JerseyCityKid08 wrote:
I ordered the pulled pork sandwich and it was dry. I asked for cheese and they had none. It seemed overpriced for the quality you get. Asked for a coke and it was warm. Won't go back for awhile. It's new, so maybe they are working out kinks.

I think they ran 2 WTC trains back to back - because when I came down the stairs I heard someone say "The WTC train just came through a minute ago," and then another WTC train came pretty quick after that. Not sure if they were just trying to get alleviate delays or coincedence or what, it happens sometimes.

carpetbaggertil718 wrote:
That area is actually part of a directed patrol. Officers are sent there in response to LightRail commuters complaints about homosexual men engaging in crude acts in the bushes. The area is in plain view of the trains and some people are obviously offended by these behaviors. I myself have been assigned to this post. We call this operation Gerbil Poacher. Once assigned there, we get all kinds of ridiculous excuses from people aimlessly wandering through this deserted area like I was helping my friend look for his cat....or I was on my way to visit my friend in Greenville....or I was picking up garbage in the nude when I fell on this Zucchinni. Its not a glamorous assignment but its easier than being assigned to Hudson St. where yuppie idiots ask ridiculous questions all day instead of minding their own business. Your picture was obviously taken in the morning or afternoon which means the officer is on the day tour. This means the officer has at a minimum 14 years in patrol. At the time you wandered through private property for whatever reason, this officer was not assigned a call of which he will respond to 12 in an average day. Most calls are generated by people with limited problem solving abilities and even less common sense. Riding around only increases your chances of encountering a moron. Mind your own business and get a life.

toejamfootball wrote:
Exactly. In fact, he was obviously embarrassed that I had caught him sitting there, doing nada. (And no, he was not busy \"writing up reports.\") Not surprisingly, his instinct was to try to intimidate me. Pathetic.

So he tried to turn it around by implying that *I* was the one who was doing something wrong. But then he quickly realized that this wouldn\'t fly, because I had every right to be there. He actually said \"I don\'t have a problem with you being here.\"

Again, he was desperately trying to divert attention from himself and the fact that he was caught slacking under the Turnpike. He does this routinely.

So then he decided to complain that I had parked in a \"private\" area (there were no signs indicating that this was the case). I offered to move the car. He didn\'t force the issue.

Dumb slacker cop was grasping at straws . If he really had a problem with my being there or parking --or anything on my part, then he should have approached me when I entered the area and tried to stop me. But he didn\'t do or say anything until after I had parked, left the car, and walked toward him.

Bad enough that he\'s being paid (by me) to do nothing. Even worse that tries to turn it around and use his uniform to intimidate me when caught slacking.

Tax dollars at work.

jlee8 wrote: My wife and I decided to try Teppan yesterday. The food was OK, but we got a little surprise when the check came.  Apparently, they decided that they should round up our bill to the nearest nickel. Needless to say, we will never be going back.

jerzgirl wrote:
Nobody gets on or off at Christopher. The express could go right from Newport to 23rd and then 33rd.

Healy's meeting with Dwek at the luncheonette was marked by the copious amount of pepper he, the mayor, seemed to be applying to his potato salad.

tommyc_37 wrote:
I live very close to the beer garden, and I never hear or see any type of "ruckus" near closing time. It just attracts a higher class of people ...

What bothers me most is the fact that i do realize the mysterys and dangers behind the preperation of this food

GrovePath wrote:
Jersey City puts street vendor of Indian food out of business; brothers mull court challenge

Monday, March 01, 2010
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A food truck vendor whose license was temporarily yanked last month after Jersey City officials traced its fixings to a three-story, mouse-infested firetrap has been permanently put out of business.

At a hearing on Jan. 29, Robert J. Vogt, the city's health officer at the time (he has since retired), permanently revoked the itinerant food vendor license issued to Shaik Manzoor, operator of the popular Banana Leaf truck that sold Indian food at Exchange Place and other Downtown locations.

The truck's food was prepared at 318 St. Paul's Ave., a residential building owned by Manzoor and his brother, Maheen Manzoor, city officials said.

When members of the Mayor's Quality of Life Task Force inspected the building on Jan. 12, they found three illegal stoves, grease-laden vents, rat droppings in rice and seasonings, and rotting eggs, among other violations.

On Feb. 18, Shaik Manzoor pleaded guilty to two health code violations in Jersey City Municipal Court and was fined $2,500 for those violations, the city's chief health inspector, H. James Boor, said.

The brothers also pleaded guilty to housing and fire code violations and were hit with another $600 fine.

They also agreed to pay an administrative penalty of $2,500 for operating a commercial business in a residential zone, Boor said.

"I don't think we got a fair shake," the Manzoors' Jersey City-based attorney, Jack Miller, said last week about the Jan. 29 hearing.

"We have immigrants, an entire family, trying to make a living, they are standing on their own two feet," Miller said. "Were mistakes made? Certainly. But to revoke it (the license) permanently? I don't think that's just."

Miller said his clients are considering a court challenge to the revocation, which they have until March 15 to file.

It's nice that they let consumers request locations, but seriously 50 requests from a local blog isn't going to make even the "feel good" grocer division of a much bigger company throw ALL their store modeling away to make it easier for people who are already going out of their way to shop them.

Put simply:
1. Trader Joes will not build a store here because they have poor corporate algorithms for determining locations.

matchjames wrote:
TJs runs about 10,000 ft.

Showtime wrote:
I would recommend Big Drum - they've done beautiful work for me - i've used them many times. They moved from the mall to their own space - i think it's 127 First Street, it's among the warehouses downtown heading towards the waterfront area. It's a nice space.