Stopped by tonight. Delicious and very filling. I think she's just getting going and still trying to get organized, but I think it's a great addition to the neighborhood. Gosh, what a change from Soul Flavors just down the block - twice the food for (less than?) half the price.

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Yes, there was a little menu of prices both outside the door and on the wall inside. Most of the food ran about $5-7, if I remember right.

I had a big combination platter - kraut, kielbasa, stuffed cabbage and 3 pirogies for $7.50. (That was the most expensive thing on the menu, I think. Livin' large.)

They also had a cooler with some foods packed to go. I.e., you could stop in and pick up a little container of stuffed cabbage and then have an easy-to-reheat dinner when you get home.

There were also daily specials. Today was potato dumplings. And it looked like they kept refilling the trays with different foods. I really wanted to try everything. Eventually.

I'm like the whitest dude ever and I ride jitneys all the time. They will often stop for me if I am far away and they see me running. I have never experienced what you are describing. Is there something else about your appearance which you are not sharing?

JERSEY CITY PLANNING BOARD
PUBLIC NOTICE
SPECIAL MEETING

Please be advised the following items will be heard at a Special Meeting of the Jersey City Planning Board, scheduled for Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. in the 14th Floor Conference Room of 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, New Jersey.Parking is available on Christopher Columbus Drive.

1. Call to Order
2. Sunshine Announcement
3. Roll Call
4. Correspondence
5. Old Business
6. New Business

7 Review and Discussion of the A Report Concerning the Determination of the Proposed Bright Street Study Area as an Area in Need of Redevelopment. Formal Action may be taken. Carried from the Meeting of January 16, 2008

8. Review and Discussion of the A Report Concerning the Determination of the Proposed Bayfront I Study Area as an Area in Need of Redevelopment Formal Action may be taken.
Carried from the Meeting of January 16, 2008

9. Certification of Artists as recommended by the Jersey City Artist Certification Board

10. Memorialization of Resolutions

11. Executive Session, as needed, to discuss litigation, personnel or other matters

12. Adjournment

MICHAEL A. RYAN, CHAIRMAN, PLANNING BOARD

some of the vans have vanessa on the side (vanessa is either the make or model).

I too when I first started felt they were being racist, but then I realized it was because I was standing in the wrong place or didn't flag them down. If they don't see someone that they think will board, they keep going instead of stopping. btw, you should edit your post... makes you look ignorant.

I really like potato and onion pierogis and wasn"t really happy with Sava's old place -- they were oily and microwaved rather than fresh boiled -- I really hope they do a better job now that they are downtown -- I hope they also carry more vegetarian kinds of pierogis -- mushroom, spinach, sweet potato, etc -- I also hope they have a few vegetarian soups -- I called their old number and wanted to order some take out but it just rings...

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First time I've heard the term "vanessa" used for the jitneys. Why do you say they are "...aka the "vanessa" buses?

I use the jitneys all the time and never have them pass me by so long as I am standing in the right place where they make pickups.

Oh, and the only thing "...raicst?(sic!) ignorant? or just plain stupid?" is your spelling.

I was waiting for a jitney bus aka the ''vanessa'' buses or immigrant buses as I like to call them.

I waited 15 minutes, 3 buses passed me up didn't pick me up I'm a white guy. Is it me or these pieces of **** just like to pick up their own kind?

Nice little glossy magazine about the size of "L Magazine" is now out -- at least I never saw it before -- got Vol. 2 Issue 2 written on it. Covers the more shi-shi places in nice color photos.

Had an interesting ad for a website like eBay that sells only handmade things www.etsy.com artisans might want to check it out -- some JC people are already on it.

Here is "New Magazine" with the subtitle of "Living on the other side of the Hudson"

Here it is online -- I got my copy in the City Hall lobby.

http://www.wearenew.com/

And Hillary is proposing a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures...

WTF?

Am I back in Communist Poland?

Politicos - keep your hands off free market economy!!!

No More Mr. Nice Guy: Obama Mocks Hillary In Stand Up Routine

By NEDRA PICKLER
AP
January 18, 2008

LAS VEGAS ? The White House campaign has brought a new act to Vegas.

Democrat Barack Obama tried to use humor to cut down rival Hillary Rodham Clinton before Saturday's presidential caucus. His "Iowa nice" approach gone, Obama debuted a biting political standup routine Thursday night that mocked his rival, and employed it again on Friday.

Obama began by recalling a moment in Tuesday night's debate when he and his rivals were asked to name their biggest weakness. Obama answered first, saying he has a messy desk and needs help managing paperwork _ something his opponents have since used to suggest he's not up to managing the country. John Edwards said his biggest weakness is that he has a powerful response to seeing pain in others, and Clinton said she gets impatient to bring change to America.

"Because I'm an ordinary person, I thought that they meant, 'What's your biggest weakness?'" Obama said to laughter from a packed house at Rancho High School. "If I had gone last I would have known what the game was. And then I could have said, `Well, ya know, I like to help old ladies across the street. Sometimes they don't want to be helped. It's terrible.'"

"Folks, they don't tell you what they mean!" he said. Obama chuckled at his own joke before riffing on another Clinton answer in the debate, when she said that she is happy that the bankruptcy bill she voted for in 2001 never became law.

"She says, 'I voted for it but I was glad to see that it didn't pass.' What does that mean?" he asked, again drawing laughter from the crowd and himself. "No seriously, what does that mean? If you didn't want to see it passed, then you can vote against it! People don't say what they mean.

"You know what I'm saying is true," he said, then addressed his routine directly at audience members who don't know who they will vote for yet. "Undecideds, remember now, remember what I'm saying."

He continued by responding to a new Clinton radio ad that accused him of having financial ties to supporters of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site that most Nevadans are loath to come to their state.

"I have said over and over again I'm against Yucca," Obama said. "I'm against Yucca Mountain. I think the science is not there. I've never, I've never been for Yucca. Never been for it. Never said I was for it.

"Suddenly you've got the Clinton camp out there saying, `He's for Yucca.' What part of I'm not for Yucca do you not understand?" he said, then laughed along with his audience.

As the laughter subsided, Obama drove home the broader point he's been trying to make against Clinton the entire campaign.

"Those kinds of tricks, that kind of approach to politics is what has to stop because what happens is then nobody believes anything," Obama said. "The voters don't believe what politicians say. They get cynical. Folks in Congress, they'll tell you they're looking out for you _ they're looking out for somebody else. We have to change that politics and that's why I'm running for president."

oops typo - it should read;

Bush backs 145 billion dollar Comic Relief Plan

The problem is that politicians have turned Washington into a "free market".

Here are suggestions to help "renovate" Jersey City government -

- support, help, work for elected officials and candidates that constructively support and work for true reform. If you like Steven Fulop's efforts, contact betterjc.org and offer to help (and also contribute up to $20 to support the two public initiative efforts).

there may be others also worthy of support; Paul Catsandonis has run for council in Ward B and school board, and is a supporter of reform initiatives. In the past, other reform minded individuals have run downtown including Yvonne Balcer and Geoff Elkind.

- Civic JC can use help by getting more involved in the group or on specific projects including the two reform ordinance petition initiatives being done with Councilman Fulop?s group. We also could use assistance reviewing state election reports (campaign finance) and when we set up civic educational workshop among other things.

Go to meetings, register people to vote, join your neighborhood association.

If have do not time to volunteer, but can afford a contribution, contribute to the Powerhouse Arts District Neighborhood Association?s Legal Fund to challenge the changes being made to the PAD Redevelopment Plan in conflict with the city?s master plan. The issues and problems are relevant and precedent setting for the entire city.

.... or just keep venting here....

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you're right, why don't you just stick to the dollar menu at mcdonalds

It is horse shit . The same way they want to intercede with the housing debackle . The party is over people need to take thier lumps. It is a quick fix for a long term problem in an election year.

Has this president ever actually done anything to suggest he believes in a free market? Does awarding giant no-bid contracts to cronies have anything to do with a free market?

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overpriced?????

I hate going back into the city on the weekends after going there 5 days a week.

Whatever happend to a free market ???????

Is anyone annoyed as I am ?


http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080118/economy_stimulus.html

been to brunch twice and dinner once. brunch is excellent
dinner as well. had the porkbelly. the pasta dish is so so nothing special.

Why the hell would you go to a place you don't like a few times?

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On Grove between Newark Ave and Bay St. On the same block as La Conga Grocery and DJ's Chinese.

don't know where stanley's was, what is it near?

Sorry I don't get it......I've been there a few times and it's a Manhattan wanna be. If I want trendy over priced weird food, i'll stay in the City.

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No other posture seemed appropriate.

I went there on Thursday and loved the homemade food. Better than Tania's was on any day.

This deserves a post of it's own. Sava's - Polish Cafeteria has opened in what was formerly Stanleys on Grove St.

346 Grove Street Jersey City, NJ 07302
201-451-1901

They have a variety of hearty, delicious, Polish home cooked food, in serving trays, hot and ready to eat. It's cafeteria style , so no waiter to tip. I just ate there and I recommend it.

I think Jersey City should push to make this more than just a freight railroad, they should run passenger service between NJ to Brooklyn/lower Manhattan if they ever build that raillink to JFK.

Yeah, you should get a load of how many approvals are in place for condo units still on the way. Staggering.

Ouch. This is sort of like that guy who got stabbed in the butt during a mugging on Jersey Ave about a month back. I guess if you have to take a bullet, better it be in the rear end than front end

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You're correct Brewster. It doesn't "say that" on the site that pinkie linked, www.lsnjlaw.org, but they do have an icon link to the http://www.lsng.org/ site on their page at the top(see below).

It's poor web site design on their part as they should make it clear with an actual written link to the info I posted available on the home site.