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I don't think that is the case. The Heights, for instance, lacks for large scale development, and investment in public amenities (such as the Pershing Field playground and the Riverview Park bandshell, but it's safe, has a reasonable selection of basic shopping, and wide mix of Latino, Indian, and now white creative types and other assorted transplants seem to consider it a fine place to invest in a home and/or raise children.

Now, would spreading some of the wealth from DTJC be welcome, buoy our boats more? Sure it would. But IMO this article hit on the much more dire situation of areas where there is much more entrenched poverty.

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It is, actually. What do you feel I've missed?

Reading comprehension is not your thing, I get it. Carry on.

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This isn't a Fulop problem. This is a culture of the ghetto problem. And it isn't something someone can fix for them. Nor will it be resolved with newly paved roads.

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Which he should. Fulop is everyone in JC mayor not just the wipes in tax abated buildings. He has a obligation to everyone in this city.

He is blaming Fulop because the residents don't feel safe and are victimized by violent crime. Everyone and their mother knows this is mostly a black problem, even if the media tries scrubbing race from articles.

These people are not complaining about unpaved roads.

The people here are offering more productive solutions other than pointing the finger and blaming everyone else imaginable. It's up to them to do something within.

Interesting everyone jumps on the bandwagon of black neighborhoods outside of downtown JC but if any of you ever been outside of downtown there are several different neighborhoods that don't get paved roads, services and they have two parents households living in them and guess what they are not all black single mothers LOL #donaldtrump supporters are alive and well on this board. Get a clue.. he was talking about every hood outside the dtjc area.

Like I said in another thread, it's time to start the BlackWivesMatter movement.

Put cultural pressure on black men to stay with their women. Right now their culture glorifies having 6 kids with 6 different women and sticking around for none of them. Lower the current stats of 75% of all black babies being born out of wedlock and many of their problems will get better.

BlackWivesMatter, don't they?

"People in the other Jersey City speak of being afraid to be on the streets of their neighborhoods. The community policing the mayor promised these residents so far has been a haphazard effort. Cops man posts at some street corners for a few hours a day. Then they leave and the bad guys come out to do their mischief."

You can't have it both ways Earl - you either want the police to crack down and stop crime or you don't want them to and let the savages run wild. Typical liberal.

While I wasn't born on the "other size of the trestle" I was born in Irvington, NJ - not exactly a great place to raise a family or a place people aspire to move to. But my parents (note - plural - BOTH mother and father) did a hell of a job raising me and my six brothers and sisters so I grew up with values and knowing and doing right from wrong.

It's time in this great debate of economic and racial inequality for people to start taking personal responsibility and start living and doing what they preach. Discrimination still exists and probably will forever, but always pointing the finger at someone else will never begin to solve the problem. It all starts at home and if the home is broken, that needs to be fixed. No government, clergy, politician or policeman/woman can do that.

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Irony.

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Not sure what their point is. Poor, uneducated people with too many kids also breed crime and generally are terrible to be around which is why no one wants to live near them. Oddly, the "tale of two cities" crowd tend to nevertheless declare that the solution is making life crappier for successful people and making them deal with the people that create the problem.

Or, to put it another way, here are your options:

Tale of one city - everyone is poor (ex. Newark, Detroit, etc.): Oh no! Blight! This is the fault of rich people for leaving!

Tale of one city - everyone is rich (ex. nice suburbs): Oh no! Lack of "diversity!" Need to import poor people so the neighborhood can go to crap!

Tale of two cities - some rich and some poor: Oh no! Some are rich while some are poor! Need to make life worse for rich people! (loop to tales of 1 city scenarios as rich people say screw it)

Anyone seeing the common theme here? For the slow, the common theme is that liberals are mentally ill.

Earl Morgan | For The Jersey Journal


A hand-painted sign in large white letters on a railroad trestle spanning Grand Street and Barbara Place boldly declares "Welcome to Downtown City." It starkly denotes the tale of two cities that Jersey City has become.

Head east on Grand Street, beyond Barbara Place, and you can see the spires of recently constructed high-rise office buildings dotting the horizon. Every street beyond the trestle sign are renovated homes, owned and occupied for the most part by recently transplanted residents -- landlords and tenants. New housing complexes are being thrown up and staking a claim of exclusivity by advertising themselves as "luxury."


People in the other Jersey City speak of being afraid to be on the streets of their neighborhoods. The community policing the mayor promised these residents so far has been a haphazard effort. Cops man posts at some street corners for a few hours a day. Then they leave and the bad guys come out to do their mischief.

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