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The thing is the old timers don't want development in McGinley Park.
They want us "interlopers" to stay in DTJC (or preferably, to move to Hoboken or the city or burbs) so that our voice is muted and things can go back to the way they were. The more abatements, the more affluent voters who shun the machine politics, no show jobs, and political corruption of yore. The more abatements, the more it becomes a given that Osborne is the next mayor. They saw what happened in the city and Hoboken and are petrified. That is a reason. It has nothing to do with being equitable.
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This...I know more singles than anyone else in JC, including myself, and with Zeppelin and a few other exceptions, we typically end up in Hoboken or NYC. By having less nightlife JC capitulates to a whiny minority rather than a majority who would use it. When you see the crowd at Zeppelin every weekend, it's pretty telling...there are more places need and further people from the city, Hoboken and the rest of NJ see no issue with coming to JC to party if only it offered more places. Small places like Lucky 7s have their place as well but that is not enough. The anti-nightlife crowd can't wonder when they see their tax bill. Good cities have good nightlife. The end. Don't like it, don't live in a city.
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I think all of Hudson County is the 6th borough as well. Which makes sense. Not all of Queens and BK is on the subway.
I view it like this DTJC = LIC Hoboken = Astoria JSQ = Jackson Heights West Side= Bayside Weehawken= Sunnyside Secaucus= Floral Park
Posted on: 2014/5/13 20:24
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Pep Boys is nice for a $20 oil change. I agree with the poster that mentioned dropping the car off and walking home (or doing errands at the mall) and coming right back.
There is a Pep Boys on 440 I believe, but it's not as convenient. Re: the other stores, Shop Rite is a harrowing experience but we still need a supermarket there and it shouldn't be an over priced joke like Whole Foods. Trader Joe's would be great. I'd love to see more stuff by the tunnel. And the mall and Target are going nowhere. Just because something is a chain or big and not double the price for organic crap doesn't mean it's bad. Brooklyn has plenty of big box. Do what the other hipsters do and overpay elsewhere and let the rest of us have normalcy.
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Is there any building/complex in the city that hasn't been totally trashed at this point?
Anything in Newport- bland and generic Zephyr & 700 Grove- area floods (or used to) Liberty Harbor- floods Dixon Mills- generic, mice Trump, 77 Hudson- not luxury Anything in Hamilton Park- I don't want to walk through the mall Grove Pointe- expensive heating bill Beacon- too many short sales Society Hill & Port Liberte- feels like the suburbs Portofino- old Am I missing any? I feel like there were complaints about A Condos and Canco and Crystal Pointe but I can't remember them.
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You guys are right- was thinking of Qdoba. I actually like Qdoba a little better...I know that is heresy in some parts!
They have a Qdoba in Hoboken too so many there is room for a Chipotle in JC in addition to the Hoboken one.
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There is a Chipotle and Crisp (pretty good hummus and felafel place) in the mall. So my guess is they won't replicate on Grove, but yeah, Wegman's has pizza and wings, sandwiches, sushi, an Asian buffet, off the top of my head.
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I'm for Trader Joe's or Wegman's. I think Wegman's hot food selection would do tremendously well with a young urban population. I really like the prepared stuff from Trader Joe's as well.
I can do without Whole Paycheck.
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This board needs to come with a term for real estate detractors...
There is a sizeable contingency on this board that will say: - Any and all buildings- especially new ones downtown- are terrible and must be avoided. Oh, your crazy great uncle wants to sell you a place in 77 Hudson for 3 cents? Exchange Place lacks character! Move to Greenville and live in a brownstone and eat everything from a co-op! - There is a real estate bubble on the horizon - All development is bad - Overcrowding on the PATH or a shutdown or the feng shui of the PATH will result in a downfall in prices I can think of a couple of reasons why they do it- envy; fear of changing neighborhood; wanting to turn JC into the a little bit urban Paramus; renters afraid of a price increase... But they are not based in reality. I closed April of last year. From what I can tell, my unit has probably appreciated at least 50k since then. And I am thrilled. And I live in a newer building too! Best of luck to all those looking to purchase...me and plenty of others on here are ready to help you navigate the actual realities... IMO Waldo is a great building and a nice location. You can probably rent a spot at the mall or one of the lots on Marin.
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Pretty sure the station is in Hoboken...but even still, there should be cops at places like that regularly considering the active danger especially with "incidents" on the HBLR. That's actually a great example of where you need people not cameras.
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Well...how many new condo projects are underway right now in DTJC? Perhaps the market has not become ripe...isn't there only the one by the Powerhouse, and nothing is for sale there yet.
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Wow a Republican-tied law firm hired to defend Christie with our money says he's innocent.
Will anyone who doesn't start their day without Faux and Friends be convinced?
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Would anyone be interested in developing JSQ without abatements- that's the question.
JSQ as is is a waste. An ideal location for commuters, but few nice and new buildings, aside from Canco and a few others, to offer. The more affluent residents = more amenties = more affluent residents = more amenities. Those projects in the OP stopped because of the economy (Esperanza in particular) not because of the developer. Re: parking, aren't there garages around?
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The mall is another great spot to clean up. The first impression NYC shoppers get of JC should not be begging.
They are aggressive and annoying. Those guys "selling candy" for charity have called after me before.
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They cause accidents. They don't make anyone better. They hurt people and raise premiums so the city can make more money.
They should be illegal. And they shorten the yellow all over NJ and have been caught doing it and never held accountable. If you're for red light cameras, you're not pro-safety- you're pro-accidents so corrupt municipalities can be even more bloated. Noble cause!
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They are really bad by the tunnel, they hang out outside the gas stations and other businesses and walk into traffic waiting at the lights to make sure everyone gets a nice welcome to JC. It's a safety hazard at this point.
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Their pricing helps.
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No, it attracts the young and vibrant- hipsters aren't vibrant- they are a bunch of Midwestern trust fund babies who think poor is $5 donuts. JC not being on this list is a victory.
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I'm glad it's expanding, but it should also be adding two JC stops that have been proposed- 18th Street (to get more development north of the tunnel) and Route 440/Hackensack Waterfront (to spur the long overdue new development by Society Hill and so people can get to stores over there via PT).
Would like to see Fulop push for that.
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I thought Powerhouse was OK- I'm not saying it was a great business model- but I think people who think there is no demographic there for that kind of place in JC are mistaken. Or that there is no sports bar demographic.
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The mall should stay. It has an important function. Judging by the places opening there as of late like Teavana and Michael Kors, the mall is a lucrative enterprise. DTJC residents shouldn't have to do all their shopping in the city.
I agree on the parking garage- why it was there, but it makes sense to change it now. I would do street retail on Marin and then bump the garage up and make it so it's only above and/or behind the retail. What will be telling is what happens when Sears, and likely JC Penny and Pay Half are gone. My prediction is that a Nordstrom or a Nordstrom Rack moves in...maybe a Lord & Taylor if there are two closures.
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Even if you may consider it "douchey", cities that are truly great will appear to a wide demographic. This is why NYC is the way it is. People in a bar on one side of the street would never go to a bar on the other side. There are "douchey" places, hipster places, gay places, ethnic places, happy hour places, etc.
If Jersey City wants to be a truly diverse place it cannot cater to one demographic. Unfortunately right now IMO there are too many hipster places and then the other places have trepidation about defying the stroller set. A sports bar is going to attract "frat" types...and yes there are those types in JC I see them all the time around town. Their money is just as green and we might as well keep it here rather than send it to Hoboken or NYC.
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A ridiculous law. The parents at Cordero have set the rules over there and they are not the rules of the road. The double parking is ridiculous and no one cares about that.
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Oh no beer and drinking and sports. God forbid anyone not a organic hipster Williamsburg type or a person who goes to bed at 9PM moves to Jersey City, it will be bedlam!
Then you wonder why that Super Bowl article decried the amount of destinations in JC. JC residents are forced to NYC and Hoboken with a few exceptions, like beer garden, if they are social singles looking to grab a drink and meet like minded people. That is terrible. Young people keep places vibrant. NYC isn't called the city that never sleeps because its residents ponder beer consumption and payment of athletes.
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The sign at Erie and Pavonia is useless.
Anyone coming from the park is going to go on 9th or 8th to cut out to Marin, the mall, and the PATH. Also...there are no cars coming out there...it's a one way eastbound... You can't even see the sign. And the Cordero parents, quite wrongfully, double park and take up the whole street anyway when anyone is crossing there, ensuring a major jam all the way up Erie so no one moves anyway. How about a sign at 7th and Erie, where there are actually cars coming? Instead we have a sign where there are no cars pulling out onto Erie and where traffic is slowest...
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I don't drive that way, but is any better if you take 139 upper to JFK, hang a right, and left on Manhattan, and right on Tonelle? Or, from downtown, follow Monmouth north under the highway, left on Coles, and then left on Hoboken Ave into the Heights?
I take the extension in the morning, and 139 upper seems clear...this would cut off traffic at the circle and the initial part of 1/9... Not sure but maybe this would cut off 10 minutes or so if you need to get on Route 3.
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There were plenty of Italians and Jews in Harlem before as well. One of the most famous pizzerias in the city is still there.
But yeah let's end the gentrification, it was much better when Jersey City, Williamsburg, LES, LIC, etc were known for drive bys and white people stayed in the suburbs using gas and fearing the unknown, where they belong! I'm a liberal but that's just idiocy. We are all Americans, I can't afford to live in Rumson, boohoo, I have no rights. It's a free country, go live somewhere else. Plenty of places in NJ are affordable and no one race or group has more of a right to any neighborhood than anyone else. I'll move where I'll damn well please and I won't expect a handout to live somewhere beyond my means and it's about time this region all begin to live that way.
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Look at what the revilatization has done for Brooklyn, for example. I was at Barclays for a Nets game and you can see how much pride people have in BK now- that my parents never had despite growing up there. Their entire generation fled to the burbs and now their kids are coming back.
JC is and should be a part of that. The infrastructure commentary is a joke. The newcomers don't have kids. The district will be saving money. The PATH is overcrowded? Compared to what major city anywhere in the world? Is that serious? The fact of the matter is that the PATH is OUTSIDE of city control. Does NYC say stop building in Greenpoint because the G sucks? The tax situation is baloney. Everywhere in NY and NJ pensions obligations are overdue and taxes are high- and that's because of the spending in the days that certain posters here pine for. Certain people don't want change because they don't like that the newcomers are mostly white or Asian, sometimes gay or single and opposed to having a family, and nearly universally wealthy. That's the gripe. End of story. The "overdevelopment" is simply a pretext. If you don't like development, funny thing is NJ has the Pine Barrens...for the price of 1 BR JC condo you could have a 4BR home. And be among the demographic you prefer.
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It might make sense in a distressed part of the city if it were done right. The question is it being done right.
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Does anyone else read the development map to show a new street connecting DTJC and LSP? Otherwise that new development will have no road access.
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