ianmac47 wrote:
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o73o2 wrote:
4. Typically, the minimum annual income should be 40 times monthly rent, hence you'd be renting to someone with $60k. But, since you'd be most likely renting to several people, I'd suggest that you raise the multiplier to 50 or $75k as minimum annual income. When we rent, m preference tends to be 50x.

If they don't have it, well ...

That is pre-crash talk. And also was used in desirable places in Manhattan and Brooklyn. That's not going to work in the fringe of the ghetto.

In the NYC metro area, typically people spend 1/3 or more of their pre-tax income on rent.

I think you must be joking to think someone earning $75k moves to Danforth.

ogden1 wrote:
Does anyone think it's strange that a CEO is posting on JCList?
Never saw Mocco, Silverman or LeFrak here. HHHMMMM

Sam112 wrote:
Where is the other thread on this topic?

hitandrun wrote:
Dan,

You are posting, but not replying to anything.

Why?

We know that you are running for council under the Healy ticket. But, you have not answered any questions on why Healy has not addressed many of the issues that have been raised in his 9 years in office.

Also, since the mayor wields most of the power, how/why would things change with a new term?

It would be good to get your take on how things will change and how you will make these happen.

OneJC wrote:
http://onejerseycity.org/?page_id=71


Government Goals Jersey City 2013

In addition to the basic services all municipalities should provide, Jersey City government will focus on the following initiatives.

Ethics Reform

? A new ethical standards code for city officials and employees

? Expand the Contracting Pay-to-Play Reform Ordinance to cover the Jersey City Board of Education

? Recruit and recommend members of the public to serve on municipal boards and authorities

Governance

? Report card evaluation system for city services and responsibilities

? Operational performance audits of city operations and services

? A city-wide HR performance measurement system

? Quality-of-life policies to be included in all development agreements and construction permits

? Enforcement of affordable housing requirements

Planning Improvements

? A municipal strategic plan

? A new master plan that includes infrastructure planning

? Benchmarking of traffic studies and master plan components with those of other cities

? Inclusion of public amenities and infrastructure in all redevelopment plans

? A comprehensive bus service plan

? A small business and light industry development plan

? Examination of historic resources throughout the City

? Stronger tools to encourage interim uses for large vacant lots

? Provide improved notification to property owners subject to redevelopment plans

Education

? Promotion of public neighborhood schools.

? Joint city/board of education responsibility for facilities planning

? Outside audits of educational system

? Incubation of different teaching models and philosophies

Transportation Enhancements

? World-class streets and sidewalks that give equal consideration to pedestrians and bicyclists

? Implementation of bike lanes.

? Extension of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail into Bergen County as initially planned

Fiscal Responsibility

? A five-year financial master plan with a municipal budget commission to oversee the process

? Reliable funding sources for infrastructure improvements: sewers, roads, parks, schools

? Tax abatements capped at ten years

? A stop to extensions or renewal of tax abatements

? Completion of municipal budget process no later than one quarter into the financial year

? Full and complete outside audits of revenue source agencies and authorities

Business Assistance

? A small-business facilitator to streamline permitting and building and provide other assistance

? Concerted effort to bring more federal and state services to Jersey City residents

? Fair and equitable code enforcement

? Update entertainment and noise ordinances to promote nightlife while preserving quality of life

? Development of a public market

Environment and Historic Preservation

? Encouragement of green practices in City buildings and in new development

? Implementation of a working Shade Tree Commission

? Tree-planting initiatives throughout the City

? Support for urban farming

? Strengthening of our historic preservation ordinance and Historic Preservation Commission

? Incentives for reuse of existing buildings and disincentives for ?teardowns? of historic assets

? Proactive approach to reuse of church facilities that are closing or neglected

Medical Services

? Pediatric medical facilities

Policing

? Increase neighborhood associations and block watches

? Community-based policing

ripple wrote:
Sometimes it's not random criminals, but the landlord's family or friends doing the burglaries. This was almost certainly the case a few years ago with my friend's place on Columbus where his laptop was stolen with no signs of forced entry. If the landlord himself or his family does in-apartment maintenance then they know whether there are items worth taking and approximately what hours you keep. I'd move ASAP.

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On_The_3rd wrote:
There was a break in at our building on Pavonia Ave yesterday afternoon. This is the second time in 6 months and the same unit in the building was targeted. The first time nothing was stolen but this time was the tenant wasn't as lucky. Without going into too much detail as I don't want to make certain information public knowledge - i feel/know that our building doesn't meet the minimum security standards and our landlord is being all too casual about improving the current condition. I'm already looking into moving now, but I was going to reach out to my other tenants to get them to push the landlord to make REAL improvements. Are there any steps I can take to getting the ball rolling to get the landlord off his ass?

Scottacus wrote:
I certainly didn't mean to make this thread about incomes in downtown JC, but since the question has been raised, here are the latest Census Bureau figures for 2011:

Median household income in 07310 (mostly Newport) is $127,260. Median income in 07302 (mostly downtown but also a bit west of the Turnpike) is $89,278.

Looking closer at incomes downtown, there is a very large disparity by race/ethnicity. Non-hispanic white households have an average income of $106K and Asian households $116K, while African-American households have an average income of $47K and Hispanic households have an income of $39K. So definitely a wide range of incomes. White and Asian households make up about 2/3 of 07302, while African-American and Hispanic households make up about 1/3.

To the point about roommates: the median income of all non-family households with no children and with more than one person (many of which are homes with roommates) have incomes of $134K where the "householder" is female and $146k where the householder is male. So these households have much higher incomes vs the median.

These numbers do not look all that different than they do in Hoboken, where the median household income is $105K. However, the number of households in Hoboken with this level of income is a bit higher.

K-Lo wrote:
Terry Maloney -- lives in the Heights -- his specialty is stairs but he does all sorts of work (built a beautiful kitchen and bath for a friend). He rebuilt entire brownstones' internal staircases for two neighbors. Nice and reliable.

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ianmac47 wrote:
In the not unlikely scenario that the machine sweeps the election next year, is the city better off with a full slate of Healy cronies or a slate with one or two reformers add to it?

Its nice to live in the fantasy land of Ward E where Steve Fulop turns water to wine and shits rose petals, but there are a lot of people outside of Ward E who don't even know who he is. Despite the vehement hatred of Healy and cronyism represented on this board, Healy and his team still have a high chance of winning.

Healy's possible inclusion of "reformers" on his ticket is a victory onto itself. The very fact that the machine would consider bringing in outsiders indicates the threat they represent to the ticket.

Simply because a person joins a slate, that doesn't automatically make them a puppet of the machine. Several people with wildly different ideas can still run on the same ticket. Just look at the national Democratic or national Republican party. A Democrat in New Jersey looks nothing like a Democrat in Texas, just like a Republican from New Jersey looks nothing like a Republican from Kansas. But everyone still ends up running under the same label.

There is a very real possibility Team Fulop loses everything next year. While one or two reform candidates on the Healy team may not be enough to overthrow his administration, its certainly better than simply a handpicked slate running the city without any voice of opposition.

brewster wrote:
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Yvonne wrote:
It worked because I was able to re-finance my house but I saw many neighbors who lost their homes. Today banks are not giving loans, the person who purchased my home had to put down 30%. Before reval, downtown had a large Hispanic and black population. Many of them lost their homes through reval and many white seniors also lost their homes. Reval lowered the business owners taxes and increased the taxes for homeowners especially downtown.

They had to put down 30% because you made a bundle! It was a "jumbo" mortgage. And I doubt those people "lost" their homes, they SOLD them if they didn't have the cashflow to pay their taxes. And many of them were simply cashing out on what to them was a remarkable rise in values, 3 and 4 fold from the 70's.

If you're on a fixed income and lack cashflow for additional taxes there are alternatives to selling today that weren't available then, like a reverse mortgage, borrowing enough to pay the taxes every year while living in the house. It gets paid off when the house is sold.

You've expressed your indignation about the reval so much, but what is your alternative? Should people whose property has increased in value at a higher rate than the city as a whole never have to pay taxes proportional to the value? How is that fair to everyone else? Wanting the process to be done right is inarguable, but challenging the idea that it needs to be done is not. I have a property in the Heights assessed @ $138k and worth $300k paying $9500, only $2k less than your house assessed @ $165k that sold for $1.15M. Please, tell us more about who should be paying their fair share.

Folks, the pics of her building interiors are still up, check out the place she claimed was only worth $165k. Even in 1988 that was absurd. http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/283 ... y-NJ-07302/38888854_zpid/

High-powered lobbyist and Jersey City deputy mayor is having city residents pay for his health benefits

When Raj Mukherji was sworn-in as a Jersey City deputy mayor in March, the 27-year-old lobbyist took pains to say he was accepting only a $1 annual salary and forsaking a city car.

In May, Mukherji, who state records show raked in more than $500,000 last year as a managing partner of lobbying firm Impact NJ, began accepting health benefits paid by the city. The premium costs taxpayers $796.55 a month.
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Josiered wrote:
I called two weeks prior when the same thing happened walking home at night from the Path. The guy was passed out and I gave them the details. The next morning I walked by at 6:30 a.m. going back to the Path and he was still there. So in my opinion I GUESS they didn't show up - what do YOU think? Unless you have a hotline to the PD there isn't too much they show up for. They know what lives there, they've been informed by neighbors but it still goes on month after month. I've talked to the tenants upstairs and they've notified the landlor and the cops. You got any better ideas? Obviously with the (2) officers on duty for a 14 block radius they had bigger fish to fry !

cnnjc1979 wrote:
Has anyone noticed all the drugies that hang out infront of the barge inn over there ,did anybody know that they are selling drugs upstairs above the bar well they are and that the police are getting paid off for not raiding it ,the same thing for there resturant to off the corner of 3rd and monmouth st there is a lot of crap going on over there to ,they park there cars off the corners and they dont get a ticket what is going on why isnt nothing being done about this , hello wake up ,the jcpd should be doing there jobs instead of always being parked on grove by the dunkin donuts they be playing games in there police car or be on there cell phones hey police chief you need to be checking on them once in a while......

user1111 wrote: