Another murdah near MLK?! No way! I bet the brand new affordable housing there will drastically improve things. I wish someone could invent one of those wheel thingies like they have on lost. Then we could turn it and move the "MLK initiative" back to the 80's...back when most of us didn't have to live here.

Ugh...convert affordable housing to condos!!! Perhaps Healy feels the same since he didn't attend.

He's a pretty good singer. I have his christmastime compilation. We brought it upstate ny with us because we hate celebrating holidays in Jersey City.

Jackals are supposed to be fast runners. This one must have been a runt.

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Honestly, I haven't been following information on the candidates. However, I am going to vote for Healy because you make him so popular here. Thanks for the heads up icechute!

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I wonder if you would be saying that if the light horse tavern turned into a dive bar where shitty bands played until 2 am. Bar clientele changes, the one next door to me was quiet and then all the hipster losers with handlebar mustaches discovered it. Now I have to smell cigarette smoke and patchouli every time I step outside. The music blows too. What good band is gonna play in a dive bar in JC on a sunday night. This shit is just unnecessary, its noise pollution that lowers the quality of life here.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that it's the case. If you live on the same block as a bar, it's nearly impossible to fall asleep on the weekends. (Sundays including) And no, it's not the renters/owners fault for living next door to a bar. If you are in a residential area, its the bars that should be held accountable.

I would rather get their flyers in the mail, but looks like Smith's people are too cheap to pay for the postage. Walked near another place for sale on my street and his flyers were stuffed into that clear box too. I hope this guy comes in last - his advertising tactics suck.

Came outside this morning and found flyers promoting Harvey Smith displayed inside my condo's bulletin box and on top of the "for sale" sign. There are a bunch tossed into the street including the islands around our trees. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any info for his campaign managers to complain. What a great way not to get my vote - adding more litter to the front of my house!

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Because JC has many more people who don't know how to use a trash can.

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"1) Why close the Park for nearly the whole spring and summer? Nothing can justify closing this Park over the peak season -- there must be another way! If this will take 8 months (as I?ve heard), shouldn?t it start in October? Whatever the reasons for starting now ? the funding just became available, they can?t work over the winter, etc. ? it?s baloney. "

Have you seen many outdoor projects being done in the winter? The ground is frozen solid - especially with the kind of winter we just had.

"Hudson County Plumbers Local 11"
Please be sure to install those backflow preventers that we so "desperately" need.

Brilliant, it's about time the Abbot bs gets reversed. It's been proven that dropping money into poorer districts doesn't work anyway. It's not fair to the parents in other towns who have to pay the tuition in poorer districts. That money should go towards their own schools. Wow Corzine, this is impressive.

Will the shelter get anything just for being in the top 10?

That's a popular ingredient in eastern European food too - you should check out the polish deli on jersey ave.

This is the e-mail I got from Steve Fulop:

I am sending out this update to let you know I understand what a scary and stressful situation it is to have received a letter with very little information and a threat of a fine if you don?t comply by May 1st. This email should put you more at ease as we are still working through the situation and I cannot supply you with a definitive answer and action plan just yet. I was hoping for a resolution last week so that I could update you on this matter in a timely manner. Unfortunately the Office of Construction Code and the MUA (Municipal Utilities Authority) are still hammering out the details. I spoke with both offices yesterday and will continue to press them to finish up as soon as possible while also taking care of all of your concerns. Off the bat, to lay you mind at ease for the near term, you will have at the very least a 60 day extension. So the May 1st deadline letter no longer applies. In addition, at the last council meeting, I briefed the rest of my council colleagues on this issue so they are more aware of the situation. In their presence I asked the administration to get actively involved to ensure this situation is corrected immediately. What you should know: - There will be an extension extended between 60-90 days. We are pushing for 90 and I will have the answer early this coming week. - The letter, that was to explain in greater detail the situation to be corrected, did not go out last week as it is still being fleshed out between city officials. I am in the loop and will make sure many of the concerns that were addressed at our meeting are included, such as the clearly stating the requirements and citing the state law on the standards to be applied. - The standard should be plainly outlined this week. While I recognize the importance of safety with regards to potable water, there is no good reason not to apply the safety standard with fairness. I feel the requirements the MUA is asking for exceeds the safety issues and cause an undue financial burden. - I sincerely feel that it is unacceptable that the city would provide a list of 6 people to inspect your residences who have a vested interest in telling you that you need the most expensive backflow preventer. I asked at the last council meeting that the City contract with a firm to do these inspections at a set and fair fee. This way it is a neutral party that can certify whether the backflow preventer is in place. The council and administration seemed favorable to this idea as it is fair and reasonable. - Finally there is a high probability that your building already has backflow preventer that meets the standard and addresses the safety concerns. Once the update letter is sent to you from the MUA, I will follow up with a second meeting with MUA and Office of construction code officials. This meeting will be to update, clearly outline the requirements, and address any additional concerns. If you know anyone else affected by this situation that would like to be kept updated by email, please have them reach out to my office at (201) 547-5315 or fulops@jcnj.org. In addition, please pass on this information to anyone that might not have access to email. Sincerely, Steve

No keyhole or santos y ana?

Not sure if everyone else got this letter from Steve Fulop so I figured I'd post it for anyone interested in writing to the newspaper:

Just to let you know, the Hudson Reporter will run a story on the backflow preveter issue and the more background they get the better so that we will get some attention to this issue and get it resolved. Ricardo is the journalist writing the article and he can be reached at hacksmith1872@gmail.com.

If we had a vote for every trivial thing we've discussed on this site, we would probably be winners. Register and vote! (Be careful not to vote for the shelter in Georgia - its really easy to mistake them for our shelter in JC.)

Budget taxi is always $25 to Newark. They've always been reliable about picking me up on time. Also, you can call them from the airport when you arrive and they will pick you up within minutes and give you the same rate going back.

Turn it into a wallmart or a NASCAR race track.

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I hate Skynyrd! Play something else when you're driving around. Promise me when you do leave JC that you will invite me over to do some skeet shooting and cow tipping. Then I can listen to you whine about your new Christian conservative neighbors.
oh and trp3, "The sensitivity on this forum is incredible" ?
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Actually yea, I'll probably become crushthedemoniac there. Then the breeders at the mall will bitch about the liberals from JC moving into their town and bringing down the morals of their children. I promise we'll invite you over to tip cows, eat shrooms and shoot rifles. Cept you gotta leave your nightgown back in JC.

"Hov"? Oh snap! It musta been one of the developers from Hovnanian!

"seriously trollgeneral! love it or leave it. you should move out to the country and get yourself some cows."

Yah dude I'll be movin to the country and eatin me some peaches as soon as the condo sells. Cept the Puerto Ricans are making my street look less desirable to potential buyers. So if my place don't sell, I'm gettin a pickup truck with a horn that plays Lynyrd Skynyrd and buyin a rifle. Goddamit - eff whole foods - we need us a wallmart!

I would really like to see some of the puerto rican social clubs close down. There are some decent people hanging out there for the most part, but they make the block look like shit. What's with all the crap sitting outside? Are they selling that stroller/grass mower/stuffed monkey or just displaying it for some retarded aesthetic value? What's with the flags all over the place? And is it really necessary to blow your "La Cucaracha-playing" horn at 7 am on a saturday?

" if I am paying 10K in taxes to the city in annual property taxes for a 700 sf. condo on the waterfront and you are paying $5K for a nice 4 family worth over a million a couple blocks away. Who is really subsidizing whom?"

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"We ALL live here, so the burden of city administration costs should be fairly shared among us."
Most owners of newer or renovated properties, including myself, would NEVER send our kids to a public school here. Let the parents of children who do attend schools here take on that burden.

Don't know about other bars, but Lucky 7's was packed to capacity it seemed this past Friday. Checked out of there after one drink because it was so crowded.

Back when I used to live on Erie, I heard some kids breaking bottles in front of our building. So I climbed on the roof and threw water balloons at them. I got most of em! Getting involved in the community is very important especially when dealing with the younger generations.