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Re: What's worse for JC, Luxury Condos or Hipsters?
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Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:44
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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I just love how this rumor refuses to die!! Everytime, it's some new location - some developer or real-estate broker talking up the location with a tantilizing hint that WF or TJ is "considering" setting up shop. And we desperate and deprived yuppies latch onto it every time....
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:42
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Re: Steve Fulop
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he puts the pro in pro-active
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:41
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RB- you get such a kick out of the Whole Foods discussion...
Personally, I hope the space becomes a PetSmart or Petco.
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:41
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Why you gotta hate? Seriously. Why?
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:33
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Re: Rear Addition - Neighbors Windows?
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You guys are confusing zoning code with building code. You need to comply with BOTH.
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:31
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Re: Village Voice: Best Outer Borough You Can Still Afford -- Downtown Jersey City
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Funny!
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Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:31
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You would need a "variance" not an ordinance.
30 ft setback is exactly as you describe it. Other than pre-existing conditions, anything new must conform to present-day ordinances.... Thus, with a shallow lot, which would be a non-conforming but existing condition, you would need to apply for a variance if you wish to add closer than 30 ft to your rear setback....... Now back to MY TOPIC!!!!!!! (Thread Hijacker!!!!!!! haha)
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:29
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1. Are you in the R-2 District? I'd have to see the building.
2. For an existing shallow lot, you would go for a zoning variance. In cases like a shallow lot, they will usually grant the variance within reason but it means making an application, hiring an attorney, architect and going before the board. A 3-4 month long dog and pony show.
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:29
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Funny +1
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I would like to also invite newcomers to check out Downtown west of Jersey Ave. Quote:
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Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:28
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Re: Village Voice: Best Outer Borough You Can Still Afford -- Downtown Jersey City
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I've never eaten there but hear the fish is pretty fresh.
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:28
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If you didn't already know, the Linens and Things in JC is going out of business. I heard from someone at Toll Brothers that a Whole Foods or a Trader Joes might be taking over the location. What do you guys think? Any truth to this?
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:25
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Re: Village Voice: Best Outer Borough You Can Still Afford -- Downtown Jersey City
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Has anyone eaten here?
What is it like? How's the food? Quote:
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:19
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"30 ft rear setback" means the back of the building must be at least 30ft from your back lotline?
And if you want to build something that would violate the 30ft rear setback requirement you would need an ordinance? Anyone have any idea about how lots that are relatively shallow would be handled? Asking cause a 20 X 50 ft. lot would make for a really really shallow house and I am sure there are more than a few shallow lots in JC. Do they use a percentage of the property as a setback requirement in that case?
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I have always had a positive experience with Steve as well. Very helpful.
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:13
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Oh no, we're in for it now. See what affordability breeds.
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:11
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And proud of it !
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:08
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I would officially like to invite hipsters everywhere to move to my neighborhood, Lincoln Park, especially the part between West End and Water Street. We are in a lovely mixed-race working-class area where you can see African-American kids playing jump rope with Indian and Dominican kids in the evenings, people walking their dogs after work, the occasional roving band of youths who never give me any shit but tend to terrorize each other, and white working-class guys smoking outside of the bars. It is particularly affordable now, if you can get a mortgage, and in ten years you won't be able to touch it. If there are enough of us, maybe someday they'll open a Starbucks here. So come join me!
Posted on: 2008/10/21 14:00
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Hi -
Can anyone recommend a gardener for a brownstone back yard with flower beds, some grass, perennials etc? I am looking to get the garden ready for the winter and then have this person care for it on a regular basis starting next spring. I see that some have recommended landscapers, but I am not in the need for landscaping, just maintenance gardening. Thank you!
Posted on: 2008/10/21 13:59
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Hipsters are people toooooo
Posted on: 2008/10/21 13:55
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Icechute..I just came across this... which seems to contradict each other...Please clarify!
? 345-41. R-2 Multi-Family Attached Housing (four stories or less) District. 1. Minimum Lot Size: Two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet; except on Block 234 where the minimum lot size shall be the existing lot size at the time of adoption of this ordinance. 2. Minimum Lot Width: Twenty-five (25) feet; except on Block 234 where the minimum lot width shall be the existing lot width at the time of adoption of this ordinance. 3. Minimum Lot Depth: One hundred (100) feet; except on Block 234 where the minimum lot depth shall be the existing lot depth at the time of adoption of this ordinance. 4. Front Yard Setback: Predominant setback shall apply. 5. Maximum Side Yard: Zero (0); except three feet required if adjacent lot with windows along the side wall, starting from one foot before the frontmost existing window.  6. Minimum Rear Yard: Thirty (30) feet. I also found the following...: ? 345-58. H Historic District. 1. Minimum Lot Size: One thousand eight hundred (1,800) square feet. 2. Minimum Lot Width: Eighteen (18) feet. 3. Minimum Lot Depth: One hundred (100) feet. 4. Minimum Front Yard Setback: Must meet adjacent setback on either side. 5. Maximum Front Yard Setback: Ten (10) feet. 6. Minimum Rear Yard Setback: Thirty (30) feet. 7. Side Yard Setbacks: None. 
Posted on: 2008/10/21 13:53
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I say neither is bad for JC.
The luxury condos will be pretty cheap pretty soon, providing an opportunity for those with some cash to buy a nice home. And hipsters - well, I personally don't dig'em but they don't bother me. Pretty harmless, really. I'll take a hipster over a gangster any day.
Posted on: 2008/10/21 13:48
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I really hate it when people in horn rim glasses move into my neighborhood and restore the old houses and clean up the parks and add their hipster tax revenue to the local school system and spend their filthy hipster dollars in my local stores.
burns me the f**k up!
Posted on: 2008/10/21 13:47
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Why is it necessary to place people not like yourself into a category that you imply as negative? I guess if you have grown up in an area where everyone is the same, then all of a sudden move to a place where people are different, you find different people as negative. Are these "hipsters" or graphic designers hurting anyone?
Posted on: 2008/10/21 13:40
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Alfred Michaels, of Mentor, Ohio, had parked his rented Pontiac at the facility Thank god it was rented!
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West Side: High-price studies to help select site for JCIA and DPW
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High-price studies to help select site for JCIA and DPW
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 By PAUL KOEPP JOURNAL STAFF WRITER It may cost Jersey City nearly $700,000 in settlement funds from the chromium cleanup on the city's West Side just to decide where to relocate the city's Incinerator Authority and Department of Public Works. Step one will be deciding where to build the new combined facility as the departments leave their current contaminated digs on Route 440. The JCIA and DPW will need about 10 acres and access to major roads. With the city's original plan to move them up the street to the PJP landfill site under the Pulaski Skyway held up by litigation with that site's owner - and by the opposition of Councilwoman Mary Spinello, who says it would create too much traffic and pollution in her ward - attention has turned to three other sites. The Jersey City City Council will vote tomorrow on whether to pay $346,000 for Urbahn Architects, of Newark, to do architectural and engineering studies of the PJP property and an industrial tract on East Linden Avenue. The latter includes two existing buildings totaling 200,000 square feet that could be refurbished to house the departments. Stantec Consulting Services, of Rochelle Park, could receive $100,000 to do traffic studies of those two sites. Also up for consideration will be a $200,000 contract for Malcolm Pirnie Inc., of Fair Lawn, to do environmental investigations at the PJP and East Linden Avenue sites, as well as other possible locations on Linden Avenue and Commercial Street. And T&M Associates, of Middletown, could get $46,000 to study the landscaping that would be required for a proposed park on the western side of the PJP site, along the Hackensack River. All of these contracts would come out of a $13 million relocation fund established by Honeywell International as part of the company's development plans on the West Side, officials said. City Corporation Counsel Bill Matsikoudis said the City Council would have to go into executive session at one of its upcoming meetings to decide which site it wants to pursue.
Posted on: 2008/10/21 13:29
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Actually, you only have to pay NJ state taxes on income you earned in NJ (eg interest, capital gains). If you work in NY, you pay NY state taxes and get credit for it in NJ. So you are NOT double taxed by NY and NJ. As mentioned above, you also don't have to pay NY city taxes if you live in JC. The annoying thing is having to file both NY and NJ taxes. If you've been paying both NY and NJ state taxes, you should get an accountant to clear that up.
Posted on: 2008/10/21 13:27
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I really don't think the pollsters have a clue this year. The polls have been up and down for the last few months. Last week or maybe two weeks ago CBS/NYT has Obama up by 14 points and then the next day most polls were saying 7 points. I think it is just a totally different election then the country has had. Maybe Obama will by an electoral landslide, maybe McCain will win it. We shall wait and see...
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Car damaged by metal from sky
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 By TOM SHORTELL JOURNAL STAFF WRITER A 20-pound piece of metal fell from the sky yesterday morning and crushed the passenger side of a rental car parked at a U.S. Postal Service mailing facility in Jersey City, authorities said. No one was injured and law enforcement officials believe the chunk of metal fell from a passing plane, according to reports. Alfred Michaels, of Mentor, Ohio, had parked his rented Pontiac at the facility at 80 County Road at 7:30 a.m., reports said. When he returned to his car at 9:45 a.m., he found the piece of metal next to the car, and the car's passenger-side pillar and window smashed, according to Jersey City police. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and U.S. Postal Service police are also investigating.
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Thanks again...
I came across the JC Zoning Ordinance online, but cannot seem to pinpoint the particular ordinance.... What should I be searching for? Thank you for this priceless advice/knowledge!
Posted on: 2008/10/21 13:13
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