Hi - so I have a husband, house & kid but no will. I know, I know, don't judge! NPR had a piece regarding this topic and it jolted me into action. Would greatly appreciate any referrals to a good attorney. Also, how much should I expect to pay? Thanks.

Bumping this topic back up ~ wondering what the current per room cost is for interior painting these days? Also, any recommendations are highly appreciated. Thnx.

We're vegetarians and our child attended - but the vegan thing kinda had us shaking our heads - there's a big difference between regular veg-heads and vegans.
Any, mostly a positive experience, however kiddo at -O- prepared food there and arrived home cranky and h-angry (!) every single day. At the age of two she wasn't eating hot soup, roasted veggies and such. We repeatedly asked if we could pack our own food - a request that was denied.
She was given a bowl of Cherrio-style oats to eat at lunch time, as were all of the other kids who refused to eat the fare served there.

If someone purchases a license is it tied to the current location or can it be transferred to another location/establishment?

So again...if liquor lisences are scarce, expensive, etc. why hasn't good 'ol Guillo (Coles & 6th) sold his and retired? So perplexed about this...as someone else stated - he was willing to part with both the lisence AND the building for LESS than the cost of the lisence alone. Makes little sense to me...

Sadly, I believe that the town you are referencing is Lakewood, NJ. More info here...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/article ... nd-angry-residents-resist

This topic's pretty much been covered in a separate thread. I'd seriously reconsider plans to deliver a baby in either Hoboken or JC. I had a perfectly routine pregnancy and got into a lot of trouble in the delivery room. I credit Columbia Presbyterian with saving my life and avoiding an emergency hysterectomy.

The thing about baby delivery to keep in mind is that when things start looking bad, they get bad quickly. You want a top notch NICU in place for the baby and a highly competitive training program in place for the many residents that will be treating you ~ Hoboken & JC lack both.

Good luck to you.

http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewt ... _id=387877&keywords=Obgyn

Thanks, Thirsty Quaker. I'm baffled by the lack of financing available ~ I'd liken it to NYC taxi medallions, always in limited supply, exorbitantly priced, etc. but financing readily available. I always imagined that it worked the same way with liquor licenses.

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Good point...and it probably makes more sense to convert the retail level into a living space as has been done with so many other buildings in the area...because there's not enough foot traffic, especially during the day, to support a retail store.

Hoping that someone will buy the bundle and flip the lisence then the building. Not sure ho wrong he's owned the place for but it can't be easy working 365 days/year, no break, vacation, etc.

Weird, though, because the For Sale signs were all removed a year or so ago.

@Easy Gibson....what dissuaded you from purchasing if you talked him down to $1.3. The property alone is probably worth $1m. Wouldn't you think? Corner location...retail on floor one and rental apartments above.

Thanks much for this info. The thing that got me thinking about this is that Guillo's Bar on Coles / 6th Street was supposedly up for sale a year or so ago. The building contains the bar on ground level with a few rental apartments above it.
The owner is aging, now walking around with a limp and a cane...and the place is open 365 days/year - he opens and closes it himself, no bartenders that I've ever seen. It's easily the sleepiest bar I've ever seen - with only have a half dozen or so bar stools taken on any given evening. No food is served and there isn't a single tap line for beer.
Anyway, if I were sitting on a liquor lisence worth a minimum of $225,000....I'd think that there'd be a way to simply sell the lisence and then sell the building. But what do I know?
I had thought that these lisences were a limited commodity and that pricing was always escalating.

Just curious as to what the cost of a liquor license is and whether or not they are readily available or waitlisted here in JC? Found this info ($225K) though unsure of how relevant it is, thanks:

https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it ... uor-license-in-Hoboken-NJ

Interesting read re our mayor's funding for a governor run. Chicago may be notoriously corrupt but JC taught Chicago everything at this game. Interesting read...

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article ... fuels-pro-fulop-super-pac

Re Hoboken movie theater - yes, that's true & thanks for the reminder - the fact that it's not too crowded it also a huge plus.

It's a schlepp from Washington Street, though, where most of the dining options are concentrated.

If I were opening up a restaurant here, I'd aim for a price point that folks didn't have to think twice about. If the price point is above $50, I'd prefer a nice, cozy atmosphere rather than say, 30 Acres...with it's ice cream parlor sized tables, all squished together.

My general sense on dining out here in JC...if the total tab is $30-$45/person (an appetizer & glass of wine/beer & entree), it's a no brainer...I'll be there. When the tab goes >$50/person, it's a special occasion thing and suddenly I'm tossing restaurants in Hoboken and Manhattan into the contender list.

Left Bank Burger Bar is packed whenever I walk by...30 Acres was empty when they switched to prix-fixe only.

To an earlier post that mentioned "we need a theater or something to draw folks out", I'd argue that Hoboken has no such theater and restaurants there seem to be doing a brisk business.

We try to support all the new restaurants coming in - the space was beautifully built out and I appreciated that. There were few veg options for us though and so while we studied the menu a few times there were far better entrees at other restaurants.

A substantial portion of the population here in JC is Indian and lots of folks are vegetarian - kinda makes sense to stick a few, simple dishes onto a menu.

We reached out to the new Miso Ramen noodle place before the opening to recommend the same thing - they said that they had plans to increase the offerings for veg-heads as others were asking for the same.

Carrina, B&G and Talde were upscale additions to the neighborhood and we're hoping that the rumors here are unfounded.

Yep, Statco is the one that I was referring to - but there's -O- parking available, whereas Lackawanna has ample parking...13 acres of it, I believe. I used to dream of a food destination a la Terminal Markey in Phiily - lots of small stalls that might be snapped up by concessionaires, eager to feed the hungry masses.
But it's more likely better suited for a large retailer or two - you've just got to wonder why there's not been any other big named lease signings since Buddy of Carlo's Bakery. I know that all real estate is local and that our's is perhaps hyper-local because of population density - I just used find it odd that we're not, as a city, actively trying to solicit some larger retailers to town - tax eatables and job growth being of primary concern and benefit to all.
I'd like to email the scouting teams at some of the grocers our 50,000+ "Whole Foods Coming to JC" thread here on jclist.

Found this exhaustively comprehensive study from 2013 ~ if you can't sleep tonight, maybe try to get through all 97 pages of it, haha! I guess that the folks at Hunter College Master Urban Planning were commissioned to pull together all sorts of data points for development. As suspected, income data and residential growth are probably both fairly outdated already ~ the census doesn't adequately reflect residential development in JC's downtown in recent years.

From another link, I gather that only 50% of the building is currently rented. Someone mentioned an Amazon fulfillment biz as a current but I believe that they're in another, local warehouse (Scatko or some similar name?).

With the Lackawanna building in its current state I can't imagine that rent/sq/ft is especially high. Costco would be a welcome tenant to the area, Wegman's also. I mentioned Whole Foods when originally posting because if I correctly recall there were 50,000+ views on that topic, so it's got the chat board's attention.

http://www.herrick.com/siteFiles/Publ ... E4D2712A5CA8B46FF0C04.pdf

I can't seem to find a dedicated topic for this building and with each drive by I find myself asking, "why hasn't this place been further developed?" Midway between Jersey City and Hoboken, with easy access to Manhattanites, the location may even qualify as a UEZ (reduced tax rate) zone.
It would seem to be a perfect location for a Whole Foods, Trader Joes, etc. and when Carlo's Bakery moved into a 30,000 square foot facility there was considerable media attention and I thought that he might be the "anchor" to draw other tenants to the location. I'm not married to either of those grocers...we've exhausted dedicated topics on there're before...but how about any sort of retailers?
Some would argue that the lack of car ownership in JC/Hoboken might be a deal breaker for grocer management number crunchers - but then we witnessed Acme move right into the vacated A&P location and Target doesn't ever seem to have empty parking spots.
IKEA moved into Red Hook, Brooklyn and added a dedicated ferry to provide transport for the car less masses - perhaps the cost of development might have to factor in a bus/jitney that shuttles around town in a 30 minute loop or something.
One might also argue that when the grocer's are crunching numbers before pulling the trigger on development, our household income is on the lower side (when compared to say, River Road in Edgewater, which has both a Trader Joes and a Whole Foods) but with population density here dramatically rising each year in the downtown area of JC particularly (5000 new units this year, I believe) the zip codes may need to be sliced and diced a bit to reflect the household incomes within say a 2 mile radius of this building.
Not much available online about this "mysterius" building but here's an old read:

http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/fu ... giant-structures-revealed

Any thoughts?

Re parking in the municipal lots overnight ~ very much appreciate the published list of all lots with the >5pm and <6am stipulation, M-F. Anyone know whether it's ok to park in these lots on weekends? Thanks.

Interesting article from way back in 1985 when development of the Newport area was taking place. I was recently talking to a realtor who recalled moving from Manhattan to one of the 1st highrises here ~ she said that the building was "considered luxury, for the time, and was filled with top professionals ~ doctors, lawyers, etc. It was an exciting place to live at the time."

I remember visiting friends there in the early 90's when a gatekeeper was on duty 24 hours/day. The buildings may have fallen on disrepair now but back in the day, the area was a blight on the shoreline. Hard to imagine, I know.

More here...

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/12/rea ... -jersey-city-s-shore.html

I too live in a Circa Abraham Lincoln, flat roof house and received homeowner's insurance through Chubb, who holds all of our other policies. It's pricey, for sure, but when we've had claims with them in the past (frozen water pipes) and everything was handled with remarkable speed. They're known as the *white glove* choice but the premium paid for their services was quickly forgotten when bad things happened.

Best Veg Burger ~ White Star Bar. Just mentioning.

One would think that city hall would green light any new restaurants and such sowing into Newark Avenue ~ as others have stated here, many of the establishments are boarded up eyesores that languish in the quicksand that has defined restaurant openings here for as long as anyone can remember.

We did a gut/rehab residential project in 2007 and it was nothing but red tape ~ inspectors failing to show up on appointed dates that they had set, the historian was somewhat bipolar, etc.

It's so hard to do business in this town and probably discourages business owners from undertaking the tasks involved.

@ Asif ~ my husband contacted the owner directly through his website stating the same thing ~ and he quickly replied saying that they will offer some vegan broths and combos too. We're excited ~ place looks beautiful!

I've forgotten how long this spot was vacant for ~ the Vespa shop having moved out a few years ago. Rumors of a pizza spot going in and lots of banter re that, if I correctly recall.
Passed by this weekend and you've got to give them credit for a beautiful build out. Like the new burger place on Erie, the owner's probably listening to and absorbing and tweeking the menu based on feedback as it comes in.
I'll take a beautiful storefront over an abandoned one any day of the week and am really happy that they've managed to open ~ city hall sometimes dragging these openings on and on the way they do.

Over the summer a man was found on the side walk, face down at the corner of 6th & Coles. He was taken to a local hospital and later transported to another, where he eventually died. Jersey Journal reported that his death had been ruled a homicide.
Walked into the police precinct the day after the article was published to ask if they had any further details re the murder. The police had no idea what I was talking about and I ended up sharing the link from my phone.
This is literally 3 blocks from the station ~ go figure ~ and the 2nd muder that's occurred since I've lived here ~ the other was a grocery store owner on Coles, between 6th & 7th, who was shot in the head during a robbery attempt.

Nope, just saying that I've met her and have been consistently surprised by her. Usually media people are smart, engaging, cute, etc. and you then find yourself rooting for them. Just honestly never understood her as she's not noted for any of the points, above. I mention her only because the Hamilton Pork thread seemed to be turning into a post about her~ disparaging photos and all.
I admire her for "putting it all out there" if you will. But then I think about the Big Hair Dog Walker sisters (also putting it way out there) and, by contrast, everyone loves 'em because they're good at what they do and super nice to everyone they interact with. There's a sense of honest, niceness about them...and newcomers never cease to be kinda startled when they first catch a glimpse of them.

Is she still relevant?
As per the Hamilton Pork thread, lots of folks seemed to call out poor writing skills, with the word "f*ck" serving as a punctuation tool.
I attended a marketing conference for local biz owners here in town a year or so ago and other than "don't f-Ing tint your Instagram photos because it's old school" I learned nothing. She was all "f-tty, f, f" and was quickly a bore.
She's basically a self agrandizing poser, as far as I'm concerned. As a biz owner, you pay for her to interview you....and I've really gotta SMH and wonder who wants to associate themselves with her and her *brand* these days.

The link, below, is busted.
Any other options for square footage comparisons?