nickie wrote:

The police have been notified for every recent accident on First Street (that I am aware of) because in all cases accident reports were filed for insurance purposes and in some cases, cars had to be towed. One of the drunk drivers even left their crashed car and fled the scene on foot.

And this past Friday night at 3 am there was a loud fight and lots of screaming. My boyfriend said one of our neighbors notified the cops - I was out of town.

Another incident that I recalled since writing my first post - was when we came home an Easter gathering on Sunday at about 10:30 pm. Indio's must have been closing about that time because people were milling about and one man was peeing on our doorstep - and we live several buildings down from the bar!

I appreciate all of your information relating to the shooting and the mugging, however more needs to be done in this out of the way neck of the woods. Indios is starting to attrack a rougher crowd then normal and the safety and cleanliness of our neighborhood is being compromised.

Vigilante wrote:

There is no one living in the Hamilton Park condos yet. What you and your friends saw were the model units lit up to look occupied.

murican wrote:
A school budget has to include not only money for direct education of each student, but also funds to create community supports for each student and their parents (day care, afterschool centers, homework help, job and career assistance, health and wellness centers, support of children with learning, physical and emotional disabilities, etc.)

I do not dispute that there is waste and graft in the school system, but if these funds could be properly spent for the students and families who desperately need them, our school district would be vastly improved.

PHResident wrote:

Paying for Jersey City schools is all of our collective responsibility whether we have children in those schools or not. Fortunately my building has never been on fire, but I still pay for the cost of running Fire Department. It?s paying now for something I might need in the future.

And the same is true for education. Failure to properly educate young people today has consequences for everyone, not just parents. We cannot cordon ourselves off from those the poor and uneducated effectively enough to assure we are secure. It doesn?t work that way no matter how much we wish we could.

elvis wrote:
Hippo Crates! Ha! I miss that little gem!

They should combine the dog run and the basketball courts but not require the owners to pick up the poop. That way, less basketball at night, less poop on the street.

FGJCNJ1970 wrote:
There are many reasons why this demolition should take place.
1) The embankment is no longer in use by any sort of railroad.
2) The sections of the embankment that are left have absolutely no historical value
3) Most certainly the embankment contains harmful toxic byproducts from its years of use as a railroad tressel
4) The embankment is a major safety issue in that it suffers from decay and portions of either stone or masonry have fallen off the tops of the structures.
5) The embankment is a blight on the downtown community, encouraging urban vandalism and graffiti
6) At night, the embankment is poorly lit, or not lit at all, and creates an UNSAFE environment for criminals to mug and rob citizens.
7) Pro embankment liberals have concocted an unfeasable plan to establish an elevated "park" without any financial plans for real viability. Meanwhile existing real parks such as Hamilton park just TWO blocks away desperately need major restoration.
8) Pro embankment persons are against change for the common good and have ulterior motives (like not loosing parking space access behind the embankment)
9) Even if a park could be funded and built, it would require significant investment and would increase already extremely high local property taxes
10) The embankment proposal has huge insurance implications. Unlike a traditional ground park, this is an elevated train tressel and because of the height, the insurance costs to the city would be enormously expensive. Also, very expensive safety measures would have to be incorporated to prevent someone from falling off.
11) The ground area abutting the embankment frequently becomes a dumping area for trash, rubbish, discarded shopping carts, etc.
12) certain portions of the embankment are listed on the internet as cruising grounds for inappropriate activity ranging from drug dealing to sexual misconduct - again presenting a danger to the community.

FG

saabconv wrote:
Tommyc - you asked a serious question, and then you made a stupid remark about unattractive women in JC. Maybe the guys (like yourself) are so unattractive that nobody can keep their food down. Did you think of that?

T-Bird wrote:

PILOT vs. non-abated properties is not the issue. The issue is the incredibly bloated budget and what we get in return for the money. $629.8 million??? The city's website says there are 28,910 students in the JC public schools. That's $21,785 per student. You could send each kid to prep school for that. Seriously. Do you think the average student in Jersey City public schools is getting the equivalent of a prep school education?

Charon wrote:
shakatah, are you a property owner ? I'm guessing not or you would never endorse a reval. Property taxes will soar out of sight.

blahblah wrote:
sounds like everyone here is in favor of a little something called gentrification...let?s kick all the minorities out of jersey city and replace them with yuppies who live in condos....why is it that minorities cannot create their own wealth, through their own businesses? Every where in this country "improving" a community becomes synonymous with kicking colored people out and replacing them with white upper middle class people.....sad.

BiblePizzazz wrote:
It's almost comical, the dichotomy between actually interacting with people in this city and then checking out this website and seeing the unbelievably emotional/reactionary/uneducated idiocy that is allowed to run rampant here.

Sigh.....

JRL wrote:
stani, If Healy and his administration boast that crime is down, violence is down then Team Healy needs to be held accountable for all of these shootings that are involved the settling of scores too. There needs to be a Zero tollerance and get these gangs off the streets. If you want to boast, then back it up.

icechute wrote:
That's an average of one shootout every other day....

With the only aim being to point out the failure of this administration and with no intent to rile up anyone, I must again point out that CRIME IS DOWN; HEALY SAID SO!

GnomeGeneral wrote:
Seriously, just because the jackass can't shoot he gets off on a lighter charge?! The law needs to impose a mandatory vasectomy on people who are charged with a violent crime. If you've been in jail this many times, you should have to attain a license to breed in the first place.

Indomitus wrote:

Bernie Madoff mugged lots & lots of people....and did pretty well for himself with his criminal proceeds. Well, I guess he is not YOUNG to be a Yuppie...so he doesn't really count.

elvis wrote:
The fact is, not every minority has something to hide, as you seem to be implying. If they aren't doing anything wrong, than what is the difference if they are black, asian, white etc? You see how YOU are racial profiling? Assuming that every minority has something to hide? If you get pulled over and you aren't breaking the law, black or white, they let you go. You can go on complaining that racial profiling happens, but the fact is, in a city with 75% minorities, there is a 3 in 4 chance you will be pulling a minority over in Newark. Should the cops just not patrol Newark at all? Enough of this PC garbage.

elvis wrote:
You honestly do not see that YOU are racially profiling?

elvis wrote:
I disagree with the checkpoint but how the hell is it racial profiling? Aren't you guilty of what you are trying to accuse icechute of? Only minorities live in that area?

Please explain.

icechute wrote:
Seriously, how much of the crime here do you think would be averted if there were State Troopers stationed at the Skyway and 1&9 Bridge?

Sort of like our own 'Checkpoint Charlie'.

LoKo498 wrote:
Why dont he want to press charges.

Lafayette wrote:
I am not afraid to state what is the obvious.

Lafayette wrote:
When people are treated as if they are second class citizens they kind of play that role....

ripple wrote:
I think the bollards are an insult to the community -- they're effectively telling the Pathmark customers that they and the neighborhood they live in are so bad that they can't be trusted to do something (take the carts into the lot) that is permitted in (I'm guessing) 99% of supermarkets nationwide. This kind of thing is extremely counterproductive to helping people keep a optimistic outlook about life, and I'm kinda surprised a bigger stink hasn't been made about it.

neighborJC wrote:
Property taxes have gone through the roof. 1/3 of the cities budget is paid for by real estate taxes. What do we get.? We get to experience a wonderful party every Saturday night at 38 Erie street, b/w 2nd and 3rd streets, Jersey City , hosted by our understanding friends at Grace Church.

This so called 'helping the youth' weekend party attracts a huge crowd to go with the extremely loud music. Leaving people like myself feeling unsafe to leave my apartment at times or walk the streets.

Perhaps our tax-exempt inconsiderate neighborhood church needs to take care of its neighbors first and turn down the volume or let the neighborhood churches be responsible for keeping these kids off the streets. ( these kids do not live in the area)

The noise levels including the thumping bass is unacceptable for a residential area - not to mention the many rowdy kids that party away till way past midnight as the music gets louder and louder.

Grace is deaf and doesn't listen.

Your thoughts ??

Thanks!
3rd and Erie neighbor.

r_pinkowitz wrote:


But I was also raised knowing that not everyone was as fortunate as my family was and not everyone had the same opportunity as I did. Some of the most incredible people in this world that have worked to help others and succeeded were NOT politicians, lobbyists, judges, lawyers etc.. To each his own on what part we want to play in our life rolls, and maybe one day a perfect stranger might be the person that will touch your life the most.

r_pinkowitz wrote:

JM...when you speak with your parents this weekend tell them I said THANK YOU, for their roll in raising a child that is capable of distinguishing the difference between the outrage of the incident and the empathy of wanting to find solutions to fix these problems.

I get what you are saying (and thank you mom and dad_ Pinkowitz too!)

jennymayla wrote:

Not me, WE.

Class structure.
NIMBY attitude.
Crappy legal system.
Lack of affordable medical care.
Lack of educational support.
Little or no social services (at least not a system that will lift people out of poverty)
Soaring unemployment.
Ignorance.
Desperation.
Racism (oh yeah, i said it)

jennymayla wrote:

But you're right, they are animals. And we helped create them. You, me, and everyone. I'm not saying they don't deserve to be thrown behind bars or worse for what they are doing. I'm just saying that we're all part of the problem.

Bleed that.