i live right off jersey ave. around the corner from hamilton park in a ground floor apartment with no security system and no bars on the window. i have never had any flooding or any other problems. you people are all really paranoid.

i love that he lives in north bergen. maybe i'll run into coco at leo's bakery one of these days.

forgot to post that i went there last week for dinner. i ate at the bar and it wasn't that crowded so the service was fast, but the bartender did seem a little inexperienced. had an OSH, first time, which i loved and the burger, which was good, but not great. there was a bunch of stuff on the menu i'd like to try so i'll definitely be going back at some point.

ice t rules. i saw him do a similar talk at ESU a few years. had i know about this one i totally would have gone.

i'm into it.

damn. i live right around the corner so this is a bit disconcerting. i hope they catch the scumbag.

went to the whole foods in edgewater last night for the first time (didn't even know it existed until i read about it on here the other day). decent size, good selection, reasonable prices. granted you have a car it's not that far of a drive from downtown JC and considering i only go food shopping about once every two weeks i'd rather drive the extra 20 minutes to shop at whole foods than have to go to a&p.

is this the place next to jordan's? if so, i ate there the other night and it was good.

holy crap! i am also a huge KISS fan and had no idea that peter criss lives in JC! i need to find out where he lives so i can stalk him!

in the 80s and early 90s my dad worked as a mechanic in a machine shop on jackson st. it was an awful area then and it's still an awful area now. a couple years ago the owner of the machine shop was offered a few mil for the land so he sold it and now you've got these fancy new condos built on top of land that has had hundreds of gallons of oil and numerous other chemicals dumped into over the years. not to mention the fact that it floods down there almost every time it rains since it's below sea level. lol @ anyone stupid enough to buy there.

i'm a librarian. i work in a public library in somerset county so i can't speak for the JCPL, but i can guarantee you that most people would not want 99% of the books we weed from our collection.

this is lame.

sounds good to me!

i went down to hoboken on tueday to watch a couple of the HASL matches. looked like mostly ex-college athletes. pretty high level of play all-around. on their website (which is painful to look at) it says they're looking for goalkeepers (what i played in high school) and that you don't have to meet the residency requirement or pay any fee so i might drop them a line and see if they still need any. still also want to go check out that NY coed soccer league.

where exactly is this place located?

i know there's been a million of these threads, but i can't seem to find any so here's another...

it's summer and the weather is beautiful and i want to play some soccer! i am by no means a great soccer player, but i love playing and it's a great way to get a workout while doing something fun.

when i used to live in pittsburgh a bunch of us would converge at CMU every sunday and play for a couple hours. it was awesome. thing is i'm somewhat new to the area and the few people i do know in JC don't seem too stoked on the idea of getting together on a regular basis to play.

so this where i reach out to you JClisters and your infinite wisdom. do you know of any adult soccer leagues in the area that i could join? i would prefer something in the vicinity of downtown so i could walk, but i'm getting desperate enough that i'd be willing to travel. i'm not even sure where there are any soccer fields in JC, but i do know there's one on river road in hoboken where i've seen people playing.

i was even considering joing the NY coed soccer league, but their summer registration is already full and it costs $135.

JCbiscuit, i always run outdoors--i hate running indoors on a treadmill. i'd work out outside too if you could find me a outdoor gym somewhere in the vicinity. maybe do some squats on the jungle gym.

the more gyms the better, imo. i'd rather have a variety of different places to choose from than have nothing to choose from.

where exactly is this brick haus gym going to be located? i'm looking for a gym to join and i checked out that place on division near newark a few weeks ago and though it's not that impressive it's really close to my place and the price isn't bad.

i was about to make this same thread. still haven't received my bill and both times i called the tax office they couldn't even give me an estimate. weren't property taxes supposed to go down this year? or at least that's what i remember corzine promising.

I?m fairly new to JC (I?ve only been here for two months) so I don?t know anything about the history of the Hamilton Park Ale House or who Maggie is, but I live right across the street from it so I?ve been a few times. Once I went with a group of friends on a weekend and it was crowded (not a problem) but we had a good time. Food was okay though sort of pricey. Another time I went on a weekday, or maybe it was a Sunday, to watch a men?s NCAA playoff game. (I?m not a huge sports guys, but I occasionally like going to a bar to watch a playoff or a final game.) There were only a couple of other people there so it was chill, but those huge HD flat panel tvs they got suck. The image was washed out and the reception was choppy. Considering how much they probably paid for those things I would expect much better. The music also sucked. Someone?s ipod cranking out typical radio-friendly crap. The volume would change for every song so the bartender kept having to turn the volume up and down every time another song came on. Totally annoying. In general the place seems to attract an older crowd so maybe I should start prowling for cougars even though there was a really cute waitress there once that I flirted with and I?ve considered going back for a beer just so I can chat her up again, but otherwise I haven?t felt compelled to go back.

I like the White Star (nearby/good food/good prices) but it can get a little claustrophobic in there since the place is so small. Also, every time I?ve been there the music has been awful. Someone?s ipod (can we PLEASE stop this trend immediately?) filed with every terrible 90s radio-hit.

My goal is to try and find some decent bars to hang at in JC on the weekends because it?s getting to be expensive/tiring to have to go out to Brooklyn every weekend. My tattoo artist told me hit up Lucky 7s on a Wednesday and I?ve been meaning to, but that?s a bad night since it conflicts with Lost. I?ve also been meaning to check out the Lamp Post on Thursdays which is when one of my friend?s roommates deejays. Any other suggestions?