Brooklynboy wrote:
So it has been weeks now and no final facts about how he died. He has been swept under a rug.

Jersey City Councilwoman-at-Large Willie Flood said Shaw was very well known in the area?s political scene.

?He was a staple in Jersey City,? Flood said. ?Everybody knew Jack.?

Just wondering why there has not been a follow up on how he died

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Xerxes wrote:
Open Space, Open Space, Open Space.

Why does there have to be a BUILDING on every lot on the Jersey City waterfront?

Why does an HISTORIC BUILDING that's on the National Register of Historic Places have to be torn down to accomodate a request for open space where there are acres of parking lots and undeveloped parcels adjacent to the historic building? And when your landlord has been utterly irresponsible in his failure to provide open space?

In answer to the heading of this thread, I say we chain Xerxes inside the building all winter. Doesn't do much in the long-term, but it'd sure be fun.

i know it's difficult for you to comprehend a well planned neighborhood considering the ghetto you live in. But do realize not everyone prefers to live next to an abandoned warehouse like you. A residential area requires some green space, which is lacking in that area surrounded by all the supposely luxury high rises.

There is nothing "historical" about an empty shell of a factory. And if you tried to read this thread instead of making more pointless diatribes about chaining xerex inside (wtf?), you will realize most of us who actually do live there dont mind if the building is kept and turned into some retail/art gallery, if it's not green. We just dont want an abandoned factory that is about to collapse...

and seriously 160 posts in 1 month since you joined? i know it's difficult to walk outside from your jailceil of a home, but do take it easy on the inter web will ya....

/douche off

GnomeGeneral wrote:
So...

It's okay to say "gosh, I wish those yuppies would just stay in Hoboken and not come to OUR bier garten" or "the hipsters are so annoying, why don't they all just move to williamsburg" or the thread titled "occurrence of Asian girl - white guy couples". And the all time favorite "If you don't like the ----- in this city, you should move to the leafy suburbs" Yea, those are all pretty cool by us.

If things were phrased this way however, the entire pc coalition gets their panties up in a bunch over it:
"gosh, I wish those poor people would just stay in montgomery projects and not come to OUR side of town" or "the welfare collectors are so annoying, why don't they all just shop at path mark"..."If you don't like that Jersey City is gentrifying, you should move to Allentown PA".

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jennymayla wrote:
I actually see your point, SkepticalHook. You are making your statement based on your own experience. You have a right to your opinion, fo sho.

I think the problem is the consistency of anger and vitriol in your posts across this site. When you keep yelling at people who question your opinion and attacking their responses, it's easy to see why people may question your position. Would that you would show the same respect in tone and approach as if so often showed to you.

But as you have stated repeatedly, what we think of you is of no concern to you and you will no doubt dismiss or verbally attack me in your response. Ho hum.

Have a hood day.

I believe if you actually review the stream here, it was I who was "attacked", albeit by someone with less than ample weapons. Iwitless has been spewing stupidity on here quite a bit lately, and while I don't wish to dredge up any ugly past, I believe you've thrown a couple of good punches at me in the past (I think they usually are a bit more thoughtful that I witless though).

All in good debate, I say, but I don't appreciate people who reach for the race card every time someone opens their mouth about this multi-racial society. (again Jenny, I am not speaking of you at the moment).

I'm not the one yelling, but I can see how people who disagree with me might see it that way. C'est la vie. I must move on.

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It's an interesting phenomenon right now - the way deep-seeded racial anger finds public outlets. Whether it's health-care town hall disruptionists disguising their outrage as opposition to health care reform, or whether it's locals who just can't resist a twist of the racial knife when handed an opportunity to skewer a public official, it's still scary to watch.

The sad thing is that I agree with much of your assessment of Tayari's record, i just hate seeing a legitimate position undermined by overzealous kooks. As you're fond of saying, I think we can all agree there is plenty to take Tayari to task for without resorting to lame race jokes. FO SHO.

And I find it particularly disturbing when folks scream racism where there is none, but rather there is real anger and outrage about a government takeover of the private sector and people's lives. I stand by my statements. It isn't racial. It's true disgust for the current political tactics. FO SHO.

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LOL thanks, I'll take that under advisement. With folks of your character and temperment spearheading government reform in Jersey City, we should be right as rain in no time.

Wow. You really got me there!

With folks like you spearheading government reform, we'd have more than 9.5% unemployment . . . oh wait . . .

Go sell crazy and stupid someplace else. We already had plenty of it before you decided to weigh in, and we don't want any more.

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If you could muster a moment's worth of self-control and have the forethought to edit out the low-brow racial pot-shots, your post would make a much more compelling argument.

Did I upset your delicate sensibilities? I put facts in. Any "color" that I added was not meant to be racist, but some people are so thin skinned that everything looks like that to them. If you don't like my comment, well, I really don't care.

Either contribute to the discussion or keep your mouth shut. We already have a webmaster, and don't need you to be our PC police. "IWitless" would be a more apt name for you, by the way.

by skepticalhook on 2009/8/21 9:47:44

How can you say Kabili Tayari (aka Randy Brown) does nothing for his $104K?!

He gives Healy the African-American vote and steals from his own community. It takes HARD WORK, to

1. keep your no-show job, steal a car (oh, right, "borrow"),
2. steal your constituents' NAACP dues,
3. tie a bow tie every single f'in morning,
4. walk around with a holier-than-thou attitude and then, on top of that,
5. look yourself in the mirror every day.

He's the most hard working, scummiest scumbag of them all.

But of course Healy is right--the job is to "represent the Mayor's Office at events throughout the community", and if Healy showed up at some of the "events" he sends Randy to, Healy'd get jacked -- jacked FO SHO!

By the way, since when can someone just make up a name and walk around using it!? If his legal name is Randy Brown, isn't there some law against giving a false name on official documents?

Xerxes wrote:
Open Space, Open Space, Open Space.

Why does there have to be a BUILDING on every lot on the Jersey City waterfront?

Walk_Idiot_Walk wrote:
I guess if Vega resigns and Healy is indicted it will be acting Mayor Peter Brennan.

skepticalhook wrote:

Can we all agree that Healy deserves the next indictment?

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wibbit wrote:
But i dont understand is why noone from HP is putting up a fight now? Clearly the downtown area especially around newport/HP has been gentrified and is a great place to live, so the fear of a developer pulling out and the whole area sink back into no-man's land is not a factor anymore (and lefrak will never pull out).

Why not goto city council and fight? have lefrak/mall/city open up a pathway for HP to get into the mall/path station

I don't understand what it is you think we should be fighting for. The mall is already there and there is a huge parking garage between it and HP.

Crazy_Chester wrote:
Sugar House opened for occupancy in June 2001. So, while I understand your point, I don't think it was so long ago that conventional taxes doubled in the meantime.

http://www.njcu.edu/Programs/jchistor ... s/S_Pages/Sugar_House.htm

I'm sure Yvonne will be along soon enough to clear it all up for us.

Crazy_Chester wrote:
My understanding may be off, but not way off. Abatements are not tax reductions. The folks at Sugar House paid an average of $10,700 per unit in 2007. That seems to be the norm for similar condos. Probably about 1.5%. Calling abatements insurance is fair, but the Sugar House isn't that old that the residents locked in some bargain rate years ago.

The article states that with conventional taxes, they would have paid twice what they did and that Jersey City missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don't know how they calculate that because I am pretty sure that the JC property tax rate is not around 3%. If it was, downtown Jersey City would be a ghost town.

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I think the math is screwy here. Abatements don't result in tax reductions. They result in the money going directly to the city, the benefits of which can surely be debated. According to the above, if "conventional taxes" were paid by Sugar House residents in 2007, the average tax bill would have been over $25,000. WTF? I think you'd then have an empty building and no money going anywhere.

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HAHAH

No shit sherlock

I moved... I didn't feel like changing my name, I didnt know I had to put in a change of address with JCList also

LOL, no judgment, just shock, that's all.

Is that sarcasm? I didn't move because of the area actually lol, where I live now is worse then before, but affordability was my main concern

JRL wrote:
Besides Letters, any chance we could mobilize enough people and have a protest at Cozine's place in Hoboken.


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sending my own letter to Corzine

Greenvillechick wrote:
HAHAH

No shit sherlock

I moved... I didn't feel like changing my name, I didnt know I had to put in a change of address with JCList also

DirtMcGirt wrote:
I'm trying to think why we need to pay anyone $100,000 for a city job. Someone would and can do their job for less.

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If, in apartment that falls under NJ state anti eviction law which is most rentals*, the landlord offers no lease renewal, month to month automatically takes effect, which prescribes 30 day notice. There's no legal circumstances that you can move out with no notice without forfeiting your security.

Not precisely true. If your 12-month lease goes from November 1, 2008 through October 31, 2009, a month-to-menth tenancy is only created if you do not vacate on or before October 31, 2009. It's only once you've held over (if you're there on November 1, 2009) that the month-to-month provision of the anti-eviction law kicks in.

So if the lease contains no renewal notice provision (which is extremely rare in a residential lease), a tenant can move out on the final day of their lease without forfeiting the month's worth of rent contained in their security deposit, and without creating a month-to-month tenancy.

So in the above scenario, a tenant need not give notice on October 1, 2009 that they intend to vacate at the end of the lease. Though it's definitely a good idea to give as much notice as possible.

Untrue. 30 day notice is NJ law not a lease option. Following is excerpt from Legal Services of New Jersey website.

http://www.lsnjlaw.org/english/placei ... hts/chapterfive/index.cfm

Ending a yearly lease. To end a yearly lease, unless the lease says otherwise, you must give the landlord a written notice at least one full month before the end of the lease. The notice must tell the landlord that you are moving out when the lease ends. Also, unless the lease says otherwise, the landlord must give you at least one full month?s notice before the end of the lease to terminate a yearly lease so that the landlord can raise the rent or change other terms of the lease. Remember, you cannot be evicted just because the landlord ends your lease.

For example, if your yearly lease ends on June 30, you have to give the landlord a written notice before June 1 that you plan to terminate the lease on June 30. Failure to give the proper notice may result in the automatic creation of a month-to-month tenancy. In that case, you may be responsible for at least an additional month?s rent. In this example, your failure to give notice may allow the landlord to charge you for July?s rent and to subtract it from your security deposit.

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If, in apartment that falls under NJ state anti eviction law which is most rentals*, the landlord offers no lease renewal, month to month automatically takes effect, which prescribes 30 day notice. There's no legal circumstances that you can move out with no notice without forfeiting your security.

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Eleanor_A wrote:

I had a bad experience at Shoprite about 10 years ago. I was waiting on line and, for once in my life, the line I was in was moving faster than the others. What I didn't know was that the woman in front of me had her BF or SO in the next line to see which would move faster. The guy cuts in front of me with HIS cart of groceries (she had one too). I was tired and annoyed but all I did was cluck my tongue. I didn't even know anyone heard me and all of a sudden they start yelling "White bitch! Stupid white c*nt! Get a tan you f'ing cracker!" And they kept taunting me! I'm 5'2" and was by myself. I'm not going to go up against these idiots. I didn't know what to do. Nobody did a damn thing. What scared me more was that the taunts continued in the parking lot. I just got in my car and left, hoping they weren't crazy enough to follow me.

Yeah, but wasn't that worth saving a couple of bucks for?

Vigilante wrote:
Yes, plenty of room for you and Jenny and maybe your dogs. I commend Parkman but that run is waaaay too small. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. If you wanna exercise your dog in JC the best places are LSP, Lincoln Pk or HP if it ever reopens.

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Law-shirking absentee landlord apologists make me hot. There's somebody missing though... paging brewster!

Oh snap the pc police is back, we must have forgotten to provide footnotes with sources.