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fraulein wrote:
Glad someone bumped this. It reminded me to mention that Esperantos is re opening in that Three Boys/Pizza/Falafel space on Monmouth near 5th.

Esperanto's was the best pizza in JC a decade ago. Then they changed owners and the new owners drove it into the ground. Worst pizza ever. Are the original owners re-opening it? Oh please oh please.

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ripple wrote:
Duckys Dumplings, the liquor store / grocery by Dixon Mills, and if you go back more like 4 years, Pop Merrigan's, but I don't deny that downtown has more options now than any time since I've lived here

Those places were terrible.

VA2015 wrote:
Yeah, the number of places opening far exceeds those closing. In the past year or two, we've seen:

30 Acres
Choc Au Pain
Roman Nose
The Bistro on Grove (opening soon)
Orale Mexican Kitchen
The Dopeness
Wings to Go (their brick oven pizza is cheap and decent)
Razza where Bar Majestic used to be
Brightside Tavern
Two Boots
Kraverie

I'm sure I've missed some.

What has closed in that time that hasn't been replaced with something new?

Won't disagree with you on the food part, but the shopping part is kind of going against what people are saying here. Nicer (more expensive) shops are starting to open up.

FGJCNJ1970 wrote:
Did everyone notice?

The GAP... Lady's Gap upstairs and i think Baby's Gap...

GONE. All Gone.

The Guy shop now going to be a Michael Kors store. The upstairs is going to be something else female oriented as well
I'm really starting to wonder what is up.

And to the previous poster, there are no toy stores. (they do pop up stores around Christmas and then they disappear).

No pet stores either.

I think they are trying to make Newport Mall for the 1% or something.

FG

radryan03 wrote:
Bringing this topic back up... we were harassed at the same spot around 3PM on Sunday...

The clowns were launching water balloons from the center section of that housing project at us - across the street on Manila. We did a WTF when one splattered on a light pole above our heads... took a second to realize what was taking place and then three more followed within proximity of us...

Fortunately, a cop was on Manila... hailed him down and he pulled over... they AHs ran off.

To anyone who pulls the - this is minor, kids having fun, what?s the big deal, at least they're not robbing or dealing drugs - do me a favor - take a water balloon (unexpectedly) to the head from 100 ft away...

OKJC wrote:
From the the name to the place. Pathetic.

I went so no one could accuse me of writing a review without going.

Insanely bad. Must be a single owner, because there is no way more than one person would think this would be a good idea.

Food sucks, but this is a lounge. The food is there to support the bar. So let me understand the reasoning behind opening a bar with no liquor licence. Wow.

What sucks is that the landlords of DT JC don't realize what they have. They keep renting to these Jokers. They could do so much better.

This place has 6 months and a few gun-play incidents before it closes.

Dahood wrote:
They are clearly saying that the reduction in service is to make necessary repairs post-sandy. Why is it so hard for people to get it?

PathH8Tr wrote:
Can someone refresh my memory as to why they are doing this?

JustJames wrote:
Is the name a drug reference? Could attract a bad crowd.

vindication15 wrote:
This discussion is very interesting. First off, no one should be harassed and no, it doesn't come with living in the city. City living does not equate to being harassed. "City" is generally an urban settlement with a large population and with that comes more pollution, more cars, more restaurants, more people, etc as compared to the suburbs or rural areas. Harassment is not associated with "city". That is like saying terrorism is associated with Muslim which is also blatantly biased and completely subjective.

As far as project housing, I think it is safe to say that although the idea might be noble, the implementation and "checks and balances" has been a colossal failure.

But to get right to the point, our schools in JC are failing our children (any viable measure of this proves my point - test scores, graduation rates, reading level, math level, etc.) so when these children grow up to be delinquent teens and delinquent young adults, are you really surprised?

Forget about your tax dollars funding public housing, how about your tax dollars funding these failing public schools - Dickinson, Snyder, Lincoln, Ferris? By any reasonable measure, they should all be closed down ASAP.

And yes, I'm aware that there are bright kids at these schools and hard working teachers but when overall, you have a failing institution, one or two kids or teachers does not justify failing the majority of kids. It's like a company with 1 or 2 hard workers and 99% failures. Would that company ever last more than a day? Can you imagine having your tax dollars pay for that company to stay open and produce a piss poor product? Unfortunately, the piss poor product that our JC public schools produce are the delinquents you see in the streets.

So far, no one running - Healy or Fulop - has really addressed what they will do to make our children more competitive.

gstorm17 wrote:
Was just walking down to Grove St Path down Manila street. Something which I do almost every day. Today there was a group(3) of us headed there we got to 4th and we heard yelling from across the street coming from some kids who had to be in their late teens early 20's. they were calling us fat and swearing. I asked if he had a problem and he told me to suck his d*ck and and other derogatory terms regarding our sexuality. We left and walked a couple of blocks. And decided that it was unacceptable to be treated this way and decided to report it to the non emergency number at the nearby district. Essentially we recounted what happened but what pissed me off more than the whole instance that started this was the response from the police which was "what do you want us to do?" I don't know. Maybe keep the streets safe from harassment and make this city the safe on that the politicians are calling a pedestrian city. They said they would send a car but we did not stick around to see if they came.

So disappointed.

81905 wrote:
Why Healy, Morrill (his PR Spin Machine) and the rest of his handlers would want to keep this in the news so areas that may not be as pro-Fulop are now re-hashing all these embarrassing and dispicable corruption charges is a mystery to me.

Healy may not have been charged but his proximity to such a wide sweep of HIS administration is the reason I was pretty suprised he ran again.

Fulop's team must be all smiles

CatDog wrote:
so.... is the answer to that question no?