JCorNYC wrote: i did not say it to be mean spirited. that's how it is when you do bad things and think you will get away with it .... well , guess what......?

JCorNYC wrote:
well, if you've been doing something terrible for a long time, it will bound to get you ..... hard.

i truly believe, "what goes around, comes around"

JCorNYC wrote:
... it's like saying if the Vice President of the US committed a crime in office the President wouldn't know?!!?!?!?!? laughable.

Brooklynboy wrote:
I do agree with Steve. Due process. Although I did not vote for the Healy team I am not running down to the city hall with torches and axes.

If Mr Vega's arrest impedes his leadership then he should step down. Now I do not condone any of this behavior.

It was a tough election. People such as myself wanted new blood. We have to now let the results run it's course. There are ways to change our local government in a more positive fashion.

Good luck to all who attend. I hope it will put some of your feeling at ease. Some of you will be mad as hell and I respect that as well. I mean this is the most sincere manner.

This is why we vote. We did have a low turnout though. Maybe this will entice more to get involved in the voting process. If that is the case then this madness has turned into something positive.

historyrules wrote:
Jack Shaw, figure in massive NJ corruption scandal, found dead in Jersey City

By Agustin C. Torres/The Jersey Journal
Tuesday July 28, 2009, 7:00 PM

Jack Shaw of Jersey City, one of the 44 people arrested in Thursday's massive New Jersey corruption scandal, was found dead in his apartment this evening, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio has confirmed.

A relative found the political consultant's body, De Fazio said.

Police were called at 5:17 p.m. and Shaw was officially declared dead at 6 p.m.

Homicide investigators as well as the regular police contingent responded, DeFazio said, noting that no weapon was found.

An autopsy will determine the cause of death, he said.

ErinMaiden wrote:
um TWO of the people ran AGAINST healy. lets not get the healy bashing to cloud the overall corruption. far as i've read he's not being indicted. yes i do know that he surrounds himself w/ those that are being brought down, but if you're going for a slogan, bashing healy is a cop out and part of your overall agenda. we know, the majority of you hate healy. this is much bigger than that. where's your disdain for the a##HOLES actually on tape taking bribes? where's your outrage for them?

marybarr wrote:
There are so many of these stories -- women and men can become co-dependent, which is like being addicted to a person. I think we all go through a phase. I remember waiting by the phone for someone to call and checking for a dial tone when the call was late. Buying him sneakers and walking through a rainstorm to deliver them. I am so glad I grew out of that and glad that HE wasn't dangerous because I believe I may have followed him. This reminds me too, of women who get arrested because their guy is dealing and the woman gets 25 years because she has no information to trade. The guy gets out in 2 - 5 - 7. What a tragedy Amanda didn't have a few more years to mature.

Xerxes wrote:
Luxury????


Cars jumbled up so you cannot get by with your shopping....last walk by looked like a used car lot with cars on the sidewalk and people unloading in the STREET, Washington Boulevard....4 cars overloads the unloading area.
Class hotel, my ass.


And yes, building to the sidewalk is ugly, tacky and would never be allowed in a real city...just some backroom operation like Jersey City. Has nothing to do with hating Jersey City, just the morons on what would pass as a zoning board IF we have one.


It's a MESS built on a lot too small for the place...and what are the two behemoths going accross the street in the parking lot of the Doubltree, another couple stupid, useless one star hotels..."But Mrs. Slocombe, there ARE no NO STAR hotels?"

An unplanned nightmare where developers can put up whatever stupid nightmare they had the night before, wherever they wish!
Architectural students will be studying this mess called DOWNTOWN for years as an example of why we need urban planning and what horrors can result without any knowledgable input.

anchovial wrote:
So I flagged both of them after I posted. The first one now has a content warning and the second was removed. That's a pretty responsive, if not perfect, result.

GrovePath wrote:
Pack takes boy's mountain bike


A 13-year-old boy jumped in front of the victim and grabbed the handlebars on his bike, while a 12-year-old said to him, "Just give me the bike before me and my homeboy crack you," police said.

wibbit wrote:
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mwa7368 wrote:
Don't forget Hamilton Park.

oh yeah hamilton park is good too, very different ambience than the modern style newport.

bsun wrote:
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SLyng wrote:

2. "bsun" joined 3 wks ago and all 15 of his posts are about the Beacon... But I'm sure he has no hidden agenda

The above is a true statement. I just recently become one of the proud owners of Beacon.

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SLyng wrote:

The Best you can hope for is to correct any outright lies about the subject...

To correct any outright lies about the subject, in this case Beacon, who do you ask? Someone who drive by the area and never set foot inside the building or the owners/tenants? The fact is you have not heard any owner/tenant complaint about the property which indicates their satisfaction.

Regardless, this thread is all about Beacon. It is a good place to start if anyone has interest in the property. Like many, I browse thru this forum and this Beacon thread specifically before making my purchase decision.

Despite all the naysayer,
based on 25+ luxury condos that I visited in JC and NYC,
proximity to the so call warzone,
Mongol Gardens coming down,
amenities,
great people who live there,
the price I paid,
I believe my investment/speculation worth every pennies.

saabconv wrote:
Did I say Kerik? No. READ. And as for national trends, then why the hell didn't Jersey City or Newark or any of these cities catch up with it? This is why I can't stand the liberal way of thinking. You all think that Obama can save the country, yet Guiliani wasn't responsibile for NY's resurgence. And if I spelled that word wrong, too f-ing bad.

I'm just tired of hearing how close this crap is coming to my neighborhood - a neighborhood that I'm paying good money to live in and was told that is safe. TommyC is totally spot-on - if this crime comes any closer - everybody is going to move out and the waterfront will just become an extensive of the ghetto.

JRL wrote:
I will say it AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN ..Until Healy and the Administration attack crime with a ZERO TOLERANCE ATTITUDE and finally say ENOUGH is ENOUGH this will continue to happen. Will we eliminate crime, NO..can it be put under control YES.
Giuliani, did it in NYC..he attacked crime, brought in the right Police Chief and Commissioner, not a crony like Comey, (who by the way should be embarrassed by the example he sets....get him on slim fast or weight watchers, no Police Officer should be that out of shape).
They went after quality of life issues and went after the criminals attacking trouble spots. If it can be done in a big city like NYC then NO REASON why it can't be done here...Healy and his Administration have been our elected officials long enough....I don't want to hear excuses..The time is now to get serious on the crime issue.
Our police force does a very good job, but we need more of them, the population has grown, however the size of the police force has not kept up and criminals know this and feel Jersey City is a great place for them to be. We also need to better equip them too.
They also have to get out of the stone age and use technology at hand that can also help with fighting crime.

Perhaps we citizens need a march on city hall and call the administration out on the issue!

mrasg1 wrote:
Wow not one reply! You all work for GS??!

teacher wrote:
Am I the only Van Vorst (near Grand and Grove) resident that opposes this?
We don't need more kids bused in down here.
11 hours? What time will they be leaving school?

Loud, obnoxious, pants below asses, litering, congestion, noise from more building. perhaps more flooding!

I will be selling, toward the end of the year because of this.

This community will lose someone that maintains his building and sidewalk and is respectful of his neighbors and tenents.