ripple wrote:
Newark between Grove st. and just past Erie st. could be turned into a pedestrian mall, with large outdoor seating areas for the restaurants on the block. If the city could purchase and demolish the Morlee's building, the intersection of Bay, Newark, and Erie could be turned into some sort of fountain garden plaza type thing to anchor the pedestrian mall. Not gonna happen anytime super soon but I think it would be cool if it happened someday.

Seagull wrote:

It would be more feasible and realistic for the PA to just create a bike lane through the Holland Tunnel.

vindication15 wrote:
all areas eventually improve.

0-5 years till downtown is developed
5-10 yrs till journal square is developed
10-15 years till the heights is developed
15-20 years till mcginley square

I would put some money on those estimates

neverleft wrote:
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Jersey City Planning Board backs redevelopment for area between Route 440, West Side Avenue

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal
on February 06, 2013 at 10:40 AM,
updated February 06, 2013 at 10:46 AM

Thirty acres on Jersey City?s West Side just east of Route 440 would become a redevelopment area with a new street grid and new residential and commercial development under a plan given initial approval by the Planning Board last night.

The Route 440/Culver Redevelopment Plan would allow the city to take industrial properties in the area by eminent domain if the owners do not redevelop the properties within the next five years.

Full JJ piece?

http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... ard_bac.html#incart_river

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And this is the .pdf of the plan, check out the maps at the end of where the light rail will extend too. When the light rail was first planned it was going to go down Culver. Looks like that idea is coming back.

West Side Plan

Vigilante wrote:
People are going to need cars because the PATH trains are becoming completely packed at rush hour. I have been here in JC for almost 25 years and I have never seen crowding this bad. The system does not have any room for expansion of service because it's all on one track. And don't tell me that "crowding works itself out". There is simply not enough room on the trains and the developers continue with their human lab rat experiments.

neverleft wrote:
I must admit I often regret putting my name on the countless ?Save the Loew's Theater? petitions in the early 80?s. Journal Square was going to be THE place for development not DTJC. WE were first. JScare could?a been a contender. If only Hartz Mountain built that 10 million dollar complex on the Loew?s site who knows what the Square would be now. (ok so we wouldn?t have those ?great? once every few month?s classic movie showings, but come on you can always catch them on cable) Just think all of you DTJC folks may just have been livin? up here now. (Probably still dreaming about a Trader Joe?s though. )

Bobblehead wrote:
Rochester has a good music scene (Eastman School of Music, jazz, and blues festivals). It has some good museums. In these respects, it kicks JC's ass.

It has great parks. It has a lot of good restaurants. It has colleges and universities.

It is a little quaint--it is has more of a midwestern culture than an east coast culture--but, if you have a job, it is a great place to live and raise a family.

ianmac47 wrote:
One way to safely create bike lanes would be to eliminate parking on one side of the street and install the bike lane where the parking once was.

dtjcview wrote:
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nafco wrote:
Theres a place at the end of Montgomery on West Side ave (JSQ) called PD billiards on the 2nd floor of this place by a gas station. it seems like its closed but they are open pretty late, and they have pool and ping pong there for cheap. not bad if you dont feel like leaving JC

Has that hood improved any? It used to be pretty rough.

vanvorst wrote:
In the last 12 hours, I've seen...
1. An old woman dump 2 heels of bread--and the plastic bag they were in--right on the corner of 4th & Jersey.
2. Another woman tear up a piece of paper and toss it on the sidewalk, about 1/2 block from a garbage can on Grove St.
3. A young woman walking a brown & white spaniel(?) puppy who didn't pick up its poop on Manila. She was looking at her phone & waited until I turned the corner to make sure I didn't see her just walk away.

It's so depressing.

Vigilante wrote:
Who are these people who think a bar is "good for the area"? What is good? The loud walking drunks or the ones slipping drunkenly behind the wheel of their cars? I mean really? Good for the area? You do comprehend the kind of sh*t these guys are going to try and get away with in the area?