tommyc_37 wrote:
Post-Sandy, the Path was an absolute joke. But outside of that month or so, which was very frustrating, I can count on one hand the number of times I have been really, really screwed over the past 10 years. Compared to other systems, that's pretty good.

Major cities like Boston and DC, among many others, have subway systems that stop running at like 1am. How many 24/7 systems even exist in the US? It's really nice to have 24 hour service, and that shouldn't be taken for granted.

I suspect that people like Corybraiterman and Pathh8tr do a lot of complaining in their lives. Of course everybody is entitled to an opinion and everybody has the right to complain, but after a while the negativity and cynical attitude is just plain annoying.

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CaptainD22 wrote:
In this case, we always try to match the price, unless it is less than our cost (Selling below cost is illegal in NJ).

Take Care,

Adithya Bathena
Owner

This is NOT true.

oh, look it this guy!

really dude? you think the owner would lie on a public message board just so people could prove him wrong later? use your head.

it's absolutely illegal to sell below cost. see page 2.

http://www.nj.gov/oag/abc/downloads/abchandbook02.pdf

how about;

1. understand the law
2. then make posts about the law

in that order

Then if he was specifically relating to the ABC, maybe he should have made that clear, rather than making it seem like selling ANYTHING under cost is illegal in NJ.

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CaptainD22 wrote:
In this case, we always try to match the price, unless it is less than our cost (Selling below cost is illegal in NJ).

Take Care,

Adithya Bathena
Owner

This is NOT true.

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SRhia wrote:
@cousin - don't take it personally. I think anytime anyone posts experiences like yours, there'll be always be people think the buyer is wrong / ridiculous / unreasonable / stupid / etc ...

I remember when I joined this list earlier on, I posted a complaint about getting food poisoning at one of the pizza places in JC - I called the restaurant who completely pushed me off ("well, other people have ordered fried calamari here tonight too, and no one else is complaining,", and "I checked with all the chef's and helper's in the kitchen, no one is sick, and everyone is clean.", etc). After that response from the restaurant, I decided to post the complaint here - and guess what I got? I got so many red arrows from fellow posters here, it was unbelievable. I mean, hello - I spent a whole day in the bathroom!!!!

[waiting for more red arrows...]

Thank you for saying that. Sometimes I feel like some people just wait around to pounce on the victims. Meanwhile we post to save and prevent others from what just happned to us. Tough crowd. I bet if we all met bimonthly for drinks, people would realize there are faces behind the screen names everyone would just be a lot more understanding. Thanks again. And I'm sorry to hear of your food poisoning.

CdeCoincy wrote:
Here's my understanding of what happened here. A wine buyer sees a shelf label which indicates a good deal on a wine he is acquainted with (an assumption, maybe). At the register the sku or the sticky label reflects the correct selling price. The manager apologizes for the error and explains why the wine can't be sold at the shelf label price. Rather than finding a more affordable wine or leaving in a huff, the customer, using a screen name, writes things like: shady price labeling, I wonder how many others were cheated...

Isn't that over reacting?

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tommyc_37 wrote:
The discrepancy in rents (very high) versus the quality of current retail choices on Newark Ave (very low) is almost absurd at this point. When decent 1-bedrooms were in the $1100-1300 range, you accepted Sleep Cheap and 99 Cent Dreams, now it's like an insult.

HA!!! Exactly my point.

Whenever I walk by those establishments, I make sure to give my "you're not welcome in this neighborhood" look to the store owners and the people who frequent those establishments

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http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/s ... estic_Product_GDP_History

well, GDP includes government spending. so if government spending increases, of course GDP will increase, if all else is equal.

Not true. Since gov spending is tax dollars, if you increase gov spending without economic growth you must increase taxes and reduce capital available to investment and consumption, then these components of GDP shrink, resulting in a zero sum game.

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Pardon, but do you not know the history of THIS country at all? 3 centuries ago it was like Somalia nowadays. With bloodiest wars between many local tribes, toil, hardship, and so on. Then, some libertarians arrived, and established a country. Not perfectly libertarian, of course. In the South they were of the opinion that it is permissible to force one person to work on behalf of another. As a result, the Southern economy was much weaker than the Northern one. When the war came, this decidedly non-libertarian economy of the South buckled and crashed, - and that allowed the North to win. Despite the fact that the South had better soldiers and better generals. Anyways, after two centuries of libertarian economy former small agrarian colony became the domineering economy of the World.

That's when the locust descended. And I do not mean immigrants. They came here to work. When I say "locust", I mean - socialists.

But do not worry, eventually, the libertarians will leave. And you will suck this country dry. You are diggin a hole, - and I was born in a hole like the one that you dig. I know what's there. You... well, you will find out.

That's quite a fairy tail. Is it relevant that all economies in 1800 looked like libertarianism when there was no liberal system in existence? What is a fact is that the progressive movement you despise created the world dominating economy you speak of. Here's the US GDP per capita in 2005 dollars. It takes off after the New Deal and never looks back.



http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/s ... estic_Product_GDP_History

HamiltonParker wrote:
Can't stand the noise from the dive bar next door any longer. The (shared) brick walls of my home shake daily from noon until 1am or whenever they decide to close for the night.

Have tried talking with Guilo (bar owner) several times. The police can't be bothered with our calls as they're too preoccupied with more important crime fighting activities.

What to do? Who's called a lawyer with any success?

No, I cannot move.
Yes, this bar is open 365 days a year..
Please help...

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SRhia wrote:
So if the rates starts to rise again, will the real estate market "crash" again?

It would take another depression like the one that started in 2007 to get prices to crash.

brewster wrote:
Wow, sounds like they deserve each other, landlord and tenants from hell. I don't get how this has gone on this long.

The timeline should be:

1-They notify landlord of placing rent in escrow and call complaint to buildings.

2-Landlord either ignores them or starts eviction for nonpayment, gets a court date within 6 weeks.

3-JC Buildings comes to inspect within days of complaint. (don't ask how I know)

So how did they go more than a year with neither them getting evicted nor the landlord racking up huge fines?

Vigilante wrote:
Forget the street thugs and the law abiding gun owners. The biggest problem is the gun shop owners and private sellers who will sell guns to anybody. They are not following laws or procedure. That is why an ATF agent must be required at all gun shows and why private sales only take place when witnessed by local law enforcement. It's easy to do and makes total sense.

fat-ass-bike wrote:
Here is a novel idea, what about a gun free zone within city limits and individuals can arm themselves to the teeth in rural areas - The city limit zone can be a sanctuary and void of any guns !

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Brewster if TJ did come to JC where do you think they should put their store?

Next to Carlo's in the Lackawannna. Walking distance to the Light rail and Newport and plenty of parking. Parking is the big problem for siting that kind of store Downtown and in Hoboken. Otherwise the Boriquen storefront on Jersey would be good, that space is huge. But it would be a parking disaster.

WECIB: Density means customers nearby who come frequently. 100K wealthy downtowners and Hobokeners within a 10 minute drive makes for a much more profitable store, even with higher rent, than a store where people need to drive an hour to get there. People close to a TJ's often use it as their primary grocery.

brewster wrote:
TJ's marketing execs are morons. Period. My MIL just got one in her southern Oregon town. Lets look at the stats, but because the town of Medford itself is so F***ing small (74,907), I use the county stats.

Jackson County OR: Population 203,206; Density 73/sq mi; median household income $36,461

Jersey City: pop 247,597; Density 16,736.6/sq mi; median household income $37,862

So, Mr TJ's MBA, how the F**k does one conclude the better market is the one with less people, less money per person, and them scattered over 2,785 sq mi vs JC's nearly densest in the nation 15 sq mi? And that's setting aside for the moment over 350,000 more people in Hudson county's 62 sq mi.

Morons.

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This is why prisons are big business: http://www.cnbc.com/id/44762286/Billi ... erica039s_Prison_Industry

With more than 2.3 million people locked up, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. One out of 100 American adults is behind bars — while a stunning one out of 32 is on probation, parole or in prison. This reliance on mass incarceration has created a thriving prison economy. The states and the federal government spend about $74 billion a year on corrections, and nearly 800,000 people work in the industry.

Vigilante wrote:
Let them keep single shot or small clip hunting rifles. No one except the military and, thanks to an abundance of them in the wrong hands, police. Time to start regulating the so-called militia. It's got to be done and it will be.

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neverleft wrote:
I will take this decision process one step further with something from my own experience. I went to an all boy’s high school. When I got to ..heaven err I mean a coed college and later grad school I was mad at my mom for a few years for sending me to that all boys high school. A waste of 4 good years, if you know what I mean! ;)

all the more reason for single-sex education.