Nice! I love the balloons haha

I don’t even know what Downtown JC used to look like pre-WW2. Now it’s all luxury housing towers but maybe there were some historic buildings that used to stand in downtown JC. I guess the history/architecture was torn down by developers so that they could build luxury housing. Hopefully Journal Square can preserve some more of the old architecture during their growth phase.

Agreed. As someone who works in finance in NYC, I’ve worked with people who went to Baruch College. To my knowledge , I haven’t worked with anyone who went to NJCU.

The guy who said ‘we are from Jersey City…’, was he on the church’s side or the neighborhood residents’ side?

Are there like smart locks on them? Just wondering what their strategy is to keep the baskets in the store.

Yup. I agree with you. I’d get more involved in the city planning process myself. With my 50-60 hour a week job, it makes it difficult to find extra time.

Agree with you that high rises aren’t that great to live right next to and ruin a bit the charm of a neighborhood. Makes it feel more like industrial or commercial, and less residential. Suburban towns probably have stronger building height restrictions. There’s a building in Communipaw that’s being built now and is already looking taller than the other buildings in Communipaw. It really sticks out and it didn’t need to be that tall.

There are some people who prefer more high rises and more skyscrapers, but I am with you- I like the strong building codes that limit how high the apartments can be. Makes the neighborhood feel more home-y and nice.

Can also throw in thousands of dollars of repairs to a building and to cars. And I don’t know if there’s a crime committed by causing all that damage and then driving away? Like causing several thousand $s in damage and driving away?

I’d agree that being a pedestrian in JC- probably the hardest place to be a pedestrian in Hudson County. But in Newark - I actually find Newark drivers to be more aggressive than JC drivers.

Yep. I almost got hit there last week by a driver trying to beat the light turning red.

Wow this is a breathtaking photo. Thank you!

I work at an investment bank in Midtown Manhattan. I don’t think any of the senior people in my department are living in Manhattan at this point. Even the MD lives in like Astoria in Queens.

Exactly this. When it happened to me, it was really late and I was tired. I just picked a guy and paid for it. I was too tired and it was too late to shop around for quotes.

Real estate around Newark Penn Station is going to be incredibly valuable. Are they really putting in parking lots there?

Really good point that we’re at the lowest land part of the Hudson River. Although- what about Bayonne?

What made you chose Staten Island? My buddy commuted from Staten Island to LIC daily and he said it was tough. I believe he took Staten Island railway to the Staten Island Ferry to the NYC Subway.

If you chose Staten Island because maybe you wanted something a little less dense in terms of population density, maybe you could look into Long Island: Nassau County?

Didn’t realize these Port Authority police cars had tinted windows.

Wearing black clothes. Having one tattoo. Not liking politicians or mainstream culture. Getting dressed up for a night out on the weekend.

How about a GoFundMe? Or maybe someone can get a Venmo name from their family that people can send donation $ to? I know there have been scams with GoFundMe though so I’m not sure if people are still using that as a fundraising tool.

Jersey is the Garden State

I used to go here right near Pint. I’d have a heap of clothes in one big laundry bag. I think the turnaround time was like a day or so maybe? I can’t remember now. They’d fold the clothes really nice. I’d keep using them but my current building now has a washer dryer.

New Downtown Laundromat https://maps.app.goo.gl/sNJ58yHTjCWz1yqX7?g_st=ic

Agreed. How long are we going to let all this vacant commercial space sit unused, before we take action and convert these to residential.

This was really well explained. I didn’t even think about the salting while it’s raining; and the risk of the salt just being washed away if they salt while it’s still raining.

I also don’t know how they plan to salt the roads when the temperature is forecast to drop so quickly in a shorter period of time. I’d guess that they need a lot more widespread salting early on when the temperature drops below 15 F than if it were to drop below like 30 F.

Agreed. They’ve probably lost a lot of money on this space from all the costs and they haven’t sold anything yet.

Wow it’s beautiful!