Mao wrote:
To DTJCer et alii:

To those of the "get a bike get a life" vien, the point here as most other posters noted is coordination. It is one thing to have detours and delays, another thing to completely shut a city down to the point that the JCPD intervenes to prevent a public safety emergency. And sure, we'd all like an urban utopia where we can walk to everything. JC is walkable but most of Jersey City is not entirely car free no matter what the youngsters in the City Planning Bureau think. Also those with old people and children in their care should be excused the reliance on the automobile.

Mao

Mao wrote:
Was this the worst of all traffic Armageddon's that we've had lately?

Grand Street, Monmouth, Varick and sundry other streets totally closed. The City has an entire division in Engineering dedicated to streets and roads. Who could possible have approved all of these closures?

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Guys, I assume this was a joke. Typical play on the weird questions sometimes posted looking for repair "specialists" for all kinds of (usually) DIY crap. Seriously, a "cellular shade specialist?"

You "assume"? Try googling "cellular shade" and learn something before assuming.

Replacing is almost always cheaper than repairing unless you're a DIY-type, and installation is a super-easy DIY. Lots and lots of online suppliers for shades made-to-measure...

equn wrote:
Any local recommendation for someone who knows how to fix & install cellular shade?

thor800 wrote:

But will the milennials want to buy in high cost areas or gtavitate towards up and coming affordable ones ?

JSleeze wrote:
This has been up for eight minutes already and no YvonneScreed yet?

ilsalmi wrote:
I just would like to thank everyone for their input and give an update. It is correct that for a single family you can pull homeowner's building permit and do the plans and construction without a licensed professional, if you feel up to that job:)
I found out the plans are beyond my capabilities, and got a local architect from Thumbtack. Very satisfied so far, he came to see and measure and works on the plans now. Had some great suggestions for the steps down, that we would not have considered otherwise, no matter how many pinterest posts we saw. Because the job is so small, the overall price for the plans was acceptable too ~ $400. Thank you for the encouragement to look for an architect in the online quote sites.

bodhipooh wrote:

In case you haven't heard, a 99 Ranch is what is replacing the Pathmark spot. Should definitely be an asset.

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nafco wrote:
so what happens to this thread now? its by far one of the longest running, most popular threads on this site. "2nd Whole Foods in JC?"

Nothing will happen, it will be soon filled with all the complainers crying they did not have my gluten free (insert some food that no one eats here) or some check out girl/boy was rude. The usual JClist shit. Fortunately I don't plan to be in JC in 2020, enjoy.

SRhia wrote:
I understand the local bank does it for free.

The problem for me is that I also need to get it authenticated by the state (which then I need to authenticate again at my country's consulate!!!). If I do it in JC, I'll need to mail it in to Trenton (and wait for them to mail it back), whereas if I notarize it in NYC, then I can go to the state office in lower Manhattan in person (and skip all the mailing).

Decisions decisions decisions...

user1111 wrote:
How N.J. businesses handle transgender bathroom policies, Sorry bigots, no more shopping for you!

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The very last thing a trans person wants to do in 99.9% of cases is attract unwanted attention to themselves by behaving badly in a public restroom...

Its not like the public bathroom is a social club. People go in to do what nature requires, clean up and get out.

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2 million for a place behind BJs, lol good luck.

Right. And when you invite your rich Manhattan friends over they'll cruise up the beautiful Marin Blvd in their town car and then take a right on the pot-holed street where the 18-wheelers back into the Shoprite. Are these people insane? $2.1 million?!? You can find 3br/3 bath apartments in Manhattan for $1.7 million. How would any self-respecting real estate agent agree to list this place at such an absurd price?

CatDog wrote:
If Yvonne had her way half of Van Vorst, Morris Canal, Enos Jones, and Hamilton parks would all be leveled to add parking spaces. What's the point of having those parks if there's no parking?

God forbid people have a little green space in their neighborhoods.

user1111 wrote:
Cheaper than studios, 'micro' units try to break into the Jersey City market

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South_Sixth wrote:
A shul coming to MLK Drive

They seem to populate every day, I use to see 4 or 5 walking down Ocean or MLK now I am seeing 12-15 smh

User - I thought you said earlier in the thread that you were excited to see the Hassidim move to GV. What's changed?

I am still excited and very thrilled to get some new blood... I just did not expect it to be so rapid.

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Gentrification is inevitable as we become an increasingly urbanized country with people leaving the suburbs and flocking to cities.

Maybe, maybe not. These things have historically been cyclical and there is a school of thought that we are in another cycle. I do think there are factors that likely give this cycle more legs but the same evolutionary pull that drives young people to cities also leads them out once they breed. Unless and until the JC public schools can credibly compete with suburban schools, that isn't likely to change in a meaningful way...


Have U.S. Cities Reached 'Peak Millennial'?
The demographic case for preparing now for the next urban population decline, even in growing cities.

NATALIE DELGADILLO @ndelgadillo07 Mar 16, 2016 58

For all the talk of city-loving Millennials, some surveys show that plenty of them actually prefer the suburbs overall, and still plan to move there eventually. Census data released last year suggests that the suburban shift may merely be being delayed, not foregone: while Americans aged 25 to 29 are moving to the suburbs today at a slower rate than they did in the mid-1990s, those aged 30 to 44 are moving there at a faster one.

USC urban planning professor Dowell Myers is among the doubters. At the University of Texas City Forum last month, he ventured that cities have reached ?peak Millennial,? or the highest influx and presence of Millennials living in urban areas?and, he argues, it?s only going down from here.

What is ?peak Millennial??

In 2015, those Millennials born in 1990?the largest cohort born in any one year?turned 25. Myers argues this is an important milestone, marking the year that Millennials begin to take their housing and work situations more seriously. Many of them have already made the jump from their parents? homes or college into a city-center, where they?re living independently and focusing on their careers. ?At this age, you?re likely a single adult who?s been out of college for a little while,? Myers says. ?And you?re starting to get more serious about establishing your independent adult life.?

This group of Millennials, along with all the ones that came before, Myers says, have been flowing into cities and causing a spike in the urban population. But from now on, there will be fewer young people moving into cities, because there will simply be fewer of them period. If you imagine the inflow of young people to cities as a faucet in a bathtub, Myers says, that faucet has been turned up higher and higher for the last decade or so. But now, it?s finally being slightly turned down by the dip in total youth population numbers. Additionally, as the largest group of Millennials grows older, many of them will begin to make the shift into suburban family life.

See rest of story: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/0 ... ties-dowell-myers/473061/

penumbra wrote:
We've been donating to the Catholic Charities via their bin on 16th, between Erie and Grove.