fedupman wrote:
I,m just saying that I find people odd when they stare at you funny or stare at you without blinking an eye.First of all staring is rude.It,s one thing to glance at a person when you,re passing them on the street but to stare like that often makes you wonder what,s going through their minds.It just seems odd because I,m very down to earth.If I pass somebody on the street and we look at each other I,ll say Good Morning so it dosen,t seem so awkward.

Also don,t get me started on these people with their cell phones. These people are not happy unless they,re on that cell phone 24/7. It,s become an addiction like drugs. Just yesterday I saw a woman on her phone while her dog was taking a crap and she was leaning over in such an unatural angle to allow him room to go while talking on the cell phone the entire time.Actually it was so funny I laughed.I could see cell phones for emergencies but these people make it their life blood. People did survive before cell phones,believe it or not.These people today are spoiled and become obsessed with it.

corybraiterman wrote:
Too often, things get delayed for months and years here in JC due to the interference of local officials. Bars, restaurants, etc. etc. keep getting hassled. Remember that thread, I believe it was concerning the Hamilton Park Ale House where one person overheard some JC official bragging about having single-handedly delayed some place for months on end? Dunno about you, but I despise that kind of fiefdom nonsense. Atomic Wings taking years to open up. The new deli on Manila that was supposed to have opened in the spring. Barcade.

corybraiterman wrote:
I'm ambivalent to a light rail extension - it'd be nice, but man would that suck for the people living on the north half of 5th st. - trains 10 feet from your window? I know I wouldn't want that.

corybraiterman wrote:
Option 2: get rid of it. Small townhouses, 3-4 story buildings for apartments or condos, brownstones, ground-level park - these are all workable options that don't cost the city money and in at least a few of those cases, give the city taxable assets. Hell, have a ground-level parking lot on one block so us locals that have cars can get easier parking in the neighborhood.

ogden1 wrote:
I hope there is a good turnout. It will be really terrible for the folks on 5th and 6th the have hi rise apts in their back yards. We really must show our supprt tonight and stop this insanity.

bodhipooh wrote:

And that, in a nutshell, is the main problem with the state of our city at this point in time. Crime is obviously a key issue, but the city's current infrastructure is an even more important issue. The administration has allowed (and fostered) the speedy development of the waterfront and other areas of the city, but we are not keeping up with the growth, and the impact can be seen everywhere. Our roads are in very poor condition, the PATH is usually stuffed during the rush hour commuting hours, countless water mains are breaking all over the place, the police force (as a ratio of beat officers to citizens) is getting smaller and smaller... If we continue down this path, the city will collapse under its own weight. And, what a shame... a more balanced approach to growth could, and should, yield better results for everyone. Instead, we are all getting the shaft by the effects of poor planning to maintain and grow the city's infrastructure.

murican wrote:
Wouldn't a better witness have been a civil/enviromental engineer, who could have judged the design and structural integrity of the Embankment as a 19th/ 20th century public work, and also could have told us what the environmental impact of removing a century of industrial debris would have on our community?

Did anyone stay to the end? I would like to know what happened after I left at about 7:30pm.

BMS1979 wrote:
Also I have not seen Gasland, but from what i've read, doesn't that look specifically at the dangers of hydraulic fracing? What does that have to do with this pipeline? Along with this pipeline will they be drilling for natural gas in Jersey City as well? The pollutants that seem to be causing problems with drinking water from fracing seem to happen at the source. I thought this pipeline is only transporting gas from the Linden processing center into NYC. Am I wrong? If that is the case what does "Gasland" have to do with this?

pinkydapimp wrote:
anyone know if they deliver during the day for lunch?

gumbo wrote:
PBW--you'll be pleased to hear that i was recently ticketed for parking within 25 feet of a crosswalk in downtown jersey city. a farce of an infraction, given that i was at least 15 feet from the crosswalk line, and located on the east side of a 4 way stop, where the traffic flows one way from west-east (so you look west for oncoming traffic and east for pedestrians--not blocking any views).

southside wrote:
just got the whole story on what happened to them(ox)..Holy crap! they never had a chance! so far behind in debt due to hold up's at the building Dept. and last minute construction required by the fire Dept combined with all the rent they were paying while waiting to open, they needed all of us to eat there everyday for a month to get caught up.. the details of the building dept. stuff are horrifying! the women who filled me in told me that the atomic wings had even worse issues getting open...now i know why no one wants to rent any of these buildings, the bldg/fire dept are making the tenants upgrade everything from sprinklers to god knows what and i'm sure landloards aren't all that willing to chip in? hopefully this city will get their shit together and help people open business instead of making it impossible to open and stay in biz!

phDog wrote:
if you get it, you get it. if you dont, move on.