justin wrote:
If that shiny metallic slide was actually plastic, it still behaved like scalding metal in the sun. Quote:

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Ever hear the term "preaching to the choir"? Meanwhile Good Luck talking reason to the basketball players, the litterers, the cricketeers, the people who don't pick up poop and the homeless.

BTW. That slide was plastic.

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nightgownposse wrote:
are there enforced hours for the basketball courts? maybe they should lock it up after a certain hour?
I know that there are rules about having your dog leashed and I sure do see a lot of unleashed dogs in Hamilton park.

Park closes at 10pm. If you see games going on after 10pm call the Police non-emergency number 201-547-5477. I have done so twice this spring and both times they sent out cops to chase them away. If you haven't noticed, the HP basketball court is becoming a "destination" for people from other parts of the city to play late into the night. We'd better nip it in the bud or this summer is gonna be a nightmare.
And Please! There is no law against calling the cops night after night if a problem persists. Get'em out of there and get some sleep. 201-547-5477.

Sateen wrote:
I think the problem is the prices also.

The food also has a tendency to be pretentious.

misterdude wrote:
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jcecker wrote:

People need to make a conscious effort to buy American and use money to support American business

Care to share the buy American list that you make an effort to support? Not as easy as it seems?

shadrack wrote:
As a kid growing up in the Hilltop area, it was rumored that the St. Joseph's Church steeple was haunted. A dim light would glow in the steeple on some nights.

The old Hudson County Jail on Pavonia Avenue (demolished) was so haunted that demolition crews refused to venture into the facility alone. A fire had killed inmates on the top floor in the old jail in the early 1980's and supposedly two construction workers came face to face with one of the fire victims. It was also one of two sites where criminals were hanged in the 1800's. The other was on Academy Street.

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Adonis wrote:
It sickens me how many people here seem jump to the defense of minorities the minute somebody intoduces the notion that "non-diverse" communites might have better aspects than "diverse" communites. It's as if the very second anybody dare insults the minority communites you are a rascist or (worse) an un-intellectual conservative neanderthal.

Bottom line is I don't need an astonomer to tell me that the sun rises in the east and I don't need some possibly scewed statistics to tell me in which communites I'm most likely to get shot in and what type of person is going to likely be the shooter.

Poverty, not race, breeds crime you un-intellectual conservative neanderthal.

K-Lo wrote:
I'm missing something about the "off duty cops" discussion.

If they're off duty, they're off duty. Whether they're making money at a construction site or sitting at home or at the track, they're off duty, right?

Or are you saying that police officers who are scheduled to work an 8-4 shift are actually protecting construction sites while they're on duty?

Shadow wrote:
The notion that the "better" part of the downtown section gets a better police presence is false...it is this type of dialogue that divides rather than unites communities. The police are virtually invisible except when seen at construction sites. Brutal attacks are happening everywhere in this city while the Mayor boasts about hiring more police and beefing up gang units. The good people in Lafayette and the rest of the city are asked to help the police and report criminal activity. The police are not pro-active in the pursuit of crime. They respond to the brushfires instead. When the new police officers hit the streets they are eager to do their jobs. Most police officers are good people who soon are educated by the doctrine of "don't make waves", "get all the off-duty jobs you can & beef up your pension" "go home safe at night & get out in twenty years". The majority of the police do not reside in Jersey City. For the most part their hearts and minds are not here. The leadership, or lack thereof, is at the root cause of this crisis. The population of Jersey City has increased significantly while its resources have dwindled. If the boozefog politicians had a clue and were concerned and had a plan and did their jobs people would not have to trek out at night in the dead of winter to complain.