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I have been doing the email option and they have been responding. Last night we had another delivery that was marked as 'delivered and signed for at door'. Nobody rang the bell. Again.. this is Amazon's own service.

I suspect they may just have a crappy delivery guy on this route. When he runs late, he just marks stuff as 'delivered'.

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I believe robberies and burglaries will only increase and become the norm as the number of high density housing increases regardless if its luxury apartments or not. Eventually like in the 'low income estates', these high-rise luxury apartments will need to employ security 24/7 if they haven't already.

However I believe its also a beacon for criminals - Why rob a woman from the ghetto with a Target bag when you can get a Louis Vuitton bag for the same effort from another woman from Newport / Paul Hook / DTJC or why would you steal a beaten up Chev when you can get a Lexus a few blocks away and score a bigger return for your efforts!

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bodhipooh, I truly feel sorry for you. You are incapable of having a discussion without attacking someone. I also feel sorry for the people who are in your inner circle. Life must be difficult for them, too.

What can I say Yvonne? Apparently, your God sees things differently, having blessed me with a great family and a solid group of friends. The only difficulty in my life is having to deal with ignorant idiots, such as yourself. I hear it gets easier/better over time, so I guess I will just keep biding my time.

One clear example of what's wrong with the US ed system - we let the village idiots teach our kids.

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Only Manhattan is "The City".

Anyone who grew up in Jersey, any of the five boros, Long Island or Westchester refers to Manhattan, and Manhattan only, as the city.

Anyone who states otherwise is obviously from somewhere else.

Also Jersey pride and swag is strong. Maybe not for Brooklyn transplants in Maplewood who are really from Texas or Ohio, but anybody really from Jersey is proud and will let you know.

So much nonsense is spewed on these boards that its a joke.

There are some great neighborhoods in Brooklyn and there are also some dumps. Your money can go far in some places and not so far in others. Same goes for JC, Manhattan, Queens and the list goes on.

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http://www.dullesglassandmirror.com/store/

I had to do some research on custom glass orders a while ago. Dulles is by far the best for price and ease if ordering online. Locally, you can go with Raymond Glass, located on Communipaw, across from Monitor Street. Very nice people, and it is a local shop. I was a bit disappointed with their prices for my specific needs, but they are very nice. I ended up ordering from a shop in Manhattan (Rosen Paramount Glass) which, surprisingly, had the BEST price. It being fairly local, it was also easy and it did remove the concern about shipping glass and the risk involved with the transportation and delivery.

maybeMoving wrote:

The only thing that stands out to me in this ad is those dirty-ass soles and how any good designer/ad agency would've Photoshopped them. Indicative of the laziness of the campaign.

user1111 wrote:
For months, we have wondered how Gov. Chris Christie thinks he can win the presidency when New Jersey is in such rotten shape after his six years in office.
Now we may have our answer: The man has lost touch with reality.

In a national TV interview Monday, Christie was asked to explain why 65 percent of New Jersey voters think he'd make a bad president.

His answer: We love him so much that we want him to remain our governor.

"They want me to stay," he told Megyn Kelly of Fox News. "A lot of those people in that 65 percent want me to stay. And I've heard that from lots of people at town hall meetings."

Maybe he doesn't believe that himself. That might step on his core pitch about telling the truth, but it would at least tether him to the planet earth.

The worry is that he really believes it. Politicians like him live in a bubble, surrounded by sycophants. Hard truths have a tough time penetrating.

We are here to help. First, the governor needs to hold more town hall meetings in Democratic districts, and at night when working people can attend. He preaches to elderly and overwhelmingly white audiences, over and over.

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Some passengers at Hoboken Terminal will have to wait a little longer to catch a PATH train to New York, and they can blame overcrowding in Jersey City for it, Port Authority officials told NJ Advance Media on Tuesday.

Passengers headed to 33rd Street from Hoboken now must wait seven minutes between trains instead of six, since Port Authority extended wait times in late April, said spokesman Steve Coleman. The changes only apply from 7:35 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., and were implemented in order to decrease wait times at Jersey City stations, which have been experiencing "significant platform crowding issues" due to "high growth and ridership," he said.

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Sommerman wrote:
Can there really be a bubble as long as interchangeable neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and now Queens, remain more expensive?

With the exception of bi-coastal couples where someone needs a car to get to a NJ job and the other works in Manhattan how often is DTJC just the cheapest choice?

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I think it would be INSANE to do Turnpike to GWB to Triboro. That's about as roundabout as you can possibly make it. At 6 AM, you will not hit ANY traffic if you go Holland, to Manhattan Bridge, to BQE (unless you happen to get unlucky with a random accident somewhere along the way). I have done this drive several times at around that time, and it was SUPER EASY. Less than 30 minutes without pushing it too hard, and can be done in less if you are downtown, and/or if you like to drive a little fast.

OneSkirt wrote:
And dtjc continues to get ruined with excessive high rises. So glad I left there 3 years ago. This trend is making me sick.

radryan03 wrote:
I almost went to see this place, but the terms to just view the property were ridiculous. I think it's all a bit strange.

Take a look at the last picture in the bedroom - note the foot of the bed in the bowl - the leaking must be insane.

tommyc_37 wrote:
Has anybody else ordered a breakfast sandwich at Wonder Bagels and been amazed by how fast it comes out? Today mine was out and in my hand in under 2 minutes from when I ordered it. I wonder if they have pre-cooked eggs and bacon back there that they slap onto the sandwich?

JCMan8 wrote:
At least the guy disclosed this was an advertisement.

Far more respectable than these stupid "lists" which are always posted, without such disclosure. I'm convinced those are paid advertisements (by the company who created the list) masquerading as news.

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I walked past Sleep Cheap Furniture (155 Newark Ave) and it was completely empty. If they are gone, I wonder what will replace them? That space is pretty large.

I am anticipating the day, with dread, when one of those big chains like Red Lobster or Olive Garden lease one of those big spaces. Why can't some brain power be spent on figuring out how to make some of these into "passages" http://www.theguardian.com/travel/201 ... n-passages-shopping-shops
or something similar

SRhia wrote:
It doesn't look like it's been renovated, ever!

love the vintage stove tho.

ianmac47 wrote:
Housing prices will decline as the Fed raises rates. The real question is whether they will fall precipitously or whether it will be a more gradual decline. The only way housing prices double in ten years, regardless of whether the park is actually built, is because rapid, uncontrolled inflation increases all costs.

As far as building a park, its not very likely to be built within a decade. Even if the legal battles wrap up in a few years, there is still millions of dollars necessary to convert the land to park space.

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Does anyone know how many condos were sold in downtown in the first quarter of 2015?

Clifton_Hanger wrote:
I've also been considering buying in DTJC.

However in the below discussion, two big assumptions I've seen to note...that a) a Park will be built. b) houses will be worth double in ten years? Really? Do we have new information?

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Agreed. I personally think the park would be a huge advantage to the value of your house, but the property you're buying is going to be a winner in almost any scenario.

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I think they *know* there is a dearth of condo options in DTJC and hoping to capitalize on that.

Yes--developers are indeed aware of the law of supply and demand.

Ha! Of course, that was an overly obvious statement. What I was trying to convey is that the pricing is completely out of line because they KNOW that they are (essentially) the only game in town for at least another year in the segment of new construction, for sale condos. I really hope more options come online in the next year or two, but looking at the list of proposed developments, it seems like there is nothing other than The Oakman in DTJC proper. Over in Newport, there is The Laguna.

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Even though you stated public transportation, I do wonder if perhaps you would be better served by doing a one-day rental of a Zip Car, or maybe even one of the local Enterprise locations. I am only familiar with Zipcar (not HertzConnect, or the Avis program) but with Zipcar, your gas and basic insurance is already included.

With public transportation, you would have to pay close to $30 (each way) for train fare for one adult and two kids, plus whatever other costs to get to/from the train stations in Hoboken (Uber, light rail or PATH, from DT) or Newark (PATH, or Uber?) plus the hassle of having to lug around all your gear, synchronizing timetables, plus what will be two tired kids on the way back. With a 7-to-7 rental from Zipcar, you wouldn't have to worry about times, plus you could maybe squeeze in a side trip to another place on the way down, or back, including even a supermarket run (Wegman's in Woodbridge is a few emails from the Turnpike exit, and right off Rt. 1).

All good points. If it were just the OP, train would make sense. But with three people, a rental car starts to look a lot better. In some beach towns you can find free parking on the side streets. Not always though, particularly on the most beautiful days, so you may have to pay a few bucks for parking.

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If anyone of y'all actually knew what y'all preach about the values, you'd all be mega zillionaires by now! Y'all sound like the wall street bankers who know absolutely nothing about what tomorrow will bring!

In every crash of stocks, the people who listened to the numbers rather than wishful thinking and emotions got out first. They did indeed leave money on the table, but they didn't leave their bleeding corpse there. RE is slightly different, if you're in it long term you can ride out the storm, especially if the loss is all capital gains anyway. Short term, get out if you can't take a loss.

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nyc's metro population is exploding, despite the fact that the northwest is losing people.

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VA2015 wrote:
man the inside of Yvonne's head must be an interesting place...

Are you old enough to remember the Doonesbury arc "In Search of Reagan's Brain"? It was a musty scary place full of calcification, decay, cobwebs and occasional bones.

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Quotes of the day, from Barbara Corcoran, founder and owner of one of the most prestigious real estate firms in New York City:

NYC real estate may be in "a new bubble right now"
The current market "is fueled by foreigners more than anyone else".

Is that a quote, or cherry-picking? ;)

She also points out how no one really knows when a bubble might burst; how middle-class buyers are pretty much permanently priced out of Manhattan; how anything that's a 1 hour commute from the core of Manhattan will continue to gentrify; she's bullish on the property values in the foreign-owned and vacant buildings; that if you overpay today for a Manhattan apartment (even a dump), you'll rationalize it by saying the value has gone up by the time you close; that the first 1% bump in mortgage rates might generate a bump in home purchases, as people realize that low rates won't be around forever; and she highly recommends buying in Washington Heights.

In general, she sounds very bullish on NYC area real estate.


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As anyone who knows anything about area real estate knows, the NJ Gold Coast market is very heavily dependent on a trickle-down effect from NYC transplants....

Zillow's estimate for 07302 is around $660/sq ft. For Manhattan, they estimate $1670/sq ft.

If Manhattan real estate dropped by 20% today, most of the people buying in outlying areas would still be priced out of that market.

Heck, if the crash was in the right range, some foreign buyers might look at that as a good time to buy.

You're also neglecting how this overflow from Manhattan is gentrifying the outlying areas, which in turn makes them more attractive in their own right, and more robust and desirable.

What's really going on, IMO, is that DTJC is white-hot right now. Demand vastly outstrips supply, so prices are going up, inventory is low, people are getting priced out etc. The last time DT was like this, it was before a global real estate bubble popped. As a result, of course some people will assume this is a replay. But, it isn't, because there doesn't seem to be any sort of artificial underlying factors or bubble which is going to pop, as was the case in the early 2000s. We also don't have an environment where banks will lend to anyone with a pulse -- mortgage standards are much stricter today.


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In any case, my prediction is that around Q3 2016 we start to see prices erode in downtown JC. Time shall tell.

And perhaps some of us will remember your prediction. ;)

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In my opinion there certainly is another real estate bubble, a 3 bedroom 3 bath at Portofino that might have sold for $650,000. in 2011-2012, now have asking prices over a million.
This BUBBLE will pop and it maybe later this year or early next year, but this bubble is built on cheap money and once the FED raises a quarter point, prices will drop 20%.

10% or so a year for a few years isn't exactly a bubble, and not unexpected given the credit squeeze 2008-2011. It would take something else other than (slowly) rising interest rates to cause house prices to crater.