The power of the HCDO extends into the court room. That is how Lopez got away with it.

There is an investment group that bought up a number of properties up where I am. The renovated the cat-piss soaked building next to me and rented it out.

The former owner told me they have been buying up properties and renting them out enough to break even. Their plan is that when the market improves, they will be tearing down a building new homes for resale.

Thought my area is gentrifying it is going Indian.. with the Indians becoming homeowners instead of just renters.

I would rather have a few discrete rub-n-tug places than have prostitutes soliciting on the street.

Back during the Schundler administration, there was a big crackdown on the hotels on 1&9. Hookers and their johns were now doing it in stairwells or sneaking into people's backyards in the Western Slope section. Prostitution didn't go away.. it just moved.

I would rather we take the approach Singapore has in regulating / controlling the practice.

Soon Nidia can go back to Florida. She will have no reason to be in Jersey City.

An old vendor of mine recommended GE/RCA/Hotpoint as GE made very reliable compressors. Over the past 14 years, I have had only one GE fridge have a compressor failure (I have over 12 of them).


GE now has their refrigerators manufactured by a third party in Mexico. I don't know if they use the GE compressors. I bought one anyway for my place. So far, no problems.

I have all my mortgages with Bayonne Community Bank. Their customer service is top notch.

I originally ended up with them because none of my properties can be financed through Fannie or Freddie. I can only use a portfolio lender.

I see your app and raise you a map guide with review (sort of the Yelp of prostitution).

http://www.rubmaps.com/

photos of those busted:

http://photos.nj.com/4505/gallery/12_ ... ion_sting_/index.html#/11


Not exactly what I remember seeing in Thailand.



http://youtu.be/jNkwsQDs7qM

The song at 3:30 is a bit of a mind worm.

NJ could go back to the old Victorian Compromise: Allow legal prostitution in specific areas (away from normal residential neighborhoods) then vigorously enforce keeping vice from spreading from that area.

Nevada is the only state I can think of that does that today.

This was done once before in some city. In the previous case (this was decades ago) light bulbs filled with non-lethal bacteria were released on subway tracks. The bacteria spread in a similar fashion to weaponized anthrax.

who?

how often did this guy pass out drunk in front of his house? I remember when he was first elected, there was a website showing him buck-ass naked, passed out on his front steps.

racial loyalty..


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It is amazing that an agency that has full control over parking meters and writing parking tickets in one of the most densely populated part of the country... loses money...

I will be happy of Fulop & Co. can eliminate all these no-show jobs that get the HCDO supporters minor jobs and/or access to the city's health insurance plan.

Fulop is going to have his hands full with the finances. Jersey City's debt load, if I remember correctly, is over 1/2 a billion $$?

based on what has been posted at NJ.com so far... looks like Ward C won't have a run-off. Boggiano has about 52% of the vote.

\Edit: take that back... added up the votes wrong..

Ward A had a really tiny turnout

any results for Ward C council?

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I am pretty sure there is one right across from the county court house and sheriff's office.

I meant northern section of Ward C (North of Rt. 139).. I am close to the Ward C / Ward D border. My block is almost solid Healy signs.. but I know some of the Healy supporters around me have city jobs.

Well.. I just voted in Ward C (northern part in the Heights). Modest turn out with Healy minions everywhere around the polling station. The way the signs were angled though, it looked like Obama was running for mayor instead of Healy.

Given the turnout up here, I don't think Fulop supporters will be able to win out over the 20% machine-zombie vote. It will be up to turnout downtown and in Newport for a Fulop win.

Fulop did have election observers at my polling station. None there were from Healy (or at least I didn't see any).

The cops take them in at times. They get sent to the shrink, put on meds, stop taking the meds.. cycle repeats. Vagrancy used to be a crime... now you can only pick these guys up if they do something violent.

A guy I hire as a helper sometimes, has a brother who is schizophrenic. The guy came from Cuba and immediately qualified for Social Security disability payments. Plus his Mom lives in JC, so he had a place to stay. Between his family and government aid, he should have been fine.

One day he decides to go off his meds with the result being the voices in his head told him to go to NYC and wander around in a dream world.

My helper searched for days, finally finding him on a park bench in Central Park babbling to himself.

Crazy people don't know they are crazy. They sometimes make themselves worse by 'self-medicating' with hard drugs and alcohol (an extended family member of mine did this). Some of these people.. the hardcore 'homeless' need to be institutionalized. However, they way the courts and the law stands, this is impossible now. The DE-institutionization movement was big in the late 60's through early 70's. It was given a lot of ammo by the abuses of the mentally ill in a Staten Island institution.



http://youtu.be/qL2jgPiopxc

The way the new system was supposed to work was that the mentally ill would go to regional health centers and pretty much take care of themselves. If they could, they wouldn't have ended up in places like Greystone to begin with.

You can't institutionalize the mentally ill as one done in the past. So they just keep ending up back on the streets.

Hmmm.. I wonder what my renter policy will do when it comes up for renewal. I am almost exactly 100 ft above sea level. It would take a comet or meteor strike to make a wave big enough to flood here. If that did happen, I wouldn't be around to even file a claim, let alone collect.

Was the quote from NJM insurance or from their RE-insurance division?

Mayors have no power over the P.A. You have to go to the governor for that.

NJM Insurance is a non-profit. My homeowner rates for my old 2 family dropped by about 50% vs Travelers. I have renter insurance with them right now (even though I technically rent from myself).

Bumping an old thread..

My sister-in-law needs treatment for adult acne. Seeing if anyone has some recent recommendations.

Tor really stop the flooding (not a Sandy storm surge, but heavy rain) you would need to do what Atlanta has/is doing. JC doesn't have the option of simply pumping water untreated into the Hudson and Hackensack these days.

That project has turned out to be horribly expensive, driving sewer rates to the moon.

I am not sure what the mayor of JC at this point can do. Our rates are already outrageous as we are prisoner to the PVSC, which treats our sewerage. JC hooked up the PVSC system back in the 90's as (at the time) a less expensive alternative to upgrading JC's own sewage treatment plants. The PVSC has been a patronage mill for years and we are paying for it in spades.

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I have one in a self-watering container I build out of some schedule 40 PVC and a plastic container / tub from Home Depot. It did very well this year, but got cold shocked in October (it is not a hardy variety as Brewster described). It came back as soon as I bought it indoors. I kept it going through the winter with the other plants using some T-5 lights hung from the ceiling.

The next large plant or tree I grow, I am going to try out one of these pots:

http://www.superoots.com/