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Re: Motorcycle passenger dies from injuries after crash with jitney in Jersey City
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My opinion is that all parties are at fault to some degree with bus driver being the most. By looking at pics from link above jitney driver parked on the road and part of the middle divider and then opened his door. Motorcycle operator is at fault to have a passenger without a helmet and of course the girl who died at fault for same reason. It is a tragic event and hopefully some good will come out of it like enforcement of helmet laws and crack down on jitney drivers' reckless driving habits.

Posted on: 2014/1/23 5:06
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Re: cheap gyms in the area?
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There is a Ballys Fitness in JSQ, a block from the path. They offer spin classes among others.

Posted on: 2014/1/6 5:48
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Re: Micro Apartment Living
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I am not sure if anyone mentioned this before but this is a terrible idea. It requires more services of City (police/fire/EMS) per sq/ft and shifts paying for these services on people who own homes and condos.

Developer will get a tax abatement and renters here will be more of a burden since we don't have a paycheck city tax like NYC 5 boro folks do. NYC is smart and they even had a commuter tax about 10 years ago for people who lived outside 5 boros but made their living in the city who also needed police/ems/fire dept and sanitation services. Bloomy failed to bring it back.

It also diminishes lack of ownership of a neighborhood where in general renters care less about a neighborhood compare to owner/occupiers since renters can pack up and leave if quality of life goes down. This is how I feel about rentals going up in JC vs condos in general. Unfortunately banks rather finance rentals these days vs. condos.

Posted on: 2013/12/7 3:29
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Re: 35-year tax break proposed for three-tower Journal Square project
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I agree that riders in Newport will have harder time after these rentals are built unless they add empty trains after JSQ. Trains already run every 4 min during rush hour and not sure how many more trains they can squeeze in. I used to live at JSQ and work in midtown. During rush hour in the morning 1/2 of the people on the Newport platform did not make it inside the 33rd st train if there was even a 5 min delay on the system. Even without a delay some did not make it depending on what car(cars by path station stairs of JSQ and Grove fill up faster, also 1st 2 cars because most people exit by 33rd st exit to transfer to NYC subway)

Posted on: 2013/10/24 3:45
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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Affluent people visiting JC via helicopter tours is a wishful thinking. Either these tourists take the path train, do the tour and leave via path or they have a van to pick them up from the helipad back to their NYC hotel. Why do they come here? They can have a cheaper tour for $99 a person instead of NYC price of $159 plus.

They do not provide a single dollar to local business. Tour operator makes reservations via their 212 NY phone number and it is not clear NJ State even gets sales tax.

The tour operator already started to break the new hours only after 5 days.



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ahal wrote:
Congrats on your efforts to have these guys operate within their agreed upon hours. That's excellent!

But your last sentence seems a little disconcerting. Are you really looking to have the helipad decomm'd? That appears to be quite the overcorrection. I think reducing hours, reducing frequency are all fair game. But eliminating service is far from a sure net benefit. Things like this need to exist somewhere. The infrastructure is in place here. Businesses that may patronize the service are close by. It brings affluent out of towners who use it for heli tours into the community.
I guess my takeaway is that this doesn't need to be so binary. Something in the grey seems more logical and a decent win all around.

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We have made some progress about the operational hours at the Paulus Hook Helipad. The company that runs operations there was operating outside of the hours they agreed with their landlord. They used to fly out from there as late as 11:00PM on a Sundays.

We are told that new hours are 10am-7pm (M-F) and 11am-7pm (Sat-Sun) .

Please keep complaining to City Hall and hopefully we can shut it down for good.


Mayor's Office: Tel: (201) 547-5200
City Council Tel: (201) 547-5204


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Posted on: 2013/10/13 22:53
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Re: Scam happening in A&P/Target Parking Lots?
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I had people in a van approach me when I exited bestbuy,asking me if I needed a blu-ray player or a home audio system. "cheap price man" was the pitch. just say no thnx and walk away. if you show any kind of interest they will be all over you like flies.

Don't ever agree to have those guy fix a dent. What they do is make few holes in the dent and pull it out. It looks uglier than before. These guys used to be rampant in Brooklyn 20 years ago.

What's next? squeegee guy at a red light?

Posted on: 2013/10/9 5:02
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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We have made some progress about the operational hours at the Paulus Hook Helipad. The company that runs operations there was operating outside of the hours they agreed with their landlord. They used to fly out from there as late as 11:00PM on a Sundays.

We are told that new hours are 10am-7pm (M-F) and 11am-7pm (Sat-Sun) .

Please keep complaining to City Hall and hopefully we can shut it down for good.


Mayor's Office: Tel: (201) 547-5200
City Council Tel: (201) 547-5204



Posted on: 2013/10/9 4:23
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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I have been working on trying to reduce this helicopter noise for the past few months. Finally we are seeing some results. Operations at Paulus Hook are ending before 9:00PM vs 11:00PM even on a Sunday night few months ago.

The main reason why we have all this noise this year is that NYC Economic Development Corp which controls the tourist helicopter routes decided to create 2 tourist paths along the Hudson River without checking with NJ. They stopped all flights over East River, Manhattan and Central Park. Brooklyn Heights and Manhattan politicians forced and ban them over from their air space over to NJ side. Show these people that we are not going to accept their noise any longer!

Please call City hall and register your complaints. More people are involved quicker we can shutdown Paulus Hook to tourists which will eliminate 95% of night flights after 6:30PM Mon-Fri and after 5:00PM Sunday.

The only other tourist helipad is in downtown NYC and their hours of operation are Mon-Sat 9:00AM-6:30PM, Sundays 9:00-5:00PM.

Mayor's Office: Tel: (201) 547-5200
City Council Tel: (201) 547-5204


Register your Complaints at this site:
www.flyneighborly.net/

This site is created by the helicopter industry lobby people but they are now forced by Senator Menendez and Congressman Sires to collect helicopter complaint data. More people the better because they do break down number of complaints per person.


You can complain to FAA here.
Aviation Noise Ombudsman

The FAA's Aviation Noise Ombudsman serves as a public liaison for issues about aircraft noise questions or complaints.

Contact information:
Federal Aviation Administration,
Aviation Noise Ombudsman, AEE-2
800 Independence Ave. S.W.
Washington, DC 20591
email: 9-AWA-NoiseOmbudsman@faa.gov

Contact the Senator and Congressman.

http://www.menendez.senate.gov/contact/
Ph: 202-224-4744

https://sires.house.gov/contact-me
Jersey City Office: Phone: 201-309-0301




Posted on: 2013/9/20 5:43
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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I moved to Paulus Hook few months ago and live very close to the Heliport that is directly in front of Goldman. I am not new to JC and lived in JSQ since 2004.

I worked in one of the office buildings right by the heliport from 2007-2011 and I agree with others that helicopter traffic which is mostly tour copters have increased big time recently.

Some people commented that tourist copters bring revenue to Hudson County. I highly doubt that because company that operates from PH heliport is NY based. Their website has 212 number for reservations. I did more digging and their night time client is also NY based. So we get all the noise but none of the $$$.

I contacted the Heli operator and tried to change their hours to before 8:30 PM but I didn't get far. I was told by their office that they got a permission to operate until 11:00PM. Still to this date I am trying to find out from whom they got this permissions.

If you ever visit the waterfront you will experience how noisy these tourist helicopters are when they take off and land. From my window noise registers as high as 85 decibels from the heliport take offs vs. those on the air in high altitude which are about 65 decibels (using iphone app).


My main concern is night flights 7 days a week some even at 11:00PM from Paulus Hook Heliport. I have contacted the FAA, local officials from JC councilman, the Mayor, US Congressman Sires and this week finally some things are moving in the right direction.

I agree with others that if you are bothered by all this unnecessary noise from these copters then do something about it and get involved. Complaining on forums does not help fix it. Contact all local and Federal govt officials. Believe me if you do some of your homework and contact them with facts they are willing to help.

I am not stopping with JC officials and will be contacting Hoboken and Weehawken Mayor's offices who are also working to stop them. I also plan on attending Paulus Hook Association meetings for this issue.

Posted on: 2013/9/5 4:10
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