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Re: "ThaWheelMan" For the LOVE OF GOD, Haud yer wheesht!
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Seriously mate.
Or is this a bot?

My top theory is that it's actually Dan Falcon trying to drive a few views to his moribund JCList.

Posted on: 2020/3/14 15:42
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Re: 107 New York Ave - Zoning Board Meeting at City Hall 2/20
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A Bayonne box with a driveway cutout would not benefit global warming or the housing crisis. Neither will a 75 unit, 75 parking space building.

The 75 units will so help the housing problem. And without parking the NIMBY's will kill it dead. There is nothing so sacrosanct in JC as street parking, mess with it at your peril.

Parking>housing crisis, global warming or transit expansion

Posted on: 2020/2/27 18:58
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Re: Jersey City Bike Lanes... WTF is wrong with bike riders
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Has anyone else noticed bike riders not using the spaces just for them? Can they be cited by traffic regulations?

I know... you can't fix rude, stupid and dangerous.


Has anyone else noticed that cars are now driving and parking IN the protected bike lanes forcing riders to move out into traffic? Because I have on a daily basis.

Can they be cited by traffic regulations?

I know... you can't fix rude, stupid and dangerous.


Shocking news, many people are rude, stupid and dangerous no matter what their vehicle, and sometimes on foot! How many times have you had someone pop out of a store door right in front of you without even looking?

Posted on: 2020/2/10 16:47
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Re: METS Charter School to Shut Down
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Good. Charters were never about staying open forever, good or bad, just like District schools. They should be cloning the successful models and putting down the unsuccessful ones.


Unfortunately it appears the Murphy's administration policy is to block new Charter schools from opening. I was following the efforts of a group here in Jersey City to open a Montessori based charter, but it appears their application will never be approved under the current regime in Trenton.

It was the first time in at least a decade that the state has rejected every charter school bid in a cycle, and this time without even interviewing the applicants, according to charter-school advocates.

https://www.njspotlight.com/2018/10/18 ... ects-latest-two-hopefuls/


Far as I can tell the Charter issue is a mess from both sides. I like the outsider idea, but don't think "for profit" has a place. The moral hazard is too great. LCCS is a great model: nonprofit, separate union contract. On the other side the bloated districts see them as a threat and will do anything to stop them instead of downsizing their ridiculously expensive administrations to fit the size of their student body, whatever that may be.

Posted on: 2020/2/5 22:59
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Re: METS Charter School to Shut Down
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Good. Charters were never about staying open forever, good or bad, just like District schools. They should be cloning the successful models and putting down the unsuccessful ones.

Posted on: 2020/2/5 17:49
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Re: Plan calls for high-rise to replace 75-year-old public housing complex in JC
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I have been in many European town squares that also happen to sit atop a massive lot and the only thing that gives it away is seeing cars emerging from the ground in the periphery of said squares.



This thread is reminding me of a low budget scifi movie from the '90s called 'Circuitry Man'. One of the plot devices was that the underground of the US became one gigantic parking garage. You could travel from LA to NYC via the parking garages.


Let me guess, it was shot entirely in parking garages?

Posted on: 2020/2/4 19:18
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Re: Plan calls for high-rise to replace 75-year-old public housing complex in JC
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I fully understand that wanting the city to support/encourage/subsidize underground parking lots is a pipe dream, but it certainly is NOT because it is an impossible engineering challenge. Other cities and countries around the world have figured out how to make it happen, even places with elevations even lower than ours.


It's not the excavation that's the problem, its that the next time the city floods that garage becomes a water tank like many underground garages in Lower Manhattan did during Sandy. I honestly have no problem with some lower floors of hi rises being parking as long as they create retail on the ground floor.

I would also posit that convenient metered parking for shoppers is a completely different issue than residential parking. Everybody wants to support their local merchants, except if it costs them a street spot!

Posted on: 2020/2/4 18:05
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Re: Plan calls for high-rise to replace 75-year-old public housing complex in JC
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I advocate taking a few street parking spots away from local residents and making them metered. I don't think that's so radical compared to demanding massive underground parking lots! Seems obvious to me that anyone suggesting the latter has never dealt with DTJC's water issues. If you've ever had to drive your car up to high ground ahead of a storm you wouldn't even consider it!

As for Europe, I assume the construction and operation of those underground is subsidized like most European infrastructure. We don't roll like that in "what's in it for ME" America.

Posted on: 2020/2/3 16:49
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Re: Plan calls for high-rise to replace 75-year-old public housing complex in JC
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It is obvious some folks on JClist do not go to public meetings in various neighborhoods, it is not Yvonne, it is hundreds of people complaining about loss parking, especially bikes lanes at the expense of cars. There were hundreds of people at Hudson Catholic School including St. Peter's University, making the same complaint. Not to mention, the businesses that are hurt because shoppers go else. Really, how selfish are some comments. In fact the city should do a survey on the people of people that shop in Bayonne or other towns due to the loss of parking.


Thanks for proving my point. Parking, parking, parking but no concern on how parking impacts housing affordability.


Or transit. You could put BRT on a set of N-S JC roads and have a virtual subway, except for...parking. And I actually agree with part of Yvonne's position, more short term parking for local commerce. But what we should have is more and better metered parking in commercial districts the way Hoboken has. But that's a non-starter, since it would take away resident street parking. Even Key foods should have a row of 15 minute meters out front, If I want to drop in for eggs or zucchini on my way driving home from somewhere, I can't, since the daylighting of the corners there's not even illegal spots to use.

Posted on: 2020/1/31 17:17
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Re: Plan calls for high-rise to replace 75-year-old public housing complex in JC
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How could such a goal be accomplished? Eliminate the scourge of R1 Housing Zoning in the Heights.

A Bayonne Box can easily rent for around $2,500. If that same plot of land housed four or six units, the property owner could rent for a lot less while still making a very handsome profit.

But what about the PARKING!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting article in the Times yesterday. It's possible density may finally be getting talked about as a solution to high costs instead of rent control.

Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/art ... ng-skyscraper-museum.html

Posted on: 2020/1/30 23:34
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Re: Hudson Cinemas closed?
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It's crazy that there's no Walmart on SI or anywhere in NYC. Amazing that the community boards can keep them out. So I guess if their heart is set on Walmart, paying the $6.88 toll S Islanders get as a political bribe might be worth it.

Posted on: 2020/1/25 18:04
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Re: Hudson Cinemas closed?
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I am sure that was part of it, and they probably also figured they would get people from JC, and Staten Island. According to someone I once met that works at the Walmart down the road, on weekends they get lots of people from SI who cross into NJ to shop and load up in gas.

But, that's the thing: I have been in the Bayonne Costco mid-week, and weekends, mornings, afternoons, and evenings, and never seen it crowded. The most people I ever saw there was less than half the crowd you would normally see in Teterboro or Clifton. To be quite honest, I much prefer it that way: it makes for a more pleasant experience, and also makes it possible to get in and out quickly if you are in a hurry. But, it is definitely surprising how empty it is in there regularly. It is unlike any other Costco I have ever visited.


Why would a Staten Islander come here and pay a toll when they have their own? Teterboro is in a class by itself, I've never been there when it was anything but packed. But the low volume at Bayonne has already had effects, they stopped carrying fresh kosher beef because it wasn't moving, and the frozen was discounted my last trip so maybe that's gone now too. If the fresh kosher chicken stays I'll be surprised. I do wonder how many of the whole frozen Halal lambs they sell.

Posted on: 2020/1/24 22:17
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Re: Hudson Cinemas closed?
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The best thing that has happened to Bayonne is the Costco opening. Surprisingly, it is never as crowded as you would think.


Yeah, I think they miscalculated: cheap land and a suburban style store vs more customers. Had they built an urban style store Downtown like the one in Red Hook, or like the HD, they'd have had a lot more wealthy customers within a short distance.

These big national chains have bean counters that look at the high land cost or rent in dense areas and veto it without seriously taking customer density into account. Years ago before they opened Jersey stores I contacted Harbor Freight and suggested they open one on 440. That's between 2 cities of 250k each. Their response was they don't open stores with that high rents, even though they had stores in little towns of 30k out west. They simply could not wrap their heads around the hugely larger customer base per store.

Posted on: 2020/1/24 17:20
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Re: Hudson Cinemas closed?
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With the amount of development east of 440 in Bayonne I can't imagine they'll just let that S Cove theater stand dormant.

Posted on: 2020/1/23 23:38
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Re: Heritage in the crosshairs: Historic JC church demolished
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And the alternative was.....what? The author does not say. A church already doesn't pay taxes, if the parish doesn't need it, doesn't want it, doesn't want to pay to maintain it, and it doesn't lend itself to residential conversion, then...what? The city maintain it as a monument to something? Subsidize it's reuse as something below the market value of the land?

I think there should be landmarks, but not every old building is a landmark. I like to see things preserved, like I'd like to see the Cap1 bank on Newark & Jersey preserved even though it's not unusual for a bank of that period, but I think locking a city in amber can be bad too. There's a lot of economic pressure to increase the density of JC and the similar areas of the outer boroughs, resisting that is one cause of the housing crisis.

Posted on: 2020/1/7 21:41
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Re: House Inspector to avoid--John Estes, Regional Home Inspection
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While no one can catch everything, in my experience there's a wide range of competence in this field. My 1st purchase the guy was lame, just had a checklist and filled in everything "marginal". Of course it was, it's an unrenovated 100 year old house! 2nd, DICO Home Inspectors (unfortunately the original guy retired) did a meticulous job and explained everything he saw to me. 3rd by an different DICO guy, trained by the 1st, was not quite as informative.

Don't get me started on appraisers!!!

Posted on: 2019/12/28 16:36
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Re: JC teachers who made 99K or more in 2019
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As for the people living in tax abated buildings, what is the issue there?


Yvonne likes to pretend that abated properties pay nothing, rather than PILOTS that pre-reval were often way more than she and her brownstone brethren were paying. Controlling expenses of unionized municipal employees is a big problem, but unrelated to abatements.

Interesting article here:https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-c ... teachers-work-long-hours/

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The bottom line on deciding on compensation is whether you?re paying enough to get a sufficiently large supply of sufficiently good employees. In other words, if you think we have more great teachers than we need you should be okay with lower compensation rates. Contrariwise, if you think we need more great teachers than we have on board then you should want to raise salaries. That?s how a market system works?you get what you pay for.


Gist is economics says you either you have shitty teachers who are underpaid, or great teachers who are paid well. The market says you can't have great teachers who are underpaid, or they'd be somewhere else where they can be paid more. So we have a problem, we have a shitty system with some of the best paid teachers in the country. Go figure.

Posted on: 2019/12/5 23:30
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Re: JC teachers who made 99K or more in 2019
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My salary was private, it did not come from the public and did not affect anyone's taxes and it was not $99K. I just saw my former neighbor's house listed in today's paper under tax lien. Reval brought up his taxes and now he is in a hole for $30,000. $7,500 goes to the public school from his $30,000. But in the meanwhile, some people live in tax abated buildings and use the public schools and have no concern about losing their homes. The issue is the affordability of living in JC and paying taxes that steals people homes. The lien list has 37 pages of people in tax lien. Secaucus is 20 percent of JC population, had eleven names in lien which would be 55 people if the same size as JC. It is about the affordability of living in this city. So, nicky, spend $1.50 on the Jersey Journal and see the results of giving some teachers $99K plus. Public education is not free, it cost people money and homes.


Yvonne, the lien list really has little to do with anyone actually getting their property seized, all the tax mayhem here has simply led to a lot of confusion about when and what to pay. I have ended up there when the bank screwed up and didn't pay the tax on time and when the water bill got screwed up. Perhaps Secaucus actually gets it's budget and tax bills in on time and communicates with it's citizens.

Posted on: 2019/12/5 17:02
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Re: Fluorescent bulb disposal
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thanks. i will check out. also. i heard that ballast tend to fail over time. can i do bypass method with motion sensor lights ?[quote]


That would depend on the sensor used. The clients I work with now are just changing out the fixtures instead of doing bulb swaps. The fixture cost has come down so much in the past 5 years it makes more sense just to put in a new fixture.

Some LED fixtures have options for integrated motion / occupancy sensors.


For shoplights the fixture replacement has always been cheaper. I bought one at Costco recently that I was very excited about that had a built in motion detector, but the damn thing just sat there going on and off by itself with nothing near it and the sensor at it's lowest setting.

Posted on: 2019/11/22 16:49
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Re: Fluorescent bulb disposal
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jimvfx wrote:
Hi all,

Does anyone know how I can go about disposing of old fluorescent tubes (I have about a dozen of them).

Will normal trash pick them up?

Thanks in advance!

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One option is bring them to Home Depot, I've brought bags of them there.

Posted on: 2019/11/18 1:31
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Re: New Rent Control Ordinance
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Somehow there is an undying belief among politicians that war against real estate owners would lead to an abundance of affordable real estate.


It's an example of a Liberal "zombie idea" that balances the Conservative ones like "tax cuts raise revenue". Any rent control legislation should be tied to drastic zoning reform. Period. Coast to coast, zoning is what causes housing shortages and thus high rents, not landlords.

Posted on: 2019/10/31 15:59
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Re: End of AirBnB in Jersey City?
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\Also says the 5 rooms have push button coded locks gee wouldn?t that make it a hotel?
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I have pushbutton locks on my apt and basement doors, does that make my home a hotel?

Posted on: 2019/10/28 0:56
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Re: End of AirBnB in Jersey City?
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And VVP being elaborately and expensively renovated without including a playground. Good times.


Wow... never knew that happened (I don't use VVP since i am not in the downtown). The playgrounds are one reason I like living in J.C. My kid has 'his gang' that he meets daily at the playground on Ogden ave (Pershing Field gets a bit insane with the crowds). Having playmates at that young of an age was something I missed out on (Gen X baby bust in the burbs... no kids in my neighborhood... or playgrounds).

I take it the VVP planners didn't have kids...


I don't know all the details, but yeah, people who wanted a fancy garden had control, till at some point it all came out, and they had to retrofit in the 2 play areas. There were people in HP who would have gotten rid of the playground and ball courts in the reno if they'd had their way.

Posted on: 2019/10/2 20:04
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Re: End of AirBnB in Jersey City?
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My 'bad experiences' were mostly neighbors (before the neighborhood gentrified) strung out on booze, drugs, etc. creating all sorts of issues. Thankfully most of the bad actors are gone now.*


And at least any bad AB&B visitor will be gone soon, unlike my neighbors with the dogs that bark all fucking day long.

Posted on: 2019/10/2 19:37
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Re: End of AirBnB in Jersey City?
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Also, how have the neighborhood associations hurt you? You seem to be obsessed with them. In my experience (12 years in HP) they haven't shown themselves to be all that powerful.

You missed the heyday of HPNA being run by dog owners and keeping anyone from restricting dogs running free all over the park. And VVP being elaborately and expensively renovated without including a playground. Good times.

Posted on: 2019/10/2 19:17
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Re: End of AirBnB in Jersey City?
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The sad thing is that with AirBnB regulated out of existence, rents won't be reduced by much, if at all. As long as multi-family buildings are torn down and replaced with Bayonne boxes, the rent market will continue to face shortages (at least until the next recession).

What will be lost is the revenue paid to the city by AirBnB. Wasn't it around $9mil a year?


Why is it people think 'supply & demand' doesn't apply to real estate? But to be fair, a lot of the teardowns are single or 2U on double lots. But they should be putting up 20 units on a 50x100 lot, not 4. But wait, 'muh parking' and 'don't change muh hood, except for the nice new services'.

Posted on: 2019/10/2 16:17
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Re: Required in unit building inspection notices around 07302, what gives?
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For those interested in being "Refuseniks", look up 1967 SCOTUS case Camara vs City of SF, where the court ruled if the city wanted in, they needed a warrant and could not arrest or fine someone for asserting their 4th Amendment right to privacy. Of course, the JC buildings dept has never heard of this.

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Originally it was just businesses that were getting hammered with increased licensing fees and multiple inspections (with registration fees, from multiple agencies, checking the same thing). Now every 3+ family building owner is getting nickle and dime to death.


Given that, it's crazy that the JCPD basically has waived off any traffic enforcement at all. We all know dozens of spots where they could literally be giving tickets as fast as they could write them! Lets not even get started on the low productivity of the Parking folks.

Posted on: 2019/9/27 18:13
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Re: Required in unit building inspection notices around 07302, what gives?
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Does anybody know what these clowns are looking for? Many years ago some firemen were not happy about my basement shelves with paper catalogs. I do think it's probably time to ditch them, but now I'm wondering about accelerants. I have more than 1/2 doz gallon cans of various thinners, some stored in a steel cabinet, though it's not exterior vented. And several gallons of lubricating oil. I can just imagine these guys going nuts!

Posted on: 2019/9/26 21:23
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Re: Advertising a rental... Craigslist not working so well now
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Congrats. You could also have experienced the "3rd week of the month syndrome", where people stop window shopping and have to close a deal.

Posted on: 2019/9/24 19:21
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Re: Advertising a rental... Craigslist not working so well now
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Thanks for the feedback. I will have to get some pictures of the bedrooms. I re-looked at the drawing and the smaller one was 7'3" X 10' 9" - wouldn't that be more than 70 sq feet or is there a loss factor that is supposed to be calculated?

Huh, that dimensions I read as 73"x 109" in that low rez image because there was no marks indicating ft & in, but some of the others seem to, so I guess you're right. Never mind and good luck. Nice looking place, and I assume you got it cheap if it was a while back.

And yes, CL has gone to hell for getting tenants, there's too many scammers, repeat postings, and deceptive location descriptions. From the renter POV the signal to noise is low.

Posted on: 2019/9/20 2:23
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