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MYBEAT wrote:
Are you referring to Carbro sales on fivecorners?, I remember thats where we use to go for our appliances back in the day.

How about 5 Corners Bakery they had great hard rolls there.

Seaboard wrote:
When I was a very small child in the 60's, I vaguely remember going with my Mother & Grandmother to a discount store called Topps. It was on Newark Ave past little India. The building is still there, & if you look hard, it still says Topps, although now i believe it is a warehouse of some kind. Anyone remember this?

And BTW, anyone know where I got my screenname from?

used2bjc wrote:
Erc's and The Tripoli downtown

The Journal Square Bookstore

D & G Tavern at the Junction

Pete and Dominick's at the Square

Joey Starr's long bar

Barrett's mens shop

Flag Bros. Shoes

Gimbert's Tavern

The China Clipper

The Jade

The Oyster Bay

Rutgers at the Square

The Tivoli

Bruno's

Simonetti and Sullivan and Levy's on Monticello Ave.

The Jewish Community Center

The CYO

Elite Billiards

Tarlow Billiards

Jersey Academy

The Ukranian School

The Captains Table

The Hudson Dispatch

When The Jersey Journal was a real newspaper!

The Hilltop

Tennis at the armory

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MYBEAT wrote:
*jUPITORS on Central ave

Jupiters? you must be a kid. That's that "new" store that moved in after Kresge's 5&10 closed.
Also:

The "ragman" with his horse and wagon.

Cops on 3 wheeled motorcycles.

Cops with 38's and cartridge belts full of REAL bullets that were exactly at little kid eye level.

The mayor who was not a U.S. citizen.

The mayor who was a doctor

The huge, loud helicopter shuttle between the PanAm building and Newark airport that flew directly over MY house.

The mini hook and ladder fire engine ride that rode you around the block (what a ripoff, that ride sucked).

When there was absolutely no reason to ever go to Secaucus because there was absolutely nothing there.

GrovePath wrote:
King pleads guilty to extortion

By MATT FRIEDMAN, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter

Former Jersey City council candidate Jimmy King, a veteran of the Hudson County political scene with a deep resume in government, pleaded guilty today to accepting bribes from a federal informant posing as a developer.

King, 67, took two $5,000 cash payments from FBI informant Solomon Dwek during his unsuccessful campaign for a Ward C council seat earlier this year and agreed to accept more money after the election. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion and is set to be sentenced on January 5.

?Although we are pleased with the outcome in the case against Mr. King, we cannot declare victory in our fight against public corruption,? said FBI Special Agent in Charge Weysan Dun. ?We continue to ask the public to contact us with information about corruption, no matter how insignificant one may think it is. We will treat every lead with confidentiality and urgency.?

Until his arrest in July, King ran the Jimmy King Civic Association. He is a former Hudson County undersheriff, Hudson County Director for Public Resources, Executive Director of the Jersey City Parking Authority and Chairman of the Jersey City Incinerator Authority.

According to the criminal complaint against King, Dwek mentioned an application for a fictitious Garfield Avenue development project he planned.

?I don?t care what it is. It?s done,? King told him. ?[n]ame it. Done.?

King has agreed to pay $7,500 in restitution. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

King made headlines between the May municipal election and the July corruption bust for challenging the residency of the election?s winning candidate, Nidia Lopez. Although his name still appears on the latest court documents, King has passed that case on to good government activist Norrice Raymaker, who finished behind him in the race.

Matt Friedman is a PolitickerNJ.com Reporter and can be reached via email at matt@politicsnj.com.

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GlitterQueen wrote:
MikeyTBC... your initial thought should be to believe the child. your thought process is why children keep sexual and physical abuse to themselves

It seems that there's more evidence than just the child's word in this case.

But most accusations of such are false. Certainly from a statistical standpoint it does not make sense to believe the child first.

It is also not exactly compatible with our innocent-until-proven-guilty system.

Children learn at some age that they have absolute power over adults if they make certain accusations. And while this case doesn't seem anything like that, certainly "your initial thought should be to believe the child" is a thinking process that will ruin a lot of innocent lives and protect no children.

Problem with your train of thought is, that most pedaphiles
will take advantage of what you bring to light, that is that the child may be making the story up and in some cases thats true, but how many cases go un-reported and the pedaphile allowed to continue abusing children.


Problem with your theory is that your thought process tend to lock up an innocent people, which is the worst possible scenario.

jclxz wrote:
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GlitterQueen wrote:
MikeyTBC... your initial thought should be to believe the child. your thought process is why children keep sexual and physical abuse to themselves

It seems that there's more evidence than just the child's word in this case.

But most accusations of such are false. Certainly from a statistical standpoint it does not make sense to believe the child first.

It is also not exactly compatible with our innocent-until-proven-guilty system.

Children learn at some age that they have absolute power over adults if they make certain accusations. And while this case doesn't seem anything like that, certainly "your initial thought should be to believe the child" is a thinking process that will ruin a lot of innocent lives and protect no children.

FrGuidoSarducci wrote:
It's safe to say that Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy has not hadgood luck with his deputy mayors -- at least if criminal charges are any measure.
Three of the mayor's four picks have been arrested.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... arrest_rate_should_j.html

$104K for Kabili Tayari ?! WTF ?!

The man is a do nothing weasel.

GrovePath wrote:
SLY PATH COP CANS 'MUGGERS'

By PHILIP MESSING
New York Post

LOCKED IN: A Port Authority officer trapped an alleged gang in the PATH train until more police could arrive.

He outfoxed a wolfpack.

A quick-thinking Port Authority cop corralled a crew of gang-bangers who mugged a passenger on the PATH train -- simply by locking the doors on their subway car until backup arrived, sources said.

The thugs were so furious, they allegedly threatened to kill the officer.

The events unfolded about 6 a.m. Friday, when Officer John Roche responded to a passenger alert on the PATH train as it neared the Grove Street station in Jersey City.

Shine-Amon Sky, 37, of Manhattan, said he was on his way to work when he fell asleep and was beaten up by a group of thugs.

They had stolen his cigarettes while he dozed. When he awoke and demanded them back, they threw him to the ground and stole his cellphone, the sources said.

Sky led Roche through the train until they found the alleged attackers, who had all congregated into one car.

Seeing he was outnumbered, Roche radioed the conductor and told him to lock the car's doors while he called for backup, the sources said.

The conductor then held the train between stations until backup officers arrived at the Grove Street stop. When the train pulled in, the alleged gang members were all easily arrested.

Five adults were arrested: Ronald Lumpkin, 21, of Montclair and Deyshown DeSmith, 19, Marcus Terry, 19, Jovan Brown, 21, and Hassan Bates, 21, all of Newark. They were charged with robbery, assault, riot and disorderly conduct, and recruitment of a street gang, cops said.

Four juveniles -- three girls and a boy -- were charged with robbery, assault, riot and disorderly conduct, according to cops.

Two of the juvenile girls were also hit with another charge -- making terrorist threats -- when they vowed to cops that they would kill Roche for catching them.

"The Port Authority Police Department is aware of this threat and taking it seriously," a source said.

The assailants all allegedly have gang affiliations, cops said, including the Bevin Street Bloods and the 464 PIRU, named after Piru Street in Compton, Calif.

marybarr wrote:
I pray for the police officers and thier well-being. These two that were killed were nutz to fire on police or maybe suicidal. HOWEVER I have been here two years and it HAS been relatively quiet. Crime IS down. I just really hate it when this had nothing to do with drugs and the news keeps mentioning drug dealers, drug area, yadda, yadda. That is propaganda to get the public to tie in all crime with drugs so that legislation to change non-violent drug offenses won't be put through and to get the public to fear drug users, recreational or otherwise. They never mention that if we regulated drugs the streets would be safer for the public and police, getting rid of over 70% of the black market.

NewHeights wrote:
The officer thats in the most crirtical condition, a arrested the scumbag that shot him, several years ago.

JRL wrote:
I attended the meetings at City Hall tonight and just can not believe how most of these clowns got elected. While listening to them vote on the PPG Industries to remediate the chromium contamination, they were all except Fulop a rubber stamp. While yes this needs to be done, it must be done accurately and safely. Fulop eloquently explained why Jersey City should not move forward at this time until it can be done right. The other Council Members babbled on coming off clueless. Gaughan look like he could care less and did not want to be there. Brennan babbled on and could not even articulate his point on why he voted yes. He is a total goon. The rest of them probably don't even know what they were voting yes on. How does a city like Jersey City that could become a world class city end up with these clowns. We can only hope the next for years goes by fast and the citizens if Jersey City wake the hell up and vote in educated and articulate council members such as Fulop.

LoKo498 wrote:
First of all, Brian McGovern is a Blackbelt so I doubt he started whatever happened. Im sure he was defending his self down Point Pleasant Beach.
Now Officer Kevin Cieslak, a two-year member of the department, How do you explain driving 89-miles-per hour in a 25-mile-per-hour zone after allegedly being involved in a collision with a bread truck and he left the scene of the accident. But how do you do 89 MPH after colliding with a bread truck anyway rookie???

alanwright wrote:
a brief reminder:

in the land of the free, we presume a defendant is innocent until the guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt

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Witness leads cops to much-convicted burglar

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A Jersey City man who has already served four prison terms was arrested Friday on burglary charges after he was fingered by a witness, officials said.

how can you guys say the jersey journal doesn't have good pieces... where is this man's pulitzer?

Charon wrote:
Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy was re-elected today -- a first-ballot win in a race with four opponents.

Healy, who at last count had nearly 53 percent of the vote, trounced his closest contender, former Assemblyman Lou Manzo, who had 26 percent of the vote.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... healy_reelected_mayo.html

elvis wrote:
What are the odds Healy's biggest hater just happens to witness this? Slim and NONE! A few days from now, after all this is over and all these guys are done complaining, then the site will turn back into dog poop and tacos.

This is a last ditch effort smear-job

CapnJon wrote:
JRL, whatever, we know you hate healy, and you've said so much against him, i'll take your evaluation with a grain of salt. and based on your earlier posts, i'm suprised you didn't karate chop them all with your muscle bound roid rage.



when i voted in ward d this morning, manzo was out front with about ten men, with shaved heads and suits (a few of them i know to be detectives/cops) and they were standing in front of the doors of the voting station. just as much voter intimidation there....