Things that will happen

1) The cops will not find whoever is behind this unless someone just plain rats these turds out. This isn't a knock on the cops, merely that they're not going to get the records from which IP logged onto a service originating out of Montenegro, trace it here to the states, get which service provider it originated from, and find the user. That's assuming the person didn't use a proxy or 3 anyway. If they want any hope of success, they need to lean on kids to squeal. Good luck with that, these being mostly upper-class kids who's parents probably have lawyers (and the stupid nonsense that is the anti-snitching creed from rap the past decade).

2) Moronic kids will always go about being moronic kids.

3) People will overreact about what should be done, despite there being little/no hope of finding out who this was.

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I don't think so, they are doing great on their own. Besides the places you mention are awful. They are destroying JC's art community what is left of it. IMO.

The multiple elections are going to happen, even though no one is thrilled by it. It's a matter of law, and no amount of complaining is going to change that in the next few weeks.

While the instant runoff is a long-term solution, requiring state legislative change, there's an easier solution close to hand.

The real problem with this runoff is the poor design of the municipal election. Had it occurred a week earlier, its runoff could have been folded into the primary, which is an immovable date affecting the entire state.

Moving the municipal offices from May into the November general election is the immediate solution. While it may complicate the ballot, it simplifies the electoral process, and gets greater turnout for these important local offices. It is allowed by state law, and is a relatively simple change to make.

We're going to see how that works for our school board election this November - the overwhelming popular choice of voters - and should make the same change for all other city offices.

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So how much was the payoff ?

Wow, had heard the name but had no idea about the scale of the operation. They need to partner with some of the other arts orgs (Art House, 4th St. Arts, etc.) to garner more attention. Usually my ear starts ringing if someone does an opening in like a basement somewhere so for this to be out of my awareness is surprising.

Anthony J. Machcinski/The Jersey Journal
Jersey City police are searching for three men they say opened fired on a building on Summit Avenue Thursday night.

One the bullets shattered the window of a woman who lives on the second floor, police said.

The shooting occurred in front of 1166 Summit Ave. at 9:34 last night. The woman who reported her window shattered told police that she heard multiple shots fired.
A man who was
sitting outside on Summit Avenue at the time 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, reports state.

No one was injured, reports said, and two bullets, one from a second floor hallway and one from a first floor apartment were recovered.

The three men were only described as wearing black hooded sweatshirts with their faces covered. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call (201) 547-JAIL.

Anthony J. Machcinski/The Jersey Journal

A 12-year-old boy was killed last night after he and his father were shot on Rutgers Avenue in Jersey City, authorities said this morning.

The boy, Gywan Levine Jr., 12, of Jersey City was taken to Jersey City Medical Center after the shooting but passed away to an apparent gunshot wound to the shoulder, Hudson County Prosecutor's Office spokesman Gene Rubino said this morning.

Levine Jr. and his father, Gywan Levine Sr., were walking on Rutgers Avenue between Stevens Avenue and Wade Street around 9:50 p.m. when two men approached them and shots were fired, Rubino said.

Levine Jr. was struck in the shoulder area and Levine Sr. was shot in the leg, Rubino said.

The two were transported to Jersey City Medical Center where Levine Jr. passed away, Rubino said. Information on Levine Sr. was not immediately available.

Rubino said that the boy had been dribbling a basketball and when shots were fired, many in the area began to run away.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office Homicide Unit at (201) 915-1345. All calls will be kept confidential.

Rubino said the incident is still under active investigation and that Homicide Prosecutors and Jersey City Police worked through the night and will continue working through the weekend on this case.

The articles says the worst stuff has been edited out. Wondering where the line is between protected speech and threats. We'll have to see how this plays out.

The election law should be changed. If a person drops out then the third candidate should be in the runoff, the election requires 50% plus one. Chico at this point has 37%. That is not representing the majority.

The cops should launch an investigation on this matter because the student is a minor.

These kids should know that NJ would soon have whites in the minority. So they should get used to seeing leaders who don't look like them.

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Prep is really not that diverse of a school, it is a Catholic, based school where it's students are of European based background coming from the same cut of cloth. Most of the families are from all over N.J. with a wad of wealth to push them forward. If anything it is segragated just like Jersey City into different pockets and tax assessments. Mc Nair/Academic has more of a diverse crowd equaly spread out amongst the new 4 basic groups that makeup J.C. And by the way they are still kids.

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These aren't "kids being kids" - these are young adults learning to navigate their way through the world, beginning in one of the most ethnically and racially diverse cities in the region. This behavior needs to stop right now, before these "kids" learn that bullying and hatred and anonymous intimidation tactics are acceptable. It's sneaky and essentially cheating the democratic system.
And it is most certainly worth a news story, just as we see other young people actually committing suicide after their bullies use social media to humiliate and attack them. If it is an adult sending these messages to a child, then I just don't know how to respond, other than prosecute that adult for harassing a child.
And the "kids being kids" excuse can be likened to the "boys being boys' explanation that has been offered up as reason for rape, assault, and other violence that no one seems to want to deal with.

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What good is an internet discussion forum if you can't flame someone you've never met over a trivial issue?

1. Webmaster - can you change the heading of this thread to LafAyette?
2. It seems to me that with the Australians and Fulop buying in B-L, the neighborhood is getting a lot of investment cred. I'm looking forward to seeing how effective focusing abatements outside of DTJC works. There's an MBA thesis waiting to be written.

I hope for everyone's sake that the only gangs left in JC soon are The McClarens and The Peregos.

Just to clear something up?I only posted the links to the three maps to show how we need to go digging for them on the internet. The ward map(updated), jcpd district map (without the red markings) , and the neighborhood map(updated) should all be on the City of Jersey City web site but they are not.

I do recall when I posted the link to the ?red zone? map last time a battle broke out. (sorry)

This photo really made my morning. Thanks user111

Healy and his team spent many hours and a good chunk of money on removing Chico's name from the ballot, a nickname he's used for years.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... y_2013_election_chic.html

Let's face it, when you can't run on substance, integrity and past performance then attorney's fees start to pile up with this sort of rubbish.

Everyone needs to get out and vote for CHICO on June 11th!

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LOL welcome to the red, these maps are racist and bullshit.

Stay far, far away...... They will hit you with extra fees galore. Even for garbage. Management sucks & they don't care. The place is mostly for foreigners who come here for a yr or so & people are always moving in & out like crazy.
Courtyard too is very noisy & echos through the whole complex.
Also Gary, one of the doormen is the biggest jerk you ever want to meet. All the others are great but they know & agree about Gary. He must have some info on someone because he would of been fired years ago. Everyone complains about him.

Looks like that JCPD officer lazily colored my neighborhood (south of Danforth, east of Garfield) red. I demand a recoloring.




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The SPC college map is very basic and generic basically there is almost no crime in the heights, no crime in DT, safe inside SP but everything else in JC is high crime. I'm sure the reporters for the Peacock news letter did some research but to me it's more of a map for students warning them of the areas not to wonder off not a map you should judge JC by.
That link was to the old wards map here is one for the new map.
It'll be the second pic on the slide show.

http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/fu ... ss-concerns-about-future-

Yeah OneSkirt hopefully one of the items on Mayor Fulop?s JC ?fix list? is getting decent maps of Jersey City on the ?official? City of Jersey City web site. A ward map, JCPD district map, a neighborhood map would be nice for newcomers (and old-timers who are forgetting a lot..no comment).

Whenever questions about the above maps come up everyone scrambles to find them on the internet.

I recall these as ?finds? ?.

Jersey City Economic Development Neighborhood maps and information.
(great stuff but it needs updating)

http://www.jcedc.org/Pages/01-24neighborhoods.pdf




Ward maps. Someone from the JCI got so frustrated searching that he made a map in 2009.

http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/ ... /06/jersey-city-ward-map/



JCPD districts map. You would think it would be on the ?new and improved? JCPD web site. No.

There is a nice district map in this SPU unofficial newspaper link ? the peacock press. It also tells students about JC?s red zones as in places with high crime.

http://thepeacockpress.wordpress.com/ ... lice-stay-out-of-the-red/


We live in a city of 250K people and we can?t get information about it. Mayor Fulop could probably use some of those maps if he is indeed moving into BL.

I'm sure you're right about JCCheerleader. I'm a big time Fulop supporter but I've read some good things about you on this website from people I respect. Namely that you've been active in JC politics. I think you'll make an excellent addition to the Jersey City Council.
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JC Cheerleader I'm just going to cut and paste the important point in my earlier post in which I say ..." I think the burden is on Lopez and her supporters to point out what things she claims to have accomplished in ward C on her watch, and what goals she will set for herself in the future, should she win.".... Are you really suggesting the burden is on the voter to go and ask a candidate these questions during a campaign? You yourself say Lopez "really helped you out" in an earlier post so you should have no trouble explaining how she was helpful. Your clearly cheerleading for her so why not simply name her accomplishments and goals, if she has any.

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Why can't the June 4 & the June 11th elections be merged into one day? Besides committee seats, what else is up for election on June 4th? It makes zero sense. My neighbors - my large building had a huge turnout - are tired as heck of elections & the material/canvassing and general pestering that goes with it.

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I agree that there is certainly voter fatigue, and not just with the number of times they have to vote, but also with sheer number of candidates and positions for city, county, state and fed.

Instant runoffs typically increase independent and minority representation. People are more inclined to vote for an independent as their first choice know that they have a "next best" choice being counted. Boggiano and Yun probably would have won easily on the first count. Walker may have made a bigger impact on the mayoral race. And the Healy team would have certainly grabbed one of the at-large seats, giving the way ranked voting works and the way votes cascade.

The biggest potential drawback of instant runoffs is that it can lead to fragmented and ineffectual government. Be careful what you wish for.

Political Insider: Healy council candidates can run, but also can hide

By Agustin C. Torres/The Jersey Journal
on May 18, 2013 at 12:01 AM

The coup d'etat for the remnants of the administration of Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy comes on June 11 with the runoffs for council candidates. There is no longer a Team Healy -- workers or funding -- now that the mayor lost Tuesday to Downtown Councilman Steven Fulop.

There is no runoff in Ward E, where newcomer Candice Osborne won Fulop's old council seat.

Some administration candidates want to bail out. It is not that easy. Each candidate would have to petition a judge to remove themselves from the ballot. Should one get judicial permission to drop out, a third-place finisher has no chance of moving up into the runner-up's runoff slot.

Now who wants out? Better to ask who can come up with another $20,000 to $25,000 to fund another run?

Don't expect any activity from Ward B council hopeful Gerald Meyer. At-large council hopeful Omar Perez would have to dig into his own pockets to run, an unlikely scenario.

I can't see Councilman at large Peter Brennan continuing without buddies Healy or ex-councilman Bill Gaughan in local government. He must have some campaign funds should he want to take a shot. Brennan isn't answering his phones -- not a good sign.

If they intend to bow out, these folks were told by the administration to just abandon the election, leaving their names on the ballot.

Those Healy acolytes who I expect to go down fighting are at-large candidate Viola Richardson, an incumbent, and Ward A hopeful Charles Epps. Epps, the former superintendent of schools who does Jack Benny proud, will not spend a dime in the runoff campaign and hopes name recognition will carry him to victory. Ward F candidate Jermaine Robinson believes all those votes he received in Ward F will return for a second time.

I knew Richardson would not go quietly.

They should also realize that there is no President Obama endorsement available for them.

Yesterday, Mayor-elect Fulop said he will support all his running mates (even Heights candidate Sean Connors). He added that his campaign will probably blitz Ward A and Epps in support of his man, former police chief Frank Gajewski.

This means independent candidates and top vote-getters Michael Yun of Ward D and Richard Boggiano of Ward C will have to do it again to prove it wasn't a fluke the first time. I expect Yun to get even more campaign donations and Boggiano will walk door to door much faster.

'UNEASY LIES THE HEAD ...'

As mayor of the second largest city in the state and biggest in Hudson County, Fulop will have political responsibilities on top of running the city. After awhile, the politics will distract and at times annoy.

The day after Fulop was elected there were two stories written about him on the Internet. One was that he does not intend to endorse anyone in the gubernatorial race and the second is that Freeholder Bill O'Dea, because of his early support for the councilman, has a shot of replacing U.S. Rep. Albio Sires of West New York in Congress.

Even before taking office, Fulop says he has a transition to worry about and it would be "ludicrous" to get entangled in the race between the very popular Republican Gov. Chris Christie and the Democratic sacrificial lamb Sen. Barbara Buono.

Yet he is a Democrat in the Hudson County seat, a major Democratic Party stronghold. Even though Buono endorsed Healy, I say he does want to get involved in making changes in the Hudson County Democratic Organization, so in the end he'll back the Dem candidate.

BAYONNE CALLING, COLLECT

Do the changes include HCDeadO leadership? Let's just say that Fulop was very unhappy with the head of the HCDeadO, Bayonne Mark Smith, for getting involved in another city's election by wheeling thousands of HCDeadO dollars into Healy's campaign war chest. Everyone who called to congratulate Fulop got a call back, except Smith and Assemblyman Jason O'Donnell of Bayonne.

As for the other story -- O'Dea could probably fill many positions, if offered, but it would be difficult for the freeholder to replace Sires in the 8th Congressional District unless he moved from his present address in U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr.'s 10th District.

If we're going to speculate about the freeholder, let's talk about his interest in County Executive Tom DeGise's job, a post Bayonne's Smith may also covet. As for the Fulop administration, I doubt O'Dea would say no if offered the business administrator's post. At least he'd think about it real hard. I wonder if that is why present Business Administrator Jack Kelly showed up late to Fulop's election victory party at Zeppelin Hall Tuesday night -- much to the chagrin of Healy's inner circle.

Now, after the June primary, would all those committee people from Jersey (Fulop) City remove Smith as HCDeadO leaders? There's a consensus that former state Sen. Bernard Kenny of Hoboken would be voted in as the new county Dem head.

Why?

Smith's county political post is a thankless position. Why take over an organization that is headed for a humiliating defeat in November? Better to take over the following year. Then Smith can be blamed for backing Montclair Sen. Nia Gil over U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's choice of Payne Jr., getting involved in a losing effort in the Jersey City election, and leading a party that gets crushed by Gov. Christie.

What about the Jersey City Democratic Organization reorganization after the June primary? Freeholder Jeff Dublin is gone as chairman. Dublin was heavily invested in the Healy re-election bid. At almost every mayoral debate, Dublin led the booing of Fulop and cheering of Healy. He and Eliu Rivera will eventually be replaced by Fulop on the county Board of Freeholders.

One name I keep hearing as JCDO leader is the mayor-elect's Heights campaign guy Sean "Sully" Sullivan. A woman nominee could also make Fulop look good, but right now that's pure speculation.

POLITICAL INSIDER

-- Thinking back on the Healy campaign: his people put their hearts out in this campaign. Then he opens his mouth and the long campaign and the Obama free-pass is gone. On election night, when it dawned on the mostly city employees that they lost, they are already thinking about how they're going to pay the mortgage and other bills. So what does the lame duck mayor do? He starts singing "Folsom Prison Blues." Sorry, but Healy was never a leader.

Yesterday, Fulop told The Jersey Journal editorial board that he's "not looking to be a butcher, vindictive." He said he needs people to run the city government and doesn't intend to be the only employee sitting in City Hall. The inference is that if people do their jobs well, they'll probably continue working. Some who obviously work at the pleasure of the mayor will be looking elsewhere.

-- I suspect they've already fired some county school teacher to make room for the return of city Housing, Economic Development and Commerce Director Carl Czaplicki, who has been on leave from his educator duties for some time now.

-- One day, the Fulop camp, specifically O'Dea and company, needed good campaign workers who could quickly place political literature on doorknobs of homes. The call went out for Alex and Greg Stamato. "Can you come down to headquarters at 4?" Alex was asked.

"Yeah, right after school," said the 16-year-old boy, a McNair student. His 13-year-old brother Greg would help.

"No Alex, that's 4 in the morning."

Their mom, Barbara, somewhat reluctantly, drove them to their destination.

Some of the best workers in the mayor-elect's campaign were young people, but there were no harder volunteers than the very young Stamato brothers and Robert Zielinski, 14.

It's a tradition in this county where the likes of an O'Dea or Brian Stack, future Union City mayor and state senator, become heavily involved in local politics in their early teens.

"I could see Alex catch the bug," said his mom.

The 16-year-old is more interested in landing a military academy appointment than running for office.

-- My sources tell me thaty not only did the Healy campaign get President Obama's endorsement, payback for Healy's early backing, but they were working with the Democratic National Committee for a date when Michele Obama would visit Jersey City just prior to the city election.

Fulop's camp complained to the DNC about its involvement in a Democrat versus Democrat race and the First Lady visit was never mentioned again. Would she really have popped in for a hello, if asked? Well, we are close to Broadway, etc.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index ... _counci.html#incart_river

I get really confused as to the boundaries of the BL Neighborhood. I know that part south of Grand all the way to the Liberty Park light rail is part of it (the "Lafayette" part, right?)? So where going up the hill of Communipaw does it extend?

JCCheerleader - At this point I'm confident you are someone closely associated with my opponent and not simply an ordinary voter who is a fan of her as a politician. Your attempt to portray yourself otherwise is disingenuous.

In the past 40 years, I've earned my reputation as a fighter with allegiance to a single group: My community. Not the city or county government. Not the HCDO. Not the political boss's that come and go.

I'm proud to be Ward C's independent voice. I dare say most voters agree with me based on the results last Tuesday where I was up against a well financed incumbent candidate on a very popular mayoral ticket. I agree with Steve Fulop on many many things, but there's a really good chance he's going to throw a lot of money into defeating me on June 11 because any mayor would rather have a rubber stamp than even the slightest risk of dissent. That's his choice to make, but I'm not the kind of person who backs down from a good fight, especially when it comes to my community.