Jersey City - 99 cent dreamin

"Woman are from Paris"

"Men are from Jersey City"

I like the city's unofficial motto:

Jersey City - Vote Early, Vote Often

Jersey City: If you lived here, you'd be b*tching by now.

(just kidding. kinda.)

Team Pimp.

Team Wanda.

And, of course...

JC: Home of the Crapkins.

It's the one of main streets coming out of the Grove Path. (along the huge mural) There are homeless cardboard "homes" on the sidewalk and I catch people pissing on the parking meters at 6 in the evening.
And is drinking outside legal in JC? Or only if your a thug? Why do they get to sit outside in the park, or on my stoop and drink 40s all day? I drank a beer in front of my house and I got a drinking in public ticket. Do you think the cop walked around the corner to ticket the thugs smoking a blunt on their stoop? NO.

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Where's Columbus Ave?


Lostgirl, stop complaining, (parking lots, supermarkets, and babies). It's not a way to attract men.

Jersey City is so currupt. I thought it could change, but it can't. All the new development won't help when the money is not going back to the city and there are no police to clean up the streets. When is the last time any city offical has taken a walk down Columbus Ave?
There is no excuse for letting our city rot away while they pocket our money!

JESUS! I am a loser...

because those shirts are already done... they're in all religious stores... as in I *heart* JC (jesus h christ)

Why not "I Heart (the word not symbol) JC"

keep it short and sweet..."jersey sh*tty"

darn censors

What exactly is the "artist" trying to say by putting an ipod on the Statue of Liberty?

"I thought up a Jersey City slogan and all I got is this lousy T-shirt"

CHROMIUM
jersey city

well, good luck...seems like you got a grip on the situtation.

don't hesitate to call if the problem changes...

Hey Johnnytit,

Yeah, we have two sump pumps with trenches, using perforated PVC sloping toward the drain, both installed by the same general contractor. The basement is roughly 16' by 40'. Because the basment slopes to the front, the darin in the front of the house is deeper into the ground.

The drain by the back of the house works just fine, catching the water that comes in from back wall and expelling it through the sewer pipes; plus keeping the water table below our floor level.

The front drain, however, just had too much water flowing into it after heavy rains for the pump to keep up. I watched it for a while. It was slowly losing the battle, and didn't want the escess water flowing into our basement.

Since we cemented in the french drain around the front pump basin, things have been fine. The trench catches any water coming in from where the wall and floor meet.

Those are some pretty bad designs.

Being a close personal friend of the Mayor should not be a prerequisite for high level appointments! Finding a qualified replacement thorough a nationwide search process is the way to go!


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you've gotta be kidding.

Jersey City?

Only in jersey city could you announce your retirement on the same day you announce the City is the most dangerous city in N.J.Great job,lets have a parade and give Troy the keys to the City.Wanna bet this guy gets an even better job somewhere else in the city or county.Failing upward is a J.C. tradition.

Jersey City
"don't ask..."

How about using the motto that's on the city seal -- "Let Jersey Prosper."

You could use the statue of liberty or the lincoln statue in lincoln park or the colgate clock for the image.

It would be great if you could use Donald Trump's picture.

I love the motto. It reminds me of Star Trek.

hey jimmoe...

thanks for responding to my Q's...a couple more...

was the contractor a basement waterproofer or just a contractor?

roughly how big is your basement? (30'x20', for ex.) because you might have needed two sump pumps.

do you remember what kind of pipe the contractor used in the trench along the walls...was it PVC(typically white) or PE(black accordian like)?...

and can you see the pipes coming into the sump pit area? if so, how many inches from the floor are they entering?

when you install a french drain, you DEFINITELY tap into the water table, groundwater...that's what they are made to do.

the differences between french drains are PVC(clearly the better pipe) vs PE, and if the pipe is pitched or not(most contractors do not pitch the pipe, believe it or not!)...and if the basement calls for it, one might need 2 sump locations within the basement and stronger pumps all depending on the amount of water you take in.

thanks.

How about:

"Jersey City Rising"
with a picture of the skyline in the back, cranes and all.

Ok. So I used to have flooding problem. As in 2 feet of water at least twice a year. Bad stuff. Mostly due to rainwater and sewer backup. I tried several different solutions and nothing. Then I found Rolando of Clear Flow Plumbing. He did some other work for me and I had him look into the flooding problem. It's like it became a mission for him...he had to figure out how to stop it. He did all this research on sump pumps...brands, horse power, configuration...it just felt like I had somebody on my side trying to actually figure out this thing. So he comes up with this configuration, using commercial grade sump pumps...4 in total. When it rains, it looks like geyser coming out the front of my house...but my basement is dry. Knock wood. All I can say is it works. And you can read the other reviews on him on kannect and other sites...the guy is gold. Take it for what its worth. It cost around $4500? Maybe a little more, I forget. But well worth the cost of not getting an ulcer everytime it rains.

I just want to say: THANK GOD!

You have my support. Huge job...dragging them into the 21st century. And then to try to make them transparent? To function like a REAL city? Wow. Good luck. My hat's off to you for trying.

Really. Thanks. and good luck.

Please tell me that is a joke...even Healy wouldnt appoint the parking authority guy, right? The guy who couldnt make money with a cash machine like the Parking Auth...in charge of the police???? Please no!

Hey Johnnytit,

Sorry it took so long to get back to you.

The setup is a 1/2 horsepower pump with a 1 1/2 inch pipe, leading to a larger drainage pipe under my driveway.

The basic problem was that we had water coming through where our basement wall and floor met whenever we had a real deluge -- maybe five times a year -- and we wanted to collect and pump that water away. When the contractor put in a french drain, I think we ended up tapping into the groundwater flowing beneath our house. And up here on the island, there's not a lot of space between basements and the bedrock.

A friend of mine who has a housing inspection business says he often sees basements where installing a french drain made the situation worse. You end up pumping you and your neighbors groundwater out through your basement .