corybraiterman wrote:
This person apparently didn't learn from their first post about this. The hysteria is laughable and detracts from actual issues.

Seriously, lol at some of this shit.

That said, it is pretty silly that prato seems to continue to put the cart before the horse. If they wanted a restaurant so bad, why the hell did they open up shop in a location not zoned for it? It's not exactly as if Erie is a street with a ton of traffic - foot or car - in the prime dinner hours, or even lunch tbqh. Why screw with everything instead of just picking a better location?

07310 wrote:
I don't think Rustique Pizza , Dames Coffee Bar or Ahri's Korean Foods which are also in your neighborhood are generating fights, noise, drunken behavior and car break-ins. Should they be banned or restricted too?

squeeg wrote:
Dear Neighbors, etc

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squeeg wrote:
Dear Neighbors,



Please help us send a clear message to The Jersey City Zoning Board that we are not comfortable with a full scale restaurant at 61 Erie Street. We do however, support Prato, a small neighborhood bakery and cafe with interior seating, which is a quaint gathering place for the neighborhood - this is what the location should be approved for.

A full restaurant at 61 Erie Street is not in the best interest of the Historic Harsimus Cove community; remember: a variance is attached to the property: not the business. If Prato were to close there are few limits as to what kind of a restaurant could take over and we can never stop it once it is approved.

If 61 Erie Street is approved for a restaurant it will bridge with Newark Avenue where fights, noise, drunken behavior and car break-ins have become a problem. We do not want this in our neighborhood!

If a restaurant is approved at 61 Erie Street then what's to stop any current deli, bakery, or vacant retail space from becoming a full category 2 restaurant anywhere within our communities? An approval for a restaurant in the middle of a neighborhood would not bring any benefit to the communities.

I don't think Rustique Pizza , Dames Coffee Bar or Ahri's Korean Foods which are also in your neighborhood are generating fights, noise, drunken behavior and car break-ins. Should they be banned or restricted too?

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Fomite wrote:
KEEP RESTAURANTS OUT OF CITIES!! THE FOOD! THE COFFEE! FOOD SMELLS! THE HORROR!

GET RID OF THOSE EVIL TREES! AND CANCEL CHRISTMAS!

squeeg wrote:

Please help us and get involved because your voice and your opinion does matter!

Fomite wrote:
KEEP RESTAURANTS OUT OF CITIES!! THE FOOD! THE COFFEE! FOOD SMELLS! THE HORROR!

squeeg wrote:
Dear Neighbors,



Please help us send a clear message to The Jersey City Zoning Board that we are not comfortable with a full scale restaurant at 61 Erie Street. We do however, support Prato, a small neighborhood bakery and cafe with interior seating, which is a quaint gathering place for the neighborhood - this is what the location should be approved for.

A full restaurant at 61 Erie Street is not in the best interest of the Historic Harsimus Cove community; remember: a variance is attached to the property: not the business. If Prato were to close there are few limits as to what kind of a restaurant could take over and we can never stop it once it is approved.

If 61 Erie Street is approved for a restaurant it will bridge with Newark Avenue where fights, noise, drunken behavior and car break-ins have become a problem. We do not want this in our neighborhood!

If a restaurant is approved at 61 Erie Street then what's to stop any current deli, bakery, or vacant retail space from becoming a full category 2 restaurant anywhere within our communities? An approval for a restaurant in the middle of a neighborhood would not bring any benefit to the communities.

squeeg wrote:

If 61 Erie Street is approved for a restaurant it will bridge with Newark Avenue where fights, noise, drunken behavior and car break-ins have become a problem.

DouglasReynholm wrote:
I went this morning, and yes, I enjoy the bread very much, but enough is enough with the cheesy music blasting at 9 AM. I could not get out of there FAST enough. Why Why Why do they feel they need LOUD music, PRATO, please reply.

corybraiterman wrote:
I mean, it's been painfully obvious through simple common sense that yea, I am the superior person in these particular exchanges, but that's mainly because the communication skills exhibited by the pair of you has been so woefully low that your average high schooler looks like Einstein in comparison. When the bar is so low, any person who exhibits the slightest amount of normalcy ends up looking like gold.

Let's get back to the original rant that derailed this thread. Maybe either of you bird-named folks can elucidate here.

I'll paraphrase for brevity's sake.
{owlie} i hate the options in jc. hoboken is much better because of reasons that aren't really even accurate. had to go to WF & TJ in edgewater saturday.

{me} this makes no sense. here are 3 options: oddball vegetables/fish. standard anti-shoprite person with not-so-vaguely racist/classist views. hate money.

{owlie} omg ur a mean racist wtf i don't do either 1 or 2

{other person} don't forget butcher

{me} good point on the butcher. not what owlie said, but good answer. clearly his/her answer is 3.

Let's end there for the moment. Ignore the flouncing and attempts to rewrite what was actually typed out.

So. In the interest of having a simple conversation and putting aside your inability to type out coherent sentences that work with the sentences typed earlier, I posit a simple question... what is it about the WF/TJ that would make you want to leave the confines of DTJC to schlep a good half-hour to an hour each way to get groceries?

I can think of (now) 4 answers to this question. Five if you simply mis-spoke/typed and that line of "I had to go to Whole Foods and Trader Joe's in Edgewater Saturday." does not mean what it says.

corybraiterman wrote:
ah, the tired response from the children. they say something stupid, then cry when they get called on it.

absolutely, i'm combative, zerkski. my tolerance levels for stupidity are very low. it's like what the mta wants, you see something? say something.

i've got no problems having a spirited debate, but as we've obviously seen from the kids who can't do anything but spout bullshit and whine when it gets pointed out, the debate becomes one sided. once again, someone (clearly not these morons) made a perfectly valid point to which i promptly said "that's a good answer". all the other crap has been a hill of turds.

in this case, i've been reduced to speaking to someone channeling peewee herman with his "i know you are but what am i?" schtick. sad i let myself be dragged down to that level of childishness. one of these days, they'll grow up to the point where they're able to string coherent thoughts into sentences.

or i'll just get too tired to talk to adults who couldn't find their ass with a map.

probably the latter.

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owlie wrote:
I said I was going to Edgewater. It's too bad people are "stumped as to what you would need to go there for." I was going for some "oddball" ethnic food that I was raised on

You actually said, and I quote: "I had to go to Whole Foods and Trader Joe's in Edgewater Saturday. "

New question, what traditional ethnic foods do the TJ's and WF's in edgewater sell that you can't get here? I'm always down for trying something I may not have tried before.

this has grown tiresome.

+1

Seriously. The one thing I feel like downtown is missing is a fresh seafood place, but I have bought seafood from Shop Rite, La Conga and Key Food and haven't died. I don't understand this fucking need for a TJ'S or WF's here. All grocery stores suck as does food shopping and doing laundry. Christ. Also I hate, HATE Prato because of this thread, never been there but don't care. It's not near me so who fucking cares. My god, when you get caught doing something you shouldn't you get punished. Prato has people clamoring for them, if this was a Puerto Rican coffee shop half you would be outside with brooms and burning shit. Ughhhhhhhhh its jersey city you assholes, not smoke rise or Franklin Lakes