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WOW Thank you all so so much
Let's see if we move to 2nd place after todays totals are tallied Quote:
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Re: Jersey City 'lot' of trouble for developer Mocco?
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Nice deversion.
Erie street was your club house that Jr paid below value rent for month after month while you were in office. The Mocco property had the full window Jr signs that were forced to come down on election day because they were illegal. All of your operations were run out of sussex street and i do recall you running a fund raiser out of the sand bar before the election. Not that there is any thing wrong with this,just don't be so sanctimonious now that your not getting free rent. How many developers is the former councilmen working for now,For that matter how many are you working for????
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Thanks for the gardening advice Brewster. I am not the handiest but I will look into those trellises.
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short selling doesnt, but naked short selling does. It is what killed lehman and brought many companies to their kneels. It is financial terrorism when done in such a coordinated manner by the hedge funds. Buy credit default swap and naked short the stock. No company can stand up to those kind of selling pressure. Morgan stanley went from $30 to $10 at one point.
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We seriously need Palin in there to help with the negotiations - I understand that her hairdresser does her own books and talks about them with her, when she gets a haircut.
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What's amazing to me is that there are really only about a handful of people that really know the intricate details of what is really happening. None of which are the conmen (congressmen). Watching them for the past 2 days was like watching them being educated in an economics 101 class. I am not claiming to know exactly what is going on either, but this is a true circus. From everything like banning short selling, etc. What's their excuse now that there are no shorts? What no one seems to to get is that short selling does not bring the market down, it's the LACK OF BUYERS that brings the markets down. This is a very serious problem and unfortunately, we have clowns in the highest decision-making positions.
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Maldonado's headquarters was on 4th and Erie, the campaign headquarters you speak of was a Healy Team headquarters. If you have a problem with the former Councilman Maldonado bring it up with him face to face, like a real man. Going after him through me is like a hole in water. I am proud of my work ethics as a council aide for Ward E from 2/2003-7/2005. If you have something to say to me about anything I did as a council aide, please feel free to express yourself. I seriously doubt you will have many people who will side with you on that issue. Now back to the topic of this thread: As far as Peter Mocco goes, you seem to have a short term memory of the stunt he pulled on 10th street when in 1999 he illegally paved a city street, took away the green space by the 10th street embankment and created 20 illegal parking spaces for his employees. All the street cleaning signs were illegally taken down, not once, not twice but 4 times and the people doing this were caught on video tape bringing the removed signs into A-1 self storage building by the resident of 10th street who took Mocco on....that Mocco, such a stand up guy, huh? So, all in all~ I give you an A for sock-puppetry and a D- for investigative fact finding.
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So i assume you think he is a bad guy,Pinky. As i recall your former Boss Jr Maldonado had his campaign Head quarters in a Mocco owned Building on the corner of Sussex and Washington where the bank now sits.He got this rent free as there is no elec report which shows a payment nor an in kind contribution. When did he become a bad guy? Before or after he gave you the free space across from school 16.
Posted on: 2008/9/26 22:53
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well it doesnt matter now. sunday 6pm is the line in the sand.
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Alb, you may want to do a Google search and a Jersey journal archive search on this developer before you take on his cause. I'm thinking go back to his days as mayor of North Bergen to current ~ enjoy the reading!
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Comcast High-Speed Internet -- Update to Acceptable Use Policy
Fri 9/26/08 3:41 PM Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer, We appreciate your business and strive to provide you with the best online experience possible. One of the ways we do this is through our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The AUP outlines acceptable use of our service as well as steps we take to protect our customers from things that can negatively impact their experience online. This policy has been in place for many years and we update it periodically to keep it current with our customers' use of our service. On October 1, 2008, we will post an updated AUP that will go into effect at that time. In the updated AUP, we clarify that monthly data (or bandwidth) usage of more than 250 Gigabytes (GB) is the specific threshold that defines excessive use of our service. We have an excessive use policy because a fraction of one percent of our customers use such a disproportionate amount of bandwidth every month that they may degrade the online experience of other customers. 250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of bandwidth and it's very likely that your monthly data usage doesn't even come close to that amount. In fact, the threshold is approximately 100 times greater than the typical or median residential customer usage, which is 2 to 3 GB/month. To put it in perspective, to reach 250 GB of data usage in one month a customer would have to do any one of the following: * Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email); * Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or * Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie). And online gamers should know that even the heaviest multi- or single-player gaming activity would not typically come close to this threshold over the course of a month. In addition to modifying the excessive use policy, the updated AUP contains other clarifications of terms concerning reporting violations, newsgroups, and network management. To read some helpful FAQs, please visit Comcast Network Management Policy Thank you again for choosing Comcast as your high-speed Internet provider.
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this is this same station that had the bomb scare a couple months back.
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Thank goodness. That Newark branch employs the rudest, most self-absorbed people in Jersey City - and that's saying a LOT!
Posted on: 2008/9/26 19:58
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There is also a Chase branch on Washington Blvd in the base of one of the JP Morgan Chase office buildings over in Newport.
Posted on: 2008/9/26 19:32
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I have also signed up and forwarded to various people in our community. I hope LHS wins!
Posted on: 2008/9/26 19:09
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hit me up with a facebook invite - lwhateley@njcu.edu
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No but funny enough I got this as spam today:
From: Henry Paulson, h.paulson@USTreasury.gov Subject: PROPOSAL. To: Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 8:15 AM Dear Friend, I am introducing my self as Secretary Henry Paulson, the Secretary of US Treasury, I wish to request for your assistance in a financial transaction., And I wish to invest in Finance and mortgages in your country. I have 700 Billion USD($700,000,000,000) to invest in your country, and I will require your assistance in helping me stand as my President's business partner who he deposited the consignment on his behalf into the security, the consignment was deposited in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and was latter lifted to Washington Mutual Bank where the consignment is now under the care of the security company diplomat.I will be gladly to give you 15% of the total sum for your assistance. Please it is very important you contact me immediately on my private email address:h.paulson@USTreasury.gov For further explanation on the whole entire work plan. Awaiting your immediate response Thanks and God bless. Hank Paulson
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You guys involved? (as a side note, does anyone know how to get "indentation" to work on this website?)
Bailout Protesters Offer Billions in Bad `Assets' to Government By Matthew Leising Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- For sale: one fraying cloth mop.The price: $150 billion. ``But I'll take $100 billion,'' said the seller, Myk Freedman. The Brooklyn, New York, resident was one of hundreds of people who demonstrated by Wall Street's charging-bull sculpture yesterday in protest of the government's $700 billion proposal to prop up the nation's financial system. Competing crowds of anti-Bush, anti-war and poverty advocates vied for space in the financial district. While the crowd chanted, Freedman placed a wooden tennis racket at the feet of the Wall Street symbol. ``Two hundred billion'' for the racket, he said. ``That's because I have tennis elbow.'' The protest was publicized in part by a Web site with an unprintable address that popped up in recent days. On it, taxpayers can offer the government their version of subprime collateralized-debt obligations. About 2,650 people have listed mostly useless items that they would like the government to buy, including: a broken Nintendo video game console for $150,000; a dismembered stuffed frog for $47,000; and what one contributor called the Hilton Hotels Corp.'s ``most expensive'' liability -- heiress Paris Hilton, for $10 billion. Such ``assets'' totaled $697 billion and climbing as of today. The site, which was created Sept. 21, was the brainchild of Washington-based Web designer Kyle Stoneman and friends. So far, it has been viewed more than 500,000 times, Stoneman said. ``After we saw the buyout plan, we wanted every American to be able to cash in their bad assets at an over-inflated price,'' he said in an interview. `Fraud Stearns' Stoneman likened his site to the satirical TV program ``The Daily Show'' in that it's important to know the context of the jokes that are being made. ``It's an interesting thing to use satire to make a point,'' he said. Satire or no, he said, the message is resonating. ``It's something a lot of people agree with and it's hitting home with a lot of folks.'' The people standing around the bronze bull agreed. A bag of VHS videotapes was offered, including the last episode of ``Sex and the City'' and the Brad Pitt movie ``Legends of the Fall.'' ``Brad Pitt is at least worth $10 million,'' said the tape's owner Brian, who declined to give his last name. A friend of his brought a teddy bear with ``Fraud Stearns'' written on it. The price? $7 billion.
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The Newark Ave WaMu branch was scheduled to be closed before Chase took over. I am hoping Chase will decide to extend the lease, because we use that branch all the time.
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Working on a facebook page.
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I'm not a huge fan of real estate developers, but I think the city ought to recognize that real estate developers are caught up in terrible economical upheaval right now and be careful about starting new enforcement actions against them right now.
If, say, the city sees that Mocco is doing something with construction that will someday make the buildings fall down, then it should step in. If Mocco is really violating some limit on new construction, and building where he shouldn't build, the city should stop that. If Mocco maybe owes the city some money because he took in revenue that wasn't quite kosher -- well, OK, maybe the city should put in a claim, but it shouldn't be tying Mocco up in meetings right now, and it shouldn't necessarily expect Mocco to cough up a huge amount of time at a time when he probably has a hard time tapping existing credit loans, let alone taking out a new loan. In general, I think the city has to go on the assumption right now that best path to future stability is to try to nurse reasonably responsible developers along till the economy turns, and not assume that a company that looks big and stable actually is stable enough to deal with an unexpected $100,000 bill. There may be a lot of companies out there right now that are secretly $100,000 from liquidation. In theory, maybe we should be wiping the weaker companies out in the hope that newer, better companies will spring up, but I don't think there's any guarantee that newer, better companies will spring up. If Jersey City wipes out Mocco, for example, maybe it will be another 20 years before another Mocco comes along. And, maybe not, and maybe 10 faster, stronger, better Mocco alternatives will show up next year, but I think counting on that to be the case seems pretty aggressive right now.
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Never had a problem from the Path all the way to Hamilton Park. I have seen problems in the middle of the day with teenagers but never, ever late at night. Not in my 20 years.
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ING Direct Bank on 49th Street in Manhattan does just that!
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Quote: "I was only introduced to the "orange people" by my co-worker this week. I was skeptical, but intrigued since I hadn't found any good coffee in midtown. This place is also across the street from where I work, so location sure helps! My co-worker also told me that the coffee is cheap because it's subsidized by the bank. They're there just for presence and it's a not-for-profit cafe. Neat..."
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After 10pm, I usually get off at either the Grove or Hoboken Path stations and take a taxi.
Maybe not necessary, but does wonders for my "peace of mind". 
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You're onto something, maybe Starbucks should have bought Wamu! Cash & Cappuccino! Checking & chai!
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Are you joking? Bank branches are killing urban retail. They drive up rents (because banks are willing to pay) and don't attract outside shoppers (because people bank locally). You can't window shop at a bank. You can't get a cup of coffee and people watch.
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Edit: Closing the Newark branch sucks for the Newark improvement plan. Banks are the bedrock of shopping districts. And having 2 branches on the waterfront and at the skanky Old Colony center doesn't replace it. speaking of the old colony center, are there any plans to revamp or demolish that place anytime soon. it is such an eyesore
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It's funny how life brings you in circles.
When I moved to Manhattan in the early 80's I opened accounts at Manufacturers Hanover, which was bought by Chemical, which then merged with Chase. When I moved here in 97 there were no Chase branches, so I went with PNC (Pretty Nearly Clueless) as the only Quicken affiliated bank downtown, switching to the new Wachovia when PNC lost their convenient parking lot. Last year I opened online accounts with Wamu, as they gave great rates, and Wachovia gave squat. Now, apparently, I'm back with Chase. Weird. Edit: Closing the Newark branch sucks for the Newark improvement plan. Banks are the bedrock of shopping districts. And having 2 branches on the waterfront and at the skanky Old Colony center doesn't replace it.
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Good riddance!! That branch stunk..literally. They also made no attempt to make that space presentable.
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