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Re: Jersey City pencil company going strong after 125 years
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Go to any art store including Utretcht/Blick all around Manhattan. General charcoal and normal pencils are with other art pencils.
Posted on: 2014/8/12 2:32
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Happily. Its better than Confucius (which I feel is more chinese-american food), and as good as Grand Sichuan in terms of delicious and authentic. However, Grand Sichuan is sichuanese cuisine and I guess this is shanghainese. Grand Sichuan has all the spicy sichuanese food and this place doesn't. However, Shanghai Best has dim sum and better noodles. The hot soy bean milk with yao char kuai (fried dough stick dumplings, that they have in the picture outside the restaurant) is very good. I think the price at Shanghai Best is a bit too expensive. Everything should be taken down $2.
Posted on: 2014/3/23 17:55
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I only make coffee at home on the weekends. Actually in this weather, I make a pot of black tea and drink it for hours. But when it was cooler, I start off weekend mornings with a delicious cappucino. It just takes time, maybe 10-15 mins total, and the taste is better/as good as ordering a cappucino or latte from a fancy shop. I use a 3-cup aluminium moka pot that I got for $7 from Pearl River Mart in soho, but it only makes enough for one person. But you can get bigger moka pots. Put in cold filtered water, put on stove in medium heat, pay attention because you want to take it off as soon as all the coffee is in the top compartment, if it boils some more up there it will taste burnt. Then I put that aside for the short while it takes to heat up a milk in a small pot on the same burner, since its still hot. The milk will even be frothy if you keep at that heat but take it away immediately so it doesn't go brown or taste too cooked. It took some time to get to the perfect understanding of my moka pot, burner and pot for milk, so .. I'd expect if I bought another one I'd again have to experiment to make good coffee :) I used to heat the milk on another burner at the same time as the coffee.
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Yes. This is what I understood from some research while thinking about buying an apartment a few years ago. I may still be wrong, but this is what I understood. The condos that have abatements have taxes that are non-negotiable for the life of the abatement (15 years for a lot of downtown condos), and is based on the first sale price when the condo changed hands from developer to buyer. So, buying one of these condos, your effective tax rate could be way higher than it should be, if its based on 2007 market value at the peak of the market, or vs if it was based on 2005 or 2010 market value. I don't want to mention which buildings in downtown that my opinion generally have taxes too high or a good deal based on when they went on sale, because I don't want to knock certain buildings. But yeah, when the building opened for sale and the state of the economy definitely affects the taxes.
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But people who buy houses in more recent years could have worked hard too. How do you know? Who's to judge who worked harder? Why should this be a factor in taxes? Quote:
I agree until the last sentence. Why should the analysis include homes put on the market but did not sell? That may be an indicator of too high price being asked.
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At that $3000 budget it should be no problem at all finding a "luxury" apartment for two downtown, though some may be less than 900sqft. Just make appointment with the leasing office. Other than the ones mentioned can also check out 70 Greene, Liberty Towers and that new one Maddox. Paulus Hook is totally in walking distance of Grove.
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Thank you, thank you, this has been very informative. Although its my own place (a condo), the portable all-in-one suggested by BergenWood is appealing for least amount of work and cost. I will look more into that. "Rolled it to the kitchen sink"? So when you want to use it, you connected via a hose to the kitchen tap? And then when its done, what do you with the water ... or does it come with a hose that you also pipe into the sink while its running? This is cool, if it works :)
Floor drains ... more work than I want to do, I think. Maybe not possible but anyway good to know. But I'll put a pan under for sure, thanks for that advice.
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I am wondering whether its feasible to install a washing machine in the bathroom of an apartment in a pre-war row house, perhaps connecting to the water supply from the sink. Anyone knows about this? Recommendations for a contractor?
As much as a dryer would also be nice, I believe that's probably not possible since a vent is needed. Thanks!
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There is a new building on Warren close to completion. You mean the one on Warren and York st? Its going to be a rental: http://www.millenniumhomes.com/future ... .aspx?alias=WARREN_@_YORK Quote: another massive tower that's being built on the lot directly behind the Marin Blvd. Grove St. entrance. Think this is 70-90 Columbus, going to be a rental: http://www.ironstate.net/properties/7090columbus.html Quote: Toll Bros. are building three 40-story towers running the blocks between Marin and Warren. Also construction going on slightly south of Gull's Cove, also I have heard it is a rental. I don't know of any large scale condo development in downtown area since 2010, other than that Toll Bros that article says won't be ready till 2015. There was 109 Christopher Columbus marketing in 2012 with 25 units but they decided to go rental. I wish developers would build some condos instead of rentals. There's some land and seemingly abandoned buildings in Powerhouse District.
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