devilsadvocate wrote:

So you're saying that other cities with strict gun control laws imposed by liberal mayors also have problems? I, for one, am shocked! Shocked I say!

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JC_Man wrote:
Where are all of the BLM protests??????????

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... s.html#incart_2box_hudson

Where were you?

tommyc_37 wrote:
I feel like most of the bars in Downtown Jersey City could be considered sports bars, and most are certainly bars to watch games at, as most have several or more TVs.

The fact that this individual owns 1Republik and Tonic East tells me that we can expect a similar vibe at this location -- lots of TVs, bros, and average bar food.

EasyGibson wrote:
22k/month is insane. Pretty sure that would make that the most expensive place on the block.
Do you get the upstairs too?

JcDevil wrote:
They are replacing the gigantic parking lot that currently exists with a parking garage on top of a Whole Foods and people are still whining? I guarantee that this was a requirement by the residents of Metropolis Towers - it's not like they're going to agree to a redevelopment plan that gets rid of their parking spaces permanently.

Dolomiti wrote:
P&K
La Conga
Key Foods
Lee's
ShopRite not too far away
Whole Foods will be open in a few years
Farmer's markets at Grove

DTJC will be just fine.

And how would they do that? (Outside of blatant fraud)

You realize the PATH is audited by KPMG, right?

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hero69 wrote:
want to go see crowded rush hour trains - go to hong kong, sao paolo, tokyo, london, shanghai, beijing, mexico city..stop whining and deal with it

At least Hong Kong and Tokyo trains get zero public subsidies and in fact turn a profit and London almost breaks even. The PATH, despite being packed to the gills during rush hour and pretty busy on weekends doesn't even recover half its costs. I have no idea about the other transit systems you mention.

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thor800 wrote:

Thanks for the english lesson. By the way its privileged not privileges.

Dt will be subsidizing rest of the city soon. People whining about paying taxes too high could appeal them now

Meh, that's how society functions. People who have more pay more. Such is life. I say this as someone who is likely to see his bill double.

Frankly, the idea that there is someone Greenville are paying an extra $2k so I can save $10k disgusts me.

why would that disgust you ? Obviously no one should overpay, but you could be the one overpaying in the next few years when undervalued properties now appreciate.

you must not have to worry about $ which is great.

thor800 wrote:

Thanks for the english lesson. By the way its privileged not privileges.

Dt will be subsidizing rest of the city soon. People whining about paying taxes too high could appeal them now

andrewjake wrote:


So under the old assessments all three homes are paying the same tax even though they are not worth the same amount. Under the new assessment the rate is reduced to 4.7% in order to get to $10,500 so Property #1 pays quite a bit more, Property #2 pays a little more and property #3 pays less.

Can anyone who knows more than I do here tell me if I have that even a little bit right?

Kalen wrote:
Interesting because I've always heard there were plans to add two more towers in that lot and the complex would make a square with an assumed park in the middle. I guess that will not be moving forward? In any case, traffic at the corner of Marin and Columbus will be more of a nightmare than it already is.

Still looking forward to a Whole Foods though!

jcman420 wrote:
The NJ.com article states that this Whole Foods will be at the corner of "Marin and Columbus, which is not even really possible. As of now, the hulking monstrosity of a co-op tower is situated near the Marin/Columbus corner of the property. There is no way a 45k SF supermarket is fitting in that corner. So, the Whole Foods has to be going directly across Columbus from 70 Columbus, between the two Motropolis Towers, or at the corner of Marin and Montgomery.

135jc wrote:
Hero, show me an example here is the US of a successful liberal monetary policy. California? NJ? Detroit? Camden?

Voyeur wrote:

Folks on this thread have said homes in GV and the Heights are paying a disproportionate percentage in taxes above 2.1%. Is this actually the case? If I understand things correctly, for this to have occurred, these homes have to have a lower value today than they did in 1988 meaning that their current tax burden is northward of 2.1%.

I would have thought that almost every home in JC has appreciated at least somewhat since 1988 - even on MLK and Ocean Ave. Are their really any areas of JC where you will find a house assessed today at a lower value than it was assessed 28 years ago - and consequently paying more than 2.1%?

The point I'm trying to make is, just because DTJC is underpaying on its tax, it doesn't necessarily follow that the other hoods are consequently overpaying on property tax and are due for a tax reduction. The under-taxation of DT has no bearing on whether homes in Greenville are paying 2.1% of their assessed value or not - the relationship between the two is not causal.

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bdaunno wrote:
Most cities have separate sanitary and storm sewer systems. Jersey city (at least the downtown) does not. Both your toilet water and rain water run through the same lines. That's why when you walk by a sewer grate it reeks.

Is there any intent in JC's future to alter the sewer system so you have separate storm and sanitary sewers?

Why it would be beneficial to do that? I can take a guess but is there a school of thought with a good reason? I thought wastewater was wastewater.

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moobycow wrote:
Well, picking one RE market and saying that the rise is unsustainable is a lot like picking one stock and saying it can't sustain it's price rise.

Umm, that's the graph for the entire US market, not JC.

brewster wrote:

I don't think healthy markets rise at this rate. Here's the inflation adjusted Case Schiller for the last century. Notice a pattern from about 1967 on? Guess where we are right now on that roller coaster? Certainly above the baseline of the curve. But this time it's different, right?




http://www.multpl.com/case-shiller-ho ... index-inflation-adjusted/

Yvonne wrote:
Once this is developed, there will be no parking. But let's get back to my second point, what is the real cost?

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Yvonne wrote:
How do the people from Greenville or the Heights get to use that public space when there is no parking? It is basically for people are are close by.

Ignoring for a moment how ridiculous of a reason this is for opposing this project- as someone who lives on 6th street you would be surprised how relatively easy it is to find parking along the embankment (as these blocks have half as many residences as a normal block would).

HamiltonParker wrote:

To an earlier post that mentioned "we need a theater or something to draw folks out", I'd argue that Hoboken has no such theater and restaurants there seem to be doing a brisk business.

papadage wrote:
It can support more expensive places, but only a few of them, and the menu, execution and service need to support it. Talde's food was never at that level. Why got there when Satis is better, and there are better bars in town now.

HamiltonParker wrote:

Carrina, B&G and Talde were upscale additions to the neighborhood and we're hoping that the rumors here are unfounded.

HPYC wrote:
I feel like I'm going to be assaulted for saying this, but - although not a deli per se - I think Christo's on 8th St makes a pretty good sub sandwich. Now we have Egyptian coptics making Italian subs.

tommyc_37 wrote:
Wait, Monmouth St Deli exists? I had heard about it, but have never seen it; thought it was something of the past and had closed years ago. I've lived here for 10 years and have never seen it!

And yes, Little Sandwich Shop is pretty much a deli, that's right. I often forget about them.

DanL wrote:
how does this place compare to and how are -

smokinbarrelnj.com

houseofque.com

relatively new places in Hoboken.

my local references are Hill County, Mighty Quinn in the East Village and going back to Pierson's when they were in the back of a sports bar in Queens.

Monroe wrote:
Don't like gay marriage? Don't marry someone gay. Don't like cars? Don't own one.

Good job on the vote!