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I can see why NJ.com is blocking comments... ========= In the Home Depot parking lot in Passaic, a white Toyota Sienna with Florida plates was cordoned off by Passaic County sheriff department officers while an FBI officer with a sniffer dog was checking all the vehicles in the car park. A white Toyota Sienna with Florida plates parked in the Home Depot parking lot in Passaic. (Photo by Allison Pries) A white Toyota Sienna with Florida plates parked in the Home Depot parking lot in Passaic. (Photo by Allison Pries) A Passaic County bomb squad vehicle also was at the scene. Police at the Home Depot refused to comment and kept media away from the car. One officer said, "The scene is too fresh." The Deputy Chief Deputy Chief Christopher Storzillo, a spokesman for the Passaic Police, said the department was involved in a "multi-jurisdictional investigation." However, he refused to answer any other questions about the investigation. The Home Depot remained open amid the police presence. An assistant manager, who did not want to be identified, said the store had no comment about the investigation. "We don't know anything." The chain's national office said it was working with the New York Police Department. "This was a Home Depot rental truck and we're fully cooperating to assist authorities in their investigation. At this point you'll need to speak with them for any additional information," Home Depot Spokesman Matt Harrigan said Tuesday. He referred all other questions, about the incident, including where and when the truck was rented, to law enforcement. In order to rent a truck at Home Depot, drivers have to give a driver's license, insurance information and a credit card deposit, Harrigan said. Photos from the scene in downtown Manhattan show the front end of the pick-up truck badly damaged, reportedly from crashing into a bus. During a press conference Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for the NYPD said police went out and did extensive outreach to the truck rental business after ISIS said two years ago it was planning car attacks. "We visited over 140 truck rental locations in this area - the obvious ones, UHaul, Ryder, Home Depot, etc. - and talked about suspicious indicators. After the attacks in Germany, and after Nice, we repeated those messages two more times, either by telephone or email or going back to the same places. The industry has had a high level of awareness on this matter from the NYPD." Home Depot offers flatbed pickup trucks for $50 dollars down and $19 for the first 75 minutes, according to its website. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017 ... ipov_arrest_police_s.html
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Could well be - that would be near were he lives. https://goo.gl/maps/Fb5G4Yw2ecn https://goo.gl/maps/jhqsyXWrPx82 Saipov is an Uzbek national and came to the U.S. in 2010, NBC News reported. Police surrounded a mosque and surrounding garden apartments in Paterson Tuesday evening. Omar Khan, a 17-year-old who said he prays at the mosque five times a day, said he did not remember seeing Saipov. A man who said he lived at 167 Genesse St. in Paterson, NJ claimed to be Saipov's neighbor. He said he had only seen Saipov at the local mosque a few times but remembers seeing him with his wife and two children around town. He said he often saw Saipov standing on the corner talking to friends, or taking his children out of the car. The neighbord said Saipov drives a white van with Florida plates and has lived in Paterson for a few months. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017 ... _killer_sayfullo_sai.html
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The man taken into custody by the New York Police Department after Tuesday's terror attack that killed at least eight is 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov of Tampa, Florida, according to an ABC News report. Police stopped Saipov in Mount Holly Springs Borough, Pennsylvania, just south of Carlisle, in March 2015 and he gave police a Paterson, New Jersey address, according to court records. He also was stopped in 2012 in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, just east of Hershey, and also listed a Paterson address. Saipov is an Uzbek national and came to the U.S. in 2010, NBC News reported. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017 ... _killer_sayfullo_sai.html
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Tribeca Shooting: At Least 4 Dead, 4 Injured, Sources Say Breaking: Police responded to shots fired around Chambers and West streets near the West Side Highway in Tribeca. There is no active threat. By Brendan Krisel (Patch National Staff) - Updated Oct 31, 2017 4:20 pm ET Tribeca Shooting: At Least 4 Dead, 4 Injured, Sources Say TRIBECA, NY ? At least four people were killed and more injured when a truck sped down the West Side Highway bike path, crashing into cyclists and pedestrians before its driver started firing what appeared to be a gun, sources and witnesses said. Police initially responded to reports of a shooting near West and Chambers streets, NYPD officials announced. Initial reports indicate at least four people are dead and four more are injured, law enforcement sources told Patch. One person is in custody, an NYPD spokeswoman told Patch. Witnesses and police said that the truck hit multiple pedestrians and cyclists before crashing, the Associated Press reported. The truck driver got out of the vehicle after the crash and appeared to fire a gun, the AP reported. Mayor Bill de Blasio has been briefed on the situation and there is no active threat, a City Hall spokesman said on Twitter. The mayor is headed to the scene, law enforcement sources told Patch. Subscribe The West Side Highway has been shut down from Battery Park to Canal Street, New York 1 reported.
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I think a lot of the co-ops are really being rented out - which is funny if that is not allowed - since the ban on Xmas lights is being enforced.
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It is funny that none of the sock puppets attack Grillo - they only attack the other two.
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I thought that the Metropolitan Towers by Grove Street were co-ops.
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Which candidate is paying for all these sock puppets, shills & trolls.
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Just wondering.
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Cop's nose broken, 2 security guards injured in N.J. mall melee
October 23, 2017 By Caitlin Mota The Jersey Journal JERSEY CITY - A cop was headbutted in the face and two security guards were injured in a melee at Newport Mall on Saturday night, authorities said. Two teens were arrested in the 8:30 p.m. incident at the shopping center infamously known for a 2016 melee between the mall's Easter bunny and a parent, according to a police report. A group of six to 10 teens was sitting in the center of the mall near Panera when a police officer and security guard told the group to leave the building. One teen began acting "irate" toward the officer, who then tried placing him under arrest, the report states. But when the officer tried to handcuff the teen, Dominic McFarland and Marvin Hanson, both 18, jumped between the cop and the suspect to prevent the teen from being arrested. The teen was able to flee on foot and was not apprehended, police said. An off-duty police officer witnessed the struggle and assisted in the incident, the report indicates. McFarland and Hanson both allegedly resisted arrest and the off-duty officer used another cop's baton to help handcuff Hanson, authorities said. Hanson, of Newark, headbutted one of the backup officers as he placed him into the police car and broke his nose in two places, according to the report. He allegedly told police he is only 17 years old, but the teen's mother confirmed to police he is actually 18. Two mall security officers were also injured during the melee. One suffered a sprained finger and the other a sprained ankle, police said. McFarland, of New York, was released from custody with a court date and Hanson was brought to the Hudson County jail in Kearny. Caitlin Mota may be reached at cmota@jjournal.com. Follow her on Twitter @caitlin_mota. Find The Jersey Journal on Facebook. http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... uards_injured_during.html
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So - do you have a guess which candidate is behind these attacks?
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Is Liberty State Park open? Can you park there?
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Please let us know what quotes you get and what equipment they will have.
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That is really sad - put some food out.
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https://www.yelp.com/biz/tree-nanny-tree-service-jersey-city
https://www.yelp.com/biz/reliable-tree-services-cliffside-park https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc= ... vice&find_loc=Jersey+City,+NJ+07302
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You (or your plumber) should just rent one of these.
https://youtu.be/XeNZzaEzeqg or https://youtu.be/LmUUtJGIjHI
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Also Loews & Home Depot - Sears and auto parts store all sell 5 gallon Plastic Gas Cans.
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Raised in Greenville: Frank Vincent Of 'Sopranos,' 'Goodfellas' Fame Dies At 80
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Frank Vincent Of 'Sopranos,' 'Goodfellas' Fame Dies At 80 New Jersey has lost one of its most beloved wiseguys. By Eric Kiefer (Patch Staff) - Updated September 14, 2017 NUTLEY, NJ ? Frank Vincent Gattuso Jr., a Nutley resident and actor known for his roles on mob-themed pop culture staples as The Sopranos and Goodfellas, has passed away, reports say. He was 80 years old. Gattuso, known professionally as Frank Vincent, died Wednesday, his family stated. No cause of death was provided. ?He was very private; he kept to himself," Nutley Mayor Joseph Scarpelli told NorthJersey.com. "People would see him around town, obviously, and know who he was, but he?s private. We were proud to have him live in Nutley, and he was a great actor ? a local guy who made it big." Vincent?s obituary identifies him as a classic ?tough guy actor? who was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 1939. He started his acting career in 1976 in the low-budget crime film "The Death Collector" with Joe Pesci, appearing again with Pesci and Robert De Niro in three Martin Scorsese films: "Raging Bull," "Goodfellas" and "Casino." Vincent later played Phil Leotardo, the rival of Tony Soprano on hit television show "The Sopranos." He?s also the author of a non-fiction book, "A Guy's Guide to Being a Man's Man." According to his online biography, Vincent was born to first-generation Italian-Americans and raised in the Greenville section of Jersey City. https://patch.com/new-jersey/hoboken/s ... cle-topstories&utm_slot=1
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Hurricane Jose: Rain And Storm Surge Could Batter New York City, Forecasters Say
The storm will cause rough seas and possibly rain and gusts next week, forecasters said. By Adam Nichols (Patch Staff) - Updated September 14, 2017 NEW YORK, NY ? After a few nerve-wracking days, hurricane watchers were breathing more easily Thursday ? confident that the storm currently churning in the Atlantic will not bring devastating force to the east coast. But what remains of Hurricane Jose could still come "threateningly close" to New York City, the National Weather Service warned. If it does, it would be next week and bring rain and wind gusts through Tuesday and Wednesday, though it's unlikely to have the force it's packing now. There's a 5-10 percent chance of tropical storm-force winds, meaning at least 39 mph, the service said. Jose is now forecast to move north between Bermuda and U.S., weakening as it goes. It will result in rough seas in the New York area, according to AccuWeather. Jose is currently a tropical storm and about 500 miles north east of the Bahamas. It performed a complicated loop over the last few days, and forecasters had been worried about the path it would take once that maneuver had been completed. https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-ci ... york-city-forecasters-say
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New York Times: Is New York’s Best Pizza in New Jersey?
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Is New York?s Best Pizza in New Jersey? RAZZA NYT Critic?s Pick Pizza $$ 275 Grove Street 201-356-9348 Restaurant Review By PETE WELLS SEPT. 12, 2017 The New York Times JERSEY CITY ? We were on our third pie of the night at Razza, across the street from City Hall here, when Ed Levine stopped chewing long enough to ask me a question: ?Are you going to say that the best pizza in New York is in New Jersey?? Ed Levine knows what it means to make a strong claim for a pizzeria. The founder of the website Serious Eats and the author of the book ?Pizza: A Slice of Heaven,? he caused a stir in 2004 by writing in The New York Times that the pies at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix ?just might be the best pizza in America.? So when it started to dawn on me, about a year after my first dinner at Razza, that no pizzeria in the five boroughs gave me as much pleasure, I thought of Ed. New York pizzerias can be divided into those that apply the steady heat of gas (the most revered of these is Di Fara Pizza) and those that subject their pies to the blistering, scorching fires of coal or wood. The high-heat group is further subdivided into the bakers, such as Co. and Totonno?s, whose reputations rest on their dough, and the cooks. Among the cooks, there are those whose pizzaioli express themselves through combinations of toppings that have never before occurred to anybody (Roberta?s, Paulie Gee?s) or a less exhibitionistic, farm-to-table sensibility, of which the late Franny?s was the paragon. Razza, which burns wood, is one of the few that excel at both dough and toppings. Even if Ed and I had learned, after our seven-minute PATH ride from the World Trade Center to Grove Street, that the kitchen had run out of cheese, tomatoes and the rest, I would have asked for a pizza dressed with nothing but olive oil. I?m willing to bet it would be delicious that way, with the texture and flavor of naturally leavened bread right from the oven. I was glad it didn?t come to that, though, because Razza dresses its pies with local ingredients so distinctive that every time I?ve eaten there, I?ve learned something about New Jersey farms. Our plan was to eat two pies and stop there. Green-edged coins of zucchini were scattered over the first, along with garlic cloves roasted to a translucent jelly, bright white ricotta and cracked pepper. In the center was a lemon wedge. There was ricotta on the other, too, and blots of house-made fig jam, and sheets of prosciutto-style Iowa ham, all covered by unwilted arugula. Like every pie I?ve eaten at Razza, these two had been put together with exquisite sensitivity to the needs of the dough. The crust had no soggy or underbaked patches, and the bottom surface was crisp all the way from the puffy outer lip to the inner tip, which would jut straight out, or nearly straight, when I picked up a slice. When I tore open the outer rim, the crust crackled and the white interior steamed, soft, somewhat springy, with a slow-building, many-layered, lively flavor underlined by sea salt. I could have stopped there, my point made. But as Ed noticed belatedly, we?d ordered two white pies, and he wanted to try one with tomatoes. His choice was the classic margherita. I was exceptionally curious, though, about a locavore variant called the Garden State margherita. Its sauce was made from New Jersey heirloom tomatoes and its mozzarella from the milk of Sussex County water buffaloes. While we were trying to decide, Dan Richer, the chef and owner, came to our table. Mr. Richer, who opened Razza five years ago, may or may not have recognized us, but in any case he had a solution. When he came back, he had placed one half of each margherita variant together to make a full circle. He hadn?t invented this 50-50 format for us, he said; he?d been experimenting with it for an idea he plans to spring on the public shortly: a pizza tasting menu. A chef prepares pizza dough during a dinner service at Razza Pizza Artigianale in Jersey City. Razza?s standard margherita, as I knew from previous exposure, is a model within the prescribed parameters of the form. I particularly admire the sauce, which is less acidic and bitter than many, and about as sweet as possible without tasting sugary. This, it turns out, was not a coincidence. Mr. Richer explained that each January, when he is fairly certain that the latest vintage of tomatoes has been canned, he and his staff conduct a double-blind tasting of eight or so brands from California, New Jersey and Italy. Using a seven-point ?tomato evaluation rubric,? they assess each variety for color, viscosity, texture, skins and seeds (the fewer the better), ?tomato flavor,? acidity and sweetness. The tomato with the highest score is usually the one he will buy, although he said that one year he blended three different brands, ?kind of like a Bordeaux wine.? For the Garden State pizza, he runs ripe red local tomatoes through a food mill. I do not have a seven-point rubric to describe the flavor of the sauce, but I can say that it was bright and sweet enough to remind me that ripe Jersey tomatoes are still worth hunting down. The buffalo mozzarella, meanwhile, was more buttery and flavorful than any other American mozzarella I?ve tried. It had a slight tartness and melted into soft, unrubbery, creamy-yellow circles. ?I?ve been waiting for that cheese for three years,? Mr. Richer said, explaining that he had been tracking the water buffalo herd until it was big enough to ensure a steady mozzarella supply. It is not the first obscure homegrown ingredient he has snatched up and built a pizza around. For the past two years Mr. Richer has bought local hazelnuts, a crop that had stubbornly refused to grow in the state until the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University developed blight-resistant trees. The nuts, fat and round, are barely chopped, and baked with ricotta, mozzarella and just enough honey to point up their natural sweetness. The pizza is called Project Hazelnut. I have never had anything like it. Farm-consciousness informs the whole menu. New Jersey greens and fruits go into the salads, which are fresh and vivid in ways not normally seen at the corner slice joint. New Jersey wheat berries and ambient New Jersey yeasts made up the first batch of the pizza dough starter, which has been burbling along for eight years now. New Jersey pork and Hudson Valley beef go into the tender meatballs, which are roasted in the wood oven until they carry a minor char. They are great meatballs, and suggest the kind of Italian restaurant Mr. Richer might have run had he not become transfixed by the intricacies of pizza. Pennsylvania cream and milk go into Razza?s only dessert, a panna cotta that is more fluffy than firm and is served under a pool of dark salted caramel. Ed and I, having eaten a pizza and a half each, shared a single panna cotta. Then he asked me again: ?Are you going to say that the best pizza in New York is in New Jersey?? Razza NYT Critic?s Pick 275 Grove Street (Montgomery Street) 201-356-9348 razzanj.com Atmosphere A casual hangout with some salvaged architectural details and a pervasive smell of wood smoke. Service is cheerful and well informed. Sound Moderate, even with Tom Verlaine and Debbie Harry keening in the background. Recommended Dishes Bread and butter; ricotta crostini; salads; meatballs; all pizzas. Appetizers, $5 to $12; pizza, $12 to $18. Drinks and Wine The wines are Italian. All are under $100 and most are under $60. Cocktails are appealing and often aperitif-based. Price $$ (moderate) Open Monday to Saturday for dinner. Reservations Not accepted. Wheelchair Access Lower dining area and accessible restrooms are a small step above the sidewalk level; main dining area is three steps up. What the Stars Mean Ratings range from zero to four stars. Zero is poor, fair or satisfactory. One star, good. Two stars, very good. Three stars, excellent. Four stars, extraordinary. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/din ... -jersey-city.html?mcubz=1 Also https://ny.eater.com/2017/9/12/1629711 ... -razza-review-jersey-city
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OK, trashed might be a bit of a stretch - but yes, I get lots of monthly bumper dings dents and deep black marks into my plastic bumpers - with an occasional bigger dent. Which by the way, my suburban relatives will never understand - their new cars are a big part of their self identities.
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Really - our cars get dinged up all the time - what am I doing wrong? ...and the same was true for me in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago & Philadelphia.
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No Idea - but Home Depot sells Bondo & Amazon sells matching spray paint.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/style/what-is-co-living.html In the ?90s, We Had ?Friends.? Now They Call It Co-Living. New York Times By PENELOPE GREEN AUG. 23, 2017 Residents attend a terrarium-building event at Jersey City Urby. Tuesday was family dinner at WeLive Wall Street: vegetarian meatballs and grilled chicken, black truffle gravy and green peas. Thursday was a ?craft jam? ? terra cotta pot painting amplified by ros? and salty snacks ? at Node in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. A few weeks earlier, I had made a terrarium at Jersey City Urby ? bromeliads, plastic critters and rum punch, with the Marshall Tucker Band on the Sonos ? and joined a bar crawl through the Lower East Side with a group from Quarters, open since mid-June on Grand Street. I slept in an adorable plywood cubby on Wall Street and on the 68th floor of the tallest residential building in Jersey City, in a flashy model apartment from which you could see all the way up the Hudson River to the George Washington Bridge, a view so vertiginous I dropped to my knees and crawled into bed on my elbows, special-ops-style. (Happily, at such a height, there were no neighbors to see me do so.) These were some of my adventures in co-living, a housing model that draws inspiration from the single-gender residence hotels of the early 20th century and postwar intentional communities, along with modern co-working spaces and hacker hostels. Conventional developers are starting to play with the idea, bringing a swankier gloss to what had been homespun group housing. Newer iterations seem more akin to the millennial-focused, hipster-amenitized luxury rental developments that are sprouting countrywide (with design tropes that include raw wood shelving, vintage board games, Dutch bikes and picture books like ?The Selby Is In Your Place? strewn about the common areas). Using architecture, design and so-called community programming (craft jams and bar crawls, say) co-living aims to push people together. It?s housing buoyed by and addressing a collision of attendant themes: the sharing economy and a yearning for connection, social and professional, among overworked millennials and a work force that?s increasingly freelance. More prosaically, co-living can simply mean roommates and common rooms, like a dorm. For some developers, it?s a form of adaptive reuse: many co-living sites, like WeLive at 110 Wall Street, are leased, in this case from the landlord of what once was an office building, drained of its tenants by Hurricane Sandy. There are still co-living evangelists, like Brad Hargreaves of Common, who has promised that ?the genuine and organic relationships our members build with each other,? as he wrote in a post for Medium, would not be tainted by allowing journalists to sleep over at Common properties (though they were welcome to tour). With over $23 million in financing, Common now operates in five cities, including out of eight houses in New York City. Some co-living ventures have collapsed under the weight of their ideals, like the utopian Pure House, started by Ryan Fix, now 42, in his Williamsburg loft in 2012. ?It was an experiment that grew out of control,? he said the other day, speaking by WhatsApp audio from his computer in London. ?I was curating incredibly talented creatives and entrepreneurs committed to social impact as roommates,? a mission that does seem a tad overwhelming. Eventually, Mr. Fix added 25 Brooklyn apartments to his Pure House portfolio. He recalled organizing dinner parties and morning raves, weekend jaunts to upstate New York and Burning Man, and the overall emotional cost of being a mentor to 65 people, some of whom fell in love, went traveling and started new businesses, he added ? juicy alliances he is proud to have overseen. Worn out by so much connectivity, Mr. Fix turned over the Pure House leases to his tenants. Now, he is a co-living consultant. With a colleague in Paris, he started Pure House Lab, a nonprofit ?do-tank,? as he put it, offering workshops, research and other services to the co-living movement, about which he remains bullish. ?Loneliness and anxiety are still on the rise,? he said. ?The opportunity is to build environments with more points of collision. Creating nurturing spaces where people can share and connect is transformative for the planet.? Photo Couches line a communal area on the first floor of Urby. CreditAndrew White for The New York Times Somewhere, no doubt in the middle of some celestial agora, Holly Whyte is rolling his eyes. Late June: Terrariums and Cocktails, Jersey City Urby With a design by Concrete, a Dutch firm, the 69-story Jersey City Urby, the second in a portfolio of new urbanist rentals by Ironstate Development, is a step up, architecturally, for its bland waterfront neighborhood. Its stacked glass volumes rise like elegant Legos over the Hudson. Inside, an armada of common areas stretch out with the sort of design flourishes and perks you?d see in Facebook?s campus in Menlo Park, Calif.: a coffee bar; an AstroTurf lawn; a fire pit; an enormous outdoor swimming pool; and a living room with vintage board games, comfy sofas and, laid out, gallery-style, on slim wood shelves, tongue-in-cheek book titles that include the Dr. Seuss parody ?Oh the Meetings You?ll Go To!? along with small batch magazines like Oh Comely and Hole & Corner. In the sky-lighted mailroom, bright blue metal mailboxes look like mini high school lockers; above, ferns and vines erupt from canvas bags. Though Jersey City Urby, like its sister property on Staten Island, is not quite co-living ? it is, essentially, a conventional apartment building with 762 units that rent with conventional leases ? its community features are right out of the co-living playbook. (Rents start at $2,500 for a studio.) The building has both an artist and a scientist in residence. The Staten Island Urby has its own farmer. In June alone, there were all sorts of socially sticky events: wine tastings and ice cream socials; a farmers? market tour; movies on the pool patio; and terrarium night, held in the Urby Lab, a one-bedroom model apartment on the 68th floor, all of which were overseen by Jo Rausch, 32, director of culture and events for the Urby properties (the newest just opened in nearby Harrison) ? and all overbooked. We were a full table that evening, passing acid-hued moss and tiny plastic creatures to tuck into our globe-shaped terrariums. There was Akshata Puri, a 31-year-old senior data analyst; Bea Walter, 22, a photographer who had just graduated from New York University; and Meghan Kershaw, 31, a nutrition science and policy researcher who works out of the one-bedroom she shares with her husband, Josh, a technology associate at JPMorgan Chase. Ms. Kershaw said that by evening, she is more than ready to leave their apartment. ?I?m always looking for community,? she said. Residents attend a terrarium-building event at Jersey City Urby, which stands 69 stories. You won?t find much of that outside the building, which is why this Urby is essentially a vertical ? and interior ? neighborhood. Though the place is 85 percent rented, I was terrified alone in my posh, helicopter-high apartment, missing the street, empty though it was, far, far below. And I marveled at the stamina of my fellow terrarium-creators, who after a long day at their nonprofits and their finance and tech companies could still muster conversation and fine handiwork. Four attendees appeared at poolside yoga early the next morning, seemingly fast friends, chatting and cheerful in their downward dogs. (In my own faraway youth, after 18 hours or more at work on the equivalent, then, of a start-up ? a poorly funded local print product ? I could do no more than fill a plastic tray with sesame chicken at the Vietnamese salad bar on Bleecker Street and shuffle home, alone, with a beer.) Mid-July: Bar Crawl, Quarters on Grand Street Kahshanna Evans is the community manager at Quarters, run by the Medici Living Group, a co-living company in Berlin. Ms. Evans, a former Girl Scout and model, said it is in part her intuition (and a background check) that organizes roommates into salubrious arrangements in this brand-new, seven-story brick building on the Lower East Side. From the ceiling of the living room and open kitchen, bulbs hung from dangly cords. There were leather beanbag chairs, a wide-plank table and a bulletin board featuring miniature Polaroid portraits of the tenants. On a recent Wednesday, Ms. Evans was setting out vases of wildflowers and bowls of cherries, grapes, strawberries and chips. There was ros? and beer. She noted that her Girl Scout experience had equipped her for this mission, with core principles like ?Leave the place cleaner than when you arrived.? In a tour of the apartments upstairs, which are stylishly furnished with Casper mattresses and sturdy furniture from the Detroit company Floyd, Ms. Evans smoothed bedspreads and pillows. Rents start at $1,749 for rooms in three- to five-bedroom units. Sally Lyndley, a fashion stylist, is paying $3,499 for a 212-square-foot room, which comes with a terrace and four roommates, none of whom she met before moving in, so the background check was a perk. ?I wanted to make sure it wasn?t a frat house,? said Ms. Lyndley, 38, ?because Mama?s grown out of that. Or you meet a nice roommate, but she?s a heroin addict. I?ve been down that road.? Up on the roof (squashy canvas beanbags), we could see a gaggle of yoga practitioners who swayed and dipped a few buildings away. ?Is this ?The Matrix??? Ms. Evans wondered, before clapping her hands and gathering up the group. ?Should we say hello to our future selves?? At Mr. Purple, a bar on top of the Hotel Indigo on Ludlow Street, we drank beer out of cans and I babbled on about the place?s namesake, Adam Purple, the community garden activist and tie-dyed, purple-clad eccentric I recalled riding his bike through the city of my past self. It seemed more than gauche that his memory should be evoked by a slick boutique hotel. But never mind. I met a co-living couple, Derek Pankaew, 29 and a start-up entrepreneur, and Wenxi Zhao, 23, a jewelry designer. They had fallen in love at Founder House Broadway, a co-living establishment devoted to those in tech, but when the place lost its lease, they came to Quarters. They live separately there, so as to create more space in the relationship, Mr. Pankaew said later, adding that the couple took a 10-day break recently. Photo Ms. Lyndley, a resident of Quarters, in the doorway of her penthouse room. CreditAndrew White for The New York Times ?That just meant that we weren?t making out, though we were seeing each other every day,? he said. Regular apartment life is boring, he continued, but there are challenges to co-living. ?People getting drunk and hooking up, there?s more potential for drama to happen. And in a normal apartment you don?t have 30 people who know what?s going on in your relationship. If we have a fight,? he said of Ms. Zhao, ?everybody wants to know what it?s about.? ?Scooby, scooby, guys,? said Ms. Evans, ?come along!? It was time for the next port, the bistro Dirty French across the street, followed by one more: Max Fish, the beloved, art-inflected 1990s-era hangout on Ludlow Street that closed there in 2013 and reopened a year later on Orchard. I decided to skip that stop. I?d been there before, after all. Early August: Family Dinner at WeLive Wall Street WeLive is run by the seven-year-old WeWork co-working behemoth, now with a valuation of $20 billion and with offices in 49 cities in 15 countries. There are 200 fully furnished apartments on Wall Street, from studios (about $3,000 a month) to three-bedrooms outfitted with housewares and towels. You can stay as long as a year, or for one night only ($296), which is what I did a week or so ago, checking into a ?studio plus?: a cunning rectangle with a full-size bed built into a plywood cupboard, like a Swedish bed in a Carl Larsson painting imagined by a Brooklyn furniture maker. There?s a galley kitchen, and a sleek white laminate cabinet hiding a Murphy bed from Resource Furniture, for those who want a roommate or a houseguest. Plywood pegboard shelves were accessorized with quirky objets (chrome cactuses, an origami bird) and curated books (Heidi Julavits, Tom Perrotta, Mick Fleetwood?s memoir). I liked my cubby bed, but apartments tucked into office buildings can be grim, despite the ferry terminal outside this one, the literary embellishments and the free coffee. Floors are organized into ?neighborhoods,? with open staircases and unifying decorative schemes. There?s a B.Y.O. whiskey bar, a library, and common kitchens are stocked with coffee and fruit water. The laundry room has a pool table. You can buy snacks there with the WeLive app, which also alerts you to group events, like family dinners, ?Game of Thrones? nights or kickboxing classes. It?s all a bit bro-themed: On a blackboard panel were chalked the words ?Do You Have Ur Keys.? But there were women at family dinner that night, like Kimberly Cockrell, 37, newly arrived from Miami for a job in the shipping industry, and delighted, she said, to be rid of her three-bedroom house. The free wine and food was nice, too. ?I don?t even have a broom here,? she said. ?It feels pretty great not to have to cut the grass.? Rob Stamm, 22, and Cody McClintock, 25, had been in the building barely five hours (it was move-in day). They had met after Mr. McClintock, a software designer and developer who loves photography, had found Mr. Stamm?s work on Instagram. The two friends were sharing a studio plus, with Mr. McClintock on the Murphy bed. ?I took one for the team,? he said, pointing out that they had made a pact to spend as little time as possible in the apartment, and in the building. ?To be honest, I don?t want to be that guy that?s networking with all the people here,? he said. P hoto From left, Evan Kasper, Kahshanna Evans, Ms. Liu, Penelope Green, Fabiana Fornerino, Wenxi Zhao and Lukas Dutsch walk to Dirty French, a bar and restaurant on the Lower East Side. CreditAndrew White for The New York Times Blaine Ford, WeLive?s community manager, said he encourages tenants to not join the WeWork offices in the building, but pick a location that?s at least a few blocks away. ?It?s good for people to have a bit of a commute,? he said, ?and just go outside.? Early August: CraftJam at Node Brooklyn in Bushwick On a scruffy block on Eldert Street in Bushwick, a renovated brick townhouse built around 1900 gleamed like a showplace in Brooklyn Heights. Inside, a parlor room was swathed in Brooklyn toile; there were vintage photographs of the neighborhood, and on the shelves, the requisite board games and other accouterments of the internet-weary. The apartments, fully furnished in a gender-neutral, post-West Elm manner, have plump blue Smeg refrigerators in their open-shelved galley kitchens. The backyard is propped with Brimfield finds ? seats made from rusty milk cans, vintage signs ? and above, a web of industrial light bulbs. On this night, nearly all of the building?s 13 tenants had gathered to paint pots for tiny succulents, an activity led by Paivi Kankaro, 34, whose company, CraftJam, runs D.I.Y. events around New York City. ?Craft is yoga for your brain,? Ms. Kankaro said. ?And people want to do other things than go to a bar.? (There was ample wine, however.) I observed the impressive efforts of Peter and Gena Cuba, both 33 and graphic designers originally from the Midwest. They had moved to Node from Brooklyn Heights, as it happened, because they felt that the comforts of that neighborhood had become a trap. Ms. Cuba also had a hankering for a bathtub. Rents start at $2,800 for a one-bedroom. You can bring your own roommates, or Jeanette Dobrowski, Node?s 28-year-old community curator, will fix you up. ?We target global citizens who want to live with people from all walks of life,? said Dorothea Avery, Node Brooklyn?s 36-year-old co-founder, and a former Wall Street trader. Node tenants include a Blue Man Group member from London, a French wine consultant and a public affairs specialist from North Carolina who is just 22. Ms. Avery noted the boons to a developer for charging a premium for well-appointed spaces ? four more Node Brooklyn buildings are nearly complete ? and also the health advantages of group living.
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