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Re: Anyone have an electric fireplace?

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When in heat mode, that fireplace will run you about $0.22 per hour (assuming it is 1,500 Watts)

If you want cheap heat.. you can go old school

http://www.keystoker.com/

You can get 40 lbs bags of washed anthracite shipped to you...

Posted on: 10/18 21:58

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Re: Owner of JC Massage Parlor Arrested for Promoting Prostitution

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Oh right, I kind of remember. I guess demolishing the building was the only way they could get rid of the business! Ha

They should just put a "spa" room in the new courthouse that is being built on the site.

Posted on: 10/5 16:20

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Re: Owner of JC Massage Parlor Arrested for Promoting Prostitution

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Though I have to say it is pretty funny the place was right across the street from the courthouse. Lady should have had a less conspicuous location.

There was another one that operated for years right across from the courthouse. It was in one the buildings that was recently demolished. They had a neon sign in the window advertising services at one point.

Posted on: 10/5 15:18

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Re: Menendez ahead by a wee bit!

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If that was true, McConnel would not be doing the song and dance, and there would not be a crippled FBI investigation. They don't have the votes.

Kavanaugh has gone through six separate FBI investigations over his course serving in government. If there was something there, it would have been leaked to the press by now.

Posted on: 10/4 14:10

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Re: Notice of violation & Order to correct - JCFD

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Has anyone else had an inspection saying you need a knoxbox? And you have to pay $25 to get the order form for one?

Also with our inspection, they say that if we do not correct our violations we will be fined $5000 a day per violation. WTF??

How many units is your building? Curious if they will come after me next.

I know someone who was given 10 days to put a fire escape on his building. It is registered with the DCA and has been inspected every 5 years without an issue.

DCA at least gave me 6 months to address my fire-escape issue (they ruled in 1999 I didn't need one, then changed their minds years later).

Posted on: 10/2 13:35

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Re: Menendez ahead by a wee bit!

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I didn't even know Sabrin was running again.... Didn't he run as a republican in the last primary he participated in?

I have gotten in the habit of not paying attention to the statewide elections, since whomever wins the Dem primary wins the general election.

Posted on: 10/1 13:20

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Re: (9/25/2018) Storm causes flooding across Hudson County

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Funny, I've only had one crap out in 20 years, and trust me it gets a workout!

My first Flo-tec went nearly a decade. I have another one in another building that has been in service since 1998.

The newer models are made out of plastic vs. the iron pumps. It is these new ones that have been failing.

Posted on: 9/26 12:15

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Re: (9/25/2018) Storm causes flooding across Hudson County

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JCman24 wrote:
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MDM wrote:
and of course my sump pump decided to have an issue...

crap... these pumps aren't made as well as they were in the past. This will be the 3rd time in two years I have to swap it out.

What brand is it?

Flo Tec (from Home Depot). I have had problems with the float switch jamming and repeated motor failures. The motors get ground faults, tripping the GFI.

I just ordered a different brand off of Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000 ... age_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hopefully it holds up better.

Posted on: 9/26 11:14

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Re: (9/25/2018) Storm causes flooding across Hudson County

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and of course my sump pump decided to have an issue...

crap... these pumps aren't made as well as they were in the past. This will be the 3rd time in two years I have to swap it out.

Posted on: 9/25 16:42

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Heights to get a new police station?

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Got emailed a press release from Fulop's office about a new North District station to be built. It stated that the new station will have parking. It doesn't state where in the Heights it will be located.

Eminent domain being used? Or is an existing city owned property going to be used for the new station?

Posted on: 9/24 15:39

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Re: (4/16/2018) Storm causes flooding across Hudson County

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How was the flooding situation downtown yesterday? I made the mistake of trying to get to Newport Mall via Hoboken. South end of Hoboken was a shallow lake in places.

Posted on: 9/19 15:46

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Re: Potential wild weather September 11 - 13th

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Latest model run showing what is left of Florence passing directly over us next week. Most of the rain though is North of us. Note: Gif ends before showing the storm reaching NYC metro area.

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Estimated Rain Totals over the next 10 days:

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Posted on: 9/12 15:13

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Re: Potential wild weather September 11 - 13th

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So right now Florence looks for us just some rainy, crappy weather. For South Carolina to Virginia, this storm looks to be epic.

The models and the Weatherbell people show the storm coming in at a cat 4 and then stalling. Over the following 3 to 4 days, the region could see up to 4 feet of rain!

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Posted on: 9/9 21:57

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Re: Recycling paper

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K-Lo2 wrote:
I put both glass and paper in clear bags designed for recycling. The city has been taking those bags for years...I mean DECADES. No problem. Today was the first time I learned this is not acceptable.

The really don't want plastic bags. They jam the separation equipment. The enforcement has just been spotty.

The sad thing is, much of that recycling is likely headed for a landfill.

Posted on: 9/8 10:16

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Re: Potential wild weather September 11 - 13th

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Latest forecast:

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For us, what we get will depend how far inland Florence goes before it heads North. The GFS at one point put the center of the storm dead over top of us, with rain totals near 15 inches.

The Euro model puts the storm farther inland, sparing us the worst of the rain.

The 5 models I checked all show a major hurricane headed for the Carolinas.

Edit: The GFS now shows Florence stalling off North Carolina for about three days, then it appears to head out to sea.

Posted on: 9/8 9:56

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Re: Compact Front Loading Washing machines

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AJ Madison is a pretty good site for looking up what is available in washers and just about everything else.

I have bought a number of appliances through them. Their customer service has been pretty good at resolving the two times I had issues.

Posted on: 9/6 16:59

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Re: Potential wild weather September 11 - 13th

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GFS updated this afternoon and no longer has Florence turning out to see. It biases though farther North than the Euro model, putting a weak Cat 2 landfall just North of the Chesapeake. This would direct storm surge into the Delaware bay.

If this scenario happened, we would be spared devastating winds and storm surge. The rain totals, would be impressive though.

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The rest of the models update overnight.

Posted on: 9/5 22:31

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Re: Potential wild weather September 11 - 13th

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Weatherbell forecast updated as of this morning. Cat 4 with a cone from the Chesapeake down to South Carolina.

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Posted on: 9/5 8:59

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Re: Potential wild weather September 11 - 13th

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The models have been schizophrenic over the past two days. They can't figure out if the storm is going out to sea or heading for the East coast.

The Euro and the GFS had the storm as of yesterday going out to sea. Only the Canadian had it coming to the East coast. This morning, everything is back hitting or coming very near the East coast.

All three models put the storm at a Cat 2 when it gets near land Thursday - Friday.

The Canadian is slow moving storm which will make a rough surf, surge, and some rain storm for us.

The GFS is like the Canadian, but puts the storm a little farther South.

The Euro has the storm actually coming a shore, which later will bring a hell of a lot of rain, after the storm tracks North.

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Posted on: 9/5 7:40

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Re: You know your neighborhood is gentrifying when...

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sullyx wrote:
who's the fella walking the pig around Hamilton Park neighborhood? saw him this weekend.

I was wondering what happened to that guy. Earlier he would walk the pig around Pershing Field.

I expect at some point seeing someone walk a Savannah cat. The F-1's cost $10k+

Posted on: 9/4 10:46

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Potential wild weather September 11 - 13th

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Multiple weather models are showing hurricane Florence showing up off the North American Eastern seaboard mid month. Unfortunately for us, there is a big blob of above normal temperature water off the coast, which can feed the hurricane energy.

The Weatherbell people think that the storm has a good chance of making it to the East coast due to the interactions with a high pressure system forming North of us.

Later this week, the Weatherbell crew thinks they will have a better handle on what is happening with the storm track. Hopefully, it will curve out to see before getting near us.

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Posted on: 9/2 22:42

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Re: You know your neighborhood is gentrifying when...

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The multiple $0.99 stores are slowly replaced with the likes of Dulce de Leche bakery coffee shop.

I am hoping for Turning Point opening up a place here. Going to the one in Hoboken is a bitch.

Posted on: 8/30 22:49

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Re: You know your neighborhood is gentrifying when...

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Now if the tear-downs would stop being replaced with Bayonne boxes.

I wonder what the land price point for that is. Clearly DT reached it some time ago, there hasn't been a BB built here in a long time. There's some price that the BB developers say "nope", even though they probably could still outbid a nicer project because their construction is so damn cheap.

This is the DT infill: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/323 ... -NJ-07302/162085086_zpid/

Christ... $1.85 million. What is the monthly rent equivalent?

Posted on: 8/30 15:18

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You know your neighborhood is gentrifying when...

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... the rundown bar down the street, that used to have the alcoholics stumbling out of at noon time, is renovated into a hipster bar with live music.

Now if the tear-downs would stop being replaced with Bayonne boxes.

Posted on: 8/30 14:54

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Re: Donald Trump Solidifies World Peace

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Haven't seen too many details on the new trade agreement, except for:

Mexico will raise the minimum wage for car manufacturers to something close to $16 per hour. The new Mexican government minimum wage increase are part of its platform. I think auto assembly workers wage is currently about $3 per hour.

Countries like China can't ship product through Mexico to avoid tariffs. This was a major issue with the US trade negotiators. Something has to be made in Mexico to be tariff free.

A Chinese aluminum company stockpiled more than $2 billion worth of aluminum in Mexico with intentions of shipping it to the U.S. to avoid tariffs on Chinese exports, according to a Wall Street Journal report on the scheme. Records linked China Zhongwang Holdings (chzhf, -4.26%) with the stockpile, much of which has since been moved to Vietnam following a U.S. trade group’s petition to the Commerce Department, the WSJ said.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/09/chinese ... ystery-mexican-stockpile/

Posted on: 8/28 10:53

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Re: Boonton Reservoir

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JCman24 wrote:
Did you also know Jersey City's water does not contain fluoride? There are probably countless preventable cavities in peoples' teeth. Yvonne, what do you think?

My kid was given a script for vitamins with fluoride because of this.

Posted on: 8/14 10:18

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Re: Boonton Reservoir

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He tried drinking nothing but bottled water... the locals would refill bottles with tap water.

That actually did kill my dad, very slowly. He contracted a rare Hepatitis (E or some such) in Ukraine when he didn't want to offend his hosts even though he saw them filling the bottle from the tap. He eventually died of cirrhosis and the liver cancer it caused. (No, he was not a drinker at all)

Yikes!

I thought what my wife got on her business trip to India was bad (eventually leads to fatal cancer). Her issue was curable with very expensive and physically brutal dose of antibiotics.

Posted on: 8/14 10:17

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Re: I've seen pre-construction sales but this is ridiculous! 323 7th St

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What is propping it up are the very low interest rates due to Federal Reserve intervention, lots of foreign money coming into the USA, and Boomer generation investment capital.

The Fed is now trying to unwind its balance sheet and the Boomers are retiring (though many are staying in the work force beyond age 67). When the Boomers retire, a lot of investment money is going to dry up as it is converted into safe stuff like T-bills. A lot of real estate will hit the market as Boomers need to cash out and move to smaller (cheaper) homes / condos. Gen X is too small and Gen Y has waaay too much debt to absorb it all.

As for the foreign money... some of what is coming in doesn't care about positive returns. It is "money getting out of Dodge". If the investors only loses half of it, it is better than losing all of it back in his/her home country. Real estate is where a good chunk of that money is going.

Posted on: 8/14 9:40

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Re: Recommendations- Dumpster Rental

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brewster wrote:
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I just called Interstate and they said the smallest they have is 10 yard. How do you have a 1 yard?

Maybe they only have the small ones for people who rent monthly? I keep one in my garage since I have so many small project going on that require me to get rid of stuff.

Posted on: 8/13 16:38

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Re: I've seen pre-construction sales but this is ridiculous! 323 7th St

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brewster wrote:
The listing for 323 7th St popped up in my Zillow feed. 4br, 5 bath SFR, $1,850,000. Beautiful pics of interior and exterior, and currently an empty lot!

This is a sign we are approaching the next property crash.

Posted on: 8/13 16:36

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