Wow 290!! That is such a nice looking building from the outside. But I guess like someone said it needs a lot of work.

Thanks for the info.

FYI - the notice is in today's (3/24/10) print Jersey Journal (JJ) again. Most of the information can also be found in my above post #24. The one with a link to the JC web site.

Here is the link to JC Recreation (football)....

(click on the "Read more here" link inside of it)


JC Recreation

There is also CYO football, basketball, and track.


A good place to find information is in the print Jersey Journal (JJ). In the sports section it will have notices for all kinds of sports sign ups. Adult and kids...softball, baseball, basketball, bowling..etc.

PS - the JC little league baseball programs are great...

Mr banana grabber (I am not even going to ask)

I was surprised to find it on the official JC website. It has the full notice about the sale. It also has addresses and pictures of the properties.

JC Public Information (property sale)


These are the properties that were listed in the Jersey Journal with the minimum bids.

Location***Desc ***Size***Min Bid

666 Summit Ave***Fire house***88.81 X 120.85IRR*** $275K

218 Central Ave***Fire house***21.1 X 91*** $200K

139 South St***Fire house***25 X 100*** $175K

106 Boyd Ave***Fire house***25 X 168.40 *** $175K


364 Ocean Ave***3S-B-C-7U-NH***30.18 X 103.06 IRR ***$150K


In my first post I left off the vacant lots that were in the JJ notice. I should have also listed them. You hipster ravers could throw one hell of a RAVE on that 3.52 acre Tonnele Ave lot.

Location***Desc ***Size***Min Bid

Tonnele Ave***Vacant Land***3.52 acres*** $600K

120 Monticello Ave***Vacant Land***25 X 145.50 IRR*** $140K
122 Monticello Ave***Vacant Land***25 X 145.60 IRR*** (included with first lot)



KDB ? Gook Luck I hope you have a winning bid. Two of those firehouses are real gems; I don?t like the red stucco ones. I have never been to one of the sales but a friend of mine went in the 80?s. You are going to drop dead with this...he paid $3K for a vacant 4 story brick row house on a numbered street in DTJC!!!! Those were the days. The city would unload tons of houses and lots. I don?t think there is an age cutoff for being a hipster, but you do have to keep up your Jazz record collection. If you do offer pole dancing classes I think you should also set up a viewing section in the firehouse, I would gladly sign up to be a viewer. (this way I wouldn?t have to peek through the window, I?m just saying)


Good luck to all, I hope someone here gets one. (and restores it)

(not a JC guy...a Brooklynite)


Jersey City teacher charged with masturbating in front of 15-year-old, officials say

By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
March 17, 2010, 6:46PM

A special education teacher at Jersey City's Ferris High School was arrested today on charges he masturbated in front of a 15-year-old boy in a school bathroom yesterday during the school day, officials said.

full JJ story

At least he wasn't from JC...thank goodness.

Strangest story I have ever heard of in all of my years living in JC...or on earth!


Secaucus man charged in Jersey City with urinating on legs of young women

By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal

Jersey City police have arrested a Secaucus man on charges he followed young Hispanic women on the street and urinated on the backs of their legs in as many as seven separate incidents since late December, officials said.

Nitinkuma A. Patel, 27, of Moller Street, was arrested yesterday after urinating on the leg of a 16-year-old girl shortly before 9 a.m. by Police Officer Mike Meyers who was staking out the area off Journal Square where all but one of the incidents occurred, Police Deputy Director Peter Nalbach said.

Patel is charged with aggravated criminal sexual contact, lewdness, and child abuse, officials said.

After his arrest, another victim identified Patel as the man who urinated on her and police are looking into the other five reported incidents, officials said.

Meyers set up surveillance at 7:25 a.m. at Tuers Avenue and Vroom Street and at 8:52 a.m. he saw the 16-year-old walking east on Vroom on the south side of the street with Patel following her, reports said.

Patel wore gray sweatpants with "a large wet spot around his crotch area," reports said.

When the girl turned south on Tuers, Meyers got out of his car and began following on the other side of the street and saw Patel run to within 6 inches of the girl, reports said.

That's when Patel and pulled down the front of his pants and urinated on the girl, reports said, adding that he quickly walked away and right into Meyers' hands.

Police had been staking out the area for more than two weeks. Patel works at a Jersey City donut shop.

Nalbach said the victims are between the ages of 16 and 25.

"This is an oddity, a first," said Nalbach. "We all know from profiling reports that people start with things like this and proceed to more serious crimes, so it had us all worried."

Anyone who has been the victim of a similar incident is asked to call Jersey City police at (201) 547-JAIL.

from the JJ

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... an_charged_in_jersey.html

I drive by almost every day and they are still working on it. I see a pile of telephone poles. Looks like they will be installed along 440 with netting.

I will try and stop by on Saturday and ask one of the guys for information.

Hi,

The two page notice is in today's Weds 3/17/10 print JJ again.

I hope someone on this site buys one of the fire houses or passes the info on someone. I would hate to see them go to some politician's buddy.

The one at 666 Summit is sweet. Two bay's, a few houses off of the State Highway, and walking distance to JS.

GP thanks for the link..interesting

Here is some more info if you didn?t get a chance to pick up the print JJ on Friday (3/12).

...at the Assembly Chamber, City Hall, 280 Grove Street, Jersey City, New Jersey on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 10 am in the forenoon.

...for further information about the auction contact:

Division of Real Estate
City Hall, 280 Grove St
Room B-5
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Tel: (201) 547-5234
Fax: (201) 547-5711


...bids will only be accepted from JC hipsters and artists. (pole dancers will be allowed to bid but must submit a performance video along with their bid)


Nice video of a converted JC fire house from the Star Ledger.
(she looks like a hipster to me)


Heads up... in today?s print JJ Monday 3/15/10 there are pages and pages of Hudson County Sheriff Sale notices.

Even better a local news station interviewed a young guy that witnessed the accident. He is the one who called 911. He said the car came down the street and attempted to park. The driver while parking hit a car behind her with such force that it dented it and pushed it onto the bumper of the car behind it. The witness said he feels the driver then panicked and stepped on the gas trying to flee the scene. Guess she fled the wrong way.

Check out today?s (Friday 03/12/10) paper copy of the JJ. The city has a two page advertisement for an auction of public property. Some of the places listed would be ideal for a JC hipster or artist. I would jump on it but I am too old, no more Dan Tanna bachelor pad for me. (anyone have a link to a time machine?)

Here are the listed properties: (pick up the paper JJ for a more detailed description of the auction)

Location***Desc ***Size***Min Bid

666 Summit Ave***Fire house***88.81 X 120.85IRR*** $275K

218 Central Ave***Fire house***21.1 X 91*** $200K

139 South St***Fire house***25 X 100*** $175K

106 Boyd Ave***Fire house***25 X 168.40 *** $175K


364 Ocean Ave***3S-B-C-7U-NH***30.18 X 103.06 IRR ***$150K

They also have a few vacant city lots for sale.

I mentioned this before the paper copy of the JJ has loads of city, county, and state notices in the classified section. For the past few weeks there have been a lot of Hudson County Sheriff Sale notices on foreclosed properties. Maybe you can pick something up on the cheap.

You can get a subscription to the paper copy JJ for $150 a year. It?s not the greatest paper in the world but it does have some good local information in it. (also has the stuff the city tries to sneak by it?s citizens hidden in the classified section)


Just think if you buy a fire house you wouldn?t have to beg your SO to let you install a pole in the bedroom. Worth every penny! (or dollar bill in this case)


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This happened yesterday in CHANDLER, OK.

Rusty pipe causes natural gas explosion

CHANDLER, OK -- A massive fire is now out after a 26 inch natural gas pipeline exploded. Officials say the pipeline rusted and the gas found weak spot in the pipe causing the explosion. The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. Lincoln County crews responded and put out the small grass fires. The pipeline flow has been shut off and caped.

The fire gave crews a bit of trouble because the area around the explosion is moist, not conducive to supporting heavy trucks.

However, because the area is wet, grass fires weren't an issue and the forestry didn't sustain much damage.

No injures have been reported.

news report with video


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This happened in 1994 in Edison, NJ.


Edison, New Jersey natural gas explosion

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )

The Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion and Fire occurred in Edison, New Jersey on March 23, 1994 where a 36" diameter natural gas pipeline broke and exploded into flames next to the Durham Woods apartment complex along New Durham Road at its junction with Interstate 287. The cause of this breakage was the fault of a local contractor who was trying to bury a truck in the area. The resulting fire destroyed or severely damaged 14 of the apartment buildings. Over 100 residents were left homeless and one death occurred from a heart attack suffered by Sandra Snyder, who was unable to summon emergency workers "amid the chaos." Because the fire occurred so close to the Durham Woods complex, residents in the area also refer to it as the Durham Woods fire.

WOW! They are lucky!!! I thought they just somehow plowed into the fence on Newark Ave. below Tonnele Ave. (by Joey Stars) and onto the tracks at road level...

link with picture

Cottage St. is a dead end with an old chain link fence at the end of it. Hey maybe it was a Toyota. (can't tell from the picture)

The Kellogg Gardens Chinese restaurant moved to Westside Ave by the DQ. I asked the owner she said she was forced out. The building is part of the big Bay Front project that is coming to the area after the soil is cleaned up.

http://www.bayfrontjerseycity.com/


overhead map



PS - gotta love the big sign they put up "we MOVE to Westside Ave."

As an old-timer I have to admit it seems like JC is all of a sudden out of control...seems like old times. Strange the JCPD holds a press conference to announce a decline in crime, right after that there are 3 or 4 stories about crime printed in the JJ everyday. In every section of the city, no place is safe!!!

The Skillman and Van Winkle crime was a surprise that section below JS is...err I mean was pretty safe.

JC History: Years ago there was a bad mugging spree in the India Square area. A wolf..err I mean a pussy pack of young punks (say that 3 times fast) was beating Indian JC citizens and robbing them. At the time the city was installing security cameras in the area. The cops set up a sting. They had under-cover cops in the area on foot and in cars. The cops at the sta tion were monitoring the cameras. Sure enough the camera?s picked up a large group of pussies around the intersection of Newark and Tonnele Avenues. The cops grabbed the punks just as they were about to rob a poor old Indian guy. I think they were one second late and the poor guy got clocked in the head. The video of bust made it to news stations around the country and CNN. It was a big deal because the whole security cameras in cities issue/debate was just picking up. It was great seeing the 10 or so punks scatter as the cops chased them down and pounced on them! Turns out the punks were kids. I think some as young as 12.


PS - Why would you post a map/picture of Dey St. and Tonnele Ave? The crime happened on Van Winkle more toward the Blvd. behind WC. As seen in the first post.

As long as you did here is some history on that area. Ok you know about the old American Can Company being converted into condo?s CANCO. (bad timing on that project) There are two very early JC condo conversion projects on the corner of St Paul?s and Tonnele Avenues. The first is the old Brunswick Laundry. There was a great old chimney attached to the complex but it had to be ripped down because it was unstable. Too bad. The second is across from St. Ann?s Polish Church. It was the churches old grammar school. A lot of bloody hands haunt the halls of that school. Those old-country Polish nuns were killers with the wooden rulers!!! I know someone who was beaten regularly because he was left handed. The nuns thought he was evil because he not only wrote with his left hand he was also only half Polish. Sinner!!.

And I will throw this tidbit in... the nasty house that housed the nasty kitchen that supplied the nasty Banana Leaf food truck is right around the corner on St. Paul?s. Funny I would see them loading up that nasty truck every day not realizing that it was on its way to DTJC to feed you hipsters. Sorry.

As we travel down St. Paul?s there was a nice old mans traven to the right called The Four Aces. Prefect name I remember the sign it had four cards on it ..four aces. Long gone.

Down further by the railroad tracks was one of the hottest night life areas in JC. That was during the late 70?s and early 80?s. There was a bar/club called The Soap Creek Saloon. They had live music some great bands. The place was packed on Friday and Saturday nights also on a couple of week nights. There were long lines to get in, they even charged an admission. Those were the good old days when the drinking age was 18 in 1973, 19 in 1980. It was eventually raised to 21 in 1983..bummer.

The Soap Creek eventually became a sort of dance club called Foxes. It wasn?t that good it attracted a lot of NY people. (yeah you) All kinds of fights and roits. I think the city eventually pulled its liquor license. Maybe the last straw was an off duty JC cop working as a bouncer beating some drunken fool. (not sure about this one, any old-timers remember?)

Back then closing time was 3:00 am and all roads lead to the Colonette Diner, VIP Diner, or White Castle. (Yummy) That was when the real party started!!

Ever been to the Meadowlands Flea Market?

This thread about the new junk store reminded me of the flea market....

I was going to post this link when the jclist artist was looking for old gears, etc for an art project. But I never got around to it.

Do you newcomers know about the Meadowlands Flea Market? (and don?t said yuck flea markets are sooo Jersey, Barney is wrong about that!!!) They have some pretty cool stuff there. I?m not talking about the tons of knockoff?s, discounted products, or second hand clothes. I?m talking about the crap that people pull out of their basements, tool sheds, and garages...the good stuff. Some of the oddest looking tools/machines I have every seen along with some wicked looking medical devices. Ouch!! Although I bet a few of you here on jclist would love to try them out.

(I think I saw the Grove Street Indian stalker there a few Saturday?s ago)

http://www.meadowlandsfleamarket.com/

Gotta love the NY fish guy yelling...?Two fer one, two fer one on the bags of shimp... I ain?t goin home wit dis stuff, gotta get rid of it, two fer one on the shimp?. Maybe the Amish bread and cake guy should try that approach.

I picked up an old friend at the flea market. It was an old rusted green metal US Army truck. That was my favorite toy as a kid. Guy gave it to me for 10 bucks!!! (don?t say anything but I probably would have gone up to a 100) Now if I could only find a time machine.

PS ? there are also tons of food carts...love the hot corn on the cob. You can also get an up close look see of them tearing down Giants Stadium.


I always run into a lot of JC people there.

Black eye while paying cab fare.

A 32-year-old Mount Laurel man wound up with a swollen fight eye and cuts on his fore-head after his girlfriend left him to pay a cab fare early Saturday at the Courtyard Hotel in Newport, according to the Jersey City police reports.

The victim was too intoxicated to help police, reports said. But according to the girlfriend, she had left the cab to go into the hotel lobby about 1:50 am when she heard her boyfriend shriek, reports said.

When she turned around, she saw the cab driving away with her boyfriend dangling from the door, reports said.

The injured man, who was holding an ice pack over his swollen right eye by the time cops arrived to the hotel, fell from the cab, reports said.

But cops ? who could not locate the cabby ? believe the man?s injuries were caused by a punch in the face, not from his tumble from the taxi, reports said.

(from the JJ, buy support the JJ)

Man stabbed ?uncooperative?

A 33-year-old Jersey City man, who was ?extremely uncooperative? with cops, told police he was stabbed on his way to a bar early yesterday.

The man, who had multiple stab wounds, told police at the Jersey City Medical Center that he was on his way to a bar at First and Brunswick streets about 1:00 am when a stranger stabbed him and robbed his wallet, reports said. However he refused to provide further details to the police.

The man was treated for several superficial stab wounds to his chest and, arms and back.


(from the JJ, buy support the JJ)

(this event is being covered by all of the local news stations and JC cable. Check it out on the tube tonight these JC kids did a GREAT job practicing for their big event!) (wish them luck)

JERSEY CITY RALLY PLANNED TO ?SPREAD THE WORD? ON UNITY

Event will include 40 schools and more than 1500 students from throughout the district.

03.04.2010 ? LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ ? Jersey City Public Schools and Special Olympics New Jersey will host a ?Project Unify ? Spread the Word to End the Word? rally at St. Peter?s College on Friday, March 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
More than 2,200 students and staff are expected to attend the event which is part of the ongoing ?Project Unify? initiative within the Jersey City Public Schools designed to promote unity among students with and without intellectual disabilities. Student performances during the rally will include skits, raps, songs, spoken word, and dance. All acts were created by the students in support of a caring learning environment for all students within an accepting and inclusive community. Themes will include empathy, unity and respect.

Spread the Word to End the Word is a Special Olympics supported campaign devoted to educating and raising awareness about individuals with intellectual disabilities and the offensive use of the ?R-word.?

Activities will commence across the country on March 3 - engaging schools, organizations and communities by raising the consciousness of society about the dehumanizing and hurtful effects of the word ?retard(ed),? and encouraging everyone to stop using the word. Students and schools across the U.S. will unite in their challenge for everyone to think before they speak.

Currently Jersey City has more than 4500 students that participate in Special Olympics within their schools including Unified programs where students with and without intellectual disabilities participate in sport together.

For more information on the Spread the Word to End the Word campaign, please visit www.r-word.org.

To learn more about competing, volunteering or supporting Special Olympics New Jersey, visit www.sonj.org.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
About Special Olympics New Jersey

Special Olympics New Jersey provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for more than 21,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

Project UNIFY (or the National Youth Activation Project)

?Project UNIFY? will establish a national capacity and commitment to support individuals with intellectual disabilities through an integrated program of education in the classroom and community, hands-on experiences, and purposeful leadership development among America?s youth.



Found piece on:

taken from this link

OK which one of you hipsters was it? Speak up.


Jersey City store sells Mega Millions ticket worth $250,000

By Ron Zeitlinger/The Jersey Journal
March 01, 2010, 1:35PM

A Mega Millions winning ticket worth $250,000 was sold in Jersey City last week, New Jersey Lottery officials said.

The ticket, which matched the five winning numbers -- 4, 14, 29, 54 and 56 -- but not the gold ball, 40, was sold at Soft Touch Newsstand on Christopher Columbus Drive. For selling the ticket, the store is given a $500 bonus check by state lottery officials.

No one won the top prize, so the grand prize is expected to be $112 million. The Mega Millions drawings are held on Tuesdays and Fridays.


jersey journal link


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I agree with GP it would be nice to have more details something sounds fishy.

First off no JC thug uses the expression "empty your pockets."

JC thugs say either ?run your pockets? or ?gimme all you gots? Sometimes they will say both.

Glad the kid is ok!! Scary.

A Bayonne teen was slashed while fending off a would-be robber

By The Jersey Journal
February 24, 2010, 2:35PM

A Bayonne High School student was cut by a knife while fighting off a robber near the Liberty State Park light rail station Tuesday night.

The 15-year-old victim was leaving his friends house when he was approached by a male standing about 6'2", wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black mask, and black jeans, reports said. The man pulled out a knife and told the teen, "empty your pockets."

The teen tried to grab the knife, but the robber cut his wrist. The victim told police that the robber than fled without taking anything from him, officials said.

The victim got on the light rail and went to Bayonne Medical Center, where Jersey City police met him to get the report. He received several stitches for the wound.

(from the JJ, buy support the JJ)

Before we all panic if you didn?t know this all stems from the NJ Monthly magazines just published ?Best Places to Live?.

Here is the link:

NJ Monthly ranking piece

They did it in 2008 and now again in 2010. The results are BS. The number one place to live is now Bedminster Township. Yet it was number 106 in 2008. Also on the list is number 14 Peapack-Gladstone Borough but amazingly enough it was number 396 in 2008. Another is number 37 Quinton Township in 2008 it was number 470. The ranking is either screwed up or somebody has been putting something in these towns water supply. Wow!

Side note our neighbor Secaucus was number 11 in 2008 sadly in just a mere 2 years it has dropped to number 182!!! What could have happened?

PS ? Good news we JC (402) beat Hoboken they were 476.

Here is the today's JJ piece about the rankings....

JJ piece

Anymore information on this? I thought some of the JCList people lived down on Varick St.

Good work !!!


JJ full piece...

Remember this thug???

"The Jersey City teenager who was shot in the face by undercover police doing surveillance in a recent gang investigation was among 46 people arrested when a violent drug trafficking network was crushed by state, local and federal law enforcement. "

Police say Jersey City man flees after gunman pulls trigger, but gun doesn't fire

By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal

February 19, 2010, 7:00AM

A Downtown Jersey City man is lucky to be alive after a man pointed a gun at his chest Tuesday night and pulled the trigger, but it did not fire, officials said.

The 21-year-old Varick Street resident was walking home from a grocery store at 8:17 p.m. and was at Varick and Christopher Columbus Drive when the gunman and another man hiding between parked cars ran toward him, reports said.

The gunman pointed a black handgun with a long barrel at the man's chest, mumbled something unintelligible, and pulled the trigger, reports said. When the victim heard a clicking sound and realized the gun had not fired, he turned and ran, reports said.

The gunman is described as being 18 to 20 years old and wearing blue jeans and a black jacket with an orange lining and fir trim around the hood, reports said. The second man was wearing either a red hat or red shirt, reports said.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the Jersey City police tip line at (201) 547-JAIL.



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I went to the Newport Theater only once when it first opened and never went back. We would go to Secucsas until Frank?s Theater opened in the South Cove Common in Bayonne.

Frank's Theater

PS- like I said in previous posts... the sane people (the old-timers) of JC go food shopping in the Super (clean, large, bright) Stop & Shop and movie watching in Frank?s Theater in Bayonne. The parking lot holds 100?s of cars. The light rail has a stop right across the highway from the Common.


I also like to support JC businesses but when it comes to my food and my movies..forgetaboutit!!!!

1djcview....


Hudson Reporter link about MLK in JC

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NJCU link about PS # 11

(the piece about the pamphlet is at bottom of page)

(great site has some interesting stuff about JC)

take care

Quote:

Hey 1djcview don?t know if you know this about MLK and JC. MLK gave a few speeches in JC. The last one was a week before his death.

Also found this interesting piece about the MLK school dedication....

On October 3, 1966 a fire destroyed Public School No. 11; it was rebuilt, the sixth school on the historic site, and named for Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader. At the dedication of the school on April 2, 1969, the statue of Peter Stuyvesant was placed near the entrance of the school. The pamphlet from the ceremony gives homage to the two men with whom the school is today associated: ". . . Martin Luther King, Jr., . . . like Peter Stuyvesant knew when to fight and when not to fight. Dr. King chose to wage his war by non-violent means. Hopefully his followers will, as the Dutch settlers did, choose the peaceful way; and in this manner, assure to all peoples the benefits of the centuries of work and dedication which have continued on this site."