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Re: Lafayette Redevelopment
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Also, the lack of run down properties with homeless people and drug addicts makes me wonder if newport is even moving in the right direction.


Very cool comment. Typed, I would imagine, from your self-designed underground urban security bunker.

Seriously. I'm willing to humor your obsession with capital-D development (and capital-S safety), 99-cent stores, and the folksy down-home charm of Newport. But this is pretty offensive.

Posted on: 2012/9/17 2:44
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Re: Manhattan rents experience highest rise in 5 years
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Yeah, you F'ed up bad. Your ideal address is King Street between Van Brunt and Richards St, Red Hook, Brooklyn.


Do the majority of people prefer ground level units on that block, or upstairs?


Brilliant response - thanks for the laugh.

Posted on: 2012/7/14 16:24
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Re: Manhattan rents experience highest rise in 5 years
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But don't argue with people and say, "oh no, but a lot of people from the west side are moving to "insert any jc neighborhood here" so "insert any jc area > west side of nyc" Let's get real here people.


Tell me where/how I said that Lafayette>anything and I'll gladly respond.

My point is that this whole thread long ago became an echo chamber.

Posted on: 2012/7/14 5:20
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Re: Manhattan rents experience highest rise in 5 years
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Wow, this is so much better than the Farmer's Almanac: feed your vitals into the JCList housing model and find out where you're supposed to live, as opposed to where you enjoy living.

I live in Lafayette and thought I liked it, but now realize I must be doing this wrong given that I'm not "young and poor," in addition to other observations above about my neighbors and me.

So based on what I've listed below, where am I supposed to be living?

- Mid-40's; married; childless
- Born and raised in flyover country
- Lived in East Village AND the deep south; worked in war zones; weekend trips to Arthur St. in the Bronx to buy Eastern European plum brandy
- Owned dogs but now prefer cats (happy to throw balls to either)
- Inexplicable obsession with Lawrence Welk
- Have never had a bad service experience at Taqueria
- Have been mugged (6.5 out of 10 on the violence scale, though it occurred in flyover country so use appropriate conversion factor)
- Consider a short walk to be ~20 minutes
- Stats geek with corporate-ish job (and, hopefully, a reasonably healthy skepticism of its culture and attendant nonsense)
- Secretly disappointed when books aren't like the movie
- More frightened of Goldman Sachs than pit bulls (leashed or unleashed)
- Aries

Posted on: 2012/7/14 4:32
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Re: Lafayette Redevelopment
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In DaHood's original post, he said Lafayette might be the next "JC neighborhood to hit it big"


This is a lead teaser copied verbatim from the news article's opening paragraph to offer a brief summary of the story; these are the journalist's words. It's worth noting that none of the Lafayette residents, advocates, business owners, etc., quoted in the article exaggerate the scale of activity or talk about the neighborhood 'hitting it big.'

So yes, I think we're talking about different things, though I agree that safety, better schools, etc., are good things wherever one lives.

I think you may be surprised, though, over the next five years; I've walked by the massive Whitlock Mills development lately and have seen quite a bit of progress, Berry Lane Park will be pretty special when complete, and a few other things are in the works.

Wishing your part of town the best, whatever that may be.

Posted on: 2012/6/8 16:44
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Re: Lafayette Redevelopment
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There are great people living in lafayette, greenville, and bergen hill. That doesn't make those areas appealing.

I'm exaggerating with my percentage but "most" people only do move into already gentrified areas that are safe and close to nyc.


It's possible you assume that what you prefer is what everyone prefers. Perhaps what you would call 'appealing' is the opposite of what many would. And that's fine. To borrow from Bill Hicks's observation on abortion, if you don't want to live in Lafayette, don't move there. In the end, as Berg-Laf1 says, what's good for a part of JC is good for us all.

It's kind of subjective. I scoped things out for more than a year and now own a gut renovated 3-story with a garden for $1250 a month. And I'm much happier than I was downtown. Would you be? No clue. But no one's twisting your arm to move here.

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I just wanted to prevent any optimistic buyers from spending their hard earned cash to buy property there and lose money...


If anyone decides to buy property based on a single article in the JC Independent, or on a post on jclist - whether it's in Lafayette or Monaco - they deserve whatever they get.

Posted on: 2012/6/6 5:08
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Re: Lafayette Redevelopment
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99.9% of people move into an area because it's... gentrified.


If people only move to a place when it's gentrified, how does anything ever gentrify?

And what if the point isn't gentrification? There are a lot of really cool, good people living in Lafayette now. I lived in downtown JC and was bored to tears.

Posted on: 2012/6/5 4:56
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Re: HUGE GAS PIPELINE COMING - through Jersey City
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JC_Man wrote:
MDM - bravo - great points. Too bad all the libs on this site aren't smart enough to see the need for this gas - it will be used unlike the millions wasted on Obama pet projects like Solyndra that just wasted tax payer's money, but got Obama $3,000/plate donations when he was in NYC fundraising (uh, official Presidential visit, wink, wink).


I'm glad to pay more for energy, or cut back more, and not live above a potential minefield. That's the market as well. We can ride a train through a 100-year-old tunnel, but it's impossible for Spectra to put this thing underwater?

I worried about stuff exploding for ~7 years when I was in Iraq and Bosnia, and it sucked. (No, not gas lines, but getting blown up by any method sucks.) Enough already.

Many thanks, though, for telling me how dumb I am.

Posted on: 2012/5/23 2:49
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Re: HUGE GAS PIPELINE COMING - through Jersey City
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Well, it is Obama who is sticking this pipeline up your arse, isn't it?

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No, its Spectra Energy, staffed at the top by greedy Republicans who don't care about people so their greed to improve shareholder value to beat their 34% growth has them pushing to spend almost $60 million a mile to build a pipeline the US doesn't need as even the Natural Gas Association admits there is a glut of gas. No, this is all about Spectra Energy in Houston, Texas not Obama.

We knew from day one 2.5 years ago that FERC is full of oil and gas hacks who couldn't get an ambassadorship so get named to a K Street swinging commission full of those who one day serve as head of FERC then next day serve on the board of Spectra or it's subsidiaries. Only the naive didn't see this coming.



*applause.

Posted on: 2012/5/23 1:02
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Re: Jersey Ave Bridge to Liberty State Park
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JC really needs to get with the program and stop catering to the needs of drivers. Which JC residents would benefit from having a vehicle bridge to the park via jersey ave?


I've mentioned it earlier and have been told I'm "deaf to reason," but I'll say it again: residents of Lafayette would potentially benefit from this, as Pacific Ave. is a parking lot in the morning thanks to all of the Staten Island & Bayonne commuters using our neighborhood as a shortcut to points further in. My fellow residents in other parts of JC complain about congestion and access issues in their neighborhoods resulting from non-JC commuters, and it's just as annoying to us in Lafayette as it is to residents of Hamilton Park, VVP, etc.

The argument that such a bridge would only increase the volume of outside commuters makes sense, and I'm not insisting that it's the best or only solution. The problem could likely be solved if the city would bother to introduce some disincentives or traffic control measures to reduce flow from outside. However, the current administration has made it pretty clear that it's not interested in entertaining JC citizens' views on any number of transportation & quality of life issues - so there's something I think we can all agree on.

(One final thought - the current access points to Liberty State Park are an embarrassment. LSP is one of JC's absolute gems, but current access is either via the putrid pedestrian bridge, or the crumbling / unlit / chronically flooded Johnston Ave. underpass. To play the bright side game, at least a new bridge would create the appearance that JC takes pride in this remarkable resource.)

Posted on: 2012/5/3 21:17
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Re: Black Panther History
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(a little hard to read but I make out an address of 384 Pacific Ave. I think they also had something on Grand St.)


There's an annual historic walking tour of Lafayette, for which they've created signs that are placed in front of selected buildings. The sign for the church at 328 Communipaw (at the corner of Pine) mentions it as a former BP feeding station (I think that's the term it uses).

Posted on: 2012/4/24 22:22
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Re: Jersey City man robbed at knife point near Liberty State Park Lightrail.
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Officials said yesterday a Jersey City man who was taking his and his wife?s wedding bands to be polished was robbed at knifepoint Tuesday and forced to hand over the rings as well as cash, The Jersey Journal reports.
The 21-year-old Eastern Parkway man was at Maple and Monitor streets at 7:15 p.m. and was headed to a Light Rail station when a sharp object was pressed against his back, reports said.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... y_man_robbed_at_knif.html


I feel bad for this guy, but I'm also trying to figure out the scenario:

- Taking his and his wife's wedding bands to be polished at 7:15 p.m.?
- Heading to LSP light rail station, which is miles from Eastern Parkway (where he lives), when the Richard St. light rail station is about 1/4 mile from Eastern Parkway?

Not meaning to sound cynical at all; just trying to work this out.

Posted on: 2012/3/29 22:23
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Re: Bergen Lafayette?
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OneSkirt: I work in midtown. I have three ways of commuting (time estimates are via Grove St., ending at 32nd St. PATH station): 1) Walk: 50 minutes 2) No. 4 bus: 40 minutes, assuming a ~5 minute wait 3) Get dropped off by spouse: 35 minutes It's not amazing, but not at all terrible. In the evening I usually arrive at Grove by 7pm, so ~April through October, I'm happy to walk home. The no. 4 is also an option with 3 buses running between ~6:45pm and ~7:30pm. If I get home much later than that, I'll take a $6 cab, which is more than made up for by paying <50% on housing than I used to downtown. I wouldn't walk home at 11 from Grove, but could see myself biking. Whitlock Mills is a wild card. If it were to finally open, it would create a lot of pressure for businesses on Communipaw to open & diversify, and would be likely to have a positive impact on many other quality of life issues. Work on it resumed last summer after years of dormancy, but seems to have slowed or stopped again. I'm certain that it'll happen one day - too much has been done for it to just sit unfinished - but I'm not going to hold my breath. Berry Lane Park, in the same general area, will also make a radical difference - but that, too, is a long way off given the extent of the cleanup required. Both will be very cool additions, but aren't reasons to move to Lafayette today.

Posted on: 2012/3/13 20:22
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Re: Bergen Lafayette?
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It looked really pleasant for our taste (we're in our 40's, have a basic car, don't go out too much at night, work in the city, no kids). So what is the latest on this area, both north of Pacific and south of Pacific? We're looking to rent a 2bd. for $1500 or less and plan to move in late fall, probably. The new Lafayette park seems lovely. Am I also correct in assuming/hoping that living by a large church and a grade school is a good area to be?

Note: I am a 15 yr. resident of DTJC in the Varick/Wayne st. area so I don't mind being a bit of an urban pioneer. But I do want to feel safe walking at night (not 2am, but evening), and street parking my car.


My wife and I have lived in that neighborhood for 3 years; we're not far from where you were looking (on Halladay). We really like our neighborhood and neighbors, and have a lifestyle that sounds similar to your own. We walk a lot (into the evening, but not late night), park a car on the street, and haven't had problems. The neighborhood has its share of issues, but by keeping our eyes open and using common sense, we've never had any bad experiences. Also, we've reached out to our neighbors and have gotten to know many of them quite well, which helps - not to mention improving our overall quality of life. That was not our experience living downtown at Wayne & Grove, where we found that people kept to themselves.

There are annoyances; it can get loud (guys cruising at all hours with stereos cranked), there's more trash than downtown, and the occasional shady character. No restaurant or place to grab a beer at present. The No. 4 bus isn't terribly reliable. But we're happier than we were downtown because we're getting a lot for our money, there's a good neighborhood feel, some really cool old architecture, and for the most part, people are pretty cool and friendly in return if you are too. And being this close to LSP is pretty amazing. Happy to answer any questions you may have!

Posted on: 2012/3/13 15:19
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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Coming home tonight from 33rd St was crazy.... like Tokyo Metro Crazy!


Weird that you mention that... I rode home last night from 33rd at 8pm and was completely crushed. I've never, ever, seen it so insanely full at that hour and was asking myself what was up. There didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary like a delay that led to a buildup of commuters.

Posted on: 2012/2/22 16:03
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Re: Taqueria
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Now serving ice cold Corona, Corona light, Modelo, Negra Modelo, Pacifico, Sol, Dos XX, Dos XX Amber, Bohemia, Carta Blanca, and Tecate. Plus a few wines. Thank you and enjoy.


I don't think I've had (or even seen) a Carta Blanca since I left Texas ages ago. Great news - thanks!!

Posted on: 2012/2/8 17:35
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Re: Jersey City's Ward E (Downtown) to lose some residents as ward boundaries are redrawn
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I am curious as to why you don't think the light rail services Lafayette.


That's a good & fair question. The main reason, alluded to elsewhere, is that the commuter lot is configured to block access except from Johnston or Communipaw - this forces residents to walk a wide and poorly lit arc around the lot, adding several minutes and increasing safety risks. Direct access would be possible via Maple St - only it's blocked at Monitor, which the lot abuts. Apparently, this is is to ensure the security of commuters' vehicles that are parked in the lot, presumably from Lafayette residents.

Another reason why the LR isn't always ideal is the hassle of getting uptown; LR to Exchange Place and WTC is great, but getting to midtown requires a much longer LR ride to Newport. This is why the near-discontinuation of bus service was a big deal a couple of months ago - and why the abysmal performance of the service currently available to us remains an issue. Most days I'm happy to walk to Grove St PATH, but after dark that's a non-starter - hence others' suggestion of better lighting for the walk to the PATH.

I'd be thrilled if Lafayette could better enter the dialogue regarding a growth strategy for JC that makes sense for the entire city. I think that's more likely to happen if we find ourselves working & communicating with some of our fellow residents downtown under the same council representation.

Posted on: 2012/1/25 20:39
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Re: OPEN JERSEY AVENUE TO LIBERTY STATE PARK!!
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> Yesterday it took me 10 minutes to drive from Maple St.
> to Grand, a distance of a few hundred feet that can be
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So why didn't you?

Robin.


Because I recently sprained my ankle. My wife drives to work in S. Orange and dropped me off at the PATH.

Do you want to know what I had for dinner last night and why?

I could ride the bus, and sometimes do when it's pouring rain or 10-below, and experience the same gridlock.

BTW - I posted this on 1/17 in the thread "Bergen Lafayette?": "I live in Lafayette. I walk to the PATH every morning for work - exactly 20 mins. (1.3 miles according to Google Maps, but you can save a few minutes by cutting across the Pathmark shopping center parking lot.)"

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Re: OPEN JERSEY AVENUE TO LIBERTY STATE PARK!!
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For Lafayette residents, the bridge is a must. Pacific Ave. from Johnston to Grand is a parking lot every morning from about 7:45 - 8:45. Millions of cars cut through to get to downtown / Holland, half of them with New York plates, and traffic backs up for blocks - residents of the neighborhood are trapped by nonresident commuters. Yesterday it took me 10 minutes to drive from Maple St. to Grand, a distance of a few hundred feet that can be walked in less time.

All of those cars will be going downtown and to the Holland anyway, so I don't follow the logic that a bridge will increase congestion there. If anything, by providing two access points rather than one, it should to some extent dilute congestion while improving quality of life for Lafayette residents.

Posted on: 2011/10/6 17:17
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Re: Taqueria
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Never claimed to be more Mexican, just saying that I've eaten more tacos in my lifetime than probably half of your customers have combined. I've had the good fortune of living in a city with a huge Mexican population where cheap and delicious tacos are basically on every 3rd street corner.


It's great to see opinions about the food itself!

Seems like an opportune moment to weigh in. As an Ohio refugee who spent 10 years in south Texas, a period that included extensive travel through central Mexico by bus, I've been nothing but blown away by Taqueria. Consistently.

The Taqueria story that sealed it for me was when, after about a year of living in JC, my wife & I hosted some friends and insisted that we do Saturday hangover tacos at Taqueria. Long story short, these were good friends from my days in TX who had relocated to Bklyn. Austin natives and foodies / food snobs, I practically had to waterboard them to drag them to Taqueria.

So we arrived & ordered & sat down. And the whole time, I was getting the hairy eyeball from them; at one point, one asked directly, "Why are you wasting our time dragging us to get Mexican food in Jersey City?"

When our tacos came, I got to savor the sight of them taking a couple of bites, silently nodding, and then start taking pictures and announcing to the world via Facebook that they were eating the best damn tacos they'd had, ever, in the states.

I would love to eat better tacos and can't wait to, but honestly, I haven't had better without using my passport.

Posted on: 2011/9/3 5:49
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Re: Whitlock Cordage Interrupted?
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I talked for a minute yesterday with a supervisory-looking worker. There was a lot going on with shovels & bulldozers. He said the goal is have all the work wrapped up in a year (which seems awfully ambitious to me). It didn't sound as if they're planning on opening in phases. Would appreciate any additional news or up-to-date info sources anyone can offer.

Posted on: 2011/7/28 20:45
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Re: Where to Complain about School Crossing Guard?
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While we're on the subject, am I the only person in JC who gets really annoyed by the guards who blow their whistles nonstop all morning long for no apparent reason? It's deafening, and it's always the same guards. I'm thinking especially on Jersey Ave by VVP, but there's any number of examples.

Posted on: 2011/6/13 21:16
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Re: PPG and Chromium in Jersey City - Garfield Avenue
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The property, near the Holland Tunnel and a stone?s throw away from two-family homes and a health clinic, is one of the last major sites in New Jersey contaminated with hexavalent chromium still to be addressed. The Environmental Protection Agency describes hexavalent chromium as a human carcinogen.


Does anyone know exactly where this site is?


Nowhere near the Holland... this is close to exit 14B off of 78. It's a giant sea of concrete. The golf course, just across the freeway from it, was similarly contaminated before the massive cleanup that reclaimed it.

Posted on: 2011/4/8 20:24
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Re: Thinking about opening a restaurant / bar
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bands (including my own) play at lamp post and lucky's pretty regularly. i wish we had something like maxwell's though. and i cant believe we're this close to new york and there is barely any kind of music scene here.


Hopefully not off topic, but there's a big, cool-looking wreck of a warehouse on the edge of the Pathmark plaza on Grand Street that would be an amazing music hall. If the reference is meaningful, it would be on the scale of Liberty Lunch (in Austin) before its demise. Plenty of room for parking, and away enough from densely populated blocks to minimize noise issues. It could be a major draw if done right.

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Re: Parking Too Close to Crosswalks
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The PD and JCPA can use discretion in issuing tickets for those violations. Its not illegal to give some people a break. The amount of parking on any street would be cut by 8 spaces minimum. As long as the vehicles are not obstructing traffic , line of sight to the intersection or in the middle of the crosswork why pound the residents with tickets ?? For that thinking to use the money from the tickets issued to the residents to balance the budget , just raise taxes . Some families are just making ends meet . Thats not right. Why beat them into the ground?

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Im just against hitting the hard working people in this city over the head measuring the street corners and if your 22 feet from the corner you get a ticket. I hope you can see/understand my rant


resident, I think you misread my posts or misunderstood their point. I'm not advocating that JC's hardworking citizens - myself included - be ticketed for parking an inch too close to a stop sign, nor have I suggested that the city remove eight parking spaces from each city block.

I'm advocating that JC municipal government and JCPA do a better job of making it possible for all citizens to know what the laws are so that they don't get hammered for doing something they had no way of knowing was illegal. Can you tell me what the ordinance is in Jersey City? 50 feet from a stop sign? 25? 15?

I think we all agree that limiting parking 50 feet from a stop sign is insanity in Jersey City. Personally, I think that limiting it to 25 feet is also insanity. Parking is scarce, even in my neighborhood of Lafayette, let alone downtown. So we agree there.

All I'm saying is, I'd like to know what the law is so that I can choose to observe it, rather than counting on JCPA's discretion when I'm parked illegally. Discretion is a slippery slope - who deserves it? People in certain neighborhoods? Government officials? Cars that look like they belong to hardworking owners?

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As long as the vehicles are not obstructing traffic , line of sight to the intersection or in the middle of the crosswork


Actually, they are. All over JC. That's the product of JCPA's discretion. And its impact on hardworking citizens of JC like ourselves is that it creates a safety hazard, reduces the quality of life, and contributes to a loss of civic confidence in the capability, impartiality and commitment of local government. If we ticketed those violators, it would not only address these issues, but raise money to boot.

Posted on: 2011/3/31 17:26
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Re: Parking Too Close to Crosswalks
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Since the Jersey City CAN change the state law, and you can't find it - wouldn't one have to assume that they didn't supercede the state law? Must every municipality put down on paper what state laws they aren't changing? Legitimate question, not being snarky either.


Not snarky at all - you're quite correct.

I've posted the NJ state code below for reference - Title 39 covers everything related to vehicles. It does allow municipal authorities to revise minimum parking distances by ordinance, with the 25-/50-foot exception for school zones during class hours (see bottom).

All I can find of any use online is at the JCPA's web site (http://www.jcparking.org/about.htm); and all that says is "The responsibilities of the JCPA include... enforcement of Title 39 violations and Jersey City municipal ordinances."

So this raises two issues:

1. If there's no local exception to NJ's 50-foot rule, JCPA is not fulfilling its mandate to enforce Title 39 by not ticketing. As many have stated before, this would substantially improve city revenues, safety, quality of life, and confidence in local government. (I would imagine that part of its mandate is also to ensure that curbs in no parking zones are adequately identified with red paint. No time to research that, but in Lafayette at least, those suckers don't seem to have been painted since the Carter administration.)

2. More importantly, it directly states that there are municipal ordinances. Great - I want to obey them. What are they? Where are they? Why don't citizens have greater access to them?

Anyway, that's enough from me. Thanks for an interesting dialogue!

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New Jersey Statutes - Title 39 Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation - 39:4-138
Places where parking prohibited; exceptions; moving vehicle not under one's control into prohibited area.

h. Within 50 feet of a "stop" sign except as provided in section 2 of P.L.2009, c.257 (C.39:4-138.6) ----->

C.39:4-138.6 Municipal authority to set certain permissible parking distances.
2. A municipality may mandate by ordinance the permissible distance a person may park a motor vehicle from a crosswalk, side line of a street or intersecting highway, or "stop" sign. A municipality may not, however, permit parking within 25 feet of a crosswalk or side line of a street or intersecting highway or within 50 feet of a "stop" sign in a school zone during hours when school is in session.

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Re: Parking Too Close to Crosswalks
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In other words, it's a guessing game: is JC going to selectively enforce its vague parking law today when I park in front of my house? Heads they win, tails I lose!


I don't see what's vague about it. 50 feet from a stop sign seems pretty exact. If you park in front of your house and it;s 50 feet from a stop sign or 25 feet from a crosswalk, you are, in effect, parking illegally and risking a fine. Just because they haven't ticketed for it before doesn't make it ok.


That's not my point. My point is: What's the law in JC? 50 feet from a stop sign? 25 feet? I've spent a reasonable amount of time searching online and have found no conclusive answer.

Don't tell me to call the parking authority; in the depths of January's blizzard, I would call to ask about alternate side parking and get an automated notice that it was in effect. Nearly every time I talk to someone at the parking authority to clarify a regulation, I get a contradictory answer. In any case, that response wouldn't hold up in court.

I have a law degree. In my past career, I spent 10 years working in postwar Bosnia, Serbia, and Iraq. For much of that time, my job - funded by the US State Dept. - was to advise and train local government as it put in place mechanisms to increase: citizens' access to local regulations; the transparency of government decision making; and consistent and politically neutral enforcement of local laws. (The unfortunate term for this practice was "democratization.")

Jersey City has a deficiency of democratization. We don't know what a basic code is, yet we're debating it. I've spent a lot of time trying to conclusively determine it without taking a half day off to visit the local library. As I mentioned in my original post, 50 feet is NJ state law - but it allows for local variances in recognition of urban density. (My observation, based on the occasional positioning of traffic signs, suggests that JC code permits parking up to 25 feet from a stop sign). Whatever it is, the code is routinely disregarded and rarely enforced. Give me access to the code, and I'll happily observe it; as a bonus, enforce it consistently to encourage us all to observe it. And, as mentioned earlier, there's the minor matter of the ticket citing us for parking within 50 feet of the sign - which is likely incorrect in JC - and directing us to appear in court at a time that the court is closed. That's the kind of thing my Bosnian counterparts were convinced could never, ever, happen in the US.

I'm going to avoid the urge to be snarky, because I'm sure that everyone here except for me parks 50 feet or more from stop signs - just to be safe, because that's the law in NJ, even though no one knows what it is in JC. Good night, all.

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Re: Parking Too Close to Crosswalks
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I wouldn't believe it if it hadn't happened to my wife: she got a ticket for parking "Within 50 feet of a stop sign."

50 feet!!

On top of that, the ticket told us to appear in court last Friday at 5pm, which is two hours after it closes for the day.

We did our research and apparently NJ state law has the 50-foot rule in place, but cities are allowed to vary that to account for real-world needs; i.e., it's reasonable to prohibit parking within 50 feet of a stop sign in the suburbs, but not in a congested urban area. However, JC has no information posted online that informs whether or not there is a local variance in place.

In other words, it's a guessing game: is JC going to selectively enforce its vague parking law today when I park in front of my house? Heads they win, tails I lose!

Posted on: 2011/3/30 14:56
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I had two large pieces cut at Raymond Glass on Communipaw. Good job at a great price, and fast. I did a little shopping around, admittedly not a ton, and they were lowest.

Posted on: 2011/3/11 17:33
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Re: New Construction in Jersey City and NYC
Home away from home
Home away from home


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Garfield0926 wrote:
Found the website I was talking about, my bad, it's not down, but it hasn't been updated for the longest time.

http://jcbaby.blogspot.com/


I thought you were talking about the Jersey City Construction blog (http://jcconstruction.blogspot.com/2007/12/77-hudson.html) which was great, but which just disappeared one day.

In any case, a reasonably good place to do some research in JC is the JCRA web site. You can search proposed and ongoing projects by neighborhood at:

http://www.thejcra.org/index.php?p=neighborhoods

I've found some great info & news by doing some additional Googling on projects that looked interesting. Good luck!

Posted on: 2011/2/28 16:47
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