ok, i think it's a fire alarm going off near me - the old Comfort Bistro? there's a bunch of fire trucks on Grove Street (maybe I'll see Mayor Healy's son!)

anyway, it's so damn annoying and i hope they fix it soon

does anyone else hear that ringing in downtown JC today???! i live on Grove and Wayne and have been hearing this ringing for about 20 min. now.

WTF???!! it's so annoying!

anyone know what's going on?

can i just say i think this is so funny one little egyptian fish shack has received 39 passionate responses....only in jersey city. oh yeah, and that daffy duck sign is too funny.

Suez Canal is excellent food, though (humm d'allah)

this is really scary. Someone should write an op-ed letter to the jersey journal (maybe I will) and contact city hall/steve fulop. i know steve's been pretty vocal in criticizing the JCPD but something more needs to be done. ( i do appreciate seeing the cops on bikes but i wish there were more of them.)

i love jersey city but im scared to leave my apartment and go to work!

Steve - what can you do to help stop downtown robberies, burglaries and break-ins? healy and troy have clearly done nothing.

it's not fair we pay these high rents and have to live in fear.

i love: in no particular order

Jersey City: Get drunk, get naked, get elected.

Jersey City: We put the FUN in Superfund.


and this one I came up with:

Paris-Milan-Miami-Jersey City

that's it:

Get drunk, get naked, get elected. this thread can end right here because nothing can top that.

i love it, fasteddie!!!

i can't stop...


(sorry to all who mentioned majestic before me)

Ibby's (yum)
Van Vorst Park on a summer's eve at dusk
the van vorst players (they crack me up)
and we're less than 20 minutes away from Newark airport

bad form, lostgirl. you picked the wrong time and place to complain.

things i loooove about jersey city, downtown or otherwise:

1. Majestic (why hasn't anyone mentioned this yet?!)
2. all the development (along the water and otherwise)
3. newport mall (yes, i do)
4. the fact that i walk to work every morning at Exchange Place
5. you can still find some cheap rents, big apartments
6. M & P's
7. biking/walking along the waterfront
8. it's not hoboken!
9. the wings at barrow street pub
10. come on, would any other mayor provide this much entertainment?
11. the cultural diversity!
12. and down-to-earth attitudes of most people
13. on a friday night i can party right here or I could be in downtown Manhattan in 15 minutes
14. less than an away from jersey shore beaches
12. Steve Fulop (he's so cute!) ha ha ha ha ha ha

I'm so proud this is our ward E Councilman - way to go! Brennan uses his $23,000 for all those fancy suits. and I wonder what Healy does with his salary......

Wow this is sad news for Jersey City Schools- anyone have their kids enrolled in public schools around here? love to hear some reaction..........

Court allows state to freeze aid to poorest districts

The New Jersey Supreme Court today (Tuesday) allowed the state to freeze aid to its 31 poorest school districts in order to balance the state budget, but also gave the districts a right to appeal for more funding.

The high court issued its unanimous ruling one week after it heard lawyers for the "special needs" school districts argue that with costs rising, flat state aid would translate into cuts in educational services. Attorney General Zulima Farber countered that given the state's "dire" budgetary circumstances, "we simply don't have the money" to increase educational funding.

The justices gave the special needs districts until May 31 to submit reduced budget requests, as Acting Education Commissioner Lucille Davy had ordered in March. In their original requests the 31 districts asked for roughly $500 million more than the $4.25 billion Corzine included in his proposed budget, which is subject to review by state lawmakers.

That much of today's ruling was a victory for Corzine's administration. But in a partial victory for the school districts, the justices gave them a right to appeal "inadequate funding" for "demonstrably needed" school programs. Corzine had proposed a strict budget cap that did not allow poor school districts to appeal the state's funding decisions.

The justices also ordered the Department of Education to go ahead with planned audits of four special needs districts -- Newark, Jersey City, Paterson and Camden -- and set a November deadline for their completion. Farber had argued the audits are needed to ensure the poor districts are properly spending billions of dollars in state aid while candidly conceding the state has "neglected its responsibility to provide sufficient fiscal oversight."

David Wald, a spokesman for Farber, said she "believes this is an important decision that will help us to ensure funding is spent wisely and our children receive the education they deserve.''

Contributed by Robert Schwaneberg and Dunstan McNichol