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Re: Can anyone shed some insight on the Newport Mall lockout of Hamilton Park?
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I have heard discussions of long-term plans to convert the first floor of the Newport Centre Mall parking lot into retail space, including pedestrian-friendly storefronts along Marin Boulevard.
By the way, Newport Office Center I is a conversion of an existing warehouse into Class A office space. The comment above about quickly building a foundation in order to circumvent the requirements for the waterfront walkway is absurd. The building had been there for 1/2 a century!
Posted on: 2010/7/7 19:45
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Hey. I don't know you or anything, but I know you're fairly rational and insightful on these boards. Or, at the very least you tend not to descend into irrational and petulant fights on here. So, I would suggest that you do not go to Barrow's trivia night.
The questions are too few and the house/ club music is cranked wayyy to loud. Barrow has other problems too. I suggest you try Trivia Wednesdays at O Pub (McConnell's) at Montgomery and Warren... a quick two blocks behind City Hall. That is: tonite and each Wednesday. Today is the first day of their month-long contest. The winner at the end of the month gets some dough. There, the host is a real Charlie Hustle... asking 50 questions over ten rounds (on paper), with each round pegged to a theme from pop culture, current events, music, movies, literature, art, etc. Pretty diverse selection. The only knock on their trivia is that the trivia host is working so hard but their bartender ain't.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 19:44
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Re: Groom-to-be killed in horrific harbor boat crash near Statue of Liberty, boozed-up driver arrested
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That's a really crappy anology. Have you ever looked out there, never mind boated out front of LSP? It's not a freeway. There's rarely more than 2 or 3 craft per square mile.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 19:36
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The problem is this ISN'T suburbia, but the early redevelopment of the brownfields tried to make it so, as still does a lot of the zoning. Much of JC's residential blocks are R-1, so even where there are existing 4 or 5 story 4-10 unit apartment buildings, you can only build a 35 ft high 2 family at most, and unattached to either side. Forget about commercial storefronts mixed in the neighborhoods.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 19:33
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Does this still go on during the summer? I've never been. How many people usually go? Thanks!
Posted on: 2010/7/7 19:14
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Just wanted to give all of you a heads-up that the new 20-minute per quarter rate took effect on Grove Street today. Our 2 hours for a buck now costs $1.50.
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Does anyone know of any softball leagues that play in Jersey City?
Posted on: 2010/7/7 18:43
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No, it's like saying he was the only car parked in the middle of the turnpike during rush-hour. The Hudson river is the busiest waterway around. I don't know where he was anchored, but when you have so much traffic speeding by, it'd would behoove you to stop in designated anchor spots only.
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Re: Jersey City Superintendent of Schools Charles T. Epps Jr. $300.000.00/year
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http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/ ... -epps-contract-extension/
This afternoon, Ward E councilman Steven Fulop sent a message out to his supporters asking them to sign a petition asking Gov. Christie and Education Commissioner Bret Schundler to overturn the Jersey City Board of Education?s (BOE) recent vote to extend Superintendent Charles Epps? contract by two years when it ends on June 30, 2011. Fulop says nearly 500 people signed the petition in the first hour and a half it was online. The petition comes in the wake of last week?s news that BOE member Sterling Waterman, who ran on a Fulop-supported slate this April, was planning to contest the vote with a state ethics complaint, saying the public was not given required notice. ?I am disheartened, outraged, and am reaching out to you for help,? the letter to Christie and Schundler reads. ?I hope you will take action in Jersey City to rectify this unacceptable situation by overturning the vote to extend the contract for Dr. Epps ? a vote that was made in direct conflict of the state law that requires public involvement. This is an opportunity to improve Jersey City schools and do a real national search for leadership.? As we noted last week we noted that the state Department of Education is reviewing the contract extension; the school district has maintained it followed all the proper legal actions.
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You're right to think that drivers would actually stop at a flashing red light or a stop sign is completely ridiculous.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 18:27
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TED is one of my favorite websites. This is a link to a great video about work being done across the country where suburban spaces (i.e. old shopping malls) are being converted into more usable and pedestrian friendly spaces.
Perhaps we can dream that a visionary will come to our city and transform what we have and make it even better. http://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_dunham ... etrofitting_suburbia.html
Posted on: 2010/7/7 18:27
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check the area on bay street between warren and washington. i could be mistaken, but i don't think there are any signs there. bay street used to be completely that you didn't need a permit, but now there are zone parking signs on bay btw marin and warren, don't think they extend to the other area though. people park on the north side of the street there.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 18:09
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Not sure where you live but there is a street right by Liberty State Park light rail.. last street on Communipaw, they have a little side area where (we, I live there) park our cars. its an old parking lot for a building that has since shut down. When is street cleaning they never bother with our cars, and we never get tickets.
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It was safe for the gunman, it's just not that safe to live in the area where the victim was shot. Then again you don't know why the person got shot he might not have been a victim. Stats say a lot.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 16:57
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Hello all,
I've had this problem several times when it comes to going out of the area for a long weekend and always having an issue with what to do with my car. With the street sweeping rules, anytime I leave on a Wednesday and return on the weekend, I'm faced with the dilemma of where to leave my vehicle for a few days. Usually I end up going completely out of the way and making a bunch of plans to leave with friends in the burbs, but are there any places to leave a vehicle at a cheap rate for 4-5 days at a time, or places in JC where there are no meters/zoned parking/alternate side of the street parking. I've actually thought about it, and sometimes the $42 ticket is the best option, as it comes out to just $10.50 a day. Any suggestions (or offers of a driveway I can leave my car in for a few days for a small fee) are greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Posted on: 2010/7/7 16:41
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Why? Because it's easier to avoid a MOVING target? It's like saying he hit the only car parked in an empty mall parking lot and it was the cars fault for being parked. If his deliberate course was so close to an anchored boat that a wake could throw him into it at a speed that could destroy that boat, he was already acting irresponsibly, not to mention rudely.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 16:22
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Re: Downtown: Man shot and killed at Jersey City's Holland Gardens apartments
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Go abesntee then. Former Govorner Bill Cody (fill in) signed into law the right to vote absentee in New Jersey for any reason what so ever. http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/mail-in_doe.html http://www.njelections.org/absentee_doe.html
Posted on: 2010/7/7 16:12
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I think the leases on some of those properties are pretty long. If you thing the mall parking is a waste of valuable space, look at Target! You could put up a small city on that footprint. James Howard Kunstler writes all the time about cities devoting their downtowns to parking.
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GREAT! These are the same projects that they set up the voting booth's in!!!! Mr. Fulop, I would vote all day long for you but there is no way i am letting my wife walk into those project to vote.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 15:48
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I was just thinking about this problem, as I need to go to Home Depot from the heights via the light rail, and it is always such a pain to walk from the Newport stop because of the mall, parking garage, and Holland Tunnel highways. I think the only real long term solution is to convince Lefrak to replace the parking garage with new high rise buildings that have added parking, and place them on blocks that restore the street grid with 8th Street and 9th Street as East - West access to the mall. At some point in the future ( I hope) that property will be too valuable to waste on just parking.
Maybe in the meantime they could make some improvement to the garage to make it easier and safer to walk through, but I can't imagine it making much of a difference.
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yeah probably.. It?s been a violent year at the JC projects. I don?t think I remember it ever being so bad. I think at least one person has been killed in each of the projects within the last year.(maybe the last few months!) The good news is the last two Duncan Avenue Project towers are currently being demolished to make way for some additional low rise /low income townhouses. The bad news is Holland and Marion Gardens will probably never be demolished because they are already low rise apartments.
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Posted on: 2010/7/7 14:32
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Maybe this story is related to this one:
http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewt ... p?topic_id=21701&forum=10
Posted on: 2010/7/7 14:15
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Jersey City has only had it's 12th homicide so far and we are halfway through this hot summer -- so it has a long way to go to Newark's average of about 100
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Re: Jersey City's Gang Members Practice Safest Internet Browsing Habits in Nation
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i get it; everyone living in jersey city is in a gang! it all makes sense now!
newbie OP is newbie.
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So are gang bangers really known to be the force behind malware?
"Run your pockets .... Give me what you got ... Take this malware..."
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Come on... change the title of this thread.
This story probably tells us we have safe high-end and institutional users and insufficient networks/ prices for residential users. In this town, lots of folks aren't even computerized or networked b/c of cost.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 13:54
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They collect statistical data of attacks from customers of their software. They check those attacking IPs back to cities and divide that with population. The number of actual computers in the city does not matter unless those computers are infected and therefore actively attacking.
What that has to do with gangs or failing schools? Nothing.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 13:52
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This must be Team Healy's version of - Change You Can See....see your taxes go up....see Jersey City in more debt....see more violent crimes...see less and less services across the city.
They never said it would be positive change.
Posted on: 2010/7/7 13:47
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I posted that article on Facebook and a friend of mine responded with this:
It would be interesting to know how they measured such a thing, but at first glance it looks like the cities on top have higher concentration of colleges; hives of Windows computer users.
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