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I think the point NNJR is making is in reference wishing the police to enforce "quality of life" things like noise or traffic stops, where something like a blown stop sign ticket leads to other things like warrants, weed and weapons.
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NYC seat belt ticket:$40, Surcharge:$50! WTF is with the surcharge stuff?
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I was waved over at 37th and 9th by a cop and given a "no seat belt" citation. Fair caught I suppose. Now, it's been more than a decade since I've gotten a moving violation anywhere, much less NYC, so I was startled to see a "surcharge" that was more than the fine! What's the story? It seems pretty fishy to me. I tried googling without any luck.
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Re: Violent Home Invasion - Coles & Monmouth
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Yes, lets use statistics rather than anecdotes, however futile arguing this with you might be. You and other fearful gun toting folks are like someone building a house in the valley bottom out of fear of lightning, only that a flood is far more likely, just like its far more likely your gun will hurt someone you know rather than an assailant. And note that half of all gun deaths are suicides, over 900 per year are children. * In 2004, 29,569 people in the United States died from firearm-related deaths ? 11,624 (39%) of those were murdered; 16,750 (57%) were suicides; 649 (2.2%) were accidents; and in 235 (.8%) the intent was unknown. 6 In comparison, 33,651 Americans were killed in the Korean War and 58,193 Americans were killed in the Vietnam War.7 * For every firearm fatality in the United States in 2005, there were estimated to be more than two non-fatal firearm injuries.8 * In 2004, firearms were used to murder 56 people in Australia, 184 people in Canada, 73 people in England and Wales, 5 people in New Zealand, and 37 people in Sweden.9 In comparison, firearms were used to murder 11,344 in the United States.10 * In 2005, there were only 143 justifiable homicides by private citizens using handguns in the United States.11 * For every time a gun is used in a home in a legally-justifiable shooting [note that every self-defense is legally justifiable] there are 22 criminal, unintentional, and suicide-related shootings.17 * The presence of a gun in the home triples the risk of homicide in the home.18 * The presence of a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide fivefold.19 source
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Hey, remember this one! This gun owner sure knew what to do to trick or treaters! Guns in America kill tens of thousands each year, very few of which are perps in action. Grief Spans Sea as Gun Ends a Life Mistakenly http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage ... 63BF932A15753C1A964958260 Seeing the Halloween decorations at the Peairs house, they stopped and knocked. Mrs. Peairs answered and, startled, quickly shut the door. She called for her husband to get his gun, according to the sheriff's office. The boys walked to the carport door, where Mr. Peairs appeared with a gun. He told them to "freeze." But Mr. Hattori did not understand. He spoke little English. "He don't know what the hell freeze means," Colonel Barnett said. Mr. Hattori kept moving toward Mr. Peairs, who shot him at close range.
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I concur with that feeling that there's more to this story somehow. Randomly breaking in the door of an occupied house and holding a family hostage is not a standard "low hanging fruit" M.O. of the burglar class. It's real high risk, because as someone said, it only takes seconds to call 911, and if you're caught the penalties are dramatically higher than plain B&E. And please don't anyone take this wrong, but that row of houses aren't the most obviously wealthy in the hood. The only obvious thing they have going for them as targets is no neighbors across the street, but there are plenty of places in HP with no residential structures across the street. But there's no doubt that on the face of it, the incident is terrifying.
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Beacon is not considered a prime area of the heights, but that's a moving target these days anyway. It does have the nice advantage of being walking distance to the Journal Sq PATH and the Pershing Field Park. Also, if you stick around long enough the reservoir is slated to be turned into a nature park. You are within walking distance of all the shopping and restaurants on Central Ave, Journal Sq and even a little further, Downtown.
Relax. It may not ultimately be your taste, but it likely won't be a disaster unless you luck into neighbors from hell, but that can happen anywhere. My new Downtown neighbors threw a keg party last week, shouting and singing drinking songs outdoors till all hours. You don't have to be a poor to be an asshole.
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Re: hitchhiking through Holland Tunnel? has anyone done it?
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Try a cardboard sign that says "Jersey City".
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Even discussing this is ridiculous. There should simply be no more abatements downtown. The pump has been primed already!! If developing normal tax base property on Washington and 6th really isn't yet economical, there's something seriously wrong.
A question I've had for I while is: isn't there anyone at the county or state level holding the leash on our ability to hand out these abatements? The city loves them since they rip off the schools and county in favor of the city, plus give a upfront payoff that makes the sitting mayor's budget look better. But where are the grownups saying you can't do this indefinitely or the property tax system will crash?
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Agreed. A few years ago when even Con-Ed was giving incentives for replacing old windows and buying efficient heaters and appliances, PSE&G was giving nada.
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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Please explain why shorting is more like gambling than any other form of equity investing? The markets as a whole move slowly, but individual stocks are more volatile, with those going up balanced by those going down. Yin/yang, you know? Personally I think the day trading is the real roulette wheel of the wall street casino, the pure gambling. A friend married a day trader, I think he's no different than a guy playing the ponies who thinks he can't lose because he studies the bloodlines and such.
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Dunno, are there? I've had mine for 1 1/2 years. I think there was 1 or 2 others at the time.
Posted on: 2008/1/23 7:07
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Yeah, there's worse people among earth's 6 billion than GWB, but they're not the leader of the worlds most powerful nation, a fact that still makes me queasy after 7 years.
And GWB didn't cause 9-11, but he and his arrogant, jingoistic and greedy chickenhawks fertilized the ground for decades more of islamic terror by using 9-11 as an excuse for the neocons long desired war on Iraq. Had they simply finished what they started in Afghanistan, our standing in the world and our prospects for future peace would be much brighter. But even that was too much, and Afghanistan is again a disaster. The narratives that get sold on conservative news channels are amazing, but the emperor still has no clothes.
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They actually have a factor for the discounting on the property, basing it on sales value, it's currently 28%. The reason for this is the distortionary effect of reval cycle. Since people with long owned property would be paying peanuts based on old sales prices, they raise the tax rate, while at the same time discounting the assessments on newer structures because if they taxed them at full price and rate it would be astronomical. In a reval they eliminate the discounts and lower the actual tax rate.
Yeah, it's a f**ked up system, but your tax estimate was off by 72%, $4457/yr sounds more like it, huh? TAZ: EDIT YOUR POST!!! YOU POOCHED THE FORMATTING WITH YOUR CUT AND PASTE!!
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Geoff, I know this is near your area of expertise, but I would have thought the deluge of cash raining on oil producers would have to go offshore again immediately, they can't domestically invest anywhere near that much, no? That's why there's pictures in the paper of sheiks planning fantasy cities, because they have more cash than they know what to do with.
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Those ARE truly a testament to his idiocy, and his 2 elections are truly a testament to the idiocy and avarice of the electorate. I can understand how the ignorant bible thumping yahoos in flyover country got gulled by the snake oil show, but the willingness of the educated financial elite to entrust our country to that moron has always boggled me. I had one of my rare conversations last week with my gazillionaire Private Capitalist brother, who admitted Bush's 2nd term was a disaster. When I asked what was so great about his first term besides cutting taxes on his Greenwich and Hampton crowd, I got nothing but smoke. They sold the future of their country to get from rich to filthy rich hereditary oligarchs, while the rest of the country sold their own futures to party like rock stars on borrowed money because their leaders told them they deserved to have a good time. I despair, and I wonder when 60" LCD screens will start turning up in hock shops?
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Wow, that was great, like Paul Krugman on a drunken rant. The American Economy has no clothes.
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This whole thing is getting stupid. Your landlady is an idiot for wanting to play hardball in her illegal glass house instead of just sucking it up and trying to get a new tenant for Feb. The 1st 2 weeks of the month usually suck for getting tenants to take a lease anyway, everyone's "still looking". If she tries to keep your security or create an eviction record for nonpayment of Feb you can haul her into court where her property will get scrutinized. Mutual Assured Destruction. Since the legalities seem moot due to an illegal property, I'll answer #6 as a landlord: I'll never let a tenant try to find/choose my next tenant. I've been in this spot and even if I don't lose a months rent it's a PITA. I'm choosy about my tenants but the outgoing leasebreaking tenant just wants anyone and isn't very patient about the landlord rejecting people. I insist on showing apartments even though it's time consuming, since it is when you get a feel for who the person is. This results in very little landlord-tenant conflict in our properties.
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This IS great news! Comfort food of my heritage! Do they have hot borscht?
Just before Tanya's closed I got the new owner to do a table at the Hamilton Park Festival. It seemed pretty successful, I wonder if the owner of Savas can be convinced? It's been a real struggle to get our small local ethnic restaurants to come, you'd think they'd love to get the exposure.
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That sounds all great, support the FD, the PD, and the troops in Iraq!! But, are you a veteran? What would you think of the fighting ability of an army composed of 28% Colonels and generals? Sounds like what you'd find in a banana republic, which is what JC looks like way too often.
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That clause of automatic termination may be in contradiction of the state law and illegal. But what certainly seems illegal is the application of the state law concerning notice and autorenewal in the case of a building with violations of it's Certificate of Occupancy. It sounds like the last thing she would want is to be in court over this. She's also likely in a catch 22 regarding "owner occupancy". If she claims occupancy in a 3 family, the state tenant laws don't apply, but I'll bet anything her mortgage and insurance are based on owner occupancy.
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Amazing. More than 1 in 4 firefighters is a chief or higher. All chiefs and no indians. Assuming there's another chunk that are desk jockeys, just who actually fights the fires? Next you'll hear that they're understaffed....
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BM, it does NOT say that on www.lsnjlaw.org, the site Pink linked. Also, just to clarify to RajRaj, we think he owes all of Feb, not just 2 weeks. the month to month is for whole months, regardless of the 30 days notice clause. He is free to move out on the first, but will still owe the landlady the rent for the month. It is NOT legal to pay that using the security deposit, doing so will risk legal action on her part, and you don't want an eviction on your record if you're staying in NJ.
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Yes, according to that site he's on the hook for all of Feb, but who the hell are LSNJ? I am annoyed by acronymic organizations that even in their "about us" page don't spell it out, this isn't the 1st time I've seen it. I'm not sure it's applicable to this case, but the state anti-eviction statute does not apply to owner occupied building of 3 or less units.
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Hmm, is vacating at the end of the lease implied unless the lease is explicitly renewed? Or does the automatic renewal statute take precedence? I don't think this is a simple question. You might try calling the city's office of Tenant Landlord Relations, 201 547 5127. Even if you owe the rent for Feb, that doesn't mean you can't move out until then. You could be 3 months late and a landlord still can't stop you from leaving. If you were my tenant, I would show the place and try to get a new tenant for Feb to let you off the hook, but she's under no obligation to do so assuming she's right.
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I wonder what it would take to actually get the demographic info for the schools by zip. You know they'd stonewall you right off the bat. Maybe a FOIA request? As for where our money actually goes, in August the JJ reported that in Jersey City, more than half of the city's employees earned at least $77,448 last year, the highest median salary among the county's 12 municipalities, and well above the median for all of NJ residents. That's more than many people with a Masters degree and decades of experience. It's a government run for the benefit of it's employees, not the public.
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Josh, doesn't the city also get lump sum up front payments as part of these deals? This allows the administrations to basically balance their books by taking revenue for today from the future, a sort of deficit spending.
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No. The overall taxes collected by the city should stay the same, but individual RE taxes will rise and fall all over the place. Newly constructed but unabated places will likely fall as the rate falls since their assessments are more accurate, but older places with low assessments that haven't sold in decades will rise considerably even as rates are lowered since their assessments will triple or more.
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You seem to miss the point that, since in a reval some get lowered but an equal number get raised so the reval is revenue neutral, raising the rate after a reval has dropped it results in the half of property owners whose values were raised getting raised twice. You can't just single out those whose taxes were lowered in the reval to have their new rate raised. I'm not saying that people shouldn't pay their fair share, just that the politics of a double wammy would be nuclear. People are pretty ignorant of the financial options available to someone with low income but owning a $1m property outright, and you will hear much cries in the reval of "forcing people from their homes". Comparing the "rate" to other communities is pointless since every town is at a different point in the disastrous reval cycle of the cumulative value of all property getting farther and farther away from reality causing the rate to climb to compensate.
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I can't stand maps that don't have north "up". It starts you out confused.
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