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70 Greene has four elevators, not two, though the lines for the elevators can sometimes be long at the very peak times (around 6:00 pm) if one of the elevators is out, which does happen. The market is really excellent, basically a miniature Whole Foods that carries pretty much everything anyone short of a professional chef could want, though the prices are also about on par with Whole Foods. (Also doesn't have a real butcher, though the meat selection is decent, and their fish is pretty minimal--but the light rail/walk to Shoprite isn't bad.) Definitely Paulus Hook has a number of nice restaurants and other basic retail that are within 5 minutes' walk.
Biggest disadvantage is that they still rent out some floors as part of a hotel arrangement, and there's a constant stream of clueless European tourists in and out of the building. Supposedly they're ending the arrangement "soon". Definitely the most expensive rental in Jersey City, or tied with the Monaco. If they like 70 Greene they should look at the Monaco, too, before deciding. Also, the lot north of the building is slated to be developed by some Chinese development firm any day now. That could be noisy and unpleasant, but no idea if that's happening in a week, a month, a year or a decade.
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Posted on: 2014/8/27 0:44
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Re: Jersey City Planning Board Approves 21-story McGinley Square Tower
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It's just going to be a bunch of recent graduates living in the "luxury" part anyway.
Posted on: 2014/8/26 14:22
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Re: NYT: "Brunswick Towers was a possibility -but Jersey City didn’t seem nearly as exciting as Hoboken"
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Yeah, I suspect this is an example of there being too much honesty in the original quotation. Plus maybe an angry email from the mayor of Bayonne.
Posted on: 2014/8/25 18:30
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As opposed to, you know, the people who spent their whole lives in the Heights and don't want non-locals moving in because they're "not like us". Also, Monteleone's and Little India aren't in walking distance of a lot of downtown. And taking the PATH on the weekends is kind of a pain.
Posted on: 2014/8/22 20:27
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The Port Authority doesn't care as long as they get to spend a *quarter* of the PATH budget on PA police standing around doing nothing but collecting checks. (Compare the MTA, which spends less than 5% of its budget on "security".) Abolishing the PA police would be one of the best economical decisions for the agency.
Posted on: 2014/8/22 15:12
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I'm curious whether the Boys & Girls Club has moved yet? I would figure it probably has since residential tenants have started moving in to 18 Park, but interested mostly in when demolition will start on the old building.
Posted on: 2014/8/21 14:26
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Agreed. I do think a station just west of I-78 where the train comes out of the tunnel would be a smart long-term strategy, though. There's a lot of land in that vicinity that could be developed that's basically just used for storage now (plus the abandoned rail track that runs along I-78 and connects to the HBLR at either end--could eventually be activated if there were new development). That would cover a lot of areas that are right now a really long walk from both Grove and JSQ while also opening the possibility of new development in a rundown region of the city.
Posted on: 2014/8/12 17:15
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Re: Finally, a map of NYC that gets it
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It's a balance if you own. More income tax, less property tax. Definitely an advantage to rent outside of NYC, though.
Posted on: 2014/8/11 16:48
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For buyers, sure. Most renters are not necessarily planning on staying long-term.
Posted on: 2014/8/4 15:14
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They're all timed almost perfectly. Warren at York was all but done leasing when 18 Park opened. 18 Park will be all but done leasing when 110 First opens. 110 First will likely be close to done leasing when 70 Columbus opens. Etc.
Posted on: 2014/8/1 16:49
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If that's your criteria, everywhere is inaccessible from parts of the city. Areas near the Light Rail are more accessible to more areas of the city than any other parts of the city.
Posted on: 2014/7/25 0:01
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There are only four possible results to the quiz: Hoboken, Maplewood, Flemington and Cherry Hill.
Posted on: 2014/7/24 14:09
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Corrupt police leadership upset that mayor doesn't bow and scrape, news at 11.
Posted on: 2014/7/22 15:07
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Re: A casino in Jersey City? Venture capitalist wants to make it happen
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The guy planning this owns the golf course. Maybe he's planning to rip it out.
Posted on: 2014/7/11 2:24
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That rent is for 2BR + home office (read: 3BR where one bedroom has no windows, but your baby doesn't care) or 3BR. But, the reason people rent rather than buy is that the NYC area is the only place in the country where buying a given apartment is nearly always more expensive than renting the same apartment, unless you plan to live there for a really long time. The typical horizon for comparison is 7 years. In NYC and immediate environs, including JC, you'd need to live in the same place about 15 years to break even on buying vs. renting. Also, re: dtjcview's post, if you've ever been inside Avalon Cove, it's not luxurious at all. It's really dated (was built in the mid 90s, I think, and it shows), with very cheap finishes (because back then JC was cheap). You'll find much nicer apartments in a lot of older brownstones. Part of the reason they can charge high prices is that often immigrant families (especially Indian families) and unrelated singles will cram more people into the same space--so that 2BR might be home to four recent-immigrant roommates or a family of five. The Trump building's much nicer, though I wouldn't call it extraordinarily luxurious.
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Posted on: 2014/6/30 17:06
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We should be singing the praises of any (non-income-restricted) new development where the residents actually send their children to the public schools!
Posted on: 2014/6/25 21:07
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Rent increases will slow down for a while as new buildings open, but I doubt they fall any time soon. The new buildings will mainly draw new residents to Jersey City rather than pull from current residents, though there will be some churn, but that includes people who otherwise would have moved to elsewhere in Jersey City.
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I do, sometimes. It's a very long walk from parts of downtown. A pedestrian bridge further east would alleviate that massively, but I understand it would have to be quite high to accomodate the marina.* *Though, frankly, screw the marina. It's ugly and poorly maintained and refuses to integrate with the streetscape in downtown.
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Maybe. They were definitely happy to do so before the chromium was uncovered. Perhaps years of constant construction work will have put them off, though. Regardless, the current situation is temporary. The cleanup was done by the polluters, who weren't responsible for any new construction that might happen, so there's no coordination. And the plans from before the chromium was discovered were not hashed out in any particular detail. It'll be at least two years before anything rises there.
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Problem with NYC bikeshare was (i) spending way more money than necessary on the bikes themselves and the stations (ii) assuming that casual users and tourists paying through the nose would be the main demographic, rather than annual members. The ridership numbers far exceed projections, but most riders have annual memberships rather than buying the much more expensive hourly, daily or weekly passes, as was assumed would happen.
I think at least the second problem should be easily avoided for Hudson County, since there are relatively fewer tourists here anyway. As long as the bike stations and bikes aren't the overpriced stuff Citibike stuck itself with, the system should be fine.
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Posted on: 2014/6/21 23:46
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This is so much bullshit, frankly. "It would be irresponsible not to ask questions", and they are answered. Science tells us, quite definitively, that there are no downsides from a human health perspective to the actual "genetically modified" aspect of GMOs. It is as unquestioned in the scientific community as evolution (and, in fact, the issues are relatively intertwined in subtle ways). Continuing to "ask questions" when your questions are answered is no different from the denialism of creationism. This is the unfortunate hallmark of our age. Everyone fancies themselves an expert on everything. The wisest people are aware of what they do not know and are willing to defer to those with actual knowledge and specialty in areas where they are unfamiliar. There are other aspects to consider. Roundup is not necessarily great, and some GMO modifications relate to Roundup resistance and are thus tangentially related to its use. Patents on certain gene lines can allow for economic abuse. Etc. But these are not problems of GMOs inherently, or reasons to call for bans, restrictions or labels. These are other issues that the fanaticism with which the next generation of Jenny McCarthys has taken up the cause obscures and drives out public discussion, even though they are the real issues that legislators might consider addressing (not Jersey City politicians, necessarily--patent law is certainly well beyond their power to amend--but the point stands).
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This is not true, for the record. The requirements of "certified organic" only require that 95% of the ingredients meet the "organic" qualifications. (Presumably if GMO labeling were established by law, GMO-free labeling would similarly have to have such a loophole, as demanding 100% organic or [especially] 100% GMO-free food is basically impossible.)
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Science is about *scientists* asking questions. It is not about the general public's uninformed opinion and questions based in the general public's uninformed ignorance. If you have no scientific background in the particular relevant field, you have no business asking questions--in any case, the public's questions are likely already answered, as they are for GMOs, they just insist on asking the same question over and over again demanding the answer they expect to hear ("Woo, scary chemicals") instead of the one given. It's exactly like the vaccine refuseniks, creationism, global warming, etc. It is not for laypeople to question.
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There *is* no difference between "artificial trans fats" and "natural trans fats". They are equally bad for you. You're just demonstrating more ignorance of science. (That said, trans fats rarely appear in nature, which is why they are typically added to products rather than already being present in them.)
Posted on: 2014/6/12 16:13
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The idea that GMOs and trans fats are remotely comparable is ridiculous. GMOs are not "a thing" in the way trans fats are. There is literally no way to distinguish between even the genetic composition of GMO foods from "naturally evolved" foods. Moreover, the vast majorities of GMOs are just splicing a gene from one plant into another. There's no "substance" being added, except some scary voodoo that a bunch of idiots are freaking out over. Or should we also stop vaccinating our children because vaccines cause autism? Should vaccines get big, fat warning labels about autism? Because that's exactly what the GMO freak-out is, another vaccines-cause-autism bout of stupidity from Jenny McCarthy-esque idiots who would rather listen their astrologist than science. Quote:
Don't assume I am; my mother has celiac disease. However, when I see something like packaged raw meat or yogurt labeled "gluten free"... well, it's the same idiocy as GMO-free.
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Nothing to fear except the next wasteful craze, like gluten-free. Also, anti-GMO activists are hugely harmful--they prevent research into more productive agricultural products that save lives from starvation around the world. If there's nothing to fear, there's no reason to label the products. The burden is on the pro-labelling people to establish why this is valid. And "I'm fearful of science and things I don't understand" isn't a reason. Makes you sound like a creationist.
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