I agree with everything injcsince81 says.

Word to everyone that made it w/out any help. My parents are immigrants, I didn't even learn English until elementary school, I didn't even go to college. But I own my own place at the age of 25. Yes its next to the projects, but its mine. And I keep it nice and clean because everyday I am reminded of how hard I work to pay it off.

I understand needeing a little bit of help sometimes, but people need to take responsibility for themselves. I don't live in nyc because I can't afford it, should I be able to live in subsidised housing there? I don't have kids because i can't afford it. Should I make others pay for my kids so I can stay home and drink 40s on the stoop?
If you can't afford to have three kids don't have them, if you can't afford to live in an upscale neighborhood move out.
Sorry, but I make sacrifices for myself and I'm not woking so others can have a free ride.
It really hurts when I'm on my way to work and I walk past the projects to see people still drinking from the night before as the sit in their own chicken bones and broken bottles. When I come home they are sitting on my steps leaving their crap for me to clean up.
F that. I don't care where they go as long as its far from my house.

When you work for something you appreciate it. Why do you think the blocks of low income housing are so digusting? Why bother keeping a building you don't pay for clean, why plant flowers or pick up trash when you don't know the value of anything you have?

Who decided subsidized apartments should be luxury?

I'm going to quit my job so I can live there. I guess we are all getting mugged twice.

This really great! The police finally got tired of me calling!

i'll be there!! please we need some grass and trees in this concrete jungle!!

This is what I sent:

Subject: FREE BEER

Mayor Healy, Now that I have your attention can you please take a walk down to the Grove St PATH and tell me why it is so dirty and dilapidated. If you need directions just ask anyone who lives in Jersey City. Try to resist having a 40 with the regulars at the station.

Thanks!

What, if any, is the curfew for Jersey city? Is it enforced? Do the parks close after sunset?

It's the one of main streets coming out of the Grove Path. (along the huge mural) There are homeless cardboard "homes" on the sidewalk and I catch people pissing on the parking meters at 6 in the evening.
And is drinking outside legal in JC? Or only if your a thug? Why do they get to sit outside in the park, or on my stoop and drink 40s all day? I drank a beer in front of my house and I got a drinking in public ticket. Do you think the cop walked around the corner to ticket the thugs smoking a blunt on their stoop? NO.

Jersey City is so currupt. I thought it could change, but it can't. All the new development won't help when the money is not going back to the city and there are no police to clean up the streets. When is the last time any city offical has taken a walk down Columbus Ave?
There is no excuse for letting our city rot away while they pocket our money!