Hang them for murder and take down the projects! I'm done with these animals!

I applaud you.
Start training him early and he'll grow up to be a responsible dog-owner one day!

I want to revive this topic because as a childless, non-pet owner it bothered me but now that I have children this is now in the forefront of my mind. My son almost picked up some poop in the grass one day in the park. (He runs faster than I do, people in the park think this is hilarious). I can't let him enjoy the grass pet free zones!

Jersey City police say nothing yet points to killer who stabbed 68-year-old man in his apartment on Bergen Ave.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Police are still searching for leads in the death of a 68-year-old Jersey City man who was found with multiple stab wounds by his son early Saturday morning.

Robert E. Murphy was found in a pool of blood on his bedroom floor by his son, according to Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio. The son called police at around 3 a.m., shortly after he entered his father's apartment at 6 Bergen Ave., DeFazio said.

Murphy had several stab wounds to his neck and upper torso, DeFazio said, adding that no weapon has been recovered. The son has been interviewed at length and is not being treated as a suspect, he said.

Investigators did not find any cash and think Murphy may have been killed during a robbery, DeFazio said.

The fourth-floor apartment showed no signs of a forced entry and evidence from the scene suggests there may have been a third person with Murphy and his attacker, DeFazio said.

"We still maintain he was familiar with the person or persons who committed this crime, though we believe there to be only one assailant," DeFazio said.

TOM SHORTELL

Jersey City man shot in head in apparent revenge attack dies; charges for 4 are upgraded to homicide

Tuesday, May 25, 2010
By TOM SHORTELL
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

The Jersey City man shot in the head Friday in an apparent revenge attack died from his wounds, officials said yesterday.

The bail for the four suspects charged with the shooting was delayed yesterday so the charges could be updated to homicide, officials said.

Thomas Borders, 22, of Seaview Avenue in Jersey City, his cousin Laquan Borders, 21, of Carteret, Rashaad Glover, 22, of Bayonne, and Amir Fant, 20, of Duncan Avenue in Jersey City, all appeared in Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City yesterday afternoon, officials said.

The men are charged with fatally shooting Damont Lester, 25, in the head Friday night as he sat in a car on Bidwell Avenue near Bergen Avenue, police said.

Lester was declared brain dead Saturday, and he died Sunday after his family took him off life support, Police Lt. Edgar Martinez said.

Police said the four men pulled up alongside Lester in a 4-door Buick and fired several shots at him.

Police patrolling in the neighborhood saw the Buick speeding from the scene and gave chase, eventually cornering the shooters at a dead end on Grant Avenue, police said.

Officials said Glover was sitting in the front passenger seat with a .380-caliber handgun. Four .380-caliber shells were found at the crime scene. A .40-caliber Glock handgun was also found in the car, police said.

The four men were also charged with eluding police, prohibited weapons, aggravated assault, and unlawful possession of a weapon.

Thomas Borders was additionally charged with certain persons not to have weapons. Laquan Borders, the driver, was given several motor vehicle summons.

Martinez praised Police Officers James Cardinali and Mark Hennessy, who made the arrests. "They took four stone cold killers off the streets," Martinez said.

Police said Lester's shooting may have been an act of revenge stemming from a shooting last week in which a man was shot in the buttocks at the Curries Woods housing complex.

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That's the *Blights* for ya.....

Doesn't it stop by the prison near Newark airport and Ikea?

My dad came here over 30 years ago and my grandparents, my mother and her siblings came here over 40 years ago. My grandfather worked hard to buy a house (which my family still owns). My parents met, married and bought a business and building down the block from my mother's family about 30 years ago (which they still own and we still live in). My uncles also opened a business over 30 years ago on Central Ave. which they still own and run.

I love Jersey City, but theres plus and minus to every place. I've seen it change so much but there is still definitely more room for improvement. So hopefully as the years go by it will continue and change for the better.

I have never seen such a dump in my life. I can handle the area but not an apartment full of empty beer cans, rotted food, dog hair everywhere, cat litter strewn on the floor, doors off the hinges and mold all over the bathroom.

If you are going to look at a rental on this block PM me. I don't want anyone else to go see this rathole and waste their time. Deadbeat landlords that obviously never fixed anything and pissed their old tenants off. This place is not even habitable-- and for $1550 a month the landlord is insane.

My family and I immigrated here in '81, when I was 7. We lived in the JSQ area for a few months, then moved to the Gregory Apartments (now known as Metropolitan Towers) since my aunt already lived in bldg 2. My sis and I went to OLC and graduated from there. I'm still amazed at how downtown JC has changed over the years. We were there for the opening of Newport Centre Mall (which was also the longest ribbon cutting at the time..and made the Guinness Book of World Records!) and still remember the semi-ghetto Shop Rite that was across the street from our apt building on Marin Blvd (formerly known as Henderson St.).

Anyway, all this reminiscing should probably be for another thread. This is how we got here and 29 years later, we're still here. This town grows on you, I think.

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I do agree. The signs on the highway don't really mean anything. I mean... nobody drives 50 on the turnpike. So who actually gets ticketed? The people that drive beyond 25 miles over the speed limit?

I personally hate being told to wear my seat belt. I wear it. But I hate being told that I have to wear it or I'll be ticketed. The new law will make more money for the municipalities.

It would save a lot more lives if they used those officers to actually enforce traffic laws. Seat belts would be less important with fewer people running red lights and doing 90 down the skyway.

Great event! Thanks so much to all the people who put this together! I am already looking forward to the 2nd annual! Another thing that would be great to see would be a summer streets/cyclovia event similar to the Park Avenue closing that NYC has had for the past few years. What would the best street to do it? Kennedy Blvd?

The ticket should be 3 times the amount for failing to buckle up a child in a car or not having a suitable booster seat or baby capsule

Around 15 years ago JC was cheap.....much cheaper then Bayonne and there were more warehouses that could be converted.......so here I am

The members of the Healy clan should be up for promotion as well ! By the way, what's the best way to scratch a back?

On a positive note, at least Leona can return and work for JC under the 'return to work program for felons' !

Adults urged to wear seat belts

Monday, May 24, 2010
By KARINA L. ARRUE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Buckle Up! Even if you're an adult sitting in the back seat.

That's the message several Hudson County municipalities intend to deliver to careless motorists and their passengers during an aggressive "Click It or Ticket" campaign that kicks off today and lasts through the first week of June.

Anyone who is not wearing a seat belt can expect to be ticketed, said North Bergen Police Lt. James Somers, adding that legislation was passed in January that now requires every person in a car, including adults in the back seat, to wear a seat belt.

Extra police will be on hand to patrol roadways in Jersey City, East Newark, Harrison and Union City. The Hudson County Sheriff's Office is also participating.

The extra eyes on patrol are being funded through a grant from the state Division of Highway Traffic Safety.

Last year, North Bergen issued 379 tickets for seat belt enforcement, making it the top issuer in the county, Somers said.

According to the Division of Highway Traffic Safety, 443 of the 566 municipalities in the state participated last year, and as a result of such efforts, New Jersey's seat belt usage rate has risen to an all-time high of 92.7 percent.

Jersey City is taking it a step further with a pedestrian safety enforcement initiative designed to enforce and educate motorists about yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks.

"We are committed to the 'Click It or Ticket' campaign," Jersey City Police Chief Tom Comey said. "We are dedicated to saving lives."

Jersey City promoting five firefighters to battalion chief

By Melissa Hayes/The Jersey Journal
May 24, 2010, 12:30PM

Five members of the Jersey City Fire Department will be promoted to the rank of battalion chief during a swearing in ceremony this afternoon.

Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy announced the promotions in a press release this morning saying the promotions would save about $30,000 a month in overtime costs.

?We made these promotions to ensure the safety and well-being of our residents and firefighters, and to save the taxpayers from the cost of paying overtime to meet minimum staffing requirements,? Healy said in a statement.

He added that the officers would not receive salary increases until July 1, 2011.

?During this difficult economic time, it was great to see this collaborative approach to address escalating overtime costs by the fire officers, the union officials and city administrators,? Healy said.

The fire department has seen about 50 members leave since the beginning of the year, walking away with a combined $5 million in unused accrued time.

Ward E Councilman Steven Fulop, who has openly been campaign to take on Healy in the next election, came out against the promotions.

?The Jersey City Fire Department has some of the hardest working people in the county. It also has a higher percentage of management than almost any other department in the country,? Fulop said in a statement. ?The City Council cannot afford to fund this next slate of promotions.?

The city laid off nearly 280 seasonal and provisional employees in the wake of a fiscal crisis and officials have said more layoffs are to come.

Fulop noted that Healy cut back the fire department?s arson squad and eliminating companies as part of the budget cuts.

?Promotions without exploring larger structural changes to the department is foolish, there are solutions that can save money without promotions,? he said in statement. ?Even if the salary increase was not this year, it is a bait and switch since the taxpayers will eventually pay for both salary and pension increases for these promotions. It is wrong.?

The swearing in will be at 3:30 p.m. in City Hall

Judge upholds N.J. corruption conviction of ex-Jersey City deputy mayor

By Joe Ryan/The Star-Ledger
May 24, 2010, 6:00PM

JERSEY CITY ? A federal judge in Newark today upheld the conviction of a former Jersey City deputy mayor found guilty in connection with last year?s massive FBI sting, dismissing her lawyer?s argument that the federal bribery statue does not apply to political donations.

Leona Beldini was convicted in February of accepting $20,000 in illegal campaign contributions in exchange for promising to help secure development approvals.

"Certainly there was sufficient evidence in this case," U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares said.

Beldini was charged in July along with scores of others in a corruption and money-laundering probe anchored by Solomon Dwek, an admitted real estate swindler who became an FBI informant. He spent more than two years posing as a crooked real estate developer trying to trade envelopes of cash for building permits.

The 75-year-old Democrat was treasurer for Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, and authorities say the cash went into his campaign. But Neary contends in his legal filing prosecutors failed to prove Beldini received anything of value.

Linares has scheduled her sentencing for June 14.

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Judge rejects Beldini's bid to have corruption convictions overturned

By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
May 24, 2010, 3:00PM

A U.S. District Court judge today dismissed all the motions to overturn the corruption convictions of disgraced former Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini.

Judge Jose Linares, who has heard the majority of the corruption cases stemming from Operation Bid Rig, upheld the convictions -- two counts of bribery for accepting campaign contributions in exchange for her influence in fast-tracking a development project. The project, it turns out, never existed.

Beldini was found not guilty of the more serious charges -- extortion under the color of official right. Beldini is scheduled to be sentenced of June 14 at 10 a.m. in front of Linares.

Operation Bid Rig was a federal sting that ensnared dozens of public officials and politicians. Beldini and former South Jersey Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt are the first two to go to trial and both were convicted.

Beldini's attorney, Brian Neary, argued that the jury was "inconsistent" when the panel acquitted her of extortion, yet convicted her of bribery. Both the extortion and bribery counts accused her of accepting the same $20,000 in campaign donations (bribes) for Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy. Healy has not been accused of any wrongdoing.


Neary contends that the federal government confused the jury into believing "something" illegal happened and a confused jury "did what they were told to do by the government: shoehorn alleged campaign violations into the federal program's bribery statute."

nothing like dirty jitney buses adding to pollution that is causing climate change.

getting rid of them will be a welcome start to reducing toxic fumes.

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Toll Brothers bonds are worthless junk, just like their "developments" and they can suck my big toe.

There is another thread on this topic but either it was "lost" during one of the past forum backup losses or who knows.

Moved here in '82 after breakup with gf where we lived in Park Slope/Prospect Heights.

My two friends I knew from our mutual pursuits of book biz and jazz radio told me to join them on Barrow St where we had a duplex with 3 bedrooms, huge living room, eat-in dining room/kitchen, 2 baths and free enclosed parking lot all for $600 split 3 ways plus split on utils. Spent first 5 years in NYC environs at nite till finally started to hang here more than NYC when first new bar in downtown JC opened up called "J.C. Winston's" opened by Ron Saxe who was president of the JC taverns assn. I lived across the street at one point and there are stories writ large on that place including it was where Richard Price hung out with the biker cops for a year gathering info for his book Clockers.

JC is it's own reason now for being here even though I still love NYC days and nites of music of all sorts and jazz-filled wanderings with friends across all of NYC though primarily downtown.

That's my short story and I'm stickin' to it!

I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit of the guys who run the Immi's. They provide a needed service. If the drivers are breaking laws, the cops need to do something. Why are they all parked at 10th and Manila? That is a hazard. Who is calling the cops to report them? In the meantime, go Immi.

Instead of complaining about how annoying it is to drive behind them, be happy you are able to afford a car.

A friend of mine from Rutgers moved here after graduation because her friends, also from our dorm and a year older, had been living here. Because she was here, she showed my exgf around and so she moved here. I then moved here, and at about the same time my former roommate from New Brunswick also moved in down the street. He was followed by a few of his friends and his brother. My brother followed after me, taking my old apartment and many of his friends followed. Basically, living here spread like an infectious disease among about 5 years of Rutgers graduates.

what a wonderful event! the community spirit was felt all around! thank you to all the organizers for the event went was so well planned. the energy was in full force and a lot of fun was had by all. why not plan another one for early fall?

Faster??? Smaller??? Courtesy stops in the Middle of the Street??? Those Commuter vans must go, period!!! Remember what nj.com reported last August when a Jitney bus was involved in an accident which injured 17 people? That IS the problem with those Jitneys, they're out of control!!! Jitney Drivers Friendly, Nice???? NO WAY; they drive like as if it's a drag race and always in a hurry and I'VE JUST ABOUT HAD IT WITH THOSE SMELLY JITNEY BUSES!!!! They smell like OLD STINKY TRASH, time to get rid of them!!!!

Of course they'll get an abatement.

That is, if they ever actually build anything.

Meanwhile, there is only one true "pile of bricks" in the PAD, and that's the wreckage from 111.

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Awww...thanks for outing me!!

We don't mean to be helicopter parents but now a days, we have to. Because really, anything can happen. I know a woman whose 10 yr old son was approached by one of two males in the men's bathroom in the Hudson Mall asking him what school he attended and where the school was (as he had his school uniform on) in a rough loud threatening manner.

This mother said she just had a feeling when they entered the bathroom right after her son did, and kept her ear at the door, opening it a crack a few times just to see if she could hear anything, but when she heard one of the men talking, through the closed door, then heard her son talking, she swung the door open, telling her son to get out of the bathroom.

As she was finding out from her son what one of the men were saying to him, she was about three stores from the long hallway that leads to the mall restrooms, there was a security officer whom she informed. They went to the mall management office (which is right next to the mens room)
where another officer was, so they all went into the mens room.

By that time ten minutes had gone by, but guess what? The men were STILL in the bathroom hanging out!

This was three weeks ago...