Nice! Those low-life scumbags need to be put in jail, like every other corrupt, Jersey City low-life. What douchebags. Here is the link:

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/ ... ory_towing_crackdown.html

This a-hole tried to explain that he has a 'contract", when he doesn't. These a-holes are low IQ low-lifes... if they ever come near my car, they will be paying a visit to the Jersey City Medical Center.

So that is what you have? Blame the police? Here is a radical idea for all of the newcomer, fake hipster numbskulls out there. Blame the thugs that have dogged that block for years. This is not about your ideology. The lives that have been shattered by this event are not about you and your stupid ideology. Working right around the corner when it happened, The woman that was screaming bloody murder, and the people's families lives impacted by this are shattered, as is the civility-or lack thereof-and the peace of the neighborhood. You should be sickened by it, and not go on your ridiculous rants about police and causes. My heart goes out to the victims, and the people of the neighborhood.

Another act of violence tonight on Wayne street. Early reports consisted of a shooting: looks like it might have been a stabbing to the head and brandishing of a gun. Be careful in that area tonight...and always.

Wayne Street Girl: You can't change ignorance. Punks on Wayne Street have been wreaking havoc for years, long before 99% of the people moved here. At least it's not as bad as it was in the 70's, however. My father and his family lived on that block in the 30's-40's, and was a wonderful neighborhood. Family still has photos. Since the late 60's/70's, Wayne Street, like most of downtown JC, was sketchy, some of those attributes remaining today. Those punks that poisoned a dog are not worthy of trying to establish relations in the name of getting hipster cred. Having grown up here, newcomers don't have insight to the thought process of locals, and are mostly clueless in that regard. And I don't mean newcomer locals. The past 10-15 years have seen much progress, but bad elements remain. Keep an eye on them, and report trouble to the police, or Stephen Fulop.

Jersey Wine and Spirits-492-498 Jersey Ave- experienced a second break-in over the past 2-3 months. The first time, the criminally stupid thieves crashed through the glass doors, only to steal a bunch of airplane bottles. This time, I guess the store was broken into by a better class of Jersey City criminal and made off with a safe and cash. If anyone sees or have witnessed any strange behavior around the store, give the guys at the store a heads-up.

Here is why those things happen. For those of you that have been in Jersey City since, oh, last week, understand this: It's Jersey City. It is corrupt and violent. It has been a corrupt political machine for over ninety years, and it has been mercilessly violent since the late sixties. Crime rate is 10 times higher than it was during 25 % unemployment of the Depression. Forget about what your college professor told you. He or she never grew up in a city or attended the inner neighborhood schools, nor even saw, never mind know, urban, ethnic minorities. These things do not happen because it is hot out. That is all smoke-filled, coffee-house crap. My cred? Family emigrated there 100 years ago, and I lived there myself. I also, laughingly so, listened to college professors try to explain urban life, despite them growing up in a Levitt development. It is what it is: Urban life as manifested through the blue-collar, gritty bravado of living in the hood.

Now that is funny....

Plus, you have to live in the property for the life of the mortgage.......A lifetime in JC? Don't think so....

Elvis: What specifically do your friends say about the experience?

Good value condos available there. However, I would be more afraid to walk down westside ave now than when I was 6 years old and walking to school down westside ave in the early sixties...it has changed that much, for the worse, though there have been some attempts to improve. Not much future in my opinion. Wait a couple years, get an extra job, sack away the money, and buy downtown when the market is bottoming out.

Generally, a "regressive" neighborhood, not much to keep your attention...

Now that is an answer...well done.

Rewriting history? I don't think so. Unlike most transplants that have been here, uh, a week and a half and seem to know everything, downtown did indeed only make progress upon redevelopment in the early eighties. The following is from the NY Times:

"Plans to redevelop the waterfront date at least to 1963, with a report produced for Mayor Thomas Whelan. But Mr. Whelan was convicted of corruption in 1971 without making much progress, and it would not be until 1983 that redevelopment began in earnest. That year two partners, Michael W. Sonnenfeldt and David M. Fromer, persuaded Bankers Trust to lease 400,000 square feet at Harborside, a former Pennsylvania Railroad freight terminal the men had bought in 1982 for $25 million. In 1986, the partners sold Harborside to a group represented by Jones Lang Wooten Realty Advisors for $120 million, and the waterfront's investment potential was established. "


Business, and by extension, an eductaed workforce with high disposable incomes, do not move to places because there is an alleged "art scene". That is revisionist history by those that have an inflated sense of self-virtue. There was no art scene in Jersey City in 1979, (okay, maybe a couple..)and only started to bloom in the mid to late 80's because artists, writers, musicians, etc, were priced out of Hoboken and anticpated downtown as "the next thing". Most of the downtown area in 1979 was blighted or empty. That being said, Newport was/is bad development: an enclosed mall and 1970's style towers that were inappropriate for the waterfront.


My cred? My family history goes back almost 100 years downtown, and everyone in my family including myself, attended school here, before eventually moving out. I moved back into town to Paulus Hook 25 years ago.