The Colonnade was built around 1960 and the projects are classic late forties housing projects. I can't seem to find confirmation, but I would venture a guess that the projects were there first. Also, it seems that the projects are close to teh Colonnade from 280, but because the Colonnade is bult on the edge of Branchbrook Park, you can't see them. Actually, the views must be pretty good in the Colonnade--the park on one side and the NYC sklyline (albeit distant) on the other side.

I hated koolhaas's snide comments about JC and our streetscape. What an aloof jerk. From his quote he seems like one of those archtypes in a movie or TV show. You can almost see the white silk scarf draped on the shoulders of his sport coat.

The posters to this board seem to agree that a building by Rem Koolhaus will have a significant effect on Downtown JC.

Did any of you know that Mies Van der Rohe designed the Colonnade Apartments in Newark? The Colonnade was built around 1960 (I think). The building was cutting-edge at the time. It did not, to my knowledge, have any effect on Newark whatsoever. Maybe an occassional architecture buff says "look! Mies Van der Rohe designed that apartment building" while driving down 280.

I think downtown residents are lucky to have someone with some talent and passion, as opposed to the clowns that typically dominate Hudson County politics. Unfortunately for Councilman Fulop, his predecessor--Junior Maldonado--was not a typical Hudson County disaster and was a solid representative of our ward.

Nevertheless, I think Councilman Fulop has shown some integrity and guts. The latter of which could not have been said of his predecessor. So, on the whole, we are better off having Fulop.

The only way to effectuate change in Jersey City is to increase voter turn-out and send a message to City Hall that what Jersey City wants is a politician who is willing to shake things up and improve the status quo--not just cronyism.

Healy is in WAY over his head. He is a bafoon.

Not enough people care about their local politics. People treat where they live as temporary stop-overs on the great socio-economic ladder of life. If people actually felt attached to thier town, they may be more likely to register to vote, and therefore much mroe likely to vote in local elections.

Maybe we can do something about this through our neighborhood associations(?).