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Re: PATH is down again today!
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You all know about the Oct 1st rate hike on Path right?

I doubt this is the last one.

"Beginning Oct 1 at 3 a.m., a single PATH ride will rise to $2.75 and a two-trip ticket will be $5.50. Multi-ride tickets will be offered at a discount, including a 10-trip ticket for $21; a 20-trip ticket for $42; and a 40-trip ticket for $84; or a seven-day unlimited ticket for $29 and a 30-day unlimited ticket for $89.

In 2011, the bi-state agency announced that a single PATH fare would increase from $1.75 to $2.75 at a rate of 25 cents per year."

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

Posted on: 2014/9/24 14:58
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Re: Iphone 6 at ATT Newport
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While people were on iphone 6 line I was trying to put in a limit order on alibaba. The fidelity website using my laptop was hanging for over 2 hours and could not even trade other stocks. The site traffic was so high as if the website was hit by DOS attack. Could not get a trader over the phone either. But guess what, I downloaded the fidelity app on my iphone5 and put in the trade and got the opening bid within 2 seconds when it opened on the NYSE. Hindsight waiting for few hours I could have picked it up at $90 but hey you never know. That's what your smart phone does for you.

Going back to this thread. My time is more important than waiting on some line and rather waste some of it here reading jclist gossip sometimes .

Posted on: 2014/9/20 2:19
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Re: AT&T 4G LTE Coverage In Jersey City
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tghost wrote:
I'm currently with AT&T wireless and have been seriously considering shifting over to VZW. Up until recently, AT&T 3G voice and data have been pretty bad here in downtown Jersey City. I was informed by AT&T that they put a new cell repeater in neighborhood and the 3G signal has been noticeably stronger here.

Can anyone provide any feedback on how their AT&T 4G LTE speeds are in downtown JC? I'm thinking that if it's pretty good and considering that AT&T has boosted their 3G signal in the area, maybe I'll stick with AT&T after all. I know that VZW's 4G LTE coverage in this area is pretty good. I'm specifically interested in AT&T LTE reviews. Thanks!


You might be suffering from what I had. I have full LTE signal street level but almost no data and barely a bar or two "E" phone coverage only in my unit even next to the windows.
You probably need a microcell. It is a booster that connects to your internet router and needs to be placed by the window. I had to fight with AT&T to get it from them for free($200) The rep told me that she never saw that many microcells concentrated in one area. I told her that I am not going to pay for it since they could not provide the promised cell/data service, let alone a 3G and my personal fios had to subsidize the cell phone bandwidth.

Posted on: 2014/9/20 1:51
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Re: Speed bump between 8th and 9th on Erie.
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Can you guys imagine how these things going to work when it snows or worse we run out of salt again winter and skate over these things!

Posted on: 2014/9/18 3:42
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Re: LIGHT RAIL EXTREMELY LOUD BELL SHOULD BE STOPPED
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epos wrote:

I even want to start a petition or something in my neighborhood along Essex st, but I need to know first whom I can address it to, any advice would be appreciated.



You could start a local petition and submit it to councilwoman Candice's office. You can also report the issue to resident help center in City hall and make a complaint. They have a website to do so.

You can become a member and raise the issue at HPHA meeting that takes place on 1st Thursday of each month at 7:30pm Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church on Grand St. http://www.paulushook.org/

I agree that bells are needed for the light rail train but they should be used if there is safety concern. There is no need to blow it at each intersection after midnight when most people are off the streets. This one is going to be a hard balancing act.


Posted on: 2014/9/11 15:30
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Re: One-ring-scam
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just disable your outgoing international cell plan and use a 3rd party calling service for it and you'll avoid both problems of inflated international rates and also this scam altogether.

Posted on: 2014/9/3 15:08
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Re: Homeowner's Insurance
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If you need only Home Owner's I recall Metlife to be cheapest from my previous search. I like to have same company for car and home and pay a little more so that in gray area they can't point the finger at each other to avoid claim.

Watch out for Liberty Mutual especially for car. I had both condo and car with them. I found them to be bait with lower rates first year and increase each year for no reason(no claims, tickets etc). On average they raised 7% on me and when questioned they said it was State approved yearly increase. 3rd year I dumped them for Fitchburg Mutual. Local agency I use is Petrocci.

If you go to NJ State Govt Insurance website you can see what average company charges for age group and marital status etc

The data is kind of old but good for comparison.

http://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_ ... autopremiumcomparison.htm.

http://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_ ... e/homeownercomparison.htm



Posted on: 2014/8/14 17:14
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Re: Ex-Con Fleeces JC Residents Out of Thousands - Bamboozled/Star Ledger
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Unfortunately con-men pray on people in trouble or financially illiterate. They should have a basic mandatory financial subject at high school level. It is crazy how many young people fall into credit card debt trap as soon as they enter college.

Posted on: 2014/8/12 15:49
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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Thank you! You just proved my point. The helicopters from Kearny are authorized by the FAA to operate at 300 feet or less. Since ONLY the FAA has authority over the sky above us, any resolution, law or statement by politicians contrary to the FAA's determination and approvals is just posturing for the masses.

I am with Fulop on this one. There's really nothing to be done, and nothing to worry about. Your fear mongering is just that.


The FAA is funded by the Federal Gov't and senators and congressmen do have a say in their budget. The FAA can't have it both ways by allowing a creation of a Heliport in Kearny knowing that helos have to fly low over urban areas due to Newark commercial traffic.

How do you think we ended up with all NYC tourist helicopters over Hudson river since 2011? NYC officials and Senator Schumer banned all tourist flights over Brooklyn, Manhattan, Central Park and East River in 2010. They located all tour companies to Downtown Manhattan Heliport and created 2 routes(short&long) both over Hudson River, the South bound hugging the NJ coast and sometimes over land. They did not even ask NJ for permission. Kearny was created as a storage and maintenance facility for mostly tour Helicopters.

Next time you see them over Target, Holland Tunnel, Journal Sq or Heights lift up your head and look for their colors. Either red or navy blue as in this link.
http://www.libertyhelicopter.com/about-sp-2001052626.html

Yvonne,

Most of those are Tour Helos but there are some private and corporates helos as well that travel to Kearny over JC.

Posted on: 2014/8/10 3:40
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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To be fair to Fulop, the proposal today would stop tourist helicopters from buzzing the JC area, not commercial flights like those that would be used ferrying people to the heliport at Paulus Hook for Goldman.



Goldman stopped pretty much all flights from Paulus Hook Helipad since past Xmas. Locals around really appreciate it and thank them for the closure. Everyone is happy except for some tourists who complain on Tripadvisor that they can't take a night flight at the expense of our quality of life until 11PM 7 days a week.

Fulop should have voted against the creation of Kearny Heliport and the route that helicopters take from Kearny to Hudson River over Jersey City at low altitude. Hopefully his change of attitude about the subject will help bring peace to Jersey City residents.

Posted on: 2014/8/10 3:19
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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The low flying helicopters over Jersey City that cut across Newport Green playground, Target, continue over Rt 139 to Skyway and terrorize all people who live under this path needs to be banned. They fly 200-300 feet above ground flying from Kearny heliport to Hudson river and then Downtown Manhattan Heliport. Most of them are red and dark blue color tourist helicopters with a white strike across them which are owned by Liberty Helicopter.


I seriously doubt your eyeballs can accurately measure what 200 or 300 feet above you would look like.

In any case, here are the federal rules that govern aircraft operations as far as altitude is concerned: FAR 91.119.


Any Mon-Sat evening around 6-7PM go sit at Exxon station on Kennedy Blvd by Rt 139 intersection. You can compare the altitudes of these helicopters to buildings near by to gauge their altitude. St John's Condos are 17 story around 200 feet and Senior housing is about that height. These guys fly just over their rooftops.


Posted on: 2014/8/9 4:59
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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More scare tactics by ERHC.

That 33Million number was 50M few months ago. The study that they keep raving about considers each hotel night booked by the tourist as a revenue generated by the helicopter tourism industry. Really? These tourists come to NYC just to get on these helicopters? Maybe less than .1% come for work/film related to helicopters but 99.9% come here for vacation. If a tourist stayed for 5 nights in a hotel the entire revenue is benefited to heli industry. You don't have to be a statistics Math major to know that as Bill Clinton would said "their arithmetic is flawed".


Following is from ex-president of ERHC and current consultant to ERHC Mr. Grotell from Sept 2013.( He is also the brains behind creation of Downtown Manhattan Heliport and initially managing it. He also runs a website called "flying neighborly" and takes complaints of helicopter noise from local citizens. A huge conflict of interest there. )


"Hoboken/Jersey City area noise concerns are one of ERHC's top priorities and while we will never support any flight restrictions, curfews or bans, we are educating our members of the issues at hand and developing additional voluntary noise abatement procedures to reduce area noise levels."

Nothing has been done in terms of limiting the number of flights or hours. He does not respond to us at all and following is on record.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014 ... d_not_show_near-miss.html



"Grotell said he could not respond to a request for comment Monday by The Star-Ledger due to a family illness. He said he did not respond to Wagner's email because the helicopter council has a policy to not respond to Wagner's group."

Posted on: 2014/8/9 4:53
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Re: Helicopters over the Hudson
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Most of you are correct that our Mayor does not think he can get a win in this issue and does not want to directly stick his neck out on a losing battle or end up on the losing side. It is all tactical for his future.

To be fair he did send someone from his office to this meeting today so that it does not give the impression that he is the only mayor without representation.

He is just not going out of his way for it like the Mayors of Hoboken, Weehawken and Guttenberg to show up in person.

The low flying helicopters over Jersey City that cut across Newport Green playground, Target, continue over Rt 139 to Skyway and terrorize all people who live under this path needs to be banned. They fly 200-300 feet above ground flying from Kearny heliport to Hudson river and then Downtown Manhattan Heliport. Most of them are red and dark blue color tourist helicopters with a white strike across them which are owned by Liberty Helicopter.

Liberty Helicopter is 60% owned by Saker Aviation which operates DT Manhattan heliport leased from NYC and it is a Nevada incorporated company.

Posted on: 2014/8/8 18:18
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Re: Is Cornelia F. Bradford No16 public school? zones?
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mwa7368 wrote:
Do you know about the Pre-K 3 availability at Bradford?

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As long as you are in the zone your kid is guaranteed (as of now) a kindergarten spot. The pre-K4 is by lotto and only 30 seats available. Kids that don't make the lotto get bused to near by PS preK for a year and back to PS16 in kindergarten.


Nope. Look elsewhere for preK3. river school, waterfront montessori and OLC school provide prek3 or earlier in some cases.

Posted on: 2014/8/7 4:16
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Re: Is Cornelia F. Bradford No16 public school? zones?
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As long as you are in the zone your kid is guaranteed (as of now) a kindergarten spot. The pre-K4 is by lotto and only 30 seats available. Kids that don't make the lotto get bused to near by PS preK for a year and back to PS16 in kindergarten.

Posted on: 2014/8/5 18:43
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Re: Auto Glass window tint
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Do cops ever stop these drivers? I feel for cops at night having to walk up to these fools' cars -- who knows what they have inside!




You should see some of those cops' personal cars. The front windows and all around are 20% limo tint and some even have top of the windshield tinted. NYC cops don't differ also. Being a cop has its own perks but don't like it when they are hypocrites.

Posted on: 2014/8/4 15:54
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Re: Auto Glass window tint
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I took 2 cars to Dave so far and they do a good job. Professional Sound & Security at the Heights.

Posted on: 2014/8/2 14:50
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Re: Where should you live in New Jersey?
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I got Hoboken. Close enough.

Posted on: 2014/7/23 20:32
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Re: Cowan Removed as JC Police Chief Today - JJ
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OK I get the removal but how is making him deputy chief going to help? Won't there be a divide among officers who support Cowan vs non-supporters? Isn't it better just to terminate employment?

In military you get court marshaled for not following orders. I don't think a general gets demoted to a captain for not following orders from the President.

Posted on: 2014/6/27 3:35
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Re: Red Light Camera Warning!
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If JC becomes like Chicago full of red light cameras then I could see these selling like pancakes.





Posted on: 2014/6/25 3:57
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Re: Lightrail and Bicycles
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Here is an idea. Ride your bike there. Unless of course it needs fixing.

Posted on: 2014/6/25 3:49
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Re: What should I do about a tenant using JCFD to harass me?
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Being a landlord is hard. I recall we had to pay realtor broker fee for our tenant to get rid of them. Long story but family of 5 turned into 11 when their parents, brother & his family plus another single brother moved in from overseas. It was an existing tenant when purchased the 3 family building.

If you want to be a landlord without the headache the alternative is dividend paying REITs.

Posted on: 2014/6/24 4:50
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Re: 3 Armed Robberies - One on CC/Warren Street on Sunday - JJ
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There is a cop at that corner by Chase during daytime for the construction nearby. After few teens robbing people nearby a month ago and another person being shot to death about same time in a nearby deli you would think that they would have at least one marked car nearby.

Every time I drive by police precincts I see so many marked cars just parked there.

Posted on: 2014/6/24 4:06
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Re: Bike Storage
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My MTB is locked up in our building's bike storage but my primary road bike is always in my apt on one of these in a corner which saves some space.


vertical stand

Posted on: 2014/6/16 2:50
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Re: Jersey City considers turning Newark Avenue into pedestrian plaza
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I think (am not certain) that it now is proposed that Newark be closed 4-midnight during the week and from 4pm Friday to Midnight Sunday with no allowance for deliveries during the times when it is closed.



So no garbage pickup entire weekend from restaurants?

Posted on: 2014/6/12 16:57
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Re: 95 percent of the people in Jersey City are good and five percent are bad...
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5% is a lot of bad guys (12500 out of 250K JC population). We have about 1045 cops so roughly 12 bad guys for 1 cop ratio.

Posted on: 2014/6/12 3:58
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Re: Jersey City City Council to vote on resolution in support of GMO labeling
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I am all for this and Monsanto is an evil company and all BUT...
how about first they fix the lead issue in the JC public schools' water faucets/fountains.

Posted on: 2014/6/12 3:33
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Re: New tax break for Hyatt Hotel
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Do they plan on keeping the old building? I thought Subway/DD, a Bank and Cosi was shutdown due to cracks on the building and was to be demolished.

I don't have a problem with it if they make it a 10 year abatement with 90% Jersey City Hotel staff. We are not a tiny town and have over 250K population. The Hotel is right next to a Light rail and Path stop and we could find few hundred qualified employees to help run it.

Posted on: 2014/6/10 3:07
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Re: NYC vs NJ property taxes
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NYC has it's own city income tax in addition to NY state income tax.

So the money you save from lower property taxes just goes towards the extra NYC tax.


I agree. NYC taxes take a bigger toll if your family has dual income or in the higher tax bracket. For Ex: Married above 90K or single over 60K income will cost you extra 3.648% on top of already higher NY State Tax(compared to NJ State tax).

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/new-yor ... rease-top-income-tax-rate

NYC condos with less amenities will cost more maintenance compared to some DTJC condos.


Posted on: 2014/6/7 17:46
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Re: What location was your bike stolen from (time, type of lock, etc)?
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Bike specific GPS trackers are out there, here's one:

http://bikespike.com

Best place to mount would be either under the saddle or inside seat post.


thank for this info. I have been using now discontinued gamin gtu in my car as lo-jack device.

http://www.cnet.com/products/garmin-gtu-10/

I had used it on my road bike in the past by storing it in a small tool bag under the saddle. The problem with these devices is the battery life and need for clear GPS signal. Works pretty good in cars if you hard wire it but once bike is indoors and battery is dead game over.

Posted on: 2014/5/30 3:55
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