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Re: Newark Avenue StreetScape
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JOGI wrote:
... I just stuck my nose in here because it seemed like people really wanted some answers and I felt I could help out.


ah, see, that was your first mistake.

i appreciate hearing your point of view and commend you for standing behind your work and making your point of view known.

you could have lined the streets with gold coins and installed a real live cop, a flowery rose bush, and a diet coke machine dispensing free 20 oz bottles on each corner and people would still complain about it around here. it's what we do. it's chronic and it's a shame.

keep your sense of humor!

Posted on: 2009/11/11 1:33
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Re: Ode to my lost home/ My first posting in 11 years of living here
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other things to hate: running water, electricity, equal rights, cancer research, airplanes, microwave popcorn, Tivo...

UGH, progress is so totally annoying!

Posted on: 2009/11/11 1:02
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Re: Ode to my lost home/ My first posting in 11 years of living here
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cough cough cough

sorry, i was busy choking on the irony.

Posted on: 2009/11/10 20:15
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Re: Greenville: Cops find gun, bullets, clothes - but no gunman
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I wonder if the New York Times would have included the "Yo."

Posted on: 2009/10/30 16:08
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Re: Village Halloween Parade
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have a blast! definitely a must-at-least-once kind of deal. i've been a ton of times but never actually joined the parade -- go for it!

and no one has ever puked on me at the parade, thank god.

Posted on: 2009/10/30 15:09
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Re: Jack Shaw found dead!
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RiverRat wrote:

I am willing to accept that Jack Shaw, in poor health and facing a devastating end to his career, could have died for various reasons, over medication, intentional suicide, etc. But the circumstances demand a full, IMPARTIAL investigation. The family and friends of Mr Shaw also deserve some closure to the tragic end of this man's life.


I don't know if I agree with that. Are his friends and family asking for that? They may already have closure.

It's tricky. He was a private citizen -- with some super shady associates, for sure, but he deserves whatever dignity that can be maintained in his death. Does the public have a right to know intimate details? I dunno.

This whole thing reads like a surreal movie script.

Posted on: 2009/10/23 19:00
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Re: I helped police apprehend a car burglar
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DCofJC wrote:
I don't mind if people poke at me for "bragging." Really it was just a matter of me being there to see it, and the guy not having any sense of urgency. I am a male, but for the most part I tried to keep a safe distance. The police responded probably withing 3-4 minutes. The first dispatcher actually got off the phone with me even though I asked to stay on until the police came. After like 2-3 minutes I got nervous and called back. The 2nd dispatcher stayed on the phone with me and that's how they tracked him on the bus. I relayed the plates to the dispatcher. I would have liked the police to have arrived more quickly because he ended up approaching me, but overall they did a great job, and were very frienddly. More than anything I thought it was exciting, and kind of funny. That's why I shared it. I also heard from the police that there were a string of car break-ins in that area and hopefully that was the guy.


1. You are super brave. And clearly calm under pressure.

2. I am glad the cops were friendly. They should have been, since you basically did most of the work.

3. The scariest part of the story to me is that you were out there fighting crime all barefoot. Gross.

4. GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!

Posted on: 2009/10/23 18:36
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Re: Anti-gay group plans protests in Jersey City
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kickemout wrote:
yeah...I totally agree. Why on earth they have chosen Jersey City to run around ranting bits of hatred, we'll probably never know. But with all this cities problems, a bunch of freaks on the streets screaming because they don't approve of the Star Bar, isn't on my radar either.


First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me--
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

-- Pastor Martin Niem?ller (1892?1984)

Posted on: 2009/10/21 2:41
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Re: MSNBC List of best cities to raise kids
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it's cities, not towns, so there's that.

the fact that we are above san francisco is mind-boggling.

Posted on: 2009/10/21 2:25
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Re: Anti-gay group plans protests in Jersey City
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Better yet, alert these folks, who will tell them there is no God, thus rendering their punky threats useless!

(This idea does not mean I agree with the atheists. Are You There God? It's me, Jennymayla! I totally believe in you!)

Posted on: 2009/10/20 23:09
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Re: Anti-gay group plans protests in Jersey City
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DirtMcGirt wrote:
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jennymayla wrote:
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flying_the_flannel wrote:
I'll defend civil rights until I'm blue in the face, but there's a FINE LINE, and if you ask me, these assholes cross it on the regular.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY ARE PROTESTING IN FRONT OF A HIGH SCHOOL. WHY?


We are playing right into their hand. They are winning! They are ridiculous and offensive and downright insane but they want us to talk about them and get mad at them and put them in our line of fire (figurative, of course).

By protesting in front of an urban high school with a track record of violence, they are just increasing the likelihood that they will somehow be victimized, by teenagers, no less.

It's a publicity coup. And that's their whole point.

Gross gross gross. Gross. Double gross. Yet legal, for now at least.

Barf.


If schools were privatized, they wouldn't be able to protest there. Just sayin.


Yes, and if the streets were paved with gold...sigh.

But it does make me wonder if there is not a law on the books that prohibits protests within a certain distance from a public school. And/or there is bound to be a sexual predator in the group who isn't allowed to be there. Just a guess.

Posted on: 2009/10/20 2:55
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Re: Anti-gay group plans protests in Jersey City
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Quote:

flying_the_flannel wrote:
I'll defend civil rights until I'm blue in the face, but there's a FINE LINE, and if you ask me, these assholes cross it on the regular.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY ARE PROTESTING IN FRONT OF A HIGH SCHOOL. WHY?


We are playing right into their hand. They are winning! They are ridiculous and offensive and downright insane but they want us to talk about them and get mad at them and put them in our line of fire (figurative, of course).

By protesting in front of an urban high school with a track record of violence, they are just increasing the likelihood that they will somehow be victimized, by teenagers, no less.

It's a publicity coup. And that's their whole point.

Gross gross gross. Gross. Double gross. Yet legal, for now at least.

Barf.

Posted on: 2009/10/20 2:40
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Re: Bayonne: In this shaky economy, renters look beyond the glittering and trendy Hoboken & Jersey C
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ianmac47 wrote:
So if her half of the rent is $1,400, the 2:2 unit is $2,800. The monthly HBLR pass is $58. Aren't the 2:2 units at Grove Pointe start $2900?

So she is saving $42 a month, but adding 30 minutes of commute time each day, and living in the middle of nowhere. Well done.


Sheesh. Different strokes for different folks. Maybe they like living there? Brand new unit, cool views. And it's hardly the middle of nowhere. There is a huge shopping plaza nearby, with movie theater, restaurants, a great supermarket, and not too far from Broadway in Bayonne.

It's interesting that when people make different choices based on their own priorities, it's consider stupid. Just because they don't want to live the way you would.

Everyone's gotta live somewhere and if they're happy, good for them.

Posted on: 2009/10/11 18:49
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Re: Healy endorses second-generation crony for vacant council seat
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Binky wrote:
But would a serious, smart, honest guy with an education and future welcome an endorsement from Healy?

I would think he'd want to keep some distance.


I think that's exactly the challenge. How do you work within the existing system yet still try to change it. It's politics. It's relationships and favors and "respect" and playing the game.

Anyone who can leverage the good and bad of a relationship (like one with Healy) to impact change has the potential to get us out of this mess.

And anyone who continually dismisses Healy out of hand is simply contributing to the problem. He is still the mayor and it doesn't look like that is going to change in the immediate future.

Play the game.

Posted on: 2009/10/9 20:58
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Re: Arrests of Jersey City/Hoboken Police in Cocaine Sting @ Calle Luna/Hernandez Restaurant -356 Va
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He is a cop who bought drugs. Does that not make him corrupt?

I'm not being fresh -- or judgy even -- I am just trying to see how it's anything but a sign of corrupt behavior.

And most importantly, I'm not saying he's not an awesome person under all that and one who deserves a chance at redemption. He just needs to go to be punished for his crime first.

We cannot assign harsh standards to arbitrary shady drug dealers on Wayne Street and then change the standards when it's a cop...or a boxer...or someone we know...or someone we think only did it once... Life's not that easy.

Posted on: 2009/10/8 17:45
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Re: Arrests of Jersey City/Hoboken Police in Cocaine Sting @ Calle Luna/Hernandez Restaurant -356 Va
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MYBEAT wrote:
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jennymayla wrote:
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pooper wrote:
It's a shame about Mark Medal. Former IBF champ and really nice guy when I met him. I hope this is just a rough patch for him on the way to greener pastures.


A cokehead and a corrupt cop, all rolled into one. Hard to wish him well, to be honest. Unless we mean well in jail.


Huhm, Cops and firemen are Humans also, I guess your one of those that walk on water....

Can't even imagine whats in your closet, You know you shouldn't throw stones in Glass houses.....



Come over and I will show you my closet. Anytime.

BTW, I come from a family of firemen with a cop or two thrown in for good measure. The difference is that they are neither cokeheads nor corrupt.

Do not mistake a heroic profession with personal failure.

Posted on: 2009/10/8 14:30
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Re: Arrests of Jersey City/Hoboken Police in Cocaine Sting @ Calle Luna/Hernandez Restaurant -356 Va
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Quote:

pooper wrote:
It's a shame about Mark Medal. Former IBF champ and really nice guy when I met him. I hope this is just a rough patch for him on the way to greener pastures.


A cokehead and a corrupt cop, all rolled into one. Hard to wish him well, to be honest. Unless we mean well in jail.

Posted on: 2009/10/8 13:42
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Re: WSJ: The Dependent Housewife from Mumbai -Inability to work in America comes with an unexpected
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jealous much?

Posted on: 2009/10/7 1:33
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Re: Bergen Lafayette: Upscale Items Taken from 2000 Ferrari: Stole $100,000 Watch & Nike Jordan Snea
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skepticalhook wrote:
What exactly does a $100K watch look like?



like this.

don't playa hate, skept.

Posted on: 2009/10/7 0:04
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Re: Steven Fulop is on WNYC Monday 10/5/09 (93.9FM & 820AM)
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It's "New Jersey Development Week" on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, counting down to the election. Today = Xanadu.

Knock yerselves out.

Posted on: 2009/10/6 12:59
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Re: Wanted: Crossing Guard; Qualifications: Must Know How to Cross Street; Salary: $31K/year
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yes...by a braver soul than i.

Posted on: 2009/10/5 17:02
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Re: Wanted: Crossing Guard; Qualifications: Must Know How to Cross Street; Salary: $31K/year
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There is not enough money in the world for me to stand in front of Jersey City traffic herding kids across the street in all kinds of weather, even if I would get to wear cute white gloves and blow a whistle.

The problem here is actually not what the crossing guard gets paid, it's what the cop gets paid. Shameful.

Posted on: 2009/10/5 16:50
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You know you're a JC old-timer if you remember...
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(via a much forwarded e-mail from my mom, who says she only remembers about half of these. i take no editorial responsibility )

* * *

Hudson Boulevard had islands.

You know how O'Hara's got its name.


You knew all the troublemakers before they became cops.

Martin Luther King Drive was Jackson Avenue

Christopher Columbus Drive was Railroad Avenue

Luiz Munoz Marin Boulevard was Henderson Street

Manila Avenue was Grove
Street

Roosevelt Lanes & Putneys Pub



Annual Holy Name and 'Americanization Day' Parades



What Harvard on the Blvd. and St. Richards on the Hill are



Getting Sunday suits at Robert Hall

Sleigh riding down the Medical Center lawn or Mosquito
Park

Bettinger?s on the Square



Uncle Milty?s / Bergen Pointe



The Skyline Cabana Club



You shopped in Woolworth on Journal Square and went to the
Griddle or
Driftwood after a movie

The giant roach in the exterminator?s window on Westside Avenue



Floor shows at the Canton Tea Garden Chinese Restaurant



Charcoal burgers at Tippys



The Tube Bar and Red the owner


Shopping at Cheap Sam's on Central Avenue



The Oyster Bay, Murtaghs, the Alps , Robinsons Steak House, and the Blue
Piano



The PATH train was .30 cents and before that they were called the Hudson
Tubes



The Happy Birthday Truck



Ice skating at Roosevelt Stadium



That St. Als Academy was known as snob hill 



The Bergen School



The OLM dances



The football Giants practicing at Roosevelt Stadium



Drunks and derelicts donating blood for money at the blood bank next to
McCrorys 



Everyone lived in a parish



J.M. Fields



Brummers Ice Cream Parlor at the Junction

The Stanley Theater with clouds that moved over the
ceiling

You sat on the Buffalo at Mosquito Park and rode your sled in winter there



Nedicks on the Square



Monteleones

Five Corners and the Paris Bakeries



You and all your friends were born at the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital



You lived in a house/apartment with at lease one cousin and/or grandparent
on the same street



You lived within ? mile of three catholic churches (with schools attached)



The pool at North Street Park (and never called it Washington Park )



Your dad would take the whole family to the Roosevelt Drive-In, but
if you were over 12, he'd hide you in the trunk

You remember Mayor Smith and that he once sparred with Muhammad Ali.



You remember Mayor Whelan and to which country the city's money
"went".



You went to the Mt. Carmel dances every Friday, Saturday &
Sunday.

You know someone who saw a UFO from Mosquito Park or the heights

You knew which house on the Boulevard was haunted

Everyone knew Sam DiFeo.



You knew what time the Mosquito truck fogged the block with diazanon so you
could run behind in the thick smoke

You could see the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building from your
house and never visited them.

Posted on: 2009/9/25 22:41
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Re: Large street fight; Wayne, Jersey, Mongomery....
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My last comment on this: I used quotes for event because i think it's a ridiculously staid word to use for what happened, and it was the word chosen by the poster before me. No larger intention than that.

Icechute, clearly you and I have a different reaction to what we see/hear/read around us. So be it.

Pissing off now...

Posted on: 2009/9/25 21:07
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Re: Large street fight; Wayne, Jersey, Mongomery....
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Sweetie, I haven't worn an iron-on since you left the Dokken one at my house.

xo

Posted on: 2009/9/25 21:00
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Re: Large street fight; Wayne, Jersey, Mongomery....
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icechute wrote:
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alleged event. at this point both day's "events" are just rumor.


I saw the large group, (at least 15 of them) many holding lengths of wood and rocks running North on Varick. Almost all wearing Ferris unis. They turned up Wayne and went toward Jersey. I called it in immediately and turned on my scanner to hear that the cops were already on it and that multiple calls had come in. That's how I heard about the assault on Jersey & Montgomery. A bunch of them heard or saw the cops and then ran West on Wayne, through Dixon and towards Monmouth where they split off in 3 directions. I also heard on the scanner that they picked-up and took at least 4 to juvenile.


Seriously Jenny, you don't seem to want to believe anything bad happens here unless it's within 6 feet of you.


Ha. Hardly. You know nothing about me except for some bullshitty things I post on a community message board. You have no idea. In all your "crime's down healy said so" ranting, have you and I ever engaged in a discussion about the total shitiness of the city we share? I think not.

Seriously, Icechute, STFU.

I simply stated the obvious. If it hits too close to home for you, perhaps because you jumped to the conclusion that I didn't believe you, then that's a shame. I've seen enough wacky stuff go on around here and since this is literally down the street from where I live, I wanted more details.

And now I have them.

And as for the inevitable hysteria I feared? Bring it. Totally justified, now that we have eyewitnesses.

Posted on: 2009/9/25 20:54
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Re: Large street fight; Wayne, Jersey, Mongomery....
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designknob wrote:
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jennymayla wrote:
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May wrote:
I guess it is a continuation from yesterday's event.
http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewt ... p?topic_id=18867&forum=10


alleged event. I was there at the time reported and saw nothing. at this point both day's "events" are just rumor.

just trying to keep the inevitable hysteria at bay..


Well I just saw the "alleged" event with my own eyes. Pack of kids running down Wayne St. Cops & undercover cars all over the place... so it's not an "alleged" event. Just because the Jersey Journal doesn't report it, doesn't mean it never happened.


This is the first time anyone (and now two) have said they have seen anything. So now we know.

I never said it didn't happen, by the way. So relax with that.

Posted on: 2009/9/25 20:29
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Re: Large street fight; Wayne, Jersey, Mongomery....
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May wrote:
I guess it is a continuation from yesterday's event.
http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewt ... p?topic_id=18867&forum=10


alleged event. I was there at the time reported and saw nothing. at this point both day's "events" are just rumor.

just trying to keep the inevitable hysteria at bay..

Posted on: 2009/9/25 20:05
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Re: What just happened on Montgomery and Jersey?
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i just drove by that corner ten minutes ago and didn't see anything. hmmm.

Posted on: 2009/9/24 20:08
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Re: Leaving Las Vegas: They got out while the getting was good...They went to New Jersey.
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beyond opening up Rosine and gang to critique, what is the point of this post? just because it came on your JC google news alert doesn't make it relevant.

sorry but c'mon, GP.

Posted on: 2009/9/24 15:49
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