I call em' like I see em' It was not an insult but an observation.

"The paper says he was only here 7 months from Puerto Rico so that means he didn't speak clear english."

I am speechless. Are you that ignorant?

This is a real tragedy. RIP

Nice work JCPD. Hopefully these "kids" will be charged as adults and rot in jail. If they are charged as juveniles, they will likely be out of juvie in time to celebrate their 18th birthday (probably by jumping some other poor bastard).

Skinner's Loft on Newark usually has a really nice selection on tap, including Fuller's ESB, and some variety of LaChouffe.

Last time I was there they had Aventinus on tap - delicious

Hopefully he goes to jail for more than 1 year this time.

We should organize a beer club or beer tastings in JC. I think LITM does beer tastings every now and then. Does anyone know of other places in JC that do beer tastings?

Anyone know how JC real estate fared at the end of last year?

A Sharp Drop in Home Prices at End of Year

By JACK HEALY

Published: February 24, 2009

Home prices in the United States plunged at the fastest pace on record in December, a sign that housing is likely to continue declining in the months ahead as the economy sinks deeper into recession.

Single-family home values in 20 major metropolitan areas fell 18.5 percent in December compared with a year earlier, according to a data released Tuesday by Standard & Poor?s Case-Shiller home price index. Housing prices dropped 2.5 percent from November to December.

Nationwide, housing prices in the last three months of 2008 sank to their lowest levels since the third quarter of 2003.

Prices fell in all of the 20 cities surveyed by Case-Shiller, but the declines were starkest in Phoenix and Las Vegas as well as much of Florida and Southern California, where development has all but dried up.

?The Sun Belt continues to get hardest hit in terms of just about any measure,? said David M. Blitzer, chairman of Standard & Poor?s index committee.

Prices in Phoenix fell 5.1 percent in December alone, and were down 34 percent since December 2007. In Las Vegas, which was recently rated ?America?s emptiest city? by Forbes magazine, prices dropped 4.8 percent in December and were down 33 percent for the year.

The declines for 2008 were shallowest in Dallas and Denver, where prices fell about 4 percent.

Housing prices are now falling so quickly that economists worried that potential buyers will stay on the sidelines and wait for the market to deteriorate further, reinforcing the downward momentum.

?It?s a deflationary spiral,? said Dan Greenhaus, an analyst in the equity strategy division of Miller Tabak & Company. ?Prices go down, people hold back, prices go down further, people hold back, and so on and so forth.? Although houses are now cheaper and mortgage rates have fallen to 5.22 percent from 6.10 percent about a year ago, the rapidly deteriorating economy and rising unemployment have scared off potential buyers, economists said. The unemployment rate has risen to 7.6 percent nationwide, and the economy is shedding more than 500,000 jobs every month.

?We continue to believe that it is unlikely that we are anywhere near a bottom in nationwide home prices,? Joshua Shapiro, chief United States economist at MFR, wrote in a note.

Since the recession began in December 2007, the pace of declines in housing prices has accelerated as the financial crisis spread and unemployment rose.

According to the National Association of Realtors, the country?s median home price was $175,400 in December, down nearly 25 percent from its peak of $230,100 in July 2006.

The two-year decline in real-estate prices followed more than a decade of steady growth in home prices.

Top 10 Domestics, in no particular order:

1- Abita Turbo Dog

2- Brooklyn Pennant Pale Ale

3- Long Trail Ale

4- Geary's Pale Ale

5- Blue Point Hoptical Illusion

6- Allagash White

7- Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA

8- Victory Golden Monkey

9- Berkshire Brewing Co. (all of their varieties)

10- Three Philosophers

I hope they get sent to federal pound me in the ass prison.

This is excellent news. The thugs and dealers who operate in this park with complete impunity need to be stopped and made an example of.

It sucks that those dogs will probably be put down because of an ignorant, irresponsible owner.

Anyone know whether this project is on schedule?

Any one know which Jersey City marina they took the plane to?

Kids is this city are animals - at least the ones I've had the pleasure of encountering. Just take a walk through 2nd st. b/w Coles & Jersey any afternoon after school lets out. They hang out on the stoops, toss their trash everywhere, and yell obscenities at people. Bunch of savages in this town.

You can always throw rocks at them if you see them again.

I think I've dealt with the same douchebag. A few weeks ago my wife (who was 8 mos pregnant) was home alone, and the UPS guy rang our doorbell. My wife told him she was pregnant and nicely asked him to come up to our 3rd floor walkup, as other UPS drivers regularly do. The guy responded "we don't do that," and made her come down the stairs for the box. Douche...

This place is awesome...great coffee and baked goods, and excellent atmosphere and good tunes. A great addition to the neighborhood...

Yes - Let's elect a guy that can't take care of a trash problem in front of his own store to a post that would require him to take care of the trash problems in an entire ward - Go Pizza Man!

I heard from the owner, and he is going to use the first floor as gallery space/art studio, and there will be apartments above. It looks like they have done an amazing job of restoring the building.

Bunch of savages in this town...

I have never experienced any "surly attitude" or bad vibes from anyone at taqueria. The food there is delicious, fresh, and cheap, and I'll keep giving them my business as long as its stays that way

This place sucks. They sell marked up shop-rite brand stuff??? I tried handing the cashier person a plastic reusable bag I brought from home, and she looked completely puzzled. The charged me for apple juice by the pound!!! We only realized when we got home that we had been charged $8 for apple juice. This place has nothing on A&P

Saw a guy today on the way to WTC with his pinky so far up his nose that I thought he lost his finger. After finding some precious booty in his nose, he proceeded to flick the sunken treasure - classic

Went for dinner tonight. The endive salad was delicious. The Arctic Char was ok - but a bit overcooked. My wife's meal, however, was a disaster. She ordered the potato, truffle, leek ravioli in a cream sauce. First bite she took, the ravioli was ice cold inside. Frozen Ravioli!!!?? When we informed the waiter, he apologized and came back 10 mins later with what looked like a bowl of soup with several floating ravioli in it. Rather than actually re-do the dish properly, it appeared as though they tried to re-heat the same frozen ravioli in a bowl of milk. It was nasty and tasteless. Worst of all, they didn't even comp the nasty ravioli entree. Great way to encourage business. Needless to say, we won't be back.

Just picked some up on my way home...delicious

Thank you all for the helpful posts.

What about Hoboken Univ. Medical Center? I read they just underwent a substantial renovation -

Any word on this place? How is the maternity ward/suites?