GrovePath wrote:
Witness leads cops to much-convicted burglar

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A Jersey City man who has already served four prison terms was arrested Friday on burglary charges after he was fingered by a witness, officials said.

jpmci wrote:
wow, stealing car parts is more than a one time thing. They also steal spare tires, and pretty soon you will go outside and see your car up on cinderblocks.
SO is there insurance for street theft? $475 would cover your deductible at least? no?
Okay if the police can't stop this, how about an unemployed entrepeneur who can stay up at night and guard cars? Ya pay dogsitters, how about carsitters? You and 20 neighbors pitch in and pay the sitter $10 a week, email your parking spot and your photo of you and your car, and somebody watches those 20 cars all night. you can only park on certain blocks, blah, blah, blah - any takers?

regulator wrote:
no. and i question whether we're even going to see a runoff. im guessing healy gets at least 60, with manzo getting 35 and the rest split. if this does go to a runoff, i'd be surprised.

GrovePath wrote:
Cops: Jersey City man with bullet in neck drives self to hospital


A Jersey City man with a gunshot wound drove to the hospital this morning after his car was riddled with bullets, police reports said.


Police inspected the car that was parked outside the emergency room, and found what appeared to be damage from several bullets to the headrest, right panel, metal trim and dashboard, reports said.

CapnJon wrote:
i'm surprised it took nearly half an hour for someone to bash the police. you people are slacking.

CubaLibre wrote:
Spending time on an "internerd" message board, calling people who post on it "internerds", makes you the biggest "internerd" out there.

That goes for both the TacoTruck dude and Abe.

If you're as above it all as you try to project, why the need to respond? Or the need to eject paying customers?

If you care enough to sign on and respond to tell everybody how much you don't care about what they think, you're probably not telling the truth.

HobokenRefugee wrote:
It's not really amazing food. This is what cracks me up about this area! I have never been to so many mediocre and downright awful restaurants where people rave about how great they are.

Either they never had good food, or they are trying to convince themselves that this is as good as it gets. We have friends from Hoboken that were mortified when we took them up to (get ready to gasp) THE HEIGHTS (eek!!) for Italian food! Oh how we didn't get killed, carjacked, or offered crack! (sarcasm).

Come on people, don't be afraid to leave the friendly confines of downtown for good (insert ethnic dish here). Life's too short to eat that garbage known as Taqueria.

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cigarcat wrote:
Aside from the guacamole which isn't "authentic Mexican cuisine" this sounds just like Taqueria. I believe your husband had the Cecina. Have you ever been to Taqueria, because the steak taco's you are describing sound a lot like theirs. Good Stuff. You can also get Jarritos (Mexican soda) at Taqueria. I guess if you want friendliness go to Bayonne, if want really tasty local mexican go to Taqueria. Whatever floats your boat. I like hookers and drugs, that's why I go to Newark.


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dad1964 wrote:
Tried El Aguila Dorado in Bayonne tonight.. the guacamole was delicious.. had the steak tacos.. which were different from any taco I've had before but were great.. lots of cilantro and onion.. my husband had the mexican style steak with rice and beans.. also great though it was very spicy.. washed it all down with two mexican sodas and the check was only $25.00..

Guacamole is actually about as "authentic Mexican" as you can get--in fact, it's of Aztec origin and was called ahuaca-mulli. (Oxford Companion to Food at p. 43) I am always amazed when people repeat this misinformation, 'though it doesn't help that the geniuses at Tacqueria do it.

FGJCNJ1970 wrote:
Hi, if these raids were conducted in Greenville and Lafayette....

And the "New Jersey State Police helicopter roared over Jersey City this weekend where a crackdown on violence and drugs led to 50 arrests by city police working with a large task force of federal, state and county law enforcement."

Why was the helicopter on Sunday doing all sorts of looping downtown over Harsimus Cove and Hamilton Park?

Were they looking for something suspicious? Are they doing set up for a future crackdown downtown?

Seems odd that all the police activity and arrests took place in other areas of Jersey City, but that the noisy helicopter gets to disturb all of Jersey City residents?

Is this an intimidation thing? Like spend about two hours and do loops around the neighborhood and scare the dealers sort of thing (and annoy the taxpaying regular citizens) sort of thing?

Just curious as to the complaints about the helicopter this Sunday were downtown.

Thanks

FG

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regulator wrote:
east of the embankment is newport.... which is still a part of downtown.

the area in question is one in limbo between mcginley square and downtown. id say it's closer to downtown though.

chilltown is a nickname for jersey city (much like brick city is a nickname for newark)

I know it is I meant to say North. My point is that area is and always was Downtown some of the newer residents that don't want there neighborhood to be associated with the Booker T projects and New Houses (housing complex near Booker T) like to say it isn't Downtown. The same people usually try and say the same thing about the area around Holland Gardens. I bet if these areas were bulldozed and were packed with condos or brownstones they would all of a sudden be considered Downtown again.