Lovely, thank you!!

I am interested in taking Zumba classes somewhere in Downtown JC. Any ideas? Thank you!!

Oh, I?m sure that the strongest similarity they have is the fact that both places are restaurants. As it so happens I regularly eat at both of them.
So in my humble and very subjective opinion, I can absolutely compare the two.
And my experience over all has been a much more positive one at Satis, starting with the fact that it?s more spacious and the staff has always been very unpretentious and nice. Due to the fact that Satis is open longer I went there more often, of course.
Again, my very personal impression that I don?t necessarily expect you to share.

Lovely owners, some of the staff have an attitude and act a bit like they own the place, food is good, but over all I clearly prefer Satis on any level

Wonderful, thank you very much!

I have a lot of clothing I'd like to sell and am looking for a store in JC or NYC that is buying used wardrobe that is not necessarily vintage.

Walking through Van Vorst Park every morning on my way to work and was waiting for this type of thread. Since I am not allowed to use profanity, I ll refrain, although I'm dying to meet the author of this thread and find out what personal issues they might have with poverty in the middle of a recession and the fact that more and more people are going to lose their homes as a result. Living next to a Metropolis, chances are you ll get some of these human beings that might not live off of a trustfund, can't pay for housing, are too old to find a new job or whatever personal disaster might have struck. I want them to find your back yard, dear author, and releave themselves over and over again, because you surely deserve it.

"The people in Germany were not scratching cars or defacing property, and were for the most part were productive members of society."

dear caj11: do you really know what you are talking about??


dear brandegee,
I am glad to share my city and my neighborhood with people like you. finally somebody looks out for order and discipline around here. would you like to meet up for a little morning march, goose-step like? you should file more police reports on weaker members of society that's an upright thing to do. I only hope that the cops have something better to do right now.

dear concerned citizen,
the 'car scratcher' has been around for a long time, at least ever since I moved here, which was about 13 years ago. he is harmless, in fact, he can be very nice, you can talk to him, he is not a monster. I highly doubt that he scratches cars, since I have never seen him doing it. Smashing bottles on Christopher Columbus Drive, yes, reading the paper, yes, but nothing violent of any sort.
people with mental illness don't know where to go, because this country doesn't provide help. starting a 'homeless hunt' and locking them away is extremely inhumane and reminds me of germany between 1933 and 1945. I would suggest, if you can't adapt to the Urban life, why not move back to the suburb?

I moved to Jersey City in 1998.
I moved to Jersey City in 1998 from Europe in order to work in New York City and to escape the pretense of the Big Apple.
Eleven years ago this was a \"down to earth place\". It was \"uncool\" to live here by Manhattan standard. That was exactly what I was looking for.
The last thing I wanted was uninspired white American middle class taste and the culture of entitlement that seems to be favorably exercised by millions of citizens in this country. By complaining about minor BS like toddlers about missing toys.
JC List is a wonderful example.
I never have moved to an area before and expected the area to change for me. A lot of Americans seem to have a different take on that.
In 1998 \"Hard Grove\" was a Cuban Cafe. Not the copy of a Cuban Cafe. The plates were full, prices very reasonable, the music salsa and the waitress was Lisa. Lisa was an excellent waitress, known in the neighborhood, fast, funny and unpretentious.
\"Hard Grove\" is now a \"place to go\". Lisa is fired and the waiters wear skinny jeans. It is mostly pretty empty, atmosphere is missing and the food is mediocre.
But Newark Avenue has benches now. I guess black people didn\'t need a place to rest back in the day.
And Steven Fulop holds his Fund Raisers in the acutely authentic German beer garden where they all meet: the yuppies, the hippsters and the exerted pushchair owners. (It can\'t be any old pushchair though.) The folks you wanted to attract by giving it up for the investor. Our good old Jersey City.
In the morning I can watch the fitness idiots in Van Vorst Park. In fact, if I had the time, I could watch them all day. They are stretching and falling all over each other, because there is no bloody space in between them and the disciplined white husband (white is for me, by the way, a life approach, not the skin color) who is taking the pathetic idea of a dog for a walk. Because his nerve wracking blue eyed \"OHHH MY GOOOD THIS IS SOOO FUNNY\" girl friend/wife, he has stopped bedding a while ago, makes him do it.
The other morning I sat by the fountain and I saw one of these guys who have the hair in their face and a full beard. I ask my friend about the intention and he says:\"It is not a beard. It is the ironic take on a beard.\" I wish you would take your ironic beard back to Alpine.
We also have pet photographers in the neighborhood now. And little shops where people can buy shit they don\'t need to keep the economy going. Meanwhile they are complaining about stores on Newark Avenue where you can -actually- buy things you do need. Mostly for a dollar. And that was fine the past decade. Everybody was happy with that. Not anymore.