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Re: What Jersey City Restaurant Do You Miss the Most?

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Red-Deutsch wrote:

Also - do you remember exactly where it was located on 440? Was it near the Roosevelt Lanes site (as I remember it being), or was it actually farther down toward Communipaw? I'm really not sure. Could it have been near the site of the old drive in movie theater?

As I recall, it was within the Two Guys/Valley Fair/ Great Eastern parking lot up front at the roadside. The building went through several incarnations. Most recently an appliance/electronics store then a discount furniture/bedding store. It is now a toxic waste cleanup site.

Posted on: 2008/10/9 0:11

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Re: Is it me or is an elevator missing at Grove Path??

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mfadam wrote:
Furthermore I'm sure everyone in JC with a stroller is bummin that they have to lug their stroller+child down a bunch of steps to a crowded/infrequent train...

Yes, baby carriages+train stations+stairs=always a bad combination.

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Posted on: 2008/10/8 16:54

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Re: Journal Square: City may not see revenue for decades - Tower developer asking for low-interest l

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"Not all went smoothly, as an attorney for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the neighboring transportation terminal, said the agency is concerned about the safety of its passengers.

The attorney, Harry Barr, asked the city to transfer authority for approval of the building plans to the P.A.'s chief engineer"

WHAT? The gaul of this guy! Who in their right mind would agree to such a thing? Lawyers say the dumbest things.

Posted on: 2008/10/8 14:07

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Re: What Jersey City Restaurant Do You Miss the Most?

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Red-Deutsch wrote:

The best guess I can come up with about the place on 440 is "Al Newmans," (apparently after Alfred E. Newman, of Mad Magazine fame) but I'm pretty sure that's wrong. That may have been a name along the way because I think it changed names once or twice, but it's not the name I'm trying to think of. It's just killing me trying to remember the name. There was nothing very fancy about the place. They had rails set up where you entered in front of the register, so you could form a line. The dining room was off to the side and they had mostly booths, if I remember. Maybe with a few large round tables. The menu was sort of ordinary American foods (diner-ish) - burgers, fries, etc. You know what I distinctly remember about the place, come to think of it now? THE ONION RINGS! YES! The onion rings! Big, fat, greasy onion rings! I loved them! HAHAHAHA! I haven't thought about those in probably 30 years!

That was def the name of the place, Al Newman's. I don't remember any red plastic soda cups though, I always drank beer there. They served pitchers with frosted mugs.

Posted on: 2008/10/8 0:00

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Re: CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER Landmarking St. John's Episcopal Church - Please Get Involved!

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MargieHague wrote:
Old buildings are not ours. They belong partly to those who built them, and partly to the generations of mankind who are to follow us. The dead still have their rights to them?that which they labored for we have no right to obliterate. What we ourselves have built, we are at liberty to throw down. But what other men gave their strength and wealth and life to accomplish, their right over it does not pass away with their death. -John Ruskin.

I'm fine with this but I wish the dead would kick in a few bucks toward my taxes.

Posted on: 2008/10/7 23:38

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Re: Westside: Bedbug Problem Shuts Tonnelle Avenue's Starlite Motel

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JerseyCityNj wrote:
This isnt in Westside its in the Heights near the North Bergen border.

No, it's the Western Slope. There are no bedbugs in the Heights, it's a fact.

Posted on: 2008/10/3 1:06

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Re: Westside: Bedbug Problem Shuts Tonnelle Avenue's Starlite Motel

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This is a bit of a shock. Just goes to show ya, it can happen ANYWHERE. It doesn't say where the evacuated people will be bringing the bedbugs to. Or maybe they exit through a portable bedbug decontamination airlock chamber.

Posted on: 2008/10/2 15:06

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Re: Funeral Home 4th and Jersey

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teddypath wrote:
... and when I happen to walk by it , it smells terrible.

There's a reason. Did you ever see one of those news stories about a dry cleaner that suddenly and unexpectedly goes out of business and the customers clothes get locked inside and they can't get them back? This was a similar situation except it wasn't clothes that got locked inside. I remember how irate the customers were when they couldn't get their dead relatives back.

Posted on: 2008/10/1 21:03

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Re: Kid porn plea by priest who served Saint Peter's College

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If he had a better lawyer, they might have blamed it all on the trauma of having to grow up with a name like "Kuntz".

Posted on: 2008/9/30 13:11

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Re: Appeals Court Nixes Jersey City Gun Purchase Limit

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Good. I like to buy my guns by the case. It's cheaper that way.

Posted on: 2008/9/29 19:52

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Re: How to survive the mortgage crisis - Local realtors, experts offer tips

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Was it really necessary to devote 50% of this article to telling us about the current state of the economy and the real estate market? Like we didn't know? Like we just landed here from outer space? ******************************************************************************** "Tony Deluco is a Jersey City developer and real estate manager who has been in real estate for over 20 years. He said people facing foreclosure can cope with the current mortgage crisis by being aware of the procedure known as a "short sale." That's where the homeowner sells their property for less than the outstanding balance of the mortgage. All of the proceeds go to the lender to pay off a majority of the debt and the lender forgives the rest. However, the lender would have the right to approve or disapprove of a proposed sale." *********************************************************************************
So? How does one go about doing this? Where do you start? How likely are the chances that the bank will go for it? How often is this done? Does it work? ********************************************************************************* "She offered advice to potential buyers who have been tentative about buying a home because of the problems with the mortgage industry. "If you are ready to buy, you have the money, and interest rates are good, and as long this is where you are going to make your home and you are not speculating, then it is a good time to buy," Skolar said. "Be conscientious and don't overextend yourself, which is what people were doing before." Malave said people should do research on how much they want to pay and on the kind of mortgage they can afford. He said they should make sure they qualify, rather than "jump into water where they can't swim." **********************************************************************************
I thought the title said something about tips? Are these tips? Isn't this just stating the obvious?
I am cranky today.

Posted on: 2008/9/28 16:12

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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?

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Mathias wrote:
These Private Equity Funds and SWF are sitting on billions of capital and they need to step up to the plate.

SWF? Single white females? Sitting on billions? Step up to MY plate baby! If you got the money honey, I got the time.

Posted on: 2008/9/26 1:23

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Re: State killings at 5-year low but urban figures up a bit

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"State killings"? It sounds kind of Orwellian or Stalinesque. Couldn't they have used "murder rate"?

Posted on: 2008/9/25 23:04

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Re: Urban Farming Isn't Just for Foodies - Jersey City woman grows lots of crops

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This is not about growing anything but I wanna make pickles. How do I do that? I like Batemte half sour pickles, I would like to make those. The ingredients on the jar don't list the spices. I see these little Kirby cucumbers in the Korean veggie place for cheap. So what do I throw in there to turn them into pickles? Do they have to soak for a long time? Is it a pain in the ass? Should I just keep buying the Batemte from ShopRite? I suppose I could Google this but that's a lot of work.

Posted on: 2008/9/25 21:58

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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?

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JSalt wrote:
Um, I think your math is off by a few zeros.

But it sounded like such a great idea, why did you have to go and ruin it for me?

Posted on: 2008/9/25 18:54

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Re: Jersey City Landlords must pay to kill bedbugs -- Ordinance sponsored by Fulop passes last night

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A natural predator of the bedbug is.......yes, the cockroach.

Posted on: 2008/9/25 15:19

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Re: Pipe under city's street, but repair bill is all owners

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The only part that surprises me is that she has to pay for the water meter. I thought the meters were the property of United Water. They came around 4 or 5 years ago and replaced mine free as part of a citywide upgrade.

Posted on: 2008/9/25 15:15

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Naked man falls to his death after tasered by cops

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You probably saw the video on TV. This is why cops lose respect. Incredibly stupid police work. The taser was designed as a non-lethal option. These guys found a way to get around the non-lethal part.

Naked man falls to his death after tasered by cops in Brooklyn standoff

BY KERRY BURKE and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Wednesday, September 24th 2008, 10:13 PM
Inman Morales stands atop security gate moments before he was stunned by police and fell to his death. Hutton

Inman Morales stands atop security gate moments before he was stunned by police and fell to his death.

Naked and perched on a ledge, a disturbed man fell to his death in Brooklyn Wednesday when cops Tasered him without placing an air bag below, witnesses and police sources said.

Inman Morales plunged 10 feet and landed headfirst on the pavement outside his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building. He was declared dead at Kings County Hospital.

"When they Tasered him, he froze and pitched forward. He fell on his head," said witness Ernestine Croom, 40. "They didn't put out a mattress or a net or anything."

Morales hit the ground while an air bag was being brought to the site, police sources said.

Neighbors said Morales, 35, had "freaked out" earlier in the day, and his mother called the police at 1:52 p.m., saying he was threatening to hurt himself and had stopped taking his medication.

The first police Emergency Service Unit truck arrived at Morales' third-floor Tompkins Ave. apartment about 2:05 p.m., police sources said.

Morales refused to allow police into the apartment, crept nude onto the fire escape and tried to enter a neighbor's fourth-floor window when police forced their way into his apartment.

"He tried to get into my window. He banged. He said, 'Let me in! Let me in!' But no way I'm letting a naked man into my apartment," said neighbor Tanya Wright, 40.

So Morales crawled down the fire escape, screaming and posing for gawkers as he went, other witnesses said.

"When the police came, he was screaming, 'You're gonna kill me and I'm gonna take everyone with me. I'm gonna die and you're gonna die with me,'" said neighbor Sean Johnson, 43.

Morales left the fire escape and stepped onto the 2-foot-wide metal top of a roll-down security gate for a ground-floor business. He then ripped an 8-foot fluorescent light bulb from the business' sign.

From his perch, Morales jabbed at ESU officers, who were tying themselves to the fire escape so when they grabbed him they would not all fall.

When Morales started to swing the pole like a batter, an ESU officer on the ground fired a Taser at him. The Taser, which is designed to stun, can deliver a five-second jolt of 5,000 volts of electricity through two wires and has a range of 21 feet.

"They didn't try to brace his fall. They did nothing. I've seen a lot of things in my time. But what they did was wrong," said neighbor Kirk Giddens, 39, a mental health worker.

Morales hit the ground at 2:27 p.m. The NYPD is investigating the incident.

ESU cops and the city's roughly 500 sergeants are trained to use Tasers. An independent review recommends the NYPD expand Taser use as an alternative to more lethal methods.

Posted on: 2008/9/25 3:42

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Re: An Open Letter to You, My PATH Nemesis

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chrischoj wrote:
After a late night of work tonight, I jumped onto the crowded WTC train heading towards Newark. Before reaching exchange place, a man decided to unbuckle his belt, drop his pants to his ankles, lift his boxers to reveal his left butt cheek and show some sort of growth to his friend that was sitting in one of the seats. I think everyone else was as confused and disgusted as I was. There really are some strange people here.

Maybe you haven't heard, there is a new public health program co-sponsored by PATH and the Health Department. Every week a doctor from a different specialty rides the train and provides free consultations and advice. This week is Dermatology Week. That was a dermatologist he was showing his ass to, not his friend. First week in October is Gynecology Week so I plan to be hanging out on the trains all day. I'm not sure when Proctology Week is but you might want to take the bus or the ferry that week.

Posted on: 2008/9/20 13:32

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Re: Greenville: 3 Shooting Incidents Hours Apart

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This article mentions 5 seperate guns. The guy shot by the cops had a gun. The kid downtown shooting in front of Grace Church had a gun. Almost every crime article posted on JCL mentions a gun. Is there a street thug in JC who does NOT have a gun? Probably not. I'm thinking that the illegal gun business in this country must be huge though I've never seen any official stats on it and I'm too lazy to look it up. In the old days, any self respecting stick-up man had to have a gun. It was to be expected, a tool of the trade but lately it seems every punk kid is packing and I don't think I'm exaggerating very much here. I'm not an anti-gun nut but it's getting scarey out there now. I don't remember hearing about any big gun runner busts lately, except that FedEx guy a few months ago. There was talk a while back about openning an ATF office in this area but idea was nixed and we rarely hear about ATF activity in local news. I'm sure they are around but we're not hearing about any major results.

Posted on: 2008/9/19 15:42

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Re: How many people does Lehman Brothers employ in Jersey City?

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So I've been listening to the news on and off today. AIG is in big trouble. The man said that if AIG fails it will be worse than the end of the world. Worse than Y2K even. We will all be poverty stricken. We will wear rags and have no shoes. Money will be worthless. A loaf of bread will cost $57,000 if you can even find one. There will be no more pancakes. We will live like wild animals. The sun will begin to burn out and there will be 24 hour darkness. There will be pestilence and no exterminators. Now is the time to PANIC! I am stocking up on pork & beans and guns. I have boarded up my doors and windows so don't ring my bell, I won't answer the door. I feel personally responsible for this. AIG sent me offers for car insurance in the mail and I threw them away without even reading them. They asked for MY help and I refused. Maybe if I had bought their insurance all of this could have been avoided. Maybe I could have saved the world.

Posted on: 2008/9/16 20:49

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Re: Jersey City the largest school district had 43 weapons and oddly only five substance incidents.

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This is what happens when you take their drugs away. They embrace their guns and religion. Pot is the opiate of the student body. It will only get worse now that the narcs took that 15 lbs. off the street.

Posted on: 2008/9/16 12:32

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Re: Police Car Smackup on SW corner of VVP

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goofy-jc wrote:
Another car hit the cop car at the tail end. the cop car spun and hit another mini-man.

And what happened to the mini- man? I hope the little fellow was not too badly injured.

Posted on: 2008/9/15 20:14

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Re: Newark Avenue Redevelopment

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icechute wrote:
"paseo".

A word right up there with "venti", "tall' and "grande".

WTF is a paseo? I had to look it up. They want to put an "alley" between Newark and Columbus. I got no problem with an alley. I won't walk down it in the dark though but maybe a paseo is different. Can you get mugged in a dark paseo?

Posted on: 2008/9/12 1:10

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Re: Morning Murder at LSP Light Rail Station

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"Disturbed man fatally stabs Metuchen exec commuting to his Jersey City office"

"NUT RANDOMLY KILLS MAN AT RAIL STATION Shock at commuter's rush-hour slash death"

Top is the headline from the original article. Bottom is from today's article. GrovePath, are these headlines yours or from the JJ? Can newspapers use the word "nut"? Is that not un-PC. Can't they be sued but some Nuts Rights organization? Until a few years ago, the JC police would use November Uniform Tango on the radio when referring to a NUT. I always thought that was pretty funny. They stopped using it. Now they use DP for Disturbed Person.

Posted on: 2008/9/11 14:52

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Re: Jersey City couple indicted! Say 2 scammed ADP out of $464G by creating a fake construction comp

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So what do we learn from this? That ADP is dumb. That this couple is just as dumb for hanging around for 3 years and not heading for the border with the new cars and the cash. That you can learn a lot working as a go go bar bartender in Linden. Ba Da Bing!

Posted on: 2008/9/11 13:49

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Re: Italian Festival: Jersey City

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But I thought it took months, even years to make wine. The festival only lasts 6 hours. Have they found a way to accelerate the process? Maybe it should say "grape juice making" instead of "wine making" to avoid any possible lawsuits by disgruntled festival attendees.

Posted on: 2008/9/11 11:51

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Re: Used auto glass places?

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I used to go the the junkyard in Hoboken and got a windshield installed there once. They have been gentrified out of existance though for something far more useful to me, more condos. There are still some auto wreckers left in the county and many do glass installations. Check the yellow pages for auto wreckers.

Posted on: 2008/9/9 16:57

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Re: Greenville:14-year-old murdered his sister's boyfriend after the couple fought

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"Man bashed by rifle butt, finger severed, leaving Montgomery Gardens public housing complex at 4"

"Greenville:14-year-old murdered his sister's boyfriend after the couple fought"

"Greenville home had 28 illegal firearms -- 20 handguns, 3 shotguns, 3 rifles, & 2 assault rifles."

"West Bergen: Stabbed at least three times after coming to the aid of a bartender"

"Greenville: Say woman shot father"

Jesus GroveyBoy, your stories are getting really depressing lately. I don't think I can read them anymore. I want to live in denial, I don't wanna know. I think it's time you changed your format to "happy news". Post stuff about poor people winning the lottery or funny animal stories or 90 year old ladies graduating from high school. Stuff like that. And lots of cute puppy pictures. We like puppy pictures.

Posted on: 2008/9/9 13:41

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Re: Graffiti - Downtown

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groovlstk wrote:
Anyone who grew up in the Heights remember the guy on New York Ave. (I think just after Franklin St. going towards Ravine) who used to paint slogans in white paint on the outside of his building, usually about evil Republicans? I have no doubt he was more than a bit crazy, but it sure made the neighborhood more interesting.

Yes, in fact I thought I saw him puttering around in front of his house not too long ago. A while back I read that he is a disgruntled Nam vet. It seems he has givin up painting the signs though. Maybe he's on meds now or more likely has found a cheaper and less labor intensive venue for his looney ultra lib rants, like posting them here. I remember at one point he painted the entire front of his house black from top to bottom. I'm sure he was making some sort of statement with that but it was lost on me.

Posted on: 2008/9/8 19:42

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