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wibbit, you couldn't turn your doucheyness off if you tried. stay classy, overcompensator! P.S. - Did you really just refer to Newport/the PAD/Exchange Place as a "well planned neighborhood"? And the forest of almost completely lifeless, uninspired, glass-and-brick hi-rises along the water front "picture perfect"? ROFL. And I'll take the National Register of Historic Places' word for what qualifies as "historical" over yours any day of the week, nitz.
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Pretty much. Nice to see you're catching on. Seriously though, false-choice arguments aren't your strong suit. Some folks feel passionate about different things, and react accordingly. If I commented on every douchey thing (IMHO) written on this website, my post-count would be quadruple what it is now. Knock yourself out standing up for what you believe in, like when saabconv ups the ante of classy by responding to a poster "you FAG." Let us all now shed a tear for the disadvantaged, oppressed yuppies... FO SHO.
Posted on: 2009/8/21 20:40
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While we're reviewing the stream here, let's reference post #2, #3, and #4. I made a recommendation about what you wrote, based on what you wrote, asking you to exercise self-control. You responded to that by calling names and telling another person engaged "in good debate" to "shut [their] mouth." Who's attacking whom? LOL. Victimization fail.
Posted on: 2009/8/21 16:08
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I'm SHO you do, just as I'm SHO you'll never understand the point I'm trying to make. Creepy as this is to say, I thoroughly agree with saab, that politicians should not be treated with kid gloves based on their gender, ethnicity, religion, or any other factor. Where we differ is in the idea that cracking black jokes is the equivalent of "taking off the kid gloves." Just ask Hillary Clinton about how quickly folks jump off the "kid gloves" cliff and into really unnecessary, childish mud slinging. What purpose does it serve, really? All it does is make people want to tune you out.
Posted on: 2009/8/21 15:01
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It's an interesting phenomenon right now - the way deep-seeded racial anger finds public outlets. Whether it's health-care town hall disruptionists disguising their outrage as opposition to health care reform, or whether it's locals who just can't resist a twist of the racial knife when handed an opportunity to skewer a public official, it's still scary to watch. The sad thing is that I agree with much of your assessment of Tayari's record, i just hate seeing a legitimate position undermined by overzealous kooks. As you're fond of saying, I think we can all agree there is plenty to take Tayari to task for without resorting to lame race jokes. FO SHO.
Posted on: 2009/8/21 14:35
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LOL thanks, I'll take that under advisement. With folks of your character and temperment spearheading government reform in Jersey City, we should be right as rain in no time.
Posted on: 2009/8/21 14:17
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If you could muster a moment's worth of self-control and have the forethought to edit out the low-brow racial pot-shots, your post would make a much more compelling argument.
Posted on: 2009/8/21 13:55
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Why does an HISTORIC BUILDING that's on the National Register of Historic Places have to be torn down to accomodate a request for open space where there are acres of parking lots and undeveloped parcels adjacent to the historic building? And when your landlord has been utterly irresponsible in his failure to provide open space? In answer to the heading of this thread, I say we chain Xerxes inside the building all winter. Doesn't do much in the long-term, but it'd sure be fun.
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That is if Brennan is recovered from his prostate cancer surgery. If not, would that mean, gulp, Acting Mayor Willie Flood?
Posted on: 2009/8/20 19:43
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Nope. I'd say that there are plenty of people who have had actual criminal complaints filed against them, and actually been arrested, who deserve to be indicted next. Process shmocess.
Posted on: 2009/8/20 19:12
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You need to give thirty days notice, regardless of any code violations. The one has nothing to do with the other. And the notice terms of your original lease do not apply, it's governed by State law concerning automatic month-to-month leases.
You could give notice on Sept. 1 and move into a new place Oct. 1, but you're on the hook for a month's rent if you bail on Sept. 1, and he can take you to small claims court (or hold your deposit, or one month's worth of it, as lost rent.)
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+1. What exactly would this "pathway" look like, other than a walking route through the parking lot and the mall, which already exists. Also not being given any consideration here is the layout of the properties across the street (Marin Blvd.) from the mall, which also make for a less than ideal walking pattern. No idea how to solve that one, except to suggest razing that big apartment building and giant waste-of-space parking lot.
Posted on: 2009/8/19 19:49
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Wow, seems like it's been open for much longer than that for some reason. Thanks for finding that link.
Posted on: 2009/8/17 18:01
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I'm not casting aspersions on your political view of abatements, just so you know. Just trying to work out the mechanics. I feel like I need abatements explained to me at least 1x a year.
IIRC, Sugar House has been up and running far longer than many other gold-standard luxury properties, which I think can account for the statistics in the article, i.e. the fixed-abatement paying property owner who bought, say 15 years ago when the property opened (i'm totally guessing), has avoided every annual property tax increase over the course of those last 15 years. So while the abatement might have been roughly on par with the traditional taxes in the year of purchase when Sugar House first opened, it has not increased gradually over time. Add into that the mechanics of turnover and sales and market fluxuations and tax appeals, etc, and I think it makes the prospect of imagining Sugar House without ever having had any abatements a difficult figure to calculate. DanL, help!
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Developers wouldn't fight for abatements if all they did was change who the property taxes were paid to. Most condo buyers don't tend to even notice, let alone care, whether their property taxes go to the city, the county, the schools, or wherever. Abatements are fought for precisely because of the stability they offer, and the security against being raised the way non-abated property taxes are. From my own experience with the property, I would consider the Sugar House one of if not the most desirable condo property in JC. They did a beautiful job, and the two units I've been in are stunning. I don't think the Sugar House is representative of your average downtown JC condo. Can somebody who knows better than either Chester or I clarify the whole "reduction" issue, which in itself is sort of a misnomer, given that abatements are typically only on "new" homes that had no previous residential property taxes from which to reduce in the first place.
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Your understanding is way off, hopefully my understanding is not. Somebody will I'm sure jump in to correct me if it is. Abatements both result in the money going directly to the city and in a locked-in property tax amount (in most cases) tied to a percentage of purchase price for a set amount of years. So as the city raises taxes annually across the board on traditional taxpayers, abatements don't get increased, except when it's written into the abatement (a lot of them up the percentage after X number of years, for example). So an abatement is a way of insuring that, if there is a massive tax hike, abatement-payers don't get affected. It's like insurance on your property taxes.
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Bianca Reyes, left, grieves for her boyfriend Todd Patterson, whose aunt Doris McGee comforts her. Police said Patterson died when he tried to jump out a barred window of a house on Stevens Avenue in Jersey City. Todd Patterson Barred Window Patterson attempted to jump out of All photos credited to Reena Rose Sibayan, Journal Photo. http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... _ends_life_of_jersey.html Death dive ends life of 'PCP smoker,' 31 Friday, August 14, 2009 By MICHAELANGELO CONTE JOURNAL STAFF WRITER A Jersey City man died Wednesday after trying to dive out a first-floor window that had bars on the exterior. More than one person told police the man had a history of smoking PCP, officials said. When police arrived at the Stevens Avenue residence at 4:09 p.m. they found Todd M. Patterson, 31, of Bayview Avenue, face-first in the window with his arms hanging outside through the bars in the home of a woman who said she let him in to use her bathroom, reports said. Patterson was not breathing and both police and emergency medical technicians performed CPR on him, but he was pronounced dead on arrival at the Jersey City Medical Center, reports said. The neighbor said she let Patterson in to use her bathroom because she's known him since grammar school, and that he seemed to be smoking something when he entered, reports said. After a few minutes in the bathroom, Patterson came out "and was sweating and started to bug out," reports said. He demanded to speak to his mother, dropped his pants and urinated on the floor, reports said, adding that when the neighbor told Patterson to get out, he pushed her. The neighbor said Patterson then "ran into the living room and attempted to jump face first through the window, going through the glass and stopping due to the metal bars," reports said. She said she phoned Patterson's relatives when she saw Patterson bang into the bars, reports said. The neighbor told police she knew Patterson smoked PCP, reports said. Police then went to Patterson's home and found his cousin on the porch crying. The cousin said he'd worked out with Patterson in the garage earlier in the day and had taken a nap, but was awakened by the neighbor's call. The cousin couldn't go to the neighbor's apartment because he was under house arrest and wearing an electronic tracking bracelet, and Patterson's aunt went instead, reports said. Asked if Patterson had a history of drug abuse, the 28-year-old cousin said, "He smokes PCP," reports said. Patterson's aunt, Doris Magee, questioned why the neighbor didn't call 911 right away. "I called 911," said Magee. "She (the neighbor) was saying, 'Please get him out of my house. Get him out of here.'" Patterson's mother, Gloria Patterson, said he went to School 15 before graduating from Dickinson High School in 1997, where he played basketball, football and baseball. He then attended a junior college in Pennsylvania. Patterson has an 11-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, she said. "He was a fine young man, he was outgoing and he touched a lot of hearts," Gloria Patterson said. An autopsy will be conducted at the state Regional Medical Examiner's Office in Newark.
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LOL no sarcasm, I swear. I just have to adjust the online persona I had created for you in my head, and adapt it to your new neighborhood, that's all. I have actually spent plenty of time in the Bergen Hill area around Summit and Astor, and it's always struck me as a sort of oasis with lots of rough edges. Astor is nice from Summit to Crescent, but then gets sketchy, Summit is nice from the little triangle park till the Church, etc. Park Street seems to be super sketchy overall. The housing stock there is pretty amazing, as are the views from a lot of the properties. Went to an amazing July 4th party on a deck with panoramic views of the skyline.
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Call Christie's campaign HQ, I'm sure they'd be happy to assist, and be sure to provide media coverage. Because having Christie as our Governor is really going to help Jersey City...
Posted on: 2009/8/13 16:07
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LOL, no judgment, just shock, that's all.
Posted on: 2009/8/13 16:04
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Greenvillechick, you don't live in Greenville? Who knew?
Posted on: 2009/8/13 15:46
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Yeah, that's what'll improve our city - lowballing salaries so that even less talented/qualified people carry out City business. That said, there are plenty of unqualified people earning far beyond what they should because of political connections/patronage, etc. And those folks should be bounced. But to broaden that and suggest that no full-time, professional, department-head position of a city of a quarter-million people should make more than what a lot of people on JCList's secretaries make? Well, that's certain to lead to getting what we pay for.
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I stand corrected. Maybe big, bad, evil, pro-tenant NJ isn't as big, bad and evil as it gets made out to be. And don't underestimat ethe power of the well-placed "unless the lease says otherwise..."
Posted on: 2009/8/11 18:59
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Not precisely true. If your 12-month lease goes from November 1, 2008 through October 31, 2009, a month-to-menth tenancy is only created if you do not vacate on or before October 31, 2009. It's only once you've held over (if you're there on November 1, 2009) that the month-to-month provision of the anti-eviction law kicks in. So if the lease contains no renewal notice provision (which is extremely rare in a residential lease), a tenant can move out on the final day of their lease without forfeiting the month's worth of rent contained in their security deposit, and without creating a month-to-month tenancy. So in the above scenario, a tenant need not give notice on October 1, 2009 that they intend to vacate at the end of the lease. Though it's definitely a good idea to give as much notice as possible.
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Ten years ago, the A&P was either the old crappy pre-renovation (and pre price-jack-up) A&P or its previous incarnation, Waldbaum's. But don't let facts get in the way of you ridiculing somebody's traumatic experience...
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Mocking a dog run for being too small is like mocking a condo or apartment for being to small - if it works for some people, but not for you, then that's your preference, it's not a "fact." Lots of people trade square footage for beauty and location, whether here or in NYC. That you have different priorities does not make your opinion a fact, regardless of how high an opinion of yourself you might have. You say dog runs are about exercising, others say dog runs are about socializing their dogs with other dogs. Some runs are better for one activity and not the other. Again, it's subjective, it's not "fact." Funny how the Great Dane my dog plays with at the VVP dog park doesn't seem to complain much about the run being too small for him. Then again, Rosie is one of the coolest dogs I've ever met. I love the new run in Lincoln Park even if it's a pain in the ass to get to. And I didn't realize there was a dog run in LSP. Where?
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LOL nice to see you're following my posts so closely. Worry not, I expect nothing more than the NewHeights "common knowledge" theory of BS argumentation from you and the rest of the cheerleading angelic landlord posse.
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"masoncitycouncil.org" is a rather unfortunate url. Makes it sound like it's her city. And it qualifies for a '.org' how?
Posted on: 2009/8/10 21:54
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Law-shirking absentee landlord apologists make me hot. There's somebody missing though... paging brewster!
Posted on: 2009/8/10 21:51
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