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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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This has been a pretty reliable way to go.

Posted on: 2019/5/26 17:42
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Re: PATH WTC to close on weekends for 2 years!
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... and I don't see how the ferry transfer system would work: it's not like NY Waterway has a way to verify you rode the PATH (unless they are planning to install a machine to verify your PATHcard or Metrocard were used within X amount of time, which seems super far fetched) or perhaps they intend to have a "red jacket" staff member handing out transfer chits, as it used to be done 20+ years ago?


They are handing out the transfer tickets from inside the paid fare zone at WTC and at Exchange Place. You have to enter the station, go through the turnstile, get your paper ticket, then exit the station. Old school, but at least it works.

They really should add service on the 33rd St. line. Or "lines" -- they ought to get rid of the combined JSQ-HOB detour on weekends.

Posted on: 2019/1/5 16:59
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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Good points here. But I'm tired of the old argument made by the Times reporter that it is somehow inappropriate for tunnel tolls to subsidize mass transit operations. It's entirely appropriate, and good public policy.Quote:

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I was just about to post the same article. The reporter does a good job of presenting some facts, but never seems to question the wasteful ways that led the Port Authority to spend 4 BILLION dollars in the reconstruction of the WTC station. That should have been addressed in the article. Perhaps the PATH wouldn?t be such a money pit if more fiscal restraint was being exercised. Also not addressed: why is the Harrison construction project going to cost so much. The article mentions projected spending of ~250 MM, but prior numbers I had seen indicated the cost was pegged around 500 MM. Either way, it seems like a lot of money for what amounts to a tiny station with very limited ridership.

Posted on: 2019/1/5 16:28
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Re: New Tax Rate is Insane!
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What Dolomiti said. All of these factors were drivers of price increases.

The reval may not be perfect, but it looks like it's producing results that are less unfair than before.

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The point is that low taxes drove up the market values. High taxes will lower the values and now there will be a flood of appeals unless another reveal happens

Low taxes was only one part of what has driven up property values in DTJC. Other factors include, but are not limited to:

? Intense real estate pressures in the NYC area (including the insanity of buying in Manhattan, which is dominated by co-ops)
? Close proximity to Manhattan, especially the Financial District and much of Midtown
? Low inventory in DTJC (75% is rental)
? Housing stock that's either decent or worth fixing up
? Record low interest rates
? Between ~1995 and 2006, a massive bubble in national real estate values
? Lots of other nearby areas which didn't have such tax imbalances also increased in value

Also, keep in mind that DTJC has been in the process of gentrification for decades -- as in, long before property taxes got out of whack.

Another thing to keep in mind? Hoboken did a reval a few years ago, and it was not Real Estate Armageddon. What a shock.

What is likely to happen is that RE values will drop for a few months, then come right back up. At the bare minimum, the people who own those $1 million homes? Another adjustment isn't going to reduce their taxes back to $10k/yr.

Sorry, Charlie. You got a massive tax break for decades, now pay yer taxes.

Posted on: 2018/3/7 18:45
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Re: Is Downtown JC next? Out-Of-Town Drivers Banned From Using Leonia As Shortcut
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+1 to Brewster's and T-Bird's idea. And +1 to Robin's point that this all could be done with license plate recognition.

And the problem of cut-through traffic likely will get even worse with the Jersey Avenue bridge. The software will need to be programmed so that anyone who exits at 14A, 14B or 14C, then enters the tunnel within an hour, gets a surcharge that is hefty enough to discourage use of the cut-through.

One hour sounds like the right interval to accommodate those who need to come into downtown JC to run an errand (such as a doctor's appointment) before proceeding to drive into Manhattan. We could try it, and modify the interval as necessary.

It would be great to figure out a way to get Waze and other GPS services to treat our local streets as closed.

And meanwhile, what about the suburban buses that exit at CC Blvd and then turn on Marin to go to the tunnel? Could we get them to modify their driving routes?


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I've said this before, all you'd need to do to eliminate much of the through traffic is create a 1 hr EZ pass lockout or big surcharge at the Holland for anyone exiting the TPK at exits 14 A, B or C before the 12th st ramp. They'd need to put pass readers past the Columbus ramp, but the rest is software. Yes, cash payers can avoid it, but that brings it's own time penalty.

The tag system would never work here, our cops don't do traffic enforcement, apparently it's beneath them.


I've said the same thing, for years. It's a pretty simple, yet elegant solution.

Posted on: 2018/2/7 0:09
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Re: New Tax Rate is Insane!
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SOS, thanks for posting the link. It's going to be interesting to review the disparities between similar houses in my neighborhood. Just as it has been amazing to see the pre-reval disparities between similar houses in my neighborhood over the past decade.

Food for thought: $1.62 is only a prediction. Let's see what actually happens this summer. It might be more. Let's hope not.

More food for thought: Will the reval help instigate a property tax rebellion? Town consolidation to reduce redundancies? A pushback on municipal jobs that come with generous pension deals? And why hasn't that rebellion happened yet in our suburbs?

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PDF of current letters/assessments that have gone out -

http://www.asinj.com/revaluation.asp?p=current&id=359

Click on "Assessment Lists" lower left of page.

Posted on: 2018/2/6 23:39
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Re: Jersey City taps Downtown woman to be city planner
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This is great news!

Posted on: 2017/2/13 22:32
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Re: Battle against the "Bayonne Box" in The Heights
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How refreshing to read a thoughtful thread on this board, with no rants on national politics.

Happy Thanksgiving, neighbors.

Posted on: 2016/11/23 21:31
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Re: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam
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"Mr. Christie remained the offstage villain, the Mephistopheles of Trenton, but it was impossible for even casual trial observers not to discern, from witness after witness, the evident viciousness and grubbiness of the governor and his administration. He does exert a strange gravity, like some lonely planet, pulling lesser moons into orbit while greedily circling other bodies of greater mass and density: first the White House, and then the decaying gas giant Donald Trump."

From a brilliant New York Times editorial today, "Gov. Christie's Shadow Over Bridgegate," found here.

Posted on: 2016/10/27 16:31
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Re: Vote No for 2 city questions
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Voting YES to both!

Posted on: 2016/10/21 16:39
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Re: Latham House
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We went back and had a fantastic dinner. I wish them success! I hope people on this board will go check it out.

Posted on: 2016/7/25 16:38
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Re: Latham House
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We went a few days ago and had a very good meal. Service was good too. We'll be back.

Posted on: 2016/7/20 19:36
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Re: State of the city rebuttal
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Yvonne wrote:
Healy instead bonded for terminal leave and Councilman Fulop also said the city should use the surplus. When Fulop became mayor he started to bond for terminal leave.


What does "bond for terminal leave" mean?

In any event, I sure don't remember any debate suggesting that Healy and the council agreed to a larger than necessary tax increase before the election in 2013 so that whoever won would be able to not have tax increases the following years. That just doesn't make any sense.

Posted on: 2016/3/30 18:39
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Re: State of the city rebuttal
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It seems pretty silly to blame Fulop for a tax increase that the prior mayor, Healy, put in the budget the last year that Healy was in office. Yes, Fulop was one of 9 council members at that time, but it was Healy's budget.

And if I recall correctly it was Councilmember Fulop who was pushing reform of pay to play laws and that it was Healy who resisted. Healy assisted by his henchman Matsikoudis.


Posted on: 2016/3/29 15:49
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Re: Fulop wants to change the election from May to November
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It makes sense to move the municipal elections to the first Tuesday in November. And we should go to instant runoff too.

For all the reasons already given by JPhurst, CatDog, T-Bird, PhilRivo, Limpiar el Sucio, and Pebble.


Posted on: 2015/10/30 20:34
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Re: Thirty Acres Restaurant- Jersey Avenue
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News report that the operators of Batello are taking the space and will open "The Kitchen Step" in early 2015.

NJ.com link

The Kitchen Step will be a neighborhood joint with a wide-ranging but affordable and market-driven modern American menu ? from a brick-roasted chicken to mahi mahi tacos to an Asian-spiced tuna tartar to a burger.

He tailored the concept to the 45-seat space in the Grove Street neighborhood ? DePersio has been itching to do a wood-fired oven trattoria, but Jersey City doesn't need another Italian, he says.

"We want to feed the neighborhood," he says. "We want for people to feel like they could here every week."





Posted on: 2015/10/16 20:58
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Re: redevelopment plan for city hall
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I'm not surprised to see the linkage of City Hall with the parking lot across the street. This could be a very smart way to get the developer to pay for City Hall renovations in order to get the right to build on the parking lot. But isn't it a bit odd that the City Hall Study Area includes one single row house on York Street?

Posted on: 2015/7/14 23:58
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Re: Meeting on Jersey Avenue Turnpike Extension - June 22
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Sam, are there any drawings or renderings of the planned bridge?

Thanks.

Posted on: 2015/6/15 22:17
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Re: Brownstone Stoop and Facade Work in JC
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Check out this thread for a discussion of possible contractors

Posted on: 2015/5/4 15:02
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Re: $4M Grove Street PATH station elevator
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Cool drawing.

But there isn't much room between the existing stairs and the tracks. I hope they don't plan to make the stairs more narrow.

Posted on: 2015/4/29 17:32
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Re: $4M Grove Street PATH station elevator
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The news report says "The new entrance will have an elevator from the street to the mezzanine, and then a vertical-lift platform from the mezzanine down to the train platform."

I can't yet envision how and where the vertical-lift platform is to be installed.

Posted on: 2015/4/28 22:04
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Re: Jersey City Mayor Seeks to Limit Chain Stores Downtown
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I bet first reading next Wednesday, adoption on May 13.


The ordinance is already on the agenda for the April 22 meeting. It's item 3.c.

You can now read the ordinance for yourself and see the point others already made: It doesn't limit formula businesses to no more than 30% of the commercial space downtown. Instead, it limits the use of formula businesses to 30% of the space within a single structure or a single tax lot.

You can see the language of the ordinance itself by clicking here and going to PDF pages 58-69. The language is on page 68.

"All commercial retail areas within each structure or within a single tax lot shall limit formula business establishments ... to a maximum of 30% of ground floor gross leasable commercial area."

What that effectively means is that all of the small tax lots downtown are off limits to chains. Look at a typical storefront on Newark Avenue or Grove Street or Jersey Avenue, with 20-25 feet of frontage. How are you going to subdivide that tax lot so that no more than 30% is rented to a formula business? You can't.

So it would have barred the owners of the old Hard Grove space from leasing it to PNC Bank. The banks and the Chipotles and the H&R Blocks and even Two Boots would have to go the new apartment towers, which have tax lots large enough that a 30% subdivision is actually workable. Or to other large tax lots, like the financial building at 95 Columbus with several storefronts on Grove Street.

Would Duane Reade have been allowed? It depends how you do the math. If you count the Grove Pointe parking structure, Duane Reade probably is 30% or less of the ground floor. If you don't count the parking, the Duane Reade space is probably more than 30%. But is parking part of "ground floor gross leasable commercial area"?

Posted on: 2015/4/17 17:09
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Re: Jersey City Emergency Preparedness Survey
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Good luck with the survey.

2 years seems not a useful cutoff for the questions about CPR and first-aid training. It may have been more interesting to ask whether the person has EVER had CPR and first aid training, and then follow up with whether it was within the past 2 years. Then you would have a better view of how many people know the basics, but also whether they have refreshed recently.


Posted on: 2015/3/5 22:08
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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Ha ha, I logged on to post the same thing but you beat me to it. LOL.

Posted on: 2014/12/2 19:39
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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I've never seen anything about an existing platform or station there.

There was another thread here that had discussion about a possible Marion station near Westside Ave., and there were a couple of items about whether a station could be added near Brunswick or Cornelison.

If you research PATH history, you'll find that there were formerly stops at 19th St. and 28th St. You can still see the platform at 19th St.

Posted on: 2014/11/24 17:17
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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From: alerts@paalerts.com [mailto:alerts@paalerts.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:22 PM
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11/19- Due to maintenance activity short trains will operate JSQ-33(HOB) 1:30am-5am. Expect additional passenger congestion.



Just wonderful. It doesn't make much sense to me how maintenance work would be helped by running shorter trains -- as opposed to running trains even less frequently than they do overnight.

And then we can certainly "expect additional passenger congestion" when 2015 rolls around and they start de-salination work on the uptown tubes. That will be fun.

Posted on: 2014/11/18 21:31
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Re: Eminent Domain on Metropolis Towers
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That's super interesting. Would be cool to see a picture of Columbus pre-Gregory Complex.


A great source of historical photos is the photostream on Flickr posted by Andy Blair. Here is a link for the following photo of the location of the Gregory Apartments (now Metropolis Towers), and you should read all the commentary at the link. The view is from what is now Marin at the end of Wayne Street. The two diagonal streets are Gregory St. (in the foreground) and Newark Ave. (farther back). Off to the left is Railroad Ave. (now Columbus) with the elevated railroad tracks, and in the distance is the Harborside building.
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And here's a Flickr link to a picture looking east on Columbus from the corner of Grove, when the railroad tracks were being demolished in 1965. He also posted this Flickr link showing an aerial view of Harborside, Exchange Place, and the First Jersey National Bank on Hudson between Montgomery and Columbus, in 1970. It's worth browsing through his whole photostream.

To see the layout of the streets, here is a map from 1848.
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And here is a link to the 1928 map.

Finally, here's a pic from 1973 that I believe is Columbus (then Railroad Avenue) looking east from about Jersey Avenue. You can see 30 Montgomery (the Ukrainian National Association building) in the distance on the right, and then the World Trade Center in the background. It's a screengrab from this YouTube video. Check out that whole section of the video, from 3:11 to 3:26.

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Posted on: 2014/10/29 23:03
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Re: Eminent Domain on Metropolis Towers
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Let's say the Mayor hated brownstones. After all, they are relics of a bygone era, and do not fit into Jersey City's modern, increasingly vertical aesthetic. ....

Further, removing every brownstone in favor of higher-density development fits your economic development standard: While brownstones (and the 1/4-acre or so of land on which they sit) are generally assessed between $500K and $1M, buildings like 50 Columbus and Grove Pointe are assessed at between $20M and $30M - just for the building(s).


Understand your point, and agree with your eminent domain argument, but your math is off by a factor of 10, at least. No brownstone has a quarter acre.

A generous brownstone lot would be 20' x 100' = 2000 square feet. An acre is 43,560 square feet. That brownstone lot would be 4.6% of one acre. That's less than one-twentieth of an acre.

Cheers!

Posted on: 2014/10/28 2:31
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Re: Join us in Fixing the PATH (Directly reply to join)
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Was anyone able to attend the meeting at the Barrow Mansion? Was there anything of interest said?

Any discussion of the inevitable closing of the uptown PATH tunnels? It's going to have to happen. Didn't they get flooded too?

I still think one of the important changes that has to happen to alleviate rush hour crowding is to extend the rush hour: Continue "frequent" service between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., and between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. That's an easy fix that doesn't require more infrastructure.

Posted on: 2014/10/14 19:49
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Re: New York waste transfer deal to bring $10 million to Jersey City
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There are many posts here that overlook this point:

"The expansion of Greenville Yards will remove 800,000 tons of waste currently driven through Jersey City streets. It will instead be transported in sealed containers of barge-to-rail, never entering the Jersey City community, the city said in a press release."

On a closed rail car, even if not hermetically sealed, has to be better than in an open garbage truck driven through our streets.

The real stink is when open garbage is put into the barges -- and that happens at the transfer stations in NYC, including one on the Upper East Side.

Posted on: 2014/10/14 19:42
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