spider wrote:
id take hipsters over yuppies any day.

T-Bird wrote:
Couple of questions then, Jackey. Why would that kind of thing be at Puccini's? And why was the police motor pool there? Seems like that is a meeting that should be attended off-duty. Are we to understand that no one was policing the city while the meeting was going on?

jackey wrote:
Hey Josiered,
What do you mean YOU pay for the off duty officer. Unless you are a contractor you pay absolutely squat. The taxpayer does not foot the bill. What makes me laugh is the fact no one complains about the supposed heroes who get PAID to sleep, are supplied with sleeping equipment, hang outside their place of employment and shoot the breeze, and learn to be gourmet cooks. This all being paid for by the taxpayer who is fooled by it all. The job they work is like a second job to them. It's nice they are all rested in the morning to go to their real jobs........but no complaints about them......wait till the city lays off cops, then you will have a crime rate to complain about. Oh, about those other heroes. When they have to work I wouldn't want to do what they do, but really it's not like it was in the old days. They are basically paid laborers whose training cannot come anywhere near that of a police officers.

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JerseyCityKid08 wrote:

Plenty of police officers drive non luxury vehicles. It is called personal choice.

Talk about tone deaf, both the cops and you. They make 2.5 times what the average JC resident does, before counting the bennies, and most don't live here. So lets just rub people's face in where their taxes go.

Eleanor_A wrote:
I'm really glad this article was posted. I have no idea what JC police make but I am FLOORED by their personal vehicles.

In the past two months, I've driven by construction/road work and there's always a JC cop around. I saw one sitting in his Mercedes SUV. I saw another one getting something out of his completely tricked-out Hummer and another sitting in a Cadillac Escalade.

I do realize that police put their lives on the line and are important and all, but since when did being a police officer replace being in "waste management?"

My property taxes went up $588. I'm unemployed and it's getting increasingly difficult to make ends meet. I have to be honest, it pisses me off when I see a cop at a construction site sitting on his ass in a luxury vehicle.

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icechute wrote:
The nepotism never friggin ends!

Just about every relative of Healy, is working for the City or State.....even the one's that fail the psyc test to be a fire fighter!

downright wrote:

Not only that, but with all the corruption that goes on surrounding Healy, why would his "great candidate" daughter even want to work for Jersey City? You'd think she would have some intelligence and distance herself from her father.

jerseymom wrote:
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Cops are no longer the civil servants of the 1950s. They are a state-sanctioned gang of mostly low-intelligence thugs.

...until someone is sticking a gun to your head and a cop risks his/her life to save you, that is.

PBW wrote:

Most bars have the NFL ticket. Call and ask if you want to make sure. I frequent the white star, but I know Abbey's, Lucky 7s and Barrow all have it. Not sure about the Beer Garden, I heard they didn't.
Kettle of Fish in the West Village is a Packer bar. Not a long walk from the Christopher stop. You will be surrounded by fellow fans, and hear the sound of your game.

tommyc_37 wrote:
There is now an island at Marin and Columbus? I haven't seen it as of a few days ago...

icechute wrote:

Supposed to look like Bluestone. Colored concrete, when mixed and finished properly, can be a very close and suitable substitution for real Bluestone. See the walkways in Van Vorst Park as an example. The concrete work done on Newark and being done on CCD is not very good at all.

More disturbing on CCD is that I see the new traffic lights and poles are the same aluminum style as the old ones. I really would have thought the new ones would be the black (fake) old style to match what's down around Exchange Place..... It makes me wonder what style the new streetlights are going to be.

DouglasReynholm wrote:

Scale down the JCFD. 25 percent volunteer.

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fedup07302 wrote:
Funny but the title of Fulops OpEd was "ending the politics of patronege" No one mentioned how Chief O'Rielly got his job in the first place,he is the brother of Brian O'rielly,city BA and HCDO hack for life.

Now it all makes sense.

Yvonne wrote:
The people who are quoting from the article was not present at the council meeting. First I said, "We should privatize the service and give contracts to Hoboken, Union City and Bayonne. Then I said, the empty fire houses should be staffed with volunteers. Presently, our fire department are far away from a fire. Due to congested traffic, they are moving around 5 miles per hour. How does that benefit the public? The public is better off staffing the empty fire stations with volunteers than waiting for a fire truck traveling at 5 mph. The majority of this state is staffed with volunteers including Secaucus which has high rises. As more buildings go up, the city code requires sprinklers requiring a less need for firestaff. We cannot afford paying these outrageous salaries with these golden parachutes at retirement.
By the way, our city has many empty fire houses. Some are being sold at autions.