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Re: Gunfire on Newark Ave tonight
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It's definitely David M. Murray, the gun shop owner. Last time I saw him, he was sporting an unconcealed leather shoulder holster with a long barreled Colt 357 magnum.

Posted on: 2007/5/9 18:00
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Re: FBI raids Arabic deli on Grove St.
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Anyone remember the Clam Castle in the Heights? That place serverd the best pasta in Jersey City for years. Owners were north african, Morrocan, maybe. But the they cooked really fantastic Italian fare. That place was shovelling money - packed all the time

One day after 9/11, they just closed, no message on the phone, or on the premises, nothing - coincidence?

Posted on: 2007/5/9 16:09
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Re: Gunfire on Newark Ave tonight
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Found this( check out the last paragraph - OMG):

2. NJ.com: Newslogs
www.nj.com/newslogs/jjournal/index.ssf?/mtlogs/njo - [Cached]

Published on: 2/22/2007 Last Visited: 2/23/2007

"There's 500 restaurants, 50 delis, 50 nail salons and 50 phone stores, but there's never been a store like mine," said David Murray, 47, owner of David's Sporting Goods and Self Defense, at 342 Second St.

Open since December, Murray's store is one of two licensed gun dealers in Hudson County - Caso's Gun-O-Rama, on Danforth Avenue in Jersey City, is the other.

It took him a year and a half to get permits from the local police, zoning board, State Police and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The store also carries sporting goods - from boxing gloves to martial arts apparel. Murray says he omitted guns from the store's name in order to make it inviting to children.

Posted on: 2007/5/9 14:58
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Re: Gunfire on Newark Ave tonight
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Holy Cow - I was kinda hoping it wasn't the David who owned the gun shop. Out of curiosity, I was in the store about a month ago and he was showing me one of those canes with a stilletto sword inside - and he told me a story about some senior citizen who was beat up in JSQ some time back. He then proceeded to say "that if that man had one of these - he would've been able to beat back those niggers" - yes he used the N word to my face. Unlike hime, I'm not white. Scary.

Posted on: 2007/5/7 13:24
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Re: Has anyone used any of these dentists?
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The best dentist in JC is:

Nancy Hanna DMD

Hours - (Please confirm) Mon 8am-6pm, Tue 8am-6pm, Fri 8am-5pm, Sat 8am-2pm
Address - 26 Journal Square Suite 800, Jersey City, New Jersey ( NJ ) 07306
Telephone - (201) 433-0773

My family of 5, have been going to her for 19 years, including all 3 of my kids since they were toddlers, they love her.

Great touch - highly competent.

Posted on: 2007/4/26 17:36
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Re: American Can/ Canco Lofts
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Who is the realtor for the Canco lofts/ American Can Company beulding that is being renovated. Anyone know the pricing, etc?


Back to the original topic - I found this in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/rea ... 88&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

In the Region | New Jersey
Both Ultramodern and Dated
Paul Hawthorne for The New York Times
INDUSTRIAL FLAVOR A model apartment at CanCo Lofts in Jersey City, which will ultimately have 500 condos.

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By ANTOINETTE MARTIN
Published: April 22, 2007
JERSEY CITY

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Paul Hawthorne for The New York Times
A detail of the building?s Art Deco exterior.
THE American Can Company factory building here ? which was the birthplace of the modern American beer can ? is undergoing conversion into more than 500 condominium lofts that will retain a distinct industrial flavor, spiked with ultramodernity.

The new condos will have a look that is both retro and sleek, according to architects from SBLM of Manhattan, the company hired by the developer, Coalco New York, to transform the million-square-foot Art Deco-era industrial building.

Its classic factory elements, like ceilings that soar up to 24 feet and concrete columns as big around as giant redwoods, will be set off by white-lacquered kitchen cabinetry, wide-plank white-oak flooring and stone countertops in every unit, said David Nicholson of SBLM.

?It has been quite fascinating working on an adaptive reuse like this,? Mr. Nicholson said. ?The building has such strong character of its own, and we are trying to play to that, honor that, while at the same time going to the cutting edge with the apartment designs.?

A separate architecture firm, LOT-EK of Manhattan, was hired to create a ?destination? lobby at the condominium project, called CanCo Lofts. It has come up with a startling low-tech-high-tech design that combines stacked lumber used as benches and ?ceiling sculptures?; a wall decorated with industrial piping; extensive glass; and two dozen plasma television screens that will show live scenes of the Manhattan skyline as well as community news flashes.

?This wall will truly be a spectacle,? said Giuseppe Ligano of LOT-EK, describing the wall of piping as reminiscent of a Chinese screen. It will be lighted from behind so that from across the room the piping appears as stripes on an interior wall.

The TV screens mounted on the wall may be viewed as art in addition to their role as instruments of communication, Mr. Ligano said. ?For one thing, they can be used creatively to repeat the view of New York, so that it seems to be everywhere in the room, or splitting it into fragments so the screens make a whole ?painting? or to produce a panorama.?

In addition, five ?conversation areas? will be created around the lumber benches, whose seating section will be wrapped in leather. The lobby will also have a mailroom, with desks for opening mail.

The CanCo building is a natural haven for commuters ? nine blocks from Journal Square and a PATH station, from which passengers can reach Wall Street in less than 15 minutes. So the screens will also constantly report on weather and traffic, said Edward Yorukoff, marketing director of Coalco New York, a division of Coalco International, a diversified development company based in Russia.

Coalco will open sales next month on the first 100 loft units. Construction has begun after a long phase of environmental cleanup at the property and completion of a sales lobby and model kitchens, baths and a loft space, Mr. Yorukoff said.

One-, two- and three-bedroom units will be offered at prices ranging from the high $200,000s to the upper $600,000s, Mr. Yorukoff said. The apartments come with garage parking, numerous amenities and shuttle service to the PATH train.

The first residents could move in by the end of the year, he said.

The building, which was shut down as a can factory in the 1970s and has mostly been empty since then, is a local landmark. With its five towers, tall smokestacks and stone Deco details, the brick structure is part of a historic industrial district established by the city.

The developers have picked up on the theme with a piece of artwork installed inside the sales lobby?s front door: a wall-hung sculpture composed of paint cans of a type once manufactured on the site.

The building?s facade will be completely renovated, according to Coalco?s president, Mikhail Kurnev.

The lofts will be designed to be exceptionally large and roomy, he said, with period 14-foot ceilings ? 17 feet to 24 feet on upper floors ? and eight-foot-high doors, plus the oversize windows typical of old factories. The baths will have oversize showers and soaking tubs, glass mosaic tile on the walls and cove lighting.

A 10,000-square-foot residents? club will feature a large fitness center, a yoga and Pilates studio and a half court for basketball. In addition, the community will offer a children?s play center, screening room, pet park and pet spa, game room for billiards and video games and an event room with an outside terrace.

The building?s basement, formerly a rail station, will become a residents? parking garage, accessible by elevator, Mr. Kurnev said.

LOT-EK, the lobby designer, is also designing a garden area outside the lobby, which will have a glass wall on the garden side. Although the setting for CanCo Lofts, situated at 50 Dey Street just off the clogged traffic artery of Tonnelle Road, is highly urban, the building is designed to offer a calm oasis to its residents, the developer said.

From upper floors, the views of Manhattan and the NewJersey coast and, westward, of towns perched on rolling hills are extraordinary. From the now-gutted upper floors of one of the towers ? empty save for concrete support columns 12 feet in circumference ? the full 360-degree panorama is available.

?It?s a good time to shop for the view you might like to own,? said Mr. Yorukoff, who added that prospective buyers would be allowed to take a look, if willing to don a hard hat.

He said he expected the lofts to be most attractive to buyers in their 20s and 30s, probably with no children or only a toddler, who might want to use the loft space in their units as either work space or spare bedrooms.

Posted on: 2007/4/26 17:26
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Re: Greenville: Only 13, 'pusher' wields knife in theft
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my humble opinion - find the parents and slap them silly.

Posted on: 2007/4/24 18:51
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Re: American Can/ Canco Lofts
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No bias whatsoever towards Indians, or anyone else for that matter, but Little India in JC is pretty nasty. Can you or anyone else tell me otherwise while keeping a straight face?


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Nasty? You mean Dirty? As in litter, foul odor, or such?

I grew up in the Third World - and it looks relatively clean.

Yes, I'm smiling.

Posted on: 2007/4/24 15:58
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Re: Best things to order at the Vietnamese place on Newark
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Yeah!!!

I've been going to this place for years - best lunch in Jersey City, and free parking!

Just watch out for the floors - a little slippery, leave the stillettos home.

-Soup # 12 Beef Navel with Round Eye (sounds funny - look at the menu) delicious!

-The beef stew appetizer is a complete meal for $3.50

-ask for Halo-Halo for dessert, it's a Southeast Asian specialty.

I've eaten on the streets of Ho CHi Minh city and it tastes the same.

Durian shake eh?

Posted on: 2007/4/19 18:59
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Re: Dentist Recommendation
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Dr. Nancy Hannah is my recommendation- my wife and 3 kids have been going to her for 17 years, no complaints from anyone. She's in JSQ, 201-433-0773.

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My gf can't recommend Dr. K of Dr. Cohen's office on Newark Ave enough. i haven't been to them yet, but she is extremely picky with Dentists and she loves it there. However, I don't believe they are part of any insurance network group so your insurance would probably only cover a visit if it covers out-of-network visits.

Posted on: 2006/12/7 19:34
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Re: COMING SOON: STRAINS ON JC POWER GRID, SEWAGE, ROADS AND TRASH
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hey - this is Jersey City : I was out running one morning, and I saw this cop on that parking lot on Manila Ave near 7th St., finish his coffee-then toss the cup out ofhis police car... WTF??

Posted on: 2006/12/7 19:31
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Re: Downtown Jersey City Watch-Updates Thread
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I will try to attend, probably not able to.. but I have a question for this person (Jim Ganley, from the Neighborhood Improvement Division) or anyone who cares to comment:

Will he issue tickets to homeowners even though trash in the immediate property was dumped by someone else?

What if I can prove that it came from a neighbor(complete with letters with addresses, etc.)?

I live on the corner of 9th and Manila, and people routinely leave their trash here. 2 days ago ,I saw a case of Corona Beer with about 3-4 empty bottles, and an unknown blue plastic bag next to it. It's still there.

Right on the wall, there's a half-consumed bottle of Snapple today.

At any given time there will be cigarette boxes, empty potato chip bags, sometimes a tire,or remnants of an oil change, 4 litres of 10W-40

I've lived here since 1996, and after picking up others people's trash for years, I've stopped a couple of years ago. Just tired of that crap.

Posted on: 2006/11/7 21:03
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Re: Councilman Steve Fulop runs 26m race for nonprofit: the Hudson County Child Abuse Prevention Cen
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Yes, I think he's good for downtown JC, I could only give $26, but every little bit helps.

Posted on: 2006/10/26 13:32
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Re: Cars blowing through stops signs-Hamilton Park Area
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can't we ask the Police Captain on 7th street to issue some tickets - we'll probably balance the budget...

Posted on: 2006/9/27 19:55
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Re: Positive things I like about JC
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hope no one's posted this yet:

McNair Academic High !!!the best HS in NJ and one of the top 10 in the US

plus: the best HS Faculty i've ever had the pleasure of knowing

full disclosure: my son graduated there and my daughter's a senior...

Posted on: 2006/9/26 15:18
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Re: Primary care Physician recommendations?
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My wife and I go to Dr. Kothari on the 5 corners area, he's an allergy specialist and we like him.

Dr. Harish Kothari
(201) 418-9100
591 Summit Ave
Jersey City, NJ

Posted on: 2006/9/14 19:42
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