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Re: Evacuation Shelters and Sandbags for Hurricane Irene

#91

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The city Office of Emergency Management will open the Pershing Field Community Center, located at Pershing Plaza and Summit Avenue.

Just to verify -

The city is setting up the temporary animal shelter in the neighborhood of the city furthest from the evacuation zones?

(Not to disparage the work you're doing, r_pinkowitz, but seriously now.

Posted on: 2011/8/27 23:09

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Re: Zombie Walk in Paulus Hook!

#92

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A zombie walk. Great. What's next, 80's Night?

Posted on: 2011/8/23 1:51

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Re: What do you think about the partying at night by the Exchange Place PATH?

#93

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This is outrageous etc.

Posted on: 2011/8/19 5:03

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Re: Sketch Comedy in Van Vorst Park

#94

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Hmm.

Posted on: 2011/8/15 2:38

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Re: Help--- what to do about feral cats??

#95

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Sorry, I forgot about a locally rare disease that is also spread by birds. Do you not wash your vegetables? If there are birds around, they can give you encephalitis, salmonellosis, histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, candidiasis, lice, bed bugs, mites etc.

Posted on: 2011/8/12 16:12

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Re: Help--- what to do about feral cats??

#96

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coronalime wrote:
They should be removed.

When you remove them, other cats move in. It's an endless cycle of removing cats, killing them, having cats take their place, etc.

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Thats what I call it when a car driving down my street hits a "feral" cat, jamms on its brakes and slams into my neighbor's car.

It's hardly cats' fault that you have idiots driving down your block.

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nightly, horrific fights between cats in the alley behind my house.

Maybe if you took the time to get them fixed they wouldn't be so charged / in heat.

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I don't like seeing the birds I love, who were here first, and are truly struggling

From the ASPCA: "While feral cats do kill some birds, they prefer to kill rodents. Other issues, such as the decline of natural habitat and use of pesticides, have a greater negative impact on bird populations."

I am actually sorry about your rare bird. I like birds too. Perhaps the urban environment just isn't the right place for them.

Your claim that cats spread disease is nonsense, by the way.

Posted on: 2011/8/12 15:55

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Re: Help--- what to do about feral cats??

#97

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Even with humane issues aside, when you remove cats from a location they are quickly replaced by other cats. TNR helps to create a stable situation where a colony can exist that is not producing endless kittens and tends to not let outside cats in.

Posted on: 2011/8/12 14:56

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Re: Beware crazy lady on Mercer who just threw huge wood block at my chihuahua

#98

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heights wrote:
Is this lady a renter or home owner ?

What the hell does that matter?

Posted on: 2011/8/8 3:54

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Re: Bergen Lafayette: Officer kills man, 28, who points gun at him and police dog Froto

#99

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GrovePath wrote:
Is it common for this many elected officials to visit like that?

Contrary to the barometer on this site, not every person in the world celebrates death.

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Froto is my favorite jersey City officer. Is there anything that dog cant do?

It doesn't seem like the dog did much of anything in this case.

Posted on: 2011/8/3 4:13

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Re: Westside: Part of old PJP Landfill site might get a Walmart or another big-box store

#100

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You're right. Screw the economy; pookie2010 is inconvenienced.

Posted on: 2011/8/2 1:08

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Re: Westside: Part of old PJP Landfill site might get a Walmart or another big-box store

#101

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pookie2010 wrote:

We also need JOBS! Small businesses only hire their own family. Walmart will hire many people that live here in Jersey City, exactly what this city needs!

I'd say Walmart is exactly what this city does NOT need.

"Wal-Mart store openings kill three local jobs for every two they create by reducing retail employment by an average of 2.7 percent in every county they enter."

- Neumark, David, Junfu Zhang, and Stephen Ciccarella, January 2007. ?The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local LaborMarkets.? Institute for the Study of Labor Discussion Paper #2545, University of Bonn.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=958704

Read more in a report by NYC's Public Advocate Bill DiBlasio:
http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov/files/Walmart.pdf

Posted on: 2011/8/2 0:47

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Re: Jersey City: From a Skate Park to the World

#102

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stc4blues wrote:
@CSXrailfan: Come clean, are you a writer? Or do you just like to trespass like writers do.

I met you in the arches once. You're a pudgy weird guy with a backpack and a crappy point and shoot. Don't talk to me about trespassing, old man.

I'd go on about how ridiculous of an idea this is if I thought there was even a 1% chance that it would happen.

Posted on: 2011/8/2 0:40

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CSXrailfan

Re: Jersey City: From a Skate Park to the World

#103

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This proposal is completely asinine. World class graffiti because Rime went to Japan? Nevermind all the graffiti artists who might have a little problem with you broadcasting to the world where their semi-secret painting locations are.

Posted on: 2011/8/1 20:26

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Re: Looking for input of unofficial Jersey City landmarks

#104

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- The now flattened Mount Pleasant, former home of the Lava Bed Gang, west of the Harsimus Cemetery.

- Current and former ventilation shafts structures for the DL&W (now NJ Transit) tunnels in the Heights.

- Aqueduct tunnels in the Tonnelle Circle vicinity.

Posted on: 2011/8/1 17:15

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Re: Jersey City, N.J., to Upgrade, Repair Sewer System to Resolve Clean Water Act Violations

#105

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MDM wrote:
Looked it up.. the plant is closed, its just a pumping station now.

I totally forgot about the east side plant, despite passing it a few times a week on my bike.

Posted on: 2011/7/28 1:08

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Re: Jersey City, N.J., to Upgrade, Repair Sewer System to Resolve Clean Water Act Violations

#106

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MDM wrote:
Iran has been buying defunct super tankers to store heavy oil in. I wonder if we could do something similar? Purchase some older single hull tankers (still water tight, but no longer used because the are not double hulled), dredge and park them next to the treatment plant off rt. 440, and use some high volume pumps to dump the storm surge into the tankers.

The problem with this idea is that the intercepting sewers themselves can't handle the capacity of the surge, so the overflows occur at any of Jersey City's 21 outfalls, scattered around the perimeter of the city.

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It would be nice to no longer depend on the PVSC, who is the primary reason our sewer bills went up 45%. Right now, JC has to send a good portion of its sewage to the other side of the Hackensack river to PVSC to get treated.

I was under the impression that all of our sewage went to PVSC in a 72" pipe under the bay. If you check the satellite maps, the treatment facility on 440 looks very abandoned.

Posted on: 2011/7/27 17:00

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Re: Know a place that sells unlocked cell phones?

#107

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J&R sells unlocked phones. You can search locked and unlocked on their website, jr.com.

Posted on: 2011/7/27 16:48

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Re: Systematic Cheating On Test Scores Is Found In Public School System

#108

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borisp wrote:
Here is something from Cato institute: "Has Federal Involvement Improved America's Schools?"

A graph from the article (click to see larger scale):

By the way, we need to get our terminology right here. Some people call the money we spend there an "investment".

However, "investment" implies that we can reasonably expect a so called "return".

This picture indicates that the term "waste" is more appropriate.

What the hell? That graph is the biggest joke I've ever seen. Did you read the vertical column? "Percent change since 1970". That graph was specifically made to produce the biggest visual spike possible with respect to the scores listed at the bottom.

Percent change means that in 2006, the federal government spent less than twice as much as it did 36 years earlier. The graph does not take into account inflation, nor does it account for the increase in enrollment due to population increase. I wouldn't be surprised if the government was actually spending *less* when all the corrections are accounted for.

http://world.std.com/~mhuben/cato.html

The Cato Institute:

"A "libertarian" quasi-academic think-tank which acts as a mouthpiece for the globalism, corporatism, and neoliberalism of its corporate and conservative funders. Cato is an astroturf organization: there is no significant participation by the tiny libertarian minority. They do not fund it or affect its goals. It is a creature of corporations and foundations.

The major purpose of the Cato Institute is to provide propaganda and soundbites for conservative and libertarian politicians and journalists that is conveniently free of reference to funders such as tobacco, fossil fuel, investment, media, medical, and other regulated industries."

Posted on: 2011/7/7 1:37

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CSXrailfan

Re: wow ratsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

#109

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The only solution is to evacuate the daycare centers before all the kids get eaten.

Posted on: 2011/6/22 16:47

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Re: Indian Grocery at 10th and Manila is Open

#110

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Is it an "Indian Grocery" because they sell products from India or because the owners are Indian?

Posted on: 2011/6/14 15:13

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CSXrailfan

Re: No More street cleaning?

#111

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Is there seriously a show called Parking Wars? Sigh...

Who runs the street sweepers? My guess would be JCMUA.. You could try contacting them to see if they know why the street hasn't ben swept. Maybe it's a new guy?

http://www.jcmua.com/

Posted on: 2011/6/9 14:24

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Re: Carmine's pizza moving to 8th & Brunswick?

#112

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Walk_Idiot_Walk wrote:
Carmine tried to buy his current property location and the owner said no. The owner also tried to charge Carmine an exhorbitant amount of rent at his current location, so Carmine had to go.

I hear the owner now wants to build a multi-story building on the corner of Brunswick and 1st. Condos or apartments. I hope the folks in the neighborhood organize to stop him. A building of that type (with no parking) will congest a nice residential area. It would totally be out of character for a neighborhood filled with two-story townhouses.

I call bullshit. There's a FOR LEASE sign in Carmine's window.

Posted on: 2011/5/20 0:52

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Re: Downtown: Man, 72, seriously injured when his SUV is broadsided by Light Rail

#113

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GrovePath wrote:
People are being pretty tough on this old guy -- don't you have parents or grandparents? To be honest, he might not even have known that there was a train at street level down here. Perhaps a flashing sign saying train coming might be better than red lights -- where you might not see a fast silent train. Sure he was in the wrong - but what the heck.

That's a good idea. In addition, we need flashing signs at all the other traffic lights in town saying "cars coming". When we're done paying for that, we can continue to ignore the need for driver's license retesting after a certain age.

Posted on: 2011/5/19 3:02

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CSXrailfan

Re: Jersey police officer uniforms looking sloppy

#114

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Maybe they lost weight. We should be applauding their efforts at physical fitness, especially in this obese nation.

Posted on: 2011/5/12 21:16

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Re: NJ man walks on PATH train tracks, causes security breach

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I can't figure out what the hysteria is all about. Terrorism experts know that any attack on a passenger train is going to occur in the form of a backpack or package containing an explosive or other weapon actually being left on a train, not in the middle of some tunnel that is relatively difficult to get to and probably won't result in the much damage compared to an on board detonation. This was demonstrated by the terrorist attacks in London and Madrid.

The random bag inspections by the Port Authority are a joke, because they obviously can't check every bag going through the turnstiles. In the event that they figured out a way to do so, I think (and would hope) that a furious public backlash would ensue. Besides that, the Port Authority police are generous enough to hypothetical would-be terrorists to have their presence known in the form of a lazily parked PAPD car in front of whatever station they happen to be hanging out in.

Posted on: 2011/5/10 2:08

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CSXrailfan

Re: NJ man walks on PATH train tracks, causes security breach

#116

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heights wrote:
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CSXrailfan wrote:
The "incident" in harlem was in a tunnel that is not even connected to an active subway line, has never seen subway service, and is unlikely to see service for several decades at least. How is that terrifying?

You didn't waste any time huh CSX. The guy was trespassing ! Lock him up and throw away the key. I am upset about this track walking article and scared as well. Hopefully it will make us stronger against terrorism.

Trespassing is terrifying? I don't see how. Equal parts amusing and annoying, if you ask me.

Throw away the key? Thanks, but I like the American version of the legal system, where they'll be dealt with as charged.

Posted on: 2011/5/9 22:34

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Re: NJ man walks on PATH train tracks, causes security breach

#117

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The "incident" in harlem was in a tunnel that is not even connected to an active subway line, has never seen subway service, and is unlikely to see service for several decades at least. How is that terrifying?

Posted on: 2011/5/9 22:01

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Re: Backyard campfires? Are they legal?

#118

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Because it's illegal or because someone called the FD with a report of smoke?

I've been to a backyard Guy Fawkes bonfire in Jersey City and nobody showed up.

Posted on: 2011/4/29 13:22

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Backyard campfires? Are they legal?

#119

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A section of the concrete paving in my backyard gave way over the winter and I've decided to make a small fire pit out of it. Is there any reason to think that a small controlled campfire would be illegal? It doesn't seem like it should be, especially considering how many people use grills but I just wanted to make sure.

Posted on: 2011/4/29 11:40

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Re: Safe near Grove and Bay Street?

#120

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How big is the dog?

Posted on: 2011/4/21 15:03

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