greenville wrote:
I need to get home insurance policy pretty soon, can someone provide with a good website or company where I can get home insurance from?

bodhipooh wrote:
People seem to forget that no state, county or municipality is legally entitled, or able, to control air traffic. Any and all air traffic is the purview of the federal government. Petitioning state officials will lead nowhere. The only agency that can bring about changes is the FAA.

bodhipooh wrote:
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Spend an afternoon in Liberty State Park on a beautiful day in the coming months. Maybe sit on a bench near the nature center and relax... or try to. The noise of helicopters will almost never cease, and in my experience, it goes a very long way to diminish the enjoyment of a unique urban oasis that is shared by many thousands of people

Have you actually done what you are exhorting others to do??? Because, I will tell you this: I live ACROSS from LSP. I run there almost daily, I spend many a Summer afternoon in the park, sometimes grilling, others just walking my dog. Sometimes I take my daughter kite-flying. I kayak in the Hudson along the LSP shore, sometimes venturing out to circle Liberty Island. Very rarely do I notice any significant helicopter activity, and never any of these swarms of helicopters you claim to be the bane of people's existence. I don't see anyone else looking up to the skies, filled with anger because their enjoyment is diminished. In fact, I don't remember a single instance in which I have felt any sort of diminished enjoyment of the park because of helicopter noise. In short, you are spouting hysterics.

MikeyTBC wrote:
Does anyone have any links to bike safety and specifically helmets? Stats, numbers, types of helmets etc.
I'm googling and most of what I'm seeing is about kids and basic rules of the road.
Thanks

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JC_rider wrote:
It would be great if some of these bikes came with a child back seat so that you can take the family for a ride all the way to weehawken. Just bring your helmets.

Lets take baby steps before we leap to the liability of child seats on wheels. We first have to see if the adults can handle the 2-wheel vehicle themselves.

GrovePath wrote:
http://youtu.be/yfiAPc2b1qw

A news helicopter crashed near the Space Needle in Seattle, Wash. on March 18, 2014.

Two people were killed and another injured this morning when a helicopter crashed in Seattle just feet away from the iconic Space Needle.

The helicopter was a news chopper owned by ABC News affiliate KOMO.

The chopper crashed moments after lift-off and quickly became engulfed in flames, killing two and sending a third victim to the hospital in critical condition, according to the Seattle Fire Department.

Two cars were also on fire when firefighters arrived to douse the flames.

Plumes of smoke quickly filled the skies near Space Needle shortly shortly the crash.

janda wrote:
Most downtown residents support the festivals. The festivals are not just for a few hours, they are 12 hrs, most weekends both days. The problem is the level of noise. When you are on the street the noise from the festival is one thing but when you choose to go home you need for the music to not be deafening in your home. We want to have the festivals at Exchange Place, but the festivals must take the quality of life of the people that live in the area into consideration. I would support any other area in JC to enjoy their time at home as well.

cousin wrote:
As a staten islander most of my life (now I live in JC), I vowed many years ago to avoid that bridge like the plague. My parents moved to SI from Brooklyn in 1965 (when the bridge was completed) and the toll was supposed to be eliminated completely once it was "paid off". That's hysterical. Another example of governemnt not representing the best interest its consitituents

Toonces wrote:
Thanks for this - I'll definitely follow up! I live in Canco lofts and almost every day am witness to at least one - and often more - chopper flying below the level of our roof (which is only 6 floors up), along the Pulaski.

Toonces wrote:
Not for nothing, but those of us that live along the 139 corridor are used to this, every day, courtesy of choppers flying into and out of that $@#%!! Kearny heliport...