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If you want something done in Jersey City you have to be persistant. If you give up easily OR just hold your breath then, it's true, odds are it won't happen. But if you really want something like a garbage can added on your block then you better be ready to make multiple phone calls and e-mails following up on the matter. Persistance will win out at the end of the day...don't give in! Thanks.
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This is a serious problem that is getting way too rampant. Cars are either parking too close to the crosswalk, causing a blindspot for cars driving through an intersection OR the cars are parking IN the crosswalks forcing pedestrians to veer out into oncoming traffic to cross a street. People with baby strollers and pedestrians in wheelchairs shouldn't have to endure these dangerous situations!!
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Contact Councilman Steve Fulop @ FulopS@jcnj.org
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The crosswalk on the corner of Bay St and Newark is constantly blocked by delivery trucks and other vehicles during the day. It is def creating a very dangerous situation to cross, you literally have to veer out into oncoming traffic to cross AROUND the vehicles. It must be a nightmare for people in wheelchairs and people pushing baby carriages. Blocking the crosswalk should not be tolerated..period!!!
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Not to mention that I already posted this story in the Boycot A-1 deli thread hours before GrovePath saw it fit to post the story twice in it's own thread.
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Vallion also told police he had sold property he stole from the school at A-1 Deli on Grove Street, reports said. Police set up an undercover investigation and caught deli employee Fel Basem, 31, trying to purchase what he thought was a stolen laptop from the school, reports said. Nice guys huh! A-1 deli, subs AND stolen laptops..what a great neighborhood business.
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Well look what else is going on at A-1 Deli :
Homeless Jersey City thief was sleeping at school, police say by Tom Shortell/ The Jersey Journal Thursday June 11, 2009, 9:09 PM Rodney VallionA homeless thief was caught early today bunking at St. Peter's Prep by night and selling items he allegedly stole from the Downtown Jersey City school by day, reports said. According to police, Rodney Vallion, 50 -- who has a long history of burglarizing the high school -- was sneaking into the building every night for about a week through a side door he propped open before a security guard noticed him clambering up a fire escape at around 3:15 a.m. today. Vallion, who was sleeping on the fourth floor, told police he recently got out of jail and had been sleeping at the school ever since, reports said. Vallion also told police he had sold property he stole from the school at A-1 Deli on Grove Street, reports said. Police set up an undercover investigation and caught deli employee Fel Basem, 31, trying to purchase what he thought was a stolen laptop from the school, reports said. Police searched the deli and found a VCR and a toolbox that Vallion said he sold there and a St. Peter's Prep faculty member identified as school property, reports said. Vallion was charged with burglary and theft and Basem with fencing stolen property, police said. Vallion has been caught burglarizing Saint Peter's Prep in 1995, 2002 and 2006, said Police Sgt. Michael Gajewski. "He said schools were his specialty. He found them to be easy targets, easy access," Gajewski said. School officials, including the president, the Rev. Robert Reiser, didn't return phone calls to comment. The Rev. John Mullin, a guidance counselor at the school, said tonight that he had only heard that someone was caught breaking into the school early this morning. Mullin said school had ended for the summer on Sunday when graduation was held. According to the New Jersey Department of Corrections' Web site, Vallion was sentenced to up to five years in prison for two counts of burglary in 2006 in Hudson County. The Web site indicated Vallion was still in custody, but the site is only updated every two weeks.
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There was a hair salon that open up last year on the corner of Monmouth and Newark that took the time to set up/ prepare the inside of the store with all the necessary equipment for a productive business but when they opened the store they never put a sign up alerting the neighborhood of their business/opening. I kid you not, if you looked above the store their were two lightboxes set up with bulbs in it and all, ready for a sign front to be put on, but they never did and they left the lightboxes open with the bulbs exposed. Needeless to say they closed a few months later probably due to lack of business. How could a business not put a sign up?
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Living in Jersey City, sometimes you just come across such insane stories, people and situations that are so 'unique' they can make you laugh, cry or just leave you in a state of bewilderment. I have often times stumbled onto a situation and said to myself," HUH! Now why would anyone ever do that?" So I started this thread to vent and also read some of your stories. Here's two of my own to start it off:
I was walking my dog the other day on 1st street when I came across a guy who was planting brightly colored flowers in a small, nicely mainicured and fenced in mulch filled area at the base of a tree in front of his property. He obviously had taken a fair amount of time taking care of this area and cared enough to do so. As I walked by I said,"Nice Job." He turns to me and tells me that he planted 7 plants in the same spot the day before and in the middle of the night someone came by and dug up 5 of his plants, stealing them right out of the ground leaving no trace of the plants just empty holes. He was now having to plant 5 new ones in their place!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! I went to Starbucks today to get a med coffee. I purchased my coffee and went over to the condiments bar to add my sweet and low and some cinnamon like I normally do and couldn't find the cinnamon anywhere. So I asked the woman at the register for some cinnamon and she proceeds to tell me that they can not keep the cinnimon shaker at the bar because people keep stealing it! Why on earth do people go into Starbucks and STEAL the cinnamon shaker!!!! Only in JC folks!!
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I took this from an article I saw on the web, sorry I forgot where. It would be great if JC were to have this level of enforcement:
Yes, it sounds like a ridiculous idea, and you may have been among those who laughed, or worse, when we first proposed it: In order to keep a city?s streets clean of dog poop, require dog owners to submit DNA samples from their pets when they get licenses; then use that DNA database to trace any left-behind poop and send the dogs? owners stiff fines. Well, it took three years but the Israeli city of Petah Tikva has actually put this plan to work: The city will use the DNA database it is building to match feces to a registered dog and identify its owner. Owners who scoop up their dogs? droppings and place them in specially marked bins on Petah Tikva?s streets will be eligible for rewards of pet food coupons and dog toys. But droppings found underfoot in the street and matched through the DNA database to a registered pet could earn its owner a municipal fine. It is interesting ? and probably wise ? that Petah Tikva has coupled the penalties with rewards. Clearly, their plan is a bit more thought-out than ours: ?My goal is to get the residents involved, and tell them that together, we can make our environment clean,? said Tika Bar-On, the city?s chief veterinarian who came up with the idea for the DNA experiment. Bar-On said the DNA database could also help veterinarians research genetic diseases in dogs, investigate canine pedigree, and identify stray animals, replacing the need for electronic chip identification. As for me, a New York resident: well, I am still waiting, and not so patiently. It still astonishes me that the same person who will glare at someone for speaking loudly on a cell phone or for not putting a bottle in the right recycling bin will let his dog defecate in the middle of a grassy area in Central Park where kids play, and then do a minimal cleanup, if at all. Unless we can get the DNA plan rolling here, I may have to start agitating all-out for mandatory dog diapers.
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The meeting is scheduled for Thurs June 4 at 7pm in City Hall. I was invited because I wrote to Steve Fulop of my concerns as well did other residents with similar concerns. I am not sure if the meeting is open or how large or small of a meeting Steve planned for. What I suggest is you write to Steve Fulop with you concerns and ideas about the garbage/JCIA issue and ask him if you can attend. I can not speak for him but if you have some good ideas or something to add that wasn't already covered by your fellow residents, I can't see why you couldn't join us. I would think your contribution would be welcomed. Community involvement is a great thing! Thanks.
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Nobody is TARGETING spanish or black owned bars or any other bar for that matter. When an outburst or scene is created by unruly patrons (like the one caught on video in this thread), the bars attract attention all by themselves. When the problems occur repeatedly the bars are labeled as problems and scourges to our neighborhoods. The inability of the bars in question to control their patrons accompanied by lack of police enforcement is why these problems persist AND escalate. When they start to effect peoples quality of life crackdowns on the establishment are needed to reinstill order. Bars need to work with their neighbors they co-exist with. When an outburst occurs police need to arrest the unruly people who start the problem...not just chase them away!
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You correct their behavior by taking a picture/video of them in the act of illegal dumping and having them fined. If you hit them enough times in the wallet you stand the best chance to change behavior! There must be a consequence for their irresponsible actions.
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No audition, no committee. I wrote to Fulop about my garbage/JCIA concerns and he wrote me back about the possibility of putting together a meeting at City Hall with the CEO of the JCIA and a couple of other residents who coincidentally had written him with similar concerns. He is trying to get that meeting for June 3 @ 5:30 pm but nothing has been confirmed yet. If you would like to be a part of it write him an explain your take and ideas and ask him if it would be possible to participate. I'm not sure how many residents will be there or how big/small of a group he had planned for, but if you have some good points/ ideas that weren't already covered I can't see why you shouldn't be able to have input. If for some reason Steve can't put the meeting together then maybe we should all meet and formulate some sort of plan w/ Stani and the crew. I'm just waiting to hear back from Steve for conformation.
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I suggest you write an email to Steve Fulop. He is working on putting a meeting together with some concerned citizens and the CEO of the JCIA for June 3. Myself and a few others have written Steve on the trash issue, let him know your ideas and if you have something new or unique to add you could possibly join us. ( If the meeting is secured) Thanks
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This can is on the corner of Monmouth St and Fourth. It was emptied on Thursday and by Saturday night...a whole TWO DAYS :
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The can is needed there because a large group of high school kids congregate there on their lunchtime. If this can continues to be overfilled like this by household garbage what will happen? Eventually the can will be removed and alot MORE trash will wind up in the street and the sidewalk due to the fact the high school crowd has nowhere to throw ther garbage ( Though alot of the kids throw their trash on the ground anyway) It's like there is a cycle that is constantly being repeated in Jersey City:
1) Residents complain about trash on sidewalks and street to do no public cans
2) Public cans are installed and things get a bit better
3) Residents and illegal dumpers zone in on the cans and pile in their household trash and other items their to lazy to dispose of properly
4) Cans continue to overflow and smell, creating an eyesore. Neighbors and business owners get fed up and complain. CANS ARE REMOVED
5) Back to #1. Streets are unbearably filthy again
THIS IS PATHETIC!
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Thanks for offering nothing to an intelligent discussion of a serious quality of a life issue. Please refrain from posting in this thread in the future.
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I like the idea of businesses purchasing cans privately and keeping their cans out in front of their business during operating hours. (Especially pizza parlors, fast food rests. and deli that high school kids go to for lunch) At the end of the day they can take their cans back inside and secure them so no one can illegally dump trash in them or steal their can. In addition, every business AND resident/homeowner should be responsible for keeping the front of there property clean and free of debri INCLUDING the gutter in front of the property. For some reason in Jersey City, people feel the gutter is not their responsibility...it's the street sweepers/ city's problem. I have seen people cleaning in front of their business/home and just sweep everything off the sidewalk and into the gutter as if the gutter doesn't fall under there jurisdiction. Inspectors should ride around and inspect the neighborhood everyday and hand out fines accordingly. That bring me to my last point. It was mentioned earlier that a civil servant refused to hand out littering tickets. Are the JCPD the civil servants responsible for that? If they are not then maybe the reason fines aren't issued is because the ticket issuers feel unprotected and fearful of reprisal and violent attack. They need to feel safe to get involved. Lastly, I would just like to mentioned I like the idea of group litter clean-ups. I participated in one a little over a week ago with the Village Neighborhhod Association and it went very well. I got to talk/meet and work with a bunch of my neighbors..some I knew and some I had just met. We picked up trash for an hour and a half all along Brunswick St, Newark, 2nd St and other parts of the Village. In the end it felt great making a visual difference in our neighborhood even if it was only for a week or so. It also made my area, the Village, feel just a little bit smaller getting to know my neighbors! Thanks
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I feel your frustration Jimmy and I wish I had some simple remedies for answers to your well thought out questions, but sadly I do not. Alot of public cans get removed because people WILL NOT STOP putting household garbage into public cans causing constant overflow. The cans become an eyesore and smell quite badly in the summer...no business wants them in front of there store. Sometimes the JCIA or whoever is in charge of picking up the trash from the public cans doesn't empty the cans on the scheduled pick-up days. I have even caught them skimming the overflow garbage off the top and leaving the can inside the barrel completely or partially full. I have called them when I see a can is overfilled and been told multiple times by the dispatcher they will take care of it ( I usually call in the morning) only to come home from work at 10pm to find the overfilled can still unemptied. It's frustrating.
The JCIA needs to get serious about cleaning up the city. They need to be held accountable to their scheduled pick up time and when a resident phones in reporting a overfilled can in need of attention , they need to handle it promptly. They also need to be contientious about doing their jobs...when dumping a can make sure ALL the trash makes it in the truck and not spilled in the street The JCIA or Health Dept needs to get serious about catching and fining residents, business and out of town trash dumpers. Security cams and possibly following up residents reports of illegal dumping by staking out a problem can may be a good place to start. I believe in some cases they may even take the illegally dumped trash and go through the bags to find an address of the perp. Some people are very stupid and/or stubborn. These cases may have to be repeatedly fined, I like to use the phrase FINED INTO SUBMISSION. Something has to be done with all the high school students who are let out in droves at lunchtime. They go to pizza parlors, deli's and fast food places, buy food and drink and proceed to dump their trash on the streets and sidewalks in our neighborhoods. I have had to chase them off my front porch several times as they were smoking weed. The city should keep them in school for lunch unless they can find another way to stop them from trashing our neighborhoods. Jimmy, maybe you should send an email to Fulop and voice your concerns Maybe he has some ideas...let us know.
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Just walked by Newark @ Monmouth and didn't see any flea market. Doesn't appear it's everyday...at least not today!
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On the contrary, I love it. Although your respose is very boring and quite generic. "City Living" ,as you call it , requires everyone to do their part in keeping their side of the street clean and follow the law to keep order, do to the fact people are living and playing so close to one another. If everyone did as they wanted, regardless of the law, as you say you are going to do with your dog, then chaos ensues and tempers flare. City living is about cooperation.
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Hopefully others will follow our example and disregard the leash law and join us. Just think of all the chaos that will ensue. Who needs laws, they can make all they want because they don't apply to us...right Vig!
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I agree. I have a 65lb pit bull I'm going to let off leash too. He like some dogs, greatly dislikes others. Wonder whats going to happen when our dogs meet snout to snout? Should be alot of fun!!!
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Why are you asking this question here and not to the Downtown Jersey City Historic Special Improvement Districts Website? They will answer all your questions pertaining to the Newark Ave Streetscape, then you can enlighten us here!
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I took this from the Downtown Jersey City Historic Special Improvement Districts Website, note the last paragraph:
Newark Ave ROZ Updates Newark Avenue StreetScape Construction Schedule for the week of May 4th: Traffic patterns will remain as they are, East bound only during working hours and restored to two directions in the evening. Monday 5/4: Vault work Grove to Barrow Tuesday 5/5: Vault work Grove to Barrow Wednesday 5/6: Vault work Grove to Barrow Thursday 5/7: Vault work Barrow to Jersey Friday 5/8: Vault work Barrow to JerseyJersey Also several large sections of sidewalk will have to be left undone due to an issue the city is having with PSE&G. Here is their website, if you have any question about the Streetscape they are more than happy to answer them for you! http://www.jcdowntown.org/
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There were 2 green bags and 2 BLACK bags. The green bags were left by the clean up crew, the black bags were illegally dumped there. I have seen black bags dumped in that are before. Not sure whats so funny about people throwing their trash on top of closed bags especially on a block infamous for trash and garbage!
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Hey guys,
just wondering what can be done about this problem. Someone keeps dumping large black plastic bags filled with garbage near the public can on Monmouth. Today, they were just dumped on the corner near some other, light green bags that a crew left on Fri after they picked up/swept trash off Monmouth St. I realize this is a big problem in JC but is there anyone that can be called to investigate this? It would be great if they had investigators who take the trash, open up the bags and meticulously go through them to determine who's it is and FINE them! (Fat chance) But seriously, does anyone have any experience with this issue? Thanks.
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