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yeah path during rush hour is getting progressively worse, i remember 5 years back i used to love the path commute in the morning because it was much much better than the crowded nyc subways, but recently i had to work in the city for a few days and holy crap, couldnt even get on the train.... the sad part is it's such a SIMPLE and small closend system, it really doesnt take much to run it like the tokyo subway system, every 2 mins a train arrives nonstop during rush hour. Instead they are wasting money installing useless tvs and new cars with heated seats and crap. When all they should be doing is making 2min = 1 train the only priority. America is still the best country in the world, but sometimes i really wish some of those guys in charge would pull their head out of their ass and look around once a while....
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Does anyone know of a company that does bulk shredding for a consumer-sized order? I have a few box loads of items to shred.
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So, what does one do about notifying the authorities about the shifty business happening on Steuben and Jersey Avenues anyway? It isn't any wonder it's that blatant, hell, it certainly isn't very hard to trace how car's get stolen around here either. They stole my shitty 95 Saturn three times. I also don't think they travel very far to turn them over. It pretty much happens before our eyes, goes on and on.. . but if someone were to steal my bike. . i would lose it. there would be hell to pay. . . giving up my car was the best thing i ever did. Jersey City can't get my money anymore, well at least not on my car!!
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For all you riders that are on Facebook, a social group called Jersey City Riders has been started. It's a public group and is open to all types and styles of riders and their bikes. It's a sort of roll call for JC riders, so join the group.
Posted on: 2009/9/7 16:00
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Troll. /\/\/\/\
Posted on: 2009/9/7 15:42
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The advantage to the state of having new jobs "created" within the state is the perception that the state will then have a positive net gain on income taxes and sales taxes as well as creating a halo effect of generating more secondary jobs.
However, since New York and New Jersey have been aggressively wooing corporations with tax subsidies and credits and cash bonuses, the result is corporations negotiate between the states driving up the cost in subsidies. In many cases, some corporations have no interest in moving, but threaten to move to get these subsidies from one state or another. Meanwhile, since very few of these jobs are actually new to the region, neither state is going to see very much new income since most of their workers will already live in the region. A better plan would be for New Jersey officials and New York officials to work together to bring new corporations from outside the region here, and work towards keeping existing corporations here with a minimal cost to both states. Moreover, because of the huge disparity in office rents between Manhattan and Jersey City-Hoboken, there could very well be a natural symbiotic relationship where Manhattan collects the front offices and the C level executives and Jersey City fills the cheap office space with corporate drones. Ultimately such a relationship benefits both states by reducing the over costs of doing business within the region, add minimal strain to infrastructure (because it keeps offices out of the outlying suburbs where there isn't mass transit), and doesn't require either state to keep under cutting each other.
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As far as I am concerned, anyone who places that kind of value on a car is probably worthless as a human being anyway.
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Burgers a the Light Horse Tavern are top notch.
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Yes. He got their attention and that was his intent. I like that. He took action.
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Now your just being ignorant. If you really think that if someone were to see you physically damage their property, you would have an easy time dealing with their insurance company? That person as well as the insurance co. lawyers have every incentive to go after you for the money. It may seem like it is no big deal to you, but it is easy to see why some one would get so pissed off, when some thoughtless driver, who is too lazy to either find a spot they can fit in, or learn to park bumps your nice new car that you worked so hard for. Then you end up having to pay an insurance deductible, in some cases can be pretty high.
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On a related note: NY Times
City Room - Blogging From the Five Boroughs September 4, 2009, 11:59 am Complaint Box | Parking Peeves By Ray Rivera Todd Heisler/The New York Times One car using space enough for two; a common annoyance in a crowded metropolis. There is a certain car in my neighborhood, a sporty silver Mazda with Thule bike racks. I would have no interest in it if not for its owner?s insistence on taking up two spaces every time he parks. Day after day, it?s the same thing. He nudges his car into a parallel space, nestling it about four feet from the bumper in front of him, as if this is going to protect his precious vehicle from errant dings, or make quick escapes easier. The effect for the rest of us is one less space that could have gone to a parent juggling children and groceries. We have a lot of parking peeves in our little enclave at the northern edge of Manhattan. Softball players and picnickers flood into the neighborhood every summer weekend to relish our lush fields along the Spuyten Duyvil, taking up every bit of spare curb space. Camera crews for the television show ?Law & Order? regularly gobble up long stretches of roadside for their trucks. But the park revelers and film crews come and go. An off-duty police officer and a Buildings Department employee live in the neighborhood and park illegally every day in front of fire hydrants or in No Standing zones, while the rest of us circle the block searching for a legal spot. They place city placards on their dashboards claiming to be on official duty. As official abuses of power go, this is fairly harmless, I know. But I consider it a gateway to bigger crimes, the way some people say marijuana leads to heavier drugs. Today it?s illegal parking; tomorrow, payoffs from the mob. But let?s say I reported it, and the city actually cracked down on its employees. That would be just two more cars circling the block with the rest of us. I?ve discussed this with my neighbors, and we all agree that silence is the best course, even if it makes us passive conspirators. There are other discourteous parkers in the neighborhood, but they are mostly these old-time New York characters who are so overly protective ? or just plain bad drivers ? they really shouldn?t own cars to begin with. I can rationalize their behavior the same way I could that of a late friend of mine who grew up in the Great Depression and for the rest of his life saved unused napkins from every restaurant he ever visited. It?s eccentricity born of self-preservation. But Silver Mazda Guy has no excuse. We have left notes on his windshield explaining that many of us have children and finding close parking is a huge convenience, to no avail. What other recourse is there? I?m certainly not going to key his car or flatten his tires. Not because that would be wrong, but because he might know what I drive. What I?d really like to do is plaster his car with those annoyingly sticky green notices the Sanitation Department uses when you forget to move on alternate-side parking days. You know ? the kind you can never fully remove, even with hot water and a scraper. I would find the company that manufactures them and have them make me a big boxful of giant scarlet P?s or maybe a wordy discourse on parking etiquette. I would walk around the neighborhood under cover of night issuing written warnings for first-time offenders and the full-on papier-m?ch? treatment for repeat violators. As a reporter for a major newspaper, I could probably find out who makes these sanitation notices pretty easily. Then I could begin my secret vigilante career battling ill-mannered parkers, starting with the owner of you know what. I don?t know, would that be an abuse of power? Ray Rivera is a reporter for The New York Times. He won?t say what he drives.
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ErinMaiden --
I will bring it to the attention of the City Council next week. In the meantime, ErinMaiden and everyone out there -- keep your eyes on the parks when you are walking or driving by. If you see something out of the ordinary, call it in to the police. If you get no response, post it here. Let the City know we are watching how they react to threats to our community. Concerned-Citizen
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What? Where did I say anything about collecting money? I didn't. Whether you like it or not, if you have to bump someone to get into a spot, you don't deserve the spot. Intentional contact of someone else's vehicle is not legitimate.
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Ha Ha!! Like I said Good Luck!!
Posted on: 2009/9/7 2:33
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The person who was hit would contact the police and their insurance insurance would go after your insurance. I had someone do minor damage to my car in the city and it cost $750 because they repaint the whole bumper. If you think it is okay to bump someone's car b/c you do not know how to park you are a douche.
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If you walk with a cane it is a lot better than using the stairs. the grove street station is difficult for disabled people in general. I'm a cripple and ever little bit helps. The PATH is horrible about ADA access. At Pavonia they have that horrible ramp. some disabilities make it harder to walk up a ramp than stairs. I don't think any are ADA in the city aside from 33rd. There are many ways to be a gimp.
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If someone parks like a douche and I need to bump them to squeeze into a spot I wish them good luck trying to get money from me. The cops would laugh in their face and so would I!!!
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Oh come on!!! The truth is if our politicians are going to be of any use to us they have to get in there somehow. As long as thier perceived graft benefits our communites so what !!!!?
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Relieve some stress by getting some of these and leave them on the cars whose owners have earned it.
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I fell down on the up escalator and couldn't get off for three hours till it finally did break down!!!
Posted on: 2009/9/6 21:12
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The clock is ticking big time on Healy hence the nervous condition and facial outbreaks.
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A few years ago when PATH re-opened the eastern entrance to the Grove Station they had a perfect opportunity to install an elevator. They did not. What they did in fact was to create an entrance where you now had to go up a half dozen steps to go down. Not good.
Posted on: 2009/9/6 21:02
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I believe he's referring to the "subsidy package worth well over $70 million."
That's $43,750 per a job for 1600 local jobs.
Posted on: 2009/9/6 21:02
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The real question is why is there no elevator at Grove St. Path station, especially in the big black spaceship entrance on the corner of Marin & CC? The lack of an elevator makes the station practically unusable for anyone in a wheelchair or with a large stroller.
The piddly escalator is really only for the lazy (myself included) who don't want to walk up a few stairs, as it is too small for most mobility devices and does nothing to help people will the real climb down to the platform. Any developer who finally builds out that lot on the corner of Marin and CC should be required to install a public elevator to the platform.
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Could hiz honor have cut some deal to save his own rear end???
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FBI DROPPED IN
Saw Healy day before sweep Saturday, September 05, 2009 By AMY SARA CLARKJOURNAL STAFF WRITER The FBI paid a visit to Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy one day before the July 23 corruption sweep that netted 44 people, the mayor's spokeswoman confirmed yesterday. Although spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill confirmed the visit with the mayor at his City Hall office, she said the mayor refused to disclose what was discussed, citing the ongoing investigation. Morrill was responding to an article on the Jersey City Reporter's Web site, which first reported the visit. Michael Drewniak, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, refused to comment. Among the 44 people arrested in the FBI sting were 23 from Hudson County, including seven Jersey City employees. Many of the officials are charged with accepting bribes from FBI informant Solomon Dwek, who was pretending to be a developer looking for help with zoning approvals. Healy has not been charged with any crimes, but he has acknowledged meeting with Dwek at least twice, in rendezvous that included Edward Cheatam, a Hudson County affirmative action officer, political operative Jack Shaw, and Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, who served as his campaign treasurer. The federal complaints allege that Shaw - who died July 28 - Beldini and Cheatam "arranged for others" to provide checks to the campaign of "JC Official 4" with cash provided by the Dwek. Healy has acknowledged he's "JC Official 4," but says he did nothing wrong. http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index ... 52131936307160.xml&coll=3
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I think it has more to do with the quality or lack thereof of the driver.
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What is really causing the damage is the screws from license plate frames, or when you drag along the side. Bumpers are designed to be able to take a 5pmh impact or less and not show any damage, but that is just bumper to bumper with no screws.
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She's just a token political hack. I think we're getting away from the fact that the man who runs this city fully backs her - still!!!
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerse ... 52131920307160.xml&coll=3 And hey, while we're on the subject of Healy, can we talk about the fact that he was raided the day before the FBI made the 44 Solomon Dwek arrests, and somehow Healy himself avoided being picked up? FBI DROPPED IN [on Healy]http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index ... 52131936307160.xml&coll=3
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