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Also, some foods should not be delivered. Razza's pizza is one of them. It needs to be eaten hot out of the oven.

JCGuys wrote:
Was gonna order something, but $4.99 is too high. lol

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Stopped in yesterday and had to exercise considerable discipline to prevent myself from buying every single thing on the display. Settled for a pain au chocolat and a plain croissant - simply amazing. The bill was $7.00 - which I thought was completely fair. By comparison - has anyone recently purchased pastries at Smith & Chang - want to support them but pricing = crazytown.

The warm scent of butter hits you as you walk in and the space and it has been repainted and fixed up since Tommy's was there.

I love Choco Pain - but have to say that competition is a good thing and this new spot is certainly a welcome newcomer to the area. I wish them well and will be back again with a larger appetite.

Yay for all of us.

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I stopped by once at O?Lala Empanadas, but walked out when they said it would be at least a 10 minute wait. I think of empanadas as "fast food". Maybe they're different, but I didn't go back.

They don't have their food sitting under a heat lamp. Their orders are usually made fresh to go.

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Whoever wrote that article was not well informed: the previous cost of AmazonFresh was $200 on top of the $99 Amazon Prime membership. So, all in, it was $299 for the year of Amazon Prime + AmazonFresh. Now, you are looking at $279 all in. A whopping amount of $20 in savings. Any way you slice it, it is still a very expensive proposition ($180 / year) to order from AmazonFresh, unless you intend to order a lot of times. Compared to FD's $6 delivery fee, you would have to order from Amazon at least 30 times just to break even in delivery fees.

A couple of considerations if only looking at delivery cost.

-- how often one orders - I'm going to assume weekly, or 52 times a year. I order at least once per week.

-- if one is already an Amazon Prime member, the $99 membership fee should not be taken into consideration when calculating Amazon Fresh cost.

-- FD delivery pass costs $119 per year for unlimited deliveries, or about $2.30 per delivery if ordering once per week. Amazon costs $180 per year or $3.46 per delivery based on the same criteria.

Based on these considerations, the difference in delivery cost is not that significant. However, the cost of Amazon Fresh products seems to be considerably lower. I compared a few staple items that I order. In the end, the total cost would be less with Amazon.

However, there are the intangibles like quality and service. My guess is that FD has significantly superior quality while service is not as good as Amazon. These factors are impossible to measure, at least for me. For those reasons, I'm going to try Amazon.

Having said that, I was surprised to get a call yesterday from one of the directors at FD in response to my complaints. He said that it took him nearly an hour to review my records from inception - something he decided to do after the incredible screw-up with my last order. He said he was shocked, made no excuses and vowed to remedy the delivery issues. He gave me a full credit for my last order ($100) plus another $100 credit. Quite generous. More importantly to me, he gave me his cell number and email address.

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Amazon Fresh is now available in Jersey City. Haven't tried it out yet, but I will soon as I agree FD has gone downhill. Their delivery times are not consistent at all anymore.

I didn't know that; it must be a recent change. I am going to give Amazon a shot.

Just be aware that Amazon Fresh requires a $200 annual membership fee. I was tempted to try it, but I am not tempted enough to shell out $200.

neverleft wrote:
Couple seeks $18M from Jersey City in lawsuit over historic district guidelines

By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
on October 05, 2016 at 12:28 PM, updated October 05, 2016 at 12:46 PM

JERSEY CITY ? A Bentley Avenue couple is seeking as much as $18 million from Jersey City, alleging in a six-count lawsuit that the city violated their constitutional rights when it ordered them to stop construction on their home in a newly designated historic district.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... t.html#incart_2box_hudson

SRhia wrote:
Thanks for all the feedback so far - uber/lyft is definitely a great alternative.

Unfortunately, can't use the citibank option as I'll have two young kids, and I don't think biking up/down the hill in the dark (in the winter) is a good idea

Are there route maps for the Bergen jitney?

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Or PATH to JSQ then Citibike. If JSQ->St Peters is a long walk, the incline on Montgomery might be a challenge

mbrad52 wrote:
Another restaurant is going into the location, its supposed to be 70's/retro themed...whatever that's supposed to mean.

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does anyone else find it way too coincidental that they timed this weekend service change at the same time the shops are opening at the WTC station/Fulton Center?

H'm, let's see.

The tunnels were extensively damaged by Sandy in 2012, resulting in a need to devise multi-year plans for repairs. This included closing the WTC tunnel on weekends for much of 2014. PA also has to meet a federal mandate to install positive train control by 2018.

Yes, obviously those devious fiends engineered a hurricane, a federal mandate and two major tunnel closures to... boost the number of people walking past a bunch of stores, in a facility that PA leases to someone else.

You should have gone with your first instinct. Please put the tin-foil hat away.

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I may need to put my tinfoil hat away, but does anyone else find it way too coincidental that they timed this weekend service change at the same time the shops are opening at the WTC station/Fulton Center? It's basically funneling weekend shopping traffic directly through the station during the heart of the holiday shopping season. I mean, ridership is lighter during the summer isn't it? Why not start earlier in the season?

Also, they closed the other exit further down on Vesey Street, which forces you to walk through the station shopping area. Now, there may be a perfectly good explanation for this, but seems a little fishy to me.

ecoindie wrote:
The Problem with this program is that its located at Department of Public Works (DPW). This needs to be at Cultural Affairs handled by another person, that is familiar with artists in the city and a community input process, which mirrors what is done in cities like Philadelphia----NOT Brooke Hannson, who is in DPW.

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Anyone been to Noodlefan yet?

JcDevil wrote:
At least we have a $4,000,000,000 dino carcass to arrive in!

user1111 wrote:
Long Island City has a scene, Jersey City does not.

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Show me the ordinance that says no one can have free ice cream. You can't?

Yvonne - just answer the question so we can all move on with our ice cream

Ice cream is not on the agenda, what was on the agenda was permit parking to 11:00 PM.

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I used to think Monroe was just misguided and spent too much time with his friends at FOX, but I have come to realize he is just a horrible human being.

You support the epidemic of black on black violence? I've called out the sub human who committed those horrible murders in Charleston. But run the numbers, bro. 9 killed is a slow weekend in Chicago, and it ain't white cops or racist skinheads doing the shooting.

Typical absurd deflection - guess it's part of your Fox talking points script. Why not beat on other causes of death like heart disease and suicide while you're at it? http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

And you have directly supported the endemic of black-on-black violence - with generations of segregation, sub-standard education, targeted criminalization, incarceration and turning prisons into gang recruitment factories.

Where's the affordable housing in Milburn?

Affordable housing in Millburn? I'm not sure, I'd imagine if anyone wants to pull themselves up by their bootstraps they could do what my grandparents did-raise 12 kids in an apartment above a retail store downtown-with no welfare or Section 8 support, while not speaking English. And trust me, immigrant Italians weren't welcome in Millburn/Short Hills in the early 1900's.

iGreg wrote:
Have not peeked into the waters of the Gowanus Canal since a kid, is it still bubbling with festering shit?

Oh the yuppies must luv that.'

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Thanks, we have a pretty far commute to work so are really trying to live within walking distance to the path. That mercer loop area is under 20 minutes walking distance to grove street, so seems like a decent option. Just wanted to see how safe it was and if anyone has any thoughts on the neighborhood. thanks!

Once the 25,000+ new apartments in DTJC are completed, the overcrowding on the PATH may become intolerable. You'd avoid the worst if you got on at JSQ.

Also, I think property values there will rise the fastest as it is the next area targeted for gentrification. May want to look around and see if you like what you see.

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Whoever made the remark about the "veneer of quality and competence" is so on point.

I complained about the greasy overcooked whole chicken I bought for $18 (the next time I came in, I didn't bring it back) I just got a shrug. Mentioned it again the next time to someone else. Same response. I also find they just don't weigh correctly. If I ask for a pound I want a pound not .85. And I'm not correcting someone more than once. I asked about one of the vegetables antipasta dishes and the guy had no clue. I asked the price of a loaf of bread and got a bewildered look, as if it was a dumb question to ask (it was $8). It just seems like there is a whole lot of not caring going on.

Which is too bad because other than the chicken the items are decent (did not try the pasta but pasta at the del cure place excellent so no need to).
I also wish they would regularly have leaner ground beef available (the standard grind is super fatty). You can request a leaner grind but you have to call a day in advance. I'm sure if they just had it out and labelled it lean it would outsell the fatty version (which is tasty, but unnecessary when I'm making tacos).

On a completely unrelated note, can't anyone open up a salad place here? it would make a killing.

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I wonder if the farmers have a concern about less prepared food cutting down on the people coming to the market. What if empanadas are the draw and kale an afterthought? I'm usually there by 6, are they mostly sold out by closing?

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The better solution would be to allow the food trucks (and other prepared food vendors) in a different area, managed in a different way.

Perhaps the Port Authority should let them set up shop at Journal Sq.

tommyc_37 wrote:
In the morning I think there are two WTC trains for every 33rd St train. The second WTC train is usually pretty empty, and the 33rd St train is always packed. This should be reconsidered.

Coming home in the evenings - and this has been complained about a lot - the Hoboken-bound trains are pretty empty while the JSQ-bound trains are really, really packed - especially after about 7:00 pm. Jersey City has grown exponentially more than Hoboken has in the past 10 years, and the ratio of trains has remained the same.

Seriously, the solution is simple, just send out more JSQ-33rd trains, even if it means lessening the frequency of some of the other lines. That line is where most of the growth is, and will continue to be.