tommyc_37 wrote:
Prices are artificially inflated due to an extremely low quantity of inventory for purchase, as somebody else noted earlier. There are bidding wars on mediocre properties. There really is very low inventory, for sale. Does anybody know why there is such a reluctance to build condos in these new high rises, as opposed to making them rentals? There is obviously ridiculous demand for condos.

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my2cents wrote:
Hopefully its not a long hot summer. If a Baltimore type event happens here, the bubble will burst and everyone will be running back to the suburbs where they grew up.

Wow, are you really that afraid? Sorry, but it's a pretty ridiculous statement. The white flight of the late 60s was the culmination of 2 decades of demographic trends. The current urbanization trends have been moving the other way now for decades. And demographically, WAY more of JC's poor are striving immigrants than generational underclass.

The whole "death by cop" thing is actually good news for our cities and country, it's always been there but now it's being exposed and called out. The bad part is it's feeding off the lower 3/5 of the populace that are restless after being left out of the economic growth for 3 decades.

JerseyJanet wrote:
I walking with my kids along Columbus Ave. and Jersey Ave. and saw a man convincing two other men the bike he's trying to sell them isn't stolen because he wouldn't do that to people. It was odd and obvious a 'deal' was going down to offload this nice mountain bike. He seemed tweaked out. I rushed my kids along.

I see him again on Grove and Newark 15 minutes later with a group of unkempt people and he's handing over a small packet of white stuff while they shake hands. It was ridiculously obvious, I'm short and I was practically nose level to this transaction. It was ballsy. I couldn't believe this was in broad daylight at the Grove PATH station area. He had no bike with him then so probably sold it to those other two.

I seriously saw these two things, same man, in under half hour committing two crimes. People, families walking everywhere. I was with small children.

We think DTJC has changed?

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jc2007 wrote:
Does anyone know what happened to the NY Waterway Ferry service from Newport?

The landing site is deteriorating, NYW doesn't think it's safe. NYW talked to Newport about an alternate site, and apparently decided that Paulus Hook was close enough.

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

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JadedJC wrote:
I'm also incredibly amused by those who complain about fellow passengers playing Candy Crush on their phones. Are you f*cking kidding me? If I had a time machine, I'd send you back 25 or 30 years to the era of the boom box (aka, the ghetto blaster). It wasn't unusual to have two or three competing boxes going in the same car - and the volume on each would be turned up in a futile attempt to drown out the other boxes.

Every era had it's angst, I'd like to know what those "boom box" bandits are doing now.

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This happened on a packed train! How didn't the person not get surrounded and subdued? How did he get away?

Everyone on the train was too busy playing Candy Crush Soda to notice anything had happened.

sp2xs wrote:
Nice photo. What a shame so many cool, old buildings had been demolished in the name of progress.

I noticed a sign on the Lackawanna Center (the large factory building that runs along 18th street across from Cast Iron Lofts) advertising retail space. Being curious, I checked it out:

http://www.lackawannacenter.com/

Wonder when this would actually materialize by... anyone know anything about that?

JCSHEP wrote:
I wonder how the people of JC took the late 20s. Today the PATH has less than 65% of the riders they had back then (H&M RR).