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Re: Hipster vandalizing Charles & Co. caught on tape
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The alleged vandal is a white male with a thin build, dark hair and a beard. .


I thought the Jersey Journal does not mention/guess race.


Come on!! We don't want to offend criminals of color!!

Posted on: 2015/6/24 20:55
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Re: New Residents..Stop Calling Police on Bars & Silencing Church Bells
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While we're on the subject of annoying driving habits of Jersey City residents, what's up with JC drivers who seem to be under the impression that when the light turns green, the car making a left hand turn has the right of way? It's like a game of chicken leading up to the light change between the car that wants to go straight and the car that wants to turn left. Both drivers are watching the crosswalk indicators flashing waiting for the "Don't Walk" so they can gun it the split-second before the light turns green. And god forbid, the car that wants to go straight beats the turning car to the punch (as it should be because the car going straight has the right of way), the driver of the turning car will usually lay on their horn and unleash some profanities, like they were in the right. I've never understood this phenomenon. It's so unique to JC.


Failure to Yield without a blinker is my favorite. They'll be the first to sue when they're T-Boned.

Posted on: 2015/6/21 17:08
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Re: Developer wants to buy our building
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My condo assoc was recently approached by a developer to buy our building. He's constructing an apartment building adjacent to ours and if he had our property, he could make a much larger complex. We are 4 stories, eight units. He's building is 12 stories and ? units. I think it's a long shot deal, but has anyone had experience with this type of situation? Stories? Advice? None of us are sure what to expect.


If the developer is motivated enough, you might be in for a windfall from an "above market value" sale. If you DON'T sell, don't expect much love or flexibility from this developer going forward. Any issues you may have with his development or the tenants therein, will likely elicit a yawn and/or little urgency.


Wow. So it's "sell or face the consequences"? Maybe he'll drink their milkshake.

Posted on: 2015/6/18 19:50
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Re: Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza -- Reopening?
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Unless you work in the suburbs, why do you need a car?
Isn't that the point of moving to the city? Everything delivers, and you can get an uber for anything that doesn't. I wish JC would actually be bold and make some progressive moves.
I'll take a little inconvenience for less cars, less pollution, more trees and urban wildlife.


Perhaps I'm wrong, but I would hazard a guess that you don't have children; a business that is product/equipment intensive; a job outside the reach of mass transit; and/or care for a sickly/elderly parent or relative. Try any or a combination of all. Quite difficult around here without a car. And some folks simply cannot afford delivery/Uber.


Consider yourself "owned".

Posted on: 2015/6/16 2:40
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Re: Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza -- Reopening?
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Cars are going away in cities. At least car ownership is going away, and the notion of relying on cars is going away.

Jersey City instead of spending resources on improving infrastructure, improving service, and expanding public transit into underserved neighborhoods, is proposing an expensive project to expand a road into a PARK. A park.

This is problematic, and literally the opposite of progressive.

JCman8, I think you're missing my point. Jersey City is drastically different than the rest of New Jersey, in that there are many neighborhoods where people live carless. I know in NJ you need a car, but Jersey City is drastically different from the rest of NJ and that is my point; that Jersey City is trapped in a state that doesn't really "get" urban living.

The catering to the vehicle is what caused Newport to become a depressing place. I don't want the rest of Jersey City to feel like Newport. People gravitate to places that are pedestrian friendly. Pedestrian-friendly and car-centric cannot easily co-exist.

The uproar over the pedestrian-ization of Newark Ave is a microcosm of the problem.

I?ve been saying the same thing for a long time. People in Albany and Rochester and West Chester use cars. That doesn?t mean those in Manhattan need them too. The reality is that we, as a city, need to strive towards that.


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Unless you work in the suburbs, why do you need a car?
Isn't that the point of moving to the city? Everything delivers, and you can get an uber for anything that doesn't. I wish JC would actually be bold and make some progressive moves.
I'll take a little inconvenience for less cars, less pollution, more trees and urban wildlife.


So you think everyone who lives in Jersey City has a 5-20 minute walk to the PATH train/Bus and then has a quick walk or transfer to where they work? You think every resident actually works in NYC? You think everyone works regular hours? Think about how naive some of you people are about other people's lives.

Looks like the person mentioned that "Unless you work in the suburbs"...

The reality is that "car culture" is not a good reasoning. There are plenty of people I know that don't own a car. Then, when they need to take a long drive, they'll rent one.

Saying that everyone in an urban center needs a car is just absurd.


Well your reading comprehension is off. I never mentioned endorsing "car culture" nor did I say I work in the suburbs. I work in a business, film production, where you have to report to locations all over the NYC area at very early hours. If I can take the train, I do but that isn't always an option. Brooklyn at 5:00am? F-That, I'm driving.

Posted on: 2015/6/15 22:51
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Re: Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza -- Reopening?
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Unless you work in the suburbs, why do you need a car?
Isn't that the point of moving to the city? Everything delivers, and you can get an uber for anything that doesn't. I wish JC would actually be bold and make some progressive moves.
I'll take a little inconvenience for less cars, less pollution, more trees and urban wildlife.


So you think everyone who lives in Jersey City has a 5-20 minute walk to the PATH train/Bus and then has a quick walk or transfer to where they work? You think every resident actually works in NYC? You think everyone works regular hours? Think about how naive some of you people are about other people's lives.

Posted on: 2015/6/15 20:24
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Re: Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza -- Reopening?
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It's obvious that cars are not going away. In any case though, it would be nice if NJ, NYC and it's boroughs did more to promote the using of scooters. They obviously take less space and are easier to park etc.

Posted on: 2015/6/15 19:58
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Re: Reasons NOT to love Jersey City: A good read with your coffee. :)
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http://gothamist.com/2015/06/14/nsfw_ ... 02c6a2b7c-662753#photo-13


When Jersey City starts doing crap like this then it'll be over.

Posted on: 2015/6/14 21:52
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Re: Anti-gentrification activist
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Homeless puke is quickly being replaced by frat-brah's puke. Boy, we've made progress.

Posted on: 2015/6/13 13:55
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Re: Beware! Amazon's new delivery service leaves packages
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I have witnessed and helped apprehend package thieves in the past. Some were hellbent on stealing everything in sight and others were definitely lured in by the "easy pickings." In either case they both went to jail. If I didn't have a secure area I definitely would avoid getting deliveries. It still amazes me how often I see stuff just sitting out in the open. If it ain't the drug addicts then it's going to be the bored school kids stealing your stuff.


Without fail, every time packages come up, we are reminded that you are our real life batman.


There are newbies who don't know how awesome I am.

Posted on: 2015/6/10 18:56
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Re: New Residents..Stop Calling Police on Bars & Silencing Church Bells
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Last summer, while crossing with the light at 6th and Jersey, a woman driving North on Jersey decided to scoot around the traffic to make a right. She was not stopping for anything and we were forced to stop in the crosswalk as she nearly clipped us. Too bad for her and excellent for us the car immediately behind her was an unmarked police car. Sometimes the bad drivers get what they deserve.

Posted on: 2015/6/10 15:32
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Re: New Residents..Stop Calling Police on Bars & Silencing Church Bells
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The situation on Erie Street and in other places is exactly what you get when you just throw down the red carpet to ANY business or ANY developer.

Errrr... what?

Sorry, but that's not the case. Working with developers doesn't mean that every single zoning restriction, noise regulation and parking regulation gets thrown out the window. I have no idea how that building was zoned previously, but they aren't going to turn every block of Erie Street into the equivalent of Washington in Hoboken.

Refusal to build causes its own problems, most notably in terms of density. For example, San Francisco has severely curtailed high-rise development, while over the decades demand has gone up. The result is skyrocketing housing prices.


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It shows me that a lot of residents and politicians and supporters of all this wanton development aren't really attuned to "city living". They instead, and this includes a lot of you, have a "mall culture" mindset.

Errrr... what?

Cities are high density. Cities frequently pack restaurants, shops and bars in close proximity to residential units. Heck, the person who started this thread is chewing out people because they can't stand the noise of a bar. This is how most cities work.

Plus, your idea of mall culture is... Talde? Where is their next restaurant opening, the Willowbrook Mall?


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The desire to be around more people, more crowds and have more things to buy is not endemic to city dwellers but instead to suburbanites.

lol

OK, granted, around half of American cities have similar densities to East Coast suburbs. However, Jersey City is nothing like Houston (talk about a suburban wasteland) because developers put in taller buildings and put in restaurants a block away from a major commercial street.

Nor do people move to lower-density suburbs, with houses several times bigger than in urban cores, in order to be around more people and more crowds, and have less stuff.


I think people like yourself would enjoy St. Mark's Place or 46th Street or Macdougal Street in Manhattan. It brings the best of "B&T Crowd/Mall density" to the big city. Hey maybe JC will get that casino and you'll have the best of garbage culture all jammed together.

Posted on: 2015/6/10 2:08
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Re: A casino in Jersey City? Venture capitalist wants to make it happen
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Rule #1 to any discussion about bringing a casino/ resort to Anywhere, USA: You're not allowed to use the words "Las" or "Vegas."

No casino in the U.S. is like Las Vegas (sorry, broke my rule) and no casino in the U.S. ever will be. Putting aside the fact that that particular city has a whole host of economic and environmental sustainability issues which will likely limit its own shelf-life, the city and its culture are utterly unique. They have never been replicated anywhere else.

If a casino developer proposing a casino in the northeast compares the project to the casinos of that southwest city, you know he's a snake-oil salesman.

Want to see what a casino in Jersey City will look like? Take a look at the Parx in Philadelphia or some Harrah's out in western PA. There will be no jet-setting NYC tourists trying to recreate their summers on the French Riviera. There will be 300 lb. old ladies on Little Rascals with oxygen tubes in their nostrils double-fisting Winstons.


Exactly this. It's hilarious when people write things like "targeted demographics" and "developers are promising". Oh it all looks so good on paper.


You do have to admit that this developer stuck to his chosen demographics when he developed Liberty National. Which tells me that his casino will likewise be targeted to the well-to-do. The high rollers will get golf privileges, I am sure. This will not be targeted to the riff raff - that will be the Meadowlands. How successful this plan will be is another question.


As long as admission to the casino is $500,000 we should be fine. YEAH RIGHT! Old folks gambling away their SS checks and new immigrants who think that appearing to be a "high roller" is the American way. Casinos are garbage culture.

Posted on: 2015/6/9 19:56
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Re: A casino in Jersey City? Venture capitalist wants to make it happen
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jcman420 wrote:
Rule #1 to any discussion about bringing a casino/ resort to Anywhere, USA: You're not allowed to use the words "Las" or "Vegas."

No casino in the U.S. is like Las Vegas (sorry, broke my rule) and no casino in the U.S. ever will be. Putting aside the fact that that particular city has a whole host of economic and environmental sustainability issues which will likely limit its own shelf-life, the city and its culture are utterly unique. They have never been replicated anywhere else.

If a casino developer proposing a casino in the northeast compares the project to the casinos of that southwest city, you know he's a snake-oil salesman.

Want to see what a casino in Jersey City will look like? Take a look at the Parx in Philadelphia or some Harrah's out in western PA. There will be no jet-setting NYC tourists trying to recreate their summers on the French Riviera. There will be 300 lb. old ladies on Little Rascals with oxygen tubes in their nostrils double-fisting Winstons.


Exactly this. It's hilarious when people write things like "targeted demographics" and "developers are promising". Oh it all looks so good on paper.

Posted on: 2015/6/9 15:48
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Re: New Residents..Stop Calling Police on Bars & Silencing Church Bells
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The situation on Erie Street and in other places is exactly what you get when you just throw down the red carpet to ANY business or ANY developer. What's the saying? "Be careful what you wish for because it may come true." It shows me that a lot of residents and politicians and supporters of all this wanton development aren't really attuned to "city living". They instead, and this includes a lot of you, have a "mall culture" mindset. The desire to be around more people, more crowds and have more things to buy is not endemic to city dwellers but instead to suburbanites. The "move to the suburbs" mantra seems to apply more to those who spew it than they realize.

Posted on: 2015/6/9 15:22
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Re: Beware! Amazon's new delivery service leaves packages
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I have witnessed and helped apprehend package thieves in the past. Some were hellbent on stealing everything in sight and others were definitely lured in by the "easy pickings." In either case they both went to jail. If I didn't have a secure area I definitely would avoid getting deliveries. It still amazes me how often I see stuff just sitting out in the open. If it ain't the drug addicts then it's going to be the bored school kids stealing your stuff.

Posted on: 2015/6/9 0:13
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Re: New Residents..Stop Calling Police on Bars & Silencing Church Bells
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I cannot believe the city allowed a bar/restaurant that is so loud to be unleashed upon longtime residents in what was once an innocuous police building. That Carrino's is a travesty and the city should have to pay for soundproofing and new windows for the local residents. Or else force Carrino's to keep their doors shut and the patrons inside.

Posted on: 2015/6/9 0:04
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Re: Carrino Provisions
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Walked by here the other night. Those poor bastards who live above and across the street and who have to put up with the din coming from this place. They should never allow that BS in residential areas. Here's to business owners who don't live here but have no problem boning residents out of their quality of life.

Posted on: 2015/6/7 17:31
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Re: Pig Faced Porker Masquerading As Politician Spends NJ 300k on Food
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I'm sure the haters here don't question the hundreds of millions of dollars that Hillary Clinton spent on first class plane expenses, high priced salaries, and other fripperies she received from foreign countries while Sec of State . . . which speaks to her judgment?




Oh Hillary, lets hope when she is the next Prez. she will designate a room for the Old Bill to get his BJ's in.



The Clinton's are a 2 for 1 Special. Christie doesn't stand a chance and has been horrible for New Jersey. In a state with such high taxes he actually refuses, REFUSES Federal money or else uses it to curry favor. Or should I say bully Mayors?

Posted on: 2015/6/3 23:35
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Re: Pig Faced Porker Masquerading As Politician Spends NJ 300k on Food
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I would argue that it speaks to his judgement.

Posted on: 2015/6/3 22:24
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Re: DTJC Pervert ALERT
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Only on JC List does a guy jerking off in public become "and another thing! He was riding his bike on the sidewalk!!"

Posted on: 2015/6/1 23:47
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Re: DTJC Pervert ALERT
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No time to call the cops, but takes the time to complain on jclist....

Hmmm...


Exactly. And 3-4 minutes is plenty of time to take a cellphone photo.

Posted on: 2015/6/1 9:28
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Re: Noise Complaint, worth it to call in?
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"IT'S A CITY!! YOU SHOULD EXPECT THAT EVERYBODY IS RUDE, SELF-INVOLVED AND BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...." Next time dump boiling water on them. "Hey! It's a city!"

Posted on: 2015/5/31 2:24
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Re: DTJC Pervert ALERT
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You blew it. You didn't report it so the cops won't be looking for him. Your account now bears little weight in a criminal case if this guy does indeed repeat this same offense. It takes 10 secs to call the cops.


Not everyone is like you and hindsight is 20/20. At least she posted something about it on here for you to read. Would you rather she not even do that?


It would have had the same result.

Posted on: 2015/5/31 2:19
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Re: DTJC Pervert ALERT
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You blew it. You didn't report it so the cops won't be looking for him. Your account now bears little weight in a criminal case if this guy does indeed repeat this same offense. It takes 10 secs to call the cops.

Posted on: 2015/5/31 0:26
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Re: Authorities seek 3 in Downtown JC home invasion (has pic of punk)
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Hispanic dude. 9 people I have helped get arrested. 4 + 1 guy twice collared= 5 Hispanics, 2 Blacks and 2 White dudes. Odds are on Hispanic.

Posted on: 2015/5/29 21:37
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Re: Gargoyle at Basic.
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When I first moved to DTJC in 1988 I lived in the building next to Salon X, formerly Freddie's Deli, on 7th Street. We would often hang out and drink beers on the roof and from that vantage point we could see the guy who lived in Vladimir's building pacing back and forth for hours on end. He was rumored to be Vlad's brother and also a former victim of the Gulags. He would smoke and pace, walking towards the back kitchen and turn around and disappear from view toward the front of his apartment. It was chilling really. Vladimir had never said boo to me until recent years when he would nod hello while out and about. There are a few people from the neighborhood still around after all these years, we don't necessarily "know" each other but we have seen a lot and there's a quiet connection we all share. Vladimir was one of those guys. He was a character and he will be missed.

Posted on: 2015/5/27 3:00
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Re: Is that midnight fireworks on now really permitted for this this of night?
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Remember when the rich D-bag had a fireworks show at LSP for his kids First Birthday? I hope the kid went deaf.

Posted on: 2015/5/26 17:59
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Re: Jersey City cop fatally shoots dog after it lunges at him, prosecutor says
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Sounds like an abusive situation to me. She is just covering for the husband now, seemingly out of fear.

Posted on: 2015/5/1 0:05
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Re: Fee based classes in Hamilton Park??
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I usually encourage my dogs to poop in the middle of the "soccer camps".

Posted on: 2015/4/29 2:01
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