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Re: Jersey City Police get a raise - for off-duty work.
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This is just a way to outsource overtime pay. Ever wonder why you don't see that many film shoots in Jersey City the past few years? It's because the city will make film shoots use way more cops than they'd ever need. Production companies used to shoot here because it was a little cheaper and a little easier. Now it's just not cost effective so they stay in NYC.


This is absolutely true. I know a long-time production manager who scheduled a few shoots here, and she was absolutely floored by the demands and behavior of the police for her low-budget indie film. She said she'd basically never run across a bigger bunch of leeches in her 20+ year career. They treat(ed) film shoots like a candy store.


Police fees aren't as big of an issue for productions as lack of NJ state tax incentives for film production. The loss off tax credits is the real reason SVU left for NYC. NJ used to have it, NY does have it and that's the big reason more productions choose Long Island, Westchester or Rockland when they want to get out of the boroughs. As for JC type streetscapes they can just go to Brooklyn or Queens. For small Indie productions the cop fees might be more of an issue, but small productions don't bring much to the area economically anyway. Right now the tax credit program is on hold, having been passed by the state leg. and waiting for Christie to sign it (or not).

Posted on: 2011/2/11 20:31
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Re: Auto glass recommendation?
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-1 for Eagle Glass on Tuers, they are hacks. They do very sloppy work

Posted on: 2010/12/9 22:39
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Re: Chipotle Peppers
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All chipotle peppers are smoked. Chipotles are smoked Jalape?os, so you will get the same smoky flavor out of the dried peppers or the canned ones in "adobo".

Posted on: 2010/10/4 15:48
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Re: Five cars floating in the lake at the bottom of Newark Ave by Samson Stone
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I agree its complete BS that this issue hasn't been dealt with, but as someone who's been here their entire life, you're actually surprised by the fact local gov has been ignoring an important problem? I'd expect it!

Posted on: 2010/9/30 14:49
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Re: Safer out in the country? JERSEY CITY MOTHER'S BONES FOUND IN NORTH CAROLINA BOYFRIEND'S BACKPACK
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Whats up with the title "Safer out in the country"? Durham is not country, its a small city of 230,000 people.

Posted on: 2010/9/27 15:23
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Re: RINGROAD METERS
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can anyone explain to me the thought process behind prohibiting overnight parking on North Blvd, River dr and Shore Ln? Is there any other justification besides forcing people to pay to park in garages overnight? These are metered spots, yet when the metered parking is not in effect it is illegal to park there at all. Also what is the city thinking when it gives developers private streets to put meters on?

Posted on: 2010/9/27 15:01
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Re: Is it safe to walk on John F Kennedy blvd at night?
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I agree with cyclotronic. And I'm a lady.

JFK is well lit and the area is not desolate. Well travelled by college students returning to the dorms from the city at all hours. Although I am rarely walking around after 9:00 PM, I have never felt unsafe. I also usually walk on Bergen and cut up Glenwood, mostly because I think it's faster, but at night you might prefer JFK. I rarely go West of Montgomery--so I can't attest to that--but I think Fairmount is only a block or two West.

FYI- Montgomery runs east-west, Fairmount is south of Montgomery.

JFK is safe to walk at night, as is Bergen which I regularly take from JSQ to Montgomery.

Posted on: 2010/9/27 14:51
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Re: Neighborhood question
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The shooting mentioned was an isolated incident, and it occurred south of Montgomery, where the neighborhood changes significantly. The area in general varies block to block in terms of cleanliness and safety. Tuers is nice, but streets farther east are not as good, and streets farther west (for the most part) are better. When you cross Montgomery going south, Bergen ave becomes the dividing line, and on some streets its JFK.

Posted on: 2010/9/4 14:17
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Re: What is with Downtown Jersey City's war on trees?
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I agree with the fireman.

Trees stand in the way of progress, because progress is measured in new construction and ratables. And since property taxes don't grow on trees... down they come.

Unless those babies are getting replaced... it's a bit short-sighted.

And, yes, it's coffee time.


Actually with the downtown tax abatement bonanza thats been going on for years, property taxes don't grow on new construction either!

Posted on: 2010/8/26 18:05
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Re: What do you think about Duncan ave. off of JFK Blvd. in Journal SQ?
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FYI: Just checked out this website, seems like a load of BS. It described my neighborhood on the border of JSQ and McGinley Sq as "Artsy/funky, Urban Sophisticates" and full of "Young singles-upwardly mobile (young, educated, professionally employed, and single)" as well as "Mostly White (non-Hispanic)". Not at all an accurate description.

Posted on: 2010/8/26 17:41
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Re: What is with the trash and recycling guys?
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They're idiots, thats what's with them. There are separate people who pick up trash and recycling, the last 2 times that I put out paper/cardboard the trash guys just threw it in the back of their truck with all the garbage. Not only does that defeat the purpose of recycling, but I spent quite a bit of time sorting it and stuffing it nicely into a large paper bag. 1 time might be understandable, but the second time I actually wrote "RECYCLE" on a piece of paper taped to the top of the bag, they threw it out all the same. I've also had plenty of times when they don't take the trash or recycling like they're supposed to, but that's not so bad, you can always call the JCIA and complain. They'll suggest you call Waste Management first since they are the company that actually performs the work, but WM never answers their phones or returns messages left. Not surprising that there office staff is as inept and ambivalent toward service as their trash collecters.

Posted on: 2010/8/23 18:22
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Re: Neighborhood question
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I live in the area. Tuers is a pretty quiet street, close to JSQ, not too much traffic, except when school lets out since there is a catholic high school and private grade school next to each other. Kids don't really hang around the neighborhood or make trouble like they do near public schools.

Posted on: 2010/8/23 18:08
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Re: What is with Downtown Jersey City's war on trees?
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Trees improve our quality of life, and naturally JC would want to remove them because of this.

Posted on: 2010/8/20 14:21
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Re: Montgomery Gardens in Jersey City is slated to be transformed into low-density - mixed-income
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It's a fact that high rise projects concentrate crime in one area. The residents are isolated in these developments, and as such their problems are isolated and amplified. Creating a lower rise mixed income development instead, is positive for the poor as well as the neighborhood at large. And mixed income doesn't mean rich, it means that more working people will be living there. Furthermore I don't understand where your outrage is coming from considering how you've described other neighborhoods on a different thread- http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewt ... id=250299#forumpost250299. You described a property as not desirable because it is on "Stegman Ave [in Greenville], which is definitely NOT someplace to live", and you described moving to Newark ave by Dickinson High as "pioneering", plenty of people already live in that neighborhood, and many of them are hard working middle class people, its hardly Baghdad (or MG for that matter.) How is this attitude any different than that which you are railing against here?

Posted on: 2010/8/18 18:00
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Re: Montgomery Gardens in Jersey City is slated to be transformed into low-density - mixed-income
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Hey, I have an idea. Since conversion of high rise housing into lower density mixed income housing is such a GREAT idea, why not do the same with the Beacon? Perhaps a 30-30-40 income mix would be a good balance.
Maybe the same would get Trump Residences filled up too.


You have the most nonsensical arguments here. Its never been about keeping people out of high rises. No one is saying that tall buildings create crime all on their own.

Posted on: 2010/8/16 13:56
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Re: Montgomery Gardens in Jersey City is slated to be transformed into low-density - mixed-income
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Just read that a liquor store was just robbed downtown for the SECOND time recently. Is the solution to tear down Grove Pointe? Of course not.
Housing does NOT commit crime.

If someone WANTS to say "blacks and Hispanics are committing crimes so let's tear down their homes and throw them out of the city" then SAY it. Stand up for your racist beliefs, but please don't talk in terms of "evil housing."

If there are criminals living somewhere, anywhere, then let the cops get off their asses and arrest and prosecute them...that's what they are overpaid for. But to blame HOUSING is preposterous.

If you want a safe lily white community, then move to Mahwah.

Remember, the families living in Mongomery Gardens were there LONG before anyone moved into the Beacon.


No one has accused "housing" of committing any crime, but there is a lot of crime occurring in and directly around said housing and pointing out crimes elsewhere is irrelevant. Its idiotic to blame the well off people at the Beacon, they did not provide the impetus for this project, and there's nothing wrong with them supporting it. I also live in the neighborhood, and my house is not a newly developed condo, nor am I "joe exec", I'm a guy who works hard for a living, pays his bills, takes care of his home and treats his neighbors with respect, which is a lot more than I can say for many people around here. Don't forget that the same people who throw trash all over the streets, scream at each other in the middle of the night and sit on my stoop drinking, are the same people who are popping out babies they won't take care of, eating food and living in apartments they barely pay. I won't deny that there are plenty of hard working schmucks stuck in the projects for whatever bad luck they've been dealt, and its unfortunate for them, but there is a reason that montgomery gardens isn't as clean, quiet or safe as those flimsy cramped towers in newport, its all about personal responsibility, and respect for others.

Posted on: 2010/8/15 23:54
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Re: Montgomery Gardens in Jersey City is slated to be transformed into low-density - mixed-income
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Instead of giving all our city workers nice raises, plush benefits and fat pensions...give them half price housing here instead! In five years these same displaced people will be crying to get back into these same units..crying for compensation, as they were robbed of their nice units in a convenient area.


Except, they're not conveniently located, and I'm sure many units are absolutely disgusting inside. I've never been in MG, but I have been in projects in Newark and Patterson, and they are the nastiest buildings I have ever been inside. I have to admit it is the tenants who trash these places. Piss in the elevators, trash in the halls and all over the grounds, and many units I've seen look like they have never ever been cleaned, stoves covered in 20 years worth of grease etc.

Posted on: 2010/8/9 16:53
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Re: Montgomery Gardens in Jersey City is slated to be transformed into low-density - mixed-income
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bozzovyou wrote:
It's not racial, it's about crime...as a homeowner near this breeding ground for criminals, i say: CYA!

(by the way, i'm black.)


Right on. Xerxes ignores the fact that those privileged few who live in the new luxury towers choose to do so. People don't live in the projects because they're conveniently located and offer high class amenities, they live there because they're broke and its the cheapest option available. Unfortunately poverty breeds crime, concentrating the poorest segment of society in isolated developments only concentrates the crime.

Posted on: 2010/8/9 15:57
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Re: Square vision plan is introduced, 8-0 -- Unanimous vote for Square vision plan
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Next up: Planning to make plans to revitalize jsq!
How about actually doing something

Posted on: 2010/7/28 18:53
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Re: real estate school
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How dare you suggest that there are dishonest realtors!! I've never encountered one of those!

Posted on: 2010/7/28 18:47
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Re: Downtown: Williamsburg's Barcade (Bar Arcade) Coming to Newark Avenue
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I will never forget the douche-bag, city "lifer" employee I saw in the old Hamilton Park Ale House. He was bragging about what a hard time his department was giving to some guy who was trying to open a business in the Paulus Hook area. (It was around the time the Muscle-Maker Grill was struggling to open). I believe the guy was from either Buildings or Sanitation. He then went on to grub a "free meal" from that Fabio wannabe.


Can you believe all these new people spending all this money to live here? And then they wanna open businesses and make this a better place to live? Lets make it as hard as possible, and shake em down while we're at it! If we make it too easy the next thing you know they'll be getting into politics and trying to change that too, then we'll all lose our no-show jobs...

Posted on: 2010/7/28 18:44
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Re: Dumpster emptying at 2:30am?!?!?
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I guess you have to define residential, the area could be considered commercial. Either way, good luck getting anyone to do anything about it if it is illegal

Posted on: 2010/7/28 18:29
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Re: Dumpster emptying at 2:30am?!?!?
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this happens down the street from me too, fact of life in JC. It doesn't even bother me anymore, and I actually find it preferable to scumbags screaming at each other and morons driving around with their bass blasting.

Posted on: 2010/7/27 22:22
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Re: New York Times: Possible Second Life for Stalled Xanadu Project?
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Great. Christie blames the state's fiscal problems on teachers and municipal workers, because they demand good benefits and wages, and then he turns around and proposes this.

?On Xanadu,? said Mr. Christie, a Republican, ?you have essentially two choices you?re confronted with: Make it work, or tear it down.?

Given the developers? investment to date and the project?s potential as a revenue generator, he said he was not prepared to endorse the second option.

He won't endorse tearing it down because the developer has made a large investment? That shouldn't be the state's problem. As for potential revenue, thats hardly a sure thing with this ridiculous project.

Posted on: 2010/7/22 13:49
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Re: Lincoln Park: Baby-sitter who drugged, drank & had sex with girlfriend while baby drowned gets jail
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Actually -
" i?de?ol?o?gy   [ahy-dee-ol-uh-jee, id-ee-] Show IPA
?noun, plural -gies.
1.
the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
2.
such a body of doctrine, myth, etc., with reference to some political and social plan, as that of fascism, along with the devices for putting it into operation.
3.
Philosophy .
a.
the study of the nature and origin of ideas.
b.
a system that derives ideas exclusively from sensation.
4.
theorizing of a visionary or impractical nature."

I guess it all depends on who you ask, but I have never heard "ideology" used in relation to economics, and besides the proper use of the word isn't really relevant when it was very obvious what was meant of my use of it. Besides, it doesn't change my point, which is the fact that the US doesn't fight ideological wars, economic or otherwise. Non of the conflicts mentioned were fought solely over an economic belief system, they had concrete benefits which could be realized.
By the way, nice job distracting from what I was originally pointing out- the fact that you clearly have no grasp of history; as evidenced by your description of the cause of ww2. Throwing pseudo academic descriptions at us every chance you get doesn't prove you more intelligent or knowledgeable than anyone else here, it just proves that you are a decent bullsh*tter.


1. There are more than one dictionary, and mine is obviously superior to yours because it's more expansive.

2. No correlation between economics and ideology? Really? Ever heard of, I dunno, Capitalism? Marxism? How about Marxism? What about Keynes? Socialism? What about Ludwig von Mises? No ideology there? Really? You've never heard of a relation between economics and ideology...

Question - have you ever heard of a relation between empty space and a hole?


wow, Justin, you have managed to prove over and over nothing more than the fact that you are an idiot. Instead of focusing on anything important, you pick at each little thing you can, and then go off on some other completely stupid tangent. The crusades were "defensive", seriously? Thats ridiculous, and I think everyone else has spent enough time describing why.

Posted on: 2010/7/21 13:50
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Re: The Entire Board of Liberty Humane Society Just Resigned...
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If you have the time, fostering animals is a great way to help, as evidenced by this event, there are plenty of animals there and they'd all be happier staying in someone's home, even if its temporary.

Posted on: 2010/7/15 18:06
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Re: Lincoln Park: Baby-sitter who drugged, drank & had sex with girlfriend while baby drowned gets jail
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...its hard for me to come up with any purely ideological wars since the crusades.


even the crusades were fought for territory and control of resources.

I suppose thats true. They did function to greatly enrich the church as well as the various kingdoms and independent groups (Knights Templar etc.) involved. I love how way off topic this thread has become!

Posted on: 2010/7/15 18:01
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Re: DJC Stories That Make Me Laugh Or Leave Me Speechless
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There seems to be an unwritten rule in my neighborhood about how far down the driveway you can put something before it lands in the "free store." We had a handtruck on our driveway for several days, maybe even a week, but it was always up near the house. One evening, we inadvertently left it about halfway down the driveway. The next morning it was gone and our neighbor told us that someone on a bike had laid it over his handlebars and rode away with it.

Yes - my neighbor did try to stop him (yelling, running, etc.) but he was gone.

I imagine that he ran his bike into a tree trying to steer it with a big handtruck laid over it. It helps.


You're brave to leave anything out, even next to the front door! To a lot of people in JC an item being outside and unchained is enough to indicate that it is "free" for the taking. I once left an extension cord and two half busted plastic saw horses in my front yard for about 20 mins while I ran to Home Depot to get screws, when I came back they were gone. Seriously, someone stole broken saw horses.

Posted on: 2010/7/15 14:06
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Re: Lincoln Park: Baby-sitter who drugged, drank & had sex with girlfriend while baby drowned gets jail
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The fact that the US has a history of fighting for its economic interest (more specifically the economic interest of the economic/social elite) does not mean its fighting to defend the ideologies which are used to justify the specific conflicts.
Cuba is an interesting case, but one which I believe does not change this. If it was ever in the economic interest of the US to lift its embargoes against Cuba they would be gone instantly. The continued existence of the embargo itself is due to the fact that its removal would bring no benefit to those responsible, on the contrary it would be a risky political move.


The initiation of the embargo was first and foremost ideologically driven and secondarily in protest to the potential harm to U.S.-related economic interests.

Virtually all of U.S. foreign policy 1946-1990 was ideologically driven, no? Korea. Vietnam. Cambodia. Afghanistan in the \'80s. Iraq in the \'80s. To a lesser extent, Panama in \'89. And what was the rebranding of Iraq after WMD didn\'t show up? Didn\'t that become an exercise in \"delivering democracy\"? Look - I\'m not naive - I\'ll agree that Iraq is about oil. But the others? You have to admit that for a half-century, the U.S. was very ideologically driven.


We may be splitting hairs here, but I believe that despite the fact that in the majority of those examples the US was fighting against communist nations, the cause of the conflicts were not ideological. The US was not endeavoring to stop the spread of communism because it was unjust and repressive, but rather because we were in competition against the USSR and China which were quickly rising to challenge us as superpowers in their own right; and therefore represented a security risk as well as a major competitor for natural resources. Here is where our argument gets tricky, perhaps the only reason that we were competing against and not allied with those nations, was because of opposing ideologies; but does that mean the conflicts and proxy-conflicts we engaged in were ideological in nature? I don\'t believe so.
In the case of Panama the US needed to reinforce it\'s control over the region as a whole as well as the canal in particular. If we were truly offended by Noriega\'s actions as dictator we wouldn\'t have supported him before he went rogue, he only became a problem ideologically when he stopped doing what we told him.
The justification for being in Iraq as spreading democracy is nothing but a hollow justification for a war that never really was about \"wmd\".
As for the war on terror, I don\'t see this as an ideological conflict either. Al Quaeda and other islamic terror groups present a very real security threat to the US, and while they are motivated by purely ideological reasons, our motivation to stop them is not; after all they are the very same people we funded and trained in the 80\'s, when they were religious \"freedom fighters\" battling the godless soviets.
In each case a concrete benefit could be realized by becoming, and remaining engaged in conflict. I\'m probably forgetting something, but its hard for me to come up with any purely ideological wars since the crusades.

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Re: Lincoln Park: Baby-sitter who drugged, drank & had sex with girlfriend while baby drowned gets jail
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The fact that the US has a history of fighting for its economic interest (more specifically the economic interest of the economic/social elite) does not mean its fighting to defend the ideologies which are used to justify the specific conflicts.
Cuba is an interesting case, but one which I believe does not change this. If it was ever in the economic interest of the US to lift its embargoes against Cuba they would be gone instantly. The continued existence of the embargo itself is due to the fact that its removal would bring no benefit to those responsible, on the contrary it would be a risky political move.

Posted on: 2010/7/14 21:43
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