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Re: Journal Square is NOT a Homeless Shelter

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We should build a camp for all the undesirable homeless people. We can round them up and send them off and maybe even put them to work. Then they can become productive members of society producing munitions.

Posted on: 5/20 17:59

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Fireworks Display Permit Information

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So I know a lot of people have long asked about where fireworks display information was listed.

So anything that happens on Liberty Island or in the Hudson, legally anyway, is going to need a NYFD permit, and that information is listed here:

http://www.nyc.gov/apps/311/allServic ... 37-11DE-8E9F-96DAE110FEB8

Posted on: 5/17 16:25

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Re: PolitickerNJ: Steve Fulop can’t escape gubernatorial politics

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Obama was able to run for Senate as a Democrat because at the time he entered the race, the Republican candidate was seen as a shoe in, and other Democrats wanted to preserve their war chests and efforts for other offices. Campaigns expend a lot of political capital and losing a race can end a career and influence.

But as the election unfolded, Jack Ryan, candidate for Senate, had his divorce papers unsealed. His wife, actress Jeri Ryan of Star Trek fame, revealed that Jack brought her to sex clubs in New York City. Combined with Obama's charisma and well run campaign, the sex scandal ended the campaign of Jack Ryan, the one time presumed winner.

So in a way, Obama owes his presidency to Star Trek.

Posted on: 5/17 12:02

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Re: The New York Times to Jersey City: "You don't exist"

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arcy wrote:
Because of this compelling thread, I searched "Jersey City" on Gothamist and got this result:
http://gothamist.com/tags/jerseycity
Jersey City is a side freak show for them.

You want to change it? Write something for them:

http://gothamist.com/2013/01/18/gotha ... your_story_submissi_1.php

They post a call for submissions 2 to 3 times a week at least.

Posted on: 5/16 23:56

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Re: Garbage on the ground and sidewalks everywhere

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There is still garbage everywhere? Fulop has been mayor-elect for almost 24 hours. WTF. #sodisappointed

Posted on: 5/15 18:05

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Re: Election results

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Interlopers: 1, Alcoholics: 0

Posted on: 5/14 21:47

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Re: New PATH train schedules starting this Sunday

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fastus wrote:
It's hard to believe people wouldn't have antipathy towards the PATH.

After 9/11 the 33rd-Jrnl Sqr line was directed thru Hoboken during weekend daytime hours. That service reduction has never been corrected. And now they want to reduce service again for the weekends.

Fares go up, traveling public is bigger and service doesn't get better, it gets worse. And Sandy recovery was managed so very poorly.

Weekends had normal weekday schedules from early morning (7am?) until 7pm between something like 2003 and 2006.

Posted on: 5/11 13:55

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Re: construction on marin and columbus

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I forget the exact wording, but there is a maximum of the footprint that can be taken up by a single tower.

Floor Area Ratio / Floor Space Ratio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_area_ratio

Also not helping the architectural design of these buildings is the city allowing parking. These buildings really need to be down to under half a space per unit or fewer.

Posted on: 4/25 17:57

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Re: Input about moving to JC

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In all fairness to the poster, most of the advice that was given to him/her was to get rid of the cars or car, take mass transit or downsize, but with no real answer to his/her question.

Also Jclisters can be just as nasty and sometimes nastier.

2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 parking spaces -- no problem. $5,000 a month should do the trick in any of the waterfront buildings.

$2,000 -- no problem. 1 bedroom, 1 bath, 1 parking space fits that in many of Jersey City's neighborhoods.

Not willing to compromise on anything? Either Jersey City isn't for you or you are too stupid for life.

Posted on: 4/19 11:53

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Re: Input about moving to JC

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Lenovo, Jersey City is just not for you. You don't have enough money to get what you want without compromise, and you don't seem willing to compromise.

Perhaps you should consider someplace like South Orange, Montclair, Rahway, or New Brunswick.

Posted on: 4/19 11:47

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Re: Future of Newport Mall

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LimpiarElSucio wrote:
Suburban concept... but its in every urban area. The largest retail center in Houston area are 2 malls next to each other smack dab in the middle of the city. Out in LA is "The Grove." Frisco has the embarcadero center.

You Keep Using That Word "city", I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.

Posted on: 4/3 17:02

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Re: Future of Newport Mall

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RUinHamiltonPark wrote:
Great to have the convenience of some pretty solid stores, CVS, the food court.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA...

This is why Jersey City can't have nice things.

Posted on: 4/3 13:56

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Re: Future of Newport Mall

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The Metroplaza property had a pre-crash plan to redevelop the property into roughly 8 high and mid rise towers with retail on the base and a park in the center.

The first of these planned projects was the 67 story Metropolitan tower which would have been at the corner of 6th and the Light Rail (directly behind the newly constructed Monaco Towers) on top of the existing Pep Boys. This tower would have included a parking garage.

Renderings:
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthr ... 291&viewfull=1#post148291

The economic crash has obviously changed plans for the original project, but given the quick reversal, I would expect something would happen to begin redeveloping the parking lot. The original owners have said that retail will always be part of the complex, and its likely that with large high rises, the bases of the buildings will continue to offer big box retail.

As for the Newport Mall, I think it probably has a few decades left. It was developed in a partnership between Lefrak and Simon, the mall operator. I'm not sure who actually owns the building or if the landowner is the same as the operator. Ultimately, Lefrak has a lot of land left to build on. At the current rate, at least 15 to 20 years. After Newport is built out to its original plan, there are also better lots to redevelop before the mall, like the A&P and Target facilities. These properties would require less demolition to redevelop than the mall.

At some point soon the mall will probably need serious renovations to stay current and operational. These are not great buildings designed to last for decades, and as it approaches 40 to 50 years old, it will probably be falling down. At that point, redevelopment will probably be cheaper than renovation, but only time will reveal the future.

Posted on: 4/3 1:06

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Re: Historic Jersey City smokestacks to be removed

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If the towers are coming down, I'm not really sure the point in wasting that time, money and land with what amounts to an ordinary brick building. That site was unique holistically, but the individual elements aren't all that special.

Posted on: 3/27 10:17

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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Which NJ cities aside from Hoboken (which we have easy access to) have more nightlife? Morristown, New Brunswick, Atlantic City...that's about it.

And outside of Manhattan in the boroughs? Perhaps Astoria and Williamsburg. You think Bed-Stuy or Bushwick or Crown Heights have nightlife?

Do any of these places (aside from Hoboken which might) pay anywhere near as much property tax/rent as DTJC? I think not! It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect we would have more options (restaurants and/or nightlife) considering this.

There is only a nominal disparity in taxes between NY/NJ, the only real difference is that they costs are structured differently. If property taxes are slightly lower in NY, business and payroll taxes are higher; fees for one service may by higher in one state and lower in another; utility taxes are may be higher in one and less in the other. Stop whining about your taxes. Both states are high tax states, and that's why neither are backward second world civilizations like Kentucky and Florida. If you don't want to pay high taxes, move to some shit hole without government services and save us all the trouble.

Posted on: 3/19 10:14

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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RUinHamiltonPark wrote:
Which NJ cities aside from Hoboken (which we have easy access to) have more nightlife? Morristown, New Brunswick, Atlantic City...that's about it.

And outside of Manhattan in the boroughs? Perhaps Astoria and Williamsburg. You think Bed-Stuy or Bushwick or Crown Heights have nightlife?

Astoria not so much. Bud-stuy does, but only along its borders, where its overflow from other neighborhoods. Bushwick and Crown Heights definitely do. Oh wait, the real estate brokers have started calling that part of Crown Heights Prospect Heights.

There are not douchebage bottle service places in these neighborhoods, but there are live music venues, lounges, dance clubs and crowded bars, plus plenty of illegal venues.

Posted on: 3/16 16:47

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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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

I'm never sure which to abhor more: the self-entitlement of the native poors eventually priced out of the neighborhood they were born into or the self-entitlement of new money douchebags who prove money can't buy class.

Posted on: 3/13 11:13

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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And I'll go even further to say that a 2 bd. should not be more than $1500-$1700 anywhere in JC, unless its over 1300-1500 sq. ft. in in a luxury building.

I don't want to burst your real estate bubble, but that isn't really true anymore.

Posted on: 3/12 19:58

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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I think people know about Brooklyn for the same reason they know about Los Angeles and Chicago and Philadelphia. If it was its own city would be the fourth largest in the country displacing Philadelphia.

Posted on: 3/12 14:00

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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tommyc_37 wrote:
I'm surprised that people are saying that the MTA trains are more convenient late at night. Most lines run at similar intervals to the Path...every 25-30 minutes.

No the longest headway is 22 mins. Some lines like the L run more frequently while others, at least in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn are half that because they share tracks with different lines.

Posted on: 3/11 21:16

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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maybeMoving wrote:
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ianmac47 wrote:
For better or for worse, downtown Jersey City's gentrification has raised the price point of housing. Today, downtown Jersey City simply doesn't actually compete with Brooklyn if your primary motivation is price to travel time.

I'd disagree with that assessment. We initially started looking in Brooklyn when we were buying last year and by the time we were in our price range our options were places like Ditmas Park, Bushwick, and other places mentioned in the NY Times article. For the same price we were able to live two stops from Manhattan in Jersey City (Grove St). Two stops from Manhattan in Brooklyn means Williamsburg, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, etc. PRIME neighborhoods. To get the same space we have in JC in one of those neighborhoods our budget would have needed to be 50% higher (or more).

No matter how you cut it, if you're talking proximity to Manhattan vs. price, JC wins over Brooklyn by a mile. There's plenty of arguments you can make about Brooklyn's superiority to Jersey City but price ain't one of them.

And regarding the taxes being so high in JC (which they are) , you can't discount the savings from not having to pay NYC income taxes.

You are simply wrong. Bushwick, for instance, might be many more stops further out but the L train runs so much more frequently and so much faster, the travel time to 14th street is about the same and the commute to midtown is less.

MTA stations are much closer together than the PATH, which means for more people, the walking component is significantly less as well. Many more people live within a block of an MTA station than live within the same distance of the PATH.

Sunset Park and South Slope are definitely as close to Manhattan -- in terms of actual travel time -- than Jersey City. Of course you can find exceptions. If you work at the World Trade Center site and live at Grove Pointe, that might be a faster commute. Well, except after midnight.

Posted on: 3/11 17:50

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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For better or for worse, downtown Jersey City's gentrification has raised the price point of housing. Today, downtown Jersey City simply doesn't actually compete with Brooklyn if your primary motivation is price to travel time.

Posted on: 3/11 16:27

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Re: What do we think of Hamilton Square South?

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ripple wrote:

A good question is whether a light at Erie and 8th is part of the plan -- traffic already backs up during rush hour and this building will break the camel's back

Please don't be dramatic.

Posted on: 3/11 9:29

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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I think if you want to be on a subway 20 minutes outside of Manhattan, Brooklyn is still cheaper than the equivalent travel distance in Jersey City.

Posted on: 3/11 1:21

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Re: NYTimes article "Moving deeper into Brooklyn for lower home prices" -- getting lots of JC comments

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GrovePath wrote:

Time to start looking in Jersey City or Union City. Closer to Manhattan than Park Slope and so much cheaper.

This statement is not true of downtown Jersey City anymore.

Posted on: 3/11 0:05

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Re: Hoboken mayor at forefront of flooding issues

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Hoboken411 is a rag sheet run by a mentally deficient monkey raised on paint chips.

Posted on: 3/5 15:27

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Re: Hoboken mayor at forefront of flooding issues

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tommyc_37 wrote:
What happened to Bloomberg's idea of a sea wall that could be raised as needed between Brooklyn and Staten Island, at the entrance to the Upper Bay?

You mean like the one that protects London or the one that will soon protect Venice?

Yeah, well, everyone wanted their federal income taxes to go down.

Posted on: 3/4 23:48

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Re: 10-year tax breaks approved for two proposed Downtown Jersey City towers

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The city gets more money through abatements than through ordinary property taxes.

The city gets much more money on developed land than undeveloped land.

I'm sorry you cannot understand the way the system has been structured, but you should find a valid complaint before continuing to mutter ignorant statements.

Posted on: 2/28 1:43

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Re: 10-year tax breaks approved for two proposed Downtown Jersey City towers

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Issuing abatements doesn't cause your municipal taxes to go up.

It starves the county of money, but county taxes are then subsidized by all the other towns in the county.

It starves the school district of money, but studio, one and two bedroom luxury buildings are not adding students to the schools but are generating a whole lot more money than the previous undeveloped land.

So please stop blaming abatements for higher taxes.

Higher taxes are the result of corruption and mismanagement, and for that you can blame the administration.

Posted on: 2/27 23:48

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Re: Turns out Gotham City is in New Jersey

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Yes, this was uncovered by io9.com

http://io9.com/5934987/is-gotham-city-really-in-new-jersey

Which is probably where BuzzFeed got it from, which is where PopWatch did get it from.

Posted on: 2/27 20:14

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