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Re: Should PATH add Marion Station?
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This is very dumb and I cant believe they are still entertaining this.

1. It wont relieve strain from JSQ as the majority of people getting on and off at JSQ still will. This only serves a tiny portion of the local areas population

2. This is too close to JSQ to be needed. Those who would
hop on this station are about a 10 min walk from JSQ

3. This money and time would be so better used extending the PATH 1 mile to the Newark Airport, which would ACTUALLY be useful.

Posted on: 2022/4/27 19:39

Edited by nafco on 2022/4/27 19:59:08
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Re: Broken Piece of Plastic Looks Very Much Like the State of New Jersey
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Why did you do that to my time? It was just an innocent bystander.

Posted on: 2020/7/29 17:37
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Re: Jersey City Drops Lawsuit Against the Friends of the Loews Jersey City Landmark Theatre
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This theater is literally 30 feet from a 24 hour Subway system. If anywhere doesnt need parking, its this place, which hasnt needed it for 100 years.

Also, isnt there a huge public parking lot directly behind it? I dont think parking is the issue. I think the lack of attractive acts is the issue here.

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Events are held at night and usually during the fall and winter months based on the showings at the JC Museum, the reason why it failed, no parking. So I believe parking is important. Mayor Fulop is always interesting in eliminating parking. You need to draw people from outside the immediate walking distance to have a crowd.

Posted on: 2020/6/16 2:38
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Re: Too late to save old Casino in the Park, but there may be a new one
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why does this look like a ski lodge?

Posted on: 2020/2/25 16:48
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Re: Wow - LSC's Updated Plans for SciTech Scity
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Wow thats a real downgrade from the original rendering which i knew looked WAY too cool to ever be built in JC.

https://jerseydigs.com/liberty-science ... ech-scity-in-jersey-city/

Posted on: 2019/12/20 20:32
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Re: New Bike Lane !!
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Passing Montgomery st during rush hr it was grid locked. With only one lane heading east now cars were backed up behind cars trying to enter Edison fast park. There is no longer a second lane to allow traffic to pass any obstruction. Looking west Montgomery was also grid locked for as far as I could see. Can anyone explain why 3 bike lanes in each direction for a total of 6 is needed? Any green benefit is surely off set by hundreds of idling cars polluting the air.


Here's an easy way to solve that - get rid of the all the street parking on that block. Why does the city need to provide parking when there are parking lots all up and down that street?


Disagree. Im a biker, but this city is already so limited for street parking. not everyone wants to pay $20 to park to run in and grab something, and some people who live in the area should have the right to street park as well.

There are ways to have bike lanes and also allow cars to park. Either make two ways into one ways. Or make wider streets. And it kills me that new developments like all of Liberty Harbor didnt have the foresight to make streets wide enough to allow parked cars, driving lanes and bike lanes co-exist. They had a blank slate to start with!

Posted on: 2019/9/6 19:58
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Re: Neighbor illegaly paved over front yard for parking
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If I was loaded, I would buy a beater car and just park it in front of this guys shitty driveway. And if they complain, tell them they arent supposed to be there anyway.

Posted on: 2019/7/12 14:43
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Re: Port Authority announces plan to increase PATH capacity, reduce delays
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the ?lift? is always breaking downthere... i don?t need it but i?m tired of seeing all their updates about the lift not working at Grove St.

Also, the weekend closures to WTC really suck. Why can?t they run direct trains to 33rd on weekends??


Agreed. its hard to read about all these promises when even something so basic as running trains from JSQ to 33rd without stopping in Hoboken cant be done. Its bad enough they are taking away service to WTC for a year and a half, cant they at least improve the other line?

Posted on: 2019/6/24 20:59
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Re: What’s going there? (Journal Square edition)
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Yeah, not the greatest diner, but one of the few late night options and one of the few non-fast food options. i really hope they start throwing more decent food options into this hood.

also, hoping this isnt going to be the pharmacy with surface parking that was proposed there a couple years back. there are literally 3 pharmacies within 1/4 mile from that location.

Posted on: 2019/4/23 20:36
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Re: What’s going there? (Journal Square edition)
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Wendy's is coming back to JSQ. Signs went up on the old Chickpea location , right by Santander Bank. KFC needs to come back to the square as well like the old times.

Of the major fast food joints, both KFC and BK are missing in Journal Square.


damn, can we just get one decent restaurant thats not Indian or Fast food? I like Indian, but there needs to be a little variety thats not shitty fast food.


i actually went in last week and met the owner. nice guy and really impressed what they did with that place. so in general a plus for the neighborhood

Posted on: 2019/3/29 15:14
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Re: What’s going there? (Journal Square edition)
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Wendy's is coming back to JSQ. Signs went up on the old Chickpea location , right by Santander Bank. KFC needs to come back to the square as well like the old times.

Of the major fast food joints, both KFC and BK are missing in Journal Square.


damn, can we just get one decent restaurant thats not Indian or Fast food? I like Indian, but there needs to be a little variety thats not shitty fast food.

Posted on: 2019/3/22 18:23
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Re: Jersey City’s Hot Waterfront Lands a 13-Vendor Food Hall
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If only there was a food hall conveniently placed indoors, around a bunch or retail stores, with a cinema, and parking.... Oh right the FOOD COURT at the mall.


Im going to go out on a limb and say the crowd that wants to have gourmet food with a perfect view of NYC isnt the same thats sitting at a suburban mall Popeyes next to a screaming family.

What I thought would be a great alternative is if they ever repurpose the Powerhouse to be an indoor shopping center and food court, but not holding my breath for that one.


Posted on: 2019/3/21 16:39
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Re: Colonette Diner comes back to life as La Mexicana….
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What I wish would be demolished is the awful suburban-style Newport mall thats an eyesore, divides downtown and takes up a huge swath of valuable land.


I wouldn't hold your breath! I bet the operator has like a 50 year lease. I guess people go there, though I can easily go a year without setting foot in it. Especially since the Cajun place in the food court went.



When the mall first opened (1989 if I recall correctly), with the exception of a couple of new high rise buildings, Newport was still rotting piers and moonscape with an adjacent neighborhood that was in poor shape. There was nothing nice around the area. You couldn't even drive to downtown because Washington St. terminated in the Waldo area. The road was blocked by a huge mound of dirt that used to be an elevated freight rail line.

The Newport PATH station was a disaster area, as it had been mostly abandoned since the Erie railroad station was torn down in the 1950s. I remember walking over sheets of plywood with mini rivers of water running under the sheets when exiting the station. The light rail was barely in the planning stages.

So I can see why the builder made it like a suburban mall. At the time, they expected people to drive there and take advantage of the 3% sales tax rate... which is what happened. NYC sent agents to the mall at one point, placing "reminders" on cars with NY license plates that anything purchases in NJ would require the payment of NY use tax.

I also miss the Cajun food place. That was my favorite food stop in the mall. I went to the mall a lot less when it left.

Newport circa 1987:

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Thats a cool shot. Amazing how much has changed in a short time. I understand why the mall was a good idea at the time, but I think it served its purpose and its time to slowly reincorporate that swath of land back to the city the way the BJ's/Pep Boys site will slowly be turned back into a city grid over time.

Posted on: 2019/3/8 14:42
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Re: Colonette Diner comes back to life as La Mexicana….
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Kmart + NDW is a whole lot of space available. They should move the Target there, where it is Downtown is a remarkably poor use of extremely valuable real estate. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Walmart, they seem to feel there's no such thing as building them too close.


As Newport expands to the edge of Jersey City, Target will naturally be replaced with high rises as well. What I wish would be demolished is the awful suburban-style Newport mall thats an eyesore, divides downtown and takes up a huge swath of valuable land. At the very least, they should top off the massive parking deck with turf so the city can get a public park in that space. Most of that goes unused anyway unless its the holidays. But ulitmate dream is that they tear the whole thing down

Posted on: 2019/3/6 21:44
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Re: PATH WTC to close on weekends for 2 years!
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this is where the real protest should be. not for some dumb wreath hanging over the Holland Tunnel. What can justify another 2 year closing at WTC? Is there zero accountability?

Posted on: 2018/12/28 21:39
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Re: World Trade Center PATH station to close on weekends through 2020
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wtf. how do they get away with doing this sandy repair work every year? this is clearly save money for a service we are paying to use.

Posted on: 2018/12/6 19:11
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Re: Jersey City bursting at seams with population surge
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Be happy youre not LIC

Posted on: 2018/11/16 17:24
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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Not only should fares rise, but they should add a peak-hour premium to whatever is needed to reduce overcrowding and to encourage folks to go a half hour earlier or later. Unpopular opinion, but PATH is a fraction of the costs associated with driving.



Hell NO.... PATH is only 1/3 of my three zone commute. I first have to get to PATH, then PATH into the City, and then the NYC Subway to uptown Manhattan. I'm not the only one with a 3 zone commute. We don't need more highways clogging the the two tunnels and the GW Bridge into NYC. We need more public subsidies for mass transit to help alleviate traffic conditions all over the tri-state commuting area.


New Jersey is broke and taxes are already sky high. Were are we going to find additional subsidies? I hate it that no one is realistic when it comes to public finance. And to be honest, fares could triple on all three of your segments and I bet it will still be cheaper than driving when considering cost of tolls and parking in NYC. Plus it's going to be physically impossible to add any more cars to the tunnels, so I don't see that as a viable alternative either.

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And last, but water under the proverbial bridge, we should not have wasted billions on WTC PATH station. We PATH riders pay a premium for that debacle every day.


Agreed 1000% with you here - The Oculus was a terrible business decision $4 billion wasted for a shiity mall with poor egress. The port authority should have just sold the air rights for the site to the highest bidder and use the funds for trans-Hudson rail improvements. I wish NYC would bring the 7 line into New Jersey with a stop in Hudson County.


I cant believe people are still so butt hurt about the Oculus. Let it go. We tried that once where we didnt give a shit about commuters and put a massive building over what couldve been a beautiful train station. Its called Penn Station. You already got one. So let the rest of us finally have a nice station again like how it was in the heyday of travel.

Also, the subsidies from that mall help cover the costs of the station, and not to mention, literally every infrastructure project costs $4 billion now. Thats a problem with how we build, not with the PATH specifically.

Posted on: 2018/11/8 16:58
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Re: Monday 6/18/2018 JC schools will close at 12:45....excessive heat
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Smart. Lets get them out there at the hottest peak of the day.

Posted on: 2018/6/18 13:42
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Re: Legal Weed Is Coming to New Jersey
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Since marijuana does not send users into homicidal rages, nor does it encourage users to steal rampantly to pay for it, it makes no sense to claim that Colorado's homicide rate increased slightly because marijuana was legalized.


Did u bother to read the article?

Yes. Did you?

The CBI and and Denver PD offer no theories. One police officer mistakenly says it's due to economic conditions (patently false, as crime rates did not soar in 2007-2009). One lawmaker who tries to pin it on pot also acknowledges a surge in opiate use.

Spare us the FUD, kthx.


The article points to crime increasing to outsiders coming to Colorado for the pot laws. They have increased crime in the state! And say what u want driving high is the same as driving drunk and when there is no accurate way to test than it should not be legal. Period. Its common sense.


in what world is driving high at all the same as driving drunk? how many high drivers plow into other cars and kill people? anyway, the information can be spun anyway you want to hear it, but the fact is, if weed (which people are going to smoke either way) was made legal, it reduces the drug sales from people who support cartels and the like and puts money into state taxes and local growers which sounds like an obvious choice to most logical people.

Posted on: 2018/4/19 17:29
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Re: Hap Investments to Buy 1 MSF Development Site in Jersey City for $400M
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I understand that the wacky zoning should probably better control having a tower next to a three story house, but at the same time, theres a 70 story tower across the street, so people cant really argue that its changing the area. also, its a city, and cities grow. people who want it to be all low rise buildings are better suited in a place like montclair

Posted on: 2018/3/1 17:26
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Re: VIP Diner Jersey City Being Flipped?
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the diner could be better, but id rather it be a diner than another pharmacy. theres literally 3 pharmaciess within a quarter mile of that site.

the area def needs better eateries in general so losing any, even if not the best, is a loss.

my thoughts though are that as JSQ grows, this site will get gobbled up. its close to the PATH and a relatively large lot. but hopefully they utilize the full site and dont waste it with a giant parking lot.

Posted on: 2018/2/1 17:15
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Re: Jersey City Staple Rita & Joe's {Closing This Month}
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the last thing JSQ needs is to lose one of its very few good restaurants. Theres far too many fast food joints, and as much as I love Indian, there needs to be a little variety. I hope someone has the nerve to try something new in the hood as new development comes in.

Posted on: 2018/1/12 13:36
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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i hope you arent banking on any investment is public transit (especially in NYC) in the next 4 years since this administration is the most anti-public one thats been in office in a very long time.

Posted on: 2018/1/8 17:08
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Re: What’s going there? (Journal Square edition)
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iGreg wrote:
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Does anyone know what % of the first Journal Square tower is rented out?

I wonder when some interesting retail & restaurants will come to the blocks right around JSQ. The cynical side of me says "never" and the block from the PATH station to Tonnelle will always be exactly as it is now. The glass half full version of me says "be patient, it will happen."



Ethnic ain't interesting ?

You want shit for white ppl ?



Eh, i get it. Have you ever actually tried to eat in JSQ? Besides a few good Indian joints on Newark, there really isnt much thats good OR interesting. It has nothing to do with ethnic. Its honestly just nothing you would want to venture out for with a date, or friends.

But to answer the previous question, yes I do think some good options will start to trickle in soon

Posted on: 2017/11/7 17:33
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Re: Corgi Spirits distillery - Jersey City
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if this city really wants to thrive, it needs to seriously loosen up on some of these antiquated regulations that kill new businesses before they ever even get off the ground.

Posted on: 2017/10/31 16:30
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Re: Jersey City to Install Electric Car Charging Stations in Every Ward
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...Nothing? C'mon guys, where is the cavalcade of callous commenters??

I guess I'll start:

Ummm.. something something, electric cars are terrible, something something, climate change is a hoax, something something parking!1!!!, something, Fulop and his developer buddies are to blame, something something, property taxes.


Something Something Damn You Yvonne!

Posted on: 2017/10/12 17:56
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Re: What’s going there? (Journal Square edition)
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Cool.

Fast forward 12 more years...

Posted on: 2017/9/28 16:44
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Re: Protected Bicycle Lane
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adding bike lanes on both sides can both allow a safe lane for travel for bikers while also reducing the width of the driving lanes (without eliminating parking). Narrower lanes naturally slow the speed of traffic since people psychologically drive slower in narrow spaces and faster in wider ones. its a two-fold and simple step to helping the pedestrian issue and speeding issue.


I know that the "narrower lanes lead to reduced speeds" philosophy is taken as an absolute truth, but recent changes to the layout of 1st Street have resulted in the exact opposite. The southern side of the street between Marin and Provost was modified to remove diagonal parking and parallel parking spots were implemented over the road surface, creating a narrower traffic lane, and yet through traffic has increased in speed and, weirdly, also in volume.


perhaps im misunderstanding but how do parallel spots take up more room than diagonal spots? wouldnt parallel spots instead of diagonal widen the through lane?

Posted on: 2017/9/11 16:27
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Re: Protected Bicycle Lane
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adding bike lanes on both sides can both allow a safe lane for travel for bikers while also reducing the width of the driving lanes (without eliminating parking). Narrower lanes naturally slow the speed of traffic since people psychologically drive slower in narrow spaces and faster in wider ones. its a two-fold and simple step to helping the pedestrian issue and speeding issue.

Posted on: 2017/9/11 14:05
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