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Re: New York Times: Jersey City - The Powerhouse Arts District - Where Home Is an Art Gallery
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I also find it funny that the article cites a guy who designs toilet brushes for Target as an example of "art and life" mixing.
Posted on: 2006/9/20 6:02
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Re: New York Times: Jersey City - The Powerhouse Arts District - Where Home Is an Art Gallery
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That is perhaps the single worst piece of writing that has every appeared in the New York Times. Atrocious. And wholly without a point.
Posted on: 2006/9/20 6:00
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Re: JERSEY CITY 911 OPERATORS AND COPS BLAMED IN $200M LAWSUIT
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What a painful story. Whatever the judge/jury decide (I really don't know what call I'd make), I really feel for the people.
Posted on: 2006/9/19 13:59
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Re: Condo Shopping Observations
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My highly inexpert advice would be now's not the time to flip condos in JC. There are so many being built at once, and people are already nervous about the market.
Course, I don't think I'd personally flip a condo as an investment under any circumstances. I do think people have made some persuasive arguments here that, in the long run, the Jersey City market will remain strong due to demand from the Wall St. folk and NYC in general. But I have a feeling we're going to see a period where buyers really take their time because they have so many new options to choose from.
Posted on: 2006/9/17 6:12
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Re: Wants Powerhouse to have a Barnes and Noble, and Journal Square to be a "Transit Village"
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I'd just like to point out that this quote pretty much sums up our entire government:
"The Powerhouse is a priority," said Antonicello. "It will be unique. Five years from now, I see someone coming to the Powerhouse to go to the Barnes and Noble, and have a drink at a bar." "unique"
Posted on: 2006/9/5 14:43
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In any case, I generally have much better luck finding what I want there than at most Barnes & Nobles, especially the ones outside NYC.
If I want a specific book I can't find, I might order it online too. What's that got to with having a B&N in the Powerhouse?
Posted on: 2006/9/5 4:33
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Or am I wrong? Because I didn't think it was the kind of store where clerks offer to order you things.
Posted on: 2006/9/5 4:17
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Uh, you've never been to The Strand, dude.
Posted on: 2006/9/5 4:16
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No, you're right though. People use the phrase "suburbanization of New York" for a reason. And it is sad - don't understand why anyone would want to hit B&N when they could go to Shakespeare and Co. or Housing Works or St. Marks, but I guess at least they have good readings at the one in Astor Place, which a JC location probably wouldn't.
Posted on: 2006/9/5 3:56
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Re: Wants Powerhouse to have a Barnes and Noble, and Journal Square to be a "Transit Village"
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What about something that would actually make Jersey City more of a DESTINATION? What about a top-notch performance space and arts center? How about something unique? Something that would actually make New Yorkers want to come HERE? Don't believe it's possible? Look at what PS1 did for Queens!
Guess that'd be too much to ask for good-old provincial, narrow-visioned Jersey City, the "eat/work/live" city, the city that thinks like a suburb, the young, vibrant city that wants to become like a retirement community.
Posted on: 2006/9/5 3:19
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I wouldn't even mind a B&N in town all that much, but please, PLEASE don't waste such a cool building on it.
Posted on: 2006/9/4 6:09
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I like the "transit village" concept, but, good god, if Barnes and Noble and ESPN Zone are the best ideas we can come up with, we really don't deserve the "sixth boro" moniker.
Posted on: 2006/9/3 6:30
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Sorry, I can't remember the name of this place, but since their menu is so expansive, I was wondering what everyone has enjoyed most.
My first couple of times there I tried the more Chinese-food like items and was underwhelmed, but since then I've gone for the Vietnamese specialties and been really surprised at how good they are. Unfortunately I also don't have a menu in front of me so I don't know names, but a few things I thought were fantastic: -The summer rolls with shrimp - very fresh, nice delicate wrap -The three flavor grilled beef -The beef in Vietnamese Green Leaf - you roll it up with veggies and other stuff in rice paper. -The Vietnamese "water spinach" in garlic sauce - mmm, such a great, delicate flavor, and tastes very healthy too -The grilled pork with rice stick that you wrap in the lettuce leaves
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Re: Police attacked by large Rottweiler, while they arrest 4 and seize 11,500 bags of heroin
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McGruff: The Rottweiler Bites Back
Posted on: 2006/8/3 15:17
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Re: Is there enough affordable housing?
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Oh really? I do wonder which book by Darwin you mean. I've read a few of them, and I don't remember there being anything in them about economics. I must not have read "that book" that you read.
Posted on: 2006/7/30 4:39
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Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City
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And if you don't want to pay taxes, why don't you 'relocate to an offshore principality.'*
*i.e. "Go to hell."
Posted on: 2006/7/28 14:07
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Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City
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1) Bergen Lafayette is not really an "upscale neighborhood." In fact 10 years ago 80% of the people wouldn't have considered living anywhere near it. It's a little disingenuous to gentrify someone's neighborhood and then say "why don't you take some responsibility and move out."
2) I'm amazed at how people automatically assume that most of the people moving into these townhouses are going to be the lowlifes that hang out on the street drinking all day or muggers. Haven't you ever heard of struggling single mothers? Haven't you ever heard of the working poor? It's just really downright disgusting honestly. You're a bunch of smug, ignorant, self-important idiots. I'd like to see any of you survive one month in the ghetto.
Posted on: 2006/7/28 13:33
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Yeah, I guess it was sarcasm, but a lot of the others clearly weren't ("Great, now they have all this money left over for college tuition!")
Posted on: 2006/7/28 13:26
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30% of one's income means something VERY different to a person taking home $1000 a month than it does to someone taking home $4000 or $8000 or $12000, and I don't think the usual ratios apply.
If you're talking about a mom with two kids, grocery bills alone could easily eat up another $300-400 a month (though they might get some other public assistance as well). You're not exactly talking about "money left over for an au-pair." Man, some people are just really out of touch with reality.
Posted on: 2006/7/28 13:09
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You're all paid way more than you're worth in America anyway.
Assholes.
Posted on: 2006/7/27 21:58
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I went to Inner Harbor a lot as a kid. It's a little like South Street Seaport. Wasn't really what I was imagining, but it could be a cool thing for the area.
Posted on: 2006/7/23 4:56
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Re: Three 40-plus story towers on 110 and 111 First Street sites.
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That's funny, because I've kind of already known that Philly was that for a while. I mean it doesn't exactly have as much of a gallery scene as NYC yet, but there's a lot going on in terms of music and art there, and there's definitely more of an energy and excitement in the scene that comes from young people being able to actually afford to live there and focus on their art.
Posted on: 2006/7/11 2:03
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That's my apartment! Spacious 2 bedroom with lots of light, vintage kitchen, elegant sloping floors. Walking distance to PATH, chicken carry-outs, trendy steakhouse/lounges. We've only heard gunfire twice in eight months, and one of them was just an off-duty cop drunkenly missing someone.
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Yes, but you see there's this word in the name of our city that reflects the state it's located in. Kind of a mental barrier for certain people who think they are too good to live anywhere but NYC. Now, if we change our name to Brooklyn Heights West, we might have a few more takers.
Posted on: 2006/7/9 17:51
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I agree, I think there's a real problem here and a terrible message being sent -- that if you're wealthy and powerful enough you can override the will of the people.
Not that I didn't already realize that this is true here, but it's still depressing.
Posted on: 2006/6/30 16:21
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I think that's a tough question. I don't really believe that the city "should" be giving special affordable housing to artists (as in "has to"), but I think the idea of an arts district is that it can benefit the city by fostering art, which is one of the things that can make a city more desirable and more liveable. For that matter, why should the city give out special development incentives to waterfront builders? Should I get a "development incentive" if I want to buy and renovate a brownstone? You'd probably answer that the incentives bring development that benefits the whole city. If downtown Jersey City wants to fill those 15,000+ new units coming in, it's going to have to compete with Brooklyn and Queens for people who want the New York experience, and I don't think a nu-rise bedroom community with a Chili's is going to do the trick.
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JCLaw,
Thanks for the explanation. Since you seem knowledgeable, could you explain the impact the abatements have on the JC public school system? I have heard that abatements maybe divert money away from them, but I don't know if this is true.
Posted on: 2006/6/28 12:59
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I've heard this rumor that in Jersey City, hotter weather tends to cause an increase in young people hanging outside. It must be one of those weird "hip-hop culture" things!
Also, apparently this year long white tees are in and oxford blue shirts tucked into khakis are out. Just a rumor though.
Posted on: 2006/6/24 1:33
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How about a shirt that says "WATCH OUT! I'm in the Downtown Jersey City anti-gang patrol!" and then a picture of some kids in long white tees and a line through them.
Posted on: 2006/6/19 13:58
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HAHAHAHAHAHAH OMG this is the funniest thread ever. Each post a classic in its own right.
Posted on: 2006/6/19 3:45
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