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Seriously mate.
Or is this a bot?

Haggis - gaune yursel! Aye, he's a wee bit shoogly after the end of comments on NJ.com. He's a right scunner. All bum and parsley.

I didn't think I could like you more, but then you post an oatmeal cookie recipe, and this perfectly on point reply, and I am just all googly eyes. Thank you for keeping JCLIST a place worth visiting.

Awwww Bodhi, you made my morning. I was gleefully channeling my great-grandma Agnes from Aberdeenshire. Now she was a hoot. Us old timers have to stick together. I just can't shake my JCList habit. Stay safe and healthy - and those oatmeal cookies are really good.

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IS THE MEDIA FEAR MONGERING CONCERNING COVID-19 ?

THE STOCK MARKET IS NOT ONLY IN A DECLINE VIA THE VIRUS BUT SOMETHING EVEN MORE DEADLY, SANDERS RECEIVING THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION WHICH IS ALSO DRIVING THE MARKET DOWN. SOMETHING YOUR LEFT WING LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE MEDIA OUTLETS AREN'T REPORTING !!!!!

GrovePath wrote:
How long does the parade last - and what is the route? Does this stop traffic across Newark Ave and elsewhere?

Annod wrote:
What is the maximum number of trips I can add to SmartLink?

SmartLink holds a maximum of six products, three different types of product with no more than two of any product. As such, SmartLink can hold up to 140 trips: two 40-trip products, two 20-trip products, and two 10-trip products.

https://www.pathsmartlinkcard.com/faq.html

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Readers weigh in on Jersey City referendum on short-term rentals | Opinion

Today 4:00 PM (10/11/2019)

By Letters To The Editor | The Jersey Journal

Editor?s note: When Jersey City voters go to the polls Nov. 5, they?ll be asked a referendum question on whether the city should put into effect (VOTE YES) or overturn (VOTE NO) a new city law that puts restrictions on short-term rentals of properties such as Airbnb. The law, approved in June, allows homeowners who are on-site to share their home 365 days a year and calls for an annual 60-day cap for short-term rentals if the property owner is not on-site. It prohibits short-term rentals in buildings with more than four units and phases out existing short-term rental contracts in those buildings by Jan. 1, 2021. It also prohibits renters from serving as short-term rental hosts.

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2019/10/rea ... term-rentals-opinion.html


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The sad thing is that with AirBnB regulated out of existence, rents won't be reduced by much, if at all. As long as multi-family buildings are torn down and replaced with Bayonne boxes, the rent market will continue to face shortages (at least until the next recession).

What will be lost is the revenue paid to the city by AirBnB. Wasn't it around $9mil a year?

You know what else is lost? Party goers coming and going at all hours of the night. The feeling of insecurity you have when strangers are constantly in your building. Having to become the de facto concierge for out of towners. There is a true quality of life issue here.

Actually, yes, that is within their mission. But it seems like their primary job is being non-responsive so as to make whatever it is the citizens problem. They will not even return a call. Even the nice workers at LHS admit as much. Lord help you if instead of calling them 10 times till they send someone with a trap you rescue a cat yourself but are unable to keep it. You might as well put it out on the street again, even the cat rescues won't take it. Ask me how I know, the kitten is making our elderly cat miserable.

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We had already had a raccoon problem. Raccoons enter homes and cause havoc. We also have a possum problem.

What we really have is a people problem.

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If this new place is looking to draw it's clientele from NYC, then they should stay in NYC. Who needs them here?

Shouldn't a city that's going through a financial crisis and is increasingly forced to raise taxes be accepting of anybody that wants to come here and spend money and contribute to the local economy? If you want to live in some insular community, there are plenty of shit suburbs in NJ where you'll never have to worry about anyone coming to visit.

Agreed with you. I can't understand this insular mentality of eschewing visitors (who want to come here to spend some of their money) out of some misplaced sense of entitlement or fear that visitors will somehow "destroy" the fabric of our city.

I would rather see JCPD clamp down on the drunks who come here to imbibe and then drive all over town like maniacs at closing time, or the out-of-town commuters that speed on local streets as they try to make in/out of JC.

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OK, then City Diner.. or a host of other spots. If you want to extend into Hoboken, then La Isla, the Malibu Diner and the Spa should be mentioned.

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Who the heck doesn?t include the Brownstone and instead adds a corporate place like Turning Point, or a lousy one like Greek From Greece (and I say that as a Greek).

The writer of that article has no taste.

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I'm also going to catch a lot of shit about this...

I don't care.

You know you are a DB and post anyway, do you need attention or something?

Congrats!

I have no trouble being called a DB, but a further explanation is owed. Obviously this is a horrible act. It just upsets me that a majority of the population has more empathy for the birds but little to none for the homelessness crisis, folks being pushed out of their home to do rising costs, the lack of education and economic opportunities in certain sections of the city,

The bird situation is a tradgety but so many more injustices happening every day and some never say a peep.

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I find the efforts to ban plastic straws to be particularly annoying...


https://reason.com/2019/05/07/new-jers ... ll-bags-paper-or-plastic/

State legislators have clearly heard this message, floating proposals to ban not just plastic grocery bags, but all single-use bags?paper or plastic.

Working its way though the legislature right now is S2776. As written, the legislation would ban food service businesses and other retailers who have stores larger than 1,000 square feet from providing their customers with plastic bags. The bill would also naturally ban plastic straws.

Violators would be fined anywhere from $500 to $5,000 depending on the number of offenses.

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Y'all homophobes are a trip man.
"teach LGBT history" - what do you think this is going to consist of? It's going to be one page in a 400 page text book and a ten minute discussion about civil rights for all and the Stonewall Riots. Maybe one question on a test or quiz. None of your kids will "turn" gay if they weren't already.

I disagree with your assessment.
As with all of the social and cultural curricula in the schools and colleges, the focus will grow and grow until it becomes an expensive part of education It's the way of society today.

I'm a little concerned that marginal "historical" figures will become subjects to be studied as the curriculum grows. I may be wrong, but let's see.

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....history will be rewritten to accommodate the gay agenda.

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I read the ordinance. The AirBNB spokeswoman is correct about it pretty much killing the business outside of owner-occupied 1 to 3 family buildings.

Non-owner occupied properties are essentially banned (over 3 units) or severely limited (28 days max a year). With the limits and the registration fees, AirBnB becomes non economical to do, which is I think the point of the regulations.

As the next-door neighbor of an entire apartment building that's being run as an AirBNB hotel, I applaud this restriction. The developer pitched this new construction to the neighborhood and zoning board as rental apartments, and then promptly furnished them and listed them all on AirBNB and comparable overseas short-term rental sites. He lives in the Hamptons, and his neighbors get to deal with the noise and confusion of a stream of transient visitors. (Confusion because, weekly, one of them sets off the fire alarm, and our street is filled with ladder trucks. Maybe label your system more clearly, absentee concierge?)

isn't there a limit of 5 units? why doesn't the city enforce the 5 unit limit first

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I read the ordinance. The AirBNB spokeswoman is correct about it pretty much killing the business outside of owner-occupied 1 to 3 family buildings.

Non-owner occupied properties are essentially banned (over 3 units) or severely limited (28 days max a year). With the limits and the registration fees, AirBnB becomes non economical to do, which is I think the point of the regulations.

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How about China recycling every piece of plastic it sends to the US.

How about the U.S. quits buying plastic crap from China?

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135jc wrote:
How about China recycling every piece of plastic it sends to the US.

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Jersey City Up Front has an article posted today regarding details of the planned Whole Foods space:

http://www.jerseycityupfront.com/neig ... ullboy-expands-food-menu/

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Link to the original article on Jersey Digs:

http://jerseydigs.com/whole-foods-met ... owers-jersey-city-update/

I'm surprised no one has chimed in about the FIVE LEVELS of parking integrated into the building. That's a parking lot across from another (the one at 50 Columbus, which is usually mostly empty) and across the street diagonally from another parking lot (the one at Grove Pointe) that is usually somewhat empty, as well. I thought we were trying to move away from the idea of reliance on cars and towards more pedestrian friendly concepts.

In any case, I think it also speaks volumes that neither the Planning Board, nor Traffic Department, seem to think that traffic in the area is already a chaotic mess. WTF?

Normally I would agree with you, but this is a grocery store.

Do you intend to see folks walking across those major roadways with shopping bags in tow or pushing their carts to these other lots and then returning those same carts to the store?

Um, yes? It's a dense as hell city and this location is on top of a subway station. There is no need for parking, especially with other (empty) garages on the same block.

How much parking is allotted for the Trader Joe's in Brooklyn Heights? That's a neighborhood with similar density and similar % of car ownership to DTJC.

You need to escape your bubble and realize that most people need cars, especially when going to the grocery store.

No chance in hell to get any kind of major grocer in DTJC without plenty of parking.

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I wonder if its time to ban plastic eating utensils. i'm about to toss a bag full that Chinese delivery keeps bringing despite my requests that I don't need plastic ware