fat-ass-bike wrote:
Payback time for graffitists.

Get a balloon filled with paint then once the culprit is located, bomb their house, car, bike and any other personal items they own.............even if they live at home, the parents cop it for being crap parents and not instilling the basic values of society in their kids.
Don't have kids if you don't want to be accountable for them !

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jaah37 wrote:
You say that we, or business owners, should be looking at what Jersey City can offer that a big city can't, please elaborate because I have no idea what your talking about.

Sure, rest of the class read chapter 2 while I go over this with jaah37.

Manhattan is the big draw, very few people are going to travel from Manhattan or Brooklyn to visit Jersey City. Many people that live in Jersey City do so only because it is close to Manhattan, they live here but work and for the most part, shop, drink and eat there.
They live here because Jersey City offers them something that Manhattan can't, a lower rent and/or more space.
If you want to bring people to Jersey City to spend money you have to offer something the big city doesn't or can't, not the same thing.

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A piece of me dies every time I cross the turnpike extension and see a town trying to be Hoboken and Williamsburgs love child. If there was an icon for a face with a tear coming down I'd use it.

You've absolutely hit the nail on the head, 100% correct.
I couldn't have been more excited for the beer garden to open, a year later wild horses could not drag me there. It's a soulless, sanitized, shithole. An aircraft hanger that serves beer.

Instead of edging ever closer to becoming Manhattan/Brooklyn Light maybe we, or business owners, should be looking at what Jersey City can offer that the big city can't.

alanwright wrote:
This is terrible.

Until young, single women feel safe in this town, Jersey City is going to be wading in it's own shit. I've been saying this for years.

Every night we see these kids out being punks. Every night the park on Wayne Street is racous and disgusting.

I used to be sympathetic to the concerns of folks who oppose gentrification. IanMac might now that about me; I'm not sure.

Right about now, I simply do not give a damn. I feel like Travis Bickle: turn on the tap and wash away the scum. If you can't enforce the existing law and existing regulations, folks will adapt work-arounds to skirt the law and do selfish, self-serving, destructive behaviors. Unfortunately, police resources are few and they have made priorities. (Do we use CompStat in this town?)

Most of us have lived in this town for 4-10 years and we see few improvements beyond a few restaurants, sidewalks, planters, etc.

Individuals have pushed for change through business ventures. Developers for residences. Andit seems Steve Fulop bashes his head against a wall of inept colleagues and city structures.

But these kids walk the street every night and their antics are neve stopped. The city can't handle Wayne Street Park, so they remove benches. The city has no solution for dumping, so they remove public garbage cans. The city can't figure out how to get folks into town, so they build the Columbus Autobahn. The City couldn't install a traffic light on Grand/ Barrow for 6 months. The City decided to drag their feet on Hamilton Park until... A WEEK before the election and then ruin last summer and fall with their slow work. The City sees the Green Acres money to acquire the Embankment, but they ignore it for years. The City sees schools failing and school board ineptitude, and there's a new contract for the bozo in charge.

Mostly, I've recited downtown inconveniences and problems of the past several years. Ask the folks in the Heights, Mosquito Park, Westside, JSQ, Lafayette, Bergen Hill, Greenville... their problem are worse and the solutions are fewer.

Yet, mostly we see foot-dragging, corruption, and penny-ante misbehavior from the Hudson County Democrats and their public-employee minions.

This IS a political problem. Ian didn't make it so.

BTW: Webmaster, this is another reason this website shouldn't be exclusive with it's concern. Problems and solutions can cross the imaginary border between Wards.

fedup07302 wrote:
I hear its going to have a boxing ring.

Wanna see how fast this place gets C/O after renovations as compared to OX and Atomic Wings.

Home wrote:
Are there any updates to when Phase-III work will start? Thank you.

icechute wrote:
This thread should be adapted and put on Broadway.

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ICidiots wrote:
Sounds like you have 2 choices 1. Move it yourself. or 2. live with it.

anybody have any helpful suggestions?

DCofJC wrote:
yeah, the potential loitering drug dealers are actually outside of Frank's pizzeria/Rivera's Grocery on the corner of 4th and monmouth. I'm watching though, and I have cameras. I will catch them if that's what they are actually doing. Either way, they are young adult losers who obviously don't work for a living and make people walking by uncomfortable. And no, they aren't black.

Vigilante wrote:
The budget crisis in JC could be solved easily in a matter of months. If the JCPD would make a more concerted effort to enforce the traffic laws then the money would come rolling in. The amount of horrible and inconsiderate drivers here and elsewhere throughout NJ is staggering. How many times a day do you see someone run a Stop-sign or a Red light? How often do you see drivers failing to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks? I have no sympathy for someone who would play chicken with a TRAIN. They got EXACTLY what they deserved. I hope they are forced to pay for the damage to the Light-rail train.

moobycow wrote:
I hear nothing but complaints about our antiquated water supply on this board, until they want to raise rates.

The simple fact of the matter is that most of the country (JC included) has been paying below the cost of infrastructure maintenance on all sorts of things, including water.

The cost of putting off repairs and upgrades for decades is sudden and drastic increases when repairs can no longer be put off.

As evidenced by monthly water main breaks in JC repairs can no longer be put off. I doubt these increases come close to actually paying for all the upgrades that are needed.

mattm wrote:
I would like to visit Tommy C at his place of work spend a few hours there and then issue my report card to all of his vendors, is that really an appropriate way to treat a new business owner?

lefty55 wrote:
check your PM

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Shadow wrote:
It might help if they make the storefront more welcoming by keeping the gate open during business hours. Take a cue from Sweetie.

+1. I think that place would really benefit from a makeover. Maybe someone could sell another spinoff from 'Extreme Makeover'.

emergent wrote:
Just got a call from a friend claiming the Sand Bar is on fire? Anyone heard anything?

Damian wrote:
Cafe Nia was great, always great food. They made everything fresh on the spot. I have never been disappointed there. However their opening hours killed them. By closing at 3pm on weekends you are missing that late afternoon crowd. By closing by 5pm on weekdays you loose the after work eaters. By closing ah hoc for a week at a time a few times a year would not help sustain a consistency need to run a business.

I would eat there twice a week but frankly during the last 2 months of them being open you would show up and half the time it would be closed.

There is enough foot traffic in that area to keep a business going. Look at Madam Claudes, Abbeys, slightly off the beaten path (more so than Cafe Nia) but they make it work.

I hope Cafe Nia comes back or someone with a similar business model because it will work, maybe after a few tweaks but it will work.

Amy wrote:
If B&N in Hoboken is closing, what about there? Maybe Trader Joe's could buy or lease that public parking lot next to it.

Saradove wrote:
Please don't park at crosswalks, especially with all the snow piled up. Walking home from the Grove Street PATH station last night I came upon two cars parked smack-dab at cleared crosswalks.

Maybe I should start carrying an indelible marker to leave notes directly on the offending autos.