fat-ass-bike wrote:

The reality of gentrification and attracting white collar professionals; everything becomes more expensive to price out 'undesirables' ... which appears to include the struggling middle-classes.

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jcguy05 wrote:
do people actually eat the fish they caught from the hudson? are they suicidal?

i thought it's strictly catch and release, that noone is crazy enough to eat them.

It's no different from eating fish caught in the ocean (which the Hudson River in our area essentially is). Eating wild healthy fish from the Hudson River is also about 1,000,000 healthier than eating Tilapia in any form, which is done very commonly. Or any of that flash frozen fish (which is all sourced and packaged in disgusting China) that you see in supermarkets.

This isn't the 1970s - the lower Hudson River/Upper NY Bay is clean and absolutely teeming with life.

Today, pollution in runoff is the bigger problem. Rain sweeps automotive fluids and trash from parking lots into the nearest storm drains and eventually the river. Fertilizers, pesticides and animal wastes wash off lawns and farm fields. Soil left bare of plants erodes into streams. Controlling this pollution requires diverse and coordinated efforts by government and private citizens. Watershed planning can be a particularly effective means of addressing such problems.

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Fulop said the city won't "force anything" on the community, but he wants to hear an "alternative solution."

Level the **** thing and give us a park. Is that really so hard to understand mayor fulop? This area is way overdeveloped as it is and has 5 more highrises coming in the next few years with zero green space for its resident.

This is not simcity you can't just stick highrises at every tiny square.

I had such high hopes for fulop, but he's turning out to be just another Healy selling out to developers. Where the hell are they even going to put that 40 story building there is literally no space around the power house. You got the trumps twin tower behind it, the 3 mega highrises to the east coming, and more highrises planned to the west vacant lot, and north is portofino and A condo.

People need a park or some green space, this is insane.

But why tear down the powerhouse if you want a park so bad? There are tons of vacant lots in downtown that can be turned into a park, which I agree the city needs. But why tear down one of the only unique, historic buildings in the area that can ALSO serve the public which large open spaces for shopping, dining or gallery space? If it gets torn down as some people wish so hard for, i guarantee they will offset the cost of the demo with a cookie cutter 40 story tower and NOT a public park. I would rather have an iconic building that I would be proud to show visitors than another condo building.

Fulop said the city won't "force anything" on the community, but he wants to hear an "alternative solution."

bodhipooh wrote:

I guess if you selectively snip a portion of my post and then apply it to something else entirely, well, yes... it wouldn't make sense. I think most people would understand by reading my post that the comment about the parking situation has to do with CanCo Lofts and its immediate area.

Now, if you are claiming to know the area well, and you claim that cars do not get broken into, well.... you have stuck your head in the sand. I know three different people who live in CanCo Lofts whose cars were broken into, or vandalized, while parked within a block or two.

JCCheerleader wrote:
Canco Lofts are better and the maintenance is much cheaper.

user1111 wrote:
Hi!

I convinced my best buddy to move to JC but he is married to a upper west side chic and could not convince her to move to GV so they are considering moving to 70 Green down in PH, the reviews on Yelp are mixed. What are the pros and cons on this building? Thanks a bunch!

bodhipooh wrote:
"It is really hick, insanely quiet and everyone is so nice and knows each other."

A PhD in communication and this is how she chooses to refer to her new neighbors and place of residence? Yikes.

And, for the record, she IS right. I have been to Bayonne often and it is a sad looking place, with lots of hicks and what people would often call "white trash". Anytime I go there, I feel like I traveled to a backwards Southern town. I have good friends that live there, but anytime they want to go out, have a nice dinner or do anything other than be home, they travel to JC or NYC.

They were secretly relieved to discover they were second in line: Jersey City had not stacked up well against Hoboken. ?You don?t have the cute restaurants with all the little patios,? Ms. Putman said. ?It definitely looked industrialish.?

JC_rider wrote:
As long as you are in the zone your kid is guaranteed (as of now) a kindergarten spot. The pre-K4 is by lotto and only 30 seats available. Kids that don't make the lotto get bused to near by PS preK for a year and back to PS16 in kindergarten.

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I ask this not to be sarcastic, but because I actually don't know the answer: What prevents you from not renewing the lease? Isn't there a way that you can choose not to have them stay?

You can't force a non-commercial tenant out of an apartment when the lease is up. You can raise the rent, etc. (assuming it is not rent controlled), but you can't force them to leave.

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I have fire extinguishers in the apartments or common areas of the hallways. I replace them every five years and check the pressure gauges on them every now and again.

The State of NJ checks the smoke detectors when DCA inspects every 5 years. Maybe you should give the DCA a call?

Sounds to me like you have a sociopath on your hands... they don't care about truth or consequences of their actions.

The tenants are one thing, they're losers who make life intolerable for the other tenants, but inherited loser tenants are part of the real estate game. However JCFD giving me this crap for no apparent reason smells real bad. I cannot believe they give these bullshit citations as a matter of course every time they walk into a building.

MDM, there doesn't appear to be a real estate/landlording group in JC, wanna start one? I read a RE blog/forum, but most of the folks are in places you can buy a single family for $20k and actually choose not to renew a lease. Our problems are quite different.

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jcguy05 wrote:

I wish they build a mall in 07304/5

Like the one already there?

07310 wrote:

When the RE market was hot realtors were telling people Greenville and Bergen/Lafayette would be the next hot areas for development and rising values. I had friends who believed the hype and sold their Hoboken condo and bought in that area. They sold the house got out of there 6 months later a bit wiser.