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Re: Rap group 'Enigma?' carves out Jersey City niche

#91

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I almost thought this thread was about the group Enigma, the 90's new age band from Germany. Then I realized the ? isn't a typo.

Posted on: 2013/12/29 3:35

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Re: 30-Year-Old HC Man Killed in Short Hills Mall Car Jacking

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Monroe wrote:
First, the poor dead fellow loses his life in a carjacking. Then, some people speculate his wife was involved.

He's being buried tomorrow, show some respect. By any means, he was a kind man, loving husband, liked by his neighbors, well educated and a positive force to society.

That his life was snuffed out by a stain on our planet, regardless of color, is horrible. Let's only hope these two dirt bags get caught fast before they jack another car with perhaps some of our loved ones inside.

Well said. I can't imagine the emotional pain his family and particularly his wife must be going through right now. Let's hope for the closest thing they can get to justice in this awful tragedy.

Posted on: 2013/12/18 2:40

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Re: Development will now be rentals, Grove Street buildings will have 99 units

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brewster wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I think JC has squandered every cent it can get as a matter of policy for years on sweetheart contracts for employees and city contractors, and that forces tax increases. But your arguments are based on the false notion abated properties pay nothing. As many here can attest, their abated condos pay far more tax per $ of value than when you were paying ~ $11,500 on a place you sold for $1.2m. Your insistence on THEM being the budgetary bogyman is starting to seem disturbed.

You should be aware that the abatements on rental buildings have entailed both lower tax payments each year than on the new abated condos and much longer terms. I believe a typical abatement for a new condo building downtown has been 5-10 years, whereas that for an abated rental building has been 30 years. The assessed taxes in these abated condo buildings are typically about 4-5 times higher than they are for a unit of the same square footage in an abated rental building.

Posted on: 2013/12/15 18:21

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Re: 3 men in ski masks rob trio of $4,000 at gunpoint in Jersey City

#94

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Sounds like maybe the truck drivers drove up from the South with a stash of narcotics, collected their money, and were heading back home but the buyer or someone related to the buyer went after them to get the cash back.

Posted on: 2013/12/11 5:31

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Re: One-day law enforcement operation yields 17 arrests, 150 vehicle summonses

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I'd like to know how long the average arrested suspect remains in jail. These arrests are meaningless if they're only held in jail for a short period of time before being released, which I suspect to be the case for a significant number of them.

Posted on: 2013/12/9 19:07

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Re: knockout

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What I'd like to know is:
1. How long are convicted offenders in the game of knockout held in juvenile detention before being released? (the answer appears to be 'not long enough')

2. How often are police standing infront of classrooms explaining the consequences of being involved in these acts?

3. How many times have police visited the homes of 'trouble students' to speak with them directly about the consequences of participating in this behavior?

Posted on: 2013/12/6 3:50

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Re: knockout

#97

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All I'm going to say is that in some countries in the Mid East you'd have your hand chopped off in public for knocking out an innocent elderly person. Sometimes deterring crime is the best way to prevent it...my two cents.

Posted on: 2013/11/26 3:36

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Re: Club Metro v. Base Gym

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I was a member of the boxing gym a few years ago; also a member of Synergy but not Metro or Club H, so I can't really draw too many comparisons, but the boxing gym is definitely more of a weightlifting gym. But if that's your thing, then you'd probably love the place. There are alot of regulars who are both inspirational from an athletic standpoint and some of the most welcoming people you'll ever meet personality-wise. I never encountered the sense of arrogance that I've seen in some other gyms when I was a member there; a really good place all around between the monthly membership fee, parking, and equipment selection/layout.

Posted on: 2013/11/24 16:41

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Re: Jersey City with six-figure salary claims residence in low-cost housing

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Why is it acceptable to pay public employees nearly $200k/year when so many college educated and loan -burdened grads are earning around $30k or even less?

Posted on: 2013/11/17 21:15

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Re: Recent Article on JC Real Estate

#100

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December 15th is a Sunday. Do you mean Dec 16th? Sunday is the one day each week that construction workers generally don't work.

Posted on: 2013/11/17 16:58

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Re: 35-year tax break proposed for three-tower Journal Square project

#101

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I wish I had attended the meeting. I would've gone with a large poster-sized graph of how taxes have increased substantially and routinely ever since Jersey City started giving out these massive tax breaks.

Posted on: 2013/11/14 7:07

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Re: 35-year tax break proposed for three-tower Journal Square project

#102

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"?They?ll go to where the incentives exist and where the best opportunities are to make money,? said Thieroff, who added that ?nothing has been built of any significance in the square for 30 years.?"

Apparently Thieroff hasn't stepped foot in Journal Square in the last 10 years. STATE SQUARE was built (with a long-term tax break) by the Applied Cos in 2004. 19Rock is under construction. 25 Senate Place is under construction. CanCo Lofts is mostly finished. These are ALL large-scale projects, and they've all been built in the last 10 years. JSQ doesn't need handouts like this.

It's no coincidence that Jersey City, which has handed out more tax breaks than any other municipality in Hudson County, has the highest property taxes in Hudson County. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that these tax breaks are at the root of the problem.

Posted on: 2013/11/14 7:03

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Re: 35-year tax break proposed for three-tower Journal Square project

#103

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Ok, so if the project is completed sometime between now and five years from now, the building gets a 30-year tax abatement. For every year beyond five years from now that the project isn't completed, the abatement period is reduced by one year.

Of course, if the project isn't completed in 5 years, KRE Group will plead "unforseen financial hardship" and the whole deal will be reset so that they get the same sweet deal.

Posted on: 2013/11/7 2:49

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Re: Chinese Company in Talks to Buy Jersey City Site:

#104

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Interesting find. Was AECOM a partner of Hartz or were they an outside buyer that just reached a deal to purchase the property before the Chinese company made an offer?

AECOM is a partner in the 38-story tower being built by the JV with Toll Brothers at Marin & Bay streets by the Grove PATH station.

Posted on: 2013/11/5 2:47

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Re: FORBES: NJ with one of the lowest rates of new middle class job growth

#105

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...and meanwhile Bill Gates & Co. are busy at work in Africa getting technology in the hands of what will be the next generation of cheap skilled labor so they can ensure their descendants have a way to continue to make billions (or trillions?) off of high profit margin labor overseas (of course at that point, they'll be hurting the new world power, China, and not so much the U.S., because this country will have gone to #OOPS# by then)

Posted on: 2013/10/25 23:06

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Re: FORBES: NJ with one of the lowest rates of new middle class job growth

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the wealthy ? the top 7% ? are thriving due to the rebound of the stock and bond markets; the bottom 93%, whose wealth is more tied up in their homes, is still feeling the hangover from the cratering of housing prices in the recession.

More like the wealthy have thrived by lowering compensation of middle- and lower- class employees while business conditions have improved (i.e. they've increased their profit margin on each sale while sales have increased, which has multiplied the increase in their own compensation while compensation for the average Joe has been reduced).

What makes a bad problem worse is that we're approaching a point where too many Americans make just enough to get by - which locks them into a sort of modern form of slavery where they will never be able to retire.

Posted on: 2013/10/25 22:53

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Re: Harborside Development Receives $33 Million Tax Credit

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Hersh was quoted in an article when this project was first announced as having stated that the project would not seek any sort of tax incentives. Well, I guess they were able to sneak their hands around a big pot of taxpayer dollars afterall.

Posted on: 2013/10/25 22:44

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Re: Austin, Texas: Construction Workers Protest for Fair Wages

#108

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I think you're right, Azul...I've heard that electricians in particular who are in a union can easily earn $200k+ per year.

Posted on: 2013/10/25 22:40

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Re: 35-year tax break proposed for three-tower Journal Square project

#109

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News flash: rising home values mean nothing until you GIVE UP your home. If you want to remain a resident of downtown Jersey City because you like living there, rising home values are basically irrelevant to your life.

Posted on: 2013/10/24 5:45

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Re: PATH Train Robbery

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Quote:

JCMan8 wrote:
Quote:

heights wrote:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/1 ... passengers-on-path-train/
6 Teens Charged With Assaulting, Robbing Passengers On PATH Train

No pictures or descriptions of the teens. Any guesses as to what they looked like?

I heard they were white males wearing pastel-colored turtlenecks. And flip-flops.

Posted on: 2013/10/14 0:40

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Re: Whole Foods in JC?

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Well, I guess I'm glad I have a place in Harrison less than a mile from where the new Whole Foods is going in!

Sorry Jersey City, you lost this battle. Enjoy your Shoprite and Target grocery stores.

Posted on: 2013/10/10 5:31

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jcwalkingman

Re: Micro Apartment Living

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So they want to charge what was charged at Grove Pointe and 50 Columbus when they opened in 2007 for a unit HALF the size in 2014 while incomes have remained virtually flat? The quality of life of our middle class is diverging so quickly from that of our upper class that I could definitely see life in the future looking something like a scene from the Matrix, where the upper class has the middle and lower classes stockpiled in some datacenter somewhere with a bunch of wires connected to them to harness their energy.

I'd love to be part of a boycott of this building after it opens.

Posted on: 2013/10/8 20:48

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jcwalkingman

Re: Scam happening in A&P/Target Parking Lots?

#113

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Find out where they parked, and when they're walking around pressuring people into detailing work, slam a shopping cart into their car. Then when they come back tell them you can fix the dents for a good price.

Posted on: 2013/10/8 2:07

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Re: 400 Unit Development in Hamilton Park

#114

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Did anyone see the plans? KRE is also involved in 18Park in Liberty Harbor, which has about the same number of units (422) but is a full-block project. Where would this development go? Are they proposing knocking down the Unico tower or using the land in the 9th Street park???

Posted on: 2013/10/3 6:40

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Re: Obnoxious Banners Popping Up All Over Neighborhood - Illegal?

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borisp wrote:

Of course you do realize that if the property owner gave his permission to place the ad, what you did was likely a felony.

If the banner's cost was above 200, taking into account the aggravated nature (a forethought), my nonprofessional guess would be one-two years.

You almost sound like you could be the one illegally placing these! What you say is completely ridiculous - you really think that in Hudson County, where thugs who are caught drug dealing are released after a few months in prison, some guy trying to do his community a favor is going to be in jail for several years? Please don't waste your time posting garbage like this if you don't have the slightest clue about what you're writing.

I do know that according to the municipal code, any banner placed on a fence illegally faces a minimum $150 fine. In order to put a banner on a fence, you need a permit from the chief of police, and there are very strict rules in general regarding signage for any commercial enterprise (directional signs for hotels, signs larger than certain standard dimensions, etc. also need special permission from the Planning or Zoning boards). I will call City Hall tomorrow to confirm that the sign was illegal (still have the banner in a plastic bag for recycling; I can simply put it back up on the fence if it was there legally).

Anyway, thank you to everyone else for your input.

Posted on: 2013/9/24 0:40

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jcwalkingman

Re: Obnoxious Banners Popping Up All Over Neighborhood - Illegal?

#116

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Took one down tonight - another was apparently taken down by someone else on a different fence. It's a pretty heavy-duty banner (canvas material, steel rings around the holes) so I hope the "business" owner gets the message that he/she is wasting their money putting these up.

Posted on: 2013/9/23 3:37

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Obnoxious Banners Popping Up All Over Neighborhood - Illegal?

#117

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There are "888 Junk Car$" banners popping up all over my neighborhood and I'd like to take them down, but I'm not sure if they might be where they are legally - but I assume they are not since they're on random fences on vacant lots and clearly don't represent a "business" conducted on these particular pieces of property. Does anyone know what the regulations on banners on fences are?

Posted on: 2013/9/21 15:36

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Re: Investing in JSQ

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cancoloftyesno wrote:
harrison south of 280 is flood zone, not comparable to jsq

I won't argue with that - you're absolutely right. If you plan on taking out a mortgage and you buy in Harrison in the redevelopment zone, you might need to get flood insurance (which can be costly). For this reason, I'd recommend buying a unit on the second floor or higher if you make your purchase here (note that the same is true for Downtown Jersey City; I believe this is one reason why Journal Square may start to get alot of interest from developers and home buyers in the next 5-10 years).

Posted on: 2013/8/28 16:19

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Re: Investing in JSQ

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Dahood wrote:
jcwalkingman, how is the tax situation in Harrison? Is it stable? I ask because I am also interested in buying in JSQ or Harrison. This argument that nothing will happen in JSQ until DT is completely built out is bogus.

Depends on where you buy, but the condo buildings in the "Riverpark" neighborhood have another 10 years left on their tax abatement (taxes on 2 BD/2 BA, 1200 sf are under $5,700/year). Harrison is definitely a different market than Journal Square is - on the one hand, you don't have the "big city" feel - no highrises, not nearly as many stores/bars/restaurants. On the other hand (as mentioned in my previous post), you don't have the crime either (there haven't been any homicides in the past 4 years with the exception of some crazy white dude who killed his kid and parents a few years ago). But the area is very quite on the weekend - so if you like the energy & busy-ness of the city, maybe JSQ would be better (although the new buildings going up in Harrison are bringing in a few new retail/restaurant options)

Posted on: 2013/8/28 5:49

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Re: Investing in JSQ

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I'd say Harrison is probably a better bet than JSQ (I've lived in the city for over 4 years now after living in downtown JC and Hoboken and love the combination of suburban elements, urban main streets, and proximity to places of interest - JC, Hoboken, NYC; plus crime is virtually non-existent here) but I can see Journal Square coming around if that KRE project actually takes off by the end of this year or beginning of next (keep in mind that it will take 2 1/2 years or so to build that first tower, so you wouldn't have large numbers of yuppies moving in til around the beginning of 2016 at the earliest). There are several other large-scale residential projects in the works around the station, but the KRE project seems most likely to happen since it's a joint venture by two reputable/experienced developers who've built in the area.

Posted on: 2013/8/25 19:11

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