user1111 wrote:
I was groped, poked, etc. Never took a photo, I usually yell.

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vindication15 wrote:
downtown has their share of 99 cent stores and cheapo stores - sleep cheap, rainbow, payless, store across the street with barcade that smells and sells probably stolen nick nacks, etc.

Although the variety is definitely better than the heights.

It's not a hard concept but if you have a bunch of 99 cent/cheapo stores, you're not going to get the demographic that will help you increase your property values.

When a brooks brothers opens up in Manhattan, no one says, "we don't need an overpriced suit store." That is such a horrible attitude

If anything you should WANT and BEG for the overpriced stores to come so the type of people which those stores cater to might give your neighborhood a second look.

What impression do you think people have when they walk down central ave or even newark ave and see all those 99 cent cheapo stores? The impression isn't, "wow, this place is affordable, let me live here." It's "wow, the ghetto.."

When people walk down saks fifth ave in nyc, they are impressed and aspire to live there. JC should have that attitude. Again, not a hard concept and the only way to increase your property values besides major connections to NYC and a major improvement in public schools. Of the three, improving local businesses is the most viable...

You should move into the Short Hills Mall.

I LOL'd so hard I wet my Brooks Bros. suit But seriously, I think we should all write tasteful notes to Tiffany, on our engraved stationery, suggesting that they open in the Borinquen Hardware space. Facing Europa would actually be casting pearls before swine.

That's the best suggestion I've heard from you. If only you weren't joking.

I actually don't think the people of JC are "swine." Maybe only those who shop at the 99 cent stores and places with the word "cheap" in them.

If whole foods or trader joes actually opened in JC, we would attract more of the people that have made JC somewhat better - those people who can actually afford a brooks bother suit. Most of them already live in Newport, another area that is hated on by many of you.

I want to reiterate that if you want property values to rise, you need those people. However, you can have all your "dinginess" (a nice word for the ghetto I suppose) and resell your place for less than 25% of what a comparable property goes for in nyc and less than 50% of what a comparable property goes for in dtjc.

Hey heights owners, you can still look at greenville and bl and say your homes are worth more...whatever that is worth (not much..in dollar terms of course).

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downtown has their share of 99 cent stores and cheapo stores - sleep cheap, rainbow, payless, store across the street with barcade that smells and sells probably stolen nick nacks, etc.

Although the variety is definitely better than the heights.

It's not a hard concept but if you have a bunch of 99 cent/cheapo stores, you're not going to get the demographic that will help you increase your property values.

When a brooks brothers opens up in Manhattan, no one says, "we don't need an overpriced suit store." That is such a horrible attitude

If anything you should WANT and BEG for the overpriced stores to come so the type of people which those stores cater to might give your neighborhood a second look.

What impression do you think people have when they walk down central ave or even newark ave and see all those 99 cent cheapo stores? The impression isn't, "wow, this place is affordable, let me live here." It's "wow, the ghetto.."

When people walk down saks fifth ave in nyc, they are impressed and aspire to live there. JC should have that attitude. Again, not a hard concept and the only way to increase your property values besides major connections to NYC and a major improvement in public schools. Of the three, improving local businesses is the most viable...

You should move into the Short Hills Mall.

HPYC wrote:
I just got a HOT TIP from a broker friend for something called the "East India Company." Looks like it can only go up - thinking of mortgaging the old house and plunking some change down on this. Woo hoo.

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Seagull wrote:
Just Google "cheap tile" and up pops the crap they're using for their interior. Makes me wonder about the future quality of the food.

Actually, I saw white subway tiles, which are a simple looking tile, but kind of a classic look IMO.

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JCorNYC wrote:
Buon Appetito is great! Great pasta. Great pizza. Great salad. Great soup. No complaints. Papa John is another favorite.

Hopefully the new owners of Buon Appetito will continue keep the same consistency as the original Bayonne owner started out to do. I don't think Papa John's should be included in this because they are a chain operation and the recipe and equipment differs from the usual type of pizza fare.

mfadam wrote:
Perhaps an individual home buyer could buy a JC property and loosely proxy hedge their home asset by shorting the REIT...

mfadam wrote:
If their goal is to maximize cashflow they will simply do floor thru rental units on every property. I'm not sure houses would be selling as quickly if you didn't have sovereign wealth funds buying.

heights wrote:
Well at least J.C. will get some affodable housing and with section 8 the government can help support the maintenance costs involved with home ownership. I wonder if they own the old State theater apartment building at the Square ?