Anyone hear when the new Clearview Multiplex will open in Hoboken?

Here is the jclist thread on it -- Hoboken: Clearview Cinemas building five-screen "urban theater" with no parking.

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The closest second run theatre is the Columbia Park Cinema 12 in North Bergen:

http://www.starplexcinemas.com/3009.asp

All shows are $2.


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Well, the police having a gun is no surprise, but I've never heard of them using of ecstasy in making an arrest.

Jersey City cops arrest 4 with drugs, gun in car
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Four Jersey City men were arrested when cops found a handgun and drugs in their car after a traffic stop, reports said.

Police stopped a 1991 black Mercury Cougar at Myrtle and Ocean avenues after a traffic violation yesterday at 1:31 a.m., reports said. As officers approached the car, they said the four people inside began moving around quickly, reports said.

The driver appeared to be sweating profusely and shaking nervously, reports said. The driver told police that he did not have a valid license, and the car belonged to a relative, police said.

Police then spotted a silver handgun sticking out from under the seat and told everyone to get out of the car, reports said. They then retrieved a .25 caliber handgun loaded with five rounds, police said.

Police saw the driver trying to empty the contents of his left shirt sleeve and found two pink and blue pills of suspected Ecstasy. The car was impounded and all the occupants were arrested.

Rezo Jamal Richburg, 18, of Ruby Brown Terrace; Shyquawn Washington, 19, of Lexington Avenue; Perry Capers, 20, of Lexington Avenue and Thomas Johnson, 18, of Winfield Avenue, were charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance and unlawful possession of a weapon. Capers was additionally charged with careless driving and driving without a license.

CHARLES HACK

Teddy is my longtime PATH nemesis. I can't remember when it started but long ago I had to jump the turnstile because he somehow managed to turn it an extra turn and use my last ride. I felt a little strange asking him for money, decided to jump the turnstile (as I didn't have any money on me), and ended up injuring myself. Oh, Teddy, we'll meet again.

As far as puking on the train goes, my friends have always joked that it's a right of passage. One friend tried to go between cars to spare everyone but discovered too late that she was in the end car--and the door doesn't open (a good thing, I think we can all agree). What a mess. Someone was nice enough to give me a teeny, tiny potato chip bag to throw up in once. Never could eat sour cream and cheddar chips again. But I was incredibly grateful!

But my favorite PATH experience....the day I bought my wedding dress. I was heading home around midnight, lost in my own thoughts. I was leaning against the door, a woman was standing in the space to the right of the door, and close to her, a girl was hanging onto the pole for dear life on her way home from celebrating her 21st birthday. Her friends were kind enough to warn everyone that she was about to "blow chunks." In order to give the woman to my right some space, I moved a big step to my left. As I swing my head left, I notice that the guy in the space to the left of the door has his pants unzipped and has his not-so-private parts in his hands. I was completely flabbergasted and didn't know what to do, where to go. For some reason, the words "PUT THAT THING AWAY" come flying out of me. Now, everyone's looking at me because I'm the crazy lady yelling on the PATH train. I somehow decided that I didn't want to be on the train with this guy but that it wasn't fair that I'd have to wait at Christopher 1/2 hour for the next train, so I start screaming at him that he'd better get off (ha!) the train at Christopher St. He motions to me to "keep it down" like this will just stay between us. At Christopher, I am still screaming at him, and (admittedly, in retrospect) no one on the car still has any idea what is going on. I couldn't figure out why no one was helping me! So, finally, I scream out, "Does anyone want the guy who was jerking off to stay on the train?" A packed train collectively gasped and screamed "NO!" The guy literally tipped his hat to me as if to say "well done, you win" and stepped off the train. The drunk girl was so distracted that she made it all the home.....to Hoboken....without puking.

Does anyone know what the occupancies are for the new buildings going up by Grove St? Are they planning to run more trains at rush hour to accommodate the added commuters?

You haven't smelled it recently? I wondered about the toast smell for a while after I moved here and finally had a "duh" moment when I walked by it on Marin and looked at the sign. It's too bad that they are closing as it was one of the few good smells I associate with northern NJ.

Of course it's their right to sell but I will miss the smell. I used to work at a bakery in a neighborhood as bad as that part of JC was back in the day and it closed too. A big bakery was probably the best thing an urban wasteland could have back then - lots of jobs, no toxic waste, and a nice smell too.

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MrGrieves wrote:
I had no idea they were even still operating.

This place was amazing when I was in school. Nice plush sofas (probably second hand, thrift store) and they showed a variety of films. Ambience and selection were phenomenal.

http://www.cablecarcinema.com/

How about a $1 movie theater where you can see movies from a few months ago? (Just before they come out on DVD.) I'm always a few months behind anyway, I might as well save a few bucks. Anyone know 1 like that?

Me thinks, rent an old car repair garage of Newark ave someplace, paint the joint, join Netflix, pick up a projector and an old Dell. A few cheap sofas and we are in.

If I had that kind of money to burn, I'd probably buy one of those gorgeous homes on the cliffs overlooking Weehawken with panoramic views of NYC.

offer wont go above $2mill if that. it's a turd outside with trump inside. i wouldnt want to stay the night - and i am a slut.

It has a "zub-zero" fridge?

Does that go along with the "Panasony" surround sound and the "Fridgedoor" refrigerator?

Actually, there were many comments about Ceviche on another thread called "New Mexican Restaurant in the Heights".

I have gone there off and on. The summer before, it was a BYOB place. I had always liked it, although the last time I went it was a bit of a letdown. From what I have been reading on this thread and another one, that must have been an isolated incident.

Am looking forward to trying the sangria.

4-5Mil is the sweet spot, still could take a year to sell at that price.

Anyone want to take a pool on how much it finally sells for? I think he'll be LUCKY to get half what he's asking right now.

Exactly. What kind of person has $9 or even $6 million to spend and wants to live on Brunswick St.?

Think of what you could get on the waterfront for that kind of money -- heck, you could even afford a decent place in Manhattan.

If this is the place that was disscussed last year on this forum reducing the price to 6.5M won't help sell it. For that price you can have an incredible place in Manhattan.

It's still a crappy building in bad location that this person invested too much money into.

Price reduced for that one family from $9 mil to $6.5 mil OR $32,000 per month ( Brunswick at 1 St.)

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I had no idea they were even still operating.

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December 31, 2006
Relocating
They Don?t Make Passover Matzo Here in Jersey City Anymore
By JENNIFER V. HUGHES
JERSEY CITY

AFTER 74 years of matzo baking at the Manischewitz plant here, it was all coming to an end, and the house rabbi, Yaakov Horowitz, was philosophical.

?The Jewish experience is one of transition,? he said as he prepared to supervise the last kosher-for-Passover run of the crackers before the operation moves to Newark in the spring. Earlier this year, the 100,000-square-foot property was bought by Toll Brothers for $34.6 million. The place where some 75 million sheets of matzo crackers have been baked each year is destined to become another condo development in the city?s gentrifying warehouse district.

?There is a great amount of sadness that the facility so many people looked to for so many years will assume a more, shall we say, mundane character,? said Rabbi Horowitz, as the run of Passover matzo began on Dec. 20. Still, Rabbi Horowitz saw the poignancy in having the final, one-day run take place during Hanukkah. ?Part of Hanukkah is about people connecting the old with the new,? he said. ?We?re thrilled to be entering a state-of-the-art facility.?

The Jersey City plant will continue making other products, which include regular matzo, matzo meal, noodles and jars of gefilte fish, until it closes. Manischewitz also licenses its name to another company for wines.

The new plant, on Avenue K in Newark, will be more efficient and twice the size of the Jersey City factory, Rabbi Horowitz said. Most of the 100 employees in Jersey City will make the move to Newark, company officials said.

Jersey City?s warehouse district was once the heart of a thriving industrial center, filled with factories and rail lines. Its industrial base declined in the 1980s, and about 10 years ago artists began moving into the area, which was designated the Powerhouse Arts District by the city in 2004. That ordinance regulated aesthetic issues, provided for artists? living and working space and mandated affordable housing.

Now, condo and retail projects are completed, in the works or planned for at least six former warehouses. They will add more than 1,000 housing units and almost 800,000 square feet of retail space, said Bob Cotter, the city?s planning director.

The fight over the most prominent artist?s enclave, 111 First Street, which involved residents and preservationists as well as the developer, landed in court; a settlement last June allowed the developer to build 40 stories tall, instead of adhering to the original building?s height. The old building has been demolished, and the design for the new building by Rem Koolhaas is scheduled for completion in mid-January.

Conceptual drawings for the six-story Manischewitz building are similar, calling for a high-rise tower similar in height to 111 First Street, about 400 housing units and 70,000 square feet of retail, said Bob Antonicello, executive director of the city?s redevelopment agency.

That was what some preservationists feared after the 111 First Street settlement.

?If you want to have anything resembling a neighborhood, you can?t have these warehouses packed next to skyscrapers,? said Joshua Parkhurst, president of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy.

A Toll Brothers spokeswoman declined to talk about plans for the site.

The neighborhood that city planners are hoping will become a new SoHo was not so trendy in the 1950s when Bob Starr began serving as the president of Manischewitz, a post he held for 41 years.

?It was horrible ? this neighborhood was one of the worst slums in the city,? Mr. Starr, who was visiting the plant, said, over the roar of the mixing machines.

The matzo meal is mixed on the plant?s sixth floor, then heads down a chute to the fifth, where it is rolled flat and moved by conveyer belt into a huge brick oven that dates to the building?s erection in 1932.

Mr. Starr said the closing of the Jersey City plant was emotional, even though he has been retired since 1992. ?I spent most of my life right here,? he said.

How does adding this guy two years before retirement affect his pension? Was Troy's position a pension booster as well?

Troy quits county plans are not clear
Saturday, December 30, 2006
By JARRETT RENSHAW
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Former Jersey City Police Chief Robert Troy walked away from his $70,000-a-year job with Hudson County yesterday after six months on the job.

Troy served as the city's top cop from December 2004 to July 1 of this year before retiring with a $147,958 payout for unused time and began collecting his annual pension of $96,200 for his 24 years of service to the department.

After retiring, Troy was hired by the county as a confidential aide in the Administration and Finance Department.

Among other things, Troy's duties included coming up with ways to retain Hudson County sheriff's officers and cut overtime, along with serving as a consultant in the joint venture between the county and Jersey City to create a joint police academy.

But he won't be doing that anymore.

"Mr. Troy handed in his resignation, effective today," county spokesman Jim Kennelly said yesterday. "The county supports him and wishes him well."

Troy could not be reached for comment.

Sources said Troy had his eye on the position of chief of detectives in the Sheriff's Office all along but because a state law barred him from taking another law enforcement position within six months of retirement from the force, he was forced to wait.

This week would have been six months after his retirement, and it appears that the job was not his to have.

"We are evaluating a lot of qualified people right now, and we are holding off hiring someone for budget reasons," said Sheriff Joe Cassidy, adding that Troy is one of those people vying for the job.

Cassidy stressed that Troy did not work in his office, but said they talked occasionally about the police academy. He offered no other comments about the resignation.

Sources also told The Jersey Journal that Troy will likely end up in a position at City Hall, but Mayor Jerramiah Healy's spokeswoman, Maria Pignataro, disputed that.

"There are no plans for Robert Troy here," she said.

Yeah slow down baby

The ripper, the master, the overlordian
Playing m.c.s like a old accordion
I get the inspiration from a necessary station
Them sayin I was vacationin
You cant cope with your weak-ass throat
Tryin a sneak a peak in while I freak the notes
Major m.c.s become minor b flats
So retire the mike, get your chains and your bats
Heres your chance to advance, gettin your stance
Im a shoot the holster off your cowboy pants
Pure entertainment, tonights your arraignment
Youre quilty, face down on the pavement
No holds barred, its time to get scarred
You and your squad better praise the real god
The undertaker droppin thunder on fakers
When it comes to lyrics Im as freaky as seka
So lay the mike down slow and careful
cause mine is fully loaded and I have another handful
A clip to slip in and start rippin
Divin and dippin and givin punks a whippin
Just in case you wanna go a few rounds and so
Im down so that you clowns will know
Me gettin burnt or hurt wont be tolerated
I got rhymes up the (huh) forget it, Im constipated

Yeah slow down baby

Yeah slow down baby
Slow down baby

Slow Down!

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Newark Avenue has terrible traffic most of the time, but late night you can blaze.

Although I agree with you that the jj is not known in my book for it's accurate accounting the article did state that " most [not all] of the properties lying between Gifford Avenue to the north, Harrison Avenue on the south, Bergen Avenue on the east and West Side Avenue on the west."


In any case, I have contacted both Mary Spinello, her aid, and Bob Cotter's office. I am freaking out because I was told that since the owner of the property on Fairview submitted paperwork before this ordinance could be approved, he may still be able to go through with his plans. This seems ridiculous. I would think that as long as his request has not been processed than he should be required to wait until this ordinance has been decided. Anyone know how this works?

Hey any musicians, bands interested in helping me set up a similar event to raise money, food and blankets such as below, please contact me asap.

347-789-7508 or brightmoments@gmail.com

Blank-Fest Concert Donates 200 Blankets to help the homeless through Project Homeless Connect New Jersey
On Sunday, December 10th, internet music magazine Let?s Rock America sponsored the very first Blank-Fest in New Jersey, a charitable 12 hour concert that collected blankets for the homeless, at The Crossroads, 78 North Avenue in Garwood, NJ. At the end of the day an estimated 200 blankets were donated to Project Homeless Connect through Monarch Housing Associates.

The concert began at noon and featured a dozen of New Jersey's indie rockers including the Paterson-based duo the Kimballs, Fords-native singer-songwriter Melinda Davis and Wayne rockers She Could Be King. A blanket, new or gently used, purchased admission to the show for the entire day, plus an arm?s length of raffle tickets for giveaways between sets.

Blank-Fest Concert Donates 200 Blankets to help the homeless through Project Homeless Connect New Jersey


Randi Moore, pictured on the right, Monarch Housing Associates' Senior Associate and Team Leader of the Ending Homelessness Team, accepted the estimated 200 blankets on stage from Rich Kubicz. Ms. Moore stated that the blankets will be given to the homeless who attend the Project Homeless Connect New Jersey events on January 25th. She thanked the sponsors of Blank-Fest for selecting Project Homeless Connect as the recipient of these blankets.

The original Blank-Fest was started 10 years ago by Kenn Rowell and Chuck DeBruyn of the band the Baghdaddios in Nyack, NY. It has grown into an annual event collecting hundreds of blankets for the homeless in New York City. The event has now expanded to New Jersey, thanks to Joe DiBlasi and Richard Kubicz, the founders of Let?s Rock America. Monarch Housing and Let?s Rock America plan to make this an annual event. To learn more about Blank-Fest, click here. http://www.letsrockamerica.com/

Sinnott is JCFD's new chief
Friday, December 29, 2006
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy has appointed Deputy Fire Chief William Sinnott - a man with more than four decades of experience who is also less than two years away from retirement - to be the next chief of the department.

"I was stunned and flattered. I did not pursue it," Sinnott, 63, said. "I know the mayor, but we're not close friends - closer than I thought, I guess."

Sinnott, a 40-year veteran, has been acting fire chief for the past two weeks, and officially assumes the role of chief Tuesday, replacing out-going Fire Chief Frederick Eggers.

"Bill Sinnott has an impeccable record serving the Jersey City Fire Department," Healy said.

Since the mandatory retirement age for uniformed employees in the state is 65, Sinnott, who turns 64 in June, will have to leave the post in a year and a half - a fact that prompted one elected official to criticize the choice.

"Normally I joke about Healy putting cronies on the payroll, but this is blatant pension padding and a waste of taxpayer dollars and no joke," said Downtown Councilman Steve Fulop. "If you are serious about moving the department forward you would put someone there who would have some longevity," he added.

Healy spokeswoman Maria Pignataro responded that the mayor didn't take age into consideration in making the appointment, but simply picked "the best person for the job."

Sinnott also fired back at the council freshman.

"I have 40 years of experience as a proven leader and I would ask Councilman Fulop to wait and see what I accomplish before he comments blindly," Sinnott said. "I welcome his performance review, but not at this time after three days on the job."

Please consider donating clothes, food, blankets or any services for the homeless you might provide (gift certificates for hair cuts, personal grooming, etc)that day of January 25th from 10AM until 6:30PM. If you need to leave your items before that time please contact Community Relations Officer, PO Dina Reilly at the East District Command at this contact info: PO Dina Reilly 201-547-5408 jcpdeastdistrict@yahoo.com 207 7th Street (tween Erie & Grove/Luis Munoz) Jersey City, NJ 07302 Quote:

figures -- gotta love that JJ, always getting their details right.

as somebody who owns a 100+ year old home on one of those other streets just outside the zone originally reported, i'm glad to hear other blocks in the beighborhood haven't been totally forgotten. unless, of course, you're our ward's councilwoman. in which case, we can go scratch...

Actually, this is right. I have a map copied from 30 Montgomery, and one portion of this zone falls exactly in the boundaries you outline. Other blocks in the area (Kensington, Jewett, Fairview) are also part of the proposed zone, but the "mass" of the zone is where JJ says.

in greenville, the zone is bounded by Danforth and Lembeck between Garfield and Ocean.

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NONdowntown wrote:
if you're looking to correct false statements, then contact the Jersey Journal, which has consistently reported that the R1A zone in question was bordered by Gifford Ave to the North, Harrison Ave to the South, Bergen to the East, and West Side to the West.