It's a two party system, by and large. You suggested that raising money is a "Democratic" strategy and not a universal, time-honored, common sense political strategy, and then you coyly feign non-partisan objectivity afterward.

Talk about nice try.

Best thread title ever.

Yeah, because Republicans hate money and never raise any. And they certainly haven't ever had a historical campaign money advantage in the last half century.

How long will the sore loserism last? (Not complaining, I think it's hysterical.)

SLyng nailed the whole too-cool-4-school thing that made us stop going there. Price and good attitudes should not be mutually exclusive.

Old hipsters pretending to be "edgy" are pretty amusing though. Long live this thread. Every smug post TacoTruck puts up makes me giggle.

The Merchant lets you call in an order to pick up. Taqueria doesn't.

Which of these two businesses treats its customers like scam artists? Hmmmm.

Oh, and i'm pretty sure the oblique reference to the "popular breakfast place" was to Beechwood.

TVONWHEELS, read the ordinance. It is ILLEGAL to operate the sound AT ANY LEVEL when the vehicle is not moving above 10mph, and AT ANY LEVEL outside of the hours of 9.30am to 11.30am and 4.30pm to 6.30pm Mondays through Saturdays.

OBEY THE LAW. PERIOD.

Hey TVONWHEELS:

It is absolutelly 100% ILLEGAL to have the audio in operation if TVONWHEELS is not moving above 10 m.p.h., and any times other than specified in the ordinance listed above. And absolutely never on a Sunday or holiday.

Unless you're suggesting that the Mayor's campaign does not need to observe the law.

If you do own the audio/video truck, and you continue to break the law, you can look forward to multiple citations.

ROFL. Thank you for getting it, Yahoo.

Isn't this field literally across the street and one block away from the Pathmark shopping center?

Why is it so much more important to people to talk about whether it is or isn't downtown (if it's not it's one block away)?

Hey, you said it, not me.

He's not talking about acid etching, he's talking about stamp concrete, which is no more expensive to do than the cost of the template.

There's an image.

What a bizarre thread.

While we're throwing out bogus statistics and percentages based on assumptions, what percentage of drivers entering JC from 1/9 at or around Communipaw are travelling from Turnpike Exit 15E or from Route 1/9?

Answer: I don't know, but that doesn't seem to stop anybody here from acting like they do, so I'll go and make one up: 85%.

Yes. how ever could they possibly find/catch up to a van that ISN'T MOVING, and has NO DRIVER, and has been sitting in the same place blasting sound FOR HOURS?

If you scroll up, you'll see the regulation, complete with its ordinance #. Feel free to cite it when you call 547-5477.

For the record, still haven't seen the truck at Walgreen's since the various calls on Sunday, though I'm not sure if it's just been a weekend phenomenon.

And read my post in that thread that you flipped out about, where I state exactly the same thing about JRL in the first sentence.

I never defended the shills, I simply pointed out that the practice of droning on about them ad nauseam is just as annoying to read over and over and over again.

Sounds like Giants Stadium is accepting money to present a Red Bulls Soccer game.

Where does it say Giants staidum is "accepting money" for Healy to sing?

Or is this one of those "Did you kill your wife?" kind of questions?

(See Elvis, I am happy to defend Healy when completely baseless accusations are thrown at him, yet still criticize him for when he screws up.)

I think it's a good thing that BrightMoments posted information on the candidates even the ones he wasn't supporting. It's called transparency. One of the main reasons School Board elections have abysmal turnout is because of the lack of information about candidates, and any attempt to get people more info empowers them to get off their lazy butts and vote.

And why call BrightMoments out on posting the emails but not call out Steve Fulop for sending the emails to his lists?

Knowledge is power.

FWIW, I have not seen (or heard!) the obnoxious Healy Video/Sound Van at Walgreen's since Sunday. Not sure if it's only stationed there on weekends, but maybe making contact actually does make a difference.

Here's hoping.

And if anybody has had any sightings/hearings of the dreaded van since Sunday night, please post them here.

Right on. The same folks kvetching about the lack of notice to get HP started (finally!!!) will be the first ones complaining about the length of the construction process.

So let me get this straight, contacting those charged with enforcing our laws is a fool's errand, but instead I should implore the candidate who authorized the illegal sound truck in the first place for some relief?

I'll get right on that.

You could stick your head in the sand, or you could actually make calls (all of which are recorded) so there is documentation if/when those calls go unheeded.

Arnold Diaz loves this type of stuff, and has a hard-on for Jersey City lately. Anybody wanna hit him up? He might be able to put together a Shame Shame Shame segment just in time for election day.

I know people from all the campaigns read this site. It'd be foolish for them to not follow up on this.

Your cynicism and complacency is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

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ARTICLE II Sound Trucks
[Adopted 5-4-1971 as Ch. 26, Art. VI, of the 1971 Jersey City Code, as readopted 9-19-1978 by Ord. No. S-128]

? 222-6. Definitions.
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
MOBILE AMUSEMENT DEVICE - A carousel, whip, merry-go-round or any other movable vehicle capable and used in transporting the same from point to point throughout the city.
SOUND-AMPLIFYING EQUIPMENT - Any machine or device for the amplification of the human voice, music or any other sound. "Sound-amplifying equipment" shall not be construed as including standard automobile radios, when used and heard only by occupants of the vehicle in which installed, or warning devices on authorized emergency vehicles or horns or other warning devices on other vehicles used only for traffic safety purposes.
SOUND TRUCK - Any motor vehicle or horse-drawn vehicle having mounted thereon or attached thereto any sound-amplifying equipment.

? 222-7. Noncommercial use of sound trucks.
A. Registration required. No person shall use or cause to be used a sound truck with its sound-amplifying equipment in operation, excepting mobile amusement devices, for noncommercial purposes in the city before filing a registration statement with the City Clerk in writing. This registration statement shall be filed in duplicate and shall state the following:
(1) The name and home address of the applicant.
(2) The address of the place of business of the applicant.
(3) The license number and motor number of the sound truck to be used by the applicant.
(4) The name and address of the person who owns the sound truck.
(5) The name and address of the person having direct charge of the sound truck.
(6) The names and addresses of all persons who will use or operate the sound truck.
(7) The purpose for which the sound truck will be used.
(8) A general statement as to the section or sections of the city in which the sound truck will be used.
(9) The proposed hours of operation of the sound truck.
(10) The number of days of proposed operation of the sound truck.
(11) A general description of the sound-amplifying equipment which is to be used.
(12) The maximum sound producing power of the sound-amplifying equipment to be used in or on the sound trucks. State the following:
(a) The wattage to be used.
(b) The volume in decibels of the sound which will be produced.
(c) The approximate maximum distance for which sound will be thrown from the sound truck.
B. Registration statement and amendment. All persons using or causing to be used sound trucks for noncommercial purposes shall amend any registration statement filed pursuant to this section within forty-eight (48) hours after any change in the information therein furnished.
C. Registration and identification. The City Clerk shall return to each applicant under this section of this Article one (1) copy of said registration statement duly certified by the Clerk as a correct copy of said application. Said certified copy of the application shall be in the possession of any person operating the sound truck at all times while the sound truck's sound-amplifying equipment is in operation, and said copy shall be promptly displayed and shown to any police officer of the city upon request.
D. Regulations for use. Noncommercial use of sound trucks with sound-amplifying equipment in operation shall be subject to the following regulations:
(1) The only sounds permitted shall be music or human speech.
(2) Operations shall be permitted for four (4) hours each day, except on Sundays and legal holidays when no operations shall be authorized. The permitted four (4) hours of operation shall be between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
(3) Sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated unless the sound truck upon which such equipment is mounted is operated at a speed of at least ten (10) miles per hour, except when said truck is stopped or impeded by traffic. Where stopped by traffic, the sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated for longer than one (1) minute at each such stop.
(4) Sound shall not be issued within one hundred (100) yards of hospitals, schools, churches or courthouses during the hours when such buildings are in actual use.
(5) No sound truck with its amplifying device in operation shall be operated on the following streets between the points designated: Journal Square, Bergen Avenue, between Journal Square and Montgomery Street; Kennedy Boulevard between Cottage Street and Tonnele Avenue; Newark Avenue between Coles Street and Henderson Street; Grove Street between Newark Avenue and Montgomery Street; Henderson Street between Newark Avenue and Montgomery Street; Brunswick Street between Newark Avenue and Grand Street; West Side Avenue between Montgomery Street and Culver Avenue; Martin Luther King Drive between Communipaw Avenue and McAdoo Avenue; Ocean Avenue between Bramhall Avenue and Merritt Street; Monticello Avenue between Storms Avenue and Communipaw Avenue; Pacific Avenue between Communipaw Avenue and Grand Street; Central Avenue between Hoboken Avenue and the Union City boundary lines.
(6) The human speech and music amplified shall not be profane, lewd, indecent or slanderous.
(7) The volume of sound shall be controlled so that it will not be audible for a distance in excess of one hundred (100) feet from the sound truck and so that volume is not unreasonably loud, raucous, jarring, disturbing or a nuisance to persons within the area of audibility.

? 222-8. Commercial advertising by sound truck.
A. License required. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any sound truck in the city for commercial advertising purposes with sound-amplifying equipment in operation, excepting mobile amusement devices, unless a license has been obtained from the City Clerk. The fee for said license shall be as provided in Chapter 160, Fees and Charges.*

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*Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.

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B. Application for license. Persons applying for the license required under this section shall file with the City Clerk an application in writing giving in the application the information required in the registration statement under ? 222-7 of this Article.
C. Issuance of license. The City Clerk shall issue a license under this section upon payment of the required license fee unless the application required in this section reveals that the applicant would violate the regulations prescribed in this section or the provisions of some other ordinance of this city.
D. Possession and display of license. A licensee shall keep such license in his or her possession in the sound truck during the time the sound truck's sound-amplifying equipment is in operation. The license shall be promptly displayed and shown to any police officer of the City of Jersey City upon request.
E. Regulations for use. No person shall operate, or cause to be operated, any sounds truck for commercial sound advertising purposes in violation of the regulation set forth in this Article.



PLEASE CALL 201-547-5477 IF YOU SEE THESE SOUND TRUCKS OPERATING WITHOUT MOVING, OR ANY TIMES OTHER THAN FROM 11:30AM to 1:30PM and 4:30PM to 6:30PM, OR ON SUNDAYS OR HOLIDAYS!

I stopped at the Walgreen's on Communipaw and JFK on my way back home last night at 11pm, had to grab some milk. This van was in the Walgreen's parking lot, WITH THE AUDIO BLARING. There are homes and apartment buildings that abut the parking lot, who I can't imagine got any sleep as long as the audio was blasting as loud as it was.

Is it even legal to do something like this? I thought there was a city ordinance that banned campaign sound trucks on sundays.

Really tacky.

So you had no witnesses, but the only possible culprits must be people from a specific bar nearby? Because nobody else driving through downtown Jersey City could have possibly dinged your wheel well?

I wouldn't rush out to open a private detective agency any time soon if I were you.

The "main (only!) recreational outlet"???? Really?

There's a park less than 3 blocks west of Hamilton Park.

An inconvenience is not a crisis. Particularly when that inconvenience is for the greater good.

This thread is amazing.

Okay, we're getting somewhere. When you say "Irish feel" what do you mean?

And have you ever been to Ireland?

I guess what I don't understand is what you're defining an "Irish pub" to be.

Seeing as we have multiple establishments downtown actually owned and run by genuine, honest-to-god Irish people, I'm curious as to what this mythical ideal establishment would look/feel/sound like.

No amount of Guinness posters or toothless old white guys in wool would make a basement storefront in Jersey City an "authentic" Irish pub, especially seeing as we're not in Ireland.

Even Ireland is seeing a dramatic decline in "authentic" Irish Pubs.

What we don't need is any more plastic shamrock establishments. If you want a cheap dive, there are plenty of those around to choose from, no need to dress them up in green.

"We" are apparently a [sic] apathetic enough electorate that we use bad grammar in our subject headings.