MattSchapiro wrote:
So what happened with this last night? Did they get the variance?

user1111 wrote:
IMO car owner ship is very high or you people have a lot of visitors with cars. I go dtjc about 2 x a month and there is never anywhere to park on the street.

CandiceOsborne wrote:

2 - the vast majority of buildings downtown that have parking availability are NOT filled up

WhoElseCouldIBe wrote:

Solution: Anyone that prefers to keep a car in a city can rent one of the countless parking spots that are available today

Yvonne wrote:

Solutions: New construction should have one to one parking so their cars are not on the streets. Next, there are 900 abandon properties I am sure some of these properties are in bad shape and can be knocked down for parking lots/garages. Development has been going on downtown, why didn't the city place a garage in the new development where BJs and Shoprite is located?

Yvonne wrote:
Sorry, according to Mayor Fulop the public does not need garages or parking lots. He says this while he and all members of the council still have parking available in the rear of City Hall. Every town hall meeting I have video the public asks the same thing, "We want parking lots and garages." Instead, we are given bike lanes.

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moobycow wrote:
Just because you own and run a business doesn't mean you actually know what is going to be best. Research has show, repeatedly, that making it easier for bikes and pedestrians is better for business.

Thank you for so eloquently describing the paternalism embodied behind most "progressive" policies.

Who cares if you own a business? I know how to run it better than you. This is for your own good.

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moobycow wrote:
The one thing that stuck out to me was the proposed pedestrian bridge from Paulus Hook. That would be a pretty big benefit for JC.

The idea of a pedestrian bridge is silly. The Morris Canal can not be closed off to traffic, and there is a lot of it, so any bridge would have to be REALLY tall. Given that the span between the two sides is so short, that means that the bridge would have to be incredibly steeps to get up and down in that space while still allowing for traffic to get by. The only alternative would be two build the equivalent of 5 or 6 story towers on both sides, with an elevator bank to whisk people up and down, so they can then walk across the short distance between the two sides. Can you imagine the cost? And, what about the on-going maintenance??

Yvonne wrote:
For anyone to say the park is under utilized then that person has not been to LSP during the summer months. It is packed with people, especially families. If you are not there early enough, you cannot park, especially the weekends. There will be no benefit to JC with the increased traffic, just more traffic on our roads and JC residents will have to pay for more police presence due to the traffic problems.

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third_street_hats wrote:
I'm not sure if you're directing that at my use of the word fancy or the concept of a bespoke cocktail.

Fancy certainly applies here and I think also to the menu Dullboy as they use not-too-common ingredients like rhubarb amaro, piri piri spice, orgeat syrup, etc.

Bespoke plays into the millennial trope that we're all special and deserve unique experiences. Silly, but certainly not something I would let stop me from walking through the doors of a new bar. The word itself wasn't printed on the flyer-like menu they handed out, just a line or two saying pick a liquor and tell us what flavors you like, but it is on the menu at Ward III and seemed appropriate.

No! Of course it wasn't directed at YOU. It was a mini rant at the annoying use of certain words to denote a certain coolness. As you rightly point out, it plays into the (sad) millennial trope of being/portraying everything as special and unique.

And to better explain myself, I would add that I give Dullboy a lot of credit for not giving into the temptation of following on those fads. Of course, their cocktails and staff are a notch above the rest, but they don't take themselves so seriously as to be ridiculous in how they present/sell themselves, which is precisely why I continue to patronize them regularly.

user1111 wrote:
Easy fix, get rid of most of the massive lobbies and make restaurants, shops, etc.

Most of the buildings on the water fronts have huge lobby's and IMO they don't need to be that big... or sell off some of those parking decks that people on here say no one is using.... sell some of it off for shops and eateries.

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TL;DR: The waterfront walkway is very successful, as it is both on the waterfront and a walkway. People on a message board are complaining that there aren't enough restaurants along the walkway, which has absolutely nothing to do with the success of providing public access to the waterfront.

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moobycow wrote:
I'm not sure why they couldn't...just do like they do on NJ transit and make sure people know that certain cars don't let off at certain stations. It's easy enough to post stops on each car etc.

Somebody mentioned on an older thread that this isn't legal on transit that crosses state lines.

ianmac47 wrote:

Also its a very important investment in revitalizing the city of Newark. Even though it remains unclear whether the airport station will initially be open to street (rather than just the monorail and NJTransit station), the big cost is the link, not opening it up to Newark. Once its built, lobbying to open it up to the city becomes much easier and it will serve as a catalyst to developing another area of Newark.

JCorNYC wrote:
Once new residences realized the PATH is horrible with so many delays and suspensions, no convenient grocery store like Shop Rite (must take car to schlep miles away for food shopping) they will leave Jersey City. Just you watch.

DanL wrote:

I forgot the "cherry on top", the city can avoid selling the development property to the highest bidder and instead designate another friendly developer who will be touted as the best developer in the world to develop what Jersey City needs most.

Yvonne wrote:
The city is not saying what they want with the parking lot. But let's be realistic, how do people in different parts of the city attend meetings? I called people to attend meetings on matters that effect their wards and they came down but could not find parking. Since JC is almost 15 square miles, parking should be parking of any municipal plan.