Healy may be out, but my question is, 'who will take his place?' It seems that no matter who it is, they adhere to the same MO. Or they are stymied by the council. Or we get Schundler, who refinances the debt and sells off our assets like all good repugnantmen.

Yes, and no, not exactly. Erie was the name of the station stop on the H&M tubes (PATH), where a passenger connected with the Erie Railroad. It is located in the area that was historically know as Pavonia. As stated on the website link in the last post, the Erie Railroad moved it's station to Hoboken. It was a rail-ferry link like the C&R terminal in LSP and the Hoboken Terminal, and was apparently a pretty grand building in it's heyday, but dilapidated by the time it was torn down. My neighbor, who is an old-timer says that the whole waterfront down there and Exchange Place was full of rats. And that was not so long ago.

Wow! What a waste of creativity. How does a 17 year-old figure out how to do that? I hope he graduated.

The City has to start by putting more trash cans on the street and emptying them. There are at least three threads open right now about this on the site. If we all complained to the politicians instead of just to each other it might happen. Clean streets are a sign of a civilized society.

Immigration and "importation" something, I think. A K-9 unit, with a dog in the back. I only saw two guys with uniforms, one taking pictures as the other was coming out of the store. Maybe they've been smuggling cigarettes.

Yesterday(Monday) afternoon on Grove, Between Mercer and Wayne, in ELECTRIC BLUE. Love it.

Of course there should be oversight to see that money isn't wasted, but I have no doubt that our schools need more. There's a big difference between the resources we have here and those in the suburbs. What amazes me is the cry when the state puts a limit on the money, but two weeks ago the city approved huge tax abatements for twenty and thirty years! That means a generation's worth of residents in those buildings won't be paying school taxes. Not my idea of a long-term plan.

Hey, I could be wrong, I haven't followed local politics closely and didn't live in JC during the Schundler years, but I have some impressions.
Didn't he, in the typical Republican way, refinance the city's debt so that he didn't have to raise taxes? And doesn't the repayment of that debt add substantially to our financial burden now?
Wasn't the charter schools push the Republican way to show how for-profit corporations could do things better than government? And still earn a profit? And wasn't Golden Door built with money donated by real estate developers? That made him look like a champion of the common people, whose children were struggling to get a decent education, but anyone else who needed to build a charter school had to rely on corporations looking to make a profit from our tax money.
Needless to say, Schundler's daughter went to school in Hoboken. And I don't think Golden Door has been a success. Nor do I think the corporation-run schools in this or any other city have worked. But it sounded like a good idea.
Didn't he sell the water supply that had been publicly owned to United Water, and didn't they want to sell it in turn to a French company?
Schundler was just another Republican believer in the transfer of public assets into private hands, which we are seeing nowdays on a much larger and more frightening scale.
I share many other's dismay and frustration at the corruption of local government: Schundler presented a different image to the public, but his policies have done plenty of harm in the long run.