This place is worth finding - they close by 3. Be prepared to wait in line a few minutes. Today I got:

A quart of chicken meatball soup - with bread (better than mom's)

A small (huge) roast port sandwich with cheese, sweet onions and spicy sauce (enough for 2 people)

A small loaf of cinnamon bread (or a really big roll) loaded with cinnamon but not too sweet

2 bottles of coke

total - just under $15.

Breakfast egg sandwiches with pepperoni or spicy sausage are gigantic and delicious.

Has anybody tried their hot dishes?

Paulus Hook Park - the four corners of Washington and Grand.

Colgate Center Park - next to Essex Street light rail stop between Clermont Cove and Liberty Terrace.

Liberty State Park - Includes the patch of land between Morris Canal Little and Big Basins, south of Sugar House and Liberty Terrace. This is where I think the OP is referring to.

Oh, I think I know where that is. Is it near Washington and Grand?

Pentecost Sunday at Holy Rosary Church will once again feature Hadyn's Little Organ Mass with strings at the 10:00 am Latin Mass. This is considered one of the most litugical of Hadyn's masses and the Benedictus is particularly famous. The music program will also include a Prelude by the organ on Barber's Adadio of Strings, and the communion motet, Esultate Justi by the baroque master Viadana.

Holy Rosary Churchwww.holyrosarychurch.com

344 6th St
Jersey City, NJ 07302
(201) 795-0120
Get directions

I can't agree more! The park looks amazing this year and somehow better than last year when I was floored by how beautiful all of the flowers were!

Seriously, you did an amazing job!
Thank you

The OP is referring to Peninsula Park which is at the end of Washington across from Portside.

The ghetto playground has a sign that calls it "Paulus Hook Park" but I think it is now referred to as Colgate Park.

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You make a good point, but I think the idea could work.

Also: I don't think bad code enforcement is the "reason" for illegal apartments, but it may be the reason the folks haven't gotten caught.

Anyway, I agree there are problems with the who clowns that will be doing the what enforcement.

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How exactly? They can't/don't enforce what they have now, that's why all the illegal apts.

You just made my point:

Can't enforce something? Make it legal; problem solved.

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The "Grove of Remembrance" is not at all stunning, and is practically unknown. There are two paths towards the park, and some small trees and bushes. Eh. Even the sign is dilapidated.

However, I much prefer a living memorial to two cold, steel, ugly "tombstone"-looking walls. The walls are physical, but blockage is emotional.

I pray we can all transcend this blockage with respect by not continuing the poor decision to build it in the first place, and by choosing something more touching and appropriate.

This actually seems very interesting, I think I will check it out Saturday

Quote: As yet, he hasn't gone after anything. It's just an idea, it seems, and needs fleshing out for: specifics; practicality; aligning incentives; legality, etc. Anyway, I like the idea of bringing these apartments back onto the reservation. It will make more taxable/ ratables for the city, will ensure code enforcement, and make for safer dwellings for many city residents. The tax increase to owners may pass along to those renters, but where the benefit is better and more reliable housing stock, that's acceptable.

If you are downtown, Hamilton Park Pizza on 7th and Brunswick. I'm sorry for that other reviewer, may have tried them when the cook was out sick, but the food is excellent. The sicilian is light and crispy. I've never had better Chicken Francaise in my life it is sooooo lemony and sauced right. I've had it at Casa Dante and I was very disappointed. They served it with soggy pasta with marinara. Oh no, HPP served al dente pasta sauced in the Francaise sauce that clung to the pasta and just enough extra to drip. And the Penne Vodka is OMG to die for. I'm never ordering Italian anywhere else again, once I got turned on to HPP. (except for subs at Monmouth Deli)

some in rags, some wearing a tiny American flag fitted like a diaper.

who does this asshole think he is?

Time to reproduce responsibly and leave the quote "go forth and multiply and fill the earth" behind. It's full to capacity already. The condos are not intended for families of five. Too bad so sad that you can't raise your 3+ kids here anymore. Shouldn't be so narcissistic as to multiply so profusely in the first place. All this talk about making things sustainable and no one ever mentions overpopulation as the cause of the problem.

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Let me address that on a personal basis: I live in the largest housing complex in Jersey City. The high rise I live in has a 30 year abatement. The amount paid "in lieu of taxes" from the Jersey City online tax records comes to an average of $1200 per apartment per year (charge for 600 apartments). These are large apartments with doomen, etc. This is after the buildings have been standing and abated since 1987. If these rentals were marketed, their average price would certainly exceed $300,000. THis situration applies to the nearly 4,000 apartments at Newport.

Though I am not certain of the allortement.

Of the $1200 paid on a junior 2 bedroom apartment, I don't know the exact breakdown for the school tax but I am certain that it is close to roundable down to $0.00 without being far off.

Perhaps CURRENT abatements are shorter and give more to schools, I can only speak of the old, generous and long term abatements that I know of first hand.

The first condo down here, James Monroe, has owners paying $4000-$6000/year in lieu on Junior 3 bedroom apartments of 1377 square feet plus ample terrace that are selling for $500,000 to $600,000. This building was opened in 1990.

\"I understand the mayor would like to make it legal for the people living in the illegal units, but I don\'t know how it\'s done,\" said city Planning Director Bob Cotter.


C'MON Bob, you know how, the city just changes the laws like it did for the Powerhouse Arts District, except This will take a bit more grease for the sprocket because it will be more widespread.

Awesome Mayor Healy - you are such a civic leader!

Way to tackle a pressing issue in our community!

I think the rising cost of mediocre public education or crime might have been a couple places to focus.... but no..... you go after those illegal apartments!

When is the next skyscraper apartment building going up? Can I see the infrastructure impact from that please - I expect in depth analysis.

If my math is correct, we actually pay $20,000+ per student for our failing schools. I'm sure it's all money well spent and there's no way to cut spending on this.

Yes, let's never build another apartment building ever again. I mean, people might actually want to LIVE here, and if you keep building more apartments, they might actually find a place to live.

The MicroTime Tour Kicks Off Tri-City Tour In Jersey City, NJ At The Historic Barrow Mansion On June 5, 2009


NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ FreeNote Music) - 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

When: Friday, June 5th, 8-10pm*

Featuring: 13 O'Clock Blues Band

Where: JC Fridays @ The Barrow Mansion

83 Wayne Street

Jersey City, NJ

FREE w/voluntary donation

Info line: 201-413-9200

*performance includes pre-show
lecture/demonstration with Jon Catler
www.jcfridays.com

For more information, visit www.microtones.com

Funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.

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When he says, "would make the population too dense for its infrastructure", does he mean like Grove PointE?

Seriously, here we have an issue apart from crime that clearly illustrates what is wrong with the approach of the clowns in charge....

Something illegal that you can't control?

Simple!

Change the law to allow it and collect some extra $$$ too!

DISSECTING HATE
Jersey City exhibit explores 'intra-racial' racism

Friday, May 29, 2009
By JONATHAN MANDELL
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Melissa-Marie Johnson realizes that people don't like to talk about these things, especially now that an African-American is president, but, she says, "that's exactly why we should be talking about intra-racial racism, racism by your own people."

Johnson is the curator of "The Division Bell: Black and Blue," an exhibition at the es oro gallery in Jersey City that looks through artists' eyes at the prejudices and stereotypes that U.S.-born black people have about black immigrants, and vice-versa. She is also one of the seven artists (three from West Africa, three born-and-raised in New Jersey, one from the Caribbean) who created works for the show.

Johnson's work is a canvas made of stretched goatskins in which hateful words, phrases and accusations have been stenciled in Indian ink: "afreakan...they stink like goat....sold their own people for sandals." Every phrase on the piece, she said, is something she has overheard a U.S.-born African-American say about their African-born neighbors.

Sheik Fall, who was born in Senegal, pictures the conflict as a tug of war in a polished work that depicts small abstract wooden figures chained to a ship's hull, some in rags, some wearing a tiny American flag fitted like a diaper. It was Fall's experience being harangued simply for being African by two American-born African-Americans in a bar in Essex County that convinced Johnson of the need for the show.

Nyugen E. Smith's three satiric self-portraits make fun of assumptions about men from the Caribbean, such as that they prefer white women.

Born in Jersey City but taken as an infant to Trinidad, he experienced culture shock when he returned to the city at the age of 9. Now an art teacher at Jersey City's St. Peter's Prep, he admits to having had misconceptions about his neighbors as well, wondering for example why they dressed so sloppily. If the cultural stew of his background were not complicated enough, his Vietnamese first name comes from the last name of an actor that his mother liked in the television show "Marcus Welby, M.D."

The exhibition runs Fridays and Saturdays (and by appointment) through June 5 at es oro at 107 Brunswick St., Jersey City, five blocks from the Grove Street PATH station. There will be a performance by The Real Live Band at the gallery at 3 p.m. tomorrow.

Interesting:


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Single family homes are being converted into apartments because there is a demand for housing that is not being met otherwise. Decreasing the available housing by eliminating conversions would dramatically increase the cost of housing. So do the people living in smaller homes benefit if they can no longer afford to live in the larger home?

The shortcomings of the infrastructure can be resolved by upgrading the infrastructure. Of course, that would require competent leadership on the part of elected officials, so maybe they are correct in assuming such improvements are impossible.

The bottom line is, illegal apartments exist because there is a demand to fill them.

How would they make it legal for the people living in the illegal units?
Im sure theres alot of illegal units espically in the newly built houses that have the garage in the front bottom & rent out that area behind the 1 car garages.

They need to crack down on all of these cars using out of state plates. Theres so many cars in this city that have out of state insurance & licence plates & the owners live here in JC.

"We'd like to consider an amnesty program to recognize them (the landlords with illegal apartments) and have them increase their tax payments to the city," Healy said during an interview last week. "There are literally thousands (of illegal apartments) out there. It will bring in a significant about of money to the city's coffers."


SO, Illegal is OK as long as the city makes more money!

*&#@*AMAZING!

If they are concerned about density STOP allowing beautiful one family homes to be turned into 3-4 family condos. It is becoming IMPOSSIBLE to raise a family of 2 or 3 children here without living like a sardine. That's a shame.

Group protests 9/11 memorial along Hudson River

The Associated Press

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Nearly 100 people protested plans to erect a Sept. 11 monument on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.

Friends of Liberty State Park say the long-delayed memorial is a waste of taxpayer money and would mar the view of the New York City skyline.

The proposed $12 million design for "Empty Sky" includes two 30-foot-high steel walls in line with where the World Trade Center towers stood. The names of the 744 New Jersey residents who died in the attacks would be engraved on the walls.

The group says 750 trees were planted as a Grove of Remembrance in Jersey City that should serve as the state's 9/11 monument.

Arguments in a lawsuit that the group filed two years ago are pending.

Court Backs New Jersey Aid Revision: Less Focus on Poorest Schools

New York Times
By WINNIE HU
May 28, 2009

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a new school financing formula that replaced a controversial one that had favored poor urban districts.

The new formula was adopted by the state early last year in response to widespread complaints that the previous version, a two-tiered financing system, had concentrated education spending in 31 so-called Abbott districts, while shortchanging the state?s 584 other districts in suburban and rural areas.

The new formula apportions money to all districts based on the characteristics of their students, like family income, language ability and special academic needs.

In a 136-page ruling, Justice Jaynee LaVecchia wrote that the new formula was constitutional and that the state no longer had to provide supplemental money to the Abbott districts, which got their name from a long-running lawsuit about inequalities in school financing, Abbott v. Burke. But she also wrote that the formula must continue to be fully financed, and that it needed to be reviewed after three years.

?It represents a thoughtful, progressive attempt to assist at-risk children throughout the state of New Jersey, and not only those who by happenstance reside in Abbott districts,? Justice LaVecchia wrote, describing the formula as ?the product of years of work by talented educators, reviewed and reviewed again.?

Gov. Jon S. Corzine said in a statement on Thursday that ?the court has allowed us to focus in a unified and predictable way on meeting our obligation to all of our children, while in no way prejudicing those who have benefited from the Abbott rulings in the past.?

But in some Abbott districts, educators and parents were sharply critical, expressing disappointment over what they saw as a major setback in their efforts to turn around troubled schools.

?New Jersey used to be in the leadership of the move toward educational fairness,? said Tina Cintron, president of the Statewide Education Organizing Committee, which represents families in Newark, Paterson, Jersey City and Asbury Park. ?Now we are seeing a drastic turnaround for the worse.?

Irene Sterling, president of the Paterson Education Fund, a group of parents and community members who support the schools, said the district would have to cut back on programs and reduce staff to keep up with rising operating costs. ?The children lost,? she said. ?We were flat-funded last year, and we will be flat-funded for the next two years. It?s going to be a very constrained environment.?

David G. Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, which sued the state over the financing formula, said that his group planned to step up its efforts to track the impact of the formula on school districts. He added that the proposed state budget for next year did not pay for all the increases called for by the formula, which included an expansion of preschool programs.

?We are deeply concerned that the new formula will quickly return New Jersey to the unequal school system of the past and undo a decade of measurable progress for our poorest students,? he said.

Education Commissioner Lucille E. Davy said that the state was committed to financing the formula and helping all districts including the Abbotts use their resources most efficiently.

Jack Raslowsky II, superintendent of the 2,600-student Hoboken district, said that concentrating money and resources in the state?s poorest districts brought about significant academic improvements, and that the new formula may dilute those efforts.

Hoboken, as an Abbott district, received an additional $6 million a year to pay for preschool for 500 3- and 4-year-olds, two-thirds of whom qualified for free or reduced lunch. In coming years, Mr. Raslowsky said, the district will have to shoulder more of the cost, or cut back the program.

?I think the ultimate goal is to level the playing field with respect to state funding for education so everyone gets a fair share,? he said. ?But the Abbott needs are not changing, and we?re adding new needs to the pot, and the pot is not necessarily growing.?

In Union City, an Abbott district that has nearly 12,000 students, the district initially received a $22 million increase in state aid for the 2008-09 school year under the new formula, or twice as much of an increase as the year before. The money was used to buy new school buses, upgrade technology and cover expenses for a new high school opening in September.

But next year, the district will receive only a $7 million increase in state aid. Anthony Dragona, the district?s business administrator, said that the amount of state money fluctuated more under the new formula, while under the Abbott system, it grew steadily. ?So doing our budget this year, we had to sharpen our pencil,? he said.

Enough Memorializing already. Aren't the deaths of hundreds of thousands killed as a result of these 2 buildings quite enough?

Does every city in the United States need 2 or 3 ugly reminders? (Of course I am purposely neglecting the fact that the major purpose of Memorials is to enrich those that plan and construct them.)

I thought the ugliest and stupidest memorial ever was the kitsch Polish soldier in Exchange Place with the bayonnetted rifle stuck through him but this 9/11 boner wins the prize hands down.

Little Johnny: "But Mommy, how come I can't see the Statue of Liberty?"
Mommy: "It's right behind that ugly black wall, Johnny."