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Face it. Eventually, all those box stores will be gone. The real estate is just too valuable--they'll all be towers in the next ten years or so.
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Posted on: 2006/9/22 15:09
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Seriously, though.
1. In all the years I've lived here, I haven't perceived the embankment as a "problem." 2. Turning it into condos would be a huge loss and represents a total lack of vision. (So, I'm betting that's the way JC government would go. . . . .) 3. See my sig line. There is money to be made here, and developers should pay to play. If we're going to allow any high rise a developer can imagine building, why not at least link those obscenities to greenspace development? Have developers pay into a fund for transforming the embankment into a park. Some developers (Exeter) actually *want* to pay to improve the greenspace. 4. Central Park is huge, gorgeous, and a little unsafe at night. Does that mean it should be paved over and turned into condos? No. If safety is an issue, don't go to the park at night. Actually, it would be very easy to close such a park at dusk--lockable staircases with one-way exits like in subways. If you're worried about encoutering condoms, well, don't walk anywhere in JC. Of course, we could just turn it into a dogs-run-free crapkins zone, and then no one would want to have sex there. Well, almost no one. . . .
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[sarcasm]Yeah, but at least we won't have to put up with those selfish, grimey artists. Let them eat cake! Have you seen my Prada? . . . [/sarcasm]
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Okay, I've realized you just don't read carefully. First, I'm not an artist. Never said I was. Second, if you didn't realize it, my Prada reference was sarcasm.
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LOL, you make me laugh. Yeah, the rich are so without rights. They are so oppressed. Please, someone pass a hat. I'd just rather have the artists as neighbors than the folks who come in on their tailcoats. And I think kicking out a bunch of artists and then appropriating an "arts district" filled with galleries and Prada is actually the selfish act. Same as it ever was, though, as you pointed out: Greenwich, LES, Williamsburg, etc., etc.
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Huh? Lots of them did, they own homes here. They've lived here for decades when scared yuppies wouldn't set foot here. What they lost were their studios. They can continue to live here, they just can't find studio space anymore, so they probably will have to move away to remain artists (I know a few who already have). These are the people who made this place hip. They settled here when no one else would. They know the process of gentrification. Yeah, I know, you'll say they should have used their huge artist's salary to buy their studio space after they bought their homes, and if they didn't, that's the breaks. Yeah, well, I guess it is. Has anyone seen my Prada? . . . .
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If this is a comment on my post, I'll respond. 1. "JC isn't cool enough for JC" meant that kicking out artists and essentially tearing down a building of artists' lofts so that you can have a world-reknown architect build luxury condos, gallery space, and shops (maybe some Prada?) is a little like dumping the baseball players that came up through the farm system in favor of some free agents as you approach the postseason. When this development is done, what part of it will in any way reflect Jersey City's past, or the supposed arts district that was built by those artists that got kicked out? 2. They orignally weren't supposed to be building a skyscraper there, but the folks that run JC caved into the developer's threats of lawsuits instead of enforcing their own regulations. But, like I said, meh. It's too late, the money is here, and money talks.
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Meh, let's just say my feelings are mixed. Yeah, he's a big name, the final product will garner international attention, and my property values are going to go up . . . again . . . but this is why I moved out of Manhattan. I guess Jersey City isn't good enough for Jersey City, we need to import outside cool. So that we can carve it up and sell it.
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Yes, it is common for mice to be disturbed by construction and seek out new homes. Set up some traps so they don't get a foothold, block any points of entry (holes in foundation, etc.), and you should be okay. You can even get Havaheart traps, if you're squeamish about killing. . . .
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Thanks. Message already sent.
It doesn't surprise me at all that JJ doesn't have their own server--they don't have their own Web site, either.
Posted on: 2006/8/25 21:27
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Wow! An actual serious policy discussion on JCList! Alert the presses!
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Oh, wait, nevermind. . . . LOL, we actually managed thirteen straight serious posts on a topic. That's got to be some sort of record. EDIT: Yes, niceguyeddie, the problem with the Treasury bonds is that they are part of the national debt, but as said before that is a Treasury problem, not a Social Security problem. The Social Security program did not create the problem, the program was the victim of it, so to speak. Greater fiscal sanity in Washington would make me sleep much better, too. And yes, a Democrat that adds a sane plan for preserving Social Security would get my vote.
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I'VE twisted it? The program pays for itself as it goes along. How is that twisted? That is the original meaning of the phrase. The part of the program that is NOT pay as you go are the trust funds--those were built up to pay for the boomers future retirement. Projections show solvency until 2040: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/trsummary.html Projections often prove to be inaccurate, and the "rainy day" is often pushed back: http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issuebriefs_ib152 And your friend is right--it never was meant to be a retirement fund, it was meant to guarantee that old people wouldn't have to eat cat food to get by. And it's done very well in lifting retirees out of poverty. And of course, you certainly are right that we need to take steps NOW to make sure that the original intention of this program is preserved--it is a social insurance program to keep the elderly out of poverty, NOT a retirement program to allow folks to play golf and tennis when they don't feel like working anymore. The payout age is being stepped up gradually, and if you read the brief I highlighted earlier (by Bob Ball), there are ways to tweak the program back to close actuarial balance, none of them that painful.
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Yes, that's true, a children's garden in a public park would be open to all members of the community. And an adult is free to play on the playground structures, too, go right ahead. It would just seem a little weird. Seriously, though, I don't know where "private" and "limiting" comes from, those seem to be your words. Do you think there will be high fences and barbed wire to prevent anyone other than children to get in? I mean, really--who do you think is going to do the ACTUAL work of breaking ground, hauling soil, purchasing seeds or plants, weeding, etc.? Parents, and anyone they can get to help. Having a garden with a regular schedule of events encouraging kids to come help plant and tend flowers and vegetables, so that they can have some introduction and psychological investment in the garden and the park in general, would be a real plus, I think.
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"Pay as you go" means that the system pays for itself as it goes along. That means that the money taken out of our checks goes to pay the elderly TODAY, it isn't put into a piggy bank with your name on it. That IS how the system works. It's not a personal savings plan, as you seem to interpret it, it's a social insurance plan. Nowhere is "pay as you go" defined as money that you've paid in that will be paid back to you with appreciation.
And niceguyeddie, if you are worried about chicken little warnings about the trust fund IOUs in Virginia, those IOUs are U.S. Treasury bonds--if those are no good, then this nation will have a lot bigger problems than grandma eating cat food. What will we tell all those U.S. and foreign investors that also hold U.S. Treasury bonds? Oh, these are no good, they're only U.S. Treasury bonds. That would be a Treasury problem, not a Social Security problem. Even if the Social Securities trustee's worst case scenario comes true, and the economy grows at 1.8 percent per year or less, and the trust funds get exhausted in thirty or thirty-five years, the Social Security program--being a PAY AS YOU GO program--will be able to meet about 70-75% of its obligations, because in 2040, when the system is supposed to "go broke," there will still be workers earning money and paying their SS taxes, which will go directly to the retirees in 2040. That is how a pay-as-you-go program works. If their intermediate projection holds true, there will need to be some small tweaks to bring it into close actuarial balance. And, if the trustees more optimistic 75-year projections are more accurate, the system never will go broke, and the trust funds will skyrocket. And to make a point, the trust funds didn't always exist, Social Security ran for many years without them. They were created by Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan in 1983 to sock money away for the retirement of the baby boomers. Currently, the trust funds are expected to last beyond 2040, at which point the youngest baby boomers will be 80 years old or so--in other words, most of them will be dead. So, they functioned pretty well.
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Explain how Social Security is not "pay as you go"?
Posted on: 2006/8/23 20:50
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Niceguyeddie, Social Security is not going to "go broke" (it can't, it's pay as you go), it's just facing a modest shortfall because of baby boomers, and that might not even mean any shortfall, depending on how the economy performs.
And there are simple, thoughtful plans out there that don't involve gutting the entire system and turning it into private accounts. Bob Ball, former commissioner of Social Security, has some easy measures that will address the problem, but it's hard to get any attention during such partisan times: http://www.socsec.org/publications.asp?pubid=531 But I find it funny that Kean is disavowing support for Bush's plan, yet Healy and Menendez are attacking him for it. Ahh, politics. . . . .
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I'm going to wait until I see the plans before making suppositions about what is going to happen, whether trees will be torn down or not.
But as far as the trees go, those ornamental pear trees seem to be doing a great job of coming down on their own! If someone wants to give them a hand, and then plant a more stable ornamental tree elsewhere, great!
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The playground in the park has always needed a fence around it--I didn't know it was getting done, but I think it's a great idea. And I'm sure just about any parent that has a young child playing in that playground will agree. I can't think of another playground in the downtown area without some sort of fencing around it.
About a month ago, my kid got slammed by a bigger kid riding a bike through the play area and got knocked backwards and hit his head on the concrete. There are always older bikers and skateboarders doing jumps off those concerete pyramids while little kids are playing there. Maybe the city is making the effort because they realize that, sooner or later, some kid is going to get seriously hurt because the play area is poorly designed and, without a fence, creates an unsafe environment. It's easier for the city to erect a fence than enforce the "no biking" rule. Sorry if I think kids' safety is important, but I do. If that's bullshit, I'll live with it.
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LOL, reminds me of 9/11, when folks going to Hoboken via boat were forced to go through makeshift outdoor showers fully clothed before they could be repopulated.
Maybe when the sh&t goes down, we should just detonate the PATH trains and Holland Tunnel? Pisces, really, do you have any idea of what you're saying? How many people from JC work in Manhattan? It won't be contaminated Manhattanites you need to worry about, it would be your neighbors. They'll be the one with the cooties!
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Good post, GWB. Other than the initial explosion and any residual radiation in the immediate area, there is no great threat, other than psychological.
There would need to be evacuation and cleanup of the immediate area to control any significant radioactive materials, but that can be done.
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x4 This was not a secret process. I seem to remember people hanging out in the park for hours--on five separate days--collecting survey responses after the survey was publicized. This is a city park. (There have been comments on this board about locking it up like Grammercy, which is silly.) And it's a large park, as far as downtown parks go--there is room for a playground AND basketball courts AND tennis courts AND a dog area AND a non-dog area AND gardens. It's a multi-use park in an urban area, and I think it works great, as long as people are courteous and respect each other's rights to use the park. And Minnie, what's up with demonizing a children's garden? From what I know, the school wants to maintain a small garden plot and organize weekend gardening activities for kids--it's not an uncommon occurance, there are "children's gardens" in many cities. Would you rather the children spend their weekends in the main gardens?
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It wouldn't add any parking, it would take it away. Think about it--how wide are the houses in JC? If each house on a street had a driveway, it effectively would mean no parking at all. Look at 4th street west of Jersey, where they have driveways--how many cars can park on those streets where the driveways are? Zero. And those are one-car driveways. Look at the houses on York west of Grove--those are two-car driveways, no one can park there, either. You may want to rationalize that parking two cars in a driveway will take them off the street, but it doesn't create space, it simply promotes car ownership. And think of Hoboken, where there are tons of single-car garages and deeded spots--how easy is it to park there? That's where we're headed.
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I'm afraid it will be a long while until comptstat sends the boys in blue to our 'hood--we're still probably the safest part of JC, despite the recent blurts of crime. Back in the 1980s, I think a drug dealer was hanged from a tree in Hamilton Park by a rival drug dealer. Not saying we should be complacent about our relatively safe neighborhood, or that nothing should be done, just putting things in perspective. When the St. Francis development is done, I expect the park will become even safer. Until then, stay alert, call the cops with your concerns, attend neighborhood meetings, etc.
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Sam, how late in the evening? Please post any follow-up you have. This, plus the mugging the other day by a couple a "yoots" means that summer has begun officially in JC. It's be good to know if there is progress in apprehending them or preventing further attacks.
GWB, he said the guy was in his 40s.
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I'm posting simply to get my sig line in here too.
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Maybe if we all add it to our signature, we might get an answer?
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