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This is the web site of the firm?they do a lot of work in NJ.

http://www.realtyappraisal.net/

If you follow the below path you get to a sample contract.

-> SERVICES -> Sample Contract -> Download

In the DEFENSE piece it just sounds like the home owner won?t have a chance in an appeal. The home owner will be going against the current JC Tax Assessor and (probably) the ex- JC Tax Assessor. A no win situation. At least if the reval guy didn?t know JC you could maybe BS him. And what?s up with the $100 an hour fee? Everyone in the city will probably appeal, that would mean bit bucks for someone.

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Property Revaluation - An Overview and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

http://www.cityofjerseycity.com/tax_assessment.aspx?id=6312

Key Dates

http://www.cityofjerseycity.com/uploa ... 0page%20photo%20print.pdf

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Camp Liberty?.

http://www.camplibertynj.org/history.html

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Do a search on Skyline Cabana Club Jersey City.

? A great place for families to swim, dine, dance and enjoy themselves during the summer months. ?


Someone?s website with a few photo?s and memories of The Skyline Cabana Club .

http://www.pbase.com/dwin/helen_dwins_photo_archive

The pool:

http://www.pbase.com/dwin/image/33109773

An ID card:(nice jacket and do)

http://www.pbase.com/dwin/image/33111028

Also has some shots of Roosevelt Stadium and it?s Marina (1972) Too bad the stadium couldn?t have been saved! Now it's the SH condo complex.

http://www.pbase.com/dwin/image/33107868


(JC was a great place to grow up, hope it makes a come back!)

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(I forgot to post this it was in the 3/3/11 USAToday ,
nice to see JC mentioned. I love the description of the area/town)


Mike Tyson goes
another round, with
homing pigeons


Updated 3/3/2011 3:41:04 PM |

By Gary Levin, USA TODAY

JERSEY CITY ? Former boxing champ Mike
Tyson calls the Ringside Lounge a home of
sorts.

The boxing-themed bar, in a rough stretch
of this industrial town across the river from
Manhattan, sits next to a gym where he'd
trained with pal and owner Mario Costa. Out
back, through a narrow alley, is Tyson's
Corner, a pungent coop with hundreds of
pigeons ? fancy roller pigeons, to be breed-
exact.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/televisi ... 11-03-03-tyson03_ST_N.htm

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Good luck to our ....

JERSEY CITY TEAMS

St. Anthony's !

St. Peter's Prep !

St Peter's College !

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There are 250 miles of ?mean? streets in ALL of Jersey City!!!

Maybe you DTJC suburb transplants need to pick up the book that Ziggy is reading?.

Ziggy

?or just ask a JC born 10 year old how to cross a street.

(but don?t buy any dollar candy bars from them, it?s a scam?you knew that right?)



How do you people survive on your trips to NYC???

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I don?t think a Black, Asian, or Puerto Rican person would ever think of doing what this white chick did. Glad she is not from JC?.

Bayonne (white) woman charged with stealing crucifix from Jersey City church after confessing sins and receiving Holy Communion

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


(stealing from a church is a white man?s crime?it?s up there with mass murderer)

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Let?s not jump to any conclusions just yet. He could be the one who will be doing the mugging in the next 6 months ..maybe he is a criminal???

Final questions?What is on your play list and how loud do you listen to your music?

If you do listen to gangsta rap do you turn it down when a black man walks by your car like that wanabee white bread rapper Michael Bolton in Office Space? Or do you let it play on?

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I take it you all haven?t heard of the JC ice cream index?

As the sale of ice cream rises up so does the JC crime rate.


Hey you JC ?newcomers? are a creative bunch. I have an idea for you. Strap a mini cam and mic to the head of a JC ?newcomer? who has never experienced a true JC summer. Maybe have it turn on automatically when the temperate hits 80 or 90 degrees, or when the music from cars and apartments blast at 85+ decibels.(at least the music drowns out the barking dogs, random nighttime screams, and breaking beer bottles)

If the mini cam and mic (and "newcomer") survive the experiment. The expressions on the ?newcomers? faces and comments would be classic. I think it would be an even bigger hit on you-tube then ?the golden voiced homeless man?. (where is that dude now..probably in JC somewhere with a cup)

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This is the full star ledger piece (more then the JJ piece)

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011 ... y_cop_in_fatal_crash.html

(PS- check out his arms in that picture..yeah right he didn?t do roids! Hey Cheif C couldn't you tell?)

?Lt. Edgar Martinez, a Jersey City police spokesman, said Garrison is out on sick leave and has not been suspended.
"He?s not charged with anything," Martinez said. "He just had a motor vehicle accident. The media are trying him without the investigation being completed. He?s a private citizen, and he should be treated like everyone else." "


Thank you Lt. Martinez so what you are saying is the good citizens of JC will not foot the bill for the massive lawsuits that will be coming down the road. But I am a little confused wasn't he a ?private citizen? (of Jamesburg) when he and 3 of his buddies beat the sheriff?s officer? That hit "us" (of JC) in the pockets to the tune of 175K.


He?s a private citizen, and he should be treated like everyone else." No interview, 7 tickets a week after the accident...Duh? When I was in an accident I got a ticket on the spot!!! And grilled!!

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Rumor is all of Kool and the Gang?s song?s were about JC.

http://www.koolandthegang.com

(sweet web site, "get down" music, click on history)

Hoboken can keep Frank?we got Kool!

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And let?s not leave out Prince Pauly Paul?The Prince of Chilltown!

(well maybe)

http://www.reverbnation.com/PrincePaulyPaul

Maybe Hoboken can take The Prince off of ours hands.

Let?s add this to the long list?..

The Strokes film music video for new single at Loews Theater in Jersey City

Published: Monday, February 21, 2011, 11:05 AM Updated: Monday, February 21, 2011, 11:42 AM
By The Jersey Journal

The Strokes, a critically-acclaimed band from New York City, shot a music video for their latest single at The Landmark Loews Jersey Theatre in Jersey City on Wednesday, as reported by The Jersey Journal.

Theater director Colin Egan said that the band filmed scenes for the video from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Egan said the band chose the movie palace because of its ornate decorations and that the theater has gained a reputation in the entertainment industry for being a great shooting location.

At some point, word got out that the rock band was in Jersey City and fans crowded outside the theater. As band members left the theater, they graciously posed for pictures and signed autographs, Egan said.

The Strokes' single "Under Cover of Darkness" was released Feb. 9 and will be on their new album, "Angles," which will be released March 22.

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Triple Wow ....

Garrison was also among a number of off-duty officers who were sued in connection with an alleged assault on Hudson County Sheriff's Officer Sean McGovern outside a bar near Lincoln Park in November 1997.

Jersey City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said yesterday the city paid out $175,000 to settle the lawsuit.

Then-County Sheriff Joseph Cassidy told The Jersey Journal at the time that McGovern suffered a broken and bitten nose, a concussion and other injuries during a fight with Garrison outside the bar.

Wow?.

In December, Officer Rick Garrison was one of the officers involved in hiding the car keys of persons attending a fund-raiser for Mayor Jerramiah Healy during a police union protest, sources said.

The keys were snatched from the valet booth and tossed into bushes nearby. After a department hearing, the officers lost personal days as punishment for their actions, according to a Police Department spokesman.

Double Wow?

The prosecutor said his office will also look into Garrison's medical records to see if some illness may have caused the crash.

(but they let him drive around in a cop car????)

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Right ?but the Camden guy was charged already...no internal investigation! Of course if a cop is involved in an accident his occupation is going to be mentioned so charges can be stalled until an internal investigation takes place. Who do you think let it out that a cop was involved? Duh?



Camden man driving without license is charged in fatal 4-car crash

Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 10:05 AM
Updated: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 10:05 AM
By The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk

EDGEWATER PARK ? A 48-year-old Camden man who had been driving without a license since 1990 was charged with causing the death of a passenger in a collision Monday that killed one and injured 11, according to a report on CourierPostOnline.com.

Floyd M. Jones was charged with causing a death while driving with a suspended license after his passenger Josette Beatty, 57, of Willingboro was killed when the SUV flipped over in a four-car accident after it struck a car from behind, the report said. A 13-year-old girl who was riding with Jones remains in critical condition.

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GP - I see you were hep enough to have already listed the Jersey Bounce...


They call it that Jersey bounce
A rhythm that really counts
The temperature always mounts
Whenever they play that Jersey Bounce

It started on Journal Square
And somebody heard it there
He put it right on the air
That tune called the Jersey Bounce

Uptown, gave it new licks
Downtown, added some tricks
No town, make it sound the same
As where it came from

So if you don't feel so hot
Go out to some Jersey spot
And whether you're hep or not
The Jersey bounce'll make you swing

Ounce by ounce
The Jersey Bounce
Puts you right in the swing
That Jersey Bounce
It'll make you swing

Give me that Jersey Bounce.

Wow scary stuff?


Bayonne woman says off-duty cop's vehicle grazed her car before plowing into SUV that was carrying woman who died

Published: Monday, February 21, 2011, 8:51 PM
Updated: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 5:45 AM

She had just gotten her hair done and was driving home yesterday, and when she stopped at a red light on Avenue E at 45th Street, she saw a black car bearing down in her rearview mirror.

In a reflexive move that possibly spared her serious injury, the 28-year-old Bayonne woman shifted her vehicle to the left, into the lane of oncoming traffic.

The black car, which was veering right, grazed her passenger-side rear bumper, blew the red light, and kept on going.




full jj piece...



http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... man_says_off-duty_co.html

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BTW.. I guess he will be mailed tickets for speeding, driving through a red light, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident right?

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http://www.nj.com/bayonne/index.ssf/2 ... les_involved_in_bayo.html

above is the link to the first JJ piece on the crash..check the entire comment out from SusieDiamond who says she lives across the street. This is some of it?

?Awhile later, I spoke with 2 witnesses. This whole thing started way uptown. Two cars were stopped at the red light on 40 Street and one woman looked in her rear view and saw a car speeding towards them. She moved into the oncoming lane of traffic because she thought it was an unmarked police vehicle. I assume the other woman followed. They were both side-swiped. They BOTH told me the car had to being doing about 90 mph.?

Jersey City off-duty cop involved in today's crash in Bayonne that caused woman's death, official confirms

Published: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 8:10 PM
Updated: Monday, February 21, 2011, 9:39 AM

An off-duty Jersey City police officer was one of the persons injured in today's car crash in Bayonne that took the life of an "elderly" woman, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio confirmed tonight.

The cop's role in the incident is still being determined, said DeFazio, adding the crash is being investigated by the Bayonne Police Department and Jersey City Police Department Internal Affairs and his office were notified.

The seven-vehicle wreck occurred at about 12:30 p.m. at Avenue E and East 36th Street.

Alcohol was not a factor in the incident, DeFazio said, noting that no one was arrested and no summonses were issued.

A total of six persons, including the dead woman, were taken to the Bayonne Medical Center. One of the injured persons was subsequently moved to University Hospital in Newark, a Bayonne Medical Center spokesman said.

The cause and manner of the woman's death will be determined by an autopsy expected to be completed tomorrow, said DeFazio, who declined to identify the woman.

full jj piece

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Strange story especially if you read some of the JJ comments from people who said they were at the scene.

Prayers to all involved.

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?and for those of you who are totally clueless (shame on you!!) ?.


JERSEY CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION
ELECTION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011
2 - 9 P.M.


jcboe website with election information

http://www.jcboe.org/departments/business--finance/elections.aspx

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?you still have time to register to vote in the election. Even if you don?t have kids yet?please VOTE. Maybe if the JC Public School situation gets fixed you guys won?t leave JC for the burbs when you finish screwing around (ahh to be young again) and get married. Not like the last bunch of you ?pioneers? who came to JC in the early 80?s and then flat left US for the burbs. (funny thing about that is those ?flatleavers? kids are now flocking back to JC..go figure)

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For Immediate Release
Jersey City Board of Education Elections
Voter Registration Deadline April 6, 2011

The deadline for voter registration and transfers for the annual Jersey City Board of Education election is Wednesday, April 6, 2011.

The election will be held Wednesday, April 27, 2011, from 2:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Superintendent of Elections and Commissioner of Registration Marie G. Borace announced that the Commissioner of Education Office hours are from 8:30 a.m - 4:30 p.m. daily Monday through Friday. However, the office will be open on April 6th from 8:30 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. for the registration and/or transfer process.

The office is located at the Hudson County Plaza at 257 Cornelison Ave. 4th Floor.

Residents who have any questions can call 201-369-7793 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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Here is the JC Public School calendar ..(you can see when those trouble makers at Ferris have a half day)
http://www.jcboe.org/media/128249/jcpscal-1011-v9.pdf

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PS ? As an JC old-timer I would like to say I am really happy we have someone like Mr. Fulop working for us in JC.
Also THANK YOU Steve ( and all of our brave troops) for serving our country in its darkest days.

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Hey tawaka777 just rat on them....

This is the link to JCPA

http://www.cityofjerseycity.com/agencies.aspx?id=1196

At the bottom of the page is a line you can click on to report a problem...

Report illegal or improper parking

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Here's the link to the NJDMV (if you didn't have it)

http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/

Also go to the DMV office at the Bayonne/Jersey City line. It has a big parking lot and the staff is very efficient. I have never been there more that 15 minutes..in and out!

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I never realized how involved the process was?.

This is the JC EDC site: http://www.jcedc.org/Pages/uez.html


This is the HC EDC site: www.hudsonedc.org

under documents to the right clink on?

Hudson County UEZ Profile (pdf)

It lists all of the UEZ area?s in HC?I forgot how exact the areas actually are.

Example for Rt 440 ?

Route 440 (1 &9) : Society Hill to Communipaw Ave.
(excluding Culver Ave. Circle), Duncan Ave. to Broadway

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To the OP tell her to explore ALL of Jersey City not just Downtown. (we don't bite!)

http://www.destinationjerseycity.com/

Paid for in part by the Jersey City Urban Enterprise Zone.
Supported by a grant from New Jersey Department of State, Division of Travel and Tourism.
Destination Jersey City is the official tourism website of Jersey City.



WM - nice business guide.

Jersey City Guide - http://jcguide.com

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piece in USATODAY 2/11/2011

Allentown pipeline explosion revives natural gas worries

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wow lostinjc that is some news....this is from the piece


Hoppel said he observed the sky "all lit up" from the county seat in Lisbon, about 20 miles from the scene of the blast. Others up to 40 miles away reported seeing a glow, he said.

The explosion occurred in an area of farms in the rural county bordering on Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Hoppel said. "Had it been close to one of our villages or cities, why, it would have been much more serious," he added.

Company spokesman Richard Wheatley said the explosion involved a 36-inch, buried transmission line that carries natural gas through the region. Mechanisms in the section that "failed" automatically shut off the segment and the residual gas burned off, he said.

Wheatley did not immediately respond to a message Friday seeking information about the age and condition of the pipeline.

In 2007, El Paso Corp. agreed to a $15.5 million fine as part of a settlement with the government involving an explosion in 2000 near Carlsbad, N.M., that killed 12 people camping near a 50-year-old pipeline.

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I ain?t no lawyer but? if someone got a reval that they thought was too high couldn?t they contest it saying the reval company had a former JC TAX ASSESSOR working for them? Couldn?t they argue that a former TAX ASSESSOR would have an inside knowledge of what the city thought properties should be revaluated at? Maybe rating them higher so the JC gets more needed tax money.

Can?t wait to see the reval number?s of the JC politicos.

Jersey City City Council awards $3.2 million contract to former BA's reval company

Published: Wednesday, February 09, 2011, 9:03 PM
Updated: Wednesday, February 09, 2011, 9:05 PM

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal

The Jersey City City Council voted tonight to award a $3.2 million contract to a tax appraisal company that employs Brian O'Reilly, the city's former business administrator.

Realty Appraisal Co. of West New York received the OK from the council to perform the upcoming citywide property revaluation, the city's first since 1988. The company had submitted the lowest of four bids.

City code forbids city employees from receiving, for one year after leaving the city, compensation from any entity in relation to projects with which the employee was directly involved.

But the city's legal department told the council there was no conflict of interest in awarding the contract to Realty Appraisal. Corporation Counsel William Matsikoudis said in a memo he is convinced, after speaking to city financial officials, that O'Reilly was not involved in any discussions of the reval in his last year of city employment.

The council awarded the contract 5-2-0, with council members Steven Fulop and Nidia Lopez voting "no." Councilwoman Viola Richardson was absent.

Fulop raised concerns about O'Reilly's employment with the company, saying he's not convinced by the legal department's opinion that there is no conflict of interest.

"From my viewpoint on the legalities, it's concerning," Fulop said. "But this council is going to do what this council wants to do, unfortunately."

Defending the council's decision, Council President Peter Brennan cited the legal department's opinion that O'Reilly, also formerly the city's tax assessor, had no involvement with the city's reval process during his time with the city.

Besides, Brennan said, Realty Appraisal's bid, which came in far under the next highest of the four bids, means a "savings of $2 million" for taxpayers.
And O'Reilly's employment with the company doesn't hurt, Brennan said.

"If anybody knows Jersey City, it's going to be Brian O'Reilly," he said.


JJ piece



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So as the BA of the JC he knew nothing about the coming revaluation that?s been talked about for years. It was probably even talked about when O?Reilly was the TAX ASSESSOR of Jersey City! How much do you want to bet that before the reval is finished JC will need to come up with maybe $2 million so Realty Appraisal Co can finish the job.

Didn?t O?Rielly resign because he wanted to get a job closer to his home down south NJ? WNY really?? Something smells.

Plant burns in Mont Belvieu (Texas 2/8/2011)
Enterprise Products operates facility in Chambers Co.

By MIKE MORRIS and TOM FOWLER
Copyright 2011 Houston Chronicle

Shortly after noon a pipeline to Enterprise Products? natural gas plant exploded in Mont Belvieu, leaving one maintenance contractor unaccounted for, company officials said. The explosion occurred at the company's west storage facility.

Rick Rainey, public relations director for Enterprise Products, said there are normally eight to 10 workers in the facility located 35 miles east of Houston. All the workers got out safely, he said.

"As of right now our main concern is to make sure that we get this thing contained," Rainey said.
Hours after the explosion, the plant, which processes and stores liquids that are separated from natural gas, continues to burn. Nothing that is burning is toxic, Rainey said.

Pipelines to the plant were shut down so no new flows come into the facility. But the liquids in the pipe are continuing to burn.

full piece

POLICE BEAT
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Chases thieves - and gets hurt

When the cell phone of a Macy's employee at Jersey City's Newport Centre Mall was stolen from behind the counter she followed the thieves out of the mall and to ShopRite, where she was assaulted when she demanded her phone, officials said.

The 26-year-old Brooklyn woman told police on Sunday that her phone was taken while she was helping a customer and a fellow employee pointed out the girl who took it, reports said. The girl left the mall with a woman wearing a purple coat and a pregnant woman who was carrying an infant, reports said.

The victim followed them out of the mall to ShopRite, where she demanded the phone and the girl said "Mommy, give her back her phone," but one of the women said "We don't have the phone," reports said.

The woman in the purple coat took out a sock with what appeared to be a pad lock in it and tried to hit the victim, but she was able to knock it out of the woman's hand, reports said. The pair then began fighting, but the victim fell and was struck twice on the head with the sock while she was down, cutting her forehead, reports said.

Bleeding and dizzy, the victim walked back to Macy's and was driven to the Jersey City Medical Center for treatment of her head injury, reports said.

MICHAELANGELO CONTE

JJ piece

Buy the JJ a most excellent paper!!