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if it were 100% privately funded, i would stop complaining instantly. go for it.
Posted on: 2016/9/14 4:28
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no, we don't need that at all. you want it. i want anything to replace that, be it a ground level park, a parking lot, new housing, or failing that, for it to be left as is. anything but the costliest option simply because "oh, that's nice, manhattan has one, i want one too".
i want the sewers and water pipes fixed. i want flood prevention measures in said sewer systems adopted. i want the roads maintained. i want to see a new school or five built. i want more traffic lights and less stop signs. i want that shitty fake brick taken off the intersections. i want more trees planted on the sidewalks. all of these wants are harder to do when you're spending a LOT of money that the city does not have because you then don't have money left over to do all these other things. some of which include the very basics of living, like working infrastructure. an elevated park is shockingly not part of the basic commitment that a city has to its residents. and since you mentioned quality of life, downtown has some of the best in this city as is. show a bit of perspective here maybe
Posted on: 2016/9/14 3:34
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who said i'm pro casino?
seriously, you idiots just love jumping on keywords and not reading. i'll put it in small words and some special formatting for you ding dongs in here if you want tourists you need to give them a reason to come. a small park is not a reason. a casino is. you either a) want to make something for the neighborhood (any old park will meet the area's desires and in fact, would be less costly than an elevated one, allowing for other desires to be met) or b) want to bring tourists into the area, a mostly residential area at that with basically zero other amenities. this is one or the other. tourists do not make for nice neighbors. they, by definition, do not have a connection to the area and are temporary visitors who think a lot less when it comes to acting the fool (because they're on vacation, duh), add to traffic and mess, etc. etc. businesses benefit, residents as a general rule, do not.
Posted on: 2016/9/13 15:54
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hey, you're the one that wants tourism. you want to add 6 million tourists to the area? cool. give em a reason. a 6 block by 0.5 block park ain't cutting it with the infinite to do on the other side of the hudson. casino? that's another story.
while you're at it, give em the infrastructure (what i've been saying all along ffs) to get here and to make it feasible to have them here. because nothing attracts tourists quite like broken water mains.
Posted on: 2016/9/13 13:03
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a fuckton more than a walking park. now where's that casino thread...
Posted on: 2016/9/12 23:36
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In Berlin on Wednesday, Fred Dixon, the chief executive of New York?s tourism-marketing agency, NYC & Company, plans to announce a forecast of 59.7 million visitors this year. That would exceed last year?s record of 58.3 million visitors by 2.4 percent Quote: As of 2010, Atlanta is the seventh-most visited city in the United States, with over 35 million visitors per year. Quote: "Last year [2012] we broke a record. We had 42 million people visit the city of Atlanta. We?ve never had that many visitors before," the mayor said. What are the commonalities again?
Posted on: 2016/9/12 15:18
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Bullshit. It's a tiny addition to the biggest tourist city in the entire country/hemisphere/world. Good for NYC, it's quite literally one of a thousand things to see and do as a tourist there. Quote: are a complete waste of money. For this city? Yes it is Quote: Again the highline aspiration is a bit much for JC and i dont think its necessary for the embankment but theres still room for basic historic conservation especially for public green spaces without blowing obscene amounts of $. Finally, some sense of reason... Quote: Bridges with stairs and fences wont cost millions of dollars and maintenance of the trail itself can be handled by volunteers. Aaaaaaaand it's gone. You really have zero idea what infrastructure costs, do you. Go look it up. I'll wait.
Posted on: 2016/9/11 21:10
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i don't, but keep trying and failing. it's pretty funny when people try and make assumptions and fuck them up full 100. you take what might've been a passable insult and fuck it all up with inapplicable stupidity. that and you stupid fuckers can't even argue the substance of my point so you turn into little kids with the insults. you have no backbone, can't argue the point and can't even make a diss that makes sense.
but hey, keep it up, it makes me look better and you look dumber every time.
Posted on: 2016/9/11 13:50
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i don't have any kids or a car, but thanks for playing. also i've been living in jersey city for 30 years, so you can SMD
Posted on: 2016/9/9 15:30
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You will never see me say a bad word about the folks at UR, because the manager loaned me a piece of their kitchen equipment and wouldn't even take so much as my ID as a deposit for them. A truly nice person and I'm sad his business didn't succeed.
Posted on: 2016/9/8 3:53
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I've seen plenty of bullshit written in my day (this election season has been particularly good for it, but I digress), but this is one of the dumbest pieces of it I've seen in a long while. It's good for one thing and one thing only. To walk in. Literally it. You can't ride a bike, bring your dog, play catch with your kid, hell, given its tourist appeal (because it's fukn downtown manhattan and not residential jersey city), you'll have a hard time jogging it. If memory serves, it is three times the size of the embankment and has one minuscule playground. Aping the Highline here is the dumbest part of the stupid save the embankment BS that gets put out. Personally, I'd rather it stay the way it is, because at least the city isn't spending millions to build and maintain bridges, fences and entrances. Jewel of parks my ass. Fuck outta here.
Posted on: 2016/9/8 3:50
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And what, praytell, is your objection to a ground level park that will cost a lot less to build and maintain?
The few people on here can feel how you like, IDGAF, you're still wrong in thinking that's the best option. This is not a city without dire infrastructure needs. This is not a city without budget problems. Paying extra for superfluous bullshit is never the right answer, doubly so when faced with these issues.
Posted on: 2016/9/6 21:05
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i'm sure you think you're being clever, but smh you're 0 for 2 on this thread alone
Posted on: 2016/9/5 14:05
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And if the price of tea in China changes, let me know. Until then I'll take your comparison of not building trains and not having an elevated park and wipe my ass with it
Posted on: 2016/9/4 21:01
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yes, that would be the entire purpose of it. now local politics being the shithole that it is, obviously it would go to fund a couple dozen new beach homes for some cronies, but you can't operate under the (generally correct) assumption that monies raised will not actually be used for their intended effect.
here's the thing - no one loses anything. we've never had the use of that entire area since they demolished the connecting bridges what... 12? 15? years ago. even then, most people never went up there because there was nothing to do. people would lose that giant ugly wall that's been slowly crumbling and occasionally getting tagged. it'd be a lost opportunity if you really look at it like that, but no one's taking a park away from you or anyone else - just the opportunity to make all the taxpayers spend more money on an excessive design because building and maintaining 5 bridges, about 15 blocks worth of fencing, multiple entrance and exit points including ADA compliant ones is wrapped up in "we want moar park!" fk that. get a ground level park. get nutbag yvonne happy and make one or two of those blocks a municipal/residential parking lot. spend the money on the shit we need rather than excessive futility. nice things are nice. parks are nice. so's the new world trade center. it looks pretty. it sure wasn't worth the money.
Posted on: 2016/9/4 14:10
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rebuilding the bridges and fences along with the upkeep on them is a large cost. razing it and making them ground level parks would be a lot less costly in the long run if you really want another park. personally, i'd just rather sell it to a developer at a real price who has to adhere to current or near-current height restrictions and invest the money into infrastructure upgrades that are a lot more needed but a lot less glamorous than a park.
like the sewers that break every. single. year. and are getting more and more overworked as the city grows. but hey, fck me for a little practicality, ammirite?
Posted on: 2016/9/4 3:57
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it's not very deep. the embankment is an eyesore and barcade joined in the movement to kick the food trucks out. fck both of those things.
but hey, you've shown repeatedly that you're a petty donkey who likes to talk shit on said internet bulletin board. you can join a long line of people that can do things where the sun doesn't shine
Posted on: 2016/9/4 3:04
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Two things I'll never support in one location. Good to know
Posted on: 2016/9/3 21:12
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If possible, hang around on Thursday morning, which is usually when they deliver them (although mine came today for some reason) and ask the person. Alternatively, I believe there's an address somewhere on the plastic wrap that has the name of the company - it's usually there so advertisers can get their stuff in the flyers - but give em a ring
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unless they fixed the awful from their first month or so, they remind me of your average neighborhood spot 25 years ago. they existed then because they were the only place around and a lot of people hadn't tasted what good food was. kind of like helen's.
i tried them twice and was thoroughly unimpressed on both a slice and a chicken parm. i have a groupon deal for a big dinner i got for a five spot that expires in a month and change, so i'll be giving them one last shot in the upcoming weeks, but the expectations are very, very low.
Posted on: 2016/8/23 18:14
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or they're places like alex's, which are trash
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No, my name is Braiterman, not Dawson.
They're off to the side - when you edit the turnstiles, they're about halfway into the atrium off to the left, under a set of escalators/stairs.
Posted on: 2016/8/20 21:52
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one really good thing about this, the nicest public bathroom i've ever been in. honestly, it looked like a bathroom one would find in a nice restaurant
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A few things.
1) Since they joined in the fight to kick the food trucks out? Fk em. Glad to see them go. 2) That actually seems like a not outrageous price 3) Really curious as to why this and some other sites feel that ps37 is a bad school. It was decent when I went, and I don't know anyone with kids there that doesn't like it. Hell, a thread on this site said about the same thing. 4) Lol at "high crime area". Technically, yes, but "high crime" conjures more to me than bike theft, fights and shoplifting. Odd usage of the term imo
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inasmuch as we're mocking you for your ignorance up to this point (and believe me, the fact that you've gone through life thus far with this super narrowly-defined world view is absurd), it's nice that you want to help. go clean out your closet/drawer and take the clothing to the nearest shelter and tell the folks there to have whatever they'd like. make year-round donations (not just at christmas - people are hungry the entire year) to a food pantry/soup kitchen. then go volunteer some time at those places.
honestly, kiddo, go tell the shut-in suburbanites from whatever third rate town you come from to experience more of life before they hit whatever age you're at. you're an adult of voting age and presumably have been for years. get some people to actually learn that there are people in this country - and in your case your fk'n neighbors - struggling to make ends meet and just get by in life. the more people realize this at a younger age, the more they might give a sht about fixing the issues en masse rather than glossing over them as so many do because they never do leave that crappy olive garden ville.
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let's assume for real.
some flyover transplant probably. joined jc list probably at or near the move here, so two years ago and hasn't ventured much outside their paulus hook/vvp/newport/harsimus cove area because omg everything's so nice and and pretty and convenient (honestly, it is, you can probably go weeks or months and not have to go outside a mile radius here). we can probably rule out most of the hamilton park/village 'hoods, because the sketch actually starts to border those neighborhoods, too. probably works in manhattan or maybe downtown, so they commute (or are really stupid and drive) into the city, but probably drive out to whole foods or maybe costco/sam's club to feel more at home on the weekends. i'm willing to bet 60/40 it's real.
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welcome to jersey city
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I take it sarcasm isn't your strong suit?
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More good news, PKs lease is up in a few years
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yes, get some.
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