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I loved this (old) story about Tom DeGise's chair, which was linked from the original, and includes this gem:
?There?s probably still FBI microphones in it,? Kennelly said of the old chair.
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Even if the price was totally reasonable (and how can anyone really gauge that?), it is a glaring conflict of interest.
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If supply and demand change dramatically, due to a riot or any other reason, and no one wants to live in JC anymore, then prices will go down. Yes, it is true. That doesn't mean it's a bubble. It just means there's a free market in operation, where the price point is set by the current balance of supply and demand. Yes, it's an expensive place to live, and getting more expensive every year. That doesn't make it a bubble. Get over it.
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This is a nice talking-point, but with real estate, how can you say objectively what the "value" should be? If it is a rental building with a rent-roll, then the income stream can define a value, but for a single owner-occupied unit, the value is simply the fair-market price that someone is willing to pay for it. You could look at an appraisal based on comps, but someone could argue the comps are also priced too high. It only becomes a bubble when people are willing to pay almost any price, because they think the value will go up and up. I don't see that kind of irrational exuberance in JC, personally.
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People are throwing the term "bubble" around pretty loosely here. If prices are rising rapidly, that doesn't make it a bubble, it just makes it a hot market, which could be caused by demand outstripping supply. It's only a bubble if the rising prices are baseless and fueled by speculation/flippers/etc, which I don't think is the case.
Many people are moving to JC from Manhattan and/or parts of Brooklyn where prices are also rising very rapidly, and by comparison, JC still looks like a good deal. Now whether Manhattan real estate represents a bubble, that's a very real possibility, since so much of it is buoyed by international buyers looking to stash cash. If that bubble bursts, then the outlying areas will be similarly affected.
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I don't have any info on the old Citizen Kane's/McGinley Square Pub space, but there is an old thread on it here.
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There's access to the city! You just have to pay $15 per trip for a seat on this "executive" transportation service. http://sohowestnj.com/soho-link/
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Re: Jersey City is sixth hardest working city in America
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Another inane list from Wallethub. Hooray!
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No, these surveys are actually intended to drive web traffic, and hence generate $$$. The survey was conducted by "Wallet Hub" for chrissakes, and yet we're debating it like it came from a serious journalist. New rankings like these come out almost every day, because no matter what criteria is being used, someone comes out on top, and someone else comes out on the bottom, and people in those cities/states/etc. will share the links incessantly. It's very smart business. Just a shame that NJ.com buys into it.
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The Curbed article is just a summary. If you look at the original article on Brick Underground, there is no snub, they include the line "Suddenly New Jersey is starting to looking awfully appealing" (and there is also a brief reference to JC prices vs. Brooklyn)
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Finally, a groundbreaking at the Montgomery Gardens complex.
Jersey City, New Jersey (PRWEB) December 10, 2014 Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, Assemblyman Raj Mukherji, and other public officials today headlined a groundbreaking for Catherine Todd Apartments at the Montgomery Gardens site, an outdated public housing community that is being completely modernized as part of the Jersey City Housing Authority?s (JCHA) revitalization plan for the McGinley Square-Montgomery Street Corridor. ?This is a great day for Jersey City,? said Mayor Fulop. ?The McGinley Square-Montgomery Gardens neighborhood has many tremendous assets, including easy public transit, varied housing stock and community assets, as well as vibrant and diverse surroundings. Consistent with its history of revitalizing neighborhoods into viable, mixed-income communities, the Housing Authority?s efforts here are the first steps in our vision to transform the entire McGinley Square area.? Full Press Release
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The armory on Montgomery St may have open basketball at times. Might be worth looking into, if it's not too far up the hill for you.
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Stringer, that rendering is not the Journal Squared project. It is the other megaproject which is still stalled. The article has the correct rendering of the three-tower complex.
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Re: Jersey City, Conrail reach deal transform ugly trestle graffiti into 'welcome to' murals
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At least based on those renderings, I think the term "mural" is being generous. They look more like cheesy billboards. An improvement over the graffiti, sure, but I'm really hoping they end up way more artistic than what's shown in the 3 renderings.
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Wallethub is a for-profit website, and like so many others, they know that if they put out a ranking like this one as a press-release, it will be picked up by media outlets and will get them lots of publicity. Don't be fooled into thinking this has any journalistic integrity whatsoever.
As ThirstyQuaker said, their methodology is very suspect, because they're not comparing prices for the exact same basket of wines, they're comparing an average that they've computed using some mysterious methodology. But they didn't set out to be journalists, they set out to make money, so I can't blame them! If the price swings were really this dramatic, there would be wine arbitrage running rampant.
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Thanks, JCDD. Actually, none of that is actually in the article... would have been helpful if they had put that in there, rather than the total non-sequiturs about Liberty National and the moguls who are members there.
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Any word on why it took so long to build this? It's been under construction for at least 5 or 6 years (anyone know when they started?)
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Re: Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop on the Burgeoning Restaurant Industry Across the Hudson
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Love this line:
"Dealing with the Port Authority is probably one of the worst things anybody can ask for in life" Nothing like some bold inflammatory hyperbole to get me chuckling.
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This article is utterly ridiculous. It is a free capitalist market (with the exception of rent stabilized/controlled apartments, but that's another story). Prices will rise as high as demand allows. Very simple Econ 101.
The idea that prices will be so high that the apartments will just sit empty is absurd. The longer an apartment sits empty, the more pressure the owner will have to reduce the price and get it filled.
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What an incredibly misleading headline. I'm sure most of the irate commenters didn't bother to read the actual article.
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Re: NYT: "Brunswick Towers was a possibility -but Jersey City didn’t seem nearly as exciting as Hoboken"
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**
Correction: August 25, 2014 An earlier version of this article misquoted Angela Putman when she described her new neighborhood, Bayonne. She said, ?It is really cute,? not ?It is really hick.? ** This is one of the funniest NYTimes corrections I've seen in a long, long time!
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The cities with the highest population also have the highest number of alcoholics? Inconceivable!
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Plummet?
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The FBI should be ashamed of themselves, rousting an unarmed man like that.
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I dig Duda's stuff. He decorated the tables at Hard Grove Cafe, each one in the style of a different artist.
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So... back to the article...
I found it amusing that the article was written as if Fulop was throwing down the gauntlet and taunting Newark. All he said was that the city is going to surpass Newark in population. This isn't a taunt or a threat, it's an extrapolation of population growth data, and it seems quite inevitable.
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I have two extra tickets for the event and hospitality tent. Selling them at face value ($40) if anyone wants to come! PM me.
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All sold out again...
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Just checked, there are still $40 VIP tickets available, they must have added more since the initial sell-out. Includes entry to the "warming tent," food/coffee at Maritime Parc. Click the link in the first post.
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