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Yet another senseless death has occurred in JC due to the chronic culture of speeding and reckless driving that our Mayor refuses to address. We've been begging him for years (at least 4 years to be exact!) for more enforcement and to make improving safety on our streets a priority. He stands us up at meetings, he won't deal with it.
Before anyone says it - JC has enforcement jurisdiction on all roads in JC, even county roads. Pedestrian struck and killed crossing Jersey City street, officials say http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... y.html#incart_2box_hudson Its time to hit him publicly, folks. Please TWEET @stevenfulop about this crash, and anytime you feel unsafe as a pedestrian or cyclist or see any dangerous driving. We need to hit him. MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE #jcmakeityours in your tweet. And if you have space left, add in #jcmakeitsafe. We have to start more public pressure as residents.
Posted on: 2016/9/29 14:33
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Re: Fulop won't run for governor, will back Murphy, sources say
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I don't think there's bad dirt as the lead reason to not run (though no doubt there's some dirt). I would bet it has much more to do with polling outside Hudson County, and lack of $$ in addition to the state Dem machine support. Deals happen all the time. It might simply have been a matter that the N NJ Dems felt they could get farther with another candidate this time around and that his "turn" will come down the road.
Posted on: 2016/9/28 16:48
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Re: Crash on Jersey Ave, Friday Night Aug 5
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Sadly, not true in JC at all. The enforcement only ramped up in Union City, JCPD did nothing. We've been fighting for more enforcement on JC's JFK Blvd (which the CITY, not the County is indeed responsible for) for over FOUR YEARS now since our neighbor Steven Clifford was killed by an off duty cop going 60 mph, at JFK/Fairmount. NOTHING. Even Fulop, who committed to attend a public meeting about enforcement and around who's calendar we set the the meeting and the Freeholder arranged all this with him, STOOD US UP. No apology, no rescheduling, no sending any delegate in his place who could help. We to get together city-wide as residents and PUSH him hard. I suggest we all tweet @stevenfulop anytime we see reckless driving or feel unsafe as pedestrians/cyclists and BE SURE to include #jcmakeityours in your tweet (and add #jcmakeitsafe if you have room left). Yes, we need to do way more than this and get organized, however, starting the public image pressure and keeping that up might help and its not hard to do. Who's in?
Posted on: 2016/9/28 13:55
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Re: Parking Issues Around Hamilton Park
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If you read what I wrote, I said WITHOUT INCREASING the amount of parking...
Posted on: 2016/9/23 13:32
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Re: Parking Issues Around Hamilton Park
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Uh, yes. I've mentioned Car sharing as part of the solution multiple times in this thread.
Posted on: 2016/9/23 13:30
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Re: Parking Issues Around Hamilton Park
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The problem is JC has done nothing to amend the parking code, permit hours (should be extended), regulating cars parking long-term with improperly registered out of area plates (resident owned vehicles trying to skirt higher insurance rates), and enforcement. This can be fixed NOW without increasing actual parking space realty/building more garages and will greatly improve congestion for parking in many areas of the city. Let's fix what we already have, in concurrence with expanding biking, public transit and car share.
The issue the OP has is that because permits in HP end at 5pm, and many new buildings have gone up with fee-based garages, a lot of newcomers are moving to these buildings and street parking their cars after 5 & all weekend instead of paying for the parking in their new shiny luxury building purely because they can due to the limit in permit hours. Just visit the streets around the Cast Iron Lofts - where cars NEVER parked on the street before the building went up. Guess what? Its full of cars now from new residents moving into the Cast Iron Lofts who came here with their cars, but refuse to park in the garage available to them. Yes, Planning can continue to put lower parking to unit ratios on future construction, and they should. But make residents in buildings with garages USE THEM and not the street. You choose to move to a pricey new apt with a car, you can afford to pay to park it off street at your building.
Posted on: 2016/9/22 18:54
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Re: Parking Issues Around Hamilton Park
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Because a few other crazies got on board and accused Councilwoman Osborne of being racist by putting the change forth. And they were really brutal/out of line. Crazy, for sure. But the Council backs away from any accusations of Racism, no matter how far a stretch/completely off base they may be, like this case.
Posted on: 2016/9/21 21:41
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Re: Parking Issues Around Hamilton Park
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Your logic is confusing. Yvonne blocked the permit hours extension because she said it would make it harder for people who don't live downtown to park downtown. So now more, not less, cars can come in after permit hours end at 5, not less. That doesn't lessen car ownership at all. In fact, its exactly the opposite effect.
Posted on: 2016/9/21 20:54
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Re: Parking Issues Around Hamilton Park
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That got shot down at Council by Yvonne Balcer & Co several months ago, sadly. They claimed it would violate their rights to attend public government meetings at City Hall since parking around there would be affect. Nevermind that the City allows the public to use the lot adjacent to the back of City Hall for meeting parking for free... Fact is, cars are not going away, and development is going to keep growing and building even more density. Both the extreme views of "its a city, deal with it/ditch your car" and "I deserve free street parking" are wrong and poor city planning. There does need to be a strategy created/overhauled to improve the parking crunch city-wide, INCREASE PUBLIC TRANSIT OPTIONS/IMPROVE FUNCTIONALITY in order to make car-free living more attractive and feasible (especially for families with kids), increase car sharing options, and force those car owners willfully moving into developments with parking to use that and not the street. Frankly, if you can afford to both own a car and pay the premiums to live in these new multi unit buildings with rental parking, you should be pushed to use it or forego your car, period.
Posted on: 2016/9/21 18:40
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Re: Crash on Jersey Ave, Friday Night Aug 5
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Its not just Grand St that's a chronic problem. JFK Blvd in JC is a MASSIVE problem and constantly wins the ranking of most dangerous roadway in Northern NJ. I've been working with the county and city for years to try to make it safer. Time and again,t he county engineers have stepped up - they are about to start implementing $3.6 mil in redesign work on the corridor from Communipaw-Bond, and subsequent grant funded efforts that will take the work through JSQ. But grants take years to get so their work will take awhile to implement.But at least its coming. In the meantime, we've continued to push JCPD to increase enforcement (county road BUT city has enforcement jurisdiction). Its limited and inconsistent. This has to come from Mayor Fulop for anything to happen. We need to push him to adopt a city-wide Vision Zero style program like DeBlasio has done in NYC. But he wont' In fact, he stood us up for a massive public meeting we scheduled AROUND HIM, with many Police & Sheriff and other officials in attendance. He even promised to then send a high ranking 2nd from his office to represent him, one who could make decisions, and DIDN'T. Epic Fail.
Posted on: 2016/9/15 16:39
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Re: Bus options - from St Peter's Univ to City hall
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She already mentioned this bus in her first post...
Posted on: 2016/9/15 13:47
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Re: Bus options - from St Peter's Univ to City hall
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The SPU shuttle is only available to SPU students/faculty, I believe. Plus the schedule is a mystery.
Van Reypen street is ok in the day, but not well lit and shady feeling at night. I'd walk down JFK blvd at night as the walking route simply because its better lit and has more activity/traffic.
Posted on: 2016/9/14 20:26
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Re: Bus options - from St Peter's Univ to City hall
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You've identified your two Non-Path options. Only other option is Uber/taxi
Posted on: 2016/9/14 13:35
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Re: JC councilman charged with drunken driving after three-car collision
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Geez...While Probation is often standard for first offense DUIs, the fact that nothing was given for the "Theft of Services" is horrible. At the very least, he should have to pay all that money back.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... n.html#incart_2box_hudson 3 years probation for ex-Jersey City councilman in DWI case Khemraj "Chico" Ramchal, the former Ward B councilman whose March 2015 arrest on a drunken driving charge snowballed into a political scandal that left him facing assault and theft charges, was sentenced today to three years of probation and a three-month suspension of his driver's license. REDACTED at the request of the Jersey Journal.
Posted on: 2016/9/9 16:43
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Re: When did the parking meter times change in the Heights?
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Meters HELP businesses, not hurt them. It keeps residents from long term parking in those spots after at and allows for more space turnover for business customers to utilize.
Posted on: 2016/8/29 20:53
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Re: When did the parking meter times change in the Heights?
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Ordinance was passed several months ago. I guess the city has been slow to roll it on in each area/put stickers on meters.
Posted on: 2016/8/26 17:45
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Re: Help Available for Outdoor Cats in 07302
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Talk to the Head of Animal Control about this issue by Lincoln Park. They are aware of it, and I believe they are working with another TNR organization to target that area. I do not know the time frame and they will need residents to help (all kinds of ways you can help based on your time and comfort level). Please contact the head of Animal Control to discuss and voice your concern about that area.
Posted on: 2016/8/16 13:26
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Re: Fulop proposes open space trust fund for Jersey City
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I actually agree with that idea.
Posted on: 2016/8/11 15:51
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Re: Fulop proposes open space trust fund for Jersey City
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Its hilarious how Boggiano thinks this new open space trust fund would detract from or prevent other city effort/programs. Also, more/better open space helps youth stay active and is one of the many prongs to making cities safer/less crime ridden... what a crock.
He says, "This is another political gimmick," he said. "Forget about all this ideal stuff, let's take care of the problems we have now."
Posted on: 2016/8/11 13:34
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Re: Rainbow to be replaced by Hoboken restaurant group responsible for 1 Republik
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Right?? Thanks. Smh at some of these replies. Not sure about the others, but I'm talking about Newark ave/dtjc of about 10-12 years ago, or even 6-7 years ago (heck I even liked it in the late 90's/early 2000's). Fun and diverse stuff was happening then - more art, more diversity of people, you got to really know your neighbors because we were the ones going out and making stuff happen and going to support the businesses, bars, restaurants. People were friendly to each other and greeted each other on the sidewalks all the time. You could go bar hopping and see friends and familiar faces pretty much everywhere. Hoboken bros stayed in Hoboken. What we had was special and its depressing that the growth trend didn't continue in the vein in which it was headed because that was great and had a lot of variety to offer and potential to get even better. I spent 17 years living there from '96-2013. As a single woman that whole time there I never felt unsafe. So glad I got out when I did as I really can't stand what's happened to an area that I really use to adore living in and going out in as recently as just 4-5 years ago. Everything is being sold out now. I don't go down there anymore because last I tried a night out there a year ago, it was such a let down. :(
Posted on: 2016/8/9 20:12
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Been at that for years. I also go to the dept heads directly now for issues and chase them because the RRC won't even do that.
Posted on: 2016/8/9 18:44
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Re: Rainbow to be replaced by Hoboken restaurant group responsible for 1 Republik
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I don't think most people in this thread are upset Rainbow is closing. But rather by the type of place supposedly coming in and what those owners are known to bring the retail & customer element. I don't think anyone is this thread is anti-change. Just many don't like the direction its headed when there are options that would be progressive and suit more of our tastes. People are justifiably worried about the "Hoboken bro" element getting worse and continuing to affect our quality of life and enjoyment of our city. and residents not being the target demo of these new businesses.
Posted on: 2016/8/8 15:34
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Brightside does, I think.
Posted on: 2016/8/8 14:50
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Yep, and they still won't park in the d@mn parking garage. No, they'll street park and drive drunk, and has been escalating. With little enforcement. But its not "all good" sadly. It says to me that the city doesn't really give a hoot about people who actually live here.
Posted on: 2016/8/8 14:44
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I'm so with you on this. I'm pretty disgusted with what's happening in dtjc, as someone who's been here for 20 years. Everything I moved here for is disappearing quickly (and the better promise of where it should be going as you outline in bold above), and its not good. No more diversity - diversity of income, especially - is long gone in major parts of this town. An average person can no longer make it and thrive here unless they make 6 figures. F that noise.
Posted on: 2016/8/8 14:42
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The point is that the RRC is not following through on complaints that get submitted in this system. I've had to chase them on numerous complaints filed, not just broken sidewalks. Its not good.
Posted on: 2016/8/4 13:22
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Re: Yvonne Outdoes Herself - Transgender Bathroom Editorial
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How is this thread still a thing???
Posted on: 2016/8/3 15:13
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Posted on: 2016/8/3 15:13
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