presence during the campaign I missed it. This invisibility is nothing new since during her entire political career I have never heard her speak, I have never been made aware of what she does or intends to do and I have never seen her. Yet seamingly without effort she got 1481 votes against Boggiano's 1686 votes, which is amazing since Boggiano has been working hard at engaging with the community on every level and running a highly visible campaign. I have to assume that Lopez got all those votes either because I have no idea how things are done in ward C OR its due to being on the Fulop ticket. If Team Fulop supports Lopez (and why would they switch gears now?) they should have no trouble explaining to those of us in Ward C why they believe Lopez deserves another term. They could start (and this is what I have been asking for all along) by simply outlining what Lopez has done for the community thus far AND explain her concrete goals for the future. If Team Fulop supported Lopez than surely they had good reason to and will be able to explain why they backed her and why shes good for Ward C. I'm keeping an open mind and I'm even prepared to vote for Lopez IF someone can demonstrate why I should. Why I even need to ask for this sort of information strikes me as odd.
Posted on: 2013/5/20 12:48
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In reality there is only so much a mayor can do. I'm hopeful he is better, but parts of JC will remain very violent for years no matter what he does or does not do.
Posted on: 2013/5/20 12:41
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Now lets see if he does anything about it. I still have my doubts how tough he will be on crime, but I am hoping he proves me wrong.
Posted on: 2013/5/20 12:30
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Good. Steven actually understands gun control
Posted on: 2013/5/20 12:24
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I know some people who said they were not very responsive after Sandy (I had friend's who had to pump out the basement of a neighbor's Dixon property because they could simply not get Dixon to do it).
That said, most of the places they are buying were going to be at least partial rentals anyway and I don't get the impression they are any better or worse than most large property companies. They certainly have to be a step up from Del Forno.
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Ken Thorbourne/The Jersey Journal
An explosion of gun violence has rocked Jersey City over the past week or so, seeming to culminate Friday night with the killing of a 12-year-old who was bouncing a basketball with his dad. This gun play, which Police Chief Tom Comey calls ?concerning and problematic,? has so far left about a dozen injured and two dead. The unrelated incidents have been varied. A 42-year-old woman and a 37-year-old woman, scrambling to escape gunfire, were struck by several bullets outside of a liquor store on Ocean Avenue near Claremont Avenue around 2:30 Thursday afternoon. Police don?t believe the man and the woman were the intended targets of the shooter. On May 11, a 47-year-old woman attending a fundraiser at West Side bar for a council ??candidate on Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy?s slate was hit in the chest by a stray bullet. The shooter told police he was selling Ecstasy pills in a nearby alley when two men started running away without paying for the drugs. He opened fire and a bullet struck the innocent bystander, police said. The next day, Mother?s Day, Hikeem J. Neals, 23, was found fatally shot in the head in his Kensington Avenue apartment. No one has been charged and no motive has been established. ?I was in bed when it happened. I heard shots and I got so scared,? said an 80-year-old resident who lives in the same building where Neals lived. ?This was my paradise, my home. Now I?m scared to be here.? In a bizarre case, one of the persons charged in Thursday?s shooting of a 24-year-old father is the mother of his three children. The father told police he was visiting with his kids at the Wade Street apartment of his ex, Rasheedah Martin, and was confronted by two men when he walked out of his children?s bedroom. One of the men, later identified as Shawn Gordon, 19, shot him in the thigh, according to police reports. The victim told police that he had been in family court with Martin hours earlier and that their children were to be taken away from Martin, the police report said. Martin, 31, was charged with hindering apprehension after she admitted that she had lied about the identities of the other three people allegedly involved, police said. Gordon, of Bidwell Avenue, was charged with attempted murder, conspiracy, endangering the welfare of a child, hindering apprehension and weapons charges. This latest spasm of gun violence in the city seemed to kick off Friday, May 10, when four people suffered non-life threatening gunshots wounds in the Booker T. Washington public housing complex. In another group-style attack about a week later, three men opened fire Thursday night in front of an apartment building on Summit Avenue off Grace Street. A witness told police three men walked up to the house and one of them pulled out a handgun from his waist and fired eight shots at the building. There were no reported injuries but a woman who lives on the second floor of the building told cops her window had been shot out. In a vicious act on Monday, May 13, a gunman, dressed in black, told all the kids at the Muhammad Ali Park on Armstrong Avenue to line up against a fence, according to police reports. When people at the park started to run, the gunman opened fire at the crowd and shot an 18-year-old in the right arm, police reports said. In his haste to get away, a 12-year-old boy hit his head on a fence post and needed 20 stitches to close the wound, authorities said. The investigation is ongoing. At least seven people have been murdered in Jersey City so far this year. Last year, the city hit a 40-year low with just 13 homicides for the entire year. ?The number of shooting incidents are concerning and problematic and in the midst of all this we destroyed nearly 600 guns that could have created more opportunities for criminally-minded people to disrupt the peace and quiet of our residents,? Police Chief Tom Comey stated yesterday, referring to the city?s gun-buyback program. ?Clearly there?s more work to be done on all levels of law enforcement and government.? Jersey City Mayor-elect Steve Fulop told The Jersey Journal Friday that he plans to carry on the crusade against illegal guns that Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy championed during his tenure. About the gun-buyback program, he said, ?I don?t know how effective it is ... You?re really not getting the (illegal) guns off the street.?
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What's so tiring about it, unless they are working the polls, campaigning, or in a business that is affected by the election all a registered voter has to do is walk to their polling place AND VOTE ! And if that is too much trouble they can VOTE by absentee ballot.
Posted on: 2013/5/20 11:12
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Just the top two.
Posted on: 2013/5/20 10:33
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But don't all the candidates have to run again or is it just the top two?
Posted on: 2013/5/20 4:51
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I think it's hard for someone so intent on writing a conspiracy theory to extend a welcoming hand.
Posted on: 2013/5/20 4:44
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Posted on: 2013/5/20 4:32
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About those rain barrels: They are a great idea, we have four.
The Hudson County Improvement Authority will sell them at a discount certain times of the year, however each one we connected split down the sides?so maybe source them elsewhere or build your own.
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In this past election, it wasn't, and in any case, I don't live in Ward C, nor do I really know anyone living there, so I can't do anything about it anyway. I just don't agree with the court decision, but the court made its decision and she has every right to run. If voters in Ward C elect her in the runoff, so be it, but I would like to see her lose, for the reasons I previously mentioned. Whether Boggiano can do a better job than her, I don't know, but his residency has never been in question.
Posted on: 2013/5/20 4:00
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I don't think that at all. Steven Fulop was on Council the same time Nida Lopez was involved in the lawsuit brought on by another Ward C candidate. If the residency lawsuit was an issue, she would have been on his ticket. Steven ran this campaign like a well oiled machine from start to finish and aligning himself with a candidate that would harm his election would not be an option.
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It was most definitely a joke. So where is this one bathroom in Journal Square that you frequent and get accosted by the homeless riff-raff so often? I want to make sure I avoid it.
Posted on: 2013/5/20 3:44
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Whatever. I have no idea if these guys will be good or bad landlords. Nothing I've said defends any specific REIT firm. What I'm saying is -- once more, with feeling -- 70 percent or more of Jersey City are currently renter-occupied units. It's been that way for a long time, it will be that way for a long time, no single company will buy enough units to make a dent in that number, and the city will not be harmed by the existence of more rental units anyway. And if you want to build a community, you'd better start extending a welcoming hand to the renters, who vastly outnumber owners.
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So you think that Fulop snapped his fingers and ordered his army of jclist net scribblers to support Rich? Not one of your most intelligent posts, r pinkowitz.
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Squeeg...I'm suspicious of the fact that this you have only posted twice on jclist ever--solely on this thread. Of all the things that happen in JC, this is the first time that you've felt the need to be a concerned neighbor? Did you lose out on a bid to these guys? There's obviously more to your story.
I have have read the posts on this topic over the past few months with great interest. Some people indicate that they are actually making positive changes in their neighborhoods. There are pros and cons to selling to them, and I'm sure that people have a variety of reasons for doing so. BTW, is there such a thing as a landlord who is not in it for the money? If indeed they are changing a legal two-family into an illegal three-family, you should report them instead of wasting your time insulting others on this list whose opinions differ from yours. And no, I don't work for them.
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I don't know about Fulop's position on her at this point. Myself, I was only concerned with voting for Fulop for Mayor; my choices for at-large city council and my own ward I considered separately, not as part of any "team". I also don't live in Ward C either, so I couldn't have voted for or against her. While I supported Fulop as a mayoral candidate and am glad he won, I certainly don't agree with him on everything, just like any other politician.
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So how long have you been working for US Masters?
I heard from a dozen real estate agents that you guys troll Jclist often and you're prompt to respond credulously when anything negative is written about US Master or Dixon Management. Congratulations, you have take the bait so now let the fun begin...expect to hear from us on a daily basis so stay tuned. Those of you who have never lived next to or near a property owned by US Masters bite your tongue. Until you have seen things through the same lens as those of us who are living through their lack of accountability for the community then you should wait until it happens to you... Take our word - it's a nightmare!!! On the surface it seems like US Masters / Dixon Management's intentions are auspicious and rah-rah, goody-goody for the neighborhood, however, peel back the layers and what you get is a vile rot infested organization filled with false promises and lies. Let the education regarding the truth about US Masters / Dixon Management begin To be continued...
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So for the last few months the majority of those posting on this thread were all over other threads and supporting "Team Fulop, Councilwoman Nidia Lopez was and is part of "Team Fulop. Are you now saying Mayor - Elect Fulop has changed his mind and he no longer supports her?
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Pittsburgh makes these available to residents. Hopefully JC can do the same if they don't already. 
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I agree,they have done wonders here and brought in very good renters. No complaints here, besides no families are rushing to buy the many 1 family 2 family homes here so therefore I say keep it up.
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Regarding the basement apartment - call the Mayor's Action Bureau and report it and ask for a reference number for follow-up. They did a similar deal in a house near me. Renting a basement that was illegal and had much non-permited work (stove, bathroom, etc..). People were definitely living in the basement and you could see them coming in at night and leaving in the morning. You can look up "dixon leasing" (aka US Masters Residential Fund) on Yelp -- feedback is not great.
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I'm not sure why anyone is complaining.
I've seen roughly a dozen of the Dixon properties. The contractors do fantastic work turning outdated apartments into modern, well-crafted apartments. All units have stainless steel appliances, washer/dryer (if they fit), new windows along with hardword floors and plumb walls. These units are pretty nice, in my opinion. If all the units in downtown were this nice, the rents would be substantially higher. Also, to the one guy that said his rent was raised 80% - that is illegal. If that was the case, you should have taken them to court.
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No, they aren't. As already noted, roughly 70-75% of JC is rental units. That's around the same as Hoboken, and lower than parts of Manhattan. Quote: we get transient renters, drifters and folks who don't care for their property or for our community. Renters are not subhuman. They're normal people who simply haven't chosen to buy. And if they're paying decent rents, they aren't going to wreck the entire town. Quote: your brownstone, townhouse, building etc., will be gutted, it will be carved up and the historic details will be demolished.... Plenty of families who buy homes in JC will gut them. If the building is in a historic district, the (exterior) details cannot be removed without permits. And if Masters/Dixon were a bunch of slumlords, they wouldn't fix up anything. Quote: Your neighbors and the neighborhood will then have to deal with more cars fighting for parking spots.... It's up to the city to deal with parking issues. Not departing owners. And maybe, if you want to build a community, you should invite our new neighbors to town and make them feel welcome -- instead of insult and harangue them before you've even met them. Quote: Let me be clearer....they are about one thing and one thing only! Making money Yes, you can say that about any landlord. Quote: I have had the opportunity to speak with many members of US Master and the Dixon Property Management team and I have learned that they are hell bent on ripping into Jersey City communities with absolutely no regard as to the outcome. It is sickening to say the least! What could they have possibly said to you? Did they light cigars with dollar bills? Cackle evilly when you asked them questions?
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One of the members of management is an American who has lived downtown JC for at least 4 years. I don't share that for any particular reason other than an FYI. I only know the guy from facial recognition and he has always been nice to me.
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Hi everyone. I've got two quick things for you:
1. We still need volunteers. If you or anyone you know is interested please contact us at: http://www.jcboggiano.com/contact 2. I'm having a fundraiser on May 29. Location is still TBD but we should have the details out shortly. It's right around the corner so I wanted to put out the date for anyone interested.
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