corybraiterman wrote:
a) aren't they closed?
b) you actually let yourself get robbed of a quarter by a store clerk? fux the matter with you?

(and him, for that matter, but mostly you)

ZACKyBoy wrote:
Any suggestions for a good dog groomer in DTJC where I can get my dog's nails cut?

I used to bring him to Groomingdales, which wasn't super clean, but they always took him and it wasn't super expensive.

Thanks.

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Wow, thanks for the history guys. The building is stunning, I would love to see concerts there.

We never had concerts, proper, there but the dances in what was laughingly referred to as the new building (built in 1933) were great.

It was an actual campus with no parking on the grounds like there is now in the front. The Cannon Mount was not enclosed & we used to hang out there for cigarette (& pray we didn't get caught). Some of the stories I could relate when I was a student were just plain silly & part of those great memories you have.

I always found it interesting how it was still called the "new building" still until this day or also more commonly the "new gym". I'm younger then you are so I'm guessing you had the privilege of using the tunnel that connected the new gym to the main building instead of having to walk to your gym class in the rain or snow? I used to hate going to that building when it was raining and by the time your clothes would dry you had to walk back to the main building because class was over in the rain again lol. I think the tunnel was sealed off in the 80s I was told. Also do you know anything about the basement of the building? I always wanted to explore the parts of the basement that only janitors were mainly aloud. Their were rumors of sections not used in decades that supposedly was haunted. I heard a bomb shelter was in there and a network of more tunnels.

user1111 wrote:
Wow, thanks for the history guys. The building is stunning, I would love to see concerts there.

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I went to Hoboken High school, in the 1960s, graduated 1966. I have saw no violence. There were people from all economic groups. We knew teachers were in charge. Students were expelled for smoking. Girls got severe warnings and sent home if their skirts were too short. I did attend a football game between Dickinson and Hoboken High. I was appalled how ill mannered Dickinson's students were. Even the Hoboken teachers were appalled by their behavior. I think Dickinson has a history of bad behavior and it follows every generation.

Dickinson is from what I remember the second most populated high school in the state. When I went there I believe it had 3,600 students. I think over crowding plays a big role in why it gets the reputation it does. It can have a lower percentage of problem kids then Snyder, Lincoln or Ferris but do to the fact it has double to triple or more (Snyder i think is under a 1000) the population of the other schools makes it seem like it has more problem kids then it actually does percentage wise.

My late mother-in-law and father-in-law, went to Dickinson before it was named Dickinson. I believe it was the only high school at that time. The school was also overcrowded, my mother-in-law said the school had split sessions to deal with the problem. She went from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Perhaps we should do the same thing, have classes from 7:00 AM to noon and noon to 5:00 PM. We would need to hire more teachers but Dickinson is definitely a problem. I am adding more time because there are more subject matter, originally the split started from 8:00 A.M to noon.

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While not a bad idea what about those one family homes that have had those curb cuts since the late 80's or early 90's? Some of these homes have changed hands & it is certainly not fair to impose something like this on these families.

A fee to maintain the curb cut is ideal for those homes. Property owners who want to keep the curb cut would pay the fee. Property owners who don't want to pay the fee would lose the right to the curb cut restoring publicly accessible parking to the street. When it comes to fairness, its not particularly fair that some people have taken away public street parking available to everyone in order to create private street parking reserved only for them.

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Define illegal. I guarantee that the carport wasn't there when that house was built. This is an example of one of the carports that appeared magically out of nowhere I bet about 20+ years ago & herein lies another problem with Chico's proposal. What do you do about all those carports that were put in all those years ago? Do you declare them illegal & demand the owner restore the curb &/or pay a fine? While I am sure Chico's intentions are good, they just aren't practical or well thought out.

One way of dealing with would be to have a monthly or annual curb cut fee. For the larger properties, a fee would be nominal cost shared among dozens of vehicles. For the individual single family house, a fee might be enough to restore the curb.

neverleft wrote:
Tree falls on Jersey City heights home, car

jj piece...

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... ome_car.html#incart_river

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Hmm doesn?t that SUV look like it is sticking out too far onto the sidewalk? Illegal car port?

?He added that the car that was damaged belongs to a neighbor who uses the driveway.?

Note to the Jersey City City Council when the car port vote comes up. See how people are going to take advantage of the car port law. People are going to make a car port , still park their car on the street, and rent out the car port space.

If it is an illegal car port I would love to see if the insurance company settles with the SUV owner.

heights-on-sherman wrote:
I'm on Sherman between Griffith and Bowers, and one of the closest to me is State Cleaners at South St and Webster Ave.

State cleans its orders in house, and uses a computer system to track orders by telephone number, but it might charge more than others.

JCMan8 wrote:
I am very happy to be proven wrong here. Bravo to the Mayor for listening to the people and doing the right thing!

HCResident, it's worth noting that he did ram this proposal through last year. His council rubber stamped it. The only reason it got held up is because some NJ Attorney board reviewed it for being illegal.

I thought we'd have the same thing again, but nope, Fulop listened to the people. Now everyone won't get financially raped if they have to take an out of network CarePoint ambulance. Fulop is making some great moves lately.

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Someone attempted to break into my Jeep sometime between Thursday night and during the day Friday. Attempted to get in through passenger window, broken the window.

Car was parked on 3rd between Brunswick and Colgate. Called the cops, they said it was unusual but they would patrol area.

FYI to anyone in the area.

Hope you had a police report made out. First for insurance purposes, if you decide to file a claim. Second, by having a report made out, it becomes more than a notation. It becomes a way of determining if this was a random event or the start of a pattern of breakins, as these things sometimes occur in clusters.

The police had no interest in doing a report since nothing was stolen.

dtjcview wrote:
We simply don't know enough about Ebola to be believing some of the sweeping statements made by the CDC.

How fast the virus is mutating? Could it become airbone in humans - like it the Ebola Reston strain did in monkeys? Or what happens when someone catches a respiratory infection alongside Ebola?

Past statistics don't predict future outcomes - when so little is really known about the virus.


See http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/12/health/ebola-airborne/

Today, the Ebola virus spreads only through direct contact with bodily fluids, such as blood and vomit. But some of the nation's top infectious disease experts worry that this deadly virus could mutate and be transmitted just by a cough or a sneeze.

"It's the single greatest concern I've ever had in my 40-year public health career," said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "I can't imagine anything in my career -- and this includes HIV -- that would be more devastating to the world than a respiratory transmissible Ebola virus."

The World Health Organization says its scientists are unaware of any virus that has dramatically changed its mode of transmission.

"For example, the H5N1 avian influenza virus... has probably circulated through many billions of birds for at least two decades. Its mode of transmission remains basically unchanged. Speculation that Ebola virus disease might mutate into a form that could easily spread among humans through the air is just that: speculation, unsubstantiated by any evidence."

Osterholm and other experts couldn't think of another virus that has made the transition from non-airborne to airborne in humans. They say the chances are relatively small that Ebola will make that jump. But as the virus spreads, they warned, the likelihood increases.

Every time a new person gets Ebola, the virus gets another chance to mutate and develop new capabilities. Osterholm calls it "genetic roulette."

As of October 1, there have been more than 7,100 cases of Ebola, with 3,330 deaths, according to the World Health Organization, which has said the virus is spreading at a much faster rate than it was earlier in the outbreak.

Ebola is an RNA virus, which means every time it copies itself, it makes one or two mutations. Many of those mutations mean nothing, but some of them might be able to change the way the virus behaves inside the human body.
"Imagine every time you copy an essay, you change a word or two. Eventually, it's going to change the meaning of the essay," said Dr. C.J. Peters, one of the heroes featured in "The Hot Zone."

That book chronicles the 1989 outbreak of Ebola Reston, which was transmitted among monkeys by breathing. In 2012, Canadian researchers found that Ebola Zaire, which is involved in the current outbreak, was passed from pigs to monkeys in the air.

Dr. James Le Duc, the director of the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas, said the problem is that no one is keeping track of the mutations happening across West Africa, so no one really knows what the virus has become.

One group of researchers looked at how Ebola changed over a short period of time in just one area in Sierra Leone early on in the outbreak, before it was spreading as fast as it is now. They found more than 300 genetic changes in the virus.

"It's frightening to look at how much this virus mutated within just three weeks," said Dr. Pardis Sabeti, an associate professor at Harvard and senior associate member of the Broad Institute, where the research was done.
Even without becoming airborne, the virus has overwhelmed efforts to stop it.

Osterholm commended groups like Doctors Without Borders but said uncoordinated efforts by individual organizations are no match for Ebola spreading swiftly through urban areas.

"This is largely dysfunctional. Nobody's in command, and nobody's in charge," he said. "It's like not having air traffic control at an airport. The planes would just crash into each other."

JCMan2013 wrote:
My car was parked on 1st street and monmouth. I had the window open on the passenger side and was away from it for 5 minutes. They took my iphone and gps. I know it was stupid to have the window open...but it was 5 minutes.

This was last friday.

azuccon1 wrote:
Someone attempted to break into my Jeep sometime between Thursday night and during the day Friday. Attempted to get in through passenger window, broken the window.

Car was parked on 3rd between Brunswick and Colgate. Called the cops, they said it was unusual but they would patrol area.

FYI to anyone in the area.

CantUseMy wrote:
They sell the discounted tickets at Port Authority at the window. Right when you go up the stairs from Gate 51, to your left, the very last window. It has limited hours.

Tickets are $2.50, non-refundable and are good for two weeks. They can be used on the Gate 51 buses only.

dtjcview wrote:
Are these paid positions? I can't shake the feeling that the BOE is run by a bunch of well-intentioned but frankly amateur parents - owning a $600 million budget - bigger than the city's budget.

Perhaps a decent salary might attract candidates who can think beyond their kid's peanut allergy.

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Why don't you call the parking authority or the police non emergency number. They don't make you give you information.

While you're on the phone, please ask why almost every red curb in HC has a car parked next to it. Thanks

jc_dweller wrote:
I live in Harsimus Cove. Directly across the street from my home is a fire hydrant. A guy who lives in the house behind that fire hydrant routinely parks directly in front of it. By routinely I mean about 5 days per week. I notice this because when I look out my living room window, this is what I see. Anyway, most mornings I see his car in "its spot" in front of the hydrant. Only about 2-3x/year does he get a ticket.

I'm wondering WHY and HOW he gets away with this. And, if there were to be a fire emergency on the block, what liabilities would he have? He's never towed.

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Wegmans could fit in the area north of the tunnel and would get plenty of people from Hoboken that way too.

TJ could fit downtown- it's a much smaller footprint, maybe in the mall when Sears and JC Penny inevitably go under.

I could do without Whole Foods.

The A&P is nice, no crowds, and you can get decent prices if you get sale items. The Shop Rite is god awful and I only deal with it if it's a big sale. The entire place is a madhouse. I've never been so aggravated to go food shopping.

The Pathmark is in desperate need of an overhaul. Imagine what that whole plaza could be with even TJ as an anchor.

Call me crazy, but I much prefer the Pathmark at Old Colony than the ShopRite at Metro Plaza. The Pathmark is less crowded, has a self service check out aisle, and I find that their inventory is pretty decent, including things I would never expect to find in a supermarket catering to a ghetto area. (And, yes, I used that term. Sue me.)

Heck, sometimes I find and buy some nice products I would normally buy at WF, but at a much lower price.

Frinjc wrote:
As this discussion runs the risk of turning into a pissing contest and in light of the previous threads on our sewer overload, this new refreshing idea hopefully will be of some use:

https://news.yahoo.com/science-save-ea ... ing-shower-190635500.html

Yvonne wrote:
Well, Heights Brat, here is a nice history lesson. I love the beginning...Once upon a time Secaucus had more pigs than humans. By the way, Henry Krajewski, a pig farmer was also a perennial president candidate. Henry St. is named after him Secaucus. http://www.slideshare.net/thomasandrewsgsl/secaucus-pig-farms

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In the 1960s, I was a child living in Hoboken, my mother took me shopping twice a year to Central Avenue in JC. I couldn't wait to return to Hoboken. Secaucus pig farm smell was overwhelming it traveled to Central Avenue in JC. I feel sorry for Greenville.

Here's a meteorology lesson for you, the winds here usually blow west to east, thus bringing Secaucus to the Heights, but also from the Greenville yards to Brooklyn, not back to JC.

http://windhistory.com/station.html?KEWR

But for all your hysteria, you have presented no data at all that these containers will smell. You know what smells for sure, the f&*king broken sewers all over this town! Imagine trying to sell a house next to one? Where's your jihad about that? Just once I'd like to see you be FOR something to change, like repairing the sewer system, and not against ALL change.

Can I be the only one who has seen the usual suspects screaming about the sky is falling every time something is proposed, and it never happens? The Home Depot was hysterically opposed because they feared it would bring a traffic apocalypse to Hamilton Park. Nope. How many times do they get to be wrong before they STFU?

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The issue is using anonymous postings to attack someone, that is wrong no matter how you right to justify it. No one can speak for the webmaster here but I do remember the webmaster finally telling other posters that the same account with different names was attacking Dan Levin when he ran for office.

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Sorry, TheWrathOfCane you hide behind your phony name like a robber committing a crime in disguise. You have no integrity.

By this logic the Webmaster (of this board) falls into this category.

I have not seen any comments where the webmaster has attacked someone on a personal level but besides that point, most people know who he is, he doesn't hide behind his name. I see him taped many meetings. The issue is hiding behind a name in order to attack someone.

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Sorry, TheWrathOfCane you hide behind your phony name like a robber committing a crime in disguise. You have no integrity.

user1111 wrote:
A Jersey City couple woke up Saturday to find about $2,800 worth of electronics and jewelry stolen from their home, according to police.

Mike D'Onofrio | The Jersey Journal