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Re: BMW stolen
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I notice that lots of the newbies think they live in Mayberry. Cars left running, dogs left unattended outside businesses and Amazon packages on every stoop. DTJC is becoming like Christmas morning for thieves and dog-fighting gangs. Yes dopey, if you leave your dog all alone and the wrong person or teenager comes along, your dog will be either used as a bait dog for fighting, sold or held for ransom. Yes, that happens still.

Posted on: 2016/4/15 15:39
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Re: A casino in Jersey City? Venture capitalist wants to make it happen
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Fulop rethinking support of North Jersey casino expansion

By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal 
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on April 13, 2016 at 7:00 PM, updated April 13, 2016 at 7:13 PM

Mayor Steve Fulop is expressing some new hesitance to support an expansion of casino gaming into northern New Jersey, after spending more than a year touting the idea as a way to boost the economy and create new jobs.

Fulop visited Atlantic City today to talk to city officials and residents about the impact of casinos on the city and has come away much more pessimistic about the positive benefits of a casino in Jersey City, he said.

"I'm not so sure today that this is in the best interest of our city," he told The Jersey Journal in a phone interview today.

Read more:  http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... north_jersey_casinos.html

Maybe he was propositioned by a skanky hooker? Offered a ride in a rusty pedi-cab? Offered cheap ass saltwater taffy or fudge? Maybe he watched seniors blowing their social security on slot machines? Maybe it was the tobacco laden air? Maybe he saw James Bond in a high-stakes game of poker? (Oh wait, that's pure fiction) FUCK the stupid casinos.

Posted on: 2016/4/14 2:01
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Re: We need your help in the village!
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We have witnessed the birth of the NIMBL-Y! (Not In My Balcony Light).

Posted on: 2016/4/7 18:49
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Re: Downtown Roads...why so bad?
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Leave the embankments as they are. The wild, unkempt and somewhat mysterious natural thing is so much more interesting.
The city needs to open Enos Jones Park up to the public once the lead issue is resolved. Right now it belongs to a select few who control who can use the fields and when. As far as roads are concerned, they will be in a perpetual state of disarray as more water-mains deteriorate and new, crappy and overstuffed buildings are erected. The harder it is for traffic to pass through downtown the better it is for the residents safety. Right now the DTJC area is in a transformation wherein, like Hoboken, it's becoming more and more evident that pedestrian traffic must take precedent over somebody's commute. The battle between pedestrians and the number of drivers breaking the law is truly frightening to watch. Slowly though I see more and more cars yielding at crosswalks but there are still many maniacs who will ignore, speed and try to scoot around the yielding cars. JCPD has to step up and start cracking some heads.

Posted on: 2016/4/7 14:00
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Re: Child Porn Bust in NJ - 3 Suspects in Hudson County
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New Jersey law (N.J
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. 43: 1-3 et seq.) stipulates
that the receipt of retirement benefits is expressly
conditioned upon the rendering of honorable service
by the member (i.e. a public officer or public employ-
ee). A member may be subject to a reduction or for-
feiture of earned service credit,* salary, and/or ben-
efits if suspension, dismissal, or termination of
employment is due to misconduct; or if convicted of
a crime that is in any way related to his or her
employment or involves a crime of moral turpitude.

Posted on: 2016/4/7 1:55
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Re: Child Porn Bust in NJ - 3 Suspects in Hudson County
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Vigilante, if I'm reading the statute correctly, only crimes connected to their behavior in office (like theft of services, bribery, embezzlement, etc.) rises to the level of criminal behavior. It's a crime "that touches their office" in some way. It's not a blanket statute covering all felony convictions like in some states.

Specifically:

Subsection a. of this section applies to a conviction of any of the following crimes:

(1) Paragraph (4) of subsection a. of N.J.S.2C:13-5, criminal coercion;

(2) N.J.S.2C:20-4, theft by deception, if the amount involved exceeds $10,000;

(3) Subsection d. of N.J.S.2C:20-5, theft by extortion;

(4) N.J.S.2C:20-9, theft by failure to make required disposition of property received, if the amount involved exceeds $10,000;

(5) N.J.S.2C:21-10, commercial bribery;

(6) Section 3 of P.L.1994, c.121 (C.2C:21-25), money laundering;

(7) Section 97 of P.L.1999, c.440 (C.2C:21-34), false contract payment claims;

(8) N.J.S.2C:27-2, bribery in official matters;

(9) N.J.S.2C:27-3, threats and other improper influence in official and political matters;

(10) Section 100 of P.L.1999, c.440 (C.2C:27-9), unlawful official business transaction where interest is involved;

(11) Section 5 of P.L.2003, c.255 (C.2C:27-10), acceptance or receipt of unlawful benefit by public servant for official behavior;

(12) Section 6 of P.L.2003, c.255 (C.2C:27-11), offer of unlawful benefit to public servant for official behavior;

(13) N.J.S.2C:28-1, perjury;

(14) N.J.S.2C:28-5, tampering with witnesses;

(15) N.J.S.2C:28-7, tampering with public records or information;

(16) N.J.S.2C:29-4, compounding;

(17) N.J.S.2C:30-2, official misconduct;

(18) N.J.S.2C:30-3, speculating or wagering on official action or information; or

(19) Section 3 of P.L.2003, c.31 (C.2C:30-7), pattern of official misconduct.


Putting a hidden camera in a bathroom? Watching porn in the school bus? A felony conviction will end their pensions.

Posted on: 2016/4/6 22:45
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Re: Child Porn Bust in NJ - 3 Suspects in Hudson County
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Posted on: 2016/4/6 22:34
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Re: We need your help in the village!
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You really had to bring your kids into it? That's so lame. "WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!" Face it, you people only care about your property value so spare us the drama.

Posted on: 2016/4/5 0:40
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Re: My Dachshund has seizure
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If the seizures start happening more and more frequently then get to a vet ASAP.

Posted on: 2016/4/3 1:21
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Re: 213 - 215 Bay Street
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If people really need a car they'll find a way to make it happen, or more sensibly they'll move to western NJ where their employment is.


This mentality is so very wrong. I own a car and live in Jersey City. I sometimes have to commute to my office in W.Jersey. Just because I work somewhere that is not easily accessible by public transit means I should move closer to my job and leave Jersey City?


If your living preference has enough of a negative impact on those around you, then yes.


Will you move into NYC when the PATH Trains are no longer sustainable? I mean, really, your response is just silly.

Posted on: 2016/4/2 1:18
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Re: 213 - 215 Bay Street
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38 units and 40 parking spots...oh, my, goodness. This is 2 blocks from the Path, right? On a dense urban rowhouse block. Not in Montclair.

How is parking even allowed in the architecture on a building on a block like this. Its going to look like shit I imagine.

So dumb.


People aren't required to own cars but some people need them. If you don't want to use a spot then rent it and you have another car off the street. The pipe dream of everyone walking or biking everywhere is just that. Believe it or not there are some people in Jersey City who work in west Jersey. If they had figured out a way to move everyone's job closer to their home then we would have very little traffic anywhere. That too is a pipe dream.

Posted on: 2016/4/1 19:04
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Re: A casino in Jersey City? Venture capitalist wants to make it happen
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Any person who actually owns property would have to be an idiot to want a casino within 25 miles of their home. Yes, you are stupid to embrace this idea.

Posted on: 2016/4/1 17:04
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Re: 213 - 215 Bay Street
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And more cheap ass construction. I hope they like hearing their neighbors.

Posted on: 2016/4/1 16:48
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Re: Downtown Roads...why so bad?
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No it's not.

Overgrown and unkempt is natural.

Those horrendous looking shit towers they're building are disgusting unnatural eyesores.

Does everything being built these days have to be built with the absolute 100% cheapest crap available?
Can't we get at least a whiff of style on some of these giant projects? This is some Eastern Block stuff happening up on 10th St.


I agree. What's wrong with having some green space that is wild and inaccessible? Actually it was accessible for some and adds an element that most "cities" don't have anymore. Those old stone walls are amazing and a reminder of our past. The whole "new, new, new" philosophy is why the beautiful old Penn Station is now a jetty on the Jersey shore.

Posted on: 2016/3/31 19:22
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Re: We need your help in the village!
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ENJOY YOUR LOWER, YEAH RIGHT, TAX RATES.

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Posted on: 2016/3/31 5:14
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Re: Downtown Roads...why so bad?
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As far as potholes? Anything that slows drivers down is okay by me.


I agree with slowing down drivers with speeds bumps or the police actually ticketing motorists blowing through stop signs, but we pay some of the highest taxes in the country and should have roads that don't look 3rd world.


A lot of the road destruction is caused by the constant repairs and updates needed to the sewer and gas lines. If people want high-rises then they have to consider that all that new, additional poop has to go somewhere so sewer lines must be expanded. Also the gas lines need to be extended to reach the new buildings like the ones going up on the 10th Street embankment. (I still can't believe they allowed development on those beautiful old embankments.) The next big Sandy-like storm should bring DTJC a flood of raw sewage what with all the new residents.

Posted on: 2016/3/31 5:10
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Re: Downtown Roads...why so bad?
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As far as potholes? Anything that slows drivers down is okay by me.

Posted on: 2016/3/31 0:12
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Re: Downtown Roads...why so bad?
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Similar question.

Does it seem a little unscrupulous to enforce alternate side parking when 25%+ of Hamilton park streets are closed?

Does the city have a policy on this?

(I got ticketed twice the past two weeks, super frustrating)


I agree. I have said this for years. Most of the parking around H.P. was taken "just in case" for the construction of the giant crane at Hamilton Place. They should "green zone" certain streets. When they hang the no parking signs the same people should post green zone signs to indicate that only permit parking will be enforced on the nearby streets but not street sweeping. It's really quite simple. Also, who the F**K coordinates the street closures in Jersey City? A retarded caveman? It's decidedly uncoordinated and random and the cops assigned to it are basically useless at directing traffic. I think they just don't want to bother directing traffic so they just close the street.

Posted on: 2016/3/31 0:08
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Re: We need your help in the village!
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All you pro-development and "progress" people are getting what you deserve. Shitty construction from people who make deals, build cheap and leave town. Enjoy your shite buildings, shite views and shitty inconsiderate neighbors. Not to mention your crammed to the gills commute, parks and over-hyped restaurants.



I'm assuming you live on undeveloped land?


It's about the kind of development dopey. The building I'm in is over 100 years old and will be here 100 years from now. The new development around DTJC is shite. Get a clue.


The Jersey City of 2016 is infinitely better than the Jersey City of the 1980s. Development is the primary reason. Obviously there is a lot of shite development out there, and Jersey City must aim for better. Developers won't like it, but JC should introduce design standards in the zoning (a ban on vinyl sliding for new construction would be a start, in my view.)

Where you give away your NIMBYism is by citing density. We should be encouraging densities to ensure there is an adequate supply of market rate housing to keep things affordable and to cover the costs associated with any new design standards to require better materials and overall quality.

Our current zoning is the problem, and the sooner it's amended, the better.


Believe me, when I think about the new residents downtown "density" is the first word that comes to mind. In any case, market rate is one thing but no one in DTJC is going to allow low income housing if they can help it. This is about and has always been about property values. It's no accident that just about every realtor in DTJC owned multiple properties before the boon in development began. It is no accident that in Hamilton Park the Southwest and Northwest quadrants of the park do not contain anything but grass lawns. Those are the areas that faced the homes of the people who were the presidents and members of the H.P.N.A. who controlled what happened where.


You know, when the reval eventually happens, anyone downtown who advocates limiting the supply of new housing in hopes of increased property values is very short sighted because they're in for a nasty surprise when they get their tax bill. The only way forward is aggressive growth of the tax ratable base. That unabated 99 Hudson St tower will alone contribute to 2 percent of the ratabale base before reval, and more afterwords. We should have baked the developers a cake.

With the coming reval, downtown homeowners should be begging for new luxury developments that will help blunt the impact in a reval. Even if a new building receives an abatement, the land is still taxed and the PILOT payment results in greater revenue to the city than it would have received. This is done by legally robbing the county and school board of funds. The rest of Hudson County has to make up the shortfall for our abatements affecting the county while the whole state does the same for our schools. Horrible laws that's inequitable but Mayor Fulop is fully justified to exploit them if the state is unwilling to change.


Most people I know have a rental property and will use them to pay their taxes. The crappy condo pictured on 5th Street sold for just over $300,000 4 years ago and is now selling for over $700,000? Those people deserve to get hammered by taxes. In truth, I couldn't care less. I am out of here very soon. Jersey City has become the poster child of shotty urban planning. It will soon look like Flushing Queens. In 20 years it will all be under water anyway.

Posted on: 2016/3/27 0:24
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Re: We need your help in the village!
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JCGuys wrote:
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Vigilante wrote:
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Vigilante wrote:
All you pro-development and "progress" people are getting what you deserve. Shitty construction from people who make deals, build cheap and leave town. Enjoy your shite buildings, shite views and shitty inconsiderate neighbors. Not to mention your crammed to the gills commute, parks and over-hyped restaurants.



I'm assuming you live on undeveloped land?


It's about the kind of development dopey. The building I'm in is over 100 years old and will be here 100 years from now. The new development around DTJC is shite. Get a clue.


The Jersey City of 2016 is infinitely better than the Jersey City of the 1980s. Development is the primary reason. Obviously there is a lot of shite development out there, and Jersey City must aim for better. Developers won't like it, but JC should introduce design standards in the zoning (a ban on vinyl sliding for new construction would be a start, in my view.)

Where you give away your NIMBYism is by citing density. We should be encouraging densities to ensure there is an adequate supply of market rate housing to keep things affordable and to cover the costs associated with any new design standards to require better materials and overall quality.

Our current zoning is the problem, and the sooner it's amended, the better.


Believe me, when I think about the new residents downtown "density" is the first word that comes to mind. In any case, market rate is one thing but no one in DTJC is going to allow low income housing if they can help it. This is about and has always been about property values. It's no accident that just about every realtor in DTJC owned multiple properties before the boon in development began. It is no accident that in Hamilton Park the Southwest and Northwest quadrants of the park do not contain anything but grass lawns. Those are the areas that faced the homes of the people who were the presidents and members of the H.P.N.A. who controlled what happened where.

Posted on: 2016/3/26 15:09
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Re: We need your help in the village!
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Vigilante wrote:
All you pro-development and "progress" people are getting what you deserve. Shitty construction from people who make deals, build cheap and leave town. Enjoy your shite buildings, shite views and shitty inconsiderate neighbors. Not to mention your crammed to the gills commute, parks and over-hyped restaurants.



I'm assuming you live on undeveloped land?


It's about the kind of development dopey. The building I'm in is over 100 years old and will be here 100 years from now. The new development around DTJC is shite. Get a clue.

Posted on: 2016/3/26 1:38
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Re: We need your help in the village!
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The alternative is to demand more from the developers than crappy mediocre buildings, particularly when they are seeking variances to put up these buildings and they dont even live in our community. We shouldnt sell ourselves out so cheap or else this town in going to look like crap in 20 years and everyone will say " what were they thinking?". This is why we should not be so gleeful to cave to any developer request for a variance in the name of "progress". Keep in mind that the developer doesn't give a darn about our neighborhood - they just want to jam in as much density as they can so they make more money - then go home to their mcmansion in the burbs.

I was walking by a building in downtown under construction today( a building that obtained a variance) and saw workers cutting huge "blocks" of white styrofoam. The next worker was then coating the styrofoam in concrete, so that the end product looked like large concrete slabs. They were "making" a lot of these. Any builders on here have any idea why they would be doing this? Sure seems like shoddy construction to me if these styrofoam "slabs" were going to be used in the construction....


Exactly this and when you see floor to ceiling windows you should run away. That monstrosity by Enos Jones looks like crap and will probably be leaking like a sieve soon. The "not our problem" attitude is all you'll get once you've actually bought some of these properties. The developers are cashing in and getting out with sweet deals. I have lived in DTJC for a long time and sure development is inevitable. In the Hamilton Park area I would not have hesitated to buy into the old St. Francis Hospital as the units were built on the bones of a solid old building. Everything else I see going up in "new construction" looks flimsy and rushed. Cramming people in is not progress except for the developers. I am guessing most of the push comes from single people who are looking to up their chances? Soon we will have a city of losers.

Posted on: 2016/3/25 19:57
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Re: We need your help in the village!
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All you pro-development and "progress" people are getting what you deserve. Shitty construction from people who make deals, build cheap and leave town. Enjoy your shite buildings, shite views and shitty inconsiderate neighbors. Not to mention your crammed to the gills commute, parks and over-hyped restaurants.


Posted on: 2016/3/25 18:32
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Re: What percentage of housing in Jersey City is "affordable"?
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I think you are distorting his words. And boodipoh makes a great point. "But other international cities are terrible at intermingling residents based on income. In fact, it is common (and quite accepted) that poorer residents are relegated to living in the periphery of major cities, with longer commutes and poorer conditions, than more affluent residents living within city limits." It's called revanchist gentrification or hyper gentrification where initial gentrifiers are pushed out or alienated. I love Jersey City and have been here around 20 years and civic minded like many others. I remember when I first moved to Van Vorst Park, I saw a post on JC List that actually said something akin to this "The nonsense on Wayne Street has to stop. All white people who make this City great and continue to make it great, please report to the park on Wayne Street and reclaim our City." There are many black and brown people who make this City great, contribute in many ways and just because someone makes above a certain incomes doesn't mean he/she makes the City great. Likewise, just because someone makes below a certain income, doesn't mean they make the City bad. People should think more.
no one is forcibly forcing low income people to move out of prime areas, at some point, prime areas become unaffordable...supply and demand. although i agree that government efforts can help/hurt affordability


I HATE when people are forcibly forced.

Posted on: 2016/3/25 18:21
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Re: Down under the New Jersey Turnpike extension - recreational use?
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They should put basketball courts under the Tpk and remove the one in Hamilton Park. That BB court in HP brings nothing but excessive litter and noise especially late at night in the warmer months. Replace it with a bocce court.

Posted on: 2016/3/24 9:27
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Re: Okay, so who here thinks the Katyn monument needs to go?
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At least they didn't put up a statue of this prick!

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Re: JC councilman charged with drunken driving after three-car collision
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I am all for shooting drunk drivers on the spot.

Posted on: 2016/3/16 3:34
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Re: Bill Braker appears drunk at Crown Chicken
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Put one behind his ear as with all drunk-drivers.

Posted on: 2016/2/29 20:57
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Re: Parking garages/lots?
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If you live in a city, cars are a luxury. If you want extra real estate, you should pay for it.


Oh please, stop pretending you live in Manhattan. Jersey City is more akin to Queens where there are plenty of cars.

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Re: Moving to Jersey City? Join the Club.
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I am a 5 min drive to Bayonne... you people think Bayonne is far LMAO... it takes me 20 min to get WTC why would you think coming from Bayonne take eternity? Bayonne also has the a flyer on the lightrail that zips them to Hoboken in 15 min...

Also during Sandy when the light rail was out I drove to Bayonne sometimes to catch the bus to Wall street which took 40 min and sometimes less. Other times I caught the ferry at Port Liberte. There are plenty of reasons to dislike Bayonne but its distance from Manhattan is not one of them.




https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/nj ... e/129-5th-st/pid_9076741/

Tons of price drops = a possible motived seller.

Not all that far from 8th street light station although need to cross 440, perhaps there is an overpass walkway.

Bayonne Crossing has tons of shopping and it's near by.

Great starter home with what looks like little needed in the way of renovations (big plus considering the cost and time for dealing with contractors) - 3 car PARKING which is huge after dealing with the struggles in JC if you have more than one car.

I'd come in low @ $205k cash offer (you can always go up so start low) with no contingencies (there is a noted lead paint disclosure) after a really thorough balls to the wall home inspection with a specula and also seeing clear title ready to transfer.

It's brick and seems to have been built in the late 50's when there was still a level of craftsmanship you simply don't see today with the all the prefab crap used.

Sure it's Bayonne, considered the armpit of NJ - but it is actually a safe community with a lot of pride in homeownership there.

You should have seen Hamilton Park 25 years ago, it was rank nasty nasty.

Just food for thought.

I'm sure there are much much better deals for those who want to do the leg work and hit the ground running or pay premiums to stay in the hip area of JC.





Anyone have old pics of Hamilton Park? I tried a quick google search.


I have plenty of old pics and videos too. I have been here longer than most. HP was never that bad. Yes, we had crime and I even saw a guy seconds after he was shot in the head during a coat robbery. He lay on the sidewalk on 8th St by St. Francis Hospital (That's the Hamilton Place Condos for you newbies) as blood streamed out of his head and pooled up all around him. He was dead in seconds. My buddies and I played football in HP almost every weekend from 88' through to the early 90's. The first brownstone I lived in next to Salon X (formerly Freddy's Deli) sold for $80,000. The PATH Trains were much less crowded and the walk through the new construction around Newport could be scary late at night as there were few people around. Anyone else remember that temporary bridge thing everyone had to pass through on the way to the PATH? It was where the office buildings are just past the light-rail station. Luckily, I never had any incidents on the PATH. We used to walk to Maxwell's and the Elysian in Hoboken. That walk was pretty desolate back then. Nowadays, although it's great for home values, most of the longtime residents I know hate all the crowding that is happening and will continue to happen. The new restaurants are okay but Newark Ave. now resembles Hoboken Frat douchiness on a summer weekend night. Jersey City has lost any chance of having a "cool" factor. It's just another Flushing, Queens. In 20 years it will all be underwater and home owners will be f**ked.

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