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The elevators up to the jury pool room are notoriously slow. Giver yourself extra time to get there. Also, get there early if you want one of those cubicles on the side of the room with more privacy to use a laptop and a power outlet. Those get taken up real fast. The WiFi signal is good though.
They do show the Discovery Channel or some other noncontroversial tv channel on a big screen if you're really bored. Plenty of good lunch options within walking distance.
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It does seem awfully low, however they do get nice pensions and/or that "boat check" when they retire from cashing in their hundreds of unused sick days, a common practice among county and city employees. Never understood that one. Paid sick and vacation days at any job I worked were on a "use it or lose it" policy, although one place I left did pay you for unused vacation days when you quit, but there is no way they'd let it build up to require a very large payout.
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Run in the other direction. These energy re-sellers result in you having a cheaper rate for a few months, then end up costing you far more in the long run.
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How do they enforce this anyway?
Do they stop the cars, ask to see the license so they can see where the driver lives, and then ask, why are you here? Then, who's to say the driver will tell the truth anyway?
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Literally the worst idea I've ever read as well, and it could never happen anyway. The way the New Jersey law is written, localities in New Jersey have no right to impose their own taxes, other than property taxes. Atlantic City does have a special hotel tax and Newark airport has some kind of parking tax, but both required special state legislation and were a hassle to set up, plus a kickback from those taxes goes back to the state.
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I couldn't post on the NJ.com website so I'm posting about this here:
A few comments in response to those people on NJ.com who regard the residents of this complex as freeloaders who pay little or nothing to live at Booker T Washington, and should supposedly work harder to change their situation and live somewhere better where the heat works - First of all, many of these so-called freeloaders have children living there who have zero control over their economic status. Should the children living there suffer and freeze too? Second of all, I'm sure many people who live there would live to live elsewhere with better living conditions. But even if you have a job, moving costs money and coming up with a security deposit and first month's rent at a new apartment is not that easy for some people, while they still have their belongings at their old apartment. Third, regardless of what these residents pay or don't pay to live in the complex and what you think about that, if the heat goes out in the building long enough, the pipes will eventually freeze and burst. This will cost the city even more money to rectify. Is this what you want as a taxpayer? The way this situation is being handled is just shortsighted at best, and in my opinion, inhumane and unacceptable. I have no problem with my tax dollars going for this (generally), but if the city can't even maintain an emergency phone line properly, there are some serious issues here that need to be handled, YESTERDAY, or else we will all pay even more, both monetarily and potentially in human lives.
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So he has to pay $ 24,700 although he stole more than
$ 31,000, and I assume he still gets his $ 512,000 vacation payout. He retires with a few dollars less, no real fine, no jail time and despite whatever criminal record he now has, it doesn't matter because he's retiring anyway. Whoop de do. He got off so f---ing easy. I'm not sure what sickens me more - the fact that he stole from the housing authority and is not paying it all back, or his ridiculously large vacation payout. Also, at every job I ever worked, you could not horde vacation days and then cash them out when you quit or retired, it was always a policy of "use it or lose it" with only a small portion of days that could get rolled over to the next year. Really, they don't need to cap vacation day payouts, they just need to change the policy on the number of days you can accumulate and roll over to the next year and be like most other employers. Such an easy answer, yet they can't seem to implement the policy.
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Well, don't tell too many people about it, then everyone will get the same idea and it won't work too well anymore.
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The AMT doesn't affect everybody, it really depends on the mix of income and deductions you have. There are even people at certain income levels whose taxes end up as higher under the regular tax rules than under the AMT (these are typically people at the highest of high incomes). But there is probably some truth to the fact that anybody with enough money to prepay all of next year's property taxes likely has enough income to be subject to the AMT. Furthermore, the IRS is actually silent on the issue as to whether you can deduct prepaid 2018 property taxes in 2017. From what I've read, since Congress didn't address this property tax issue in the legislation (like they did by disallowing deductions for prepaid state income taxes), it's up to the IRS whether the deduction will be allowable on the 2017 returns anyway.
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The often self-appointed leaders of these various neighborhood associations think they represent everyone in their neighborhood and make the city council meetings drag out longer with their stupid questions about every single city resolution out there. Those of us who maybe have one question or want to speak about one thing at a city council meeting but have kids to put to bed and a job to get up for in the morning don't have the luxury of sitting there for hours while all these wannabe politicians fill up all the speaking time. It's annoying and I do not give a damn about what any of them think about a micro-apartment building. The city's planning and zoning departments may leave a lot to be desired but these neighborhood association leaders sure aren't city planners by any stretch of the imagination. No surprise they lost the case and they were idiotic to bring it in the first place.
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Regarding the header on this thread, I read other news reports that said four other people (civilians) were injured and taken to hospitals.
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If the zoning allows for it and you have the right permits, by all means turn your home into a bar. If this developer needs to be taxed differently or fined for being in violation of zoning laws, so be it.
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It's the capitalist society we live in and the free market. Deal with it. Obviously the owner thought it was more lucrative to rent the units out as an AirBnB, and it may very well be, but the added potential return also comes with the added potential risk. AirBnB rentals are short-term while people typically sign yearlong apartment leases. The owner has a greater potential for the units sitting vacant for certain periods. There is also more work with an AirBnB than a regular apartment building- letting guests in and out, cleaning up after every guest that leaves, etc. The owner of the building is willing to deal with all that as well, with a bigger potential return on their investment. As long as they pay all the necessary taxes and follows the zoning rules, I see no problems with this. If the marketplace had adequate demand for another apartment building, another one would be built, or a building would be converted into one. Don't blame AirBnB for Jersey City's housing woes, people have done this sort of thing long before AirBnB ever came along.
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I know that the latter firm I recommended specifically has handled landlord-tenant matters, and not just "real estate" per se. Alternatively, the OP could ask for a referral through the Hudson County bar association, but it costs $35. Provided you accurately describe your problem, the association will recommend three attorneys that could represent you. They may or may not actually be located in JC, but will be in Hudson County. Here's the link for that: https://hcbalaw.com/lawyers-referral/
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I've used Vince Vyzas for a couple of issues related to real estate and been happy. The bills I received from him were never all that surprising. I don't know if he specifically represents the tenant side of landlord-tenant disputes but he can probably refer you to someone who does. Although their office is in Kearny, they used to have an office in Jersey City and still do a lot of business in Jersey City. They deal largely by phone anyway. They also have an office in Brooklyn if that is workable for you. (201) 991-0584 is their Kearny phone number. http://www.vyzaslaw.com/Contact-Us.aspx There's also D'Alessandro & Ciekiewicz, which is more of a family law firm but they handle landlord-tenant matters too. They have an office up on Kennedy Boulevard. http://www.dadlc.com/
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If you give yourself enough time, here's another relatively seamless method, if you're not concerned about the traffic.
Take the PATH to 33rd, then walk toward Penn Station, and stop at Sbarro's. The NYC Airporter has regularly scheduled buses to JFK from there (make sure you get on the JFK and not the LGA bus). You can buy your ticket ahead of time online, print it out and show the driver, or just pay cash to the driver. Check out their website for the schedule: https://www.nycairporter.com/schedule/pennstationtojfkairport/ I've generally been happy with their service, as long as time allowed for it and you can buy a roundtrip ticket to take the service when you come back.
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Well, if you don't have kids I guess this is something you can do. Kudos to them for living on so little money, except for the fact that they eat out of garbage cans. While I've been very frugal myself, I draw the line at stuff like that. Dumpster diving is just not my thing. I would enjoy the opportunity to occasionally stay at a $13 million loft though.
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40,695 who showed up to the polls (though some cast votes for a 3rd candidate or nobody for mayor), divided by 136,720 registered voters. 29.77% voter turnout. A lot of people bitch and moan about how nothing ever changes in this city, well I'm guessing at least 70.23% of those bitchers and moaners don't show up to vote.
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Turnout in local elections in Jersey City is still downright pitiful. The city has a population of 260,000. Assuming you reduce that amount by the number of people under 18, convicted felons and as someone else pointed out, recent immigrants and ex-pats, you'd think that there would still be roughly 100,000 eligible voters in this city. The total number of people who voted in the citywide mayoral election was 35,425, a miserable 35% turnout. The fact is NO mayor in the most recent elections in my memory has ever gotten more than about 30% of the vote from eligible voter pool. It's really sad. Does anyone think that 100,000 eligible voters is too high a number? Reduce it to 70,000, and turnout is still barely above 50%. Still pathetic but then at least it is on par with the turnout rates for your typical presidential election in this country.
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I'm glad that Fulop won, but the fact that a grand total of only 35,000 people voted in a city with a population of 260,000+ is just downright pitiful. I realize that not all of the 260,000 people in the city are of voting age, and there may be some convicted felons who can't vote either, but there has to be, at the barest of minimums, 100,000 people who are eligible to vote.
I was also totally in favor of Fulop's push to move all the elections to November, instead of being split between May and November, because I thought that would help increase overall turnout. But it hasn't. On another note, I too have received my sample ballot in the mail AFTER the election occurred on multiple occasions (not this one). I don't if the Board of Elections or the crappy post office we have is to blame for that one, but that is a shame too.
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Getting back to the charging station issue, if people are so concerned about the city subsidizing something that only rich people own, couldn't these charging stations have credit card readers on them, so people actually pay to use them? The city could charge enough for both the operation of them and to recover the cost of installing them. Or does someone with more insight on this topic want to tell me that is not realistic?
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I lived on Monmouth Street and never had more than a handful or people every Halloween.
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You don't need to name the building, but what's the name of the management company? I've heard of a few companies in and around Jersey City with a less than stellar reputation that would do something like this.
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Just curious, how did you get this rent controlled unit? Was it because of your income level and did you have to specially apply for it or something? Not saying you don't deserve to live there, just wondering how it came to be.
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Exactly! Rent control has outlived its usefulness and ends up harming the bulk of the population in non-rent controlled buildings. It cuts off a certain supply of housing from the free market and consequently all the other housing out there is that much more expensive. It kills any incentive for would-be developers to build middle-market housing. The only new rental housing that ever gets built in New York City are the super-high end luxury buildings with rents of $3500 per month or more, which are not subject to rent control or stabilization. Boston and Cambridge ended rent control - and when it ended, investment in housing and repairs went up. While many people left their formerly cheap apartments, most stayed in them, and Boston's first middle market apartment building in over 50 years was built. Nor do I understand the concept of the below market rent apartments for artists... but not knowing a whole lot about that in the first place (in Jersey City or elsewhere), I will not venture my opinion on that.
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I know why they picked Jersey City. Because Wonder Bagel was available. Honestly, that show has gotten ridiculous. I saw that episode too and a guy doing that in Jersey City makes no sense. Any take out restaurant in Jersey City needs all the customers they can get, and most owners know this, racist or not. The entire New York City area, for that matter, largely feels the same way.
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This guy even has a Facebook page! The picture on Facebook matches up pretty well with the news article, not to mention it says he lives in Jersey City. If he has any sense he will delete it.
https://www.facebook.com/people/Damion-Baker/100009153831012
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So what's the guy's name? Is it that guy people posted about a few years ago who frequently stole things in Hamilton Park and often hung out by the Barge Inn?
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