Never been, but I think Kim's in Newport shows some arthouse stuff. Website is down at the moment though.

http://www.mondokims.com/

Seem to me a great waste that the lovely theater at the JC Museum isn't put to this use. It's not like they're doing much else with it nightly. Surely it would fit with their mission and fund itself to cover the overtime or whatever.

Given the demographics of this City (diversity in that 50 languages are spoken here daily, lots of artists, academics, professionals, etc.), it's surprising that there is no equivalent to a Rialto, Landmark Sunshine, Angelika or the Quad. Does anyone know if something like this is planned over the next couple of years. If not, to see something like this come to fruition, should a petition be started or something?

I agree with Publicius that this cannot be good air for us to breath. It certainly causes one to feel nauseated.

Is there a lawyer on the List that would care to investigate our options? Class action? Or do we just barrage the City Council with complaints?

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It was I, grilling fresh raccoon.
I guess the wind was in your direction.
My apologies.

I called when it was so bad last time and have no idea what happened after the call. Clearly nothing of any significance. I didn't notice it for about a week, then this morning at around 8am it started. I would like to get an air quality/composition test done when that junk is floating in the air. It is unbelievable that it continues---I don't know how workers in the turnpike tollbooths can tolerate it hour after hour either.

Nice description, Publius, by the way.

BURINING IN PLAIN SIGHT

So a month goes by and I make several complaints to very nice inspectors who tell me they dutifully go down and make an inspection, and nothing happens. I was driving by last night so I made a quick detour into the facility to take a look and see. It's like a vision of the underworld, Charon like figures dumping on a huge (two block long by three stories smoldering mountain of mulch from wooden pallets. There is no way that this is an appropriate use in the middle of a City. I have also noticed that the smoke gets worse on weekends and in the evening after the local inspector go home. Call the state hotline if you notice this. Their number is
DEP 1 877 WARNDEP

I agree with you MrR, nothing worse then humiliating a needy but proud family or person for some publicity pics.

There would have to be alternate PR ways, then to demoralize someone's self-esteem by letting the world know this family is poor and wouldn't survive without the Healy Foundation.
It a cheap and nasty way of doing charity work, but fits in perfectly with the JC culture of doing business.

Too bad Fairview Avenue is about 6 blocks north of Gifford Avenue, and thus outside the "spot-zone" in question and would not be within the protection of this ordinance.

Nice to know the city's "Senior Planner" doesn't have a map to look at (and neither does the JJ these days.)

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NONdowntown wrote:
so should all charities be forced to cease publicizing their good work, or only the ones founded by politicians.








No, but their could have been a story written without the photo op.Maybe those kids were embarrassed to be singled out as in need of help.Giving a kid a bike for christmas is one thing but the photo op with the checks seemed in poor taste.

Would those be the needy Lefrak, Barry, Panepinto, Filopoulos, Silverman et al. families?

so should all charities be forced to cease publicizing their good work, or only the ones founded by politicians?

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Nice to give stuff to the needy but was it necessary to make them pose for a picture in the paper.A truly good deed should be done discreetly.

I'll take a $250 voucher!

Delay on protection rezoning

Friday, December 22, 2006
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

At the request of Ward B Councilwoman Mary Spinello, the Jersey City City Council has tabled an ordinance to prevent developers from buying large, Victorian-style homes, ripping them down and then replacing the one house with two.

"I wanted to find out the legality of this before we put out an ordinance that would be challenged in court," Spinello said. "There were some questions of 'spot zoning,' and I am awaiting an opinion from the city's corporation counsel."

Tabled at the council's Dec. 13 meeting, the special R-1A zone would have applied to a few blocks on the city's west side - most 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 some cases, the ordinance would have singled out, or "spot zoned," a few houses, Spinello said.

Originally, the ordinance was intended to apply to areas in Greenville and the west side. But Ward A Councilman Michael Sottolano objected to Greenville's inclusion in his role as a Planning Board member, and those blocks were removed.

"Jersey City should have taken steps to protect these houses long ago," said Duncan Avenue resident Charleen Burke. "Right now, the council is leaving the fate of these homes in the hands of predatory developers."

Two projects are in the pipeline - one on Fairview Avenue, the other on Bentley Avenue - that would be affected by this ordinance, said city Senior Planner Kristin Russell.

Healy Foundation feeds needy families
Friday, December 22, 2006

The Jerramiah T. Healy Charitable Foundation handed out $41,250 worth of food vouchers to needy families in Jersey City this week.

"Our mission is to help the needy in Jersey City," foundation chairman James Morley said. "The board members agreed it would be good to give it to needy families around Christmastime."

The Shop-Rite vouchers - worth $250 each - were distributed Wednesday to the families of 165 economically disadvantaged students; five from each of Jersey City's 33 public schools, officials said.

Guidance counselors and principals identified the families, said Jersey City school district spokesman Gerard Crisonino.

Shop-Rite donated $9,900 toward the vouchers, Morley said.

Earlier this year, the one-year-old foundation netted $65,000 at a golf tournament held on its behalf at the Liberty National Golf Course and pulled in $20,000 at a fund-raiser held last month.

The foundation has roughly $35,000 left in its account, he said.

KEN THORBOURNE

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I happen to like having Henderson's Lumber Mill downtown, as it provides a needed service close by for those of us who don't choose to go to Home Depot/Lowe's or it's too far away.

Lech Walesa's dad used to work at that place before he died, and there used to be photos of him with every major US politician you could name involved with Poland or looking for Polish vote

"The parents of Lech Walesa -- head of the Solidarity union, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and President of the Republic of Poland -- lived in Jersey City. His father worked at the Henderson Lumber Mills. This local lumber yard displays many photos of Lech Walesa's visit to Jersey City. In 1981, when the Polish puppet government outlawed Solidarity, union figures found sanctuary in Jersey City. "

And this article from 23 years ago about Jersey City, published in the NYT, is quite interesting:



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March 20, 1983
JERSEY CITY
By MICHAEL SPECTER
JERSEY CITY has been around for a long time - long enough to acquirea reputation as a gritty manufacturing center that reached its peak i n another century. But visitors these days sometimes talk about it a s if a team of urban archeologists had just crossed the Hudson R iver and uncovered the lost city of Atlantis.

There is something distinctly historic, even anachronistic, about New Jersey's second-largest city, with its robust collection of 19thcentury housing still in fine shape and its tangle of unused railroad tracks and decaying piers acting as a reminder that it once served as a major transportation center.

But it is not really the historic flavor of its many neighborhoods, ranging from the elegant Greek-revival architecture of Hamilton Park to the classic row houses of Bergen Hill, that has suddenly turned this 15-square-mile city into a boom town where development and restoration are ubiquitous. It is housing that people can afford, only minutes from Manhattan.

''We could just never afford this space across the river,'' said Elizabeth Saffir, who with her husband, Ralph, purchased a five-story brownstone in the Van Vorst section last year. ''We looked pretty hard, but you have to sacrifice too much to remain in Manhattan.''

The Saffirs paid $110,000 for their house, and plan to spend almost that much to restore it. While bargains are not as plentiful now as they were five years ago, space in Jersey City is far less costly than in Manhattan, or even in the brownstone communities of Brooklyn that offer similar types of housing. When Hoboken - the first close-in New Jersey town to be overrun by New Yorkers looking for cheap urban housing - got too expensive, people looked to neighboring Jersey City for the next good deal.

''In the downtown area, where we concentrate, you can still buy a two-family home in one of the historic districts for less than $100,000, although it would probably need substantial renovation,'' said Toni Boyne of Boyne Realty, adding that a refurbished brownstone would cost at least $150,000. Property taxes are $119.18 for each $1,000 of assessed value.

Rental apartments vary greatly in cost, but local real-estate agents say the average two-bedroom in one of the city's better neighborhoods rents for $600 to $900 a month.

''We've always been in the right location,'' said Mayor Gerald McCann, ''but until recently there was a huge psychological barrier called the Hudson River.'' Although the river is still there, opposition to crossing it each day has eroded at about the same pace as the cost of housing in New York City has escalated.

Jersey City bills itself as a city of neighborhoods, and there is wide diversity, both of type and quality. For the most part, however, it is in the historic communities downtown where the signs of a renaissance are truly evident.

The city was first settled by the Dutch in the 1600's and some of its sections reflect that heritage, among them Paulus Hook, the city's oldest neighborhood and the site of a Revolutionary War battle, and Van Vorst, where hints of past opulence are imprinted upon the facades of many elegant townhouses. In those sections, and in Bergen Hill and Hamilton Park, homes are being restored at a rapid pace.

Apart from their grace and grandeur, these neighborhoods share several enticing qualities. The first is easy access to PATH trains, which for 30 cents take commuters to the end of the line at 33d Street and the Avenue of the Americas in about 15 minutes. The second is proximity to the waterfront, where Harbour City, a futuristic $2 billion urban-development project that will combine residential and commercial structures, is scheduled to rise over the next 15 years.

The waterfront is also the home of Libery State Park, New Jersey's most heavily used urban recreational facility. It is a wonderful place to take in the arresting vista of Manhattan or to gaze up at the nearby Statue of Liberty. Park visitors can take ferries to Liberty Island or to nearby Ellis Island.

Jersey City has the reputation of being a dangerous place to live, but the image may be worse than the reality. Last year, it ranked 17th in crimes per capita among New Jersey cities.

The incidence of crime varies widely within the city. Crime is not as serious a problem downtown, where several large corporations - most notably Colgate-Palmolive, the largest private employer in Jersey City - have many employees. Some of the less densely populated areas of the city, however, are not nearly as safe.

''Things are happening so quickly in many parts of the city that even the recent census figures don't begin to tell the whole story,'' said Arthur Hatzopolous, deputy director of the city's Department of Housing and Economic Development.

Despite the large influx of young professionals from Manhattan over the last several years, Jersey City is still basically a working-class town. Of its 223,532 residents, 57.1 percent are white, 27.7 percent are black, 6 percent Asian (mostly Filipino) and the remainder - most of them Hispanics - identified themselves in the census only as ''other.''

Among ethnic groups, there are many Hispanics, Russians and Greeks. There is also a large Polish population, and residents point with pride to the house in Hamilton Park where Lech Walesa's late father lived.

Night life in the city runs to gatherings at the local taverns, which are in abundance almost everywhere. There are some good restaurants, most notably Casa Dante, a noisy Italian place on Newark Avenue with solid food at moderate prices, and the Summit House in Journal Square, a pleasant converted Colonial farmhouse. There are also many fine ethnic specialty shops for food.

But essentially Jersey City remains a quiet place that shuts down rather early each night, and many residents seek their pleasures across the river in New York.

''Our night life is still not as active as it might be,'' Mayor McCann said, ''but the development of the waterfront will change all that.'' CITY officials are betting heavily on the waterfront project to u pgrade the quality of life. Some people even dare to hope that d owntown's 4,700-seat Stanley Theater, the second-largest theater in t he country after Radio City Music Hall, will one day be able to r eopen. The 55-year-old movie palace has been dark for several years b ecause it did not draw enough people to make it profitable.

While Jersey City may have a promising future to offer newcomers, it is not without serious problems that will be difficult to resolve. Foremost among them may be its public-school system. The strongly Roman Catholic city has traditionally relied on parochial schools to educate its children. Even today it still has almost as many Catholic as public grade schools, although the 30 public grade schools have 23,418 students and the 29 Catholic grade schools have 9,039.

The five public high schools in the city have been plagued by violence and severe budget restrictions. There are nine Catholic high schools and several other private educational institutions.

Another problem is that much of the city is still overgrown lots, rotting piers and empty rail yards, giving it an air of seediness and decay.

The city still suffers, as well, from an image problem associated largely with an aging Democratic political machine that kept working long after most of the other machinery the city depended upon for its livelihood became obsolete. The machine was finally defeated in the most recent municipal elections by Mayor McCann, a Republican who ran on a good-government platform.

People say all these problems will lessen now. The spate of new construction, the growth of some specialized trades like the film industry, and a surge in corporate investment in the city seem to suggest that they will.

For the moment, despite the strong promise of coming vitality, moving to Jersey City remains largely a gesture of hope for the future: Hope that Harbour City will work, that residential renovation will expand to communities outside the downtown core, that the city's infrastructure problems will be eliminated, that crime will decrease and that public education will improve significantly.

If all these problems continue to turn around, then Jersey City is probably an idea whose time has finally come -again. uture Hollywood-on-the-Hudson?

While Jersey City is not quite ready to challenge Hollywood as the nation's film capital, many movies and commercials are being shot there.

Last year in the city, Woody Allen filmed portions of two forthcoming movies; Sidney Lumet, the director, shot a large part of ''Daniel,'' his cinematic version of E.L. Doctorow's ''Book of Daniel''; John Sayles, who lives in Hoboken, made ''Baby It's You,'' and several other film makers did location shooting.

Why Jersey City? ''The reason they shoot here is that it's close to Manhattan talent, so it's economical and convenient,'' said Dennis Souder, Jersey City's motion-picture development coordinator. ''The labs are nearby, and they're back home at night after a full day of location shooting.''

There were 30 full-crew shooting days in Jersey City last year, which Mr. Souder said was the first year that it seriously attempted to lure film makers.

More than $1 million in direct production costs was spent in the city, which is now trying to develop the largest private film studio in New Jersey. ''We think films have a future here,'' Mr. Souder said.

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checked my map.

the manischewitz parcel is outside of the Morgan/ Grove/ Marin redevelopment zone and technically part of the PAD.

which means anything goes!

but that mysterious plan is still gonna have to go before the planning board to get approved....

isn't it?

How did I miss this?

"Matzo and Metal: A Very Classic Passover."



The B. Manischewitz Company is sponsoring an hour-long VH-1 special, which will focus on Passover and musical memories of a group of Jewish heavy metal icons.

Manischewitz makes last matzo here
Jersey City institution to leave, building to rise
Thursday, December 21, 2006
By JARRETT RENSHAW
JERSEY JOURNAL

For nearly 80 years, Jersey City played an important but often unnoticed role in Passover celebrations around the country.

But the city's contributions to the Jewish holiday is coming to an end, as yesterday the historic Manischewitz factory on Bay Street churned out its last batch of kosher-for-Passover, or Shmura, matzo. The factory will remain open until this spring, when it is slated to be sold to make way for housing.

"This is an important time for us as a company, and it's the last time we will do this in Jersey City," said Jeremy J. Fingerman, president and CEO of R.A.B. Food Group, which owns the Manischewitz brand.

The city's surging real estate market, combined with an aging facility, prompted the company to sell the plant property to Toll Brothers for roughly $35 million, said company officials.

"The real estate market became incredibly valuable, but this is also an old and glorious factory," Fingerman said.

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said the event is another sign of the transition of Jersey City from a industrial giant to a white-collar city.

"We are changing, and it's sad to see a company that has employed hundreds of Jersey City residents over the years close its doors," Healy said. "But we are a city that is growing, and that's a good thing."

Company officials have said some of the Jersey City factory's 100 employees will go to its Newark plant after the Jersey City factory closes in the spring. However, they haven't said how many are moving, and several employees told The Jersey Journal they're still waiting for answers as well.

The Manischewitz company built the Jersey City factory in 1932 and has continued to expand its products in the decades that followed, from matzo to chicken broth to cake icing.

The factory sits within the outer edge of the Powerhouse Arts District, the future of which as an artists' work-and-live district has been clouded by a recent court ruling that cleared the way for the demolition of 111 First St., as well as a shift from the city's administration's commitment to retain the plan's original vision.

Many observers see the fate of the Manischewitz building as a watershed moment for the future of the Powerhouse Arts District's vision, which even city officials are finding hard to describe these days.

Healy said yesterday that he has seen Toll Brothers' preliminary plans for the site, adding that they "look pretty good." Healy refused to comment on the height of the building, but noted that the preliminary plans call for a "courtyard" and some other "public space."

As for the future of the Powerhouse Arts District, Healy said "everything is still being negotiated, and it's in a state of flux. The city is looking at ways to preserve as much as they can, while the other side is looking at investment opportunities. We have to find some middle ground."

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Bakers prepare Matzo for Passover

Thursday, December 21, 2006
By TOM MEAGHER
HERALD NEWS

JERSEY CITY -- As Jews around the world prepared to celebrate the fifth night of Hanukkah Wednesday, the owners of the old Manischewitz matzo factory here were looking forward to Passover.

The factory pressed out and baked thousands of boxes of Passover Matzo Schmura, the special kosher crackers that are integral to every Passover Seder dinner.

But the Jersey City institution, still using the original massive brick ovens built when Manischewitz bought the building from the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. in 1932, will soon close.

To mark the impending end of the making of Passover matzo in Jersey City, a group of 17 rabbis led a gaggle of politicians and reporters Wednesday through the baking line, certifying that the manufacturing meets kosher standards.

The R.A.B. Food Group, owner of the Manischewitz brand and countless other kosher food products, will move its Passover matzo manufacturing to its newer, larger Newark factory, leaving behind a rapidly changing city.

"It (Jersey City) lost a lot of its manufacturing imprimatur. It has gentrified, if you will," said Richard A. Bernstein, chairman of parent company R.A.B. Holdings. "But that had nothing to do with our decision. The building was old."

Bernstein said his company had been considering selling its factory for four or five years. When an offer came to sell it for $35 million, Bernstein took the chance to move matzo-making to Newark, the first new kosher matzo bakery in the United States in more than 75 years. In the place of the Manischewitz factory, a developer plans to build a luxury residential complex just blocks from the Hudson River's banks.

R.A.B. Food Group plans to shutter the Jersey City factory for good after Passover in April, said Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Fingerman.

"The real estate just became incredibly valuable," Fingerman said. "(Here) you'll see an old and glorious factory, but one that is less efficient."

Orthodox and Hasidic rabbis Wednesday donned diaphanous white nets over their heads and beards as they inspected the flour mixing stations. As bemused workers, clad all in white, looked on, the rabbis prodded the inside of the massive mixers with flashlights. The mixers then combined water and special kosher flour, before dumping it through a chute to the ovens a floor below.

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, the head rabbi for Manischewitz, leads the mashgichim, the rabbinic supervisors who watch over the Passover matzo production lines each year. He escorted the group through the process Wednesday, noting that the crackers must be under constant supervision from their base ingredients of red winter wheat and water until they enter the ovens as a square of wafer-thin dough.

"A major misconception is that kosher has to do with giving a blessing for a product," Horowitz said. "Rabbinic supervision is a function of following ancient Jewish law" and guidelines to avoid fermentation.

Factory workers with wrenches scurried along the line, adjusting conveyor belt settings and responding to rabbinical directives. Then, a chain metal netting carried the dough through a massive, 90-foot-long brick oven.

On the other side, dry, browned matzos emerged, under the watchful eyes of more workers. A rabbi pointed out ones that wouldn't pass muster -- bent or folded, cracked, stuck together or unevenly baked. They were tossed in a plastic bin to the side as the satisfactory matzo descended another floor to be packaged.

The ovens, a marvel of pre-Space Age industry, ultimately sealed the factory's fate. The unwieldy behemoths require too much work to clean and prepare when Manischewitz shuts down its usual year-round matzo runs to prepare for the stringent Passover products.

"To go from daily to Passover matzo takes us just shy of a month. It's amazing. We have to shut down for four weeks," Bernstein said.

With new ovens in Newark, rabbis will be able to make the switch in just three days.

Horowitz said the transition from old to new is fitting for a factory that every winter bridges the times between Hanukkah and Passover, or Pesach.

"The spirit of Pesach and Hanukkah is very much connecting past and present and looking forward to the future," Horowitz said. In making the Passover matzo, "we are involved with the most important kosher product, bar none."

Reach Tom Meagher at 973-569-7152 or meagher@northjersey.com.

The artist certification is based on the famous model put forth by the Department of Cultural Affairs in NYC. It was made so that artists could live legally in those SoHo lofts back in the day when the place was a cesspool, but full of big, commerical spaces.

DCA even admits that its certification program is all but moot at this point. In Jersey City, where "affordable" for artists means somewhere in the $300,000 and up range, you'll see why Philly is becoming the next big thing on the art scene.

JERSEY JOURNAL -- Dec 20

After a number of stories in this space about the disappointing progress at the Whitlock Mills development in the Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood, a number of people still have questions.

The most popular question goes something like this: "My niece put a security deposit on a place, but it was returned after all the problems. She still wants to live there, but she's concerned whether she can still get in."

Wally Scruggs, of Housing Trust of America, this week finally broke his silence and told me that phone calls will be going out to these customers in the months ahead to see if they are still interested.

"Of course we will reach out to them. It just makes sense," said Scruggs.

As for the progress - or lack thereof - Scruggs said he still could not comment for legal reasons, but said he hopes to have people in by the end of the first quarter of 2007.

Plans for a tower at Manischewitz site seem to please

JERSEY JOURNAL -- Dec 20

Jersey City's 80-year-old Manischewitz factory will produce its last sheet of matzo today, setting the stage for the next battle for the future of the Powerhouse Arts District. The plant is closing its doors and moving all manufacturing of Manischewitz and R.A.B. food products to Newark.

Toll Brothers and Fields have bought the building and are now working behind the scenes to convince city officials and residents that their plans to go vertical at the site are kosher.

The secretive proposal will be a watershed moment for the Powerhouse Arts District. If the city concedes to the developers - and they might not have much of a choice - then the vision for the district is forever changed.

Toll Brothers has refused to discuss the project with this columnist, but a number of people who have seen preliminary plans seem to be pleased. One city official said the plan is "thinking out of the box."

Second salary reform bill needs a lot of reforming

BY TOM MORAN -- Star-Ledger -- Dec 20

Listen up, all you working parents who think you know how to juggle a schedule.

You're not even in Nick Sacco's league.

Sacco is a state senator from North Bergen. He is also the local mayor. And the assistant superintendent of schools.

He earns just over $250,000 a year when all three salaries are bundled, and he'll get a mega-pension to match when his day comes.

What's remarkable is that Sacco genuinely seems to believe the good people of North Bergen are lucky to have him in these jobs, even if each job gets only a piece of him. He's that good.

"A lot of my work can be done on the phone," he says. "I can call in to see what's going on, and make decisions. I'm fine."

New Jersey politics is ridiculous in many ways, but this is surely one of the most glaring. Our legislators rank first in the nation when it comes to earning second salaries from other government jobs, according to the Center for Public Integrity. No other state is even close.

So it's not surprising that with all the bloviating about reform these days in Trenton, this item made it onto the agenda.

But it hasn't gotten far. Legislators have swarmed around this reform like a school of piranhas, each pulling a small piece off the carcass. What has survived is barely recognizable. And there's a good chance even that won't pass.

To begin, legislators considered limits only on elective offices, not on all government jobs.

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Too bad. Many states ban second jobs in government altogether. They understand that letting legislators send their resumes around town creates automatic conflicts of interest.

Take Assemblyman Charles T. Epps Jr., who also is superintendent of schools in Jersey City.

One problem is that the district is run by the state. So as a legislator, Epps is supposed to oversee the same people who are supposed to oversee him.

The Legislature, in its wisdom, has decided to do nothing about Epps or the dozens of legislators like him who hold second government jobs.

That neglect is disheartening. But if you want see something worse - some real hypocrisy - then hang on. The next chapter in this story is a Jersey gem.

Legislative leaders did agree, at least, to ban the practice of holding two elective offices at once - only they included a lifetime exemption for sitting members of the legislature.

So Sacco, it seems, is safe. And so is Epps. Nothing in this reform will come close to touching them.

Which tells you that this reform is no reform at all. It is a triumph of the status quo, plain and simple.

Tom Moran, a columnist for the Star-Ledger, can be reached at tmoran@starledger.com.

Venezia quits JCPA's board in shocker; says aided King probe
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
By EARL MORGAN
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Executive Director Robert Dalton wasn't the only one saying good-bye at Monday night's meeting.

Dalton's resignation was expected - but board member Carmine Venezia's announcement came as a surprise to many.

In his letter of resignation, Venezia cited pressing "family responsibilities" as the reason he was leaving.

Before the meeting, Venezia told The Jersey Journal he was the one who gave the U.S. Attorney's Office the findings of an investigation into the JCPA's finances during the tenure of former executive director Jimmy King. Venezia said he sent the findings after the board took no action to discipline King and allowed him to resign in good standing with a $12,000 settlement.

Venezia, himself a former JCPA executive director, heaped praise on Dalton for his performance as executive director of the agency. "He did a great job," Venezia said. "He will be sorely missed."

King has referred all calls for information on any federal investigation to his attorney, Sam DeLuca. DeLuca would only say King has been talking to the FBI, but wouldn't say what they were asking him about.

Theresa Perri, who briefly held the director's chair several years ago, was made interim director until next month, when a new appointment will be named to the post.

While the board would not comment on who will be appointed to the job, sources say that retired police Capt. Mark Russ is one of those under consideration.

CITY OF JERSEY CITY

HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION

PUBLIC NOTICE

Please be advised that the following items will be heard at the Regular Meeting of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission, scheduled for MONDAY December 18, 2006 at 6:30 pm in the City Council Chambers, 280 Grove Street, 2nd Floor.

1. Call to Order

2. Sunshine Announcement

3. Roll Call

4. Approval of Minutes

5. Correspondence

6. Announcements

7. Open Public Comment

8. Case: H06-317

Applicant: Triumph of Jersey City, LLC, applicant for KAJN, LLC, owner

Address: 85 Morris Street

Block/Lot: 66/K

Zone: Paulus Hook Historic District

For: Certificate of Appropriateness to permit construction of permanent outdoor seating area with fencing and plantings, bluestone seating area, concrete planters, and flowerboxes adjacent to a three story contributing, altered, circa 1860, Greek Revival mixed use building.

(Work already completed)

Recommendation to Zoning Board of Adjustment

9. Case: H04-221

Applicant: Idrees Ahmed

Address: 239 Barrow Street

Block/Lot: 269/T

Zone: Van Vorst Park Historic District

For: Certificate of Appropriateness for the installation of new storefront, new rooftop addition and substantial facade rehabilitation of altered, non-contributing, mid-nineteenth century building.

Recommendation to Zoning Board of Adjustment

10. Case: H06-225

Applicant: Lisa Fallacara/Alan Feld applicant for Tony Lam, Owner

Address: 325 Pavonia Avenue

Block/Lot: 392/A

Zone: Hamilton Park Historic District

For: Certificate of Appropriateness for the installation of a three story rear-yard addition with a first floor wood deck visible from the public right-of-way on a contributing, altered, circa 1880, transitional Greek Revival Italianate row house.

Recommendation to Zoning Board of Adjustment

11. Case: H06-117

Applicant: Aram Tarpinian for Old and New L.L.C.

Address: 93 Montgomery Street

Block/Lot: 102/5

Zone: Paulus Hook Historic District

For: Certificate of Appropriateness for construction of a three story rooftop addition, and a six story rear yard addition visible from the public right of way as part of a rehabilitation of a contributing, altered, circa 1895, Romanesque Inspired, mixed use building into a nine unit mixed use building with commercial unit at ground floor.

Recommendation to Planning Board

12. Case: H06-291

Applicant: Jamie Martinez

Address: 312 York Street

Block/Lot: 306/D

Zone: Van Vorst Park Historic District

For: Certificate of Appropriateness for the installation of a frame rear yard deck accessed from the first floor oriel window with the removal of a window for installation of a door visible from the public right-of-way on a contributing, altered, circa 1880, Italianate townhouse.

Historic Preservation Commission Meeting Agenda

December 18, 2006

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13. Case: H06-273

Applicant: Nicole Zebrowski

Address: 283 Seventh Street

Block/Lot: 318/B1

Zone: Hamilton Park Historic District

For: Certificate of Appropriateness for the demolition of an existing rear yard addition and construction of a new rear yard addition visible from the public right-of-way on a contributing, altered, circa 1860, Greek Revival townhouse.

14. Case: H06-088

Applicant: Vivek Singh for 163 Grand St., LLC

Address: 163 Grand Street

Block/Lot: 166/M

Zone: Paulus Hook Historic District

For: Certificate of Appropriateness for the demolition of the rear fa?ade of a contributing, altered, circa 1860, Italianate Rowhouse and replacement with a four story rear addition, visible from the Public Right-of-Way.

Recommendation to Planning Board

15. Case: H06-005

Applicant: John Donahoe for Ben White, owner

Address: 343 York Street

Block/Lot: 57/B

Zone: Van Vorst Park Historic District

For: Certificate of Appropriateness for the installation of a rear yard deck addition, alteration of rear window in oriel to door, and construction of staircase into yard at the visible rear fa?ade of a contributing, altered, circa 1865, Italianate Rowhouse.

16. Memorialization of Resolutions

17. Adoption of 2007 Regular Meeting Calendar

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

19. Adjournment

Kenneth Kalmis, Chairman

Liberty Humane Society sits on the same plot of land. Maybe Metrovest would like to kick in some bucks or construction material to help them renovate or upgrade their facilities?

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Skeet Range would be better.

A casino would be perfect for that location - goes well with the crime and corruption theme everyone talks about.