ZACKyBoy wrote:
I just don't understand why they are saying the increase in fare will go towards improvements in the Harrison and Grove Street Stations and not towards fixing the signaling problems.

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moobycow wrote:
Meanwhile in Austin they get a brand new 9.5 mile line with 16 stations in an area with no existing right away for $1.4B.

http://projectconnect.com/central-corridor-urban-rail

Light rail built along the surface is not an equal comparison to building an elevated heavy rail line.

hero69 wrote:
what's being built on the lot at 251 newark avenue,next to the vietnamese restaurant/jordan's

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hero69 wrote:
dreamin' ain't never hurt no one

Utterly untrue. Haven't you ever heard of "opportunity cost"? It's the time wasted doing or thinking about something impractical when it could have been spent better. Classic example familiar to us all in the NYC area is the middle aged actor still waiting tables because "the dream" interfered with actually acquiring some more salable skills. The odds were always small, a tiny fraction of Equity actors make a living at it. I know plenty of people told as kids to "follow your dream" that wonder what the hell those adults were thinking.

Yvonne wrote:
A tram like the one to Roosevelt Island seems doable. In the 19th century many people believed tunnels and bridges could never be constructed but they were and now with all the latest technology at hand we have an opportunity to create another way of reaching Manhattan.

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diamat wrote:
What about the sizable lot next to Choc-o-Pain on Jersey Ave?
They're pile-driving, anyone know what for? (Aside from the Whole Foods/Trader Joe's...)

Apparently it's going to be a residential building, and I'm not certain about retail space size.

Monroe wrote:
Wasn't McGreevey the NJ Governor when this project was killed?

Where is the fauxrage over his PA influence to kill this project when he was governor?

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jcdd wrote:
Agreed. And if you have kids and presumably work to make that 100K, its really not going to go far in this neck of the woods. Good luck finding full time daycare for less than 18K a year. And if you have student loans (presumable to get a degree that allows you to make 100K), that's probably another 600 to 1000K per month payment, on top of your other expenses. At this rate, you are living paycheck to paycheck.

Gosh, I wasn't even thinking about kids. Can't really imagine kids in the NYC-metro on less than $250k-$300k/year.

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bodhipooh wrote:

It doesn't matter if YOU are willing to spend more of your salary on rent. Developers/bankers/loaners use guidelines such as 40x (current going rate in most of NYC) because they know that is a PRUDENT risk for them to take on. Allowing people to commit to expenses that high relative to their earning power/capability is part of the reason why we found ourselves in the mortgage crisis. Some people just can't manage their own finances and do not understand money and are too often too willing to accept risks that are not prudent.

This is very true, just because you want to rent doesn't mean a developer will let you. Still, the guidelines are pretty flexible and I think they allow pretty high percentage of salary before they reject you.

Another thing to keep in mind is that 40% of your salary can leave very little wiggle room when you're making 30k, but a lot of discretionary money when you're making 100k.

No it can't. $100k is a really mediocre salary and no way that will be true unless there's a huge bonus involved.

bodhipooh wrote:

It doesn't matter if YOU are willing to spend more of your salary on rent. Developers/bankers/loaners use guidelines such as 40x (current going rate in most of NYC) because they know that is a PRUDENT risk for them to take on. Allowing people to commit to expenses that high relative to their earning power/capability is part of the reason why we found ourselves in the mortgage crisis. Some people just can't manage their own finances and do not understand money and are too often too willing to accept risks that are not prudent.

JCishome wrote:

TODAY?S DEALS: Kushner, KABR Land $140M from CIT for Jersey City?s Tallest Apartment Tower

They're calling it the tallest apartment tower, but its neighboring building is 5 stories taller. Is that sloppy journalism, marketing hype or the detail that this will be the tallest rental building (the other one is condos)?

donnajc65 wrote:
I agree on the parking, but the travesty here is the community lost its opportunity to sit down with the planners and the developer and workout a site plan that worked for the neighborhood. He now has site plan approval!! case closed! We lost.

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dmellonworth wrote:
http://hudsoncountyview.com/fulop-adm ... -sixth-street-embankment/

Somebody please tell me this isn't true.

Let's use a little common sense here, do you really think that Fulop is going to build a 6 block long freight line?

JCishome wrote:
Amenitized? Is that even a word?

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moobycow wrote:

Really? The least they could do was contract for an new IT system to piggy back off on the non-existent public network in the area? You don't just throw up a public wifi spot that supports hundreds of connections blocks away from the nearest public facility.

I guess you were the spotted clueless cow I saw standing in the middle of the road ... have fun!

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maybeMoving wrote:
I've gotta agree with user111 here. This is a total half measure. I'd like to think this is just a trial period and once they confirm the success of the pilot program they will commit to it and make it look like something other than a closed street.

Earlier on I mentioned Lincoln Road in Miami. Not necessarily envisioning Newark Ave to become the high end tourist destination that Lincoln Road is but rather a pedestrian plaza that seems intentional and fully integrated in the streetscape.

I'd like to see the road bricked over with a nice tree lined median, a fountain, benches, and letting the restaurants spread out a little. It's wishful thinking but I believe if the city made the leap of faith to commit to the idea it would truly become the destination "Restaurant Row" that's always bandied about.

Even if they did none of those things the least they can offer wifi, when I was there I was like okay the street is closed, now what? I can sit at an unattractive picnic table or stand in the middle of the road and look clueless. If there was wifi and tables you can sit and read, or do some work or homework.