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To be clear, not making a choice IS a choice... He could have chosen Symes. Quote: I like Hudnut, switching sides is not a problem for me. The ward leader/switching sides narrative is overplayed. Jacob was never really influential within the Fulop camp; he wanted more power but didn't really do anything to warrant it. He left in a huff when things weren't handed to him.
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Re: 14th St closed for now due to fire
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Right. We should do nothing until we have the perfect solution. Got it.
Posted on: 2017/10/2 15:26
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Re: 14th St closed for now due to fire
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From JerseyMom's article:
PATH and NJ Transit officials said additional trains and buses will be added to encourage drivers to use mass transit instead 22038113-mmmain.jpg Beginning Monday morning, extra PATH trains will be added on the Newark to World Trade Center, Journal Square to 33rd Street, and Hoboken to 33rd Street lines between 7 and 10 a.m. The added services should be able to accommodate up to 14,500 additional passengers. WTF? They can just add trains that will accommodate 14,500 more passengers??? WHY HASN'T THIS BEEN DONE PREVIOUSLY???
Posted on: 2017/10/1 21:55
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Re: Rich Boggiano JSQ/Ward C City Council
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Trump + Boggiano = Perfect together. Two peas in a pod, spending all of their time yapping about things that make no difference in the average person's life - ranting about things like what state the Statue of Liberty is in or standing for the national anthem. Time to move to Florida, Rich.
Posted on: 2017/10/1 21:48
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Is it just me or doesn't it seem as though they could have located it better? Maybe as part of the Jetsons entrance on the NE corner of Marin and Columbus, where it wouldn't have been nearly as obstructive? What they've done is put a hulking box that takes up half of a very busy sidewalk, a big chunk of the main entrance/ticketing area and the platform below.
It almost - almost - feels like a petulant response to being forced to have to put in an elevator....
Posted on: 2017/6/27 14:57
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Re: Come to City Hall this upcoming Wednesday to promote electric vehicle charging in JC #EVinJC
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There is a big difference between in-home charging and public charging stations. Public stations can now fully charge a car's battery in 30 minutes (goes to my earlier comment about how quickly things are changing.) The limiting factor is the car's charging acceptance rate, but manufacturer's are moving toward a universal standard. And most people stop more than every 300 miles on a long trip; you can top up as you go.
My solar comment was about residential, not on cars (although the Prius idea is very interesting. I didn't realize it was coming so soon - I would have waited a year. I just bought a new Prius... ) The idea is that you are creating a closed loop system between the solar panels, the powerwall storage and the storage/intake of the car battery. Quote:
Posted on: 2017/6/24 21:47
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Re: Come to City Hall this upcoming Wednesday to promote electric vehicle charging in JC #EVinJC
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35% of all greenhouse gas emissions tie back to transportation fuels. EVs are advancing at a rate that is almost untrackable. Every major auto manufacturer has plans to roll out between three and five models over the next five years; prices have begun to come down and with scale will come down significantly. Range on better EVs is approaching 300 miles - within striking distance of most SUVs (Daimler has a prototype that goes 310 miles that it will debut in October at the Paris motor show.) Frankly though, range limitation is a silly notion, when you think about it. 20th century thinking. Who drives 300 miles in one day? Not many people - and when you do (a long trip, usually) you can plan in a 30 minute stop for a meal while you charge. Otherwise, you drive your 10, 20, 50 or so miles during the day and plug in when you get home in the evening. The average car sits idle 94% of the time. Where the future is actually headed is your EV will become an additional storage battery to the Powerwall for your solar panels (this is why Elon Musk bought Solar City.) When you are not driving and your car is plugged in at home, the car will be able to serve as a source of power for your home at night (and your home's power needs are greatly reduced.) You still draw from the grid at times, but it materially reduces your usage. As with most new technologies, adoption is slow in the beginning and lulls people into extrapolating that low rate out indefinitely makes sense. There is almost always an inflection point where a technology breakthrough occurs or costs drop and people flock to it. EVs won't be an exception. What will likely drive it is very recent policy shifts in China and India that will lead to much greater market penetration and, likely, exports of much cheaper EVs which will drive competition elsewhere. Just like the Japanese did in the 70s with small, fuel-efficient cars.
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The rental idea was short-lived and happened several years before construction actually began.
Posted on: 2017/4/8 1:33
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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"Express" trains only work if there is another track or mechanism that allows them to bypass slower trains ahead of them. PATH doesn't have such an option.
Posted on: 2017/4/6 18:42
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Re: Mayor Fulop Signs Executive Order Dedicating 10% to Future Tax Abatement Payments to JC Public schoo
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Do you mean individual refunds and rebates (abatements?) or those tied to a project?
Posted on: 2017/4/6 18:29
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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You actually do live in a parallel universe (parallel tracks, technically) - Newport is not on the line that has the most severe crowding, by a longshot. The Newark-WTC line is the one that frequently has situations where you can't get on the train - had to let two go this morning at 9:10.
Posted on: 2017/4/3 20:19
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Re: 18 Park?
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I'd avoid the north side of the building (along the light rail tracks.) The bell dinging and horn blowing of the light rail starts around 5am and is constant at times. As more buildings go (and have gone) up, the noise is trapped and amplified.
Posted on: 2017/4/3 16:32
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Re: FSBO 1Bd @ GullsCove South Facing
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Not exactly - the abatement resets to the sale price. So, while this condo initially sold for somewhere in the $425k range with a PILOT of around $7k, if it sells at the ask the PILOT will go to north of $11k.
Posted on: 2017/3/29 19:58
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Re: FSBO 1Bd @ GullsCove South Facing
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Two GC Phase 1 units sold at over $900 per sf in the fall - you're price is definitely in line with the market.
Free bit of unsolicited advice - spend a little $ on a professional real estate photographer. You'll recoup it and a lot more in your selling price. Your pictures aren't bad, but things like the window glare, the kind of dark feel and little details like the robe on the back of the bathroom door will be resolved. At a minimum, retake your exterior shot on a sunny day. We just listed our unit and the sunny harbor in our listing looks 1,000x better.
Posted on: 2017/3/29 17:04
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Re: Recos: Delicious Restaurants in Downtown JC for Groups?
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Second floor of Satis probably is ideal for the size you are talking. Great food.
Posted on: 2017/3/29 16:54
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In all likelihood, that is an incorrect statement. In dollar terms, true. But the reallocation of the tax burden is not a one to one exercise. It is an almost certainty that the number of overpayers is far greater than the underpayers, but that each of the underpayers has been underpaying by a much greater amount than what each of the overpayers have overpaid. Just think about the value of the homes that are most prominently underpaying relative to the areas that get pointed to most frequently as overpayers. One $2 million underpaying house covers a lot of overpaying houses in Greenville, for instance.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 16:49
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Re: Jersey City mayor-elect orders end to citywide reval
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How would a phase-in work, though? To Brewster's point - the only way you can not delay fully raising the taxes of those due an increase is by delaying lowering the taxes of those due a cut, unless there is either something else to fill the gap like state aid or the city goes without a chunk of revenue. Neither seems likely.
Posted on: 2017/2/16 10:54
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Re: Fulop: despite Trump, Jersey City remains 'welcoming' to immigrants
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Lol indeed!
a. you are responding to me with obama and iraq - I didn't say anything remotely related to that. Lol! But fine - since you've presented another whack-a-lie opportunity, I'll play. Lol! b. the action the obama administration took was tied to real, honest to goodness intelligence (that even Kellyanne Clampett acknowledges) - not some hysterical "bad things happen in these countries" wide net bullshit. Lol! c. the action obama took didn't block iraqis - it slowed the flow due to - wait for it - increased vetting. Lol! But obama was the worst - people were flooding over our borders and beheading babies in the streets, sharia-ing our women and putting hijabs on our statues, not staying in Trump hotels... Lol! Defending the indefensible has to get tiring after a while, no? Lol. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fa ... 1/?utm_term=.b0b79bcb9dcb
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Re: Fulop: despite Trump, Jersey City remains 'welcoming' to immigrants
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To be followed by Newark, JC, etc. putting payroll taxes in place so that those bedroom communities stop having it both ways (at least for those who work in NJ.)
I seriously doubt you would like the way your country would look like if secessionist movements take root. But you are welcome to it. The great part is you can make border security impossibly difficult - no one will want to go there.
Posted on: 2017/2/10 18:44
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Re: Fulop: despite Trump, Jersey City remains 'welcoming' to immigrants
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Or do what California has threatened to do and withhold federal tax dollars in an amount equal to the lost funding. Not sure JC has a big enough public workforce to achieve that, so it may have to wait until next January when we have a governor again.
Posted on: 2017/2/10 18:03
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Re: Up to 3" of Snow likely 2/8 (Wed night into Thursday)
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Posted on: 2017/2/10 2:20
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Re: Up to 3" of Snow likely 2/8 (Wed night into Thursday)
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What is a good site to get total snowfall amounts by location? There are a million places to get forecasts but it seems very few of them bother to say what actually happened.
Posted on: 2017/2/9 17:06
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Re: Fulop state-of-the-city speech-a-thon kicks off Tuesday
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Nothing like getting the city to pay for your campaign events.
Posted on: 2017/2/2 18:44
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Of course there are hardly any emails between them. Fulop prefers texting and Bertoli is old school. Talk in person or on the phone.
Posted on: 2017/1/27 14:55
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Because Prep doesn't own the development - Fields Development Group (Rob and Jim Caulfield out of Hoboken) does. They built the Madox across the street, too. Prep swapped parcels with Fields and Fields provided space in the building for the athletic center as part of the deal.
Posted on: 2017/1/18 15:03
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Back on. Thanks everyone.
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We lost our power about five minutes ago - in Gull's Cove. The building is out. Anyone else?
Posted on: 2017/1/10 1:20
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Re: Something wrong with paying for new developments we can't afford | Morgan
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As a general rule, I'd agree. In Jersey City, because of the cancer that is machine politics and who inherently populates that machine, money/classism/race are synonymous.
Posted on: 2017/1/6 15:40
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We don't even use a "bank" - we use Fidelity. They do have a couple branches in Manhattan, but since they've provided remote deposit by smartphone, I've been in their offices once in the past five years and that was a paperwork issue related to a private equity investment, not a banking-related matter. They have a well-staffed highly skilled call center (located in the US) that has been able to handle all sorts of fairly complicated transactions. They partner with UMB Bank out of Kansas City to provide basic services such as check clearing, but its all done under the Fidelity brand and Fidelity answers for any issues with my account, banking or otherwise.
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