Some of you are obsessed with "yuppies".

If you read the article:

"Sliwa said Mario Moreira is a former Guardian Angel, and friends who are currently members told him about the robbery. They asked that the Guardian Angels come to Jersey City, Sliwa said."

And I don't think Mirna Moreira and Mario Moreira would think of themselves as yuppies.

Apparently, Mario Moreira is a former Guardian Angel.

SLIWA'S ON IT Angels to organize, tour Downtown Sunday

Can the Guardian Angels keep Teddy off the PATH train and out of downtown? He only comes downtown to take the trains to nowhere.

I admit it probably was not nice to show the prices, but the information is public. Finding out the sale price is not hard either. City Hall can tell you. Real estate agents can tell you. JCList mentioned some websites that can help you indirectly figure out the sale price.

Prices in Paulus Hook has level off. There are a few units in my building that have been on the market for several months. Maybe with the big Wall Street bonuses, we may be seeing some buyers soon.

I don't think the price history would affect me as a buyer. I would be interested in comparables. What do other condos in the area with the same features and square footage sell for.

Here is the original price:

Original Price

Thank you for the mapping. It is very useful. Can you also provide the written text from "Jersey City Ward E Police Event Reports" for those who prefer the written text instead of waiting for the map to download, clicking on every number and then clicking on every balloon? Do you know the time of day of the crimes? Thanks again.

It is true that money talks wherever you go. The highest bidder wins. I am sure if St Peter's bid is the highest, they will get the property.

I felt that what St. Peter's was offering the Golden Cicada was very low. Look at how much an one bedroom condo in the area cost today. Tan probably couldn't even buy an one bedroom condo in Liberty North with that offer.

Rumor has it on Jclist that Captain Al?s Harbor Casino in Paulus Hook got two condos for him and his mother from K. Hovnanian when they bought him out.

The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency will pull out of the eminent domain case. The JCRA has also agreed to pay Tan a sum for legal expenses.

I hope it is not my tax money.

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Vote goes tavern's way

JCRA quits bid to take it for Prep

Tuesday, November 22, 2005
By BONNIE FRIEDMAN
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency voted yesterday to support Mayor Jerramiah Healy's decision to pull out of the eminent domain case that would have transferred a Downtown tavern to a private Catholic high school for boys.

http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index ... 32654345319780.xml&coll=3

I just saw the headline on News12 on cable. Jersey City will not seize the Golden Cicada through eminent domain.

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Jersey City won't seize bar for Catholic school's ballfield
11/4/2005, 9:41 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) ? The city has dropped a plan to use its power of eminent domain to seize a neighborhood bar and turn the land over to a Roman Catholic high school, Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy said Friday.

Healy said he made the decision "after weighing all the issues" between property owner Cheng Tan, proprietor of the Golden Cicada tavern, and St. Peter's Prep, which wants the land to expand its football field.

"There are instances when the city's taking of private property for public purpose is appropriate, but this is not one of those instances," Healy said in a written statement.

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/jersey/in ... 7221.xml&storylist=jersey

The New York Times has an article on the Beacon:

Old Hospital Yields Quirky Apartments
By ANTOINETTE MARTIN
Published: October 30, 2005

THE first apartments resulting from the transformation of the historic Art Deco buildings that served for seven decades as this city's medical center are about to go on the market.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/realestate/30njzo.html

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Since so many people died there, do I need the Ghostbusters to excorcise the place if I buy one? The buildings do look scary to me.

The story made it to 1010WINS. The more people know about it, the better.
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Eminent Domain: Jersey City To Seize Bar

Oct 28, 2005 11:15 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (JERSEY CITY) The city plans to use its power of eminent domain to seize a neighborhood bar and turn the land over to a Roman Catholic high school, which wants the land to expand its football field.

That has civil liberties proponents worried.

``This is one of the most egregious cases of eminent domain in the country,'' Steve Anderson of the Institute for Justice in Washington told The Star-ledger of Newark for Friday's editions.

http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_301111559.html

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Star Ledger:

Jersey City tries to seize bar for private school's field
Friday, October 28, 2005
BY STEVE CHAMBERS
Star-Ledger Staff

The Golden Cicada tavern in Jersey City sits alongside some of the state's most valuable real estate.

But when the city's redevelopment agency moved this summer to seize the bar and the back room apartment where owner Cheng Tan lives, it wasn't to make way for another gleaming office tower or upscale residential project.

Instead, the city plans to turn the property over to a Catholic high school, so it can expand its football field.

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.s ... 30477287165620.xml&coll=1

The ACLU will definitely represent Cheng Tan. Here is the press release:

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ACLU of New Jersey Defends Property Owner Against Government Seizure of Land to Give to Religious School

October 18, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: media@aclu.org

NEWARK, NJ -- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey announced today that it is representing tavern owner Cheng "Terry" Tan, who is fighting the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency's attempt to take his restaurant by eminent domain. Jersey City officials want to take Tan's land to give it to a parochial school, St. Peter's Prep, for its football field.

http://www.aclu.org/ReligiousLiberty/ ... Liberty.cfm?ID=19280&c=37

Excerpts from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/nyregion/14flood.html

"...pushing sewage up through toilets in Jersey City.."

"In Hudson County municipalities like Hoboken, Bayonne and Jersey City, the heavy rainfall caused sewer systems to overflow, forcing water up through toilets and bathtubs and causing sewers to back up onto residential streets and major roadways.

"The water has no place to go," said Joseph Beckmyer, chief engineer for the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority.

As a result, Mr. Beckmyer said, untreated water was being dumped into the Hudson River, as permitted by the state's environmental regulations. Several large blockages of storm drains were probably contributing to the flooding, he said. Work crews were trying to unclog the smaller drains, but engineers will have to wait for the water to subside before clearing the larger ones, he said. "