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Re: Buying a condo in JC Heights - anything I should know?

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JMH wrote:
Are there streets nearby that do not require a JC parking permit? What about guests who may visit for a weekend?

I park on Paterson Plank -- no parking permit required, just street cleaning a few times a week. If your car is a company car, I'm assuming you use it during the day. So you could theoretically park in front of your new building (or in the vicinity) overnight, and utilize the parking on Paterson Plank on weekends or for emergencies, etc. Works for me!

Posted on: 2007/1/16 17:20

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citybelt

Re: New Jersey awards $21.9M jobs grant to Deutsche Bank to bring 1,200 jobs to Downtown Jersey City

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Not to be nitpicky here, but, according to the link you provided, NJ is 3rd in TOTAL tax collections (local+state+federal) -- for just state+local, it ranks 17th.

The reason it shoots up so much when federal is included is because of federal income tax -- since NJ has such a high average income.

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niceguyeddie wrote:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/topic/44.html

BTW, not to hijack this thread, but NJ also ranks 3rd in total state and local tax collections per capita. Our fiscal woes aren't due to a lack of income, but to too much spending (most likely on the wrong things) by our elected officials.

Posted on: 2006/9/16 16:06

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citybelt

Re: New Jersey awards $21.9M jobs grant to Deutsche Bank to bring 1,200 jobs to Downtown Jersey City

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ccitizen wrote: Many of you do not understand business. If Deutsche brings 1200 jobs over here this is what it means. If you take a conservative that the average pay for all employees that moves over is $100k (I used to work at Goldman and that number is low) that means the state now has an additional $120,000,000 million dollars a year in income to tax.

First off, Deutche isn't forced to guarantee what types of jobs are moved to JC. Therefore, your $100k plus theory is not correct. They could move only customer service people and low-level administrators. I believe that this is indeed what Goldman did, although I've only heard that from others, so I may be wrong. I don't pretend to think that business development isn't an important part of boosting the state's economic engines. I just refuse to believe that a state that continually cuts services and education should give away so much money to corporations who clearly do not need handouts. I think that shows a clear case of misplaced priorities. This sets up a bidding war where states compete against each other to lure corporate development, only to get the short straw in the end. For example, See the recent bidding war over AAA.

Posted on: 2006/8/11 15:56

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citybelt

Re: New Jersey awards $21.9M jobs grant to Deutsche Bank to bring 1,200 jobs to Downtown Jersey City

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Australian wrote: Deutsche Bank and equal opportunities for women does not compute!

Let's not forget the bank's lovely Nazi ties.

Posted on: 2006/8/10 17:17

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citybelt

Re: New Jersey awards $21.9M jobs grant to Deutsche Bank to bring 1,200 jobs to Downtown Jersey City

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I love how the state keeps playing these games. Last month, it was $37 million to Citigroup, now it's $22 million to Deutsche Bank.

Last year, Citigroup had a net income of over $24 billion, and Deutsche Bank had a net income of over $4 billion. Yet the state continues to give them money in the name of "economic development," when the jobs aren't even being newly created. People who work in downtown NYC will just be shifted over to our side of the river. And for this, they get grants?

The budget passed this summer includes $200 million to fund these Business Employment Incentive Program grants.
The same budget cut $111 million from higher education in NJ, and $105 million in tax relief for families earning less than $30,000 a year, not to mention, it raised our taxes.

Priorities?

Posted on: 2006/8/10 15:50

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citybelt

Re: COMING SOON: A Sea of Concrete

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Is there a map somewhere online that lays out where the R1 zones are?

Posted on: 2006/8/4 20:26

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citybelt

Re: Jersey City's PSEG coal plant is ranked 12th "dirtiest" power plant in the nation!

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Interestingly, PSE&G is claiming that these dirty, addled plants -- which are slated for sale if the merger with Exelon is approved -- are the plants that are setting electricity rates in the region. They use this rationale to dispel fears that the new company will be so large that it will be able to manipulate energy supply, and therefore, rates. I don't know about you, but it seems highly unlikely to me (and to many independent analysts) that these old, dirty coal plants are setting rates. Yet another reason to fear (and help stop) the merger. Read more here.

Posted on: 2006/7/28 16:44

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citybelt

Re: JERSEY CITY POLICE CHIEF TROY CALLING IT QUITS

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brewster wrote:

Someone recently told me the Journal is republican owned. Why aren't they all over this stuff like flies on sh*t? Are they afraid of the HCDO telling people to boycott them? The thread about plant theft had a reporter from the Star Ledger inquiring there. For heaven's sake a Pulitzer lurks in this story!! Hello......?

As for the Journal's ownership, it's the same as the Start Ledger, both owned by Advance Publications, which is SI Newhouse's (the New Yorker, etc.) media empire.

http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/advance.asp

Posted on: 2006/6/28 22:31

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citybelt

Re: Join Team Vas

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Hey all-

I recently moved back to the area, and I got my sample ballot for this primary in the mail. So can anyone tell me why Sires' name is on the ballot twice, and Vas' only once?

Any insights appreciated.

Posted on: 2006/5/31 23:41

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