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Re: Property Manager recommendations
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Whatever you do don't go with Corner Property Management. Our friends live downtown and their building has seen a rapid decline since they starting "managing" the building. I heard that they are unresponsive, dismissive and also very very expensive.

Posted on: 2018/12/26 6:57
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Re: Plumber?
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jcneighbor wrote:
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griffin wrote:
Byron used to be my plumber but after two bad jobs that he never came back to fix, I have to switch. Does anyone have a plumber recommendation other than Byron?

(To be fair to Byron, he responds quickly, price is fair)



I've used Byron twice. His price seemed a little high on one job and he left a big mess. He's also got an ego bigger than the State of NJ, and I didn't really need or want the attitude (I'm a highly-mechanical guy but the job was a little too big for me to handle by myself or I would have). He brought the wrong part after I SPECIFICALLY told him what was needed so he had to run back to Bayonne to his supplier. Meaning a 1 hour job took 3 hours.

I've used Charles Mello several times in the past. Nice old guy, old school, and knows his stuff. Also reasonable on the price.

https://plus.google.com/106069555938285626755/about?gl=us&hl=en


I don't think Charles Mello is still in business.

Posted on: 2017/2/8 1:52
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Re: Plumber?
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hudson57 wrote:
re. byron: please note, he works under someone elses license!!! talks the talk and gets away with it.



Is this true?

Posted on: 2017/1/25 6:59
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Re: Plumber?
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CCoon wrote:
Beware Carmine Aumenta. He tried to rip me off after Hurricane Sandy even through I was a paying customer for years before. He also bragged to others working on my building that he was overcharging due to the situation. This man is a snake.


There are laws which prevent contractors from gouging during a natural disaster. He should have been reported.

Posted on: 2016/10/21 5:17
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Re: Tender Shoot Farm Closing
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corybraiterman wrote:
I take it sarcasm isn't your strong suit?


No it isn't. I leave all the sarcastic remarks up to you.

Posted on: 2016/8/14 7:59
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Re: Tender Shoot Farm Closing
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corybraiterman wrote:
More good news, PKs lease is up in a few years


OMG, don't you ever have anything kind to say? Why would it be good news to hear that PK's lease will be up in a few years ? Do you think there are too many hipsters shopping at PK??? To the people who frequent this small, family-run store, it's not good news.

Posted on: 2016/8/10 4:31
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Re: Rainbow to be replaced by Hoboken restaurant group responsible for 1 Republik
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EasyGibson wrote:
I'm pretty sure this conversation has happened in every single growing city in every single era of history.

Nobody's really wrong. Nobody's really right.

I will say this though... Downtown is still the best for bar hopping on a Monday!


If bar-hopping on a Monday night is the best Jersey City has to offer...just kill me Sunday.

Posted on: 2016/8/10 4:16
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Re: Rainbow to be replaced by Hoboken restaurant group responsible for 1 Republik
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Sigh... just what we need is yet another Bar. How about something we don't have...like a real Mediterranean Restaurant or a real Japanese-owned restaurant (enough of the asian fusion places). I would like anything that would be good for a more diverse group other than just sports minded people.

Posted on: 2016/8/10 4:05
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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corybraiterman wrote:
nice to know the very few times i need some obscure hipster vegetable or something that only they have, i won't have to go into the city to get it.

95%+ of my grocery shopping will still be done at shoprite, key foods, tender shoots/p&k on newark and the farmers markets, but good for the people who like paying more for the same things.


LOL!!!!!



Posted on: 2016/5/5 7:35
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Re: Provost Square
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What's going to happen to the Shoprite? It's not listed on the plan??

Posted on: 2016/3/1 17:46
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Re: Jersey City Man Is Arrested After Drone Hits Empire State Building
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Well... thanks to stupid, reckless people like this d-bag they have finally suspended the sale of drones to the public. Good job jerk; mission accomplished.

Posted on: 2016/2/28 17:47
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Re: Jersey City Man Is Arrested After Drone Hits Empire State Building
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WhoElseCouldIBe wrote:
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owlie wrote:
Who takes a drone into NYC to fly around unless he is doing something nefarious?



Relax guy, did it ever occur to you that flying a drone is just fun? You must be a hoot at parties.


Ha ha ha...I get it...a hoot at parties!!!!
Seriously... I agree with papadage that the guy must be totally self-absorbed . It's a DANGEROUS thing for an amateur to be doing in a populated area. Someone could have gotten injured.

Posted on: 2016/2/11 6:52
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Re: Tragic Accident leads to Fatality
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VERY sad story. Rest in Peace .

Posted on: 2016/2/7 6:54
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Re: Ignore button - hide all posts from a particular user
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There is no reason to take what someone says so personally. Why get bent out of shape because someone thinks differently than you?

Posted on: 2016/2/7 6:50
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Re: Jersey City Man Is Arrested After Drone Hits Empire State Building
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Who takes a drone into NYC to fly around unless he is doing something nefarious?

Posted on: 2016/2/7 6:42
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Re: Morgan at Provost Square in Downtown Jersey City has opened.
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Is the construction complete? I thought they were putting up 2 towers?

Posted on: 2015/10/12 23:01
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Re: Jersey City has second most Ashley Madison accounts in NJ
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[quote]
Mouse wrote:
Yay for my home town.


Report: With nearly 16k users, Jersey City has second most Ashley Madison accounts in NJ

With 15,823 users, Jersey City has the second most registered Ashley Madison accounts in New Jersey, according to Cinnaminson Patch.


By John Heinis/Hudson County View

Jersey City makes the list behind only Newark, which has 26,965 registered users, according to an analysis of New Jersey accounts registered with the website ? which promotes ?discreet? intimate encounters for married men and woman.

The registration information of thousands of users was released by a group of hackers called ?The Impact Team? last month, prompting Avid Life Media ? the Toronto-based firm that owns Ashley Madison (as well as other dating sites such as Cougar Life and Established Men) ? to offer a $5,000 reward to capture the person(s) involved with the hack (h/t The Washington Times).

Based on the data compiled in the Patch report, here is a breakdown of Hudson County?s Ashley Madison users:

Hudson County Ashley Madison Users

1. Jersey City ? 15,823 (2nd overall)



2. Hoboken ? 6,164 (12th overall)



3. Bayonne ? 3,428 (27th overall)



4. North Bergen ? 2,966 (35th overall)



5. West New York ? 2,470 (45h overall)



6. Kearny ? 2,129 (55th overall)



7. Secaucus ? 1,506 (78th overall)





http://hudsoncountyview.com/report-wi ... y-madison-accounts-in-nj/[/quote


SO WHAT?

Posted on: 2015/9/1 1:24
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Re: Please Help Prato Bakery
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corybraiterman wrote:
right, so we've established that you hate money, can't communicate your thoughts properly and hate it when people use your own words to ask questions regarding said words.

duly noted.

Too bad you don't like hearing what other people have to say and think it makes you look superior to try and belittle others. You started personal attacks because you didn't like what I said. The fact is I don't have to answer any of your questions. I don't owe YOU any further explanation. You are a known bully and I refuse to be bullied by you.
Good day corybraiterman

Posted on: 2015/8/19 18:58
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Re: Please Help Prato Bakery
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Quote:

corybraiterman wrote:
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owlie wrote:
I said I was going to Edgewater. It's too bad people are "stumped as to what you would need to go there for." I was going for some "oddball" ethnic food that I was raised on


You actually said, and I quote: "I had to go to Whole Foods and Trader Joe's in Edgewater Saturday. "

New question, what traditional ethnic foods do the TJ's and WF's in edgewater sell that you can't get here? I'm always down for trying something I may not have tried before.


Enough already corybraiterman. You seem to be rather intrusive as well as being a bully.

Posted on: 2015/8/19 16:32
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Re: Please Help Prato Bakery
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Quote:

Dolomiti wrote:
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owlie wrote:
All I was saying is we need more choices.

OK then. What, exactly, do you need?

Hoboken doesn't have a Whole Foods, or Trader Joe's, or Target, or Staples, or Home Depot.

Hoboken isn't sitting right next to a suburban-style mall.

You do realize that many new residential buildings that are built in DTJC do, in fact, have ground floor retail?

You do know that over the years, Hoboken has built numerous residential towers and complexes, without adding retail?

Does Hoboken actually have more retail per capita than DTJC?

DTJC has a similar variety of retail establishments as Hoboken -- restaurants, groceries, clothing stores, bookstores, bike shop, etc -- and given how badly brick & mortar shops are getting slaughtered these days, that's not too shabby.

ShopRite is a typical NJ supermarket. Key Foods is smaller but still has a pretty good variety of foods, including fresh veggies and fruit. There's a bunch of smaller groceries, including La Conga. What, exactly, are these shops missing that you find so distressing?


What are you jumping on the attack wagon for? I said I was going to Edgewater. It's too bad people are "stumped as to what you would need to go there for." I was going for some "oddball" ethnic food that I was raised on which I can't get in either JC or Hoboken. I don't find anything to be "distressing". I know where to go to find my "oddball" ethnic food since it can't be found in JC. Thank you both for missing the point of what I was saying.

Posted on: 2015/8/18 23:34
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Re: Please Help Prato Bakery
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LOL @ you corybraiterman.
"are you one of those suckers that buys organic everything? do you detest all the poor minority people that go to shoprite?

REALLY? To answer some of your ridiculous questions:
#1. I do not buy everything organic
#2. What minorities are you referring to that go to shoprite? ( I go to shoprite as well; perhaps that simply annoys you since, for all you know I could be one of the minorities YOU detest?) Every time you point out a falsehood about someone else, it says something about what your real motives are.

All I was saying is we need more choices.
All you are saying is what you always say...and it's never good or positive or uplifting. You like to attack people for having different points of view.
I want more choices for everyone.

Posted on: 2015/8/18 16:20
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Re: Please Help Prato Bakery
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For me, one of the biggest problems in JC is that it is definitely lacking in stores and amenities. I had to go to Whole Foods and Trader Joe's in Edgewater Saturday. While driving there, I am always amazed that we are so close in proximity to Hoboken where there are SO many places to shop, dine, drink and play. All we do in Jersey City is to continue to build high-rise apartments without providing new stores to accommodate all the new residents. It's damn annoying that I have to go elsewhere to shop because Shop-rite is not big enough for all of Jersey City. The city should be offering tax incentives to attract businesses which would enhance this city. I think every new building that gets approved should provide retail space on the first floor. (end of rant).

Posted on: 2015/8/17 19:46
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Re: NY Times editorial on Hudson tunnel project
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There is something so wrong about Krispie Cream Christie. He put the kibosh on the deal because he thought NJ would end up footing too much of the tab? Doesn't that loud mouth bully know how to negotiate a deal?
When Hurricane Sandy hit NJ, it was Christie who was the real disaster.
He has made a mess of NJ and now wants to become President? Sigh.

Posted on: 2015/8/17 19:20
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PATH alternative
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For your consideration....
Instead of always wishing for Whole Foods, Finest, or Trader Joe's to come to Jersey City, I think a foot bridge from Jersey City to Manhattan is better idea.
http://www.thrillist.com/travel/natio ... rope-bridges-in-the-world

Posted on: 2015/7/28 17:12
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Re: What Jersey City Restaurant Do You Miss the Most?
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I miss the "It's Greek To Me" restaurant that came to Jersey City and was the first ever "It's Greek To Me" that failed. What JC got was a wise-ass guy who thought he knew better than all the other successful "It's Greek To Me" restaurants. It was the only one that went belly up because he didn't follow the IGTM protocol which was to always use fresh and delicious ingredients. What a huge disappointment that was. I know the guy still has another business in JC so I'd like to say, "Hey thanks for being such a big disappointment; you still suck".

Posted on: 2015/6/6 18:46
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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Quote:

SRhia wrote:
Well, I think this is a much bigger societal problem, or should I say breakdown of society. For example, what happened to:

- raising one's own children properly, teaching them discipline and boundaries, rather than outsourcing that to nannies (who don't care) or daycares? Or just trying to be "friends" with your kids????
- giving seats to the elderly and young on trains? During my second pregnancy, no one on the PATH train ever gave me a seat
- being responsible for one's own actions?
- using one's own brain (e.g. well, if you're buying a hot coffee from McD, it will be hot, right? Remember that law suit when someone sued McD because they were "burnt" by the hot coffee)?
- and the list goes on and on and on.....

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JCishome wrote:
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This happened on a packed train! How didn't the person not get surrounded and subdued? How did he get away?


Everyone on the train was too busy playing Candy Crush Soda to notice anything had happened.
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I was going to say the exact thing!!! - Most everyone on the train is clueless to whats going on. They are playing games or watching videos on their phones, listening to to their tunes are reading/writing emails / texts.....


Because we're....soft. Weak. We've been trained to assume that "the authorities" will handle things, so we just stare at our phones.

Not to go on a rant, but this puts me in mind of my chubby middle-aged Facebook friends who scream about how "we" should go kick ISIS's ass. Um, who's "we", dude? You mean those 22-year-old enlistees? Maybe "we" should get their opinion first.


It's absolutely OUTRAGEOUS that this happened. It makes me so angry to even imagine that people are too busy playing games or texting on their phones to even notice that someone got stabbed.

I do not buy into the notion that this was caused by any equipment failure.

There is a breakdown in humanity going on but nobody is paying attention. We are being conditioned to look the other way and have become weak.

As for the idiots that say we should kick ISIS's ass... I think we should withdraw our troops from any conflict overseas and position them on all of our borders. The rich and powerful continue to send other people?s children off to non-defensive wars. Let the people there take care of their own problems. We need to take care of ourselve here.
To quote Phil Ochs,
"It's always the old to lead us to the wars,
Always the young to fall..."

WAKE UP people, get your heads out of your arses.

SRhia... I TOTALLY agree with you!

Posted on: 2015/3/6 2:40
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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JCishome wrote:
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my2cents wrote:
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Bike_Lane wrote:
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This happened on a packed train! How didn't the person not get surrounded and subdued? How did he get away?


Everyone on the train was too busy playing Candy Crush Soda to notice anything had happened.
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I was going to say the exact thing!!! - Most everyone on the train is clueless to whats going on. They are playing games or watching videos on their phones, listening to to their tunes are reading/writing emails / texts.....


Because we're....soft. Weak. We've been trained to assume that "the authorities" will handle things, so we just stare at our phones.

Not to go on a rant, but this puts me in mind of my chubby middle-aged Facebook friends who scream about how "we" should go kick ISIS's ass. Um, who's "we", dude? You mean those 22-year-old enlistees? Maybe "we" should get their opinion first.


It's absolutely OUTRAGEOUS that this happened. It makes me so angry to even imagine that people are too busy playing games or texting on their phones to even notice that someone got stabbed.

I do not buy into the notion that this was caused by any equipment failure.

There is a breakdown in humanity going on but nobody is paying attention. We are being conditioned to look the other way and have become weak.

As for the idiots that say we should kick ISIS's ass... I think we should withdraw our troops from any conflict overseas and position them on all of our borders. The rich and powerful continue to send other people?s children off to non-defensive wars. Let the people there take care of their own problems. We need to take care of ourselve here.
To quote Phil Ochs,
"It's always the old to lead us to the wars,
Always the young to fall..."

WAKE UP people, get your heads out of your arses.

Posted on: 2015/3/5 16:56
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Re: PATH (pathetic attempt at transporting humans)
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Let me get this straight:
"A man was stabbed on a packed PATH train Tuesday evening, Port Authority police said.
The attacker pulled out a knife during an argument with another rider and plunged it into the 38-year-old victim?s chest as the crowded southbound train was approaching the 23rd Street station just before 6 p.m., officials said.
The assailant then exited the train when it pulled into the station and ran off.
The victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition and was expected to survive."

This happened on a packed train! How didn't the person not get surrounded and subdued? How did he get away?

Posted on: 2015/3/4 3:15
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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Quote:

Monroe wrote:
Where could you site a Wegman's in JC? Have you ever been in one? Have you ever seen the size of the parking lots in Wegman's? Many here push JC as being a place where people don't need cars-have you ever seen a person leaving a Wegman's without many, many bags-that they, in suburbia, put into the back of a giant SUV?


Monroe, my post wasn't meant to start an argument. It is my personal opinion. I have been to many different Wegmans. I have no idea WHERE Wegmans could be located in JC. It is not Costco or BJ's where people buy in bulk.You don't ALWAYS have to do a massive shop. And yes, I have seen MANY people in Wegmans go through the "12 items or less aisle".
I simply dream of a place where there is an abundance of variety. Is there anything wrong with wishing for a better store where everyone can shop?


Posted on: 2014/12/28 21:15
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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I am sick of the Whole Foods debate. I don't think it's the best. I do, on the other hand, think very highly of Wegmans. That is the sort of store that would have a positive effect on JC. It is a well-run store with good quality, non-pretentious products. And...it won't bankrupt you. Whole Foods, IMHO, is way too politically motivated.

Posted on: 2014/12/28 20:11
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