deox719 wrote:
Downtown store front available. Excellent for
Artist/ office/woodworking space. Large backyard!

Monroe wrote:
I've seen the edges of lapel buttonholes done in contrasting stitching, but the X's here look like he didn't know to remove these, like the ones you have to remove on the rear vent of a jacket?? Or is the double X some new dandy fashion affectation???

jerseymom wrote:
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Fomite wrote:
Unless you work in the suburbs, why do you need a car?
Isn't that the point of moving to the city? Everything delivers, and you can get an uber for anything that doesn't. I wish JC would actually be bold and make some progressive moves.
I'll take a little inconvenience for less cars, less pollution, more trees and urban wildlife.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I would hazard a guess that you don't have children; a business that is product/equipment intensive; a job outside the reach of mass transit; and/or care for a sickly/elderly parent or relative. Try any or a combination of all. Quite difficult around here without a car. And some folks simply cannot afford delivery/Uber.

tommyc_37 wrote:
As much as I love Jersey City it's really not a very progressive place, especially when compared to our neighbor across the river, and there are many inhabitants particularly the ones who have been here for a long time, who are very much attached to a car lifestyle.

The perfect exemplification of this is how this TINY pedestrian plaza on Newark Ave is creating an uproar, yet the City is likely going to be installing a vehicle bridge connecting Jersey Ave to Liberty State Park, which is absolutely nuts and will really take a lot from the Van Vorst Park neighborhood, for only a very small gain for people who drive.

While urban cities across the world are steadily moving away from car culture, Jersey City at times seems to be moving towards it, or at least not away from it at all.

Jersey City is a very dense urban city that exists within an overwhelmingly suburban state in terms of landscape and mindset - and this really is starting to show. Case in point how every building has a massive parking deck, which you just don't really see in developments across the river. Because Jersey City is in "New Jersey" and people need cars in New Jersey.

The mindset is holding Jersey City back, and it's sad.

user1111 wrote:
It is quite apparent that some of you have never lived in Jersey City, you may live dtjc but never lived within the city. I have lived all over the city, and if you do not live near the PATH or Rail YOU NEED A CAR!

Transportation in this town is poor, and unreliable, Services in certain parts of this town is non existent. I am not going to go grocery shopping by using the Rail, I have a car for that. When I take the pets to be groomed, I use the car for that. When I need to make a Home Deopot run I use the car for that.

I am very fortunate to live near the lightrail but realistically the rail only takes me to Hoboken and DTJC and sometimes I don't want to go there. CARS ARE NOT GOING AWAY, more people are coming and they are bringing their cars.

When every neighborhood is serviced with Dry Cleaners, Supermarkets, Pet Stores, Pharmacies, Coffee Shops, Cafes, Banks, and Gyms you might see a little less driving and more people walking.

AMo wrote:
Hondo. Call Victor at FPV. He's working on my place right now and highly recommended by others. (201) 758-1882 or (201) 993-3064.

Hondo202 wrote:
Thanks, BJay - I've left a message with Jack Pereira.. I've already had Excellent Contracting and Innovation Construction out to the house - they are not licensed in NJ.

But more to the topic - does anyone have advice on working with companies not licensed in NJ? (Options do seem limited for brownstone work)

Can you go through a General Contractor who is licensed, and then sub-out to the NY company?

Do you just take your chances?

Do you just say no! ?

getz011 wrote:
Calling Diane Coleman...

Councilwoman Coleman, come in, we need you...

Repeat, Councilwoman Coleman, respond when in range...

Hmm, no one there.