Can someone or anyone in the restaurant industry explain how 22 TVs might be an inducement to eat at a restaurant? I just don't see how in such an ADD ridden atmosphere how someone could have a date with their spouse, significant other or family and like this atmosphere. Even a single person would find this intolerable. It sounds like a recipe for failure. The only place where a TV seems to work is when it it's not intrusive ro overbearing (The Merchant where it's at the front by the bar or the PJ Ryans on Barrow where it's by the bar also which is ideal for sports enthusiasts or those say dining alone). I think Merchant has just 2 and PJ Ryan's 2 or 3 tops? 22 is just obnoxious.

This is the tower of Babel, you clearly don't understand what I'm saying with inane comments like this and devoid of perspective and nuance. "He was too white for your tastes" ... In no way did I say that and I don't even know what that means. His brother passes for white (when I said constructively white added with their dad and surname) and it's no secret that the family doesn't like black people per the article which is really about families absorbing anti-black views -- an intrinsic facet of this country since its inception. And nice race baiting on your part (he's not lily white but Hispanic for affirmative action purposes and job applications). When you lament the deplorable state of race relations in this country, do realize you're part of the problem. http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california ... tles-berkeley-prof-blasts

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/14 ... itics_how_politicians_use

It truly is: that lamb rice pilaf with the dumplings ... the quintessence of comfort food. I have friends coming from Europe to stay with me this summer and we will be going there.

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Wholeheartedly agree. Much more pedestrian traffic will come to fruition and will start to fill in the nascent but growing entertainment/restaurant row vision (Newark and down Grove). With White Eagle Hall, Madame Claude, Third & Vine, Union Republic, Pig & Pepper, Gia's Gelato, Tea Shop, it will be more of an evening place to saunter and shop, mingle, eat, etc. Is anything going on though at White Eagle Hall, there doesn't appear to be much activity.

Thanks for the tip! will definitely be checking out. I like venturing out of downtown to try new spots. I was at Honey Bakery this past fall and their food excellent.

I said I wasn't fearful at all as I've only felt unsafe once in the two decades being here and I don't understand why anyone else needs a gun or knife, pepper spray I get. As to Zimmerman being Hispanic, that's irrelevant. Hispanics and other minorities can exhibit anti-black animus and judging by his brother's statements, they likely feel their being Hispanic is incidental, completely assimilated and that they are constructively white with the dad and their surname. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07 ... -of-the-Zimmerman-Family#

Yes it's patently obvious you don't have an issue with the Zimmerman verdict from what you've written; and when Trayvon Martin is dead and you blithely laud Zimmerman by saying "he was actually doing something good and making things better" well, we see how that worked out for Trayvon. He pursued someone who was coming back from a convenience store buying skittles; and yes, public pressure caused him to be arrested and in that time for him to concoct his questionable story ("tonight you die" his injuries didn't look fatal or serious on police screens). He presumed that Travyon was up to no good just because he was black and saying "they always get away." Again had he NOT had a gun, I don't think he would have gotten out of his car. Even though there had been a spate of break-ins, he was obsessed and called the police 50 or so times when seeing someone he deemed suspicious, hypervigilant much. As a person of color, I do not want to be hesitant about my movements, go-abouts, gestures or what I am wearing out simply in the aim of appeasing the sensibilities of someone like a Zimmerman or you for that matter. I've lived in downtown Jersey City for 20 years and only once have I felt unsafe and it was because I was walking from Harsimus Cove back to my house at 3 AM from a friend's place. 1 time in 20 years for me doesn't warrant a gun or knife and me having to prep for when thugs attack. I had an incident where a woman clutched her purse on my bldg's elevator (she was visiting a resident) and I sort of had to chuckle at how preposterous. http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/implic ... merman-trial-and-verdict/

Both Zimmerman and Dunn felt bravado and machismo because they had guns. Plain and simple. In the former, Zimmerman got out go his car and pursued Trayvon who was on the phone saying someone was following him. In the latter, Dunn approached kids in a car to tell them to turn down their music while he went into a convenience store parking lot. Query if they would have been so bold without guns. They were champing at the bit to have an excuse to use it. You said earlier you wished or hoped they had SYG in NJ, do you live in a crime ridden area? Crime has been going down for years and I've never felt the need to have a gun wherever I've lived. And congratulations for going to elite schools, so did I and it's irrelevant for purposes of this discussion.

um, the actual text was.

Implicitly, not expressly by the 4 corners of the statute, SYG can mean "be trigger happy, shoot first and ask questions later."

You're entitled to your opinions like everyone else and I'm entitled to vehemently disagree with them. Implicitly, not expressly by the 4 corners of the statute, SYG can mean "be trigger happy, shoot first and ask questions later." There's no duty to retreat when one has a lawful right to be some place and you're entitled to use force, including deadly force, if you're in imminent fear of your life, even when that fear is irrational. I don't trust Zimmerman's story and Trayvon isn't here to refute it. I think Zimmerman got his ass kicked and didn't like it and shot the kid ("Tonight you die!" is what he said Trayvon said to him, not believing it). Likewise the cop in the movie theater shot the dad and Michael Dunn said he THOUGHT he saw a gun in the car of the kids in the convenience store parking lot. All these cases emanate from the South where people are zealots about their guns/second amendment rights and want to be dirty harry. And implicitly this deals with race when you juxtapose these cases with Melissa Alexander (the domestic violence case where NO ONE was actually shot and she's still in jail) and not being able to fathom black people being exonerated for shooting white kids out of fear.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum ... play-role-zimmerman-trial


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... -zimmerman-trayvon-martin

In the beginning the Skittles in the pocket were construed to be a weapon from what I read. Zimmerman was told to stay in his car and he didn't, he went in hot pursuit like a vigilante/wannabe cop, he instigated the entire thing, Trayvon likely didn't feel safe with a man after him while he went to a convenience store (I don't like strange people following me). SYG laws allow people to be provocateurs and then say "well, I was scared, sorry" (see the one about the cop who shot the dad over popcorn in the movies).... Yes, the lawyer gets a percentage of the recovery/settlement in a civil suit but that's hardly news. And money is your recourse when a criminal trial fails. I think you would likely sue someone if your spouse or child was killed rather than say "Oh, the criminal trial failed, oh well, just the way the cookies crumbles" http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly ... your-ground-culture-death

And what exactly is your point. The criminal trial was lost and if George Zimmerman can't be put in jail, he can at least be made penniless in a civil trial unless you feel he should just be scot-free with no repercussions for his reckless actions (you know, "kill an unarmed teenager, oops, thought he had a gun, my bad, time to move on") Same thing applies to that other fool Michael Dunn.

well I don't happen to think the answer is spending more money on housing prisoners who only become more hardened and violent and enriching private prison industry executives, some of whom want occupancy guarantees. The issue is complex and the inner cities (and the concomitant ills that often go with them) were created through public policy and entrenched underground economies -- guns/drugs/prostitution. I don't think there is one answer but a myriad of possible solutions (mentorships, internships, public private partnerships, philanthropy, head start, recreation centers, Police Athletic League and other community engagement)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/g ... e-is-exploding-heres-why/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/t ... ison-pipeline-fact-sheet/

http://www.nber.org/digest/oct97/w5881.html

And on THAT I wholeheartedly agree with you and can reach across the aisle. But other stuff, no.

I am not a socialist but rather believe in capitalism WITH some regulation/oversight. Not your Ayn Rand version of the market will take care of everything and we've had social engineering in this country since its inception -- albeit just for white people (affluent straight white men in particular). I don't think progressives advocate a socialist agenda but rather a limit to the yawning chasm between the haves and have nots which has been exacerbated over the last 3 decades. To illustrate, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... ty-in-america-chart-graph

And as I said earlier, this does not absolve those in the inner city who make poor choices or believe a life of crime is the answer. They will and must face repercussions. There is personal accountability but I don't think everyone who lives there should be written off as a lost cause -- I actually think Fulop's anti-recidivism program of prisoner reentry is a good idea. And it's all about resources/access. I grew up in a nice suburb because both of my parents worked and I went to very nice schools. Had my parents not moved to where I grew up, I think my life would have been totally different. We have de facto segregation, not de jure and it's based on income.

I personally don't want this country to go into the trajectory of a Brazil or South Africa where it becomes a fait accompli that if you're black or brown, you're destined to be marginalized or occupy lower strata of society; and if you're white and middle class, you're basically destined to make it. It's also a tad disingenuous and a little myopic for people to lambaste DeBlasio or Pres. Obama for so-called social engineering and giving undue advantage to people of color (implicitly TAKING something from deserving whites) for proposing agendas that might ameliorate the status quo especially in inner cities - why should potential talent languish just because someone might not have the benefit of having been born into the right family or circumstances/connections. Again, I don't want to live in a gated community with a private security firm like Brazil or South Africa that perpetuates a cycle of inequity and where it's foregone conclusion that if you're poor and black, you're automatically consigned to being bad and dumb. That does not mean however, that people aren't also accountable for themselves, their behavior/choices or that they lack agency (resorting to crime especially violent ones is not a justifiable excuse).
interesting article about G&T programs. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/edu ... .html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.newsreel.org/guides/race/whiteadv.htm

http://www.ncsu.edu/project/oeo-training/aa/beneficiaries.htm

I will donate over the weekend. Love living in such close proximity to the park and thanks Parkman and others for all that you do to make our neighborhood wonderful.

He's not that progressive on dealing with POC either. He and/or his mental doppleganger want to meet with black people at Zeppelin to "debate" and tell them how to be better, the merits of the GOP, embracing Republican values or some nonsense like that. Sometimes ignorance can be bliss.

The link didn't work as it showed google street image. 145 is the value plus store. Look what it used to look like as florist http://citynoise.org/article/2547

Great news User! Thanks for posting. It's my understanding that Porta is going in on the right of Rainbow store. But what's going in on the left of Rainbow store and in between two boots and sawadee. Have seen demolition and gutting work at those locations. http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/ ... =17&iwloc=A&sll=40.720482,-74.043992&cbp=13,235.2,0,0,0&cbll=40.720491,-74.043975&q=145+newark+ave+jersey+city&ei=kXHgUtaGDI7jsASHuoGgDA&ved=0CCYQxB0wAA

Wonder if this project will be resurrected or what form it will take now that development appears to be back in full swing. http://newyorkyimby.com/2012/08/rem-k ... tys-111-first-street.html

I haven't heard anything concrete about a theater but that would also be an ideal spot especially with those anticipated Mack Cali behemoths being built in the parking lot behind it. In all honesty, I think you could have two (one on Newark Avenue and another in the Powerhouse). I am thinking smaller one on Newark Avenue in the vein of the Quad, Wellmont in Montclair, Count Basie in Red Bank or Roberts in Chatham and a larger Angelika/Landmark Sunshine one in the Powerhouse. There should also be a boutique hotel on Newark or in PAD

http://www.trulia.com/blog/carme/2011 ... werhouse_on_washington_st

They should take over the dim sum and bahn mi business that we had downtown on the weekends at the Vietnamese grocery store that just closed.

I don't think this will be that devastating to him. He's already released a statement I believe to the effect that overzealous employees were acting on their own accord and not at his directive. and people have short memories.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/a ... eatly-exaggerated/282918/

Aroma would do well too.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/13488 ... hain_arrives_in_N_J_.html

Agreed. Surprised there isn't one as I think it would do very well. We goyim like Jewish delis as well.

http://www.eppesessen.com/

Nemo, thanks for the tip!! Will definitely check it out. Yes Bambou was amazing (the food, the crowd -- straight couples, gay couples, older people, younger people, interracial couples, creative types, etc. -- the decor/ambiance). The atmosphere sort of reminded me of visits to locales in St. Kitts/Nevis where I have distant relatives. Looking forward to Porta. Incidentally, the owners just opened another restaurant, http://asburyparksun.com/classic-fren ... ne-comes-to-bangs-avenue/

Agree with Tommy and I Heart JC. I think most JCers want quality food AND ambiance/vibe. And I'm sorry but if you want to watch TV, wouldn't you stay home and order in? I think the only place I'd want to watch TV is if it were some big sporting event (the Olympics) or a concert and would do it a place like PJ Ryans or the Merchant -- the latter is better because at least the TVs are up in the front at the bar and separate from main dining area. The proliferation of TVs in establishments doesn't make much sense to me. Personally, if the Bistro is sold, I would like to see a Raymond's in Montclair replicated there, or what Cafeteria in NYC used to be like back in the day.

http://www.raymondsnj.com/

I think Obama has accomplished a fair amount (Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, ACA, withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Bin Laden, the economy improving, reducing the deficit) DESPITE Republican/Tea Party intransigence and them always trying to thwart initiatives. That said, I think there's room for improvement in this term. Moderate Republicans are tolerable but it feels like they don't hold any sway and that the GOP has been co-opted by the most extreme elements who are alienating and polarizing (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, this guy Luntz) http://gawker.com/poor-sad-republican ... oblems-and-als-1496269597