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Well y'all are always welcome to move to Texas. I hear it's close to Cancun for a quick getaway.

BTW, I heard AOC has helped donate 5 million dollars to a state where a lot of folks want her dead. She must be such a real bitch huh?

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I didn't realize the VNA has that kind of power. Does that mean the developers have to put this project on hold? I was hoping to see this work get started. That building is currently an eye sore.

It's a frivolous lawsuit. A waste of money x2. VNA is gonna hire attorneys along with the city using tax dollars collected from VNA members.

Fulop is giving out abatements any more. We should be thankful for the ratables. But no. This is why we can't have nice things.

I noticed the nice lamp post that was in front of BattatavCafe is gone. Why isn?t the VNA using these resources to actually fix up and beautify their neighborhood? Do they do anything besides oppose every single development? Let?s not forget how their corrupt board went behind its own community?s back and opened up a secret back channel with the city to modify zoning in certain areas.

This group is wasting money on attorneys and frivolous lawsuits to stop one single extra story being built. Ridiculous

The biggest irony is that, in the immediate aftermath of the reval results, a TON of residents from The Village were aghast over the increase in tax levies for the residents of the area. You would think that promoting additional development and (and, thus, ratables) would be high on their list of priorities so that the tax burden is distributed among more people and, in turn, that tax levies (and the inevitable tax increase that will happen in the next few years) can be better absorbed.hl
Some people want their cake, and eat it too.

In case you just woke up. This city has been rapidly developing for 30 yrs and it has not helped tax increases much.

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Laughable hearing the democrats worrying about voter suppression when they are endorsing mail-in voting process. Looking at the primary numbers for rejected ballots, it is a certainty that more registered voters will be disenfranchised through this process, than in previous years.

For the volume of ballots to be counted, there are just to many opportunities for mial-in process failure, starting with voter error completing the ballot. Much of it will be a human error, but some will be outright illegal like this lazy mail carrier.

https://www.nj.com/news/2020/10/postal ... 100-election-ballots.html

And yet, the biggest issue will be Republicans trying to keep people from voting, with its supporters always being silent about it. From Abbott in TX only allowing one drop location for a county of five million, to them trying not to county anything that arrives after Election day, even if postmarked beforehand, due to them purposefully slowing down mail delivery.

Just hypocritical scum.

If you dont see an uptick in crime there is something wrong with you. The left (deblasio) has set back NYC for decades. The suburbs are booming!. You are blind.






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Here we are 3 months later and this dystopian amount of crime and looting I kept hearing about where is it? I still see right wingers on FB posting that our cities are burning and only Trump can save us.

I've ridden over 120 miles through NYC the last 4 weekends (from the Heights) - throughout Queens/Brooklyn/Manhattan and haven't seen anything out of the ordinary, well during a pandemic, besides a depressingly long line at a food bank. Which was very sad.

The city, and country, are going to suffer if we don't get some serious stimulus passed - which the Fed is saying we need to go big on, and so are major Wall Street firms. Maybe we should tone down the rhetoric and get things done for everyone instead of falling prey to conservative propaganda.

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I think you should ask your Mommy what % that should be?

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I think the best bars and restaurants can do is limit the customers inside to a % of their capacity.

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There is one using 3 apartments at 479 Manila

Ralph_Abutts wrote:
And despite a big drop in revenue, the BoE is increasing its spending with this year's forthcoming budget. Tone deaf to a fault.

papadage wrote:
Well, there was an unnecessary war and a recession that led to a liquidity crisis and double digit unemployment, dontchaknow.

DouglasReynholm wrote:
I blame Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. This is why electing a competent president is SO IMPORTANT. Not a game show host.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose over 1,294 points or 5 percent in what is the biggest point gain ever. Ditto for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq from a point gain of 136 and 384 points respectively.

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The best thing that has happened to Bayonne is the Costco opening. Surprisingly, it is never as crowded as you would think.

Yeah, I think they miscalculated: cheap land and a suburban style store vs more customers. Had they built an urban style store Downtown like the one in Red Hook, or like the HD, they'd have had a lot more wealthy customers within a short distance.

These big national chains have bean counters that look at the high land cost or rent in dense areas and veto it without seriously taking customer density into account. Years ago before they opened Jersey stores I contacted Harbor Freight and suggested they open one on 440. That's between 2 cities of 250k each. Their response was they don't open stores with that high rents, even though they had stores in little towns of 30k out west. They simply could not wrap their heads around the hugely larger customer base per store.

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This has nothing to do with the Boomer generation. I read budgets. In the 1970s, when the boomers were young, the city council budget was $90 million and it took 300 years to get to that point, in the by the early 2000s, it jumped to $321 million. Now less than 20 years later, it is over $600 million. It has to do with bonding and spending. And that is just city government.

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The incident started with the fatal shooting of a police officer at a cemetery before the two assailants, a man and a woman who were suspects in a homicide, holed up in the market, engaging police in a lengthy gun battle.

The shooters also killed Moshe Deutsch, 24; Miguel Douglas, 49; and Joe Seals, a Jersey City police detective. The shooters, identified as David Anderson and Francine Graham, were found dead in the store.

Now the Jewish community of Jersey City, and their friends and family in New York, are reeling and wondering what comes next.

Many had moved from Brooklyn to escape the borough?s high prices and had found a welcoming new home. It wasn?t a danger zone, they said. They got along with their neighbors and did not experience the anti-Semitic vandalism, harassment and assaults that have taken place recently in Brooklyn?s Hasidic neighborhoods.

?There have never been any attacks or incidents with the Jews who lived there,? said Rabbi Avi Schnall, the New Jersey director for Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox organization. Schnall has worked with Jews and other local leaders in Greenville on building bridges with the neighborhood?s communities.

Schnall drew a link between Tuesday?s shooting and the killings at synagogues in Poway, California, in April, and in Pittsburgh a little more than a year ago.

?It?s beyond tragic,? Schnall said. ?It?s frightening. What?s more frightening is this is not a local issue. This is taking place in three places throughout the country in the past year, that people are being gunned down.?

Officials say it remains unclear whether the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop tweeted Wednesday morning that ?it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location.? But officials at a news conference later in the day repeatedly stressed that they could not definitively say what motivated the shooters.

?We know there is significant speculation about the shooters? motive,? said New Jersey Attorney General Gubrir Grewal. ?We are not in the position at this time to say definitively why the suspect decided to stop in front of the supermarket and begin firing immediately.?

Less than a day after the shooting, JC Kosher is already rebuilding.

On Wednesday, a plywood frame stood in front of the store entrance near a truck carrying what looked like drywall. Men from a company called Gold Star Restoration were hammering away. Inside, boxes of children?s candy, cereal and croutons lined the shelves. A group of Orthodox men were carrying a shiny new door to the building. Construction paused only for a prayer service at the adjacent synagogue, K?hal Adas Greenville, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Murphy in attendance.

The grocery store is on Martin Luther King Drive, one of the neighborhood?s central thoroughfares. Down the street is a Pentecostal church, a mosque and a string of businesses. The surrounding blocks are full of row houses in a rainbow of colors along with some empty lots. Broken bottles and litter line the streets.
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Jersey City residents say the area has been gentrifying, with a boom in new construction in the past few years. Douglas Harmon, 43, a lifetime Greenville resident and local building contractor, said most of the new arrivals are Jewish families.

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Plaza did not claim another the hardware store. Not so convenient hours, over-priced and limited selection claimed the hardware store. The owners of the hardware store own the property and they plan to rent the space out. They probably saw the $ signs when comparing the rent they can commend verses the revenue they are currently making running the hardware store. Probably just a smart business move. Stop blaming the plaza for failed businesses. Pedestrian plazas exist ALL over the world with much success so not sure why JC is the exception according to you and other naysayers. Plaza isn't going anywhere so just deal with it.

Yes it did. Next will be the produce store on the corner of Erie. The owners have already said. By the way. I doubt many millennials are do it your selfers but that "limited selection" hardware store carried many things home depot does not. They were helpful too. But hey you can ride scooters now!

Believe what you want to believe. You will not convince me that not being able to drive up to the front entrance of the hardware store or any other defunct establishments is the reason they have closed. Last I checked, Tia's (on grove), Third and Vine (on 3rd) or Talde (on Erie) to name a few recently closed establishments don't have a pedestrian plaza in front of it. What say you about those or is your argument only convenient when a plaza exists?