I think it happened at Reservoir and Central.

We really do have to make it clear that dumping is unacceptable. The problem is city-wide. Check out the cliff-side between Hoboken and JC Heights along Ravine Road, or along Mountain Road/Franklin. It's disgraceful!
I believe a group from Goldman Sachs volunteer to clean it up periodically--but really fines should be levied by the city on those people who treat the street like a dump.
I say we inundate J.C.I.A. with service requests online and with phone calls to report dump-sites and known dumpers. These scofflaws are creatures of habit and until we make those habits extremely unpleasant it will continue to destroy the potential of this city (ditto for the JCIA--make it their interest to clean up the city).

OK, so now all we have to do is get digital billboards playing this PSA all over the city

Hey, jcnight, it was certainly meant with TLC

We should have recycling receptacles right next to trash cans on our streets (if the city will allow us to have trash cans).

I think we need to start a city campaign about littering.
Does anyone remember the Native American with the tear running down his cheek as he finds garbage being dumped on the highway & in rivers?
It was a PSA played on Saturday morning TV, so kids were its audience (of course this may have been before many here on JClist were born).
Educate the kids and their parents will be shamed into following.

I just called the freeholders and Executive Tom DeGise
I wish I could attend the meeting tonight. I am out of town. I hope there is a huge turn out against building on the cliffs.


County Executive DeGise and the freeholders can be contacted at 201.795.6001; 201.795.6000; or 201.795.6200; fax 201.217.0404 or 201.714.4825.

District 1: Doreen McAndrew DiDomenico, Chairman (Bayonne and parts of Jersey City)
District 2: William O'Dea, Chairman Pro Tempore (parts of Jersey City)
District 3: Jeffrey Dublin (parts of Jersey City)
District 4: Eliu Rivera (parts of Jersey City)
District 5: Anthony Romano (Hoboken and parts of Jersey City)
District 6: Tilo Rivas, Vice-Chairman (Union City)
District 7: Jose C. Mu?oz (West New York, Weekhawken, Guttenberg)
District 8: Thomas Liggio (North Bergen and parts of Jersey City and Secaucus)
District 9: Albert Cifelli (East Newark, Harrison, Kearny and parts of Secaucus)

Actually, jcnight, your mail belongs in the recycling.

Hooray! Please keep us posted on any progress. And thank you for taking action. It's an inspiration.

The garbage on our streets is a real problem. We really need a campaign to stop the littering. It sure would be a money maker if the city would actually issue summons on these kinds of quality of life violations (including not curbing dogs).
It will only get worse with budget cuts, etc.
One thing we can do is to call and report trash violations. Or go online to the J.C. City Hall website and make a service request. I believe you can track the progress of your request:
http://mygovhelp.com/jerseycitynj/_cs ... t.aspx?cat=0&sSessionID=&

We have to make ourselves heard. Be a squeaky wheel...

If you have seen this resident throw household trash in public trash receptacles, and you know his address, you should go ahead and call JCIA. This is reason enough for them to "stake" it out and give him a summons. It would be a real boost to my moral if someone in this city finally has to pay for behaving badly. I would cheer you!

OK, so what is the next step for those opposed to this pipeline?

@ExUWSguy, I'm with you in wondering whether a pattern is developing. There have been many similar incidents in and around the Heights of men being jumped, beaten and robbed of their cellphones, cash, etc. by three male "hoodie" wearing criminals--not to mention that I've sensed a more profound "not-so-friendly" vibe while walking on the streets lately in the Heights. I love our neighborhood and think there's great potential here, but I do note a decline lately.
I think a Neighborhood Watch would be a good idea--perhaps a community meeting with the North District police (I do belong to two different Neighborhood Associations and attend their meetings). Any other ideas?

We have always had national standards in public education and well we should. There are certain things that every American child should know--period. This makes a federal standard very useful and entirely appropriate. It is not "cookie cutter." It is not "forcing one person's world view on complete strangers." It is simply ensuring that our education system turns out children ready, able and worthy of being functioning members of society. Public school was founded with a mission to provide the best and equal education, regardless of economic status.
Every child should graduate learning physics, history, calculus, English composition and literature and most importantly, critical thinking and civics. We've fallen short of that goal, and it is certainly a shame. But hopefully we will be back on track.

Woo hoo! Thanks for posting this ;) I hope to see you and many others there (with signs).

Has anyone participating in the tax revolt attended these meetings?
If we're interested in making changes, like budget reform and forging an ethics based Jersey City government (I know, ha ha), we should try to attend, just as we've attended the council meetings.

Let's lose the pessimism the next round and do our part.
The tax payers need to continue to show up at these council meetings and speak up. If we don't show up--we've lost. If you can't make the meetings, call the council members, call the mayor. Don't let this drop.

Dump McCann this April and clean up Jersey City. No more felons in local government. History is history. Leave the past in the past.

OK, what to do? We need to clean up City Hall--starting with setting standards of conduct. If you're under inditement, we say: "You're fired!"
Demand Vega resign.
In Hoboken the residents marched on City Hall to demand the Mayor resign. I was there, so I know it actually happened. Had I not been there, I never would have believed it possible to rouse and wake the residents.
If Hoboken can do it, surely Jersey City can!

This is the third incident of this kind in the Heights in less than a week.

So where does the city stand now on animal control issues?
I believe the City Council rejected Steve Fulop's idea of contracting with L.H.S.

Wasn't there a similar incident on Palisade Ave & Hutton last week? A man getting out of taxi was knocked to the ground by three or four men, beaten and they took his cell phone:

http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerse ... 66909949297740.xml&coll=3

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Exactly.

The folks in contact with the feral cats will foster and care for those who are adoptable and TNR those who are wild.
On Valentine's Day there was an adoption event at the Grassroots center @ 54 Coles @ 3rd Street.:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Companion-Animal-Trust/144611599448

I'm sure there will be more events.
There are cats right now waiting to be adopted. But there are many ways to assist in the care for feral cats aside from hands on. TNR needs support on all levels: These organizations do accept donations ;)

Please, sign up and attend a workshop with Companion Animal Trust:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Companion-Animal-Trust/144611599448
You will learn a great deal about feral cat psychology and the differences between cats and dog rescue. It is not simply an economic preference for dogs.
A house cat's life is indeed a great deal longer than a feral cat's life. But the truth is we CAN make a difference in the ferals' lives. The stress of reproduction takes years off their lives. Helping these animals takes TIME as well as money and requires as much effort as saving the lives of dogs, but must be approached differently.
Liberty Humane Society directed me to Companion Animal trust. I am a proud owner of a humane "cat trap." and I intend to start trapping the ferals I feed. I will haul them to be spayed/neutered. I will house them through their recovery and then I will release them.
If everyone took part in this effort we would see a lot less cats on the street--not because they are dying.

It is heart-breaking to see so many cats living on the streets of Jersey City. This is a serious problem that has become out of control because there has never been a humane policy--never been ANY policy to cope with feral cats in this city. ONE would LOVE to see every cat find a home, but one must understand that not all cats can be domesticated. For the most part, a kitten has a brief window to bond with humans. Maybe feral cats are different from stray dogs. Life on the "streets" without the trauma of fertility is the best we can offer these cats. It's a reality for everywhere. I know "cat feeders" in other towns. I have asked them for guidance and they all believe in Catch-Nueter-Release. They know from experience a feral cat doesn't take to an indoor home life easily--if at all.
I wanted to move from Jersey City when I saw how many cats were living on the streets and saw so little notice taken of them. I have, thankfully, found fliers for Companion Animal Trust, a grass roots training program for concerned/horrified members of the community to begin to control the feral cat problem. They hold workshops in Jersey City. I attended one on a Saturday last July in City Hall. It changed my perspective on Jersey City and made me think I could continue to live here and maybe make a difference.
There are people all over JC who care for these cats--people who feed colonies in sweltering heat, rain,sleet, snow. They provide winter shelters and they control the population through spay/neuter. If you see a "clipped" ear--usually a left ear, you know that cat has been spayed/neutered--someone cared for that cat. I see more and more clipped ears these days and it is a relief. PLEASE do research and publicize this movement. The MOST HUMANE SYSTEM IS Catch-Neuter-Release. Check out Companion Animal Trust on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/p ... Trust/144611599448?ref=ts
or look up hobokitties.com
I don't want to forget any of these organizations working hard to make a difference--so dig into the literature out there. Ask about Catch-Neuter-Release at Liberty Humane... Of course when a street cat is friendly enough to be adopted they are indeed taken to Liberty Humane or cared for in a foster home until a forever home is found. My husband and I found a wonderful home for a sweet male, born in our neighbor's yard this October. We have his brother in our home and five other families have the rest of his litter-mates. Thankfully their mom was spayed and ear clipped! And she is alive and well, living outdoors with her winter shelter in the yard.