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Re: Jersey City Sanitation
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Hi don?t know how long you have lived in JC. Let me throw this out (no pun intended)?are you sure it?s not any homeless people, animals, or creeps going through your trash?

On recycling night some homeless dudes may be digging for aluminum cans. (pretty sure there is some type of fine for doing that, but don?t think it is really enforced)

On garbage night they may be digging in your trash looking for aluminum cans, or bank statements.

Another long shot raccoons, cats, possum, or rats.

I know it may be a little out there but I grew up in JC, I still wire down my shrubs. I can?t see WM making such a mess they never have in my hood.

Good luck.

Posted on: 2012/4/1 21:57
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Re: Jury Duty question
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Glad you didn?t ask ?how do I get out of it?? It is important that as many normal people as possible serve as jurors. (I am assuming you are normal, you must be.. you post on JCList)

I seem to get picked for petit jury duty a lot. Last year I lucked out for once. When I called the number the night before the recording said my ?group? didn?t have to report we were excused for the two days. (great)

I had grand jury duty maybe 20 years ago. Yes mine was every Tuesday for 10 weeks. Work didn?t mind too much. It was a learning experience to say the least. This is all from my memory some of the stuff could be wrong, correct me if it is.

Here are some things I recall?.

They pick a foreman and back up foreman, they also pick a ?sergeant at arms? a sucker who has to get up every few minutes to go get the victims, witnesses or cops in the waiting room. (more on that great job later)Try not to get picked for those jobs, if you don?t get picked you can at least sit on your as* all day and just listen to the interesting cases.

The court clerk is the controller of the whole process. Before each case he tells you what went down and what the prosecutors are looking to charge the defendant with, etc. He more or less seems to steer the jurors in the direction of how the prosecutors want you to vote. (yes I was amazed, and made a note to myself to befriend folks who work or know people to work in the prosecutors office)

How do I know this? As I recall one of the cases was a *****?s son who was caught with some grass or something. The court clerk said shi* like ?the next case to be presented is of a good hard working guy who made a mistake?, ?you may recognize the name..his parent is a ***** and yada yada yada.? You could tell by the tone of the court clerk and the prosecutor they wanted to go easy on this guy. On the other hand when they wanted to nail someone they really laid it on 10 fold. (again as I remember from 20 years ago) I bet it is still like that as some recent non-indictments show.

The prosecutors then come out and present their investigation results to the jurors, calling the victims, witnesses, and cops to testify.

The cool part is you are allowed to ask questions. As I recall not to the victims, witnesses, or cops, just to the prosecutors. Why is a plastic gun given the same weight in court as a real gun? Because the victim did not know it was a plastic gun when it was pointed in his face. Interesting.

A vote is then taken to see if the defendant is indicted or not.

Some of the jurors really hit it off , going to lunch and sometimes dinner together. Car pooling, laughing, and communicating having a good old time. Some even exchanged phone numbers (pre social networking) with one another after the 11 weeks were up. Hugs and kisses good bye.

But NOT the ?sergeant at arms? his is a lonely job believe me I know. I was picked because of my size. The court clerk said he wanted someone big between him and the common people. Just in case someone flipped out in the court room. Great for me?yippie! The job sucked I was away from everyone else and they made me wear a freakin? suit every day I reported. WTF?

So again my job was to get up and go get the needed people from the witness /cop rooms when their names were called to testify. It wasn?t fun and games. Some victims and witnesses were literary shaking when I went into the room to get them. (I hope it wasn?t because of my size and looks..gee) I tried my best to clam them down with a stupid joke. (as you can tell from my posts I am full of them) A few latched onto me as we walked to the front of the court room. I recall one guy was so nervous he froze on the stand his mouth was opening by nothing was coming out. He looked over at me and I gestured with my hands for him to clam down take it easy/slow. He did. You know after a while I was glad they did make me wear a suit. It showed we respected the poor victims and witnesses. (not those damm coppers though)

The really great thing about the official ?sergeant at arms? job was the power that was bestowed upon me. When loud yelling and hooting was coming from the cop room. I was ordered to go into the cop room and tell the rowdy JCPD, PAPD, and State Troopers who were waiting to testify that they were making too much noise and to keep it down. I of course got the ?yeah right FUC* YOU bozo with a suit on? look from them each and every time. I hated going into that room! And to think those bastards were probably getting paid overtime to mock me!

Parking : I usually just park in one of the many pay lots around the court house.

Food: A Mickey D?s across the street, a couple of little places around. Walk to BK on Summit. Watch out for the 3:00 pm DHS crowd they will knock you down.

Hours: I recall we did not stay full days, some days we got out really early. On those days most of the jurors would hit the bar. Except me of course the LONER, the ?sergeant at arms?.

That?s all?good luck?enjoy!

Posted on: 2012/4/1 1:32
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Re: Body found in Journal Square victim of 'a single gunshot wound to the head,' a source says
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JJ link of above piece...with pictures of the suspected low life?..strange story...drugs??


http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... ce_images_released_o.html

Posted on: 2012/3/30 20:25
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Re: Jersey City has big plans for 100 acres on West Side along Hackensack River
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Things got screwed up here. Tylers thread about Bayside Park was moved to this thread.

The original thread was about the future Bay Front development ?from Society Hill down to the around the Hudson Mall along 440. www.bayfrontjerseycity.com

Bayside Park is in Greenville it was just refurbished. (cool old picture in that Bayside link)

The talk about a Wal-Mart?or Costco is for the old PJP landfill property across from Wonder Bagel / Holy Name Cemetery on Sip and 440. Next to Lincoln Park. Long history with that PJP property?Google it?

The land was burning underground for years and years , it was an old dump. When I was a kid every once and a while the fire would erupt on the surface. Strange it was smoking ALL of the time and no one gave too shi*s back then.

Posted on: 2012/3/30 15:10
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Re: Body found in Journal Square victim of 'a single gunshot wound to the head,' a source says
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(Here?s more on the murder. How horrible for the 24 year-olds family and friends. Gee 24 and formerly lived Brooklyn I hope he wasn?t one of the newcomers from JCList coming home from work at 9:20 pm. Great way to get ready for that April 1st dead-line in getting the ?new? Journal Square development going right Healy?)



Authorities still searching for two suspects in fatal shooting of man near Journal Square PATH station

Published: Friday, March 30, 2012, 9:20 AM
Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012, 9:34 AM

By Terrence T. McDonald


The victim in last night?s fatal shooting outside Hudson County Community College in Jersey City was a 24-year-old male whose identity is still being withheld pending positive identification by his family, according the officials.

Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said authorities are still looking for two men who were seen fleeing south on Enos Place after the shooting, which occurred at about 9:20 p.m.

A Port Authority police officer heard the shot and started chasing the two men, who eluded capture, DeFazio said.

The shooting occurred at about 9:20 p.m. in the walkway that connects Sip Avenue and the PATH station. The victim was fatally wounded with a ?single shot to the head,? a law-enforcement official said last night.

One of the two men is suspected of being the gunman, and he may have used a semi-automatic pistol, according to DeFazio.

Police scanner reports last night indicated that security cameras at the college and at nearby School 11 may have caught footage of the two men. DeFazio confirmed this morning that authorities are reviewing security footage and may glean some ?valuable footage? from it.

The Jersey City victim was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:34 p.m., DeFazio added. The man formerly lived in Brooklyn, and he is not believed to be a student of the college.

Anyone with information about the shooting should call the Hudson County Prosuector?s Office?s Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345.

JJ piece?..

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... s_still_searching_fo.html

Posted on: 2012/3/30 14:13
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Re: Steve Fulop Last Day of Work Today - Email - Focus on Campaign
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I thought this was a great reply over on the nj.com thread?especially in light of someone getting their head blow off on JScare?

"And if Mr. Fulop would like, we can show him around the other five wards of the city ? areas he has yet to visit during his time on the council."

He is probably afraid to go into the other five wards of the city. We are afraid living here IN the other five wards of the city. What do you think he is stupid? Way to get that crime down Healy?.hey we are lucky today no car jacking?yet!

Posted on: 2012/3/30 3:42
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Re: Signs / Billboards in Downtown
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Great.

This is from the planning board site...

9. Case: P12-017 Minor Site Plan ? Interim use
Applicant: Sandra & Glenn Cunningham Foundation
Attorney: George Garcia
Review Planner: Kristin Russell
Address: 580 Marin Blvd.
New Block: 7201 Lot: 1
Zone: Newport Redevelopment Plan
Description: 40?x40? Billboard



Wow I guess it will be going up on the roof of 580 Marin.

Put the address in google map, nice high traffic location.

Wonder who makes up THE FOURTEEN FLORENCE STREET CORP they are the owners of the property.

If they get one I want on my roof, I heard you can get big bucks for renting billboards and cell transponders.

(speaking of cell transponders?do some digging into who owns 430 Danforth Ave. that?s the property with the massive cell towers on Rt 440. ) (that one tower is so big it even has it?s own listing in the JC Online Tax inquiry) (hmmm)

Posted on: 2012/3/29 20:12
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Re: Steve Fulop Last Day of Work Today - Email - Focus on Campaign
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Great news glad you are hitting the streets of JC. Welcome!

In college I did construction work in the summers in JC. We were doing a sidewalk in a not so great section of JC in 100 degree weather. All of a sudden there was a commotion down the street?another mugging perhaps? No it was none other than Anthony Cucci walking down the street greeting people for the upcoming mayoral election. When he saw us he came over and took off his suit jacket (surprised at that..older Italians usually keep their suit jacket?s on when doing masonry work). He grabbed a shovel and said let me help.

As we were working together he asked for our opinions of what JC needed. We let him know. He had my vote I will never forget that day. (as silly as it may sound)

Make your first street walk over on Newark Ave. Little India and the surrounding streets. Ask all of the neighbors if they even knew about the proposal to make Little India part of the Restaurant Row. See how many HOMEowners in the area want it.

Who introduced the proposal to include Little India? I love the line ?The move is a part of the city?s effort to attract new businesses to the area?. That strip of Newark Ave. has had ALL of the stores fully leased since the mid 70?s? (except for one) So being able to get a liquor license is going to do what for the surrounding neighborhood? Which is and has been fully occupied since the 70's too.


PS ? your slogan should be:

Tired of all the bullshi*? So am I, so am I!

(translated: ?get rid of the Healy machine?)



?follow the money?.

Posted on: 2012/3/29 18:27
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Man and his elderly mother forced out of car in Jersey City carjacking
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(this one was buried in the carjack task force thread, wanted to bring it out front and center) (scary stuff)

Man and his elderly mother forced out of car in Jersey City carjacking

Published: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8:40 AM
By The Jersey Journal

A 70-year-old woman was forced from a vehicle at gunpoint Tuesday in Jersey City?s 12th carjacking of the year, The Jersey Journal reports.

The 42-year-old owner of the 2010 Nissan Maxima was returning to his vehicle outside a McDonald?s restaurant on Communipaw Avenue about 10 p.m. when a man pointed a silver pistol at him and said, ?You know what time it is,? police reports said.

Full JJ piece with link to more info?.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... s_elderly_mother_for.html

Posted on: 2012/3/29 13:29
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Re: Jersey City to push to include Little India in Newark Avenue Restaurant Row
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I will try and answer my above questions ..just my opinion?

1-Can I open up a restaurant/bar next to The Park Tavern (575 Westside) towards Communipaw? I want it to have liquor and entertainment licenses.

(no I can?t open up a restaurant/bar next to The Park Tavern. Gee it?s not fair the Restaurants in the Restaurant Row can)


2-Can I open up a restaurant/bar next to L.I.T.M (140 Newark Ave)? I want it to have liquor and entertainment licenses.

(yes I can open up a restaurant/bar next to L.I.T.M. thanks to the Restaurant Row ordinance)


3-Can I open up a restaurant/bar next to Rasoi Restaurant(/bar) (810 Newark, Little India)? I want it to have liquor and entertainment licenses.

(well that all depends on who you know?more on this later...interesting word on the street as to who is pushing for it)


4-Can I open up a restaurant/bar next to (Councilman) Brennan's Pub (70 Sterling) I want it to have liquor and entertainment licenses.

(no I can?t open up a restaurant/bar next to Brennan?s Pub. Gee it?s not fair the Restaurants in the Restaurant Row can)


5-WTF does this mean?.with the exception of properties on Lower John F. Kennedy Boulevard where no live entertainment shall be permitted.

(haven?t figured this one out. When I grew up if someone lived in Greenville we would say he lived down the Boulevard, or at the end of the Boulevard. Is this talking about a street or a whole section of the city? How can the city council exclude one section yet let all other parts of the city participate?)



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Ok it looks like Newark Ave. (Little India) is going to be included in the RR expansion.


Jersey City City Council introduces measure to expand Newark Avenue Restaurant Row

Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 6:36 PM
Updated: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 6:36 PM

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal

Restaurants along Newark Avenue between Kennedy Boulevard and the Pulaski Skyway in Jersey City will soon be a part of the Newark Avenue Restaurant Row, thanks to an ordinance given tentative approval by the City Council tonight.

The move is a part of the city?s effort to attract new businesses to the area. Restaurants in a Restaurant Row are exempt from state laws that prohibit establishments with liquor licenses from opening within 520 feet of one another.

Restaurant Row eateries are also able to obtain city entertainment licenses without having to apply for a zoning variance.

The measure passed 6-0-1, with Council President Peter Brennan abstaining and council members Steve Fulop and Michele Massey absent. It requires one more vote before it?s adopted.

The council shot down a similar ordinance at its March 15 meeting because it also included one restaurant on Bright Street. Council members called that ?spot zoning,? and the city revised the ordinance to exclude that restaurant.

JJ piece?.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... y_city_council_intro.html

Posted on: 2012/3/29 0:17
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Re: Signs / Billboards in Downtown
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I?ll throw in two more DTJC signs?

1- The Liberty Harbor free standing "for sale" sign on Grand and River streets across from the Brownstone. That thing is 3 stories tall and 50 feet wide. Who approved that sign being there? It would most likely fail any safety inspection it is supported by steel girders jerry rigged together.

2- The old fire house across from the old Toasty Bagel place on Bright/Grand. It has a banner with gigantic pictures of the two realtors stretched across one of the buildings. Girls you look horrible in those pictures especially now that the banner is all faded and wrinkled. (time warp to 20 years from now)

Posted on: 2012/3/28 21:42
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Pay to Play Ordinance Threshold Increase ????
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(there was a small legal notice in today?s print JJ about the threshold increase. It has been going up every year. Below is the notice from last year. This years isn?t in the JC website yet. I put this years requested increases as they appear in the JJ in red)

(why do they increase every year and why are we letting these people contribute to candidates war chests?)

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Public Notice City of Jersey City


Pay to Play Ordinance Threshold Increase


The monetary thresholds of the Pay to Play Ordinance are: (i) a maximum of three hundred
twenty dollars ($320.00) ($330) per calendar year each for any purpose to any candidate or candidate committee for mayor or governing body, or five hundred twenty dollars ($520.00) ($530)per calendar year to any joint candidates committee for mayor or governing body, or three hundred twenty dollars ($320.00) ($330) per calendar year to a political committee or political party committee of the City of Jersey City; (ii) five hundred twenty dollars ($520.00) ($530)maximum per calendar year to a Hudson County political committee or political party committee; and (iii) five hundred twenty dollars ($520.00) ($530)maximum per calendar year to any PAC.

However, for each Business Entity party to a contract for Professional or Extraordinary Unspecified Services as defined in Subsection B(1), or engaged in negotiations for a contract defined in Subsection B(1), when such Business Entity's Contribution is aggregated with all "persons" defined in Subsection A(4) of "Definitions" above, by virtue of their affiliation to that Business Entity party, a maximum of two thousand six hundred dollars ($2,600.00) ($2,670) to all City of Jersey City candidates, candidate committees, joint candidate committees, and holders of public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of a contract, all City of Jersey City or Hudson County political committees and political party committees as described herein combined, without violating Subsection B(1) of this section.


Robert Byrne


(also could someone translate the above)

Posted on: 2012/3/28 16:01
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Re: Signs / Billboards in Downtown
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Heights? I don?t know the zoning law?but I looked at the zoning map from 2009. 350 Montgomery is in a historic district and the Montgomery Street Redevelopment area.

Put 350 Montgomery Street Jersey City in Google Map and pull up the street view. Those banner/signs on the (old) JC Museum are cool. They fit into the neighborhood. Very artsy ? the color and style are perfect for the area.

If I lived in that hood I would be on the phone with City Hall telling them to force the JCMC to take down those 6 JCMC advertisements. Freakin? 1-800 number bright blue signs on a beautiful brick and brownstone historical building lined street. Disgusting! Who approved the signs?

jc_dweller speaking of out of place DTJC campaign signs?there is no truth to the rumor that Steve F. is going to sponsor the JCMC building and put up a campaign sign. Someone mentioned it was going to be a group shot of smirking Team Healy with the caption ?.?Have you had a colonoscopy recently? Call for an appointment today at the JCMC. ?

HP ? interesting old school JC idea..or at least get Ron English put one of his cool billboards over it.(and the ones at the JC Museum)




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Personal side note: all kidding aside?. I had one a few months ago ..not bad at all. Just do it!

Posted on: 2012/3/27 20:42
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Re: Signs / Billboards in Downtown
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Did you see the beautiful new signage at 350 Montgomery Street on the old Jersey City Museum building which is now the new JCMC building? Six massive blue signs draped over the front and sides of the building advertizing the JCMC . Does the JCMC really need to advertize IN Jersey City?

Also isn?t 350 Montgomery smack dab in the middle of a DT historic district? (or very close)

Hey they at least gave the City Council a warning a few weeks ago that they were going to do it? I guess the JCMC advertisements are just temporary until they find a sponsor. Just think in the future you may very well be seeing an advertisement for maybe KFC and the JCMC. ?We give all of our chicken?s breast exams, had one lately? Set up an appointment today at the JCMC.?

?JCMC CEO Joe Scott told the City Council last night that he is seeking a sponsor to pay to have the sponsor's name placed on the building.?

Posted on: 2012/3/27 14:09
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Re: Liberty State Park - NEAR Downtown Jersey City -- Choice: THEME PARK (OR) HOTEL/Conference Center
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Yeah interesting stuff?. and when you start digging more amazing stuff pops up. It is all in my head some where but I need google to bring it out. Also it is good history for the newcomers.

Now I recall Barry wanted to use a sliver of Liberty State Park for 2 holes of his 18 hole golf course.


Use no part of park for golf
Published: February 4, 1999

I commend Michael Park for his fair Jan. 12 story, "Teed Off," about the battle over the Liberty State Park Caven Point Peninsula, which is designated as having "exceptional natural resource value." As the story reported, this land, purchased with federal funds to be a state natural area, is being sought for a long-term lease by Joseph and David Barry for use as 2 holes of a golf course next to their Porte Liberte condominums.

I agree with the following day's editorial," Revisit issue of 18-hole golf course layout," which stated that the "best step" for officials to take is to work with the Barrys to lay out the course without the public land.

Their public golf course will be the second in the county, joining the one which has been proposed to be built in Bayonne, and I'm sure it will be a very nice one without the natural area that must be off-limits. It is unconscionable that the developers want to profit from land that was meant for nature education, wildlife habitat, and passive recreation like bird and beach observation, etc.
The New York-New Jersey Baykeeper asserts that the peninsula's use for golf would irreparably damage the fragile wetlands and tidal ecosystem.

New Jersey Audubon is opposed because many birds including endangered species not only rest there during migrations, but also live there during the various seasons. When U.S. Land and Water Conservation Funds bought the land in 1984, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection scientists and Rutgers University scientists confirmed the peninsula's value as a natural area.
I hope the governor's land preservation thinking leads her to reject the giving away of this scarce urban natural area.

If not, I hope the public good will prevail through the National Park Service saying no!

SAM PESIN
President,
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Jersey City

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Hey speaking of holes?.remember this big one?.. Janiszewski? Busted!!

Developer Joseph Barry pleads guilty Admits to $114,900 in illegal cash payments to former county exec

http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/fu ... nts-to-former-county-exec

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COMMUNITY; Red Flags Go Up Over Public Golf Courses

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/24/nyr ... tml?pagewanted=all&src=pm


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Then there was Mayor Bret Schundler who swears LNGC made a deal that JC folks could use the course on slow days at a reduced rate. But he couldn?t recall if it was a formal or informal agreement.

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Yeah way too much to clean up that mess of land. Also same thing with the Bayonne golf course too costly for city to clean it up. At least both courses have public walk ways along the water so we can see how the other half lives. If you have never taken the Bayonne walkway try it it is really cool. Heli pad and Yacht dock included in the tour.

Posted on: 2012/3/26 21:36
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Re: Liberty State Park - NEAR Downtown Jersey City -- Choice: THEME PARK (OR) HOTEL/Conference Center
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Neverleft, just to correct a misconception - Liberty National Golf Club sits on private land, not a privatized public land.

Yes, they got the permits by promising public access (weasels), but the land is, and pretty much always has been, private.


Ok thanks stillinjc. The city should have turned the screws on them permit wise. I think the only perk the city got was that LNGC was going to sponsor the Lincoln High School golf team. Giving them uniforms and letting them practice there. How big of them. Oh yeah the other perk was supposed to be WE (JC folk) got to work in the clubhouse or be trained as a caddies?err I mean ?four-hour butler?s? , I wonder how that went?

I know you can?t do things like sticking it to a company but I just saw a legal notice in the JJ that LNGC wanted to transfer a liquor license and maybe renew their entertainment license. City should have said only if you charge JC residents five bucks a game and maybe have either Robert Kraft or one of the Getty?s as caddy?s. It would have been very nice if the city forced them to open up that beautiful clubhouse to the public maybe just for party rentals.

I did know some of the land was the old U.S. Army property. I guess they brought it from the government.??

Found this old hudson reporter piece?.

The membership fee is estimated to range from $300,000 to $500,000. Already among the members are New England Patriots football team owner Robert Kraft, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and Bill Getty of the Getty oil family.


The 7,400-yard course was over 10 years in the making, built on land once occupied by oil containers and used by the U.S. Army as an ammunition dump. Now the 160-acre site of pristine green overlooking the Statue of Liberty will also contain a heliport to fly the members onto the course, a clubhouse to open by 2007 that will offer premier dining from New York restaurateur Tom Colicchio, yacht service from Manhattan to the golf course, and a world class golf performance practice center.


http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/fu ... --has-prestigious-members

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Benefits for surrounding area

Perhaps fittingly, the 165-acre course, just south of Liberty State Park, lies on land once occupied by rail yards (one of the industries of Jersey City that declined), a military installation, and other industrial sites.

Like many exclusive clubs, Liberty National is beyond the means of most residents of its host surrounding area. But club officials point out that even non-members in Jersey City stand to benefit in several ways.


For example, property taxes from the 165-acre course are certain to far exceed those from the area's former uses. Unlike many of the recent developments farther north along the city's waterfront, including a luxury condominium project announced last September by Donald Trump, the golf course has not been granted a tax abatement by the city, said Maria Pignataro, a spokeswoman for Mayor Jerramiah Healy.


Aurelian Anghelusiu, Liberty National's vice president and managing director, said the course will be looking to hire clubhouse and other staff from the surrounding community. Well aware that the area has never had a golf course and therefore lacks experienced caddies, Anghelusiu said Liberty National will institute a thorough training program.


Beyond learning mere bag-toting skills, he said, each caddie will be trained to serve as a "four-hour butler, if you will."

(wow)


As Fireman said of the club's well-heeled members, "I want them to feel like they're getting their money's worth." After all, he added, "It's a lot of money."

http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/fu ... uly-4-on-remediated-land?


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Big whoop about the JC taxes they are paying? put WA RESIDENTIAL CO.,LLC % WILLOWBEND in the owner box of the JC online tax inquiry.

Posted on: 2012/3/26 16:28
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Re: Governor Christie halts new train tunnel into Manhattan due to cost overun
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I am always happy to see this thread pop up. Great job Gov Christie in stopping the projected bleeding of tax payer money. Below was just the start. Any one remember the joke of where all the state money went for the big School Building Projects? It was gone in 60 seconds into the pockets of friends and family of politicians. They would snatch up land and buildings right before decisions on which school was going to be built next. They would then charge the state an arm and a leg to buy the property for the school.

Tunnel Decision Has Ripple Effects
By ANNE MILLER

A McDonald's restaurant used to stand on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, but New Jersey Transit tore down the golden arches to help prepare the New Jersey side for the $8.7 billion rail tunnel to Midtown Manhattan.

When Gov. Chris Christie canceled the planned tunnel under the Hudson River last month, he effectively nixed the need for the McDonald's lot, for which the state paid $3.5 million. Now the property is sitting vacant?and off the local tax rolls?upsetting North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco.

"Having a tunnel, at least there's a benefit to the town," Mr. Sacco said. "Now there's no benefit at all."

Indeed, the decision to halt work on the rail tunnel has had a ripple effect in northern New Jersey, halting or at least slowing other projects tied to the tunnel. Gov. Christie said he had to pull the plug on the tunnel to avoid projected cost overruns.

The state had spent around $29 million on property for the tunnel, most of it in North Bergen.

In addition to the McDonald's land, NJ Transit paid $7 million for a storage facility and $15.75 million for a warehouse property, according to records provided by North Bergen administrator Chris Pianese.

Full WSJ piece?.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001 ... 04575618571271498934.html

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$3.5 million for a Mickey D?s that was always empty because it was so dangerous to get in and out of the parking lot off of Tonnelle Avenue.

$7 million for a piece of land with about 8 steel ?The General? type storage sheds on it.


HC strikes again!!!

Posted on: 2012/3/26 4:56
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Re: What does Downtown Jersey City need in a new restaurant?
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Open up a White Castle you know you all want one closer to you. The Harold & Kumar trips to the JScare WC are getting a bit much. Your mouth is watering reading this isn?t it? You got the craving for a Crave Case right now don?t you?

Ok if the name is a little harsh for you DTJC elite just change the sign to Castillo Blanco that will class it up a bit. Everything sounds classier in a foreign tongue. Like wine and vino, beer and cerveza, Snooki and err ..Snooki ok so some words sound more classy.

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Re: Liberty State Park - NEAR Downtown Jersey City -- Choice: THEME PARK (OR) HOTEL/Conference Center
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Ahh the area of the infamous LSP Bret Schundler Water Park. At the time when the LSP Water Park was being considered the folks from the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex were also interested in the car pound lot for a future complex.

Hey maybe it is good this thread popped up again. Keep an eye on this one. I don?t know if the car pound privatization passed yet. Let?s hope the Pump lot and the adjacent Car Pound lot doesn?t go to a developer who will NOT let the citizens of JC use it. Like our ..err I mean their Liberty National Golf Course.

Hey I have a question for Jennifer. If the car pound deficit is over $325K why the fuc* is there a Direct TV Satellite dish on the roof of the car pound trailer? I pay around $120 a month for DirectTV and I watch it at HOME when I am not WORKing!

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One way or another the administration intends to continue with its plan to replace the city?s car pound operation with private companies. According to City Spokeswoman Jennifer Morril, the Jersey City?s car pound deficit was over $325,000.

?This is especially disturbing considering that no other nearby municipality or county runs a car pound,? she said. ?Not only will the closing of the car pound save City operating expenses, but it will also save approximately $1.4 million in construction costs at the new Department of Public Works (DPW) compound at East Linden Avenue.?

By closing the city?s car pound early, the city can also sell the land sooner than if they had had to wait for the proposed pound at East Linden Avenue to be completed.

?The land sale would provide needed revenue for CY2012, and result in the land being returned to City tax role for revenue in future years,? she said.

From the jc independent?
http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/ ... -temporarily-put-on-hold/

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LSP Water Park history?interesting?

http://www.stopbretschundler.com/LSP.htm

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Re: Where do you get plants in this town?
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I never knew that about bamboo interesting. I did know that it could prosper around here. I drove by a factory in Kearny many a time and was always amazed at how big the bamboo "screen" was in front of the place. It?s on Bergen Ave the road that takes you to Wal-Mart.

If you put 384 Bergen ave Kearny nj in google map street view you can see a wall of bamboo.

That was in 2007 now it is as tall as the tree to the left in the picture.

Great idea if you want to block out creepy neighbors. (as long as they are not Panda bears I guess)

I always wondered what they made at 384 Bergen. It was so well hidden by the bamboo I thought something shady was going on. Turns out they make sunglasses the Jersey Shore style sunglasses.

www.fantas-eyes.com

(hey maybe you can go cop a few sprouts)

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Re: Where do you get plants in this town?
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Oops.

440 Farms across from the Hudson Mall has a nursery behind it. In season they have a surprisingly huge selection of flowers, shrubs, trees, etc.

Mostly use Lowes 440 or the new Lowes in Bayonne. HD 440 last resort.

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Re: Thrift Shops
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I see the Moose is having a flea market on Saturday 3/24.



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Flea Market
Moose Lodge 266
60 West Side Avenue
Jersey City NJ
201-432-7579
Saturday, March 24, 2012
9:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.

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Posted on: 2012/3/23 23:45
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Re: Former Jersey City council candidate Lori Serrano pleads not guilty
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Another HC/JC classic....

Lawyers for Lori Serrano, the Jersey City City Council candidate arrested in the 2009 corruption sweep, argue in a new court filing that Serrano?s mail-fraud indictment should be dismissed, saying the U.S. Attorney?s Office discriminated against her because she is a Democrat.

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Re: Journal Square two apartment towers - 54 & 38 stories
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Please forgive me but I have to add one more. That JJ photo link from the Journal Square ?party? on April 7, 2009 has a wealth of humor in it. I just found another?

If you look at the group shot you will see none other than that pisser of a man.. Steve Lipski.the current CEO of the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation.

Now I know why everyone is laughing Lipski must of said? ?hurry this is up I have to go?. And now I know why he was street level and NOT on the stage!!

http://media.nj.com/jersey-journal/photo/226881-standard.jpg

(and gee Lipski kind of close to the mayor there.. heal boy! or are you trying to piss in his pocket?)

Cops arrest Jersey City councilman for urinating on concert-goers

Published: Sunday, November 09, 2008, 8:54 PM
Updated: Monday, November 10, 2008, 4:18 AM

By Carly Rothman/The Star-Ledger

A Jersey City councilman was allegedly drunk when he was seized at a Washington nightclub after urinating on attendees of a Grateful Dead tribute concert.

City Councilman Steven Lipski, who represents the Journal Square area and directs a charter school, was charged Friday with simple assault at Nightclub 9:30 on V Street, a spokesman from the Metropolitan Police District of Columbia said today.

Staff at the club spotted Lipski, 44, at the Dark Star Orchestra concert, urinating from a second-level balcony onto the crowd below, The Daily News reported today.

Club employees hauled Lipski from the club and held him until police arrived and arrested him around 9:50 p.m., the report said.

A "source" told The Daily News that Lipski was "very drunk," and said it wasn't the first time he acted up at the nightspot.

"We've dealt with this man before," the source is quoted saying. "He's never peed on anybody, but he gets really belligerent and drunk."

Lipski, founder and director of CREATE Charter School in Jersey City, didn't return several phone calls left for him at his home and on his cell phone.

But one of his city council colleagues, Willie Flood, said Lipski called her this morning and said the incident was a big misunderstanding. Lipski claimed he spilled a drink and a someone thought it was urine, Flood said.

"It is an allegation," Flood added. "We need the facts first and then make a determination what happened. It seems out of character."

Flood, who also is the Hudson County Registrar, made headlines earlier this year when it came to light she hired her son for two government jobs even though he had previous run-ins with the law.

Richard Heinecke, owner of Nightclub 9:30, declined to comment today.

Downtown Councilman Steven Fulop called Lipski's arrest "embarrassing" for Jersey City.

Coupled with Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy's conviction for resisting arrest and obstruction of administrative law during a tussle with cops in Bradley Beach in 2006, Fulop said these incidents would lead investors to "question the leadership" of Jersey City.

"It is very humiliating," he said.


Healy was unavailable to comment and his spokeswoman, Jennifer Morrill, called the Lipski incident a "private and personal matter."

The mayor has characterized his thrice-appealed disorderly persons arrest in Bradley Beach in 2006 in much the same manner. The state Supreme Court refused to consider a final appeal of the charges earlier this year. Healy has maintained he was just trying to help the police sort out a domestic dispute.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008 ... y_councilman_arreste.html


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Steve F. I couldn't have said it better! Great *&^%* leaders we have!

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Re: Journal Square two apartment towers - 54 & 38 stories
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Yeah ianmac47 that was the link in vindication15?s post #74. Wild.

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In my above post (# 77) I was joking around saying let?s have some caption fun. (was NOT joking about the kiss unfortunately) I found the JJ caption to one of the pictures that is in the JJ photo?s link. Now I know why everyone IS laughing..jokes on us?.right Mariano? Maybe the ?envelope? is hitting a funny bone?

http://media.nj.com/jersey-journal/photo/226878-standard.jpg

LOWELL HARWOOD, right, of Harwood Properties, shares a laugh with Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega after a ceremony at the future site of One Journal Square, marking the completion of demolition of the existing buildings. JJ-4/8/2009


My second caption was spot on!!!

2-The seal of The City of Jersey City on the podium isn?t the only crooked thing on this stage.

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Former Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega Jr. sentenced to 30 months in federal prison

Published: Monday, April 11, 2011, 1:48 PM
Updated: Monday, April 11, 2011, 2:10 PM

By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal

Former Jersey City City Council President Mariano Vega Jr. was sentenced this afternoon to 30 months in federal prison for his role in the massive corruption scandal that rocked Hudson County and New Jersey in 2009.

Vega showed no reaction as Judge Jose Linares handed down the sentence.

He was told to surrender on June 6.

More than half of the 46 people arrested during the massive corruption sting have pleaded guilty. Three have been convicted, two have been acquitted and one defendant had charges against him dropped.

Vega pleaded guilty last fall to accepting money from a government informant posing as a crooked developer and faced up to three years in prison.

After his arrest, Vega had strongly defended himself to the public, saying he was innocent. He resigned as council president but refused, despite protests at City Hall, to give up his seat on the council, not doing so until after his guilty plea.

JJ piece?.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... y_city_council_pre_2.html

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Does anyone know what happens to all of the ?deals? Vega was involved in, deals he approved or didn?t approve? Also what about the 100?s of building inspections the crooked JC inspectors ?inspected?? Did they all get a re-inspection? Could be some nasty accidents waiting to happen out there in JC land.

Like this ex-inspector John Guarini who took money from Dwek. I am sure he didn?t just start his criminal life with that one deal.,


"Take care of me, I?ll take care of you," said Dwek, a federal informant posing as a corrupt developer and secretly recording the conversation for the FBI.

"Absolutely," Guarini replied, according to transcripts of the meeting.

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Re: Journal Square two apartment towers - 54 & 38 stories
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The heartbreak of Journal Square. (much worse than the heartbreak of psoriasis, at least there?s a cream for that) Isn?t it wild that JScare went from one of the most popular places in the tri-state area (?It started on Journal Square?) to nothing? I was one of the suckers who attended that April 7, 2009 kick off of the Journal Square Towers. Real nice flyer was printed up about the ?party? at the Square. A whole bunch of bullshi*.


JC bent over backwards to more or less hand over all of the tower property to the Harwood family. Threats of eminent domain and millions of dollars in fines against the Tawil family made them finally give in. For what? Oh yeah and JC also handed over the Square Ramp parking lot property (behind the Loews) to Harwood. Keeping it away from Hartz Mountain who owned the Loews property. In the late 80?s HM was planning on building a $10 million office complex on the site. But it meant ripping down the Loews ,acquiring the Square Ramp property, and other surrounding properties . All kinds of lawsuits going on. (put .. Loews Hartz Mountain Jersey City NY Times ..in Google for a history) Maybe giving the Square Ramp property to the Harwood?s was one of the things that saved the Loews. ( those once every two month movie weekends are spectacular ) If the new Journal Square web site ever comes back up read the history of the tower property. ( thenewjournalsquare.com ) A long history of lawsuits over that strip of land.


Come to think of it I am sort of like Journal Square. I got my first kiss in the Loews during a showing of ?Planet of the Apes? back in 1968. But after that first kiss there was a 1 ..err.. 5 ..err? ok 10 year dry spell with a lot of ?promises? in between. So I was a little portly back then big deal. You women are way too picky. And no I didn?t have to bribe the girl with Loews ice cream Bon bon?s and a box of Jujubes..smartas*. But she did have some thick as* eyeglass lenses. Hmmmm.


Anyone notice any thing ?funny? about that April 7, 2009 Journal Square Towers announcement date? Let?s see what was coming up next in JC?s calendar in May 2009? Specifically May 12, 2009. Think!

At least this time they are actually making some kind of announcement on April 1, 2012. (see above JJ piece in post #65) So we know it IS a freakin? joke this time! Next mayoral JC election May 2013? Perhaps another setup for votes? Hey maybe there will be another P-A-R-T-Y!

Below is a picture from that day back in April 2009 from the JJ photo archives. Make sure you check out the other pictures in the link below. (what is everyone laughing at?) You would think that they were taken?well yesterday. Still the same sad empty lot.


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Let?s have some caption fun.

1-Mayor Healy laughing??I just can?t believe I pulled this one off. Holding a press conference to kick off an imaginary project one month before the election. What a stroke of genius I will have to buy myself a round after this shindig. This giving my constituents false hope for votes is easy. ? ?Holy shi* I even got a big dopey looking white guy to show up, what an as*hole! I thought they were extinct around here. I bet he actually cares about JC?.sucker.?


2-The seal of The City of Jersey City on the podium isn?t the only crooked thing on this stage.


3-Next..


http://photos.nj.com/4505/gallery/Jou ... on%20Completed/index.html

Description: Dozens of union workers joined developers and politicians next to the rubble and bulldozers to trumpet the latest step toward the future $500 million One Journal Square development in Jersey City on April 7, 2009.

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Buy the JJ..it won?t leave you with an empty feeling.

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Hey vidication15? that link is unbelievable?wow ..now if some developer would just build it and cut the BS out!

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Just for fun put MEPT in the owner box on the Jersey City online tax inquiry?

MEPT JOURNAL SQ. U.R., LLC P.O. BOX 320099, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22320

Hasn?t paid taxes on the tower properties since 2008.

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Boy that brings back some memories. I recall we use to bring our push mower to Duncan Hardware on Westside and Duncan for a tune up. They still rent lawn mowers usually have them lined up in front of the store. I think they even have one or two push mowers.



There is also Resnick?s Hardware in Bayonne. They at least have a web site and list mower repair/tuneup under Services?

www.resnickshardware.com

Get that cold glass of lemonade ready!

Posted on: 2012/3/21 23:45
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Woman's screams foil carjacking attempt, say Jersey City police
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Woman's screams foil carjacking attempt, say Jersey City police

Published: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 3:00 AM
By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal

A Jersey City woman who had just placed her 2-year-old son in a car seat in her Mercedes screamed and drew the attention of witnesses when a gunman pulled her from the vehicle in an failed carjacking Saturday, officials said yesterday.

The 43-year-old woman was on the 400 block of Marin Boulevard at 7:40 p.m. when she placed the child in the car, police reports said.

As she got in the vehicle, the gunman grabbed her and dragged her out, reports said.

But the woman began screaming and as bystanders turned their attention to her, the gunman ran away, reports said.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Jersey City police tip line at (201) 547-JAIL.

JJ piece?.

http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... reams_foil_carjackin.html


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Re: Jersey City to push to include Little India in Newark Avenue Restaurant Row
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There will be a short quiz at the end of this post?.before answering read the below information to brush up on Restaurant Row (and it?s expansion), the new entertainment ordinance, and the Jersey city zoning map. (also do some additional research on your own)

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This is from my above post about the 1999 creation of ?Restaurant Row??

Under current zoning law, establishments with liquor licenses can be no closer than 1,000 feet of each other. In the proposed Restaurant Row, restaurants with liquor licenses can open next to each other. The ordinances also allow transfer of current liquor licenses around the city to sites within the zone.
The row's zoning also eases city parking restrictions. Restaurants of up to 5,000 square feet will not have to provide on-site parking spaces.


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This is from the WSJ piece about the entertainment ordinance with a map of the original RR row, the 2011 expansion and the Little India expansion.

Artists and others seeking low rent started to move to Jersey City in the 1980s, and the pace increased in the early 1990s. By 2000, Jersey City was joining Hoboken as a place for urbane professionals to settle?though it still had more 99 cents stores than bars and restaurants.

The city established a three-block restaurant row in 1999 near the Grove Street PATH station, and a few eateries followed.

But an old city ordinance restricted the number of eating establishments that could serve alcohol on a block. Restaurant row establishments had to close by 11 p.m. And nightclubs were mostly restricted to commercial areas near highways.

In 2005, the city began allowing restaurants and bars serving food to remain open until 1 a.m. on weekdays and 2 a.m. on weekends. Five restaurants have opened on Newark Avenue since, Ms. Jardiniano said.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001 ... 04577225633350947336.html


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This is from the new entertainment ordinance ?

WHEREAS, the Planning Board of Jersey City, at its meeting of January 13, 200 did discuss and
approve a motion recommending that the Municipal Council adopt the amendments contained herein
pertaining to the NC, OIR, CBD, HC , WPD and Historic Districts

Full ordinance..

http://jerseycitynj.gov/uploadedFiles ... ing/Agenda%20Document.pdf


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(All of the amendments for all of the above type of districts have this line?)


with the exception of properties on Lower John F. Kennedy Boulevard where no live entertainment shall be permitted.

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This is the Jersey City Zoning Map (2009)

http://www.cityofjerseycity.com/uploa ... /RFP/ZoningMap28Jan09.pdf

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Questions:


1-Can I open up a restaurant/bar next to The Park Tavern (575 Westside) towards Communipaw? I want it to have liquor and entertainment licenses.

2-Can I open up a restaurant/bar next to L.I.T.M (140 Newark Ave)? I want it to have liquor and entertainment licenses.

3-Can I open up a restaurant/bar next to Rasoi Restaurant(/bar) (810 Newark, Little India)? I want it to have liquor and entertainment licenses.

4-Can I open up a restaurant/bar next to (Councilman) Brennan's Pub (70 Sterling) I want it to have liquor and entertainment licenses.

5-WTF does this mean?.with the exception of properties on Lower John F. Kennedy Boulevard where no live entertainment shall be permitted.


Take a crack at it I will give my answers later on in the day. Oh hey there may be one or two trick question$. Good luck.

Posted on: 2012/3/19 11:23
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Re: Jersey City to push to include Little India in Newark Avenue Restaurant Row
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Jersey City plans to re-seek Restaurant Row expansion[/b]

Published: Monday, March 19, 2012, 3:00 AM
By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal

Jersey City administration officials said they intend to reintroduce plans to expand the Newark Avenue Restaurant Row to encompass Little India, one day after the City Council rejected a similar plan because it feared ?spot zoning? for a single restaurant.

The city?s new plans will exclude that sole restaurant, The Brightside Tavern, from its new proposal. City Council members said Wednesday night they were uncomfortable expanding Restaurant Row, a city effort to attract new bars and restaurants, for just one business.

Mayor Jerramiah Healy said in a statement that the city?s vision is to include the restaurants along Newark Avenue between Kennedy Boulevard and the Pulaski Skyway.

?It is our hope that the City Council will see the importance of expanding what has been a successful designation to this area of the city,? Healy said.

Full JJ piece?

http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... y_plans_to_re-seek_r.html

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