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Re: Geese
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i know one method of controlling the population is to have people go to their nests and give their eggs a good shake, which destroys the embryo. I remember this being done around a reservoir. The crap from the birds was so much it was contaminating the water.

Posted on: 2012/7/12 15:06
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Re: Hoboken's Hit TV Show "Cake Boss" opening new JC location outside the Holland Tunnel on Grove Street
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I'm curious if the Van Leer redevelopment will actually happen as planned. I was given a couple projects to review that were supposed to use lots of 'green' construction methods and technology.

I have noticed that after each revision, more of the green stuff gets dropped primarily for two reasons:

1. Too expensive / not cost effective
2. Complicates the building management and equipment servicing to the point where the green tech becomes a serious burden.

Posted on: 2012/7/12 14:57
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Re: City To Conduct First Property Revaluation Since 1988
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What brought in more money for Jersey City? The PILOTs or the regular tax revenues of the properties before redevelopment?


For example, Newport is largely abated (though I think the mall came off the abatements a few years ago). But it was mostly abandoned peers, rail yards, and trash dumps before the abated development occurred.

Posted on: 2012/7/12 14:19
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Re: City To Conduct First Property Revaluation Since 1988
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Would income & sales taxes really be better than paying it by property tax?


Just to add to your point... the city does benefit from some of the sales taxes (Urban Enterprise Zones) as the 3.5% goes towards business district improvements. It also went at one time to increased police protection until the police union sued to end that practice.

In addition, per the NJ Constitution, all sales and income taxes are collected to offset property taxes. It's hard to imagine, but at one time NJ had no income taxes. Income and sales tax revenue are distributed (at least in theory) to offset local school costs and other expenses. I don't remember the exact figure, but I think JC property taxes only pay something like 15% of the actual cost to run the schools. The rest is made up by the State via income and sales taxes.

Posted on: 2012/7/11 21:18
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Re: String of Break-Ins : Enos Jones/Hamilton Park Area
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my building got hit last year (twice) by guy(s) who had some locksmithing experience. They cut around the top of the deadbolts, accessing the pin, and pulled the deadbolt back.

They ignored the alarm, going after files and laptops. TV's, game systems, etc. were not touched. Seems to be a focus on identity theft.

I installed segal style locks which make their method of entry much more difficult. Though I have a problem of my tenants not using them.

Posted on: 2012/7/11 21:13
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Re: Please clean up your dog poop...
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I wouldn't get bent out of shape over household ammonia. It is still mostly water (anhydrous ammonia however, is pretty nasty stuff on top of being flammable). Ammonia in household liquid form evaporates too readily to linger in high concentration in soil. If anything, the ammonia might improve the fertilization of the soil a bit. Though if you put too much on, you could hurt the plant by raising the pH up too high.

Posted on: 2012/7/11 15:48
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Re: Need central air conditioning unit serviced...
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For the vibration, can you have the units mounted on some vibration isolation pads? I have used pads for the air-handlers.

http://www.acousticalsolutions.com/60 ... OKu6e_ZjbECFQFx4AodfBURcg

If there is enough play in the lines, it might be possible to get them under the units without having to evacuate / disconnect them. If they are R-22 based condensers, recharging them would be incredibly expensive. Unless they can be converted over to using R-407c.

Posted on: 2012/7/9 23:06
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Re: lousy garbage collection
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They missed the single black trash bag I put out last night. I notice this tends to happen when I put out small amounts of trash.

Posted on: 2012/7/9 18:07
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Re: Vacant Spaces: Stories Behind the Empty Buildings that Dot the Landscape in Jersey City
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The factory on Oakland ave is not vacant. It does have tenants. But it is mostly for warehousing. The owners have applied for and have been granted variances to turn the place into market rate rentals / condos. I have been told though, that they are having trouble getting financing.

Posted on: 2012/7/9 18:06
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Re: Epps for Jersey City council?
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so this guy will be like a case of herpes. You will never be rid of him.

Posted on: 2012/7/9 0:57
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Anyone in the Heights raising honey bees?
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I noticed the first time a couple of European honey bees in my wife's Thai basil. Didn't expect to see them here in the city. Even less so after mites pretty much killed off a good chunk of the honey bee population.

Posted on: 2012/7/1 21:49
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Re: To JC Bikers Who Ride on Sidewalks...
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It is not just on the sidewalks that is a problem at times....

I have been toying getting a dash cam for my car. Originally it was because I had two cases of a near collision from drivers ignoring yield signs and one more running a stop sign.

However, I have had two near collisions with bikes here in JC recently. Both prevented by me slamming on my brakes (thankfully, I wasn't going fast).

The 1st incident, the bike was riding very fast, the wrong way, down a one-way street. I nearly t-boned him when he ran a red light.

2nd was when a bike turned a corner, again the wrong way on a one way street, high speed, riding in the middle of the lane. I was coming to a stop to make a turn, so thankfully I was able to halt before he went through my windshield (he still hit my bumper though, with his own bakes engaged.. low enough speed to not hurt him or my car).

Posted on: 2012/6/26 21:08
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Re: Massive power outage in Jersey City and Union City
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How is 9,000 'massive'? That's like a few city blocks.

Posted on: 2012/6/21 1:58
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Re: New hotel planned for One Exchange Place
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Quote:

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- this a CLEAR ABUSE of power. .



How so exactly?

Posted on: 2012/6/18 21:15
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Re: N.J. man allegedly killed squirrels with BB gun, hung them on fence
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The 12 gauge was loaded with varmint loads, not 00 buck. A lot of small pellets... just the right thing to get the job done. The Old-man took out the woodchuck no problem with it (too big for the air rifle).

This year we had a mating pair of foxes move in under the barn. That pretty much put the end to the rodent / varmint problem.

Posted on: 2012/6/17 23:29
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Re: N.J. man allegedly killed squirrels with BB gun, hung them on fence
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I have a tenant who would sympathize with this guy. The squirrels completely destroyed his garden last year. For everyone he trapped and relocated, three more took its place.

My dad had the same problem (VT not NJ) with his crops being annihilated by grey squirrels and woodchucks. He was using a .22cal air rifle to knock them off. I gave him my 12 gauge shotgun to make things a bit easier. He thinned the population down enough where they stopped destroying stuff.
There isn't much in the way of small game hunters in the area, so the squirrel population was unreal.

Note: The above is legal in VT.

Posted on: 2012/6/17 20:04
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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Well, if you wanted to take a real radical approach to the problem, you could invest in one of these:



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Posted on: 2012/6/17 12:32
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Re: Packages being stolen downtown again & seeing Spotters
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Anyone here try to postal police (at least for non FedEx / uPS packages)? I contacted them years back about a different issue. They were pretty responsive.

Messing with the mail is a big issue. I know of a guy who got several years in Federal prison just for messing with mailboxes (not even stealing the mail).

Posted on: 2012/6/14 11:42
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Re: Urban Rooftop gardening and Aphids!
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Well.. I have Ladybugs now. They came in on their own. Unfortunately, not in sufficient numbers to kill off the aphids. So I am still spraying. On another note: I kinda of got inspired by this vid........ He manages to keep everything alive for 10 months out of the years. I figure with a greenhouse, I can keep things growing all year long. So I am working up design, complete with some crude thermal storage. Figure if I have the $$$$, I will build it this fall. Anyone else here build an urban greenhouse on their roof?

Posted on: 2012/6/2 23:40
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Re: Did all the guys who clean the storm grates get laid off?
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Quote:

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Still have that element that think it's fine to throw trash in the streets. Disgusting and sad.


They also like to use my bushes as a trash can. Every week I pull bottles of cheap beer, malt liquor, Snapple, soda, etc.

Posted on: 2012/6/2 13:20
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Re: "There's a rat in the building" - ARGGH
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I have dreamed plinking one of those rats with an air rifle... At a safe distance of course.

Posted on: 2012/6/2 0:10
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Re: Local Boy Makes Good!
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Hilarious fact, I actually knew this kid. He got a hold of a computer in the 4th grade and lost his damn mind.


Sounds like a similar madness as "The Nuclear Boy Scout". Only nuke boy did something else than finance (this was back in the 90's).


Google it if you want a laugh....


From Wiki:


David Charles Hahn (born October 30, 1976), also called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" or the "Nuclear Boy Scout", is an American who attempted to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in 1994, at age 17. A scout in the Boy Scouts of America, Hahn conducted his experiments in secret in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Commerce Township, Michigan. While his reactor never reached critical mass, Hahn attracted the attention of local police who found radioactive materials in the trunk of his car. His mother's property was cleaned up by the Environmental Protection Agency ten months later as a Superfund cleanup site. Hahn attained Eagle Scout rank in the Boy Scouts of America shortly after his reactor was dismantled.[1]

Posted on: 2012/6/2 0:04
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Did all the guys who clean the storm grates get laid off?
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Not sure if this is JCMUA or the Incinerator Authority's job..

I noticed that the storm grates on my block have gotten quite buried in a sea of glass, paper, and plastic soda bottles. With the approaching thunderstorms, I went ahead and cleaned the ones off in front of my building (almost filling a 39 gal trash can).

Is this the new normal? If it is.. we may have some aggravated street flooding problems, unless more volunteer to keep the grates cleaned.

Posted on: 2012/6/2 0:01
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Re: HUGE GAS PIPELINE COMING - through Jersey City
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und the world, but only a trace amount comes into the U.S. There is no flaring in the U.S. - it happens in places like offshore West Africa and in the jungles of South America where the issue isn't constrained infrastructure, it is the complete lack of infrastructure in many cases.



A few years ago, what you stated would have been correct. The "lack of infrastructure" has been plaguing some of the new oil fields, in particular North Dakota.

From The New York Times from about a year ago

NEW TOWN, N.D. ? Across western North Dakota, hundreds of fires rise above fields of wheat and sunflowers and bales of hay. At night, they illuminate the prairie skies like giant fireflies. They are not wildfires caused by lightning strikes or other acts of nature, but the deliberate burning of natural gas by oil companies rushing to extract oil from the Bakken shale field and take advantage of the high price of crude. The gas bubbles up alongside the far more valuable oil, and with less economic incentive to capture it, the drillers treat the gas as waste and simply burn it. Every day, more than 100 million cubic feet of natural gas is flared this way ? enough energy to heat half a million homes for a day. The flared gas also spews at least two million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, as much as 384,000 cars or a medium-size coal-fired power plant would emit, alarming some environmentalists. All told, 30 percent of the natural gas produced in North Dakota is burned as waste. No other major domestic oil field currently flares close to that much, though the practice is still common in countries like Russia, Nigeria and Iran.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/bus ... e-sky.html?pagewanted=all


I wasn't addressing the route of the pipeline though JC.. I was however, attempting to put to rest the idea that new pipelines are not needed.

More will be coming:

Previously unrecoverable oil is now recoverable in Kansas in a limestone formation. There will be 100+ wells drilled by next year. Oil wells means there will be a lot of associated natural gas to process as well. Chances are there will be upgrades in pipeline capacity to get that gas to the biggest gas market (per capita) in the country... here...

NY is slowly inching towards allowing hydraulic fracturing. If / when they do, a lot of gas opens up. NY has at least three layers of shale that hold gas and / or oil, plus additional layers of sandstone that hold the same. Guess where the closest major market is for the gas? NYC metro area.. New pipelines for NY are already in the planning stages.

There is even gas and oil off the coast of NJ. I would bet that the federal drilling ban on the East Coast may go bye-bye after the election. That gas has to get to market by pipelines.

Posted on: 2012/5/29 22:53
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Re: What is the closest place to neuter a cat?
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Animal Clinic of Bayonne.

Only bad thing about the place is they have long waits sometimes.

Posted on: 2012/5/29 22:23
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Re: What is the closest place to neuter a cat?
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Westside Hospital

You can try here... you can take the lightrail to Westside Ave.


As a former customer of that place, I strongly recommend you DON'T go there. I took my business down to a place in Bayonne.

Posted on: 2012/5/29 21:30
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Re: Happy Ending in the Making
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There is one across the street from the Hudson County Courthouse.

If that one can keep running, you might have a long wait until vice gets around to shutting the place down.

I prefer the 'Victorian Compromise' in dealing with places like this. Make them legal, but zoned well outside of residential neighborhoods.

Posted on: 2012/5/29 19:43
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Re: Urban Rooftop gardening and Aphids!
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Mantis's also eat humming birds.

Now that is a bad-ass bug.

http://i34.tinypic.com/mwy8le.jpg

Posted on: 2012/5/24 2:22
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Urban Rooftop gardening and Aphids!
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My rooftop outdoor mini garden has been invaded by green aphids (which are now being terminated with extreme prejudice via various pesticides). It took a whopping 72 hours for my peppers and tomato plants to get covered.


I figured being in an urban area, on a rooftop with no gardens anywhere near, these little bastards would be slow on the attack.


Man, was I wrong.

Posted on: 2012/5/23 23:45
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Re: HUGE GAS PIPELINE COMING - through Jersey City
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No, its Spectra Energy, staffed at the top by greedy Republicans who don't care about people so their greed to improve shareholder value to beat their 34% growth has them pushing to spend almost $60 million a mile to build a pipeline the US doesn't need as even the Natural Gas Association admits there is a glut of gas. No, this is all about Spectra Energy in Houston, Texas not Obama.




Yes, there is a glut of gas, natural gas liquids, and oil (out west in the Dakotas). There is a profound shortage in pipeline capacity. Gas is being flared off because there isn\'t the pipeline capacity to get it to market. Gas is also a byproduct of oil drilling. Per a study by GE, flared off gas around the world is almost equal to 1/4 of all natural gas consumption in the USA.

The Spectra pipeline is one of many currently under construction, under expansion, or in the planning stages. Want proof? Do a quick news web search on gas and liquid pipelines. Keystone and Spectra have a lot of company.

If what you stated above is correct, then Spectra will be building a pipeline that will have no demand and will lose money. This is NOT the case. Pipeline, storage, and other midstream operations are making money because there is more demand than capacity.

NY and NJ are and have actively promoting natural gas as an alternative to new power plants, oil, and coal.

NYC is phasing out No. 6 and No. 4 oil. Those big commercial boilers are being replaced with natural gas. In addition, NYSERDA has been promoting new gas burning equipment including CHP (engines / turbines that burn gas to make electricity and heat). Gas consumption is going up and will continue to go up, straining capacity of existing lines that feed both NJ and NY.

Retail consumers don't notice pipeline capacity issues because large industrial / commercial consumers get their gas supplies 'interrupted' during high load periods, in order to keep the heat on in residential homes. This was an issue talked about by the engineers at PSE&G during the Standard Offer program (money paid to large consumers to burn more natural gas and use less electricity) because the pipeline capacity in the NYC metro area was at capacity during cold weather. This was almost 10 years ago. The capacity issues are getting worse:

*PSE&G is phasing out its older coal powered plants. Their new plants are all largely natural gas fired. Over 1/2 the electricity generated in the state are from some very old nuclear plants. As those plants are phased out, there will be a massive increase in natural gas consumption to make power.

*Solar and wind has increased the need for backup capacity. That reserve is in the form a natural gas fired
'peaking' turbines (you can see them from the Pulaski Skyway off of Fishhouse road).

*The NJ BPU just put forward a new CHP program for NJ. I guarantee you a lot of big energy user are going to take advantage.

*Say's law: Production creates its own demand. The glut of natural gas has the chemical industry re-tooling to use gas (ammonia, methanol, anti-freeze, are just a few chemicals derives from natural gas).

*Manufactured gas plants are all long gone. PSE&G, Con-Ed, and other utilities can no longer make producer gas. The gas the makes your heat, hot water, and keeps the lights on must be transported in from the Gulf, Canada, Ohio, and Appalachia.

*The technology to turn natural gas into gasoline, lubricants, and diesel fuel improved drastically over the past few years. GTL (gas to liquid) plants are now planned for Louisiana and one is already shipping product to the USA from Qatar. IMO, it is only a matter of time before some of the big refiners in the Mid Atlantic (Hess, Bayway) add on GTL to their facilities.

Without an increase in capacity, at some point, during some REALLY cold weather, your gas service may not be there and the lights could go out as well.

Now as much as many of you hate the idea of another gas pipeline coming into the area.. the alternatives of not having those new pipelines could be much much worse.

Posted on: 2012/5/23 2:08
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