NNJR, comparing what i said to wishing someone gets cancer is ridiculous don't ask to get cancer,its not a choice.Building an over size building under the turnpike is a business decision this guy made.

As far as it maybe being a cool looking building,whats the chance of that in JC.Can you say Grove pionte.ECH

Besides, more "luxury" apartments flooding the market could just lead to lower prices for everyone. Who knows, maybe in a couple years I'll scoop up an "amenities" condo, that is, if these buildings are not rotting or collapsing by then.

anti-development crowd in full affect. Is there really a problem with an extra floor or two? There are much more dense areas and if the building is done right could actually be cool.

I sure wouldn't want to live there but that doesn't mean there isn't someone out there that will for a price.

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This comment to me is the same as someone hoping you get cancer... is it really called for?

Yeah, if it's where I think it is I don't actually care if it becomes a high rise - it's not like it'd be blocking any nice views or interrupting the continuity of an otherwise nice area.

doesn't that part of newark avenue currently look like a bunch of abandoned lots and gas stations? i'm no fan of most of the huge hi-rises and i'm all for preserving the neighborhoods, but is there really a "there" there?


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Surely "Grave Pointe" is the obvious joke.

Your right jc but what does the developer care.He sees other builders like goldman get to build higher and higher so why not him.Somebody in city hall told him it was ok or he would not be doing it.

The top of that building will be level with the turnpike and about thirty feet away.That should be a nice unit with the headlights coming through the windows.

I hope he goes belly up or misses the whole market from being greedy.

It's near the grave yard isn't it? Dead Mans Pointe?

...amenities include a roof-side on ramp to the NJ Turnpike...

i just don't see that area as a great high density kinda place. is this developer insane?

what are they gonna call it...overpass pointe?

I know there was a thread on here about the old hamburger joint near the turnpike and newark ave but i could not find it.

People were asking if the builder had went out of business because he stopped work on the job after he had begun pounding piles into the ground.

It turns out that he is going before the board of adjustment Thursday night to get new approval to go twelve stories and have 55 unit's.He was already approved for four stories and 24 units.When does this stop.Who starts something with bank financing in place and then decides to redo the whole job without the fix being in.

Will every square inch of space become a hi rise soon.The kids who play on the ballfield behind that site will be in the dark during the Day.With the 12 story building that was approved across the street,newark ave will look like an alleyway after you pass under the train trestle.

I don't live in that area but as my friend who does Say's"no body seems to give a s___!

If you remember the news articles about "Goldman?s Plotkin Locked Up for Trading Violation?But Boy, Can He Rumba"...

( Somehow the articles are missing from the jclist archives - Here is the first one again )

http://www.observer.com/20060424/2006 ... on_pageone_featurebox.asp

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N.J. Grand Juror Sentenced for Leaks

By LARRY NEUMEISTER -- Associated Press -- Dec. 12

NEW YORK ? A man who admitted leaking grand jury secrets about a probe of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison Tuesday by a judge who said he wanted to send a message that those who violate grand jury security will go to prison.

Jason Smith, 30, of Jersey City, N.J., apologized and called what he did a "terrible mistake" before U.S. District Judge Kevin P. Castel imposed the sentence along with a $6,000 fine, rejecting a request from his defense lawyer that Smith serve no jail time.

Castel said Smith "by his greedy actions undermined a fundamental Constitutional right." He ordered him to report to prison Jan. 29.

The judge noted that the system of letting a grand jury decide whether a person should be charged with a crime predates the adoption of the Constitution.

The sentencing came in an insider trading case that was portrayed by federal authorities as unique in the history of those prosecuted for trying to cheat the stock market.

The corruption of Smith was one facet of an alleged multi-pronged approach that included getting a forklift operator to steal early copies of a market-moving column in BusinessWeek magazine and considered using strippers to coax secret stock tips from investment bankers.

Smith, a postal worker, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit insider trading, securities fraud and criminal contempt.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Lawsky said Smith's crime "undermined the heart of our criminal justice system."

"It is fundamental to everything we do that when prosecutors go in, we know it's secret," he said.

Smith's lawyer, Frank Handelman, had asked the judge for leniency for his client, saying Smith suffered from depression and had taken responsibility for his crimes as soon as they were discovered.

From 2003 to 2005, Smith served on a New Jersey grand jury investigating accounting fraud accusations against Bristol-Myers and several of its executives. He allegedly leaked the grand jury information to a former Jersey City high school friend, David Pajcin, a former Goldman Sachs analyst who is cooperating with the government.

Prosecutors say Pajcin then teamed with Eugene Plotkin, of Manhattan, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst, to trade on the information and to tip others to trade in Bristol-Myers securities.

Authorities said the plot involving grand jury information did not result in any profits, though the wider scheme is estimated to have made profits of about $7 million for the participants.

On June 14, 2005, the grand jury in New Jersey returned an indictment against two former Bristol-Myers executives, charging them with conspiracy and securities fraud.

The probe resulted in a deferred prosecution agreement between Bristol-Myers and prosecutors in New Jersey that would likely spare the company from prosecution.

In April, the FBI arrested Plotkin and his college friend, Stanislav Shpigelman, 23, of Brooklyn, accusing them of benefiting from the scandal. Shpigelman was an analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.'s mergers and acquisitions division.

Shpigelman has pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit insider trading in a deal that calls for him to serve between three and four years in prison after he is sentenced in January. Plotkin awaits trial.

The case was discovered by regulators who noticed unusually high trading volume before a merger announcement.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4396359.html

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N.J. Localities Try to Make a Nuisance of Lead Paint
New Jersey case comes in the wake of a landmark verdict in Rhode Island

Michael Booth
New Jersey Law Journal
December 12, 2006

Three decades after lead-based paint was banned as a public health hazard, New Jersey cities and towns want it declared a public nuisance.

The state Supreme Court is poised to decide the issue and the case has the rapt attention of the paint industry, which fears adoption of the doctrine here would ease the way for recoveries across the nation.

The plaintiffs' theory, in In Re Lead Paint Litigation, A-73-05, is that peeling, poisonous lead paint is an inherently hazardous condition; hence, there is a duty to abate it and paint manufacturers should be compelled to contribute.

The plaintiffs are 26 municipalities and counties -- led by the state's largest cities, Newark, Camden, Jersey City and Passaic -- that want to hold paint manufacturers and sellers liable for millions of dollars spent on remediation of lead-tainted buildings, along with costs of medical monitoring of people exposed.

The defendants are companies that produced the lead additive used in paint pigment before it was banned in 1978: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Sherwin Williams, NL Industries, Millennium Holdings, Atlantic Richfield, American Cyanamid, Cytec Industries and ConAgra Grocery Products Co.

At the court last month, a lawyer for the manufacturers argued that holding the industry liable on a nuisance theory would be "a radical change of substantive law" because lead paint was not considered dangerous when it was on the market.

"This was a lawful product some 50, 100 years ago," said Ezra Rosenberg of Dechert in Princeton. "They allege that the defendants knew lead paint was dangerous. No court has ever allowed such an allegation to proceed."

Rosenberg called the Appellate Division's ruling "not only unsupportable and unwise, but unnecessary," in view of statutes aimed at ending use of lead paint, directing powers to local boards of health and tightening environmental restrictions.

The case in fact turns on whether the statutes pre-empt local government action. A trial judge found they do and dismissed the suit but the Appellate Division reinstated it, finding the Legislature did not intend the statutes to be the sole means of abating lead-paint hazards.

Chief Justice James Zazzali asked, "Isn't there a public health crisis?"

Rosenberg replied, "The Legislature has recognized that lead paint ? is a public health problem. There is no reason to dispute that. But the plaintiffs are suing for injuries sustained by others in a non-emergent situation for the first time."

Zazzali asked about the public policy implications, citing Public Advocate Ronald Chen's amicus curiae brief, which stated that tens of thousands of children have been affected by lead paint. "The Legislature would not have intended to wipe out common-law remedies," Zazzali said.

"That's an argument to be made to the Legislature," Rosenberg responded, adding that the implications of allowing a public nuisance theory of recovery are alarming. Chemical manufacturers might be held liable at some time in the future for products now considered safe, he said.

Plaintiffs lawyer Fidelma Fitzpatrick, of Motley Rice in Providence, R.I., argued that the manufacturers cannot claim they bear no responsibility for causing a major threat to public health.

"The defendants knew their product caused permanent and irreparable brain damage. They chose to engage in a pattern of conduct in which a known toxin was widely distributed," she said.

Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto asked Fitzpatrick how liability can be visited upon manufacturers when the allegedly injured parties -- people exposed to lead paint -- have not instituted claims.

"This is not a products liability claim," Fitzpatrick replied. "Rather, this is an abatement of a public nuisance, an exercise of police power to protect public health and welfare."

When Rivera-Soto asked how a manufacturer could be held liable on a nuisance theory for a product that was lawful when sold, Fitzpatrick replied, "Lawfulness is not an element of a public nuisance claim."

In fact, since no showing of defendant culpability is required, the public nuisance doctrine has had some success out of state where conventional product liability approaches had failed.

Last February, a Rhode Island jury found five manufacturers liable on a nuisance theory in a suit filed by that state's attorney general. All other counts, namely unfair trade practices, negligence, strict liability and civil conspiracy, had been dismissed in the seven-year long litigation. As in the New Jersey case, the Rhode Island suit sought compensation for abatement costs and medical treatment and monitoring.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1165844118880

Approval sought for towers on the Square
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
By KEN THORBOURNE
JERSEY JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A towering mixed-use development proposed for the heart of Journal Square is set to go before the Planning Board tonight for preliminary approvals.

The $350 million project will include two towers - one 54 stories, the other 47 - with 1,034 rental apartments, three levels of retail stores and parking, said representatives for the developer, Jersey City-based Harwood Properties.

Harwood is seeking about five "minor" changes to the area's redevelopment plan, said Eugene Paulino, the attorney representing the family-run firm. Most of the changes involve how far the project is from the street, he said. The redevelopment plan permits a six-story base while the developer has proposed a seven-story base, he added.

The city has condemned and turned over to Harwood Properties two out of three privately-owned properties on the dilapidated block next to the PATH Transportation Center.

City officials are continuing to negotiate for the third property, 15-16 Journal Square, which houses a McDonald's, Song's Hallmark, HT Wireless and a dentist's office.

Harwood Properties is under contract to buy a stretch of one-level buildings next to the train station - 1-7 Journal Square - from Ralph Tawil, a New York real estate investor who left Journal Square earlier this year after paying the city $1.1 million in building and fire code fines.

Harwood Properties is waiting to bring a development partner on board before buying the Tawil buildings, according to a source familiar with the project.

Three Brothers Pizza and Daily Tortillas are still operating out of Tawil-owned buildings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerramiah_Healy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_D._Cunningham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Harvey_Smith

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Doria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Chiappone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Epps%2C_Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._DeGise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_McCann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category ... Jersey_City%2C_New_Jersey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Schundler

etc

The Wikipedia sounds like a pathetic political shill-job, with poor spelling at that.

Wikipedia will probably leave that one up.

Anyway, I read the article and liked what I saw. He seems like the kind of politician we need. (Unlike that crazy man in the White House.)

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I don't know, as I will be at the DJCW mtg.,since I'm sure my opinion about the negative impact on the neighborhood by only providing 80% parking will be emphasized by many there at the Newport Associates presentation.

Steve has been known to make several meetings in a night though I don't know how he does it!

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From wikipedia:

I hold the copyright to the information contained on www.stevenfulop.com/about.htm. I am the principal of Keymaster Productions and I am the one who actually wrote the copyrighted copy on the stevenfulop.com web site. Therefore, it is within my rights to reuse this copy to write an article about Mr. Fulop. --kmjeff

I have editted this page to try and clean it up. I am now removing the 2 tags - clean up and this reads like an advertisement from the page. If I was not supposed to do so, my apologies. --kmjeff 14:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I have once again editted this page to clean it up and remove all vestiges of copy that can be considered biased. This is a neutral article. --kmjeff 20:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Property taxes dominate Trenton today

BY TOM HESTER JR.
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) --Lawmakers are meeting today to try and cut the nation's highest property taxes.

The Assembly and Senate are set to vote on a legislative package designed to make the state's 1,389 local governments more efficient and cut property taxes that average $6,000 per property owner, or twice the national average.

Those votes, though, will come as thousands of public workers rally outside the Statehouse against cutting benefits as part of the bid to cut property taxes.

It also comes in the wake of a letter Gov. Jon S. Corzinesent legislative leaders on Sunday night, telling them to move forward with the proposed benefits reforms if they saw fit.

This came just three days after Corzine had blocked the reforms, contending they were best handled in contract talks. However, after legislative leaders said that move made it more difficult to pass tax reforms, Corzine did an about face and encouraged them to move forward.

For more on this story, see tomorrow's Daily Record.

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Trenton protest draws thousands

Monday, December 11, 2006
By JIM WRIGHT -- North Jersey - STAFF WRITER

Thousands of public workers descended on the Statehouse on Monday morning, chanting and waving signs to protest changes proposed for their benefits by legislators who want to cut the nation?s highest property taxes.

Teachers and state, county and municipal government workers waved signs reading ?Back Off!? and ?Hands Off Our Benefits? as they rallied against the possible changes to pension and health plans. With thousands of teachers expected to attend, the rally left some schools in the state closed Monday.

New Jerseyans pay twice the national average in property taxes, and lawmakers have been searching for ways to lower the levies that pay for things such as schools and government worker benefits. Key to the proposals is a measure to give many homeowners 20 percent property tax credits.

But altering the benefits earned by union-protected workers has sparked a showdown between Gov. Jon S. Corzine and his fellow Democrats who head the Legislature.

Leading the charge over proposed cuts to pensions and health benefits is Carla Katz, Governor Corzine's former girlfriend and head of the largest union local for state employees in New Jersey.

Katz will be hard to miss. The diminutive 47-year-old Paterson native will be the only union leader in 3-inch heels, a smartly tailored pinstriped suit and a cascade of raven-black ringlets.

She says, with a laugh, that she won't need a bullhorn: "I'm fairly loud without one."

Her message is blunt. She defends her union's current health benefits, insisting that "you don't improve health care in New Jersey by cutting back health care for middle-class families."

On recent efforts by legislators to bypass contract talks and cut pensions and benefits by enacting laws, she says: "Collective bargaining should be between two parties, not with a third party standing to the side of the table and holding a gun to your head."

Anyone who thought that Katz would fade into the Trenton woodwork when L'Affaire Corzine -- complete with details of a $470,000 gift -- became front-page news last year badly miscalculated.

Though gossip columns labeled her Corzine's "gal pal" and critics shrieked "Conflict of interest" after her union backed his bid for governor, Katz remains the outspoken president of Communications Workers of America Local 1034.

She also has remained friends with Corzine -- even as her local and other unions have been increasingly at odds with the Corzine administration's efforts to lower New Jersey's highest-in-the-nation property taxes.

The state says it can save $13 billion over 14 years through reforms such as raising the retirement age and requiring employees to pay more for medical care. Katz strongly disputes those numbers.

"Public employees are being used as a scapegoat," she says. "It's just wrong and inaccurate."

This is a crucial time for taxpayers -- and for Corzine and Katz. If Corzine doesn't stand his ground, the public will wonder if he caved because of his relationship with Katz. If Katz fails to win a solid contract, the rank and file in her union also could blame the relationship.

Katz is unfazed. "The only people who matter when it comes to holding me to a higher standard are my own members, and they keep reelecting me, even when I ran last year at a time I was being pilloried in the press," says Katz, who represents 9,000 state workers.

The divorced mother of two says she has always "vigorously advocated on behalf of my members, regardless of who the governor is -- Jon Corzine, Jim McGreevey or Christie Whitman. And that hasn't changed."

In a statement, Corzine also dismissed critics who say the relationship will taint negotiations.

"Our prior relationship is not a factor in our professional responsibilities, including contract talks that have just gotten under way," he said. "The public and workers will have every opportunity to examine the outcome of the negotiations and come to their own conclusion."

So far, the conclusion is that Katz is not backing down. Ever since state lawmakers put employee benefits in their cross hairs last spring, she has been highly visible. The rally today will bring together members of many unions, including teachers, firefighters and police. At least six school districts, including the Passaic city district, have announced they are closing their schools because they expect so many teachers to attend.

"I had no intention of receding into the background," Katz says. "That would be an extreme disservice to my members."

Born in Paterson

Katz was born in Paterson, long a hotbed of organized labor and the site of the legendary silk-mill strikes of 1914, but she grew up in a non-union household in a two-family clapboard house on 21st Street. Her parents met as employees of Jack's, a small department store. Her father later worked as a laborer for Continental Can Co. and Union Carbide Corp. Her mother taught at a day-care center.

"Paterson even back then was a tough town," Katz says. "My biggest school memory was, my Mom would walk my sister and me to the school down the block. At the end of the school day, they would line up all the kids at the door and tell us to run -- as fast as we could -- home.

"We moved to Burlington County when I was in the fifth grade, and on the first day of school, I remember I waited for the teachers to tell me to run home."

Katz got her first taste of organizing in her teens when she worked as a cashier at a Burlington County hardware store. She tried to unionize the employees -- and was fired. "My dad was furious," she says.

In her senior year at Rutgers University, she took a course on labor. "I just fell in love with it," she says.

She has been a union official, mostly for Local 1034, for a quarter-century. Her first job was to mobilize the state's supervisory employees when the Kean administration tried to decertify their fledgling union. She later was a grass-roots organizer for the CWA in the Midwest before returning to New Jersey and Local 1034.

The rank and file -- who range from clerical workers to nuclear engineers -- elected her president in 1999 and have overwhelmingly reelected her twice to her $89,000-a-year post. State workers represented by 1034 include employees of the judiciary, the Department of Labor and the Department of Environmental Protection. The local also represents county employees in Burlington, Hunterdon and Monmouth.

At a time when the number of unionized workers has been shrinking, Katz helped build her local's membership from 3,000 to 16,000. She has negotiated some of the most family-friendly programs for union members in New Jersey, including flex-time and compressed workweeks. She also helped build the coalition of public employee unions now confronting the state over benefits.

The current contracts expire on June 30, 2007, and Katz has been mobilizing Local 1034. As workers at the state Labor Building left for their lunch hour on a recent Thursday, Katz and her team handed out whistles and placards. In a blink, a full-fledged picket line was in full swing, chanting, "Hands off our benefits."

At legislative hearings on public-employee benefit reforms, Katz and her union members took front-row seats -- putting lawmakers on notice. In June, when state Sen. Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester ? a union official himself -- held a press conference suggesting that state workers take a 15 percent cut in pay and benefits, Katz appeared with more than 100 state employees to protest.

Katz lives and breathes public labor unions in New Jersey, says Bill Lavin, head of the New Jersey firefighters union.

"I don't know of any other labor leader who advocates for their members as she does," he says. "She is a master at coordinating a galvanized response. She delivers a get-out-the-vote effort of her constituents like no one I've ever seen. She's a good friend of public employees but a formidable adversary for legislators."

Political donations

Katz's local has courted lawmakers over the years, donating nearly $300,000 to both Democrats and Republicans statewide in the 2004-2005 legislative cycle. Some of those lawmakers recently appeared with her at a press conference. Katz insists this was no quid pro quo, and quotes legendary union organizer Samuel Gompers, who once advised: "Reward your friends and punish your enemies."

"She can pack a wallop," said one high-ranking Democrat in state government. "I wouldn't want to be confronted by her in an alley."

Such high-profile tactics have a down side. Although state officials were reluctant to say anything negative about Katz -- they are, after all, negotiating with her union -- the high-ranking Democrat points out that "she has the distraction of being Jon Corzine's former girlfriend. Most people know about her because of her relationship with Corzine, and it distorts and poisons what people see in her."

During his campaign for governor, reporters discovered that Corzine had lent Katz $470,000 in 2002 to buy her ex-husband's share of their Hunterdon County home and pay off the mortgage. Corzine later forgave the loan, prompting critics to complain that the relationship would taint contract talks.

Although Corzine and Katz said they stopped dating in 2004, the media wouldn't let up, reporting that both had apartments in the swank Hudson Tea Building in Hoboken.

Katz then took heat when her union endorsed Corzine. But she says that it was the CWA Local 1034 board's decision and that she recused herself -- quickly adding that the choice was not difficult.

"[Republican candidate Doug] Forrester wanted to lay off 6,000 state workers," she says.

Katz, who has a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son, says she remains friends with Corzine and hopes "that negotiations don't get to a point where our friendship is affected."

Corzine appears to be cutting a path that could both defuse and inflame suspicions.

His initial contract proposals -- raising the retirement age to 62 and imposing higher health insurance costs -- are likely to infuriate public employees. But he also succeeded last week in forcing lawmakers to gut legislation that would have made cuts to public benefits and pensions. Corzine said that should be hashed out during contract talks -- exactly the position that Katz and other union leaders have taken.

Katz, however, remains wary. "That doesn't mean we won't face these same issues legislatively down the road," she says.

What's next for Katz? She is in her third year at Seton Hall Law School, and says she plans to keep leading Local 1034 -- and using her newfound legal knowledge to benefit her members.

She has but one barometer for success in the current battle of Trenton: "whether or not the members of Local 1034 wholeheartedly ratify the contract."

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I just noticed that tonight's DJCW meeting is in direct conflict with the last minute Newport Associates public courtesy meeting before their Planning Board approval tomorrow.

Anyone know which meeting Fulop is going to be at if either?

Today Monday!
Grace Church on Erie St (please enter through red door on 2nd Street) at 7pm.

Just a reminder!

Downtown Jersey City Watch Meeting
Monday Dec. 11th at 7:15pm
Please enter through the Red Door on 2nd Street

Agenda
Brief Introductions
Incidents
Police arrive
Review Incidents
JCPD Show Presentation on Safety Tips

Notes from Last Meeting
Neighborhood Improvement District (NID) representatives encouraged members to contact them at 201.547.5683. They provided additional assistance in enforcing Municipal Codes. Members had questions on unkept vacant houses, disorganized garbage, animal issues, sanitation. Their handout is very helpful. Please contact them for more info or grab a handout at the next meeting.

Please note, at the last meeting, it was agreed to begin uniting members with other members on their street. Some of you may have received calls from me already asking if I could share your phone number with your neighbor. We also discussed focusing on certain areas each meeting to give these residents an opportunity to connect as a united block with the Police. Below is a suggested list of areas with the Monthly meeting. For January, I have received many emails regarding Mercer St. so I would like to start with that area as well as Wayne Street. For those who live in these areas, please reply if you can attend the Jan. 8th meeting.

Jan 8th - Mercer /Wayne Streets
Feb. 12th - Monmouth/Brunswick Streets
March 12th - Erie/8th Streets (we need more Erie members!)

Police report for October
The Police did discusse their statistics for various areas and pointed out attention to juvenile related crimes. Members acknowledged to the police that they have seen the curfew van at work. The police also announced a few arrests which corresponded to a sharp decrease in car break-in/theft for October. (Note, we are now in December, which means the rates will go up at this time). Individuals trespassing the yards was also brought up by one member in the Mercer St. area.

Also, other association events will/can be announced at our monthly meetings/agenda email. Apologies to the most faithful members who we were not able to promote their events in the past. If you have an upcoming event, please submit the event at the meeting.

Other Events
Dec. 12th Downtown Coalition of Neighborhood Associations Holiday Party:
Come celebrate the holidays with your neighbors and friends on Tuesday,December 12th from 7:00-9:00PM at the Bar Majestic!

Tasty, free hors d'oeuvres will be served and a cash bar open to guests. No RSVP necessary for this event. Please bring your friends and family to enjoy an evening of holiday celebration!

Bar Majestic is located at 275 Grove Street between Montgomery and Mercer Streets.

January 25th, Project Homeless Connect is a one day event sponsored by Community leaders and designed to provide housing, services, and hospitatlity in a convenient one-stop model, to people experiencing homelessness. Please volunteer at this even through the donation of food, clothing and services on the day, or by running food and coat drives in advance. For more inforamtion please contact Kristin Green, Monarch Housing, at 908.272.5363 or kgreen@monarchhousing.org. There are locations throughout Jersey City on this day to volunteer.

Sorry so long!
Pam

We love it there, we haven't been there in a couple of weeks. My only gripe is that they close early on Sundays, about 6:30pm - 7pm.

Last year for my birthday my mom was going to make roast pork, rice and beans etc... for the family and ended up breaking her wrist, so I ordered dinner for 10 people from them, it was either $40 or $50 (and I'm thinking it was closer to $40) and they gave us a ton of food, easily fed another 10 people. I wouldn?t hesitate to order catering from them again. They won't make yuca for less than 20 though :(

In honor of crapkins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Suri_Cruise_Poop.jpg Quote:

Brewster,

Good question. We got a copy from the lawyer we worked with, they are actually called Design Standards. They are not Zoning Standards. I bet Dan at Historic Preservation, or JParkhurst would know where to get a copy.

They do seem to be downplayed big time. I just can't figure out what exactly their purpose is, since no one pays any mind to them.

Another add on: no one seems to pay any mind to "quality of life" concerns either as pertains to new development. For instance, cut ins on the parking side.

A while back we were discussing a "historic light" zoning idea, and no mention was made of a design standard. Is this an actual zoning standard, or simply a "guideline" for those inclined to follow it? Where can this be found and who is responsible for compliance, if compliance is actually required not suggested?

GP, the whole point of the design standards is to integrate, not defy the general look of a neighborhood. It also answers some quality of life issues, too. Believe it or not, cut ins and garages on the bottom floor are discouraged. Scale is to be taken into account. Planting greenery is a must.

I would say we'd be hard pressed to find even one new construction that complies.

Quote: Not entirely true. If you create an article for something not deemed Wiki-worthy (i.e. - not culturally significant enough), fellow Wikipedians will call it into question and remove it. From what I understand, this happens quite often and with surprising efficiency. See Wikipedia: Your first article for more elaboration on this.

Do these "design standards" ban "pink" block?

http://www.westbrookblock.com/products/colors.htm

When done right a lot of these block types look pretty good -- not sure why builders want to use pink block (must be what they think buyers will want) -- thankfully no one seems to be using the "blue" block.