brewster wrote:
If NJ and JC want to look busy passing laws to protect citizens health, I've got a great one: get rid of SM MED and LG drinks at fast foods and require they be rated in ounces. I ordered a medium soda at Burger King and it was a freaking QUART! If it was Coke it would have 91g of sugar, that's 23 teaspoons. And people are hysterical about GMO labeling?

Yvonne wrote:
Our lifespan is largely based on genetics. That doesn't mean we cannot harm our lifespan by smoking and other practices. Last month the Jersey Journal ran an article about a black woman who is over 100 years old. She still eats 4 slices of bacon every day plus eggs. She comes from a great genetic pool.

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I don't think you quite understand how Uber works for drivers. Once a driver accepts a fare, he is no longer able to accept other fares. So, he HAS to cancel, otherwise he risks losing out on whatever he fares he is hoping to get. As soon as you tell him you have no intention to cancel, he will get pissy, and after a minute or so, he WILL cancel.

I got an A+ in Uber class and have been using it long enough and often enough to know, haha. Yes, I know they can't take another rider until the present ride is canceled, but some of them are a**holes and don't wanna cancel and not risk a mark against their records. Apparently, they'd rather play chicken with the rider and not take another rider. Or, a more likely scenario, they're on their way to NYC on the highway and gave up on getting a passenger to NY and don't care if they can pick up a ride.

I've had drivers accept my pick up from newport and then just skip out and head to NYC through the tunnel and not cancel. I have no choice but to cancel at that point. Only option is to report them.

CatDog wrote:
I'm all in favor of additional expansion of commercial enterprise and restaurants and everything, and taller buildings. But I hope Prato gets shut down. The city needs to stop giving variances and re-zoning to everybody that comes crawling over.

If Prato wanted to open a restaurant, they should have done their homework and found a place that was zoned properly. The people that moved to that block did so knowing that there was not a restaurant with backyard seating, and all of a sudden there will be a bunch of noise in their backyard every night just because Prato didn't do their homework?

Same goes with all these developers asking for variances to build taller otherwise they can't make any money. I would like to see JC buildings go taller, but it's not our damn problem if you paid too much for your land! Do your research ahead of time and make a plan that will make you money, rather than buying in and then bitching about how you need a variance.

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This same establishment also could care less when we would call at 3 am on a Thursday to say it was too loud. Or at 4 am on a Tuesday.

Do you live in Jersey City? Which bar stays open until 3 and 4 am on a weekday? Bars are closed in Jersey City at 2 am on a weekday and 3 am on the weekend.

foshizigity00 wrote:
i totally support it.

Erobinsonh wrote:
Here is tonight's Board of Adjustment agenda (6:30pm at City Council chambers in City Hall)

http://www.cityofjerseycity.com/uploa ... d_Agenda/zb102915.agn.pdf

The second and third buildings on the agenda are in the Village and are asking for variances - 2 extra stories each.

20 parking spaces for 45 units at 380 Newark (NC zoning), 0 parking spaces for 14 units at 375 Fifth Street (R1 zoning)

OneSkirt wrote:
Its true...

Did Jersey City council president break federal law with endorsement at public meeting?

Yvonne wrote:
For a person who was not there, you are stating misinformation! Are you working for the administration?

JPhurst wrote:
Obviously it is wrong, though Kopko, a Bayonne resident, is realistically speaking as a candidate not a citizen. He has been trying to bait people by making unfounded accusations and smears.

Yvonne and others often complain that when the same talking heads speak up in public comment, that the Council ignores them. Now when they speak, Yvonne decries it for being "political."

Nevertheless, if Rolando explicitly made an endorsement of candidates from the podium it is clearly inappropriate. But I have no interest in nurturing Kopko's whining victim attitude that he has shamefully displayed throughout this campaign.

DanL wrote:
sounds like you would be interested in reading this blog -

http://njeducationaid.blogspot.com

unfortunately it is published anonymously, so take it for what it is.

and particularly these posts (just search Jersey City) -

http://njeducationaid.blogspot.com/20 ... should-not-be-abbott.html

http://njeducationaid.blogspot.com/20 ... law-center-report-on.html

http://njeducationaid.blogspot.com/20 ... aise-their-own-taxes.html

http://njeducationaid.blogspot.com/20 ... cally-hoboken-has-no.html

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JCGuys wrote:
With all the new luxury development going on in Jersey City... I'm left wondering when the Abbott district subsidies will end.

The luxury development boom is confined to one small area of Jersey City. You will not find any luxury developments in the Heights, where I live; you will see a lot of children in an area with low incomes though - http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Jersey-City-New-Jersey.html - and I think you would need to determine if the criteria from Abbott II still apply:

- must be those with the lowest socio-economic status, thus assigned to the lowest categories on the New Jersey Department of Education's District Factor Groups (DFG) scale;

- "evidence of substantive failure of thorough and efficient education;"

- have a large percentage of disadvantaged students who need "an education beyond the norm;"

- existence of an "excessive tax [for] municipal services" in the locality where the district is located.

The last issue has been much discussed/lamented on this board, I suspect it still applies along with the other criteria.

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elsquid wrote:
Join the Friends of Liberty State Park for a day of protest, Sun. Nov. 1 in the park, featuring a Solidarity Bike Ride with Bike JC at noon, followed by 4 bands in Rock Against Privatization.

Solidarity Bike Ride & Rock Against Privatization

Would never give money to Friends of Liberty State Park for its partisan billboard which unfairly places all of the blame on the gov. It appears the organizes of this protest are totally clueless on where they should direct their anger: the legislature.

There are many, many things which can be pinned squarely on the gov but this is not one of them.

Christie's administration pushed this sneaky piece of $hit through at the last second. Then said they would revise it but either way still want to sell out Liberty State Park.

He signed this garbage.

bustjc wrote:
Well thanks to all of the tax abatements for up to 30 years all the full taxing base in Jersey City would be on the hook for the difference basically it's wealthy welfare.

Hoboken and Jersey City can't be lumped together as Jersey City has a larger population. A larger portion of that population also lives below the poverty line.

elsquid wrote:
Join the Friends of Liberty State Park for a day of protest, Sun. Nov. 1 in the park, featuring a Solidarity Bike Ride with Bike JC at noon, followed by 4 bands in Rock Against Privatization.

Solidarity Bike Ride & Rock Against Privatization

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JCGuys wrote:
Anything that can block the view and noise from the overpass is a positive in my books.

Anything? A nuclear power plant? A 24-hour beer garden/disco/casino? Another Goldman Sachs tower?

Why not a 5-story building? Given the current real estate boom, I doubt it's really a choice of 7 stories or nothing at all.

Should we even have zoning? Should we try to preserve the character of the Village, or just let the developers do whatever they want and just let this place turn into Houston?

JCMan8 wrote:
Yeah, so it's the bar owner's fault this guy decided to drive while piss drunk, endangering the lives of everyone on the road? And himself obviously.

The lawsuit accuses employees of the Powerhouse Lounge on Marin Boulevard of continuing to serve Pych alcohol even though they should have realized he was intoxicated. And they "carelessly and negligently" allowed him to leave the lounge while drunk and he died after losing control of his car, the lawsuit alleges.

nafco wrote:
Too bad we cant consolidate all the wasted redundant agencies that bleed money from the townships into single agencies for all of Hudson County. Its wasteful to have so many separate city halls, police stations. Waste agencies, parking authorities, etc for an area as small as Hudson County when they could be merged and managed more properly.

MoloTov wrote:
Fyi I actually think the entire Hasidic community...