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If you are watching your money, you must check your receipt very carefully. The scanner makes all sorts of mistakes, -- normally always in the stores's favor! They've been pretty good about making it right by me, but since i go in almost every day, they know me pretty well by now.
Posted on: 2012/7/20 16:37
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More garbage left behind on my block this a.m.
Looks like it's properly prepared. Are we just gonna have to get used to this? Today they took all mine and left behind someone else's. Is there like only room for so much on the truck?
Posted on: 2012/7/13 16:43
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Re: City To Conduct First Property Revaluation Since 1988
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I had the same thing happen. I called the number on the door tag and got a child's answering machine message saying Daddy was not home and would return my call. Nothing happened, after me calling there twice. So, i called the company's office at 30 Montgomery. Person who answered said she would give a message to the guy who is supposed to visit me. That was four weeks ago, and nothing since. The company rep did say that there is plenty of time for revisits, as the deadline is still more than a year away. Company rep did not seem concerned at all. Just like last time, the reval is probably gonna be a great big mess. Last time, at least, we had fun protest marches and meetings and mini-tax-revolts. Don't know how the people will react this time, since it's a very different population. Newcomers may just lay down and take it up the bum; but last time the old-timers got good and furious and it was a lot of name-calling and crazy antics. The City did get its tax increase after all , but we did not make it easy for them. Hope the same holds true now.
Posted on: 2012/7/12 17:49
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On my block, the garbage bags and recycle stuff are
presented properly. I watch folks putting their stuff out for collection, and by and large, there should be no argument about taking it away. Once again, on this website, we play "blame the victim." It is so tiresome to read these posts from people who daydream they are living in Mayberry. The notion of having to tip to get service is nonsense. Your taxes pay for services from the city. Hold the city accountable when the services are not provided; do not succumb to the lowered expectations that jersey city has always encouraged her people to be satisfied with. If you are getting good services, then we are happy for you; but if you are not, you must get your complaint out there and heard. Complacency is what the entrenched politicians count on.
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Has anyone notice a decline in garbage pickups?
On Third Street in Harsimus Cove, there has been a marked problem with trash left behind and recycling ignored and the street littered with spillover from the truck and huge plastic trash bins rolling down the sidewalk and gutters. I have called JCIA time after time, but you might just as well speak to cinderblock. I let Councilman Fulop know what is going on, but I don't expect he's got the answer to the problem. I would ask that if you are having trouble with trash service that you let JCIA know about it, as well as anyone at city hall who you think might be able to help. I hate to think of all these even higher taxes we're gonna be paying after the reval resulting in the same tired, inefficient, substandard set of services that Jersey City has traditionally provided her people.
Posted on: 2012/7/7 17:32
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Re: Outrageously Noisy Neighbors on Third Street
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You should keep after this problem.
Take it as a major concern to the next neighborhood association meeting. Get a conversation going on the subject; don't just mention it peripherally. Then, take it to the monthly police meeting. Get your stats down on paper -- how many times you called, what response if any you got, how you contacted the owner, etc, etc. Let the cops at the meeting know that you want something done. This has been a fairly quiet block the last few years; we do not want to start a precedent of tolerance for bad acting. Lots of new and very temporary people are moving in here and they have little sense of this place and its history and sooner than later they are out of here, so putting up with their non-neighborly behavior does not pay off in the long run. The hope that sooner or later they will become domesticated is a false hope; they are here to party and then move on when the lease comes due. Don't stand still for anti-social behavior.
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Light rail seems ok during business hours weekdays, but i have heard too many scary stories about late nite and weekend
rides to take the risk. Other folks feel that it is safe, but you can't convince me of that, especially the mall area at nite, and then down by bayonne.
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Sprinkling cloves about the place is good, but it only works against dragons and vampires === and who would want to get rid of them??
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i get those tiny ants a lot, and what works pretty well at
discouraging them is getting sprayed with a strong solution of ammonia and water. just get a spray bottle, load it up and have a shot at them.
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there was a big, big raccoon on my back porch on
Third Street a week or so ago, just at twilight. The cats and the coon were staring each other down. The coon slowly, and with fine dignity, lumbered off into the next yard. No big deal. No reason to call our for SWAT! The sneak-thieves around here are more dangerous than the wildlife.
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Re: Another Store gets faded out on Newark... gentrification still at work.
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The camera store people were wonderful.
I recall that years and years ago, they were so willing to help with community building stuff and were always good for a monetary donation to neighborhood association programs, even when their own income was not so great. They were generous and considerate folks, rare in shopkeepers these days, and we had better hope for more of their kind. They were the backbone of the rebuilding of Newark Ave, which when i came here had about three open shops -- the rest boarded up and/or abandoned.
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probably on their way to some "art" event downtown.
we get all kinds. what billyburg and long island city don't want, they throw over to us. dumping grounds for art school drop-outs.
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Re: Did the NYPD Conduct A Widespread Surveillance of Jersey City Muslims?
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I hope so.
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It's because this is jersey city.
That's how we roll here.
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i try to not look at the water that comes out of my faucets,
but by accident the other day, i caught a glance at glassful of freshly drawn kitchen sink water in a clear glass -- and it was dark gray. godawful looking. smelled like an old lake. i use brita for everything, even the cat's bowl. we pay a huge amount for water and sewer here, far more than in any boroughs across the river. what's up with that? should tunisia and egypt be teaching us a lesson?
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Re: HELP: Looking for a 1 bedroom apt in Downtown Jersey City for less than $700 per month
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are you kidding?
not gonna happen.
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they should be kept on the school campus, fenced in
by barbed wire. whatever little lunch business they might bring down here, i'm sure the shopkeepers don't want it.
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Sounds/looks good on paper ==
but in real time: are they gonna pay any taxes?
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This is a very tricky situation, and you had better get solid advice from someone who knows how things work here.
Most attorneys won't bother to check with the zoning and get a reliable report. And the "zoning" here is so weird (in that we have lots of laws and restrictions on the books but it seems like nobody pays any attention and just goes ahead and does whatever) that you might well end up with some awful business underneath you that the zoning people have allowed, even if the zoning laws forbid such an enterprise. Developers are now doing pretty much what they want, regardless of the rules == and the city seems to be supporting them, when neighbors question their development plans. Do not buy anything in Jersey City until you have done a ton of homework. After you own it, it is too late to find out all the troubles. Once a feeding place goes in under you, nobody is gonna want to buy your lovely apartment. Keep that in mind.
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Oh, god: you are sooo on target. I personally am thoroughly sick of this 9/11 pandering. But that's just me. Fulop reasons but these goons can only bellow. It's apples and oranges around here. The disparity in quality of mentation is just too obvious. Some of these "leaders" make one wonder whether they hold even junior high degrees.
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Whatever it is gonna be, it is completely inappropriate
to the historic district, and like most of the building projects that are going on now, it has slipped past all the requirements of the historic district guidelines for building within a district. I have a similar monster project behind me on Erie St. that is almost totally illegal, yet it somehow (we know how, now, don't we) got approved and is moving forward. They have apparently run out of funding for a while, so it is sitting fallow ... but I am sure someone will pick up the project and carry it thru to completion. Another example is the disgusting building that got put on 4th St. between Erie and Manila. What a shocking mess. There is a huge building planned for the parking lot space at PS2. We need to keep an eye on that one: the plans that were shown the city agencies and that got approved may not be the structure that actually gets built. That's a big game here: show the city some pretty drawings, get them approved, and then go ahead and build a cheap heap that looks like Soviet era hospital architecture. The various neighborhood associations seem to be asleep on these issues. Years ago, the various nabes were very concerned about new construction, but times have seemingly changed. Nowadays, citizens must protest all this unnecessary and unsuitable building on his/her own. But just one voice means less than zero to the city. Too bad for we folks who take pride in having brought the downtown back from the assured ruin that the city had planned for it back in the seventies. Today, developers come and do whatever they want, and don't pay any taxes to boot. How do you like them apples, all of you soon-to-be-reval-ed taxpayers?
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As usual, Mr. Fulop is correct.
Too many hungry mouths suckling at the municipal teat. Eventually the milk dries up and the sucklers get weaned. Not in JC, evidently. This is a free-loader's paradise if you can get hooked into the system. Tax payers should be getting tired of this by now. My house tax has gone up 3 grand in the past two years. What for?
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In New Jersey, it is illegal to kill/abuse animals,
other than rats and mice. There is a huge fine and often jail time involved with this crime. I have put flyers in the nabe, alerting folks to what is going on. I live on Third Street, near Erie. My little manx cat, less than a year old , was killed this week by poison. It was a horrible thing to witness. The vet told me she has seen a strong uptick in pet poisonings of late. She suspects that there are people putting poison out to kill the opossums and raccoons that everyone is so exercised about. Unfortunately, the poisons are killing other peoples' pets as well. Apparently, there are new poisons that smell especially good, so animals of all sorts are attracted to them, not just vermin. In the old days, rat poison smelled and tasted awful --and it was hard to fool the smart rats and mice. No so now. If you want to get rid of backyard foragers, keep your yards and porches free of food. Raccoons can be trapped and taken off. Opossums are totally harmless; just keep your doors closed so they don't wander in. If there is no food around, you will not have scavengers. Even using poison to kill raccoons and opossums is a disgusting thing to do. Do we all know what death by poison looks like? I watched my little cat vomiting bloody foam and convulsing and then going into a coma; by the time we got him to the vet, it was all over. In the space of three days, he went from being this vibrant little animal to being a tiny sick lump groaning in agony and coughing up his guts. What kind of sociopath would cause this, i ask myself. I would like to give the poisoner a dose of his own medicine. Pleases, please: if you know of or suspect that someone is putting poison down
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I have had very good work done by
Hudson Roll-up Gates. Their place is up in the Heights. Ask for Cezar.
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Most of you lovelies who are chock full of opinions on what
should become of CTown should realize that the building and lot lie smack dab in the middle of a city, state and federal historic district, and thus the property is restricted to some very tight redevelopment controls. The folks who live here and take historic district status seriously will be on the lookout for what is planned on that site. So many ridiculous and redundant rehabs and condo conversions and new constructions have gone on here in the past few years, skirting the proper channels via who knows what nefarious means, that adding the CTown Condos to the list is just not gonna happen. Leave well enuf alone. If CTown does not meet your elite shopping standards, then go somewhere else. The new Trader Joe on 23rd St, would love to have your business. Put your money where your mouths are, big spenders.
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May or may not be connected == but we managed to get
the police to arrest and take away a young "homeless" guy who's been squatting in a tenement lobby for a few weeks now. This is on Third, between Erie and Jersey. There is a ten unit bldg that has only two occupants, the rest of the apts have been empty for three or more years, awaiting rehab. The guy has been camped out on the stoop and in the lobby, menacing folks and checking out cars and other houses and monitoring peoples' coming and going. Very spooky. After the third visit by the police in response to folks calling and complaining about this guy- who seems like he considers the empty house his home, the officers patted him down and found a "weapon" and also discovered that there are a bunch of outstanding warrants on him. So they cuffed him and took him off. We are free of him for a while , it looks like. But who knows . It looks like we are being forced to get suspicious again, the way we were years ago, when we saw folks hanging around that we knew did not live here. The police have been pretty good on response time, so it behooves us to call when we see something that does not look right.
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