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Re: Battle against the "Bayonne Box" in The Heights
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Excellent. Another blow to Yvonne?s attempts to reduce density and turn Jersey City into a suburb. Of course I?m sure she will mobilize against this and will regurgitate her lies that amything but a parking lot will destroy the city.

Posted on: 2018/3/24 0:00
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Re: Insurance Broker Recommendations?
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is muller insurance in hoboken ok?


I use them, their rates were close to half of what I was quoted at other places and their claims process was fairly straightforward. I would recommend giving them a call.

Posted on: 2018/3/23 8:05
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Re: Come to City Hall this upcoming Wednesday to promote electric vehicle charging in JC #EVinJC
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Well, T-Bird, could you explain the benefit of another 99 year lease for one dollar a year for a bowling alley and beer garden? That is another give-away of city property located in Liberty State Park. Personally, I do not agree that municipal government should be giving any 99 year leases for one dollar a year. After all, gas stations are in competition with these recharge stations and they pay city and state taxes. The state government imposed a 23 cent tax on gas last year to pay for repair of roads, these electric cars are also using roads and there are no payment to the road repair as with the tax on gasoline.


Ah, the typical Yvonne deflection. When proved wrong by facts, those evil things liberals obviously invented, deflect to something else to save face and find some excuse to bash the administration.

Yvonne, stick to parking lots, stop pretending you understand complicated things like complete sentences, math, and automobiles.

Posted on: 2018/3/6 14:25
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Re: HAP Investments
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Eran Polack of Hap Investments, an Israel citizen and a developer of Robin Hood in Jersey City got convicted in an Israeli Court for lying about a diamond theft. He filed an insurance fraud claim that he was robbed by Africans who stole his $10 million worth of diamonds. In the meanwhile he was selling these diamonds. So Jersey City knows how to pick developers, scam artists and liars. Robin Hood is the project that got Boggiano elected as councilman for Ward C. His community does not want this project.


The person that fights against historical designation, which would protect areas in scenarios just like this, is fighting against someone coming in and changing the look and feel of a neighborhood... What a fraud.


Fraud? Well here is story in a nutshell, the community who lives there, which is not me, went to the planning board and council meetings to protest against this development. I saw them at various meetings. The proposed property is too large to be place in a neighborhood filled with one and two family homes. They are not against development, neither am I, but I don't know anywhere in JC in which the community is fine with a 42 storied building in a one and two family neighborhood. Do you know of one Pebble? For the record, neither is the present city council is in favor of this development, it was done under Healy.


The developer that purchased the property should be allowed to do whatever they want with the property. Why does it matter what the neighbors want? If the owner wants to building 42 stories or 100 stories, it doesn't matter. It is THEIR property.

... That was the argument you made while defending the dirtbag living in West Side that tried to put up aluminum siding on a historically designated property.


Don't forget, she argues against this project, but she argues the 6th St. Embankment should become condos because the property owner has the right. So she NIMBYs when convenient for her, she's super pro-development when it comes to the Embankment even though most people would prefer it become something else.

There's never any end to her lies and hypocrisy.

Posted on: 2018/3/1 18:15
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Re: New Tax Rate is Insane!
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Who's organizing this sad protest?


A low information voter on NextdoorJC.


I can't wait to see the pics afterwards of 5 old folks shivering in the rain LOL


You can be assured one of them will be Yvonne, who will mug for the TV cameras and repeat her lies over and over.

Posted on: 2018/2/23 2:56
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Re: N.J. watchdog issues scathing review of Jersey City water agency - JJ
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Instead of protesting their assessments and tax figures (the number won't budge much even on a successful appeal) people would be better served putting their energy into demanding better services in exchange for their higher tax bills and an end to this kind of corruption.

Are homeowners going to be refunded any of this surplus because it sounds everybody was improperly overcharged.

Posted on: 2018/2/21 20:05
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Re: New Tax Rate is Insane!
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Taxes are services, plain and simple. My former downtown neighbors did not spend millions on their homes. Some worked two jobs to buy their homes in the 1970s and 1980s. Their tax bills are similar to their purchase prices. Everyone generalize, some were used as one family homes, others could not rent due to damage from Irene and Sandy. When people read about these big rents, everyone generalize and that is wrong. My fear is these good people will lose their homes.


And that Yvonne, as I've said before plain and simple, is economic violence. These people bought homes, raised families and were good citizens. All they wanted was to live out their lives in their city. Shame on the administration.


Yours is a very curious stand. You claim economic violence because a person that owns a property worth over a million dollars (in Yvonne's example, some of those properties are worth 2.5+ MM!) is now expected to pay their fair share of taxes, but what about the single mother, or other disadvantaged person, living in the poorer areas of JC being asked to subsidize DTJC by paying effective tax rates that are 6 - 8 times higher!? Isn't it much more heartless (and, "violent"?) to expect (demand, even!) that a poor resident continue to "overpay" so that a demonstrably richer one can continue to under pay?? Is your concept of economic violence only applicable to people you can relate to or happen to know? Definitely a very curious stand.

You really should sit out this conversation, as it is clear you do not understand what is happening. Your previous post asking for an explanation of how the rates stack up and came to be shows that you do not understand the very basics of the conversation.


If you're wondering how Yvonne's lies still manage to have staying power, look no further than someone like Rich Mauro.

Posted on: 2018/2/15 18:47
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Re: New Tax Rate is Insane!
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If they haven't assessed the entire city yet, how are they figuring these numbers? Are the new rates estimates until the entire city is complete?

I'm guessing after a certain initial (hopefully high) percentage were visited in person they were able to extrapolate some numbers just based on recent sales and comps. Unless square footage and the number of bed/bath are wildly off, they probably had enough data to do some preliminary number crunching.

Posted on: 2018/2/13 19:31
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Re: Governor Murphy
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WARNING: You seem to not be familiar with the definition of decorum :

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"he had acted with the utmost decorum"
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That report is from 1997. You can?t find anything more recent than that? And for the second link- those people are here legally and pay taxes so I don?t know why they shouldn?t have access to those services? Going by your link selection you apparently don?t think battered spouses or refugees who are here legally should get any support? What a Christian you are. A huge portion of them are children. You?re really a terrible and inhumane person.


Why would I treat anyone who calls themselves a Christian but thinks it?s acceptable to withold support services from children and victims of domestic abuse with a shred of decorum? She?s trash.

People like her are why everyone sane has fled to reddit and doesn?t use your janky ass racist-filled website anymore.


Seriously. That woman is racist trash and I'd be calling her the same if I did have to use my real identity on this site. Her toxic NIMBYism and just plain bigotry would be called out in such a manner even in a public forum.

If you want to cut down on the personal attacks, upgrade this forum from circa 2003 software to something that requires a facebook login or at least has a real name requirement, but that ship may have already sailed with Nextdoor. I'd even wager the toxicity is the only thing drawing in traffic these days as I'm sure a lot of people just can't look away from a train wreck.

Reddit, thank god, has a much younger and less toxic crowd. You can actually get helpful answers and advice without the usual conservative trolls on this site blowing up every single thread and Yvonne probably can't figure out how to post/comment there, so that's an added bonus.

Posted on: 2018/2/13 19:24
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Re: New Tax Rate is Insane!
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Yvonne lived at 283 York St. What's amusing is that she sold at $1.18m to avoid the value drop from the the reval, less than half the current assessment of $2,477,600. That's leaving some money on the table!


The sight of all those beautiful surface parking lots being torn up was too much for her to bear, as were all the horrible glbt people moving from the city into the neighborhood. Thankfully she can't be on the VVPA board anymore and their influence is diminished after their botched lawsuit so we're finally seeing some infill projects get approved.

Posted on: 2018/2/7 18:30
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Re: New Tax Rate is Insane!
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If anyone has advice on how to convince the city to get on, say, a 5-year schedule, let me know. ;)


Fair concern. Yvonne has made bitching and fearmongering about 88 her life work for the past 30 years. I'm just guessing, but I think a rolling reval on sales with a 10 year reval of those not sold during that decade would probably do it. 5 year would be awful expensive.

I'm reasonably confident that the revals would cost less, if the city wasn't fighting it tooth and nail. At least 1/3 of the cost was due to the canceled 2011 reval, and legal fees.


Why would there even be a need for physical assessments if we went to a 5-year system? We do it algorithmically using nearby sales and comp data with perhaps a physical assessment only being trigged in the event of a sale or 10 years, whichever comes first?

People like Yvonne wouldn't be able to game the system this way and unload their properties before an expected increase this way though, so expect lots of NIMBY and NA opposition.

Posted on: 2018/2/6 1:01
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Re: New Tax Rate is Insane!
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I think it's hilarious to finally see these idiot NIMBYs and NA board members that blindly listen to people like Yvonne finally get a hard lesson in economics and supply and demand. These groups for years lobbied against anything and everything being built, despite the fact they could have added to the Downtown ratable base and lessened the new burden on a lot of people (all the while they bemoaned how expensive the city is getting and pricing out "real residents" like themselves).

Alas, these groups decided to follow Yvonne's NIMBYism off a cliff when they decided parking was sacrosanct and made it their absolute #1 priority despite the fact we have awful schools, crumbling sidewalks, treeless streets and no infrastructure.

I'm hoping a silver lining is that the new taxes forces these people into the suburbs where they belong and JC can finally develop like every other forward looking city in the world.

Posted on: 2018/2/5 17:54
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Re: Legal Weed Is Coming to New Jersey
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Some may need to contact their state representatives.

Http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... already_in_trouble_w.html


Thanks, email sent to Stack.
I reached out to him on Facebook as well. The article doesn't explain any of his possible reasoning for being against legalization, so I'll let him make his case, but I will vote against him in every election if he isn't in favor of something the vast majority of NJ and Hudson County supports.


I left him a voicemail on his cell and he surprisingly called me back. Him and I had a debate for about 10 minutes on the issue. He feels there haven't been enough hearings and the anti-legalization crowd (do they even really exist in large numbers?) hasn't been given any voice. He also cited some "quality of life" concerns and cited his mayorship of Union City as another point of opposition. He also used the "slippery slope" argument, as in "Oh, what's next, are we going to legalize cocaine after this?"

He also cited the revenue just being squandered/wasted, so I told him why doesn't he just introduce an amendment to ensure those funds aren't fungible and are only dedicated to one purpose (i.e. NJ Transit, education, property tax releif, etc). I also mentioned there are no studies that indicate MJ is any more harmful than the already legal drug of alcohol and given that Hudson County has a huge AA population, this demographic (which are also a huge chunk of his constituents) would benefit greatly.

I told him his view as of now was wildly out of touch with what his constituents actually want and cited Phil Murphy's margin of victory (which he dismissed as simply and anti-Christie/Trump vote and not an endorsement of legal mj).

In the end he didn't sound like firm no, but he definitely needs some more pressure from his constituents to get him on the right side of this issue. If you haven't contacted him, I would do so ASAP.

Posted on: 2018/1/20 17:04
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Re: Jersey City's approach to legalization:
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Time to for supporters to pack the NA meetings and demand they be allowed to be opened Downtown. The NIMBYs in those groups will relegate these shops to dangerous and obscure parts of the city if they can and will most likely use hyperbolic "think of the children arguments" to get the city to comply.

Posted on: 2018/1/11 16:27
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Re: Judge OKs site plan for controversial 'micro-unit' project in Jersey City
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i have attended a few of these na meeting and while i did find that MANY folk were concerned about parking, i did not find them dismissive of renters even though renters "have less skin" in the game.

as far as wanting updated minutes, may i suggest that you join ur na and then post minutes on the website for members of the community to see. please keep in mind that these are volunteer organizations with LIMITED resources


How do renters ?have less skin? in the game? I have always found that rationale to be a lazy crutch used by people to dismiss the concerns or complaints of renters. Things such as quality of life concerns have the same impact on renters or owners. Matters of safety and security are, of course, equally important to renters. So, why would that be considered less skin in the game?

About someone else being able to post minutes: that?s impossible unless the person in charge of the NA?s website is willing to hand over the credentials to modify the site. Good luck with that.


And good luck getting said credentials if you show up having an opinion contrary to what the board thinks. Most of these people aren't democratically elected, most are appointed by the current board. And if you're not an ultra NIMBY, the board will not give you the time of day.

Posted on: 2017/12/22 21:06
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Re: Judge OKs site plan for controversial 'micro-unit' project in Jersey City
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i have attended a few of these na meeting and while i did find that MANY folk were concerned about parking, i did not find them dismissive of renters even though renters "have less skin" in the game.

as far as wanting updated minutes, may i suggest that you join ur na and then post minutes on the website for members of the community to see. please keep in mind that these are volunteer organizations with LIMITED resources


How do renters ?have less skin? in the game? I have always found that rationale to be a lazy crutch used by people to dismiss the concerns or complaints of renters. Things such as quality of life concerns have the same impact on renters or owners. Matters of safety and security are, of course, equally important to renters. So, why would that be considered less skin in the game?

About someone else being able to post minutes: that?s impossible unless the person in charge of the NA?s website is willing to hand over the credentials to modify the site. Good luck with that.


And good luck getting said credentials if you show up having an opinion contrary to what the board thinks. Most of these people aren't democratically elected, most are appointed by the current board. And if you're not an ultra NIMBY, the board will not give you the time of day.

Posted on: 2017/12/22 21:06
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Re: pre-paying 2018 taxes
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I really hope everyone in Jersey City takes advantage of this and pre-pays all that they can in property taxes. Then, when they file their 2017 tax returns in a few months, they will be smacking their heads how they wound up having to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax, ("AMT"), whereby these property tax pre-payments will have offered no benefit at all and in fact will have been detrimental.

Great job Mr. Mayor. Keep up the Trump resistance.


Can you please clarify how someone who normally itemizes would wind up in AMT category by simply paying extra in taxes this year? Please use real numbers/figures and citations.

Posted on: 2017/12/22 15:59
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Re: Judge OKs site plan for controversial 'micro-unit' project in Jersey City
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not sure what the beef is with neighborhood associations, they have no legal authority in the zoning or redevelopment process. they organize and advocate on behalf of residents who are members. most are pretty fluid and change over time.

do they represent everyone? no. they represent those that live in an area that show up and choose to participate


The devil is in the details... my experience with two different NAs has been that they set meeting dates and times convenient to those already in the board, which are often unnecessarily inconvenient to newcomers who may want to participate. Calling for meetings at 7,or earlier, precludes most professionals working in NYC who don?t come home until that time, or later. Midweek meetings at 6 PM are a joke, really.

The beef that many of us have with NAs is that they portray themselves as representative of the neighborhood at large, but often focus on "pet projects" or concerns that only matter to one or two of the board members. And, because politicians believe they do in fact speak for all of the neighborhood residents, they listen to them and actually act on their requests/demands, without ever coming around to actually get a read on what others may think/want.



Exactly. My experience is that:

1) You won't be taken seriously if you're not an owner, the opinions of renters are immediately dismissed

2) If you're not an anti-development zealot and don't think parking is the #1 most pressing problem, your opinions are dismissed, you get called names or you're accused of being a paid lackey by developers

3) Their members say you should show up to meetings and fix this but when you show up to meetings or email them, they're immediately dismissive because of 1 and 2 above.

Not to mention boards being packed with multiple, unnecessary positions, some of which are "self-appointed" or chosen at the whims of fellow board members.

Also the fact they often fail to properly inform their communities what what they're doing, as many of their websites lack updated meeting minutes from the last meeting, often for many months. Also see the downright corrupt way in which some of these boards conduct themselves, such as the recent case of the VNA board trying to negotiate a backroom deal with the planning board to prevent certain areas of the village being upzoned without informing their members.

They oppose literally anything larger than a 2-story house, have no concept of modern urban planning, and when they don't get their way, they dispatch their patron saint Yvonne to wear down city hall until they eventually cave.

Meanwhile, all over downtown, packages continue to get stolen, pedestrian safety is decreasing, sidewalks are crumbling, lots are unkempt, trees are disappearing from sidewalks without being replaced, garbage is strewn everywhere and all the NAs talk about is parking and how horrible it is that infill and parking lots are being turned into something useful. The fact city hall has been more responsive to these concerns when I've contacted both than my own local NA says a lot about their priorities and who they're really looking out for (the selfish interests of their own board members).

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Re: Judge OKs site plan for controversial 'micro-unit' project in Jersey City
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Hahaha, what a waste of time and taxpayer money thanks to the idiots at the VVPA. How much money did they waste fighting this project on what was known to be very shaky, if nonexistent legal grounds at all?

I'm sure the community will get none of the prior concessions the developer offered now. The VVPA should apologize to the entire community for dragging this out for so long.

Not to mention, if this has been allowed to move forward, there would have been more ratable units to help absorb the reval impact. This is a lose-lose thanks to old timer NIMBYism and VVPA morons thinking they're entitled to free parking for eternity.

Posted on: 2017/12/21 19:45
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Re: 2017 Reval ~ Property Inspections
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Can someone explain the distinction between the Downtown section and the "12 UNITS OR LESS(Resi NBHDs)" on this document here?

http://jerseycity.hosted.civiclive.co ... ndo%20NBHD%20Analysis.pdf

Average increase for Downtown condos looks to be 30% but the "12 UNITS OR LESS(Resi NBHDs)" is about 10%. Does this mean that smaller, walkup condo buildings in Downtown can expect an increase of less than 30%?

Posted on: 2017/12/14 19:24
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Re: 2017 Reval ~ Property Inspections
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So what I don't do is respond to attacks from people too cowardly to identify themselves.


Spoken like a true minion and ally of Yvonne. Deflect, change the subject, run away from your actual words and actions and pretend you're taking some sort of moral high ground.

Posted on: 2017/12/13 18:10
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Re: Symes / Solomon runoff
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What do you mean James? "another candidate".

That other candidate has a name: Rebecca Symes.

Really. If that was your attempt at being conciliatory, you need do better


There was more than one other candidate in the first round. Way to be petty.

Posted on: 2017/12/11 22:24
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Re: Symes / Solomon runoff
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Wow, what went wrong for Symes? I personally thought she had this in the bag.

In the end, I don't think this makes a difference in the grand scheme of things. Fulop still has a supermajority and most parcels of land in Downtown are already purchased and have approved development plans.

Has Solomon taken a position on how he plans to handle the reval when he has about 5,000 angry constituents screaming about their taxes going up? All those high rises adding to the ratable base (99 Hudson) might sure look good at that point.

Posted on: 2017/12/6 14:18
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Re: Hypocrite Solomon’s dirty push Poll
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Neighborhood Associations will not formally endorse.

I know people involved in the various downtown groups and they come down on different sides in this one.

It's a real dogfight, for sure!


It's difficult to get a real feel for the dynamic of this race. Is this a NIMBY (Solomon) vs pro-development (Symes) race? Are both generally pro-development with different nuances?

I'm ridiculously pro-developement but feel like we should be leveraging more concessions from the developers. Maybe something like an infrastructure bank that all new developments would be required to pay into. The waterfront doesn't need abatements but I think they could still be useful for the western fringes of Downtown.

I've heard the term "smart development" used by both campaigns but I don't know if that's a NIMBY code word for "no new buildings, EVER!".

Posted on: 2017/11/13 21:02
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Re: Hypocrite Solomon’s dirty push Poll
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Who are the neighborhood associations lining up behind? I would assume Solomon. Does anybody know? That goes a long way in determining my vote.

Posted on: 2017/11/13 18:41
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Re: Bright Street -- Prone to Flooding?
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Does anyone know if flood insurance covers damage from sewage back-up that occurs as a result of heavy rain?

Also, stupid question but don't know who to ask: can sewage back-up occur on the 2nd floor of the building (where potential apartment) would be?

Thanks again!


For my condo insurance, they do have it as an optional add-on (part of "enhanced coverage") to your basic homeowners policy. They started me off at 5k and I recently bumped it up to their maximum of 25k. So, you should be able to get some coverage.

I was also thinking of getting a flood policy, though I'm not sure how useful it would be if the flooding cause is solely sewer backup as is what commonly happens in that area. An actual flood policy would only cover storm surge, which if we got anything greater than Sandy or even a CAT 1, would be a very real possibility. The rates I got for my unit were surprisingly reasonable, $343/year for 100k of coverage.

Posted on: 2017/11/12 16:10
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Re: Symes / Solomon runoff
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Especially after the reval. And because no other states allow it, the state can set rates at near confiscatory levels and still expect NYCers to hop on the PATH train to shop.

Though I suspect like most of the revenue generated in Jersey City, it would all be gobbled up by the state while it complains the city isn't doing enough to pay for schools from property taxes.


There's nothing stopping Jersey City from adding an additional local sales tax on top of whatever the state's charging, is there?

Murphy has been very clear he intends to use the revenue to shore up the pension fund and for infrastructure spending, neither of which I think are bad things.

Posted on: 2017/11/9 22:24
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Re: Symes / Solomon runoff
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There's law and then there's process. Community groups sometimes can provide good feedback, even without veto power.


Or they can be like Yvonne and common sense ideas get shitted for no rational reason.

I think we'll have a better city if the community feedback is received from all residents of an area, and not just the loudest mouths like Yvonne that are retired and have nothing else better to do than to show up at every meeting. Greater use of the internet to inform the public about development to solicit comments, suggestions, concerns, and ideas should be used.

I noticed GRID real estate is attempting to do something like that with https://www.808pavonia.com/ and http://www.baldwinplacejc.com/ but there really isn't a venue to express opinions and suggestions other than contacting council or the developer directly. People are desiring to be more involved, and the internet could be one way to facilitate that.


It'll be interesting to see what happens when dispensaries open up for recreational weed. I'm anticipating the NIMBYs that pack every association and board to not allow that type of business to open up in their neighborhood against the best wishes of the residents that overwhelmingly voted in favor of it. Same thing with why we have such poor biking infrastructure - every bike lane proposal is shot down by those boards.

Posted on: 2017/11/9 17:56
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Re: Symes / Solomon runoff
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To the extent Rebecca wants to create formal Community Boards or something similar, that have binding authority to approve or deny plans, that is not consistent with the MLUL and will require changes to the law from Trenton. To the extent she wants to increase the level of community input and do more of it up front, it can be done to some extent though likely not through an ordinance.


This is an awful idea. The neighborhood associations already have way too much power. A few of them have compromised boards rife with corruption. This is a good way to ensure we turn into San Fransisco and never allow any development because it will be perceived as threatening the home values of current owners in addition to NIMBY. I thought this was supposed to be the pro-development candidate? I would gladly support any Ward E candidate that supports 21st century urban planning policies along with muzzling and neutering the neighborhood associations.

Posted on: 2017/11/8 20:57
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Re: Fulop wins lopsided victory in Jersey City mayor's race
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Whatever you do. Do NOT tell Yvonne about Danica Roem....


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/us/ ... me=Watching-article-click

A transgender candidate defeated a self-professed homophobe that actually went and wrote VA's bathroom bill. Yvonne's hangover just got worse.

Posted on: 2017/11/8 18:09
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