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Re: NJ transit to build pedestrian bridge from Hoboken to Newport

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fat-ass-bike wrote:
Had a dream last night about this very problem - an easy commute to Hoboken or Manhattan, and my dream gave me this solution!

Posted on: 2007/9/15 18:51

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Re: NJ transit to build pedestrian bridge from Hoboken to Newport

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fat-ass-bike wrote:
We could have some of these 'bad boys' to shuttle people across the water instead of a bridge or TUNNEL!

Posted on: 2007/9/14 17:04

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Re: "Iron Mountain" Expands in Greenville, Warehouse expands by 136,000 square feet

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Like most warehouses this brings little to no jobs to JC.

This place will be 136,000 square feet of dead storage space for documents and data. No manufacturing, no commerce, just trucks in and out all day from all over the place.

Posted on: 2007/9/13 16:45

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Re: NJ transit to build pedestrian bridge from Hoboken to Newport

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hell2heights wrote:
Hopefully it'll be big enough to accomodate Walkers, Runners, Cyclists, and those Double Wide Strollers without congestion. And by double wide strollers I mean those obnoxious SUV-like baby carriages - not people with huge asses

I don't know if you need to worry about double-wide strollers, but you definitely need to worry about double-wide neighborhood association leaders.

Posted on: 2007/9/10 19:51

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Re: Website Policy & first person banned on jclist.com

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Before this turns into a forum for NON-bashing, I would just like to make it clear that the website in question is a community effort put together by a much larger group than NON. While he's provided a major contribution and lit the fire to get this started, this was a long time coming, probably before NON even surfaced. The website that shall not be named is in no way a political statement nor is it being used in any way different than what JC List was originally intended for. We just feel it's an alternative forum for communication.

And now back to your regularly scheduled lunacy.

(Invalid submission. You could have exceeded session time. Please re-submit or make a backup of your post and login to resubmit if necessary. x3 )

Posted on: 2007/5/11 13:50

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Re: Chase threatening to leave NY for NJ.

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DTMercer wrote:
NYC Says No to Extra Tax Breaks for Chase
NEW YORK -- J.P. Morgan Chase Bank is threatening to leave New York City if it doesn't receive bigger tax breaks to build a 50-story office tower at ground zero.

More posturing, just like Merrill Lynch did a few months ago. The companies purposely leak this to the news to cause an uproar and then the city folds and gives them their breaks. Nothing to see here, move along.

Posted on: 2007/4/26 13:14

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Re: Journal Square: Two burglars got cash, but cameras saw them

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r_pinkowitz wrote:

IMO the square footage of casino table vs. a city block is not a fair comparison.

I actually think it's a very fair comparison, but regardless of that, there's no reason why there can't be a team of 2-3 people sitting there watching. Sure, they may not catch everything - just like they don't catch everything in Vegas - but it's better than not looking at all and only using the tapes in prosecution later.

Posted on: 2007/4/4 14:48

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Re: Journal Square: Two burglars got cash, but cameras saw them

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r_pinkowitz wrote:
There is currently 78 active CCTV cams in JC. In order to man each camera, we would need 78 employees 24/7.

Wow, those Vegas casinos with 10,000+ cameras must have a huge security staff. 10,000 people all sitting there intently watching a single camera each.

Posted on: 2007/4/4 13:58

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Re: Cosi Will Open Second City Eatery -- 4,000-sf space in the ground floor of One Exchange Place

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Sweet, I wonder if Sonia will claim Vivien stiffed this one, too.

Posted on: 2007/3/13 18:58

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Re: The 111 1st street settlement

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bdlaw wrote:
Irrespective of your views on the issue, I am still curious as to why we never heard ONE WORD about the fire there last Summer.
The city has had, I believe, nearly 9 months to investigate.

Who is supposed to answer this for you? The JJ fairy?

Why not go to the police department and file a FOIA to get a copy of the police report? That should give you an idea of the direction that the police went.

Or maybe there's a FOIA fairy that can do it for you.

Posted on: 2007/3/11 18:06

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Re: The 111 1st street settlement

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What a whiny, pedantic way to make a point...

Yeah, the architecture sucks. Yeah, the lawsuit was complete BS. If you'd like to make a point about the architecture and *moving forward*, make it.

If you'd like to live in the past and harp on how the city and culture was abused you're not going to make a constructive point about how to move forward and probably not going to be taken seriously.

Posted on: 2007/3/11 16:46

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Re: Pulaski Skyway replacement being designed

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Maybe they can do something with it like they did in the Florida Keys with all of the old bridges. Most are still intact and are used as pedestrian and bike paths as well as fishing launches.

Granted, you don't want to be fishing in the Hackensack River, but it would be a cool space.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mile_Bridge

(Useless trivia: The scene in True Lies where they blow up the bridge is real - they're blowing up a chunk of the "old" Seven Mile Bridge between Vaca Key and Marathon)

Posted on: 2007/2/14 22:26

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Re: What do the E's in Newport PATH stand for?

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"E" as in Erie Railroad.

What the PATH was before it was the PATH.

http://www.nycsubway.org/nyc/path/

Posted on: 2007/1/8 13:14

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Re: Fight over closed area of Washington Street, now includes claim of racism by Paulus Hook Associa

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Busters_Hand wrote:
Is Sonia Maldonado related to Junior Maldonado?

A) Great Arrested Development reference

B) No, it's been answered like 5 times in this thread alone, there is no relation.

Posted on: 2007/1/7 15:40

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Re: Steven Fulop in Wikipedia

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injcsince81 wrote:
The Wikipedia sounds like a pathetic political shill-job, with poor spelling at that.

You must be a factinista.

Posted on: 2006/12/12 13:04

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Re: 72 years ago did a Jersey city man cause the Morro Castle Disaster and the death of her captain?

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Strechin a little for relevancy to JC, aren't we?

Posted on: 2006/11/14 12:24

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Re: Curbed: "Merrill Lynch may leave NYC for 'hot to trot' NJ" -- At stake 9,000 highly paid staffers.

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Posturing with landlords (renovation incentives) and NYC (tax incentives). They're not going anywhere.

Posted on: 2006/11/12 19:00

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Re: Three Thugs in Push-In Robbery 8th/H.P. West 8/18

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designknob wrote:
Well... the cops obviously have better things to do. Like counting their kickbacks, and the Guardian Angles haven't done dick. Does anyone know if these guys have actually stopped a SINGLE thing from happening around here? I fully supported them when they came here, but I've lost as much faith in them as I have the cops.

No, they're too busy trying to get support and make us feel bad for poor lady that runs a convenience store that SELLS CRACK PIPES. Gee, I wonder what the people who robbed her shopped there for previously?

Posted on: 2006/8/24 9:40

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Re: Police attacked by large Rottweiler, while they arrest 153 and seize 11,500 bags of heroin

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GrovePath wrote:
with these drugs and how they glass crack pipes -- including the store by the Dixon Mills that was robbed and helped bring in the Gardian Angels. They keep them behind a small closed cabinet behind the counter.

Wait, wait wait - the store that was robbed, that we read that whole sob story about how she feared for her life etc. while she was being robbed, sells those pipes?

I just lost every last bit of sympathy I had for her. She's part of the problem, not part of the solution, and if this is true (I've never had reason to patronize that establishment) the Guardian Angels should have been ashamed to associate themselves with such a store.

Posted on: 2006/8/3 16:46

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Re: Fun with Abatements: Goldman Sachs

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How can someone possibly believe that leasing out, what, at least 25 floors, is a huge loss versus paying taxes to a municipality?

Do people really think waterfront commercial real estate is that cheap? Or that taxes are *THAT* out of control?

Posted on: 2006/8/1 18:04

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Re: Is there enough affordable housing?

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karindiann wrote:

They deserve it because we live in a democracy. If you'll read the original article posted, you might notice that affordable housing is mandated by the state of NJ.

Newsflash: That's not democracy, that socialism. Worked well in Soviet Russia, where apartment rents you.

Posted on: 2006/7/30 13:51

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Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

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Let's trade them with Mexico. 2-for-1

Posted on: 2006/7/28 21:58

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Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

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Roaring20s wrote:
Non PILOT property owners are struggling to make up not just their share of the school tax but also the share not being paid by folks who have PILOT properties.

Struggling in theory, I suppose, but in general PILOTs have actually cost builders/rehabbers more than the actual property taxes would have cost. In reality everyone's paying near the same proportional amount, and it would seem as property taxes go up the base on which PILOTs are calculated go up as well.

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Roaring20s wrote:
Explain to me if you can why you would be against subsidised housing for the working poor when these PILOT properties are subsidised.

Because PILOTs are not subsidised - everyone's paying their fair share, it's just the destination of that share is changed. Comparing that to someone who's getting a house basically for free is ludicrous.

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Roaring20s wrote:
Could there be an underlying class issue here?

Only if you're making it one.

Posted on: 2006/7/28 12:26

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Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

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soshin wrote:
Please feel free to explain it to me for the 51st time because if not paying property taxes allows me to put just as much money into the city coffers as you do then I will gladly opt out!

And please don't tell me the developer is paying the city a wad of cash up front, woohoo, my credit card company offers me 15,000 buck credit lines, doesn't mean that 15 years down the line my bill is not going to be due.

If PILOTS are so wonderful why can't we all have them?

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Roaring20s wrote:
Then I'll explain for the 50th time since you still haven't gotten it that PILOTs do NOT pay equally into the county and not a dime to the schools. Unsubsidised property owners pay YOUR share...they are subsidising you.

WTF does your credit card have to do with it? PILOT's aren't lines of credit. They're payments, due, just like taxes.

PILOTs put just as much money if not more into the city coffers. The question was why is the city not getting the tax revenue. It is, in a different form. The county gets short changed, yes, but that wasn't the question posed. Would you rather see *all* of that money go into Jersey City in the form of a PILOT, or would your rather see it get split up 10 different ways and go to Weehawken, Hoboken, Secaucus and Bayonne, etc. as a tax?

Posted on: 2006/7/28 11:39

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Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

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Roaring20s wrote:
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soshin wrote:

I am sick of hearing about 20-year tax abatements given to Downtown buildings when my house in JSQ is paying for YOU!!!

SLAM!!!!

Now it looks like the shoe's on the other foot. Non-abated property owners look at abated owners just the same way as you're looking at these people in these subsidized apartments. Don't throw stone if you live in glass houses people!

Slam? You're both clueless.

How many times does it have to be stated? Properties with tax abatements still pay just as much if not more money into city coffers. PILOTs. I don't think I need to define them for the 50th time.

That is all.

Posted on: 2006/7/28 1:17

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Re: New face of public housing - 72 homes in the Lafayette section of Jersey City

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"It's beautiful," said Shaneefia Franklin, who lives with her 4-year-old son DaQuan and DaQuan's father, Chris Thomas, in a two-bedroom unit for $300 a month.

Ah, yes, the nice way of saying "her baby's daddy".

Posted on: 2006/7/27 19:43

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Re: Latest Talking Politics TV show

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This last one was actually pretty interesting. Made me want to reach through my monitor and smack that retard from the Latin Kings.

"People don't see the good work we do." ... riiiiight.

Posted on: 2006/7/10 13:40

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Re: NWA Hypocrit

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What's it matter anyways? Most of Sonia's "constituents" are either short-term residents that can't vote and those that are more than likely the ones that are registered to vote could care less because they just sleep in Newport but live in NYC.

Posted on: 2006/7/9 12:44

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Re: Assault/wilding incident on 9th and Erie

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jc_insomniac wrote:
From dictionary.com:

wild
intr.v. Slang wild?ed, wild?ing, wilds

To go about in a group threatening, robbing, or attacking others: ?Police said that the youngsters... were part of a larger group of teenagers who were ?wilding,?their slang for terrorizing and bullying? (Maclean's).

As for the GAs, the point that BM and I were trying to make is that they ARE around, and if you believe that they're not -- simply because you personally have not seen them -- then all you need to do is pick up the phone or write them an email and ask them directly whether or not they're still patrolling JC. It's not fair that you are making these assumptions, which are clearly wrong, without making an effort to unearth the facts.

My bad on wilding - m-w.com didn't have a definition for it (in the dictionary section at least) other than to call it a wild plant or animal.

This will be my last post on this (yeah, save your "good, shut up")... As far as the GA's go, you're missing my point. My point is that I haven't seen them. I walk about 8 blocks each way to and from the path at around 9:30AM and between 6 and 9PM every day. I also come home late every once in awhile after midnight, and I haven't seen them in months. They make their point known by being conspicuous, andhere's no secret recipe to how they fight crime. They're not being conspicuous. End of point.

Try the veal, and don't forget to tip your waitress.

Posted on: 2006/7/3 17:13

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Re: Assault/wilding incident on 9th and Erie

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BrightMoment wrote:
Hey, glx, why don't you just call 'em and ask them yourself? It's not like their phone number isn't public info as jc_insomniac, pchops and myself have posted their contact info numerous times.

No thanks, I have no reason to bug them. I'm sure they have better things to do.

I just found it comedic that they're being "notified" as if they're some official agency when their main benefit (and crime-fighting technique) is being visible and they aren't being seen.

If people have seen them around, more power to them. They showed up in force when the press was around and it sounds like now every once in awhile a couple will show up here and there. I think we can all agree they aren't doing much good at 5pm on Grove Street. If they're around, I think we'd all sure like to see them walking around HP or VVP in the evening/late nights when most of these incidents seem to be taking place... Otherwise, they might as well be the cops.

PS - what's "wilding", anyways?

Posted on: 2006/7/3 1:05

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