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Maybe, but really - who in Jersey City besides a cop cares? I think you meant to put it here: http://hoboken411.com
Posted on: 2014/7/22 17:29
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Shouldn't you be walking a beat somewhere? Or standing at an intersection picking your nose while people run red lights?
Posted on: 2014/7/22 12:49
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Re: Plan to limit public comment at Jersey City council meetings draws Fulop's ire
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You live a half hour away. You obviously have some sort of vested interest in JC, likely a cop based on your worldview. But whether you are a cop or not, you are just here to make your buck and go home, right?
Posted on: 2014/7/19 20:47
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Collecting a paycheck is about the extent of it, no?
Posted on: 2014/7/18 21:53
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Are we sure they are bike lanes? There is nothing stencilled in them - just sets of parallel white lines scattered throughout the city (primarily downtown.) I hope this job gets finished properly and isn't something else that is a half-assed attempt at something promising that loses steam and those responsible move on to the next thing.
I agree with JackP - I'm excited to see any progress but it's going to be a while before a safe cycling culture develops here, if ever.
Posted on: 2014/7/7 22:03
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l write fiction.
Posted on: 2014/7/7 18:25
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I'm serving a long-term house arrest sentence with the ankle monitoring device. I can go out for up to three hours per day. Four more years to go on the sentence.
Believe me - when I've satisfied my debt to society, the east coast will just be a bad dream.
Posted on: 2014/7/7 18:05
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As though the whole thing is binary:
"Jersey City sucks!" "Well so does NYC!! Even more!!" They are both toilets. It's a big, big world out there and the NYC metro region is a pimple on the ass of the mouse on the ass of the elephant. One of my favorite scenes from Sopranos is when they are in the car driving home from EWR after returning from a couple weeks in Italy. They ride home in a depressed silence as they cruise along on 1/9 through the garbage and post-industrial slag heap that is the greater Newark/Hudson region.
Posted on: 2014/7/7 17:42
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You clearly don't know Bubba.
You clearly have an issue with Fulop and some sort of bromantic stalker fixation with Christie. You joined JCList the day after the election last year - never missing an opportunity to bash Fulop while going to great, often awkward lengths to defend Christie at the same time - and you've done it at a clip of better than 100 posts a month - so it's probably personal on some level. It's summertime. Lighten up! Go upstairs and step outside - get some sunshine.
Posted on: 2014/6/25 19:50
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Posted on: 2014/6/25 19:16
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No, no.... everyone else is doing it so it's okay! C'mon, rescue life!
Posted on: 2014/6/20 9:17
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In much of downtown (if Maldonado is your freeholder) and a Democrat, you have nothing but uncontested races. Good to vote and all, but I wouldn't change your evening plans to rush home before 8 just to push a half dozen buttons for people running unopposed.
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And because you use your real name you somehow believe that excuses the fact that you don't know half of what you are talking about? That is sad. I feel sorry for you. You are an angry, bitter person who can't accept that life has changed in ways you don't like and so you lash out in all directions (council meetings, jc list, nj.com, nj speaks - I'm sure there are another dozen I am unaware of.) Truly sad.
Posted on: 2014/5/30 19:46
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Really, Yvonne? You don't know the first thing about me and it's clear from your endless rants that you know little of what you prattle on about - whether it's here or when you are waddling up to the podium at a council meeting for the ninth time in an evening. You shouldn't feel the least bit sorry for me - I've seen you and have a decent idea how you live. You are the one to be pitied.
Posted on: 2014/5/30 18:01
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You are soooooo pedantic. It's one thing to argue the schools are getting screwed by the current abatement system (they aren''t, really - the state is much more so) - but it's a whole different level of asinine to say that the person who has a tax lien put on their home somehow has it worse because they pay school taxes. Ridiculous. Add up the taxes that you pay (municipal, school, county) and compare it to what the PILOT on a comparable property is. For instance - people with PILOTs on properties similar to the house you sold downtown pay PILOTs between $15,000 and $20,000, which is considerably more than what your total tax bill was. But hey - don't let facts get in the way of your bloviating.
Posted on: 2014/5/29 19:31
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Thank you for posting that clip. It explains a lot.
Posted on: 2014/5/27 21:39
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For the record, User - I live in census tract 39 - median household income of $142k. The mall sits in tract 1602 - median household income of $113k. When I look at all of the tracts that are in the areas you habitually defend - I don't see anything above $50k and many are in the low $30s to $40. You really don't see a difference???
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer Not saying one is better than the other, but to pretend that Jersey City is all the same economically is to be either stupid or outrageously disingenuous.
Posted on: 2014/5/25 20:48
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Memo to you, Mr. Grittier, more authentic than thou - life existed before you came along. Just because you "discovered" where you live doesn't mean that people weren't there long before you living their lives - imagine it: they weren't even waiting for you to arrive, to deem it the hip, hidden gem that you've decided it is. As for what is and isn't in JC (and yes, I've been around long enough to have a very well-informed opinion and don't need to scrape yours off the bottom of my shoe...) there are two Jersey City's: the one entrenched in poverty and urban blight and there's downtown. Is downtown perfect? Hell no. Compared to a lot of other places with a similar cost of living, it sucks. Does crime happen downtown, of course it does - with greater regularity than most people realize or care to admit. But most of the census tracts downtown have median incomes that fall in the upper 5% of the country. Many of the census tracts in Greenville and Bergen Lafayette have median incomes that are below the poverty level. The Times has this in a very user-friendly interactive map that I'm sure you can google and find. So.... get you head out of your ass. No matter how much you want to stroke yourself into thinking you are just a little smarter and know the real story... the real story is you have chosen to live in the ghetto and not everyone else has.
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So here's a win/win then: move it to the hood. Your neighbours can frequent it much more easily (and cheaply - no light rail necessary) and the people who actually live near the mall can have what they want. Which is not the current iteration of the Newport Mall.
Posted on: 2014/5/23 13:50
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Brigid - from the examples you give, it seems like you are missing a very basic element in the equation: PILOTs are revenue. Developments with abatements pay PILOTs - which are every bit as much revenue in the city budget as property taxes are. Your simple math seems to indicate that the city would have to wait the term of the abatement for revenue from new development to hit the budget and that the full cost of service increases are borne by the unabated tax payer.
Every proposed abatement has an estimated cost of incremental services and PILOT revenue must cover these costs. Additionally, while PILOT revenue may only be 21% of the overall budget, PILOT revenue as a percentage of "taxes" on property (PILOT payments plus traditional property taxes) is roughly 35%.
That's the dirty little secret Yvonne doesn't want you to recognize: as a whole, people with abatements pay higher percentages in PILOT payments than the eatable folks pay in property taxes.
Posted on: 2014/2/13 7:05
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You are right, Yvonne. I'm sure my big words confused you. Say a prayer for me because certainly you know best. Just a hunch, but is your husband hard of hearing?
Posted on: 2014/2/1 14:47
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Like I said - sounds like the newer people aren't your kind of folk. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of your points about the sewers? Did these Dickensian hordes of which you speak not produce waste? Or did Gabriel descend during the night and scoop it into bags and fly away with it?
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Really? Here is a table of the Jersey City census since 1900, courtesy of Wikipedia. Looks like we used to have 60,000 more people - you know, back in the good old days. Maybe, Yvonne, the problem is that the new people just aren't your kind of people. 1900 206,433 26.6% 1910 267,779 29.7% 1920 298,103 11.3% 1930 316,715 6.2% 1940 301,173 ?4.9% 1950 299,017 ?0.7% 1960 276,101 ?7.7% 1970 260,350 ?5.7% 1980 223,532 ?14.1% 1990 228,537 2.2% 2000 240,055 5.0% 2010 247,597 3.1% Est. 2012 254,441 [15][54] 2.8%
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Since she didn't talk about the origin of abatements in Jersey City, how the hell do you think you know whether or not Brigid knows how they started? More important - why do you feel it's necessary to spew the Britt shundlah, jirry mccayan history lesson that you just can't stop yourself from delivering. Give it a rest - you have become a caricature of yourself. Whether or not Newport needed/received/asked for an abatement 30+ years ago has little to nothing to do with anything. Why don't you listen to someone for a change rather than flapping your gums endlessly at the drop of every hat, telling the same old history lessons that are typically of little relation to the topic at hand. You might learn something.
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Yvonne - I know you claim to be a retired teacher. I sure as hell hope it wasn't English that you were teaching. Yikes.
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And here's how the rest of the world sees it....
There Will Be No Tailgating At The Super Bowl In a press conference held at a train station, a consortium of semi-important men in suits announced that you'd better not drive to the Super Bowl, or else. MetLife Stadium has 28,500 parking spots, but only 13,000 will be available on Super Bowl Sunday. So you've got basically two options: Take an NJ Transit train to Secaucus and change for the Meadowlands spur, or take a bus for $51 from one of nine locations around the area. Taking a taxi or a limo? Forget about it. For security reasons, cars without a parking pass won't be allowed anywhere near the stadium, and if you do have a pass, your car can't leave until the game's over. Walking? Nope. "You cannot walk to the Super Bowl," Kelly said. "You can get your hotel to drop you off at one of the New Jersey Transit locations or get the shuttle to take you to a Fan Express location, but you can not walk." Let's say you're one of the lucky 13,000 to land a parking pass, most of which will likely go to the league's corporate partners. You will not be able to tailgate. Or, at least, you will not be able to participate in the many activities commonly accepted to describe tailgating. You will be allowed to shotgun sad beers in your car. "You will be allowed to have food in your car and have drink in your car," Kelly said. "And provided you're in the boundaries of a single parking space, you'll be able to eat or drink right next to your car. However you're not going to be able to take out a lounge chair, you're not going to be able to take out a grill and you're not going to be able to take up more than one parking space. And it'll all be watched very carefully." There is almost no tailgating culture to speak of at Super Bowls, so not too many people will be affected. Come to think of it, I don't actually know anyone who ever attended a Super Bowl as a fan. Are these people real? Actors? Did you ever go to a Super Bowl? Did it feel like a football game in the least? http://deadspin.com/there-will-be-no- ... ook&utm_medium=socialflow
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Who are the "regular folks" and what makes the new people "irregular"?
Posted on: 2013/12/3 18:50
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You know what accounts for a nice chunk of abated properties? Churches. Not "abated" as in "paying PILOTs" but "abated" as in the true sense of the word - not paying anything. Would be great if these profit-generating organizations paid taxes.
Posted on: 2013/11/28 23:00
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Business Insider's Senior Editor lives in JC.
Posted on: 2013/10/30 12:39
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"Benefits" when used as a general term, does not mean sick time. "Benefits" means primarily health care. How could Fulop push through Specials and some how have them exempted from another law he is backing. Just looking at the variety of experiences posted in this thread (by people who no doubt receive "benefits" from their employer) the granting of sick time is by no means automatically a part of a "benefits" package.
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