This is not true. There was an issue with the heat for a few hours in 1 building(we have 5). It was rectified as soon as possible.

When this was published the heat had been on for hours.
This article is misleading and the google groups SHOULD never have been quoted.

Slowly it will spread out through JC. I moved downtown in 2007, bought in 2011 and am now looking to sell my downtown 1 bedroom apt for a house in the southern section of the heights or journal sq.

When I first got to JC there were like 2 resteraunts that I went to, now there are a bunch. As people move more and more towards walkable living cities like Jersey City will benifit.

Economically, Jersey City will benefit but it will become a new city. The old timers who rent will be pushed out but the ones who own and sell will make bank on their houses.

In the end, a bus ride from a path station is better than taking jersey transit for an hr and paying hundreds of dollars a month for transit.

Could they have made that building any uglier?

I went to the taqueria on grove st not realizing it was the same as the one of grand I have been boycotting for 5 years. I realized this only after ordering. I'm glad the owner was there and being a douchebag. Reminded me why I don't eat there. That was until I bit into my tacos. Flank steak was gross, dry, and looked like pork. The actual pork taco was good but a little salty. The rice and beans is just sad. Legal beans has better rice and beans.

Why can't we get Cali Mexican food here? I never got what my husband, who is from the bay area, was talking about until last time we were visiting. we got tacos at a random taco place and omfg it was crazy good and cheap! Refried beans were creamy and I still think about them(they were amazing). I had no idea why anyone ate refried beans until I ate these.

We can talk about which Mexican is best in JC but really none of it is very good. Viva Mexico is okay but a little bland. Atleast they are nice to their customers and don't go on drunken ranks about how they don't need their JC customers.

BTW 3 tacos, a flautus, one order of rice and beans and 2 sodas shouldn't cost $29.

I wish I knew how to make authentic Mexican food like the taquerias out west. I'd make a killing!

I didn't realize this was only till October. I think the pedestrian plaza is a good idea in spring and summer.. Not so much in fall/winter. They need to coordinate more events if they reopen in the spring.

Btw i have a car and ride a bike. This midly inconviences me but overall it's a nice addition.

Your website looks great! Someone must have a great design sense in your family ;)

You should build up a customer base by having a cart or table at the farmers market/groove on grove.

My guess would be babies and the increase in prices. I live at Dixon Mills and I bought in 2011, if i sold now my apartment would go for about third more than what i paid it for it.

Lots of young couples are having babies, they stay at Dixon mills for a few years and then move to Maplewood or some other near by suburb.

Good luck with that I say. NJtransit is the worst.

I was at the ride. It was fun. Wish there had been more water avilable on the way to linkin park.

Is it normal for people to crash or was it made worse by potholes? I saw 3 accidents where people just face planted. On grove street I went into a huge hole that knocked a screw out of my back storage support. I have a cruiser and I ride down broadway from WTC everyday on a citibike so I'm good at not falling BC of potholes. Hurt my arms and wrists terribly.

Does anyone know if the girl who was face down on grove st by Montgomery was okay? She looked like she was really hurt.

The potholes were terrible!

I went here again Sunday night with some friends from Brooklyn after going to Barcade and it was super yummy. Service was good, the waitress recognized my husband and I, and The mac and cheese balls are amazing!

It was nice that the food being good was not a one time thing.

It's nice to see more places like this popping up.

I went there last might with my husband. It was really good. The burger was very juicy even for medium well. Their bank sauce was super yummy. The service was really really good! Itwas nice to see a new place doing so well! If you like burgers check it out. I would also suggest going to the cookie place across the street for desert. It is a good combination. :)

I own an apartment with a parking spot near there. Bring it on. If anything it'll make my apartment worth more when i sell it!

I just can't see people paying that much for a tiny apartment in JC but hey we will see.

Saw this and thought i'd share

25 Reasons To Move To New Jersey ? Yes, Seriously

You really need to jump in front of an express train if you want to off yourself quickly. the path train is really not the way to go.

What is up with this place closing at 6pm on saturday and sunday? I was excited to see a gelato place so close to apt(i'm at dixon mills) now especially since my gelato go to tommy two scoops is closed for who knows how long. It was a nice day today and i ended up having to work till 6:30 to meet a deadline, came home ate dinner, and decided to take a walk over to get some gelato and enjoy the lovely weather and it was closed.

Guess the candy store on Washington is going to have to be my go to spring/summer gelato place. it's very disappointing.

Why do people keep mentioning queens like it is a hotspot? Its not Brooklyn. Aside from Astoria and maybe LIC its way lamer than living in jc.

I love living in JC. It is my calm. I do not want to live in Manhattan and I sure as hell dont want to live in Brooklyn. I think this is a hard concept for some people. I want to live here. My best friend lives in bushwick wouldn't live anywhere else i feel the same way about JC. Everyone is different and looks for different things. I want walkable living without all the chaos. I wanting to have a car and I really do not want to pay city tax! Its pretty here and I like my apt. I don't go out all the time nor do I want to. I don't feel a need to have every one think I'm cool.

I really think if u could bike to jc people would view living here differently. People also need to get over this crazy ass view that some how jersey is any worse than anywhere else in the tristate area. I grew up on LI and always thought jersey was terrible. Its the same as the rest of the area u just can't buy beer at 711 and left turns are done in a strange fashion in the burbs.

Carmines can be hit or miss(still good but not great) but when they get it right it is so good. I mainly order from them. Worst pizza is chill out pizza lounge

The main problem with that place was their food was waaaay too expensive. Their coffee was expensive and it was terrible. I'm obsessed with cupcakes but I boycotted them after buying a cookie for like 5 bucks at groove on groove. Their baked goods were pretensious and meh. I live at dixon mills and refused to go there. That is what happens when you charge manhattan prices in jc bc it's "organic".

The coffee at ny bagel on Newark is really good and the owners are super nice. They have some yummy baked goods too.

the sooner they get this done the better. housing prices will start going back up at some point and the closer to the bottom of the market we are the lower our taxes will be.

this is not an us vs them. i am talking about the long term tenants that will not move but complain about how the place sucks(if it sucks move! this makes no sense to me). there are renters that were not through the developer who are totally normal and nice and care about the place! I personally care about were i leave if i am renting it or if i own it.

i am also exceptionally tired of people in downtown jersey city freaking out about any crime at all. this is if you live here or rent... it is a city!

Dixon Mills is a really good value for the money. If you have 500 grand to spend buy a condo in a rowhouse. I would love to own a rowhouse with a backyard but those are extremely expensive in JC. A one bedroom downtown is hard to find under 300 thousand, that isn't tiny, doesn't have freakishly high taxes, insane maintenance or isn't almost a mile from the path. Most people who own a one bedroom are smart enough to know that right now is not a good time to sell. they can make more money by renting and then selling it later on when housing comes back up(praying that this does not happen before the reassessment).

my "attitude" is towards people who just make things up and can not understand they live in a city. a mugging is not a big deal.. i am not really concerned with what DM was like 5 years ago. i know what it is like now. I read all the bad crap before i moved there and honestly not a single thing has held true for my apartment or my experience.

For less than $300,000 I got a huge apartment, a gym, someone to deal with the day to day crap of an apartment building, a parking space, a courtyard, and a place that is trying to a community. it's great. it seems JClist has an abnormal amount of hate for Dixon Mills. We should encourage redevelopment of existing properties instead of just building mindless boring high rise towers all over the place.

To be honest, I didn't even want to move to DM. I wanted a cute 2 bedroom up in Hamilton park. guess what i am super glad i did not buy it. the taxes were almost 10 grand and there is no parking space, it's further from the train, it's on the top floor with no elevator, the maintenance was only a 100 bucks less than dm, and there is a church that rings it's bells way too early on weekends. DM is a much better deal!

did the developers cut some corners, yes they did and guess what they did it at trump plaza and crystal point, and grove pointe and 50 columbus and on and on and on bc that is what developers do! There is nothing that will change that. they want to get back the most they can on their investment.

Oneskirt... I honestly do not see the need in sending an e-mail about something that is not preventable and not affecting anyone in the community.

see instead of investing your money in the community, that is so terrible that you have lived there for 16 years, you have just given them your money and will see no return. that seems much wiser.

The renters are a good of disgruntled individuals who have done nothing but slander Dixon Mills. i am not really interested in their outrage.

Again, must be such a terrible place with all the long term renters who either buy a place or fight to stay. I have had no issues since moving there since last winter. It's a great place to live if you are aware you are buying an existing building that was converted and not a perfect imaginary piece of masonry that is impervious to problems.

I think this happens at large schools. I grew up in the suburbs and stuff like this happened at the high school in my district and the high school in the next town.

eh as long as they are just stabbing each other not random innocents. it's going to happen unfortunately. teenagers are dumb and they don't understand how to resolve their anger and they have a tendency to become violent.. especially if in a gang.

I live at Dixon Mills and I am not concerned. It's a city.
There is going to be crime. Relax we will all be okay.

You guys sound like the paranoid people on the google groups of DM. The fact that everyone is freaking out about this shows you how safe JC and Dixon Mills has become.

I'm not saying i want any crime to occur but i understand it will. It will occur in small towns, It will occur in large and small cities. How was security supposed to prevent this? They are not stationed at every door and even if they saw it happen on the camera all they can do is call the cops which we don't even know if they did.

Honestly I don't even understand why we have so much security. I think they do a fine job. I have had them question me before when i was hanging out in front of my building to make sure i wasn't loitering.

If you live at DM and are an owner join the google groups. I knew this happened like 10 minutes after it occurred.

jcboyz.. that is really unnecessary

You can get a 1 bedroom at GrovePointe for like $2100-2400. The same with 50 Columbus. My friend lives at GrovePointe and she likes it. It is lacking some charm but that is what you give up when you move into a highrise.

I do not see any problem finding a 1 bedroom in a rowhouse within half a mile of he path for $2000 bucks. I have lived in hamiltion park(north of grove st) and it was only like 1600. i also lived in 1st street west of grove st and that was about the same. each of which were about half a mile away and my electric bill was way under 200 a month.

don't let a few people discourage you. JC is a great small city. It is constantly improving and honestly i prefer the path to the subway. It is also much cheaper if you can avoid paying for a monthly subway pass to just have a path card.

good luck! consider row houses!

Kindred.. as i said it is better to be safe than sorry. if it was late at night and i thought someone was following me i would have called the cops just in case. why are you getting defensive? what you did was dangerous.

you have lived in jc your whole life and you don't know how to get to a police station? i have only been here for 5 years and i rarely drive but i know where a couple police stations are. if you had called the cops and stayed on the phone with them they would have had an eye out for you.

this is common sense, if someone is being super sketchy at a late time at night then yes call the cops and drive to a police station. I'm glad you think you are parnelli jones driver and just because you have not been involved in an accident when driving 70 doesn't mean you haven't caused any so don't pat yourself on the back just yet.. how old are you that you think that is a good thing?

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yes but in a city that is how it is. i walk down wayne st(i like a few blocks down wayne at dixon mills) and it is fine. i just wouldn't hang out on that block between jersey and barrow in the middle of the night. there are a TON beautiful apartments on that street with families(i can see in there huge uncovered windows with great architectural details on my walk home). it's nothing to really worry about.

.anyone remember the show "Jacked"? it was in newark for a reason.

Kindred... you really should have called 911 and drove to a police station. it is always better to be safe and inconvenience the cops than to be sorry.

I got the same thing. I am at Dixon Mills and purchased an apartment in the end of march. I freaked out when i saw this and couldn't understand what was going on. In my case, the developer had paid a 100 bucks to get a partial assessment. At the end of the year JC has to fix the books and charge the correct amount of taxes.

I would REALLY suggest going down to the tax assessors office at city hall. They are fabulous. They will explain it all to you. It all makes sense once you understand why it happened. They are the NICEST people I have ever dealt with in government. I went in there freaking out and ready to scream and they were incredible.

Your bill is now what the first document said + the additional amount. If you look at document sent for the taxes for 2012 you will see that your total tax amount is far more than what you are paying out each quarter. if you add the additional amount to the additional tax assessment it should all end up equaling the total.

I have to agree about Ibby's. I feel like when i moved here 5 years ago the food was so much better there. I switched to Gypsy Grill for couple reasons. They have more options, they are closer to my apt, and Ibby's has been making me sick from the grease. They used to be so yummy now i just feel ill after i eat it.

Gypsy Grill is super yummy and i really hope they stay around. You get a lot of food for your money and they are really nice.

This weekend, my mother-in-law came to town so my husband and i took her to the Brightside and it was great again! Tommy sat down and talked to us and my mother-in-law loved him. the food was super yummy. We had the sliders app. yeah that was super yummy. next time i go i am getting a burger! Tommy sent over the carrot cake with mascarpone gelato.... oh my it was delicious and there was enough to split between the three of us.

i am praying that this place continues to do well. Tommy REALLY cares about this place and he will adjust things to what customers say about the food. if you have a problem tell him... don't not come back because of it.

I actually i knew Tommy was there because someone started playing with the lights. He seems to want to make everything perfect bc he cares so much. it is nice to see.

the only thing that i have any issue with is the staff is still finding there footing but that is to be expected. the waitstaff seems to be a little shaky but learning.

if you haven't tried this place you really should!