Quote:you may not be aware of the fact that there are no public restrooms in the park or in its vicinity. just sayin' :

Quote: hmmm ... http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-dri ... ices/red-light-camera.htm

as an FYI ... there is a red light camera installed at the intersection of jersey ave and 18th street ...

Quote:as far as i know, he is a convicted felon, and as such, he loses his pension. on the other hand, he has a nice nest egg ...

i'd love to see this convicted felon's mugshot!

because vega is now a convicted felon ...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business ... HWBM1MKqy2I#ixzz1Is3sGL3Z


Growth spurt
By KATHERINE DYKSTRA
Last Updated: 9:07 AM, April 7, 2011
Posted: 10:16 PM, April 6, 2011
Jersey City is growing up. Until recently, the area ? a hop, skip and one stop from Manhattan on the PATH ? drew mostly first-time buyers and single renters who wanted more bang for their real-estate buck.

?Someone mentioned Newport to us, and we took the PATH out here, and they showed us the apartment, and we were like, ?We are moving here.? We made the decision in one day,? says Whitney Malin, who moved with her husband, Jon Dickson, into the Southampton building, which is part of the Newport development ? a mixed-use community with 15 residential buildings, comprising more than 4,000 apartments, and a PATH stop.

The couple, who made the move just over six years ago, had been living in a 700-square-foot rental on the Upper West Side for which they paid $1,800. In Jersey City, they got 1,400 square feet, two bedrooms and two bathrooms for ?not much more.

?We just kept running from room to room, thinking what people in New York would pay for this,? says Malin, who is raising her 6-year-old twins in Jersey City.

Now the stroller set is descending on the area en masse.

?We?re seeing two-bedroom and three-bedroom homes are much more attractive; it used to be a one-bedroom and studio market,? says Jacqueline Urgo, president of the Marketing Directors, which is marketing a number of projects in the area, including the 269-condo Crystal Point, the 323-condo Gull?s Cove and the 348-rental 225 Grand.

As evidence, Urgo points to a recent Crystal Point sale of a three-bedroom for more than $1.4 million.

?For Jersey City, this is a very attractive price point, which speaks to the gentrification of the neighborhood. It used to be much younger, 20 and 30, but those age boundaries are extending to families,? she says.

Still, it?s the singles and young couples that are likely driving what many perceive as the rental sector?s resurgence: 225 Grand, with one-bedrooms starting at $1,938 per month (after concessions are factored in) is now 97 percent leased. Aquablu, Newport?s newest rental, starting $2,500 to $3,200 a month for one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms, has only one available unit out of the building?s 355.

?Jersey City is pretty much on fire,? says Brian Collins, area vice president for Equity Residential, which developed 70 Greene?s 480 rentals and has actually increased the rental prices there. When the building started leasing in 2009, studios were $1,700 a month (factoring in concessions); now they run closer to $2,000. ?We?re at 96.5 percent leased . . . We beat lease-up projections by about four or five months.?

Not a bad climate for newcomers like Monaco, with 524 units in two 50-story towers, to start leasing. Not a bad one for sales, either.

?Rising rents fuel the sales market,? Urgo says. ?People start looking at the rent versus own alternative.?

Indeed, the pace of sales in the Marketing Directors? Jersey City buildings has increased markedly since the beginning of the year. Crystal Point, for one, has unloaded 29 units since Jan. 1 and is now 80 percent sold.

Over at the Beacon, a 14-acre development situated deeper into Jersey City but with shuttle service to the PATH, the first phase is down to the final nine of its 315 units. And its newest phase, Mercury Lofts, 25 half- and full-floor lofts measuring 2,994 to 6,665 square feet, has just been launched.

Also new is Hamilton Square, the renovation of a former hospital into 124 residences, with studios through three-bedrooms.

Most developments are doing their best to attract the couples-with-kids set by adding as much family-friendliness as they can muster. Gull?s Cove, for example, has leased its retail space to a day-care center.

?When we started the first phase [of the Beacon] we had more young professionals with less attachments, as it were. What we started to find in the last year and a half, out of the 40 sales we did in a stretch, 30 were couples with small kids or who were expecting,? says George Filopoulos, president of Metrovest Equities, which developed the Beacon. ?We felt the best type of retail was that that would emphasize family living.?

And emphasize it they have. BeKids at the Beacon is a dedicated 66,000 square feet for children that will open in Spring 2012. It will include an early childhood education center, gymnastics and a sports camp. Little Explorers Academy has already signed a lease to open a day-care center for kids ages 6 weeks to 5 years. It should be ready this summer. Also approved is M.E.T.S., a charter school slated to open this fall for sixth through ninth grade, with plans to add grades 10 through 12 in subsequent years. The Beacon is looking for a school for kindergarten through fifth grade to open the following fall.

?We?ll have top-notch education from 6 weeks old to when they go off to college,? says Filopoulos, whose Mercury Lofts start in the low $800,000s. A full floor is about $1.5 million.

?We have two on-site playgrounds, a seasonal skating rink and just had a retailer called Bambi Baby open up,? says Mario Gaztambide, vice president of residential asset management at the LeFrak Organization, which developed Newport.

Additionally, most of Jersey City?s new buildings offer scads of amenities competitive with what you?d find in Manhattan.

Hamilton Square has a lap pool, a roof deck with barbecue and a courtyard. Units there are priced between $500 and $600 a foot.

At 70 Greene, there?s 8,000 square feet of indoor amenity spaces, including a screening room, a pool table, virtual golf, a pet spa and refrigerated storage for FreshDirect deliveries.

Monaco has a clubroom with billiards and flat-screen TVs, a fitness center, a screening room, a yoga studio, a pool deck and a dog run. (At Monaco, residents have to pay $600 per lease term to use said amenities. It?s $750 at 70 Greene.)

?I think when you?re dealing with this kind of community, these are renters by choice ? not renters by necessity . . . so having a robust amenities package is consistent with that,? says Carl Goldberg, managing partner at Roseland Property Company, which developed Monaco. ?In order to be a top-tier building, you have to have a full, expansive amenity package.?

Units at Monaco start at $1,875 per month for a 650-square-foot studio and $2,350 for an 845-square-foot one-bedroom. Certainly less expensive than what you?d find in Manhattan?s Financial District ? but not cheap.

?For what I?m paying and where I?m at, it would be more for this in New York,? says Joelle Dunrovich, who lives in 70 Greene, where one-bedrooms go from $2,425 to $3,415. ?There is good value out here. It?s not a bargain, it?s just better value. You do get more space.?

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Quote:whatever you're smoking, heights, sure makes you ... @#$%! ...

due, you need (deserve) a dose of ... reality!

you can always complain to your friendly and always pleasant credit card company ... depending on the card you have, etc., they may be able to help you with this ...

Quote:hey, this is jclist ... i was expecting some of the more fanatical dog owners populating this board to demand an apology ... from the kid!

only 6 ?!?!?!?!

that's kinda expected in jersey city ... this is not newsworthy at all!

i think i saw him at the spectra meeting tuesday ... could have been his doppelganger though ...

Quote:
i think the argument was based on the contention that the horizontal drilling approach that they were able to use elsewhere would not work under such a wide body of water because they would not have sufficient number of drilling spaces. yet, they also made the statement that in fact, they are disallowed from crossing the 2 path tubes and the holland tunnel tubes. this is the type of logical arguments that made the spectacle entertaining. it reminded me of my intellectual beacon, vickie pollard.vickie pollardvickie pollard

Quote:
that was awesome; if there was a moment that killed the plan, it was the clear signal that spectra's top people were completely unprepared to answer the most obvious question that could be asked at a contentious hearing.

Spectra has a pretty solid union presence at the caucus meeting. Their green T-shirts and signs linking this pipeline to jobs ade quite visible.

The arguments proposed by Spectra are hollow: this is the best, cheapest, and safest alternative.

They argue that the pipeline would not be a terrorist target; whom are they kidding?

BTW, the videos shown were quite funny, particulalrly the last one attempting to demonstrate that the pipeline structure is idiotproof. Sometimes, intellectual dishonesty in an argument IS funny, but here it is dangerous.

What seems to be coming across the
presentatuon is that they throwing "facts" around, and these facts are often spurious. The guy from the Chertoff group did more damage to Spectra than helped Spectra. His speach was pretty disjointed and his ability to weave fact, fiction, and immaterial statements together had SNL-type entertainment value.

madame claude's wine store has a pretty nice selection of cheeses ... they do not stock a lot, so ...

and if you know your cheeses, freshdirect does have a nice range of cheeses for delivery ...

this is sad ... those times i made to the council meetings, she added entertainment value ...

since the last election, we have now lost three (s)elected councilpersons ... hmmm

hits with what ...
incompetence?
increasing taxes?
corruption?
... ?

Quote:thanks for the update ...

... the person that solicited us on behalf of save the children provided us a donation sheet that offered support through credit card, etc.

there was no "cash donation," or such ... so it may be so that save the children could have a legit operation going around; nevertheless i am checking on this with them as well ...

will keep you updated ...

Quote:can you confirm the above?

it is terrific that you have a website that lists notoriously incorrectly and illegally parked cars ...

that you focus on all these illegally parked cops outside of the copshop on erie is good too, particularly considering that their internal affairs is located there.

a suggestion ... stop by basic on a weekday morning, and take a few pictures who park across the street crossings ... when school is out

it is just plainly disgusting how these yuppies are destroying this area.

i am waiting for this thread to deteriorate ... we have all the right ingredients: the basket ball court, the conflict between the loving "dogparents" and the overprotecting "human parents," the free access to hamilton park, the hidden agendas, and the usual course of complaints on jclist ...

the pride of jersey and jersey city ... a gallery of accomplishments and a showcase of integrity and leadership

there are a lot of weird people in the park ... particularly around the children's playground ....

the other night, there was an odd looking guy doing calisthenics in the middle of the playground ... it did not seem to be a parent ... just strange ...

i have been going to the inn perhaps once a week for the last two months ... there are certainly operational problems both with the wait staff and the kitchen ...

one time, we waited 45 minutes for dinner in an otherwise not particularly full restaurant ... i reminded the waiter that i actually had a plane to catch ... still it took them 20 minutes to get things out ... they were quite lackadaisical in their approach to the problem and its resolution ...

another time, out of the four of us, two got ***completely*** wrong orders ... a stunning accomplishment ... i have not seen that waiter since ... praise the owners ...

perhaps it is the summer ... perhaps they do not --- have to --- care ....

the waiters tend to prefer to congregate around the bar by the coffee makers instead of walking around to ensure that all is working smoothly ...

embarrassing topic/news ... had it been jersey shore ... now that would have been ...

try

http://www.asmallgreenspace.com/

warmly recommended

a small greene space

thanks to everyone organizing, volunteering, and participating ... it was a great event and we have tons of fun.

for this price, you should be able to find a decent place by hamilton park ... but still, i would use a **good** broker to guide you ... if you are considering staying 2-3 years in one place, the fee becomes less significant ...

why am i not surprised ... the difference between a criminal and a cop is just the perspective ...