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Re: General Questions About the Heights
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As several people have pointed out, every experience is individual.
In your limited experience, the heights is a ghetto and is going downhill. In my (also limited, I admit) experience, the Heights is not a ghetto. It's certainly not Hoboken, either but I have seen the area gentrifying more every year. I've lived in the area for over six years, and the in the last year, in spite of the real estate bust, I've seen the most rapid changes occurring. I would also disagree with you as to the best areas to live. Ogden Avenue is a beautiful and quiet tree-lined street with Victorian homes locaated right on the border of Hoboken. The area on Congress near the light rail is also one of the better areas. I live between Central and Palisade near Fiske Parke and I see more and more yuppies everyday. The Bakery lofts and another new luxury loft building have started the trend of yuppies coming here for cheaper prices and the proximity to Hoboken and Manhattan. There's a new art gallery on Palisade across from the park. Churritos just opened on Central Avenue and was packed when I had dinner there. There's a new vintage clothing store on Bower off of Central, and they're actually taking down aluminum siding and putting up brick facing on Sherman Avenue. Boy, I never thought I would see that. The gentrification of The Cliffs has made Mountain Road a much safter place to walk along. When I first moved here there used to be a skeleton hanging from a tree at the top of Mountain Road and it wasn't Halloween. It's gone now and at the risk of sounding sappy, there are lush flowers and gardens in its place.
It takes a long time for a neighborhood to really improve but I would definitely say it's trending in the right direction. I've chatted with the local police here and there and they all say that there this area is very quiet compared with Greenville or Bergen-Lafeyette, both of which are true ghettos. They should know since that's what they do. Just my 2 cents.

The east side of the Heights is looking more and more like the East Village of Manhattan. Although the East Village still looks kind of scrappy it commands high rents. Will the Heights generate that kind of demand......time will tell.

Posted on: 2008/7/15 15:17
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Ward F Councilwoman Viola Richardson blast JJ newspaper writer Political Insider Augie Torres... story below.

Jersey Journal

IN THEIR OPINION
Race aside, great leaders are hard to come by
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
BY COUNCILWOMAN VIOLA RICHARDSON
SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL


Augie Torres, writer of the Political Insider column, if you had a conscience, you would be ashamed of yourself.

Your recent column calling for "where is Jersey City's Barack Obama" was offensive, insulting and simply trite. You disguised your race-biased offensive as an effort to ridicule Mayor Jerramiah Healy's administration for having two deputy mayors that have been arrested.

Point in fact, when Ador Equipado got arrested on charges of misconduct and shaking down newlyweds, was your paper indicting the Filipino community for their lack of leadership? No, not at all. However, quite to the contrary, when Kabili Tayari got arrested for returning his rental car too late - a civil, not a criminal, issue - you use it as a whipping board to go after black leadership.

First, to answer your question, where is any other community's Barack Obama? The senator may be a once-in-a-lifetime leader, and the milestones he set already prove that. It's not the fault of the black community in Jersey City or any other community that such exceptional people do come about so often. He is a bright man with great potential who overcame many challenges to get where he is today. You don't see many like him in any ethnicity or race all too often. Great leaders, scientists, journalists or anything great just doesn't get mass-produced.

We've been a country for 232 years, and how many truly exceptional leaders have we had from any race or political party? Not many.

But your ridiculous stance gets even deeper when you attempt to determine who "black" leaders should be. Isn't that America's problem internationally, when a few select people try to determine who a particular country's leader should be? The people pick the leaders, not the politicians or the columnists.

You try to support your question of black leadership by bringing up the point that there was no Martin Luther King Jr. parade. Four months ago when the parade was canceled, your paper showed no interest in that fact, but now it's convenient to hurl that reality into the question of black leadership and the reality of King's legacy with modern youth? What a shameful conclusion you are making.

If that's your logic, I guess Christopher Columbus has no importance, because his parade ended years ago, the one that used to end outside The Jersey Journal's doors. Does this mean there is no white or Italian leadership? Jersey City has not had a Memorial Day parade in decades, but does that mean the people here don't support the troops? If you bothered to call the MLK Jr. Committee president to find out why the parade was pulled, would you have a different conclusion?

Then you go on to say "ignored" black leaders. Again, ignored by whom? Perhaps they are ignored by The Jersey Journal when it comes to fair coverage and not their tokenism perspectives. Maybe they are ignored by the public because the public doesn't believe in them as much as The Jersey Journal does. As I recall, and press clippings prove, The Jersey Journal never embraced the black leadership that did rise to the top in this city. The Jersey Journal never embraced Mayor and State Sen. Glenn D. Cunningham; in fact, he was never endorsed by your paper. Your paper wrote he should have remained a U.S. Marshal. Perhaps psychologically, your paper is not prepared for the kind of change Barack Obama refers to.

State Sen. Sandra Cunningham has never been embraced by your paper, either. Before she set foot in Trenton, your paper and your parent company, The Star-Ledger, made every effort to undermine her campaign for office and to minimize her potential by summing her up as virtually mentally incapacitated. In fact, the only black leader your paper ever endorsed in any race was that of L. Harvey Smith when he ran for mayor, and you begrudgingly did that, by your own words, because Healy refused to grant you pre-election interviews.

Your tired, but typical establishment and imperial point of view about ethnic leadership, and your right to determine such, only worsened when you started to name possible future leaders. That's not your right to do, particularly when those people you named have not put themselves in that category.

Perhaps The Jersey Journal will only come to grips with real issues in the community when its leadership, the editors, has one amongst them that actually lives in Jersey City or a city that is similar to it.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Political Insider column appears in the Journal tomorrow and touches upon the issue about which the Ward F councilwoman writes.



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Posted on: 2008/7/15 13:42
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Re: What's Happening at the Newport Tower Building on Washington Blvd.?
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Maybe it's an infestation problem they are having as in the other apartment complexes down there.

Posted on: 2008/7/14 22:49
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Re: **CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS IN JERSEY CITY ***
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It's been awhile, but I've seen Ludacris walking with some friends toward the Paulus Hook area (at last check, he had a residence down that way).

And I saw Wyclef Jean of The Fugees over by Point Libert? a few years back.

But who was it that made him so ludacris ??

Posted on: 2008/7/14 17:54
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Re: high speed internet services?
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I just moved to Newport. I am wondering what kind of internet services are available in this area. So far I only found Comcast high speed internet for $44 a month since I do not have a land phone. Do I have other choices or I have to accept the Comcast monopoly price?

Verizon DSL is available in most of the buildings if you have a line, you don't need a land line # to get it, while not as fast it is reliable and less expensive. If you are in the condos they are being wired for Fios now.

But you still need phone service with Verizon in order to have DSL internet service, which requires a landline. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Posted on: 2008/7/14 16:58
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Re: What's going on with all the white t-shirts?
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the best way to find out why all these people wear white T-shirts that are 3 sizes to big is to approach somebody wearing a white T-shirt that is 3 sizes to big, and ask, "why do you and your friends wear white T-shirts that are 3 sizes too big?"

Yes but will you make it back to tell the world what you know ??

Posted on: 2008/7/14 16:43
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Re: Bonjovi at central park
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I saw Weird Al in Westbury on Thursday night and had an absolute blast. It's nice to not have to travel for at least 9 hours on the road just to see a live show (which I used to have to do before I moved to JC).

It's awesome that you got to see the Bon Jovi show. I wish I could've gone, but ah well. Glad to hear someone here saw them and enjoyed themselves :).

Go New Jersey !

Posted on: 2008/7/13 9:44
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Re: Parking in Hoboken
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take the light rail there... theres a station not too far from there. if you do take your car, make sure you park on the side of the street that has the signs with the green letter and white background (not the green background and white lettering).. otherwise you'll get booted. parking shouldnt be too bad around there early in the afternoon on weekends. if you go after 7pm though you probably wont find alot of parking.

Another words do NOT park on the resident ONLY side of the street. Read the signs.

Posted on: 2008/7/12 22:56
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Re: Living in Hamilton Park
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call me naive, but hey i'm an optimist.


Are you Catholic, or could you fake it? (I don't really know how Catholic churches work, so I'm not sure how easy or hard it is just to go to a church and start praying there on Sundays.)

Anyhow, if you're Catholic, I think the best way to get an affordable apartment would be to attend mass at St. Anthony's of Padua (around Sixth and Brunswick, I think), or maybe the Catholic church on the north side of Hamilton Park.

I have a feeling that some of the older people who bought two-family homes decades around Hamilton Park years ago are still in the neighborhood, and that you find them by going to mass and playing bingo at St. Anthony's.

This could be totally wrong, but, knowing how my grandmother operates (in a different city), I suspect that a lot of elderly people leave second apartments vacant because they don't really need the money and don't want the hassle of having to deal with bad tenants. If you could show that you're a nice person who would look after an elderly person a bit and maybe help a bit with shopping and that sort of thing, maybe you could get an apartment in a two-family west of Hamilton Park for pretty cheap, or even for free.

(Note: if someone here attends St. Anthony's and really knows what the older parishioners do with their second apartments, I'd love to hear your thoughts.)


Don't fake it that would be hypocritical on your part. Here is the Roman Catholic website for mass schedules of every parish in the world including the U.S.A.

http://www.masstimes.org/dotnet/Default.aspx

Posted on: 2008/7/11 16:42
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Re: What's going on with all the white t-shirts?
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JennyMayla, I had a teen work for me years ago when this whole thing started and I questioned him on how they were able to keep the t-shirts so clean and looking brand spanking new. He said to me that they buy lots of them. They wear them once or twice then throw them out. Crazy right?

It's nice to have money, I doubt they recycle in their homes. I wonder which they replace more their cell phones or tee shirts.

Posted on: 2008/7/11 14:14
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Re: What's going on with all the white t-shirts?
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This is a inner city look specific to a certain demographic society. It's been around for quite some time and has spilled over to some suburban communities.

Posted on: 2008/7/11 1:34
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Re: This old factory: Buying in Downtown Jersey City's Dixon Mills
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Very impressive, now if we can only adapt this to the rest of Jersey City.

Posted on: 2008/7/10 18:10
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Re: Not liking certain tastes will have you branded
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meanwhile, the Scottish police are apologizing to Muslims for using a puppy in a PSA:

http://tinyurl.com/58g2w3

If this keeps up, the UK will be under sharia law within the decade.

At this rate the seperation of church will have adopt the Vatican way of life of a seperate community within.

Posted on: 2008/7/9 20:33
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Not liking certain tastes will have you branded
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Story from Telegraph News: UK

Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'

By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent

Last updated: 9:29 AM BST 08/07/2008

Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency.
The National Children's Bureau, which receives ?12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age.

It alerts playgroup leaders that even babies can not be ignored in the drive to root out prejudice as they can "recognise different people in their lives".

The 366-page guide for staff in charge of pre-school children, called Young Children and Racial Justice, warns: "Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships."

It advises nursery teachers to be on the alert for childish abuse such as: "blackie", "Pakis", "those people" or "they smell".

The guide goes on to warn that children might also "react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying 'yuk'".

Staff are told: "No racist incident should be ignored. When there is a clear racist incident, it is necessary to be specific in condemning the action."

Warning that failing to pick children up on their racist attitudes could instil prejudice, the NCB adds that if children "reveal negative attitudes, the lack of censure may indicate to the child that there is nothing unacceptable about such attitudes".

Nurseries are encouraged to report as many incidents as possible to their local council. The guide added: "Some people think that if a large number of racist incidents are reported, this will reflect badly on the institution. In fact, the opposite is the case."


Is disliking spicy food a sign of racism? Leave your comments below

Story from Telegraph News:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newst ... racist%2C-say-report.html

Posted on: 2008/7/9 20:06
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Re: Photogaphy illegal in public places? PA didn't get the memo
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Taking photos of the NJ Turnpike is also illegal and has been for decades.


The NJ Turnpike is technically private property, which the TP Authority uses as an excuse to claim that they can ban photography. They cannot. Photos taken anywhere are considered to be the intellectual property of the photographer, regardless of the circumstances in which the photo was taken, and do not have to be shown to the police unless they have PC to make a search of your person.

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Yes, it stinks I guess, but it's public safety. Totally cool with that.


It has nothing to do with public safety. Banning photography accomplishes nothing in the war on terror, and you shouldn't be "cool with that".

I recommend you read Bruce Schneier's essay titled "The War on Photography" at: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/the_war_on_phot.html

"The 9/11 terrorists didn't photograph anything. Nor did the London transport bombers, the Madrid subway bombers, or the liquid bombers arrested in 2006. Timothy McVeigh didn't photograph the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The Unabomber didn't photograph anything; neither did shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Photographs aren't being found amongst the papers of Palestinian suicide bombers. The IRA wasn't known for its photography. Even those manufactured terrorist plots that the US government likes to talk about -- the Ft. Dix terrorists, the JFK airport bombers, the Miami 7, the Lackawanna 6 -- no photography."


It doesn't mean that photography isn't a decadent medium.
You have to think like an insurance company, you have to worry about the what if's..... liability, accountability, & responsibility. If you act in reverse of those words life will take care of itself.

Posted on: 2008/7/9 12:31
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Re: Photogaphy illegal in public places? PA didn't get the memo
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You can't take pictures in the train stations either. There are a lot of foreign people entering the country in droves I might add, staying for excessive amount of time. They are given the keys to the city and now they're worried about a few pictures !

Posted on: 2008/7/9 1:14
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Re: Man attacked outside Newport mall; 3 charged -- large group of teens and young men behaving disorder
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If we would have only 2 family rentals and convert the rest of the apartment buildings into condos this problem would be solved. Since the 70's when I was a kid as a Hudson County resident we would take a day trip to the Willowbrook Mall in Passaic County It was cool to be a Mall Rat, never a problem there. The patrons were NEVER hassled; the kids there were practically from the neighborhood, not from hoodlums. They were clean-cut or earthy looking wearing red tag Levis and Wallabies. I remember Smuggler's Attic, Zum Zum, Orbach's, Bamberger?s, Lorry's Restaurant, and various book Stores. I was never too keen on having a mall in an urban setting such as J.C. Going into Newport Mall sometimes feels like the forbidden zone. Oh those were the days.

Posted on: 2008/7/8 17:36
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Re: Path Alerts
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I signed up for the Path Alerts. I seems I get one every 10 minutes. I just moved here from Brooklyn and the L train was bad but this Path stuff is crazy.

I didn't get any alert this time around, sometimes I do sometimes I don't.

Posted on: 2008/7/7 16:59
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Re: General Questions About the Heights
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A couple other questions:

I have a fairly nice car and am trying to figure out where I am going to park it. It seems like there are a ton of open spaces in front of Riverview Park (If I can't find one on Ogden btwn Griffith and Franklin). Is this a target area for car thefts? I talked to the police station and they said there is a constantly cop parked on Ogden at night near the basketball courts.

Would I be better off trying to rent a space from a neighbor? If so, what would be a fair rate to offer for the area...

I am going to need someone to maintain my property with regards to snow removal, landscaping.... any good, local suggestions?

If my gf wants to walk from Ogden => Central during the day, what street would you suggest she walks down?

Any good Brazilian restaurants in the heights?

thats all I can think of.


Tell her to walk south on Ogden towards the foot or dead end near the little playground in Janet Moore Park, turn up the last intersecting block which is Cuneo Pl. then cross Palisade Ave and walk up Booraem Ave. to Central Ave. You will be on the far south end of Central Ave. near St. Nick's church and Pershing Field park. Not knowing where on Ogden your girlfriend is walking from this is probably the safest way allowing you to avoid the characters that lurk within Franklin to Congress Streets leading up to Central Ave.

Posted on: 2008/7/7 14:13
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Re: Bergen Lafayette: DEEJAY HERO SAVES LOST 2-YEAR OLD - naked, wandering along King Drive
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really? jeez, what kind of people would just watch a toddler cross a street on her own?

The kind that is careful about accountability, and liability thats who. No one wants to get involved. An inch is as good as a mile. The people there were as close to that toddler as people across the country.

Posted on: 2008/7/7 13:58
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Re: Jersey City's 'Live Where You Work' Program -- 30 or 40 year ( 6 1/8% ) fixed-rate mortgages
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I already looked into this program you also get a grant worth 5% of your mortgage which you don't have to pay back. You could go for the 4% program which is anywhere in N.J. with the low interest rate. It's only for a 30 year mortgage though.

Posted on: 2008/7/5 3:13
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Re: Feeling more cramped on the PATH????
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PATH is much more crowded than it was 3 years ago and that was much more crowded than 3 years before that.

PATH has added NOTHING to it's capacity as it's ridership increased. In fact, just the opposite, they CURTAILED service on weekends.

How many times have you heard yourself say "If we get on at 33rd Street there's a CHANCE of getting a seat?"

They promised station lengthening 2 fare increases ago (for a couple $billion)...they delivered not one INCH!

The population is exploding here in Hudson County PATH can only go so far as the tunnels allow. Perhaps when they dig one tunnel they should dig another for an additional PATH train. You can only fit so much in a space. Keep building J.C. !

Posted on: 2008/7/4 21:56
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Re: Street Sweeping
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Do the streets really get so much dirt that each side needs to be swept twice a week? Not that the sweeper actually accomplishes much. I've seen that thing going up and down Jersey and there's always a trail of wet sand/dirt in its wake.

A few years back up in the Heights they were only sweeping twice a week once per side.

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Re: Street Sweeping
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What proof do you have that the sweeper actually passed?
Don't see why a Judge would dismiss the ticket.
Downtown, the Parking Authority often come in pairs and writes tickets, you may have come after the first guy, but not the 2nd.

I didn't get a ticket but just want to play it safe. Usually in all of J.C. once the sweeper has long passed within the 2 hour period then you can put your car back. But I hear that in some parts of J.C. people are recieving tickets after the sweeper has passed still within the 2 hours. So far it is selective in certain areas.

Posted on: 2008/7/2 14:55
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Has anyone ever got a ticket after the sweeper left ? If the sign states no parking 8am to 10 am and the sweeper comes at 8:05 am and you get a ticket at 9:30 am. Technicaly you are violating the street sweeping sign this is how they do it in Manhattan but the parking authority in Manhattan does not follow the sweeper as they do here in J.C.

Posted on: 2008/7/2 14:31
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Re: West Side: Boy's bike taken by three teens
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Boy's bike taken by three teens

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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

A 12-year-old boy's mountain bike was taken in a robbery by three bullies Friday night, police reports said.

The Culver Avenue resident said he was riding his bike in the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail parking lot on Mallory Avenue at 10:15 p.m. when three teens wearing white T-shirts approached him saying, "Give me your bike."

One of them acted as though he had a weapon stashed in his pocket. The victim did not see a weapon, but he handed over his Mongoose mountain bike worth $110, reports said.

CHARLES HACK

12 years old, 10:15 pm on a weeknight, riding in a transit parking lot. I'd say $110 was a cheap curfew lesson...for both child and parents.

Posted on: 2008/7/1 12:55
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Re: Heights/Washington Park: Laptop taken from student
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Not sure if you are kidding but the 28 year old IS the student who got robbed by two or more teenagers (who very well may NOT be students).

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Which one of the students got hurt ? At 1:15 in the morning the student should have been home isn't there a curfew ? How did the 28 year old adult get involved in the altercation ?

I guess with the teenagers involved and the use of the term student it made me think of a non adult. As far as the teens they could have been age 18. Whether they were students or not doesn't change the situation. In today's world it doesn't make any difference who you are affliated with. Also at that hour being out one should have their guard up........at all times.

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Re: Heights/Washington Park: Laptop taken from student
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Laptop taken from student

Monday, June 30, 2008

A student had a $900 laptop stolen after being assaulted during a street robbery in Jersey City early Sunday morning, police reports said.

The 28-year-old man was walking home near Poplar Street and Kennedy Boulevard at 1:15 a.m., when a couple of teenagers punched him from behind, knocking him down, police said.

Witnesses said the teen robbers jumped into a white getaway car parked nearby.

The Kennedy Boulevard resident was treated at Christ Hospital for a swollen left eye and abrasion to his nose, reports said.

Which one of the students got hurt ? At 1:15 in the morning the student should have been home isn't there a curfew ? How did the 28 year old adult get involved in the altercation ?

Posted on: 2008/6/30 10:59
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Re: Charcoal Barbeque Permitted at Van Horst Park?
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Am I allowed to operate a small charcoal barbeque grill at Van Horst Park?

Couldn't find anything regarding regulation at the parks department website...

There wasn't anything on the J.C. website regarding what you can and cannot do in the local parks. Is there a sign posted in the park stating what is not permitted ? I noticed that parks with playgrounds have signs posted with restrictions such as Janet Moore Park located on the south end of Ogden Ave. up in the Heights.

Posted on: 2008/6/30 1:12
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Re: 2008 Street paving - Councilman Steven Fulop
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Only the courts and lawyers will make out in the end. Don't expect a payout.

Posted on: 2008/6/27 14:49
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