Ntvamrn wrote:
My people are telling me that Whole Foods is looking at opening here in Harborside Plaza 2....where the food court is. The court is closing next week 1/31/17. WF is alleged to be moving into that footprint. Keep your eyes open

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On my building in Paulus Hook (small 7 unit brownstone) and a larger building (150 Bay Street), I noticed State of NJ inspection notices that require entry to each unit. Anyone seen these before?

Seems intrusive, is it for fire safety? Anything I should be worried about?

This sounds like your 5-year state inspection for multiple dwellings (click on inspections). The same kind of inspection occurred recently in my condo. Someone from the condo association, maintenance and an inspector entered my unit, made sure items were up to code and we had proper detectors. They were in and out of my 2-bedroom unit in less than 10 minutes.

And for what it's worth, I felt like my dad was inspecting my bedroom to make sure it was clean when I was a kid. Intrusive? Yup. Necessary? Considering the way some people live in our building, oh yeah.

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About new construction, as evidenced by the previous Modera Lofts, I do think they have been playing fast and loose with the definition of bedroom for a long time now. I wonder how they got COs for all those units and if any current resident has ever pushed back on what is being leased to them. Perhaps the long, storied tradition of stuffed envelopes may still be alive in Jc.

The only thing that occurred to me is they get a variance due to being way more fireproof than old construction and thus not needing a 2nd egress. But probably not, and they're advertising 1BR as 2BR.

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So, I was just informed by the insurance company that the car was recovered yesterday. I would have expected at least a courtesy call by JCPD to inform me rather I got attitude when I inquired with them as if it was my fault the car was stolen.

Back in the early '90s, my Oldsmobile got stolen and abandoned in Newark. Newark PD treated me like I was the criminal. The people I had to interact with at city hall were downright vicious. The car wasn't in driving condition (battery had been ripped out), so it was a hellish trip to Newark city hall to make arrangements to have a tow truck pick it up.

Then it was another trip to hell as Newark for a couple months kept sending me threatening mail (court, fees, fines) for "failing to retrieve my vehicle", even though it had been picked up within days of it being recovered.

It was a really unpleasant experience for my 20 something flat-broke ass to go through.

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dtjcview wrote:
Start by getting a friend to set up your Roku. Toughest piece is going to options/network settings and putting in your wireless router id/password.

After that, you'll should have access to amazon prime, and can try out both netflix and hulu - and decide what you like and what you don't. They all have plenty of content - but you have to pay for episodes of the latest shows. A lot have people have cut the cable for internet-based tv. A good compromise might be to keep the basic channels on fios, and use netflix/hulu/amazon for shows and movies.

For phone, use your cellphone, or get a voip box like Ooma or Vonage.

All good suggestions, but you left out the idea of using an HDTV antenna for local channels. The quality of over-the-air TV is incredible with the new HDTV broadcasts. For a one-time $20 investment, you can get a decent antenna that will get you awesome local TV without having to pay Verizon a monthly fee for the same stuff.

What channels will you get with the local antenna?

Enter your zip code and you will see the over the air stations that are available to you.

http://www.channelmaster.com/Antenna- ... ion-a/134.htm&Click=47329

There are other channel listings available.

Great link. Thanks for posting it. The quality of OTA HDTV channels is quite impressive. In this region, at least. I am a FiOS subscriber, and the signal quality of OTA vs FiOS for regular TV channels is almost identical.

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Start by getting a friend to set up your Roku. Toughest piece is going to options/network settings and putting in your wireless router id/password.

After that, you'll should have access to amazon prime, and can try out both netflix and hulu - and decide what you like and what you don't. They all have plenty of content - but you have to pay for episodes of the latest shows. A lot have people have cut the cable for internet-based tv. A good compromise might be to keep the basic channels on fios, and use netflix/hulu/amazon for shows and movies.

For phone, use your cellphone, or get a voip box like Ooma or Vonage.

All good suggestions, but you left out the idea of using an HDTV antenna for local channels. The quality of over-the-air TV is incredible with the new HDTV broadcasts. For a one-time $20 investment, you can get a decent antenna that will get you awesome local TV without having to pay Verizon a monthly fee for the same stuff.

What channels will you get with the local antenna?

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07310 / MikeyTBC - I defer to you guys, you're both correct. I had some time and spent about an hour in Eataly. I'm sure people spend lots more time browsing. This is not a place to go for anything but unusual or unique items. Prices are crazy not to mention there is no prepped fish. I could only find 1 item.

Although I've passed through the oculus dozens of time, today was the first time I took a look around at the stores. Nice stores, but the layout is crazy. I also stopped at Daniel Bouloud's Epicere, the cafe just after you exit the PATH. Pretentious and a ripoff. $4.54 for a small hot chocolate! I guess Westfield knows what they are doing, but it seems to me their target customer would be the commuter, not the tourist. Frankly, I take the old PATH hodgepodge of stores over this. I miss Sbarro! But I digress.

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I'm surprised no one mentioned Eataly since they're now conveniently located in the WTC. I've only been there once (the Flatiron store) and they didn't pass my banana test, a very scientific barometer of prices, haha. They had the highest prices I've encountered anywhere for bananas $1.29/lb or about 79 cents for a medium banana. I'm going to be at WTC today and will check out their fish.

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The place on Erie will mount tires, but they don't balance them. Not much of a problem if you only stay in town, but at highway speeds fun may ensue.

For new, Tirerack.com has a bunch of places around town and will delivery to them. Very reasonable way to shop, and you're not limited to the random thoughts of a counter jockey telling you what to buy.

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Maybe they are stuck in a long lease but it seems ridiculous to keep that much space for what is essentially a handful of ATM machines. There were 2 when i was last in there a few weeks ago.

Totally depressing, that building has a ton of great architectural detail but you'd never know inside...

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Something to keep an eye on....

China's well-to-do have been trying to cash out of China for a while now. The Chinese government has been putting capital controls in place, as it has been forced to dump US Treasuries to cover the capital outflows. The capital controls were one of the main reasons my wife's employer pulled their manufacturing out of China (made paying for components imported to China too difficult). So far, the controls haven't been that effective and China continues to bleed.

It appears a lot of the Chinese money is being parked into real estate, driving up prices in certain locals. Vancouver has started taxing Chinese real estate investors with the idea it will slow or stop the property price inflation.

It looks like the Chinese money is heading to the USA as well (not just places like NYC). Bloomberg had this:

Chinese buyers have responded by branching out to cheaper cities. In the U.S., they?re increasingly searching for properties in Houston, Orlando and Seattle, which displaced San Francisco in the first quarter as the third-most viewed U.S. market on Juwai.com, a Chinese search engine for offshore real estate.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/article ... coming-to-a-city-near-you

Curious if the Chinese money is also flowing into Jersey City? If it is, we could see a continue support of high prices, even if the Fed hikes rates in December.

On a side note: The Chinese leaving home with their money reminds me of what happened in Thailand in the mid 1990s. The capital outflows eventually led to an economic crash that sucked in much of Southeast Asia.

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There was an older gentleman who stopped me on Marin a few weeks back. Something about car breaking down, cell phone not working, needed $ for a train or bus.

hero69 wrote:
are there any bad hombres on this site?

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Try answering what's worse. Verbally attacking and degrading a women accuser or bragging that a women lets you touch her.

You mean like calling Paula Jones a loser?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O50NvGrOx2k

Or calling them 'unnatractive'

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles ... f-unattractive-women.html

So what you are really asking is what's worse, Donald Trump or Donald Trump? All I can say to that is , yeah.

We haven't even started hearing about his response to his own accusers yet. It's only a matter of time and it is going to be ugly.

If the Religious Right have started running out of redemption stories for Trump and have begun turning their backs on him then it is all over. Even they can now see that woman is better off being President than a total sleaze bag.

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555 was looking really sad for the past year... poor selection of veggies, a lot of items not in stock. Some years back a tenant of mine told me he expected 555 to close up shop (his wife worked there).

Per my tenant:

555 gets most of its business from Asian (mostly Chinese) who drive out from remote locations (suburbs) to load up on their traditional food items. When the new Asian Market at 440 was in the works, it was in a better location, and was going to be a bigger store. So 555 was doomed.

I remember the Foodmart International (where the Target is now) back in the mid 1990s. The owner of the property (LaFrak?) decided an Asian market back then didn't fit with the ethnicity / shopping needs of their tenants. The lease wasn't renewed. Now that store was YUGE! Lots of live fish in tanks.

Foodmart International was awesome and the fish section was freshy fresh.

Target prolly came in at MUCH higher rent so they got tossed.

555 was a disgusting filthy place with many outdated items kept on the shelf - let alone the nasty hot counter they had set up.