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elgoodo

Re: New York Times: Jersey City - The Powerhouse Arts District - Where Home Is an Art Gallery

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DanL wrote:
The Powerhouse Arts District is defunct. It is exists in name only.

The way people (?) want it.

Posted on: 2006/9/23 5:42

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Re: They are getting rid of pep boys! Looks like its true!

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The towers will be more affluent than the average in Hoboken--they'll be crammed with Wall Street finance and technology people, lawyers, and other folks who, if they do ever eat dinner at home, want to pick up their Whole Foods precooked meals as they head upstairs, etc.

So you really think that the average Jersey City luxury tower resident is going to be more affluent than the average luxury tower resident in Hoboken? I'm not trying to be difficult or trying to argue, I'm just trying to truly understand where you're coming from. Your desired demo of Wall St./Techies/Lawyers/Doctors is pretty much the demo of the average Hoboken Tower resident, and quite likely the average demo of a Hoboken resident period. I just don't think it's likely that we will be more affluent than they are. I don't see what we have to offer that is so much more desirable than what they have to offer.

The only way I might be able to see your point is if the crux of your argument is that Jersey City will have MORE luxury towers than Hoboken, therefore MORE high-income people will live in Jersey City than live in Hoboken just based on size alone. I guess maybe I could see that. But of course that is based on the assumption that they are able to fill ALL of the towers with residents of their desired demo. And there's going to be a LOT of units at the end of all of this. And despite the real-estate squeeze in Manhattan, there are still a lot of people who would NEVER live in New Jersey for all the tea in Janam.

Posted on: 2006/9/22 19:00

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elgoodo

Re: They are getting rid of pep boys! Looks like its true!

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injcsince81 wrote:

People who will live in those towers don't shop at Shop Rite, Pathmark, and A&P.

What about the people that DON'T live in the towers?

I consider Hoboken to be a fairly affluent town, and they still have a grocery store or two. Is your vision of Jersey City 2016 more affluet than Hoboken is now?

Manhattan is a different issue because I think that the vast majority of Manhattan residents don't cook very often, therefore most Manhattan residents would have little need for a grocery store. I equate us more with Brooklyn than Manhattan.

Posted on: 2006/9/22 18:13

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elgoodo

Re: They are getting rid of pep boys! Looks like its true!

#34

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Face it. Eventually, all those box stores will be gone. The real estate is just too valuable--they'll all be towers in the next ten years or so.

so basically, in ten years,

shop rite = towers
pathmark = towers
a&p = towers

i'd love to know where people plan to buy their groceries.

Posted on: 2006/9/22 15:26

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elgoodo

Re: Judge -- "Anyone who thinks this gangster life is cool, this sentence will show them it isn't."

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i add my voice to the chorus of lefties who request that the right kindly stop attempting to speak for us to tell us what "the left" is gonna say. you clearly have no clue.

Posted on: 2006/9/22 14:39

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elgoodo

Re: Rem Koolhaas to design 111 First

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icricket wrote:
that's it! we've made it fellas! JC is on the map...i am speachless, really! first coach:) - next day koolhaas...i think i'm numb from excitement....

if i had a dollar for every time i've heard that, i'd be lloyd goldman.

Posted on: 2006/9/19 14:57

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elgoodo

Re: Wants Powerhouse to have a Barnes and Noble, and Journal Square to be a "Transit Village"

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JSalt wrote:
What about something that would actually make Jersey City more of a DESTINATION? What about a top-notch performance space and arts center? How about something unique? Something that would actually make New Yorkers want to come HERE?

Now you're just talkin' crazy.

Seriously, though, 'Jersey' thinking, or so you call it, is hardly exclusive to Jersey, and as a Jersey native and loyalist- born and raised - I can probably point out a hundred things off the top of my head that are unique and, in one way or another, culturally valuable, which are ours alone. But that's not my point. My point it - look at Battery Park. Hell, look at Manhattan in general. No shortage of Barnes and Nobles or Applebees or Starbucks there last time I checked. It's a nationwide mentality. And as far as that mentality making inroads into the greater NYC area, and specifically our growing town, well, yeah, that's no doubt helped by some Jersey City folk who just think small. No shortage of those types. But some of it is the symptom of a society that is so overworked or ignorant or both that it simply doesn't care about anything artistic or culturally valuable. It doesn't have time for any of that stuff anyway. For those folks, an Applebees is probably way more attractive than BAM. I dunno. I'm rambling.

Posted on: 2006/9/5 3:35

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elgoodo

Re: Downtown Jersey City Watch-Updates Thread

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i'll be there too.

Posted on: 2006/8/24 17:30

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elgoodo

Re: Three Thugs in Push-In Robbery 8th/H.P. West 8/18

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e-eff wrote:

HOLY CRAP! I hope you guys are OK

same here.

Posted on: 2006/8/24 3:45

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elgoodo

Re: Three Thugs in Push-In Robbery 8th/H.P. West 8/18

#40

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so is armed robbery and burglerly legal in hamilton park now?

Posted on: 2006/8/24 3:06

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elgoodo

Re: Daytime Burglary on Coles and 7th

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ECH wrote:

One thing to keep in mind is that Coles Street is
and always has been swamped in crime. Over the
years it has gotten cleaned up a little, so it looks
marginally better than it did twenty years ago.
But the same entrenched crime families are still
there, in amongst the high-renters and condo-
owners who are new arrivals. Perfect prey for the
locals.

If Coles Street has always been as "swamped in crime" as you state (and I've heard stuff like that in the past, to a letter degree) isn't that all the more reason to have tamed it by now?

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I was having a slice at Mama Mia on Monday, and
it was fun but also creepy just to sit and watch
the unsavory "passing parade" up and down Coles
in the middle of the afternoon. Everyone looked
like he/she was up to something

Isn't Mama Mia on Monmouth?

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Do not expect that the police are going to be able
to do anything about crime on your streets.
They will take reports, but that is usually the
most they can get done.

This is insanity.

Posted on: 2006/8/24 1:10

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elgoodo

Re: Daytime Burglary on Coles and 7th

#42

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alb wrote:

Does Academic have classes during the summer?

This summer at least, Academic definitely has had some kind of sporatic activity in the daytime hours and sometimes into the evening. I don't know if they are classes or some kind of sports stuff or what. I don't remember this being true in the past but this summer, there has definitely been stuff going on sporatically at the school. Their security guy has been around too.

Posted on: 2006/8/24 1:01

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elgoodo

Re: Powerhouse historic no more

#43

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gtosatto wrote:

I agree. I'm grateful for all of you efforts too, Josh and gang.

Gina

Ditto.

Posted on: 2006/8/17 20:05

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elgoodo

Re: Powerhouse historic no more

#44

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deathmask wrote:
maybe then we will get a whole foods and a barnes and noble someday.

I'm never less than amazed by people who move to a city who don't want to live in a city.

Posted on: 2006/8/17 15:56

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elgoodo

Re: Heights: Home Invasion at Gunpoint -- Three sleeping roommates woken by two gunmen

#45

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EthanCrane wrote:
It drives me crazy when the Journal leaves out the race of people. Okay everybody, look out for some scruffy 5'8" and 5'10" guys. That should be enough, right?

Uh oh. Who's got my bail money?

Posted on: 2006/8/15 14:22

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elgoodo

Re: 77 Hudson will be two Manhattan-style 500-foot skyscrapers in Jersey City -including 1,000 units

#46

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I was just saying the other day if there's one thing that Jersey City could really use it's more luxury condos.

Posted on: 2006/8/2 4:48

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elgoodo

Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

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lostgirl wrote:
Word to everyone that made it w/out any help. .

INJC did not say that he "made it without any help." He merely stated that his pride - which is an attribute to be sure - made him feel badly about receiving the help. As a result, he cut himself off from the help as soon as he was able to. But nevertheless, he received and benefited from the kindness of others, whether he liked it or not.

Posted on: 2006/7/28 19:09

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elgoodo

Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

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JSalt wrote:
I'm amazed at how people automatically assume that most of the people moving into these townhouses are going to be the lowlifes that hang out on the street drinking all day or muggers. Haven't you ever heard of struggling single mothers? Haven't you ever heard of the working poor? It's just really downright disgusting honestly.

Well said.

"Poor people aren't necessarily killers." - King George

Posted on: 2006/7/28 13:40

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elgoodo

Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

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I'm not an expert on the subject, but clearly neither are 98 percent of the people who post here.

What percent of the federal tax budget goes toward welfare or housing assistance for the poor? I don't have the time right now to dig up the figure but I can almost be certain that it is ridiculously low. This idea that welfare or subsidised housing is what causes us to pay the admittedly staggering amount in taxes that we (the middle class) do is, in my humble opinion, hogwash.

If someone wants to argue against assistance from the perspective that it creates a cycle of poverty and does a disservice to those who recieve it, sure, I'll listen to that argument. Even though I disagree with it. But most of what we see here is just plain mean spiritedness, and/or, I believe, ignorance about the subject.

I can name about ten things off the top of my head that I contribute toward with my tax dollars that bother me. Governmental assistance is NOT on the list.

Posted on: 2006/7/27 21:06

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elgoodo

Re: Best Burger Joints in Town??

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Ok, I have to say, after my first White Star burger, I'm sold. Whatever it is that they're doing, they're doing it right. Best burger I've had in JC since, well, since Melt closed.

Posted on: 2006/7/14 13:52

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elgoodo

Re: Best Burger Joints in Town??

#51

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Skadave wrote:

Apparently the White Star Bar serves SPAM as well.

maybe so. but the screen name references elliott smith, so i'll give them a pass.

Posted on: 2006/7/12 20:04

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elgoodo

Re: Best Burger Joints in Town??

#52

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WHITE MANA! If you like grease, and onions.

If not, Arthur's in Hoboken does make a damn fine burger. Beats the hell out of their mediocre steaks.

Posted on: 2006/7/12 19:40

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elgoodo

Re: Positive things I like about JC

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rory_bellows wrote:

No disrespect to JC but part of its greatness is its proximity to other places, namely the greatest f'in city in the world, and that its in the greatest state in the country, NJ. What's not to love about that?

of course. but that goes without saying.

love that casual jersey pride!

Posted on: 2006/7/11 21:01

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elgoodo

Re: Positive things I like about JC

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i think it's funny how many lists have mentioned either our proximity to OTHER places, or our methods of transportation used to GET to other places. humph.

my 2c, no particular order

* madame claude
* bryan benninghove @ the lampost every wednesday
* tanqueria
* the castle-like cluster of brownstones on the eastern side of jersey avenue at 8th street
* the low-ees, err, loews.
* boulevard drinks
* torico's ice cream
* the white mana
* random weirdness - i hope this town its unique f890ed-upness. so much secret history.
* 58 coles
* dayri
* wfmu!

i wish i could include the canton, melt, and uncle joe's. sigh. and i'm undoubtedly forgetting a lot.

Posted on: 2006/7/11 20:48

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elgoodo

Re: Positive things I like about JC

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groovygrove wrote:

8. it's not hoboken!

A-effin-men.

Posted on: 2006/7/11 17:13

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elgoodo

Re: NWA Hypocrit

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BugsyBoy wrote:
Gosh darn! I thought this thread was going to be about Dr. Dre and Ice Cube.

Me too.

I personally think the biggest NWA hypocrit had to be Eazy E, who once paid $2,490 for a plate at the 1991 Republican Senators Inner Circle luncheon.

His solo album, Eazy Does It, kicked as$, however.

Posted on: 2006/7/11 15:54

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elgoodo

Re: Condo Shopping Observations

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JSalt wrote:

Yes, but you see there's this word in the name of our city that reflects the state it's located in. Kind of a mental barrier for certain people who think they are too good to live anywhere but NYC. Now, if we change our name to Brooklyn Heights West, we might have a few more takers.

Don't give anybody any ideas.

On an unrelated note, I heard that you can't touch third-floor walk-up studio apartments in Greenville for under $3000 a month. I think I heard it from a guy called Nick something.

Posted on: 2006/7/10 18:00

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elgoodo

Re: Ideas to discourage gang activity?

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pchops wrote:
The Police have told the downtown neighborhood watch group not to use the word "gang" so quickly especially when calling the 201.547.5477 number..

Good advice. I hope people heed it.

Posted on: 2006/6/27 13:58

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elgoodo

Re: Ideas to discourage gang activity?

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e-eff wrote:
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epitome wrote:
Oh yeah, ideas to discourage gang activity - Get Jersey City and the Board of Ed. to invest in engaging programs for youth in Jersey City. Get businesses to hire teens after school and in the summer. Years ago Jersey City had many programs for youth. They have just about all been cut. This is one major cause for the recent rise in gang activity.

What do you expect with abatements rampant all over town.

I'm suprised more people aren't complaining about the fact that the schools are what suffer the most with these tax breaks. They do a huge disservice to the youth of JC.

Yeah. Fat chance with Mayor McHealy handing out abatements like halloween candy. There are a lot of us who understand what kind of hole in the local economy is left by such policies, and many of us have fought against it for years. Some of us also voted for said mayor, who ran on a platform of "no abatements on the waterfront", only to later clarify that "the waterfront" to him meant, literally, on the water, and that downtown abatements in general were A-OK with him.

Posted on: 2006/6/23 18:00

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elgoodo

Re: Ideas for Jersey City T-shirts

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dogseat wrote:

They used to sell those sweatshirts at Shop Rite! I bought one for a former JC-resident relative. They had another varation that said "London Paris Rome Jersey City" which I thought worked better.

Posted on: 2006/6/21 15:40

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