ElVee wrote:
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_hrezd/episode/0,2756,HGTV_23556_44049,00.html

The episode showing this house aired last night on HGTV. Don't know when it will air again.

Anyone else catch it?

e-eff wrote:
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tern wrote:
A poor turnout last night, how is it all the loudmouths on this list can't be bothered to show up when it counts?

It seems people prefer complianing to actually doing something.

Robin.

I was also surprised by the smallish turnout, but it was more than showed up for the August meeting. I'll be an optimist and think that maybe since it was 9/11 people were with family and friends at memorial type things.

injcsince81 wrote:
Why do you feel entitled to a discount?

The event is taking place in a State Park.

Sure, a discount would be nice, but why???

Is any part of the concert funded from JC taxes???

Advance tickets range from $44.50 for one-day lawn seat to $179 for a two-day VIP pass, which includes seating and VIP parking. Day-of-concert tickets range from $69.50 one-day lawn ticket to $225 two-day VIP seating -- with VIP parking to match. Children age 6 and under are admitted free.

Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:27:12 -0400 From: "Downtown Jersey City Watch" <downtownjcwatch@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: Update from 8/16--8/20/2006 Friends and Neighbors, Please note the concerns about Hamilton Park (see below). We have reached out to the Councilman, who has reached out to the Chief of Police. We expect a report back shortly on steps they are going to be taking. Once we get that information, we will share it with you. Very best, Jennifer K ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: REDACTED Date: Aug 23, 2006 1:12 AM To All, I have received some startling information regarding criminal behavior in our neighborhood to share with all of you from my neighbors. Various neighbors have told me about our area criminals who have been around lately helping themselves to our neighborhood! Seems that these creeps had quite an eventful weekend this past weekend 8/19--8/20/2006!. Besides the 8th Street/Hamilton Park mugging at 11:30pm this past Friday night 8/18/06, there have been other criminal acts! Basic on 8th was broken into (again in less that a month)overnight on Wednesday 8/16/06. The following stores were broken into over this past weekend 8/19/06--8/20/06: Go Gourmet on Jersey Avenue : Again in less than a month. The store installed a dead bolt since the last break-in. This time the door was badly damaged, but the thugs did not gain entry. The police responding to the store's call Monday morning told the workers there that a lot of the police officers are on vacation so there is not a lot on duty to take care of all these break-ins. What??? The store street area does not have proper street lighting, it is very dark. The workers told me they are afraid and very scared when they leave to go home after work. GabaBoolz: Broken into, stole equipment/machinery. Kome Gashi: Broken into, robbed. Balance Hair Salon on Erie (near the police station). Home on 9th: A house was broken into and robbed on 9th Street across from the Hamilton Park Nursing Home. House on 8th: A young couple's house had thugs trying their front door. The couple heard their door being tried. Thugs fled when they came out to look and see. A woman's bicycle was stolen from the front of her home on Coles, Monday 8/21/06 in the afternoon around 2pm. She went to the Laundromat on 7th. As she headed back home up Coles, she heard a bicycle coming down Coles towards her with the rider ringing the bicycle's bell.....she recognized the bell and realized it was her bicycle and stopped the kid and got him off her bike and called the police.

OuttaDodge wrote:
JC may be one of the least angry cities, but it is also one of the most stressful cities (#19)! I guess holding all that anger in has its disadvantages.

100 Largest Metro Areas
(Ranked in order from most stressful to least stressful)

Rank Metro Area
19 Jersey City, NJ

GrovePath wrote:
"Our 'Zero Tolerance' efforts to stamp out the illegal narcotics trade in our city may take us in different directions, but so be it to fight any crime that supports illegal drug trafficking," Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said in a statement.

Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham pulled Jersey City out of the program because he didn't think the $2 million the city received was worth the hassle - or the label of a "distressed city."

Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop said he agrees.

"I think the distressed cities program shows a lack of pride," Fulop said. "And from my point of view Jersey City is not a distressed city.

"The first thing we should pursue is cost-cutting, which hasn't been done at all to any great degree," he added.

The biggest drawback to receiving the aid, now called "Special Municipal Aid," is that hiring and promotions would have to justified to and approved by the state Local Finance Board, Healy said.

(...) Through their efforts and with the support of the Municipal Council, the potential municipal tax levy was reduced by over $25 million dollars (sic), while maintaining and improving a high level of service.

(...) In addition to providing quality service at reduce (sic) costs, Jersey City and other municipalities need to develop and expand their abilities to generate recurring revenues

Mmmm wrote:
unfortunately I dont seem to have access to this information as a new owner

pchops wrote:
FROM EAST DISTRICT:

Thank you for sending the below.

Captain McDonough was in the area (of the incident) when information was broadcasted via dispatch, and located an actor - that actor was apprehended and transported to our juvenile bureau, due to his age.

Thanks Butchcjc for the post. I will email you separately because your descriptions are valuable to the Downtown JC Watch.

For others who have valuable information, please contact the Captain's office immediately at 201.547.5470 as well as the Neighborhood Watch. Though the police may be satisfied with their apprehension, we are aware of a few juvenile hangouts and your descriptions are needed.

If you witness a crime and the police respond, PLEASE, PLEASE, go up to the police and give a witness reports.
If you are uncomfortable in approaching the police at the time of an arrest/investigation, you can call the 201.547.5477 number and say, "I am standing/residing a block away from the arrest and would like to give a witness account. However, I do not want to approach the police. Can the investigating officer call me at this number."

THEN, the following day, email the Captain or the Community Relations Officer at jcpdeastdistrict@yahoo.com.

For those residents in other wards, contact your councilperson and find out who your Captain and Community Relations Officer is.

It's important to offer your witness account. For example:
The last robbery (official term for mugging) at Hamilton Park had 1 witness who only saw the suspects for a fleeting moment. I went to Hamilton Park and did my own investigation and found a better witness who was in front of the victim for 2 blocks as the suspects followed them. This better witnenss did not come forward when the police arrived. Thus the fact that they were juveniles and the correct clothing description was lost.

Please, please please offer your information to the police at the time of the crime/suspicious activity. If you are pressed for time, hand them a business card/paper w/contact info. They will call you.

Sorry so long....

glx wrote:

No thanks, I have no reason to bug them. I'm sure they have better things to do.

I just found it comedic that they're being "notified" as if they're some official agency when their main benefit (and crime-fighting technique) is being visible and they aren't being seen.

If people have seen them around, more power to them. They showed up in force when the press was around and it sounds like now every once in awhile a couple will show up here and there. I think we can all agree they aren't doing much good at 5pm on Grove Street. If they're around, I think we'd all sure like to see them walking around HP or VVP in the evening/late nights when most of these incidents seem to be taking place... Otherwise, they might as well be the cops.

PS - what's "wilding", anyways?