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Re: Jersey City Graffiti artist KAWS on CBS Sunday Morning today
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his art is selling in the 100's of thousands of dollars. it ISN't Graffiti anymore.

Posted on: 2009/2/9 14:18
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Amazing shots of FLight 1549 being towed through Jersey City
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Posted on: 2009/2/2 19:03
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Re: 1 family, 4.6 million
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ive been in the house on one of the arts tours.. its definetly quite unique, and a labor of love but, no, it's not worth that kind of coin

Posted on: 2009/1/9 22:12
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Re: New York Times: Apartment Hunters chose $1,850 small two bedroom - Downtown on Mercer Street
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Quote:

emdot wrote:
Cutting edge news, I am glad that an apartment search by a couple (so uncommon) made the NY Times.



it's a column called The Hunt. It runs every week. Ignunt.

Posted on: 2009/1/7 13:13
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Re: Land at intersection of Communipaw and Route 440
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that whole thing is farther down 440.


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jclady wrote:
A very significant new development:

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... il_oks_100acre_devel.html

Posted on: 2008/12/4 23:30
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Re: What's worse for JC, Luxury Condos or Hipsters?
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Quote:

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As much as I'm an advocate for affordable housing, I must say, luxury condos do have an upside...They keep the hipsters away.


What's worse? Neither. It's the change-resistant, I-was-here-first old-timers.


Amen, brother. Far worse are the a-holes who won't accept any community from melding into theirs. Nothing stays the same, adapt or die.

Posted on: 2008/10/21 12:02
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Re: Port City Java is said to be opening at 158 Wayne Street next to Dixon Mills.
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i want that Chevelle that parks outside. now.

Posted on: 2008/9/24 22:02
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Re: Port City Java is said to be opening at 158 Wayne Street next to Dixon Mills.
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good investigation Chief. My guess is once again its the inspectors/building dept at good old City Hall.

Posted on: 2008/9/17 21:08
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Re: Port City Java is said to be opening at 158 Wayne Street next to Dixon Mills.
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just thought I'd revive this for kicks... six months PLUS since the first post. And........ zilch.

Posted on: 2008/9/16 22:10
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Re: Downtown Jersey City site to become Hilton Hotel & 470 more condos (333 Grand St. @ Jersey Ave.)
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yeah this is poorly written at best, they've purchased a SITE at LHN for a Hilton. 2.7 acres. A hotel/conf center , I believe, was always accounted for in the original site plan.

Posted on: 2008/9/11 15:12
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Re: Hard Grove Cafe
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the days of a cheap cuban sandwich, friendliness, and laughs at brunch are long gone here, sadly. Sure, it's cleaner, but does clean mean character? or service? a revamp into a friendly corner cafe is needed here. drop the pretense, improve the food.

Posted on: 2008/7/18 17:43
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Re: Morton Williams Grocery
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none, and none. Simply not enough critical mass of the proper high end demographics... (see endless Whole Foods rants).

Posted on: 2008/6/25 12:30
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Re: Port City Java is said to be opening at 158 Wayne Street next to Dixon Mills.
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90 days since annoucement, and still..... nothing. JC really goes out of their way to hold progress back sometimes.

Posted on: 2008/6/7 13:24
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Saturday night comedy show at the Barrow Mansion
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shameless plug for the Attic Ensemble... I'll be there, you should be too...


AN EVENING OF STAND-UP COMEDY
Starring Julie Goldman, Rachel Feinstein & Bill Graber
TWO SHOWS! Saturday, June 7 at 8pm & 11pm. $15.

The Attic is thrilled to announce our first ever evening of stand-up comedy. Come out on June 7 and enjoy headliner JULIE GOLDMAN (Logo TV's "Big Gay Sketch Show"), along with RACHEL FEINSTEIN and BILL GRABER. A good time is guaranteed!


Help us raise money for our 2008-2009 season, and have fun doing it! Refreshments will be available for purchase and lots of great prizes for our fundraising raffle.
This show is not recommended for children

Posted on: 2008/6/5 19:17
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Re: Majestic II - What do You Want Sign?
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ditto. What he said.

Its from the Silverstein's, who did the first Majestic, own Bar Majestic, and did Schroeder Lofts and the rental project next to it. So far everything I've seen from Exeter has been a top-shelf, quality project... this especially has a shot at transforming Grove St. to a more viable, appealing retail, shopping and "strolling" stretch to link to Liberty Harbor and act as an attractive "center" of downtown. But, of course, it might have a "yuppie" store in it, so this board has to bash it.

Posted on: 2008/5/22 21:40
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Re: Westchester Can Wait -- "Jersey City...It is like being on vacation every weekend.”
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hmmm... so successful, smart entreprenuerial people shop ALL over; choose to spend their money downtown, appreciate the "small strides" that have happened downtown with restos and stores, and most of this board chooses to bash 'em. The only thing that gives me the douchechills about this story are people's reactions to it.

Posted on: 2008/5/6 13:33
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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I DO see where you're going Mr Wolf.. we do have higher projected "better" population than a lot of areas of the country, esp with Manhattan. Let's all hope, right?

Posted on: 2008/3/21 18:47
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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Quote:

MrWolf wrote:
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ianmac47 wrote:
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I agree with other posters that Shop Rite/A&P wouldn't lose any business because its too expensive to do ALL your shopping there,


And thus proving the theory that demographically, Jersey City lacks enough consumers financially capable of supporting a Whole Foods.




Maybe. But Jersey City, Hoboken, Harrison and Newark easily have the demographics (assuming a store location set close to the Path).

A Whole Foods in JC is an inevitable certainty. Earnings growth and the dynamics of competition require the move. The company cannot allow Trader Joes to waltz into JC and cannibalize its Union Square/Edgewater locations.

I hope this helps, Jenny Mayla.



Ummm.. what? These communities may have a lot of population, but they DO NOT have the demographics. ANY way you slice it, most of Hudson County, seen through zips, is at least HALF of the income levels demanded by a chain like WF. HALF.

And TJ's and WF are seen as appropriate companion stores, they in NO WAY compete with each other. TJ's tends to follow WF into a market... (Edgewater, Union Square, Ridgewood/Paramus), they simply are NOT the same. Very little fresh food in TJ's, tiny meat selection (all pre-packaged). etc. Whole Foods is a supermarket.

Posted on: 2008/3/21 18:11
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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Quote:

Boken2JC wrote:
and I would love it because then I wouldn't have to deal with River Road traffic driving to the Edgewater store! ...


ding ding ding.
you're already going to Edgewater. They feel they're already servicing the small slice of JC customers from this store that is what-- 4 miles away? I'm sure they even feel Union Square is servicing JC... because it is.

Posted on: 2008/3/21 17:39
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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couple what Ian says, and what Ive stated MANY times, there simply is not enough critical mass of appropriate demo's that they look for around here. Even 20000 new condos doesnt strengthen the numbers enough around here for it to matter.

Posted on: 2008/3/21 11:34
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Re: Port City Java is said to be opening at 158 Wayne Street next to Dixon Mills.
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construction can start but permitting? around here? months lets hope they get it open by summer that space has been empty years PS its not 158 Wayne at all (that is Dixons office).. Its the corner of Columbus and Varick.

Posted on: 2008/3/5 22:40
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Re: Savas - Polish Cafeteria Opens on Grove Street
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we've eaten there. it's... ok. She's a delight though. Question though.. and I didn't have the heart to ask her.. what happened to the STANLEY'S CLOTHES sign? It was as much a landmark downtown as anything we have- it had to be 50-60 years old. If it's under all that hastily-applied white paint, someone needs a talkin' to.

Posted on: 2008/2/26 20:17
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Pulaski Repairs....
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Today's NJ.com... like no one predicted it would be worse off once they started the work... check out the website too for an amazing picture of the beast that is the Pulaski.


Pulaski Skyway repairs will cost millions more than first thought
by Tom Feeney/The Star-Ledger Monday February 25, 2008, 10:01 PM

The cost of fixing the aged, crumbling and heavily traveled Pulaski Skyway will be tens of millions of dollars higher than the Department of Transportation originally believed.

The department started work last summer on the $10 million first phase of a rehab project intended to keep the bridge sound for the decade or longer it would take to replace it.

But once work started, DOT officials said Monday, they realized the Skyway was in need of a more urgent and expensive overhaul, one that will cost close to $40 million this year alone. They plan to shift $30 million from other bridge and road projects to cover the difference, and they expect to have to spend more money in future years.

"There's only so much money to go around," said Tom Wospil, DOT's director of capital investment. "We're back to the same old math problem: If something goes up, something else must go down."

The Pulaski Skyway has played a central role in the public discourse over New Jersey's aging infrastructure since the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed in August, killing 13 people.

The Skyway, which crosses the Hackensack and Passaic rivers from Jersey City to Newark, is of the same outdated design as the Minneapolis span and is more than 30 years older. On the 0-to-100 scale that bridge engineers use to measure a span's ability to carry traffic, the section of the Skyway in Hudson County scores a 2. The section in Essex County scores a 0.

When work started last summer on the DOT's $10 million rehab project, lanes at the eastern end of the 3.5-mile Skyway were closed, giving DOT inspectors a chance to look more closely at the deck. They found it in worse shape than they had thought, the deputy state transportation engineer, Richard W. Dunne, said yesterday.

The surface of the roadway was badly cracked and spalled, Dunne said. The bond between that surface and the bridge deck below it was weakening.

Despite the additional problems found on the surface, officials say they still believe the span is perfectly safe for the 85,000 motorists who cross it every day.

The Minnesota bridge collapse was blamed on the failure of undersized gusset plates. The plates in the Skyway are not undersized, Dunne said.

The $10 million project called for deck repairs on only part of the span, but department engineers determined a harsh winter could do irreparable harm to the surface unless the entire length were repaired, Dunne said.

In addition, when the estimated cost of rebuilding the Skyway ran to $1.2 billion, DOT officials realized they would have to make the existing structure last longer, officials said. That will mean improving drainage on the road surface and making repairs to the steel structures beneath the deck, he said.

The state is not likely to have the money to rebuild or replace the Skyway anytime soon. New Jersey officials expect federal transportation funding to be flat in the coming years; the state's own Transportation Trust Fund will be insolvent by 2011 without action.

Gov. Jon Corzine's plan to sharply raise tolls on the Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway was intended to pay down state debt and provide long-term funding for transportation projects, but the plan has proved unpopular with the public and lawmakers.

"The governor is working to create a long-term, fiscally responsible mechanism for sustained transportation funding," DOT spokeswoman Erin Phalon said yesterday.

In the meantime, the DOT hopes to fund the Pulaski work by robbing Peter to pay Paul. It has asked the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority for permission to shift money set aside in the capital plan for 11 other road and bridge projects.

Those 11 projects would not lose their money, Wospil said. The funds would just be pushed back another year. The NJTPA tabled the request Monday and won't make a decision until next month.

Posted on: 2008/2/26 16:39
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Re: Police: Robberies spike at Newport Centre Mall
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wow-- thats a lot of change! whered youd hear all this?

Posted on: 2008/2/7 22:07
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Re: Police: Robberies spike at Newport Centre Mall
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Quote:

Selective wrote:
I remember when I first moved to JC I was excited about the mall. What was I thinking??

The first time I went to the mall I was looking for a jacket and quickly discovered that I was shopping in the wrong place. The second time I went to see a movie. (a ghetto fabulous experience- complete with ignorant young people yelling at the film)


I dunno.. what were you thinking? That a mall in Jersey City was going to have a Tiffany in it?


It's worth repeating, and I've said this on a bunch of the Whole Foods threads.. we simply DO NOT HAVE the appropriate demos for " middle to upper" retailers to take us seriously in the QUANTITIES they need to make them viable. When you run demo's on our area, the average incomes and disposable $$ figures run far below what a lot of folks need to plug into their proforma's in order to make a store do the many millions they need to make it profitable. You can build 10 to 20,000 luxury condos all day long, but even when they're actually open, occupied, paying taxes, AND "censused" it's still a statistical "drop in the bucket" against the rest of Hudson County.

Posted on: 2008/2/7 20:51
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Re: Newark couple left a loaded handgun in open view in their SUV at BJs while shopped at Newport Centre
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eesh-- three perpetually-fun JCList topics in one time saving post!

What have we learned?


1) Don't park in ShopRite if you're going to the mall, they will git ya.

2) At least he didn't bring his loaded handgun INTO the mall, that was nice.


3) These folks WEREN'T from JC.... Newport's bad element isn't all homegrown.


(heavy layer of sarcasm applies)

Posted on: 2008/2/7 15:55
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Re: Police: Robberies spike at Newport Centre Mall
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Malls are also built to make money for investors. If it's art films and typing paper you want, I suggest Manhattan, or Oleson's Mercantile, ask for Nellie.

Posted on: 2008/2/6 22:04
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Re: Pregnant store manager knocked out while trying to rescue brother in mall fight -- "gang" fight
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or, rather than raze something they just put $20M into, integrate the thing into the neighborhood-- relocate the decks, put some street retail in along Marin so it's not so "cut off" from Hamilton Park, make it more of a neighborhood town center concept. That wont change the crime issues, of course, but it will make it a more civic-minded and approachable retail center.

Posted on: 2008/2/4 21:44
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Re: No Housing Slump Here: Jersey City Residential Tower – “A” Condominiums
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I happen to think A is a very nice building, but a few things... 1) this is pure press release patter, how is this "reported" as news? 2) that "streetscape" is going to be very hard to lease to any kind of national chain 3) thanks for the bricks to pay homage to the warehouses... but could you have maybe commissioned a JC artist for a sculpture as opposed to someone NYC based? (of course the face they commissioned any kind of art at ALL is something to be impressed with).

Posted on: 2008/1/25 22:37
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new PATH cars!
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New PATH cars... unveiled!
by Associated Press
Tuesday January 22, 2008, 4:38 PM


The new PATH cars aren't going to enter service until later this year, but the Port Authority offered a sneak peek this morning at a press conference held at the PATH maintenance facility in Harrison.

The new cars will be brighter, have more poles to hold on to, offer three doors instead of two and display more high tech gadgets than the four-decades old cars they're replacing.


Commuters will notice four sets of two video monitors on each car to show announcements, news, weather and sports programs from WNBC. NBC Universal is spending about $15 million to install the monitors, at no cost to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the train system connecting New York and New Jersey.

The cars also will feature screens that alert commuters about the next station, and surveillance cameras monitored by PATH police.

"These cars are loaded with a thousand cool technologies," said Anthony Shorris, executive director of the Port Authority.

Conductors can guide the trains through touch screens, an upgrade from the current cars which don't even have speedometers, said project manager Douglas Driesbach.

The first new trains, made by Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc., will be phased in at the end of the year, part of agency's 10-year, $3.3 billion investment in the train system.

The existing 340-car fleet will be replaced, and up to 119 new cars will be added. All the old cars, most of which are about 45 years old, will be replaced by 2011. Each new car costs about $1.3 million.

The cars aren't the only improvements. PATH's signal system will be modernized at a cost of $390 million and will reduce the wait time between trains.

The agency will also spend $659 million to upgrade its 13 stations. New platforms at the Harrison and Grove Street stations will accommodate longer trains on the Newark-to-World Trade Center line.

If the PATH service is better, then the agency hopes to convince more drivers to abandon their cars and take mass transit to lessen the environmental effect of car emissions, Shorris said.

About 242,000 trips are taken daily on the system, which links Harrison, Hoboken, Jersey City and Newark to stops in lower and midtown Manhattan on three lines.

The improvements mark the first major overhaul PATH since the Port Authority acquired it from the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad in 1962.

Anthony Coscia, chairman of the Port Authority, said at the time the private company was bankrupt, "an albatross no one really wanted," he said. Now, the bistate agency is trying to revolutionize the way commuters use mass transit, he said.

Posted on: 2008/1/23 4:13
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