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My friend Dirt McGirt is absolutely correct with this statement.

More than a few pedestrians seem to have this ?let?s play chicken? attitude with oncoming cars, which manifests itself one of two ways:

1). By crossing mid-block where they have no crosswalk whatsoever (and purposely taking their dear sweet time crossing just to break your balls even though they are jaywalking).

2). By obliviously stepping out into a crosswalk from what they should know to be a totally blind spot for the driver of the oncoming car (eg: from behind a large vehicle on the corner or, in fact, any vehicle that is parked too close to the corner). Drivers can?t always stop on a dime when that happens ?last minute? --- even at 25MPH which is the limit for most of these streets.

My only hope is that the JCPD --- if indeed they step up on enforcement ---- will recognize (and enforce) based on the understanding that there is responsibility to met by both parties. Pedestrians are at fault just as often as are drivers.

The best thing that one can do to avoid car accidents is not to drive like an A-hole. Similarly, if you're a pedestrian who doesn't want to get run over, then don't walk like an A-hole.

Walked past the Hamilton Inn last night on the way home from the Embankment (where the service was at an all-time low ---- it was really abysmal).

Anyway, the Inn had some activity ---- lights on, TV on, a few people seated at tables, and a bartender behind the rails. Might have just been a private pre-opening gathering.

Can't wait!

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Your closing date on that property was June 29, 2006 ---- which is not so recent. You can come down off your noble cross.

There's something to be said for quality versus quantity. You should give it a try.

Yes, I had already linked the article from your original post, and I clearly saw that it was a quote therein.

The fact is that if you didn't agree with the sarcastic sentiment, then you wouldn't have made the post that you did.

You're an idiot.

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Even though you live right next door, you hardly have the first clue about those tenants personally. They would hardly be considered yuppies by any normal standard.

Crazy Vlad and his substandard accommodations (and his well documented substandard practices) hardly attracts the yuppies for which so many of you seem to have such vitriol.

GrovePath -- with almost 7,000 posts -- is observing that someone has extra time on their hands. That's rich.

Been going to Second Street for over ten years --- for regular walk-in orders as well as for call-ahead takeout platters.

To be honest, I think they?ve been slipping the past couple of years. The sandwiches used to be loaded with a lot more meat than they are now. Also, the rolls used for sandwiches have been way too hard ---- and it?s not like I?m showing up at the end of the day and therefore getting the last and oldest of the batch.

To be sure, the matriarch of the family still works the counter like a champ, but it would be delightful to have a ?roll line.? Some folks just want to pop in for a few off-the-rack stuffed rolls sitting right within reach --- all of a 30-second transaction --- and yet have to wait fifteen minutes behind a line of sandwich orders. That in and of itself wouldn?t be a big deal, but she sometimes doesn?t move on to taking the next order until she?s cleared the deck of pending sandwich orders being made. The net result is that you often have half of the crowded area waiting for orders they?ve placed and the other half still standing waiting to place an order (which could be an ultra-quickie for stuffed rolls).

Basically, at traditionally crowded times, they should get a second person behind the counter. It would help them in the long run because people often leave when they see the line too long (as I have done).

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Why you would even be involving Wreiden for a new bathroom is a mystery. Unless any exterior change is street-visible or any interior change is altering structural integrity, you can rightfully tell the historical preservation folks to go blow it out their ass.

Don't know why the omniscient Webmaster deleted this post from a little while ago, but here goes again.......

Just curious --- is anyone withholding any part of their February 1 property tax payment? Paying absolutely nothing would be shortsighted since you?ll end up screwing yourself, despite the righteous public indignation.

I?m absolutely making my tax payment, but I?m considering holding back just the amount of the increase. I don?t know ---- still thinking about it.

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The Lincoln Inn ---- a true JC institution ---- provides no accommodation, neither is it a boarding house, nor a bed-and-breakfast, and I don't think people are at all confused by the title!

Great thing about this board ---- utterly inane observations like the one quoted above. Or did I mean insane, not inane?

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Please see thread on Jason Scala! The guy belongs in a straight jacket.

Sorry for that loud chuckle you might have just heard! Impersonating a security guard? Good stuff. Because God knows that?s what gets the ladies swooning and what puts people back on their heels --- the rent-a-cop uniform, the paper thin credentials, and the even-thinner powers of a security guard!

I think the sticking point here is the word ?impersonating? ---- to impersonate is to ?act in the person of.? Although, why someone would want to impersonate a security guard (read as: ?wait here until I get an actual cop?) is a mystery.

Shadrack?s assertion is correct --- impersonating a law enforcement officer is a totally different situation, but simply identifying yourself as one is not actually impersonating. You can walk around all day long and scream at the top of your lungs that you?re a security guard; you?re a local cop; you?re a state trooper; you?re a federal agent; even that you?re the US Attorney General (the top law enforcement agent in the country) --- you have broken no laws by doing so. You only get into a jackpot when you try to take action in the person of (or impersonate) such positions.

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Good call. I've never been very McGyver-like, but that's an easy enough fix to do. Thanks.

Those on Jersey Avenue know how awesome Nick the postman is --- he?s friendly, polite, attentive, etc. ? thus the reason why gets a something from us every Christmas. The fill-in personnel on his days off are total knuckleheads.

Yesterday was a classic example --- and it happens WITHOUT FAIL on rainy days when there is a substitute carrier --- for those of us whose mailboxes are not covered by any sort of overhang on the house, the lid to the mailbox gets left open after mail is dropped on rainy days, virtually guaranteeing that the mail will get soaked if you?re not home to promptly retrieve it. To pre-emptively answer your questions --- no, there is no piece of mail too big to prevent it from being closed (in fact, I have an oversized box) --- and yes, it is only on very rainy days that it happens. It must be the passive-aggressive outlet of substitute carriers when they have to work crappy days. Pretty pathetic.

Regarding the substitute carrier mentioned above (the one ALWAYS on her cell phone) ? she?s just friggin? lazy. When I have outgoing mail, I position it in such a way that it can?t possibly be missed, overlooked, or logically mistaken for the previous day?s delivered mail. In fact, one would have to move the outgoing mail out of the way in order to deposit any incoming mail ? or just shove it down into the box with the incoming mail, which is what happens when there is a substitute on Nick?s route. By crazy timing one day, I happened to be walking out the door just as mail was being delivered by the cell phone talker ---and of course outgoing mail was just ignored and pushed down into the box. With reasonable politeness, I mentioned that there was outgoing mail that she missed. Annoyed by her call being interrupted, she replied: ?Yeah ? I saw it ---- It?s not my job to collect your mail!? This is obviously untrue according to this luminary?s two supervisors. Anyone who has issues with carriers should speak to Joe or Dawn at the Washington Street post office.

When Nick hits retirement, I think I?m going to get a post office box!

Re-assessed or re-appraised? Two totally different things.

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Icechute -- thank you for my best laugh of the morning. Very funny --- and sadly true!

She's pretty hot. Her name is Lisa Glide ---- would be a great name for a porn star.

Regardless of gender, the occurence of teacher-student sexual relationships is regular enough, but I really have to get my head around why when the teacher is female, they're usually are pretty damn hot. Remember that blonde in Florida a few years back? And there was another more recently outside of Philly who was model-attractive.

Clearly they're disturbed, and on some level it's a power thing, but the young male students are victims? I have another term for it --- lucky bastards.

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Suuuuure ------- and because O.J. was found not guilty on two murders, that means he really was innocent.

Spare us your first-year law school idealism.

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To be clear, none of us know who started the altercation, but what the hell does McGovern being a blackbelt (in what martial art you didn't specify) have to do with anything?

Let me phrase differently ------- By the way you have written your statement, you're suggesting that one who holds a blackbelt could not be an instigator of something?

Yes, Healy's example.........

.....and Kevin Freibott's example (of Pulaski Skyway-fame)

......and Martin Abreu's example (of Lower Manhattan-fame a few months ago, and whose luminary of a mother said "So my son went out and had a couple of drinks. He deserves to have a good time now and then.").

Hey, and the other cop this past weekend only punched a woman (yes, that's sarcasm on the "only") ---- at least he didn't shoot an ex-girlfriend in front of the West Precinct before cowardly shooting and killing himself. Oh wait ---- that was JC cop Julio Reyes in March 2003.

Psychopaths and losers --- one and all.

I don't know the rules governing the cut-and-paste of news content from other sites, so here's the link below.

Boy, oh boy, good old JCPD --- is there a municipality left where one of them hasn't been arrested for something?

Total friggin' idiots.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... y_cops_arrested.html#more

Ground floor tenant of 645 Jersey Avenue (two doors in from the corner of 7th Street) --- an incredibly ignorant and inconsiderate a**hole.

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Sadly, the basketball court was not omitted from the new design altogether. 'Nuff said.

YAWN

As with Reilly, I regret once again being the first to provide the newslink.

RIP:

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


Guess which teenage group of societal scourges are about to have their charges wildly upgraded?

R.I.P.

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

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Let the push go? I assume that means his push and not yours. You still haven't acknowledged if you shoved him or not. Doesn't really matter --- you still sound like a mega-douche.

You have also failed to comment on the alleged phone call to your "bud" ---- the JCPD lieutenant.

Just as you admonish the other party that (in so many words) he may one day cross the wrong person while exhibiting the same behavior, maybe you should heed the same advice.

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True -- there are some good cops.

As for the balance of them, we're supposed to be sympathetic now?

Each and everyone of them became cops by their own active choosing, and the fact is that too many of them are loose canons.

I don't know ---maybe they watched too much TJ Hooker growing up and thought police work would be a bit more glamorous ----- maybe they watched too much Miami Vice and thought the badge would be getting them laid right and left like Tubbs and Crockett ----- maybe (and quite likely) it's just the marginally-secure tough guys in junior high who never grew out of it ----- who knows.

Part of police work is knowing how to deal with all different kinds of people in all kinds of different situations. If they can't do that consistently, then they should turn in their gun with one hand, pull the other hand out of their ass, and work for the parking authority.

When members of the JCPD act consistently how they do, they get no sympathy from me for how tough their jobs are. In many ways, they make their jobs tougher by the way they act.

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Aren't they the same exact thing in this city?

If it makes you feel any better, you'll be over it in a day or two ---- but he'll clearly be an a**hole for life, and that's his deserved punishment. People who are like that clearly have a great deal of self-loathing.

Sorry it happened to you.