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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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How about shame on Goldman?

Posted on: 2007/11/5 12:27
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Re: Chicago Sun Times: A 'great city' rises in Jersey
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Just another advert to find prospective tenants to keep the landlords happy and their buildings full.
JC is a cosmetic city and I'm actually looking forward to watch how big this real estate bubble will widen, now that it has burst to see how the landlords squirm and panic.

I've also been told by a trusted stock broker to pull my money (little) out and stick it in blue chip stocks - I'm doing it today as he said the one's that would suffer the most is mom and pop investors / speculators.

Posted on: 2007/11/5 11:29
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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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Yes this is America, the holy land of democracy and civil liberties but apparently not so in JC. Healy the convicted criminal should be thrown out of City Hall and the sock-puppet police commanders should be fired for towing the politicial ideals.

Shame JC, Shame

Maybe the art dudes could do a collection and rent their own cop - then they make a tax claim for protection against their art works and well being.
Then again the dog shelter has some spare pit-bulls they could foster!

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Vote Yes on #3 For Open Space, Parks
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Subject: Vote Yes on #3 For Open Space, Parks

It's that time of the year again! The leaves are falling and Election Day is right around corner, this Tuesday, November 6th.

This year, your vote on statewide public question #3 will decide the future of New Jersey's preservation efforts. Vote yes on #3 to preserve New Jersey's parks, natural areas, clean water, wildlife habitat, farmland and historic treasures and encourage your friends and family to do the same.

On November 6th, New Jersey voters will be asked to approve the Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007. By authorizing the state to issue $200 million in bonds, the Act would provide much-needed funds to keep the state's open space, farmland and historic preservation programs afloat for one more year and to support the Blue Acres program to purchase flood prone properties from willing sellers.

The Garden State Preservation Trust has funded New Jersey's preservation programs since 1998 when voters approved a ballot question by a 2 to 1 margin dedicating nearly 10 years of funds for the Trust. However, the Trust is now running out of money and passage of this question is necessary to keep the state's preservation and park improvement efforts going until a long-term funding source is secured.

Even with current preservation efforts, New Jersey loses more than 40 acres of open space to development everyday. At this rate, our state is projected reach full build out within 30 years. Your yes vote on #3 is needed to ensure that New Jersey can continue to preserve open space, farmland and historic treasures across the state before it is too late.

This November 6th, invest in the future of New Jersey by voting yes on this ballot question and encouraging friends and family to do the same. To find your polling place, visit https://voter.njsvrs.com/PublicAccess/ ... Place/PollPlaceSearch.jsp

For more information, please visit www.NJKeepItGreen.org or read the frequently asked questions and answers below.

Thank you! Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Joanna Wolaver, New Jersey Audubon Society

609-392-1181

Learn More about Question #3 Below

How will New Jersey residents benefit from the passage of the bond act?

Protecting our state's natural areas, farmlands, parks, and historic sites enhances the beauty and quality of life for all New Jersey residents. Even with current preservation efforts, New Jersey loses more than 40 acres of open space to development everyday. At this rate, our state is projected to reach full development within 30 years. We must preserve these lands before it is too late in order to protect our clean drinking water supplies, provide parks for our children, reduce the impact of floods and storms, and keep our communities attractive and safe. Parks and natural areas provide places for hiking, jogging and other physical activity, which increases fitness and reduces obesity. These areas also reduce air and water pollution impacts on public health and associated costs for health care and drinking water treatment. Finally, urban parks have been linked to community revitalization through job creation and neighborhood crime reduction.

How will the money from the bond act be used?

Passage of public question #3 will provide funds to continue the existing Green Acres, Farmland Preservation and New Jersey Historic Trust programs. These valuable state programs preserve open space, working farms and historic sites in communities across the state, protect our drinking water and provide parks and recreational opportunities for New Jersey residents. The bond act will also provide funds for the Blue Acres program to purchase flood-prone lands from willing sellers for open space preservation purposes. Eligible lands are either prone to or have already incurred flood or storm damage and are located in the Delaware, Passaic and Raritan river basin floodways.

Will the passage of public question #3 increase my taxes?

Passage of question #3 will not impose any new taxes, and the funds made available can be paid for with existing revenue. The act allows the State Treasurer to issue bonds, which must be paid back within the next 30 years. Bonding, a common method for funding land acquisition and capital improvements, is the most logical and successful way to fund preservation because it takes advantage of current market values by purchasing land now instead of waiting until it is too expensive or already lost to development. New Jersey voters have approved 11 bond measures since 1961 dedicating funds for preservation efforts.

A yes vote will also help stabilize property taxes. The loss of open space and farmland to development results in increased property taxes as municipalities fund new schools, roads and public infrastructure to support this development. According to a recent report by the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions, studies show that for every $1.00 collected in taxes, residential development costs between $1.04 and $1.67 in services. These costs are ongoing and generally increase over time. The acquisition of open space, on the other hand, requires fewer services and costs taxpayers far less over the long term. These areas quickly pay for themselves, providing ongoing savings and substantial environmental and economic benefits to the community, such drinking water protection, public recreation opportunities, critical wildlife habitat and job creation through ecotourism.

How will passage of question #3 support my town's local preservation efforts?

Passing the act will significantly strengthen local and regional preservation efforts by providing matching funds for the local dollars collected by over 225 municipalities and all 21 counties for open space and farmland preservation projects. The funds will also be used for statewide preservation efforts that do not involve local money.

Where can I get more information and how can I help spread the word?

Visit the Keep It Green Campaign website at www.NJKeepItGreen.org for more information. You can help by voting yes on question #3 and by spreading the word about the ballot question. Please distribute a copy of the vote yes flier available in English and Spanish on the resources page of the website or contact Volunteer Coordinator Liz Silvernail at 215-630-2832 for other opportunities.

The New Jersey - Keep it Green Campaign focuses on ensuring voter approval of this bond act in November as well as securing a long-term funding source for the Garden State Preservation Trust in the future. Members include over 90 statewide, local and regional organizations ranging from sportsmen's groups and environmental organizations to affordable housing and urban park advocates working together to secure a long-term stable source of funding for the acquisition, capital improvement, operation, maintenance, and stewardship of state and local natural areas, parks and historic sites in New Jersey.

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Posted on: 2007/11/5 8:43
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Re: Jersey City for Kucinich Group
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Join the Jersey City for Kucinich DFA group to help Dennis Kucinich get on the NJ Ballot and to select Democratic Party delegates from Jersey City. Please feel free to email me anytime 7 days a week up until Midnight as I work even later most evenings!

It was a pleasure to meet some of you this past Wednesday at NJCU and I look forward to all of us working together. Before we go further, would all of you register by clicking at the Jersey City for Kucinich DFA site.

This site is how we will communicate so please register free at this link.

Also,should you choose, you may want to register at the links below for further Kucinich info:

*The New Jersey Kucinich Meetup Group (This is a Meetup.com group):

*NJforKucinich (yahoo group)

*Dennis 4 President

*Dennis Kucinich Myspace Page

*National Dennis Kucinich for President Yahoo Group

The Campaign needs your Financial Support as well so please Donate whatever you can:

By Credit Card: www.actblue.com/page/kucinich


Thank You.



The two issues that we will be addressing as immediate priorities are the collection of signatures to place Dennis Kucinich on the New Jersey ballot and the selection of delegates to travel to the Democratic Primary and vote for Dennis.

To that end please download and print the attached forms or go to the links where necessary. If you have a question feel free to email me anytime up until midnight, as I must forward all our petitions by December 1st (They must vet and consolidate info before the Dec 10th deadline.). You will be turning in all of your petitions with your name, phone number and email on all sheets you collect to me no later than November 29th so I have time to Fed Ex them to the NJ Kucinich campaign.

Send to me by phone or email each of the following Mondays by Noon your total signatures collected from Monday Noon until following Monday Noon.

Here are the deadline days for reporting:
*Oct 29-Nov 5 - Monday by Noon
*Nov 5-Nov 12- Monday by Noon
*Nov 12-Nov 19-Monday by Noon
*Nov 19-Nov 26-Monday by Noon
*Nov 26-Nov 29-Deliver ALL petitions to Dale Hardman at either my downtown jc address (email for details)or at NJCU by Wednesday, Nov 28th in Room K602 1pm where the regular mtg of this group meets. This will give me time to do any last minute changes before sending to Bill Brown.

Please send me your full name, phone number(s), your address and answer below by # each of the questions below.

1)Petitioner?s Name, town and county(s) being covered
2)Number of presidential signatures already collected
3)Committed to be a delegate ? yes or no
If yes, number of delegate signatures collected (must be at least 100 to qualify)
4)Group email contact if working with others
5)Suggestions, comments and questions

Each signer of YOUR petitions to put Kucinich on the NJ Primary ballot certifies that the following statements are true:(confirm with each person before they sign the following questions below)

1) I reside in the State of New Jersey;
2) I am a qualified voter of the State of New Jersey;
3) I am a member of the Democratic party;
4) I intend to affiliate with the said party at the ensuing election;
5) I endorse the person hereinafter named as candidate for the nomination of President of the United States;
6) I request that you cause to be printed upon the official primary ballot the name of said person as
the candidate for such nomination; (N.J.S.A. 19:23-7)
7) Name of Candidate: Dennis J Kucinich Kucinich for President
(Name must appear the same on all petitions to be filed.)
Residence and Post Office Address City Zip Code:
Residence Address
Post Office Address
(Please Print or Type Name)

New Jersey requires 1400 signatures of registered Democrats on the official petition to place Dennis on the primary ballot for voting on February 5, 2008. The deadline for submitting the petitions to the NJ State Attorney General is December 10, 2007. OUR own Deadline is November 29th

Each delegate candidate requires 100 signatures of registered Democrats in his/her delegate district to be placed on the primary ballot with his/her presidential candidate. There are 20 delegate districts in the state and each district votes for 3 to 5 delegates for a total of 127 for the full state. Each delegate candidate is responsible for gathering the required 100 signatures.

The NJ Democratic State Committee requests all potential delegates to submit an informational form to the state committee by November 12, 2007. This extra requirement is to help the state committee ensure diversity in the delegate selection process.

Detailed information on the primary processes can be found at:
2008 Presidential Election

NJ Dems (right hand panel)

Collection of signatures and recruitment of delegate candidates is well underway here in NJ. We will have a report each week on the number of signatures already collected for Dennis and the number of committed delegate candidates along with a plan for completing the process.

SUMMARY OF THE PETITION PROCESS

1)Print out the presidential petition and delegate petition if you are committed to be a delegate. The instructions and petitions are attached to this email.

2)Complete the information on the first page as appropriate for Dennis J Kucinich. His home address is 12217 Milan Ave, Cleveland, OH 44111. His office address is 11808 Lorain Ave, Cleveland, OH 44111.

3)Collect signatures of registered Democratic or unaffiliated voters. An unaffiliated voter signing the petition is declaring that he/she will vote in the Democratic primary and will automatically be registered as a Democrat upon voting. A voter registered Independent must change voter registration before the primary to be eligible to sign the petition for Kucinich.

4)(If they are not registered to vote you may collect their voter registration card at same time and they can sign petition on the spot. Just make sure you turn in their registration at same time as petition. The signature counts on the petition if they are registered in time to vote in the primary. January 15 is the voter registration deadline for the February primary.

5)The deadline for change of party affiliation is December 17 so you can get other party signatures if they will submit a change of party affiliation form.

5)An important point is that people who are registered ?Unaffiliated? can also sign without doing anything else. However, by signing, they are declaring their intention to vote for Dennis in the primary. When they go to vote in the primary, all they have to do is tell the poll people that they are declaring for the Democratic Party and they can vote Democratic. This is very important since 58% of NJ voters are registered ?Unaffiliated?. That is more than the sum of Republicans plus Democrats.

6)I would suggest that if you want to be a delegate posssibly to collect signatures for yourself on the delegate petition at the same time as you collect signatures for Dennis on the Presidential petition.

7)Finally, although the deadline for the state is December 10, we need to start accumulating all the petitions, get them annotated, get the national campaign approval, fill out the state covering paper work and submit by the 10th. We must collect by Nov 28th so I may send to the NJ State Coordinator by Dec 1st.

We will keep a running count of total signatures collected and delegates committed by means of regular email polls and when we have enough (probably 1400 to 1500) we will notify you to sign the last page and have it notarized. Petitions with less than 100 signatures do count toward the total.

Submit notarized petitions to myself. I will get official approval from Kucinich campaign HQ, complete the official NJ covering forms and submit the complete package to the NJ Attorney General?s office in Trenton.

Delegate candidates must submit an informational form to the office of the NJ Democratic State Committee in Trenton by November 12. Please try to comply but if you miss the date, we can still submit your petition to NJ State on December 10. The form link is below.

A simple and efficient method for collecting many signatures quickly is:

1)Go to the Hudson County Clerk and get the voter registration list for your neighborhood. It may cost you a few dollars depending on how many precincts you need.

(The Office of the Clerk is responsible for the certification and transmission of voter registration lists for the 12 municipalities in Hudson County. Voter registration lists may be purchased at a cost of $0.25 per election district.)

The following information is available on the voter registration lists:

Name of Municipality
Ward
District
Party Affiliation
Name of Voter
Street Address of Voter


2)Start in your neighborhood and go to the addresses of registered Democrats. The time between 4 PM and 7 PM on weekdays is suggested and anytime on weekends.


3)Spread out from your home neighborhood until you get enough signatures. If you fill one petition, print out another and keep going.

4)When petition is complete, have your signature notarized on the last page and submit the original to the designated collector. (submit to Dale Hardman on Wednesday, November 28th)


Detailed information on the primary processes can be found at:

2008 Presidential Election

NJ Dems (right hand panel)


If you have questions, please contact Dale Hardman brightmoment ATT GMail Dot Com, or email NJ4DK@comcast.net . If you need to call someone with questions, call 856-869-4559 and ask to speak to Bill Brown

Let?s get going on these petitions. We only have one month left. With some additional effort by everyone, we will have no problem reaching our goal of 1400 signatures by December 3.


Below are the following to download and print:

*2008 NJ Delegate Selection Plan
*DSC Delegate Form (Apply to be a delegate NOW even if you change your mind later. NJ State will help raise funds if you cannot afford the $1500 to $2000 a delegate must spend on lodging, travel, etc. Below are how many delegates/alternates from each District)

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Delegate District 16: Paired Legislative Districts=31&33 No. of Delegates=3 , Alternates=1 Total=4
Female/Male= 2/2,

Delegate District 17: Paired Legislative Districts=32&36 No. of Delegates=4 , Alternates=0
Female/Male= 2/2,


District Delegates 16: Male/Female 1/2 Total=3, Alternates=1 Male


District Delegates 17: Male/Female 2/2 Total= 4
Alternates=0

Jersey City - District 31
Ward A, Greenville, Voting Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
Ward B, West Side, Voting Districts 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31, 35
Ward C, Journal Square, Voting Districts 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28
Ward E, Downtown, Voting Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 21, 23
Ward F, Bergen-Lafayette, Voting Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35

Jersey City - District 32
Ward B, Westside, Voting Districts 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 26, 27, 30, 32, 33, 34
Ward C, Journal Square, Voting Districts 1, 3, 17, 18, 19, 30, 31, 32
Ward D, Hudson City, Voting Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35

Jersey City - District 33
Ward C, Journal Square, Voting Districts 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 25, 29
Ward E, Downtown, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22
Guttenberg Town, Hoboken City, Jersey City (partial, see above), Union City, Weehawken Township, West New York Town



*PRIMARY ELECTION PETITION FOR DISTRICT DELEGATE/ALTERNATE
CANDIDATES TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION

(you must have your voters fill out this form too if you want to be a delegate. Collect this info at same time you have them sign the Kucinich petition to put him on the ballot. You must collect 100 Signatures Required to be considered as a delegate)

*Voter Registration Forms (different languages, download and print):
http://www.state.nj.us/oag/elections/ ... stration-application.html

*Vote By Mail Application

*Political Party Affiliation Declaration Form

*Kucinich Petition Guidelines Soliciting Voters

*Kucinich On Issues (print and cut in half)

*Kucinich Weekly Raffle Contest for Donations

There are five basic actions needed:

1)Collect signatures on petitions for Dennis for President and for delegates to represent him at the convention
2)Volunteer as a delegate
3)Organize the petition gatherers (Submit ALL petitions to Dale Hardman prior to November 29th)
4)Collect all the petitions and submit them to NJ by December 1st 2007 (Their deadline is Dec 10th but we must submit to Bill Brown by Dec 1st)
5)Get out the vote for Dennis at the primary election

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Re: Jersey City for Kucinich Group
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He looks creepy. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


So do you Vigilante, but at least he's doing something to benefit us all. What are you doing besides taking up air?

Posted on: 2007/11/5 5:52
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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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Is everyone in 101 building from a different country? This is america this is how things are done. It not a jc problem and its not isolated to 101. get over it. Welcome to america.


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Early in 2005, the desk sergeant at the East District Precinct told me there were eight police officers assigned to 111 First Street at all times. For EIGHT MONTHS, the city allowed Lloyd Goldman, a NYC multi-billionaire developer and landlord of 111, to hire uniformed off-duty Jersey City police officers with guns to harass and intimidate approx.100 residents at 111. Some of the drunk cops in the video were almost certainly working for Goldman, (as it was pointed out by someone else in this thread) because an employee of Goldman approached the vehicle with a paper at the end of the tape.

Harassment by the off-duty hired cops at 111 took place on a daily basis, ranging from mildly frustrating, to extremely dangerous, and to downright unconstitutional. An example of a mildly frustrating form of harassment is when one artist was taking some of his artwork out of the building for an exhibition, a cop told him that the artwork was now the property of Lloyd Goldman and he couldn?t remove the work. (True story!) An example of an extremely dangerous situation is when a cop blocked a fire exit with a 4x8 sheet of plywood so he could nap, drink, or do whatever he was doing in the dark street behind 111. There was also the arson. With eight cops watching the building, it is hard to imagine they couldn?t provide any information to the arson squad. Two examples in the unconstitutional category are when police officers hired by Goldman removed a television crew from the studio of one of the tenants. They also attempted to remove a Star Ledger reporter from the building. I have video of this and I also have a photo of the plywood against the fire door.

There were 100 tenants in the building during this time and each could probably tell you at least one story involving unprovoked harassment by the cops. I could easily rattle off another ten examples that personally happened to me.

It is important to understand the chaos and confusion that occurred by having uniformed off-duty Jersey City police officers (w/guns) hired by the landlord in and around the building. Confrontations between the tenants and BLDG Management (Goldman?s goons) were constant. If the tenants needed police intervention, it was impossible to get any justice from the rent-a-cops. We had to call the precinct to get an ON DUTY police officer for the situation. The precinct would then exclaim that they already had officers on site. And we would say, ?yeah, but there working for the landlord. We want someone who will be neutral.? Eventually we would get an on-duty Jersey City police officer, but the whole situation was nuts. It got to the point that when any interaction with a police officer occurred at 111, most of us would first ask if he/she was working for the landlord right now or if they were on-duty being paid by the city. For this reason alone, off-duty police officers hired by private companies/individuals should not be allowed to wear their uniforms or carry their police revolvers.

BTW- it costs about $45/per hour to hire an off-duty Jersey City police officer. If Goldman had 8 police daily for 8 months, it kicked in an additional $2,073,600 towards our boys/girls in blue. Unbelievable!!!

What angers me most is city officials knew all this was happening. We brought our grievances to Mayor Healy several times. Members of the city council were aware of the situation at 111. Certainly Mariano Vega and Junior Maldonado knew. Internal Affairs received reports. Even Judge Gallipoli must have indirectly had a clue, since we were in his court room several times to try to overturn bogus building restrictions that Goldman?s goons dreamed up to harass us and the off-duty hired cops enforced.

A lawyer friend of mine who worked in the legal department of a city in NJ once told me that he doubts you could find another city in this country that would allow their police force to be hired by a private contractor for long extended periods of time such as in the case of 111. I am furious Jersey City has this policy and they should immediately eliminate it. No other citizens in this city should experience the injustice the tenants of 111 went through.

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He looks creepy. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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Early in 2005, the desk sergeant at the East District Precinct told me there were eight police officers assigned to 111 First Street at all times. For EIGHT MONTHS, the city allowed Lloyd Goldman, a NYC multi-billionaire developer and landlord of 111, to hire uniformed off-duty Jersey City police officers with guns to harass and intimidate approx.100 residents at 111. Some of the drunk cops in the video were almost certainly working for Goldman, (as it was pointed out by someone else in this thread) because an employee of Goldman approached the vehicle with a paper at the end of the tape.

Harassment by the off-duty hired cops at 111 took place on a daily basis, ranging from mildly frustrating, to extremely dangerous, and to downright unconstitutional. An example of a mildly frustrating form of harassment is when one artist was taking some of his artwork out of the building for an exhibition, a cop told him that the artwork was now the property of Lloyd Goldman and he couldn?t remove the work. (True story!) An example of an extremely dangerous situation is when a cop blocked a fire exit with a 4x8 sheet of plywood so he could nap, drink, or do whatever he was doing in the dark street behind 111. There was also the arson. With eight cops watching the building, it is hard to imagine they couldn?t provide any information to the arson squad. Two examples in the unconstitutional category are when police officers hired by Goldman removed a television crew from the studio of one of the tenants. They also attempted to remove a Star Ledger reporter from the building. I have video of this and I also have a photo of the plywood against the fire door.

There were 100 tenants in the building during this time and each could probably tell you at least one story involving unprovoked harassment by the cops. I could easily rattle off another ten examples that personally happened to me.

It is important to understand the chaos and confusion that occurred by having uniformed off-duty Jersey City police officers (w/guns) hired by the landlord in and around the building. Confrontations between the tenants and BLDG Management (Goldman?s goons) were constant. If the tenants needed police intervention, it was impossible to get any justice from the rent-a-cops. We had to call the precinct to get an ON DUTY police officer for the situation. The precinct would then exclaim that they already had officers on site. And we would say, ?yeah, but there working for the landlord. We want someone who will be neutral.? Eventually we would get an on-duty Jersey City police officer, but the whole situation was nuts. It got to the point that when any interaction with a police officer occurred at 111, most of us would first ask if he/she was working for the landlord right now or if they were on-duty being paid by the city. For this reason alone, off-duty police officers hired by private companies/individuals should not be allowed to wear their uniforms or carry their police revolvers.

BTW- it costs about $45/per hour to hire an off-duty Jersey City police officer. If Goldman had 8 police daily for 8 months, it kicked in an additional $2,073,600 towards our boys/girls in blue. Unbelievable!!!

What angers me most is city officials knew all this was happening. We brought our grievances to Mayor Healy several times. Members of the city council were aware of the situation at 111. Certainly Mariano Vega and Junior Maldonado knew. Internal Affairs received reports. Even Judge Gallipoli must have indirectly had a clue, since we were in his court room several times to try to overturn bogus building restrictions that Goldman?s goons dreamed up to harass us and the off-duty hired cops enforced.

A lawyer friend of mine who worked in the legal department of a city in NJ once told me that he doubts you could find another city in this country that would allow their police force to be hired by a private contractor for long extended periods of time such as in the case of 111. I am furious Jersey City has this policy and they should immediately eliminate it. No other citizens in this city should experience the injustice the tenants of 111 went through.

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Re: Chicago Sun Times: A 'great city' rises in Jersey
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Yeah, it's great that JC is getting some press in other areas, but Newport isn't the best representation of Jersey City...

Posted on: 2007/11/5 3:39
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Re: Chicago Sun Times: A 'great city' rises in Jersey
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What kind of a dullard would find anything worth writing about in Newport?

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Having read this, I sincerely hope that Chicago residents will visit the metropolitan area with Newport Mall on their sight-seeing agenda.

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Re: Digital Photo Printing for a Sunday Afternoon
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I usually go to CVS in the mall. Actually, you can go to CVS.com or Kodakgallery.com and upload the photos from home. It tells you when they will be ready so when you go to CVS for the pickup you don't have to wait.

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Re: Digital Photo Printing for a Sunday Afternoon
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Target, i believe has the ability to print from a memory card.

Posted on: 2007/11/4 19:50
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Digital Photo Printing for a Sunday Afternoon
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Is there anyplace in the Grove Street area where I can print digital photos on a Sunday? I called Hudson Camera, but they seem to be closed on Sunday.

Posted on: 2007/11/4 17:58
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went to ox last night, everything was delicious and our waitress was very good. we had the mushroom soup (which surprisingly is veggie and dairy free!) and steak tartar (which i did not taste, but my bf reported was teriffic). i had the sea bass which was light, a bit sweet which i like and bf had the scallops which were rich with little german dumplings and brussel sprouts. we had the apple cranberry crisp, lots of apples. ambiance was also pleasant, lots of people, and i would have expected it to be louder, but the sound dynamics were ok.

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New Owner for six-buildings - 107 unit Journal Square complex - will go condo.
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Yerushalmi?s Vision Group buys Jersey City complex

The company?s success in obtaining loans at good terms stand out against the ongoing sub-prime mortgage crisis.

Ariel Rosenberg -- 4 Nov
http://www.globes.co.il

Vision Real Estate Group LLC, owned by president and CEO Amir Yerushalmi, has bought a residential complex in Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey for $12 million. The six-building complex has 107 apartments. The company plans to renovate and sell the apartments at prices ranging from $135,000 for a 50-sq.m. studio to $330,000 for a 120-sq.m. four-room apartment. Total proceeds are estimated at $20 million. Renovations are expected to take two years.

Yerushalmi said that the project would be financed by establishing four companies that will represent US and non-US investors. The company?s success in obtaining financing for 80% of the project at 6% interest stands out in light of the ongoing sub-prime mortgage crisis.

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globe ... p?did=1000270779&fid=1725

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Chicago Sun Times: A 'great city' rises in Jersey
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A 'great city' rises in Jersey
Newport developing a name for itself along Hudson River

Chicago Sun Times
November 4, 2007

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- The Garden State has been my pathway to New York. When I was a toddler my dad was a purchasing agent at the Swift & Company meatpacking plant in Jersey City. During the 1990s I crashed at the home of the Aquanetta's lead guitarist in Hoboken, N.J., and we'd see Merle Haggard at Tramps in New York City. No destination with that story -- I just love mentioning the Aquanettas and Hag in the same sentence.

Now that Hoboken is priced up, the smart traveler checks out Jersey City.

Jersey City seems to have such a forlorn connotation. The part of Jersey City where I recently stayed is not called Jersey City, but is referred to as Newport (pop. 11,500).

The master-planned mixed use Newport is on Jersey City's rebeautified Hudson River waterfront, across from Manhattan's World Financial Center.

I stayed at the Courtyard Jersey City Marriott, adjacent to the Newport/Pavonia PATH station. I took the train to Brooklyn, Manhattan and to the Lower East Side where I drank overpriced mezcal at a bar called Death & Co. (For more, read blogs.suntimes.com). The subway ride was more efficient and safer than back in the day when I trekked back and forth from

Hoboken to New York. Trains from Newport run 24 hours daily to the World Trade Center and lower Manhattan, Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Penn Station.

Newport reminded me a bit of Oak Brook, the tony suburb west of Chicago. There's the 20-year-old 1.2 million-square-foot Newport Centre Mall with an 11-screen AMC movie theater, eight office buildings and a 443-unit condo building that is sold out.

Most important, I found ample fine dining within walking distance of my hotel. Manhattan restaurateur Sushil Malhotra serves excellent Indian cuisine at Cafe Spice, 537 Washington Blvd., (201) 533-0111, and I enjoyed the buttermilk mashed potatoes (just $3.95) while watching baseball at Dorrian's, across the street from my hotel at 555 Washington Blvd., (201) 626-6660. According to Zagat, South City Grill, 70 Pavonia Ave., at the waterfront, (201) 610-9225, is the highest rated seafood restaurant in New Jersey. South City Grill has the best raw bar in the area.
'Unique, like Manhattan'

A portion of the six mile Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is behind the hotel. The path begins at Liberty State Park on the southern end of Jersey City and heads north to Newport and on to Hoboken. I awoke early on a Saturday morning and discovered a farmers market in front of the PATH station. There's also the Experience Spa and Salon, which opened in August at 20 River Dr., (201) 626-6262. Owner Gyu Lee came to Newport because operating costs are less than what it costs at his other spa in midtown Manhattan.

"There's tax on massages, facials and everything else in New York," said Lee, a 42-year-old native of Seoul, South Korea. "There's only a tax [7 percent] on massages in New Jersey. People spend an average of $80 to $120 in my spa in Newport. And Newport is developed around the PATH train. It's more active and a mixed population is coming here. It is unique, like Manhattan."

During any visit I'd head to the shopping mall's second level and check out the vintage black-and-white pictures of the industrial Erie Terminal (circa 1950s) where the mall stands today. A Sopranoesqure regular at Dorrian's suggested this visit and it puts Newport in perspective. The photo of ramshackle warehouses and rickety piers is adorned with the Alexander Hamilton quote, "One day a great city will rise on the west bank of the Hudson River."

Newport is being developed by brothers Jamie and Harrison LeFrak, managing directors of the Lefrak Organization in Queens, N.Y., and the Simon Property Group (which manages and leases the mall). The LeFraks are grandsons of company chairman Samuel LeFrak, the monarch of post-World War II middle-income housing in New York. LeFrak died in 2003 at age 85 and gave Newport its name.

"The area, which is Newport, started life as the major railyard for the Erie Railroad," Jamie LeFrak said last week from Manhattan. "The Erie went bankrupt in the 1950s and was merged into the Lackawanna Railroad. Both businesses died and 400 acres of industrial railroad tracks, railroad equipment and rubble were left behind. Junkyard dogs."

LeFrak, 34, grew up in Manhattan. He visited Newport as the project evolved. Since construction began in June 1986 more than $2.5 billion has been invested in Newport, including new roads, sewers and storm drains.
Jackie Robinson was here

You also can see how far Newport has come by visiting Journal Square in the heart of Jersey City. The square, bus depot and PATH station is anchored by a statue of Jackie Robinson. I had forgotten Robinson became the first African American to play organized baseball on April 18, 1946, when he took the field for the Montreal Royals against the Jersey City Giants on the opening day of the International League season.

The game took place at the since-razed Roosevelt Stadium, built by the WPA at Danforth Avenue and Route 440 in Jersey City. Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley set the wheels in motion for his team's relocation to Los Angeles by playing 1956 and '57 home games at Roosevelt Stadium. (The great Ebbets Field Flannels has just produced a vintage Jersey City Giants/Roosevelt Stadium T-shirt, $24; visit www.ebbets.com.)

Across the street from the sparse Journal Square, the landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre shows periodic movies under the auspices of Friends of the Loew's (www.loewsjersey.org). The nonprofit group was formed after the Loew's was almost demolished in 1986. The theater reopened in 2003. The Loew's Jersey was designed in 1929 by Chicago-based theater architects Rapp and Rapp, who also designed the Chicago Theater. Hoboken native Frank Sinatra decided to become a singer in 1935 after seeing a Bing Crosby movie at the Loew's Jersey. Nancy Sinatra and Frank Jr. were born at Margaret Hague Hospital in Jersey City.

"One thing the Newport site came with was a subway station," LeFrak said. "When we started the subway station was closed most of the day. There was no reason to go there. But because of the subway station we were able to lead the project with residential. You could create a safe residential location from which people could ride the subway into Manhattan in only one stop. Once residential was in, it made sense for office and retail." The Pavionia/Newport PATH station expanded its hours in 1990 after a $25 million facelift.

Over Labor Day weekend, Jersey City ranked 23rd in the Priceline.com list of the 50 most popular U.S. destinations. The 187-room Courtyard Marriott was sold out on Labor Day weekend. Room rates ranged from $189 to $219 compared to around $300 a night in a comparable New York City hotel.
Part of Jersey City

It took me a while to get used to the fact that Newport was part of Jersey City. I mentioned Newport to "Jersey Boy" Bob Gaudio of the Four Seasons and he had not heard of it. LeFrak said, "There's people out there who don't realize it, although our signage says 'A Jersey City Community on the Hudson River Waterfront.' Way back when Hoboken was Newport, but Hoboken at a head start. Jersey City's reputation has undergone a change over the last 10 years. It may not be as visible in Chicago as it is in New York and New Jersey, but Jersey City was blighted in the 1960s and '70s because of the evacuation of the transportation industry. People no longer sent goods around on trains and barges to manufacture goods in lower Manhattan. Jersey City's population dropped from 300,000 in the 1950s to 200,000 in the 1970s."

According to my trusty 1939 WPA guide "New Jersey: A Guide To Its Present and Its Past" Jersey City (pop. 316,715) was advertised as "Everything for Industry." The guide says, "Its site at the upper end of New York Bay has made Jersey City the terminal for nine trunk line railroads and steamship lines. Leading industry products are soaps, pencils, cans, mouthwash, cigarettes, macaroni, meats and steel. Other factories among the hundreds in the city produce a variety of goods ranging from electric elevators to pinless diapers."

In a June 2006 report, The Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University revealed that Newport construction accounted for more than 22,500 jobs between 1986 and 2005. A block from my hotel I found the 36-story Newport Tower, one of the tallest buildings in New Jersey. Tenants include Clear Channel and USA Networks.

LeFrak added, "In the last 10 years, not only our development has been successful but many neighbors have built condos and office buildings including Donald Trump (who is building luxury high-end condos south of Newport). Financial institutions like Goldman Sachs has a presence on the Jersey City waterfront, and they all changed the nomenclature of how people perceive the place."

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/travel/634115,TRA-News-Detours04.article

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Re: Heights - The Price of New Construction?
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"MOST homes in the Heights were built between 1860 and 1920."


As per 2000 census data for 07307
Housing Units in 07307 Zip Code (Year 2000 census)
Total Housing Unit: 16896
Structure Built Year
1999 to March 2000: 92
1995 to 1998: 169
1990 to 1994: 301
1980 to 1989: 815
1970 to 1979: 1380
1960 to 1969: 1850
1950 to 1959: 2124
1940 to 1949: 2497
1939 or earlier: 7668

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Re: Tree Service in Jersey City?
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If you are not in a hurry, Bob at Hamilton Tree Co. does a great job and is reasonable. He is also authorized to do work for the city. 201 572-3055, tell him Marc from VVP sent you.

Posted on: 2007/11/4 3:04
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Re: Question #3: yes or no - Hudson Reporter
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vote yes, by dedicating funds it reduces "some" of the politics to get the money where it is needed.

next up - we need a muncipal open space/historic dedicated funding mechanism.

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Question #3: yes or no - Hudson Reporter
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11/03/2007

Question #3: yes or no

Voters to consider approving funds for open space on Election Day

Ricardo Kaulessar
Reporter staff writer

This Election Day, citizens of Hudson County and across the state will be faced with four statewide ballot questions at the polls.

One of those is Question No. 3, which asks voters to approve the Green Acres, Farmland, Blue Acres and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2007.

If passed, it would authorize the state to issue $200 million in general obligation bonds to provide funds to continue New Jersey's open space, farmland and historic preservation programs for a year or more, and to support the state's Blue Acres program to purchase flood-prone properties.

Funds provided over the past ten years from the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT), a financing authority that manages funds for the highly-successful Green Acres and the farmland and historic preservation programs, dried up after Governor Jon Corzine and the N.J. Legislature were unable to agree on funding for the trust.

And it was only apropos that a press conference last Monday was held at Jersey City's Reservoir No. 3 to tout the benefits of Question No. 3, and to encourage the public to answer "yes" to the question.

Speakers for the event included Mayor Jerramiah Healy, City Council President Mariano Vega (in his role as the head of the Hudson County Department Of Parks, Engineering & Planning), State Assemblyman Louis Manzo (N.J.-31), Hackensack Riverkeeper Captain Bill Sheehan, NY/NJ Baykeeper Greg Remaud, Gary Rice of the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection, Steve Latham of the Jersey City Reservoir Preservation Alliance (responsible for the upkeep of Reservoir No.3) and Kevin Moore of Newark's Weequahic Park Association.

Also in attendance were members of various open space preservation groups both on a local and state level.

Among them was Eric Stile of the N.J. Audubon Society, one of the spokespersons of the N.J. Keep It Green Campaign, a consortium of over 90 environmental groups working to promote Question No. 3.

"It's fair to say the gas tank is empty," Stile said. "A vision without funding is a hallucination...bottom line is we're out of money."

Why Question No. 3?

The "question" of Question No. 3 is - why is it on the ballot?

In June, Governor Jon Corzine and the N.J. Legislature agreed to leave it up to voters to decide whether or not they want to continue funding the GSPT for another year.

Ballot Question No. 3, if approved by voters, would allow the State Legislature to issue bonds that would be paid back in the next 30 years from existing revenue sources, such as the state's income tax and sales tax. Thus, it will require a tax increase.

The $200 million gained from the sales of the bonds would be allocated as follows: $109 million for open space and park development, $73 million to preserve farmland, $6 million for historic preservation and $12 million to acquire flood-prone properties along the Passaic, Raritan and Delaware rivers and their tributaries.

Local municipalities usually apply for grants from the state's Green Acres program in order to use the grants for the acquisition of open space for new parkland or preservation of existing land from any pending development.

According to Gary Rice of the DEP, who cited the data on grants issued by the Green Acres Program in 2004, the last year when data was collected on the amount of money municipalities were given, Jersey City received $1.5 million. The monies have gone to the development of such parks as Bayside Park, located off Garfield Avenue, currently undergoing renovation.

But Question No. 3 is facing opposition from various groups such as Americans for Prosperity, led by Bogota Mayor and longtime Republican activist Steven Lonegan. Lonegan claims that there should be no bonding by the state government when it is currently over $33 billion in debt. He also said that the state will increase taxes in the future to pay off the debt incurred from paying off the bonds.

Their answers to the question

With the backdrop of Reservoir No. 3, its lake and the birds that occupy the reservoir, speakers touted the importance of answering Question No. 3.

Healy said the funds that would be generated from bonding if Public Question No. 3 passes is money "well-spent" to develop open space.

Jersey City has plans to develop the reservoir in future years as a passive recreation site, and will depend on Green Acres funding for that endeavor. The city also completed a recreation master plan for the renovation and development of all the city's parks.

"Those funds can be used to maintain [Reservoir No. 3], make it more accessible so it can be used by more people and make it safer," Healy said.

Manzo said voters should "feel good" about voting for the ballot issue on Election Day.

"It's something that will pay back dividends for Jersey City and for the residents living in the urban areas in one of the state's most densely populated areas," Manzo said.

Latham said the funding will not only benefit the development of Reservoir No. 3, but also other open space in years to come.

"Future generations are going to look back and wonder why we didn't save things," Latham said. "To say we didn't have enough money is a ridiculous thing to say."

Comments on this story can be sent to: Ricardo Kaulessar at rkaulessar@hudsonreporter.com

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Re: State may close Greenville Hospital
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Greenville Hospital is saved - for now

State health board puts off recommendation to close

Ricardo Kaulessar
Reporter staff writer

Greenville Hospital has two deadlines: Six months if Jersey City can come up with $1.5 million to keep it open, or 90 days if the city can't.

That was the outcome of a hearing at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton Thursday, when the NJ State Health Planning Board convened to make a determination on the closing of the 100-bed hospital located in the southern part of Jersey City.

LibertyHealth Systems, the organization that operates Greenville Hospital, has looked to close it since April, citing a $3 million deficit. LibertyHealth also claims a duplication of medical services offered by the Jersey City Medical Center, the other Jersey City hospital it operates.

The company filed a certificate of need application with the NJ Department of Health and Human Services to close the hospital. If the board decided that the hospital should be closed, members would have recommended their decision to the state's Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs.

Instead, the board took Mayor Jerramiah Healy up on his offer made during the meeting to commit $1.5 million to keep the hospital open for another six months. But the board added a condition: if the city did not produce the money within 90 days, they will convene another meeting to decide whether or not to recommend closing Greenville Hospital.

The board made the decision after four hours of hearing public comments which unanimously opposed closure, as well as presentations from those who advocated for closing.

The result was that the 200 people who showed up to save Greenville Hospital got something of a minor miracle. And it didn't go unappreciated, as members of the public offered rousing applause and handshakes to the board members.

After the meeting, Healy was happy, but remained realistic about the board's decision.

"Today, the decision bought extra time," Healy said. "Now we must work with the city's business administrator and the City Council to locate additional funds to try to keep Greenville Hospital open."

Just some more time and accuracy

For those who wanted the hospital to stay open, one key word was time.

Mayor Healy and other officials at the meeting pleaded with the health board to offer a little more time before they made a decision, to allow Jersey City government to work with elected officials on county, state and federal levels to find fiscal and operational solutions to keep the hospital alive.

For officials, and especially for patients, it was the time that would be tacked on if they had to travel the extra three miles to the Jersey City Medical Center. It could make the difference between life and death, some said as they cited the problems with daily traffic and the decreases in public transportation.

That was the sentiment expressed by local resident Linda Jackson, who credited Greenville Hospital for saving her life when she suffered from a staph infection. She claimed she could have had tougher time she had to travel to the Medical Center.

"My health does not depend on a clock," Jackson said. The other word bandied about during the meeting was inaccurate.

As in state Senator-elect Sandra Bolden Cunningham made a plea for the board to delay their decision, she said testimony from a number of speakers at the meeting would shed light on "a lot of inaccurate and misleading information" in the certificate of need filed by LibertyHealth.

Lorenzo Richardson, aide to City Councilwoman Viola Richardson (also a relative), pointed out that by closing the Greenville Hospital, LibertyHealth has projected spending $6 million total for retirement benefits and the commercial mortgage of the hospital building if they close - twice the amount of the hospital's deficit. It doesn't "add up," he said. He also added that other information provided by LibertyHealth to close Greenville Hospital, ranging from the claims of duplication of services and the convenience of public transportation for patients to travel to other hospitals, should be scrutinized further.

Still making his case

After the hearing ended, LibertyHealth CEO Stephen Kirby tried to mask his frustration when he was told that plans to close the hospital would have to wait. He decided to play the role of the good sport.

"I'll work with Mayor Healy starting tomorrow, and will continue to work with him if he can put up the $1.5 million," Kirby said. "But even if the hospital survives, it won't be an acute care facility because there would be too many beds."

Kirby also said that he would like to see a federally qualified health center (FQHC), which is a clinic receiving funding from the U.S. government, take over the Greenville Hospital space.

Kirby said he was "most sensitive to lies" from various speakers during the public comment portion, who criticized him for everything from fiscal mismanagement to insensitivity, to the plight of the patient, to not reaching out to the community enough.

But he also appeared to have earned accolades from the board for detailing the financial plight of the LibertyHealth system, only for the same board to question whether or not LibertyHealth has done enough to keep it from closing.

Comments on the story can be sent to: rkaulessar@hudsonreporter.com.

Posted on: 2007/11/4 2:11
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Tree Service in Jersey City?
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Hi,

We've got a huge cherry tree in our backyard (near Hamilton Park) that could use a good trim. Is there anyone who can recommend a good (and reasonably priced) tree service?

Thanks,

-- mark

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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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I do like how the cop on the latest video asking questions or answering questions refused to continue when he noticed the camera was 'on'.

Considering the cops job is mostly done out in public or in a public space what did he fear - accountability!

Posted on: 2007/11/3 20:53
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Re: City Foreclosure Site?
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If you're referring to property tax liens and foreclosures, the City currently does not advertise those on the official website.

The City Tax lien sale usually takes place in June, just prior to the end of the fiscal year (Jul 1 - Jun 30). There may also be a water lien sale during the year. Lien sales are required to be advertised twice in the local paper of record, and property owners are required to be noticed twice. Note, these are for municipalities on the state fiscal year. Calendar year municipalities can advertise 4 weeks prior to the sale, but since the fiscal year process can't start until the 11th day of the 11th month of the fiscal year, it's called an "accelerated sale".

If an outside buyer (investor) purchases a tax lien, they may foreclose after 2 years, providing they have also paid the subsequent taxes. It's the subs and the time that make this a tough game for the individual investor, although there are several small investors who do quite well and who are familiar attendees at Jersey City's, Newark's, and other sales.

In my experience, tax collectors make it clear prior to the start of the sale that "if you're here to buy your neighbor's house and evict them, you have a misconception about the process". At this point, several people get up and leave.

At any time (and often even after - called a vacated judgment) up to the time of foreclosure, the property owner can redeem the tax sale certificate and pay the back taxes, fees, and interest.

If the lien is held by the City (those properties for which liens are not purchased during the lien sale), foreclosure proceedings can begin after 6 months. Again, the property owner always has the right of redemption.

Foreclosures are also required to be advertised, but currently not on the website. That is the perogative of the Tax Collector and the Administration.

Again, if you're looking to obtain a property for unpaid taxes, you have to purchase the lien, pay the subs (otherwise some else can purchase the following year's lien), and see it through to the end.

Now, if you're referring to missed mortgage payments, the City would have no info on that.

N.J.S.A. 54 covers taxation in more detail than you'd ever want to know, and the legislature's website is not terribly user friendly.

Posted on: 2007/11/3 20:38
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Re: Are Cops drinking on duty in JC? you have to see this video!!!
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Kudos and more kudos to you guys and all the good decent folk who are bringing this story into the daylight of public scrutiny where it belongs. An earlier post likened the ?Drunken Cops? story to a tangled thread that once tugged begins to unravel a tapestry of , well, who knows what at this point? If you ask me, their particular peccadillo seems to nestle rather cozily within a larger culture of corruption that is apparently making Jersey City world famous. Which may explain to some degree why the story was ignored from the outset by at least some of the press. Corruption in Jersey City? Where?s the news in that?

How long till the next election?

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Re: City Foreclosure Site?
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profitfromsomeoneelsesmisfortune.gov

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