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Re: Yet another dramatic episode at New Music Box Cafe
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i like DragonXJC's Kannekt review
Editor's rating of this review - 5/5 Review - The locals know it as Maria's , because that's the owners name. The bartenders are all female, Dominican, and beautiful. It's not a place for the yuppies,(sorry no wine or margaritas!), It's an actual bar. Play pool, dance a merengue/bachata/reggaeton with one of the waitress or bar regulars. Never any rowdiness just a good time. Not for the pampered it is a no frills Spanish bar. There's no food, unless it is a holiday, then Maria throws down a proper Dominican buffet. Reviewed by - El Dragon (2007-12-23 )
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Re: New Mexican Food Cart Downtown
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Tried their food a couple nights ago. Very, very tasty... the hot sauce is very hot and the bread is nice and crusty. Going to be hard to choose between them and Ibby's when I don't feel like cooking!
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This food is mouthwateringly good. Go hungry and be adventurous. JC needs more business owners like the young Mexican fella who operates this cart. He is nice, earnest and hardworking and is always looking for ways to expand his business. Be a sport and try one of his tortas. You won't regret it.
Posted on: 2009/6/1 19:19
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Re: What's Going on at The Embankment?
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That's exactly what I heard also.
Posted on: 2009/6/1 19:15
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Are there any other bars downtown that have a similar "grandfather clause" to Abbey's and still allow smoking?
Posted on: 2009/6/1 19:09
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Re: Exchange Place Gunfire Injures Two
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oh and - I did not direct retarded towards you.... I happen to value your opinion on this board Jenny
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You can't really compare home cooking to restaurant cooking. They're two very different things.
Posted on: 2009/6/1 18:21
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Re: Up to 30% of all properties have 'illegal' apts -- Healy wants to put them on tax rolls
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This sounds like it really has less to do with the proposal at the top, and more to do with you expressing your rights as 50% owner of the property. Surely legally there needs to be a condo association of 2 members making all decisions once half the property has been sold. Not only have your owners rights been flouted, but I would think you are owed half of whatever rents he is making from the illegal apt. Binky, I get you, but there's lots of sides to the "conservation of character" debate. R1 on my block forced the construction of 2 set back, short, peaked roofed, 2 families on lots that were gaps in a row of 4 floor, flat roofed, red brick apartment houses. It looks horrible, and nothing like the character the block must have had before the lots were vacated decades ago, presumably by fires. I've seen infill in similar spots in Hoboken that fit right in with the character of the block. I don't get the logic of zoning that precludes most of the pre-existing structures.
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Re: What's Going on at The Embankment?
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They will be closed today and next Monday. I believe they're having their wood floors replaced. They've been planning it for awhile.
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When I was driving by this morning, the front door was open, and there was a crew inside that appeared to be doing some repainting or remodeling. My g/f and I live around the corner, and it's one of our favorite places in J.C. We were even considering holding our wedding reception there! Please tell me it isn't closing!
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Re: Send some Jersey City kids on the trip of a lifetime!
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Looking forward to this!
Posted on: 2009/6/1 17:31
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Re: Yet another dramatic episode at New Music Box Cafe
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This is simply disingenuous and self serving nonsense. "Neighborhood bars" serve the neighbors, and they know that people live all around the bar and are considerate. The hoodlooms who patronize this place are not downtown locals, they all have driven there. They act like barbarians every single weekend, screaming, blasting music, and liberally distributing trash and bottles everywhere. I constantly have to pick Corona and Heineken bottles out of my flower beds. Reputedly the reason there's no enforcement is the owners are connected to the Police and Corrections. One night there was a pimped out car parked in my driveway, so I went into that damn place and shouted that the red sports car was going to get towed. A big side of beef tottered out and explained that he was a corrections officer. I asked what that had to to do with illegally parking and keeping me out of my property. He just kept repeating it. The people who fight tooth and nail against issuing liquor licenses are right, though I didn't see it that way when I first moved here. But then I didn't know there was almost no way for the community to get a license revoked, and that they transfer with the property indefinitely once issued. This whole thing reminds me of the Smoking Wars, where smokers argued that it's their God given right to pollute the air other people have to breath. Here, it's apparently a right to make everyone living withing blocks miserable so Maria can run her business. This is no different than the wink given to PPG to dumping chromium for decades, crapping up JC for your own enrichment is a time honored tradition. Finally, DragonXJC, (does the X mean you no longer even reside here?) when I bought my home that bar was closed, as it had burned. Did someone finally have enough back then and took matters into their own hands?
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I tried the tortas with both chicken and beef brisket - loved them both, especially the beef. Delicious! They were surprisingly light and non-greasy.
Posted on: 2009/6/1 17:17
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Re: Tortas El Imperio New mexican food cart at grove st. station
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Stopped by here this past Sat around 11:30 craving a torta. Tried the Aztec and the California. Both were great and I'm looking forward to going back to try the rest.
Posted on: 2009/6/1 17:05
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That was a whole lot to address in one post but suffice to say that I AGREE WITH YOU about horrible stuff sometimes just happening by accident. I just don't believe it in this case. And it's irrelevant to me if it happened downtown or Greenville or whatever. Stop contributing to that madness. It's still my town and it's still hateful.
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IT WASNT SECOND HAND INFORMATION - The guy shot in the ANKLE was right next to me.....
The kids yes were too old for the prom but their friends who are only a year or two younger were not.... Like I said if you want to blame someone blame the shooter... not the ones who got shot... it is possible to be at the wrong place at the wrong time... it happens... now say someone from "downtown" was hanging out at the piers... taking pictures or drinking a latte or whatever it is that yall do.... and they got shot... Im sure this thread would be SOOOOOOOOOOO much different because surely the kids from GVILLE all have a good enough reason to get shot they couldnt possible be doing anything innocent right cause were all monsters???... give me a break
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Re: Any recommendations for an oil change?
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Try Franks at 852 Newark ave,off of Tonnele,very reasonable and they really know there stuff.
201 386 0066
Posted on: 2009/6/1 15:23
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if you plan to fight the ticket, ask the police department for
1) copies of the back of the ticket. cops usually write some notes as they issue a lot of tickets and cannot remember every detail on each stop. if there is an anomaly on the events, then you can bring it out before the judge. scrutinize every detail on the ticket. if there is a typo anywhere, the ticket will be negated. 2) ask for calibration tests of the radar device used to clock you, and the police officer's certification on use of that device. if they are outdated, you win the case. this is your right as a citizen. send the requests as registered mail and include stamped, self-addressed envelope(s). there will usually be a fee for making these copies. they will postpone the case once, but if the officer does not show up twice, then it's dismissed.
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Jersey CIty, NJ Welcomes the MicroTime Tour June 5 at the Barrow Mansion
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For more information, interviews and media contacts
Contact: Meredith Borden Phone: 212-580-0602 Email: freenote@earthlink.net FreeNote Music announces the MicroTime Tour featuring New York City's Harmonically Tuned electric blues ensembles, 13 O'Clock Blues Band and Willie McBlind, both led by innovative guitarist and composer, Jon Catler. MicroTime will cut a swath of the Northeast, with appearances slated in Jersey City, Boston and New York City. On Friday, June 5th, at 8pm, the MicroTime Tour will kick off with a performance featuring 13 O'Clock Blues Band in Jersey City, New Jersey at the historic Barrow Mansion as part of the JC Fridays series. Jon Catler will usher in the evening with a discussion and demonstration of his unique musical ideas revolving around Harmonically Tuned Blues. Admission is FREE with donations at the door voluntary. As articulated by Downbeat blues columnist and 2007 Blues Foundation Keeping the Blues Alive awardee in Journalism, Frank-John Hadley, "The Willie McBlind band's timing is consummate. In this stagnant decade for the blues, with most of the idiomatic action sadly relegated to the obituary column, the New York City-based quartet fronted by virtuosic guitarist Jon Catler and talented singer Meredith "Babe" Borden offers a singularly exciting type of electric blues. Willie McBlind uses the pitches or tones found between the notes of the traditional Western scale to create a mesmerizing pitch-and-rhythm vernacular Catler calls "Harmonic blues." Behind the entertainment, attentive listeners feel a fervid creative intelligence and a heart present in the microtonal blues of the new Willie McBlind album, Bad Thing--set for release on June 1, 2009, courtesy of FreeNote Records."
June 2009 MicroTime Tour with 13 O'Clock Blues Band and Willie McBlind
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Re: Greenville: Knocked out on the street, wallet is gone
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Crime in Jersey City should concern everyone because it will spill into your backyard one day. +1,000,000. Like kids from Greenville letting the bullets fly at Exchange Place.
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let's not leave women out of this.
the video from the bar featured a strong woman asserting herself.
we're probably just biased against susan b anthony, jane fonda, the women's liberation movement, womyn generally, en vogue, women dropping the f/c/p/b/d-bomb at three in the morning, and let's just throw in martina navratilova, too, because she's tough as well.
we fear (and loathe?) women, and that's why this behavior is so bothersome. there is no other explanation
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Can I add to this: Oh, Please. Nobody is targeting minorities. Please stop hiding behind that lame excuse. Obama's president now so just cut it out. And I'd bet that most of the people you accuse of targeting minorities voted for him. Martin Luther King dreamed of a country where people would be judged, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. From the looks of that video, the guys from that bar had some bad content to their characters.
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My Brooklyn friends say "Wow, this place looks like the Heights or Park Slope." I'm sure they mean that in the best way possible.
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wingedgorgon wrote: Ok, I'll admit that as an artist, JC art blogger, and pretty active local arts activist some of these posts have made me thump my keyboard in rage and imagine what a jellyfish feels like when it's beached and being poked by an overstimulated child with a stick. But. I will refrain. I just have to specify that there is a difference between people who want to see a thriving arts scene in Jersey City, and those who want to participate in one. Quote:
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Ok, I'll admit that as an artist, JC art blogger, and pretty active local arts activist some of these posts have made me thump my keyboard in rage and imagine what a jellyfish feels like when it's beached and being poked by an overstimulated child with a stick. But. I will refrain.
I just have to specify that there is a difference between people who want to see a thriving arts scene in Jersey City, and those who want to participate in one. Quote: Not being part of the arts community, it's not my job to come up with the solutions, but support them I will. Ouch. So you want lots of art venues (created by other people), lots of free events to attend, a hip community of active artists to observe, and organizations that "wow" you as a non-participant. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who would flat out say "no" to having more galleries and art venues around the city, but you'd also have a difficult time finding people who are willing to jump in and make it happen. And...for me and most people active in Jersey City art (artists or otherwise), it's not our "job" either; it's something we do because it needs to be done. If you care about art then you ARE a member of the arts community, so PLEASE, before I give myself an annurism or something, take Christine up on volunteering, email ProArts or Victory Art Projects and ask what you can do to help. On the educational front: on Left Bank Art Blog we cover JC-based news/events/criticism on (almost) a daily basis, and I am preparing a gallery (or exhibit-venue) guide to Jersey City. This thread may even inspire a post once I calm down a little.
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I see how some of you are targeting the spanish and black owned bars as the nuisance. Not for nothing, but the a-holes yelling in the video sound like one of the groups you refer to. Just pointing it out; nothing more.
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City leader are absolutely responsible for the entire city's safety but, as far as everyone who thinks that Montgomery Towers and the area West of the Highway is downtown, historically on a local level neighborhoods were not first determined by a government entity, the people decided what there neighborhood boundaries were, it's usually based on combinations of different things like ethnic background, religion culture and income, and this hasn't changed.
Do you think New York made "China Town" and said ok we should have a bunch of chinese immigrants live here. Of course not. It was called "China Town" after a bunch of chinese immigrants found homes and settled there. So just because the Jersey City government calls the area West of the highway "Downtown" doesn't make it so as it relates to the real-life socioeconomic sense of things and the way a group of people define themselves, you can quote Jersey City government data till your blue in the face and it will never make it so until the people of downtown decide that it is in fact part of downtown.
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Did anyone actually get the information on the area these kids were from so we can talk about that?
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can you go to the JCIA at any time to drop off old paint? or do you need a special appt / specified day?
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