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As distasteful as the appearance of a high-ranking government official seeming to get preferential treatment is, you make a good point as to why the process should allow for overrulings. The Historic Preservation Commission is concerned only with appearances and what appears to be slavish re-creation of the past, with no "real life" considerations or value of the, in this case, historic residents.
Posted on: 2006/11/14 1:08
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Re: Downtown Jersey City -- as seen by college students - Rutgers Online
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Yes, I often see them as they "seem to reluctantly clutch their Rutgers sweatshirts, resenting them for not being Harvard or another ivy league and for reminding the upwardly mobile soon to be middle-management types that they have not fully overtaken the blue-collar ways of this town, where many commute to their suburban NJ jobs via their no longer new Volkswagen Passats." or something like that.
Posted on: 2006/11/12 18:06
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Re: Downtown Jersey City -- as seen by college students - Rutgers Online
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oooh, somebody wants to be a journalist.
Posted on: 2006/11/12 14:11
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Re: Activists oppose 'Dogpatch' demo: 40 buildings making way for traffic improvement
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Cliches are your friends. Know them. Use them.
Posted on: 2006/10/9 15:44
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Re: Please stop the huge 9/11 memorial at LSP - it will ruin the park's views of the Manhattan skyline!
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Neither FOLSP nor anyone else could stop Christie Whitman from turning one of the last huge expanses of green into a marina/drydock/parking lot. 9/11 "helped" as the rest of the grass was turned into a park-and-ride lot in record time for thousands of bus and ferry commuters who never came. McGreevey's win over Schundler kept LSP from being turned into a water park. So why does anyone think they're going to win this one?
It's a state park and the Gov gets what the Gov wants.
Posted on: 2006/10/8 20:53
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Re: Judge -- "Anyone who thinks this gangster life is cool, this sentence will show them it isn't."
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dog pile on the rabbit!
dog pile on the rabbit! http://jamesb3.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/13/141448/171
Posted on: 2006/9/22 18:33
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Re: 'Wolf Packs' Back? 2 Dickinson students beaten by huge violent gang of 40 students
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actually, if you were the parent of a kid there, you probably wouldn't give a shit. why do you think the kids run amok?
Posted on: 2006/9/18 17:23
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Re: Mapping Crime in Ward E - Steven Fulop
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You'd better have a lot of virtual pins for all the crimes reported here: 1. Youths wearing long white t-shirts, probably gangmembers 2. Youths not wearing long white t-shirts, probably gangmembers 3. Yuppies using dead-end street as park, probably gangmembers 4. Dog off the leash, children menaced 5. Children off the leash, dogs menaced 6. CRAPKINS!! 7. Happy Hour at LITM not happy today 8. Lamb at "It's Greek to Me" was off 9. Black men looking at white women, suspect hate crime 10. White men looking at black women, suspect hate crime 11. White men looking at white men, don't know what to think, but strangely arousing 12. Neighbor's grill too close to my condo (but more importantly, he's NOT cooking Kobe beef) 13. Jersey City apparently not Georgetown, the suburbs, or Australia 14. Mayor drinking beer, DOMESTIC GODDAMN BEER! 15. Steve Fulop apparently can't fly 16. That cute girl in the office won't go out with me The list of crimes goes on...
Posted on: 2006/8/4 14:02
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Re: Mayor Healy and many Jersey City residents speak out against the design for the new 9/11 memorial
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Speaking of monstrosities blocking the skyline, any chance of getting this removed or relocated?
Posted on: 2006/7/30 23:10
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Re: Mayor Healy and many Jersey City residents speak out against the design for the new 9/11 memoria
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Posted on: 2006/7/29 23:43
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Re: Mayor Healy and many Jersey City residents speak out against the design for the new 9/11 memoria
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Posted on: 2006/7/29 15:13
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Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City
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"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir." "Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge. "Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. "And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?" "They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not." "The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge. "Both very busy, sir." "Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it." "Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?" "Nothing!" replied Scrooge. "You wish to be anonymous?" "I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there." "Many can't go there; and many would rather die." "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. ... It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"
Posted on: 2006/7/28 15:06
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Re: Mayor Healy and many Jersey City residents speak out against the design for the new 9/11 memoria
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It could have been much worse...
Posted on: 2006/7/28 14:33
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Re: 18% TAX HIKE!!!! Mine doubled???
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There are no "state property taxes". The reason the amount is more is because your mortgage co escrows more than it needs in case (or more correctly "because") property taxes increase and god knows they're not going to front their own money for taxes. They may also be collecting for mortgage insurance.
Posted on: 2006/7/24 18:19
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Re: 18% TAX HIKE!!!! Mine doubled???
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Sounds like you may have purchased a tax abated unit whose abatement has just expired. "Improvements" refers to the actual building and condo units and has nothing to do with recent improvements. Check the online inquiry and see if there were just "Land" assessments prior to this tax bill.
That may be why the owner sold.
Posted on: 2006/7/23 18:43
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Re: From Newsday - Jersey City, Newark to get huge boost in Homeland Security money.
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Any confirmation to the rumor that Bin Laden's last tape had "Indiana wants me" playing in the background? Maybe these Homeland Security guys are smarter than we thought. http://www.superseventies.com/sl_indianawantsme.html
Posted on: 2006/7/13 3:58
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Re: Newport Mall renovations
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lipstick on a pig
Posted on: 2006/7/8 14:40
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Re: Joe Vas for Congress -- See for Yourself!!!
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Not quite - per the State board of elections: http://www.state.nj.us/lps/elections/faq_voter_doe.html#a26 Independents voting in their FIRST primary can declare at the polls. After that, you need to file a party declaration 50 days prior to the primary.
Posted on: 2006/6/7 14:10
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Re: Window Boxes & Historic Police
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First, build your window boxes out of reclaimed, historic barn planks
http://www.blacksfarmwood.com/07_12_03.html Make sure they're held together with historic nails: http://www.vandykes.com/product/02220266/ or better yet, microbrew your own glue from rendered animal carcasses (VERY historic) and, of course, only heirloom tomatoes will do: http://www.heirloomtomatoes.bizland.com/ Need manure? Visit City Hall
Posted on: 2006/4/29 1:58
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Re: Should Healy resign?
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Yet somehow he can spell his name correctly. Go figure.
Posted on: 2006/3/30 0:27
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Re: Lefrak Sues Jersey City Museum
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Crummy location - no parking, in the midst of subsidized housing, not really easy walking distance from the PATH. But, like other self-important organizations, they had to have a "showcase" building. Had they considered 111 1st St, we might have that quality urban institute AND studios, but I guess that was too downmarket for their tastes.
Someday, when the Powerhouse District is flourishing, they may realize their mistake.
Posted on: 2005/10/5 0:49
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Re: Healy's Handler gets $76,500 per year
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From the city's website: Maria Pignataro, Press Secretary government 101: obviously, her salary comes from the same buckets (taxes, state aid, fees, fines, etc, etc) that every other employee's comes from. for a city jersey city's size, the mayor's having a press secretary seems to me a justifiable expense. part of that job (aside from dressing the mayor) is to promote the city, which in turn brings in investment, tourists, etc, etc. as for garbage - what annual salary would you accept to pick up garbage? $25,000? $30,000, $10,000? let's say a living wage of $12,000 (plus benefits? i wouldn't do it without benefits). so the city could hire maybe 4-5 new employees. would that really make a dent? maybe that money would be better spent hiring cops who would actually issue tickets to litterers?
Posted on: 2005/9/18 17:34
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