The Path runs every 40 minutes during the late night hours.

Putting aside the ability to plan your arrival at a Path station based on the schedule so as to minimize wait time, how much more frequently would it need to run for you to feel the service were no longer shitty?

You can be as condescending as you want in your replies to me and the others on this thread whom you deem to be so lacking in personal responsibility for our respective finances, but if you took a break from scolding us, you may realize that you have no one to blame but yourself.

Your original post says this happened to you "a couple of times" at "bars and restaurants in JC", and that "after the first time", you started taking photos.

Your ever-so-clever reply above, however, contradicts that. It seems to say, as best as my commoner brain can understand, that you never got a copy of the restaurant receipt the first time and 'the most recent incident" happened to your friend, not you (although you indicate you are waiting with baited breath for your credit card transaction email to come so you can find out if you have fallen victim to this nefarious, city-wide conspiracy for a second time).

So, you can't be sure you didn't mistakenly add $2 more on the receipt you left at the establishment the first time and you are unclear as to whether your friend has photographic (and thus "irrefutable") proof of the second incident that happened, as far as you are saying, only to her.

Ultimately, you lack not only irrefutable proof of these alleged multiple incidents, but any proof whatsoever of even one, let alone multiple, incidents.

Your TLDR would have been more accurate had it said: "One time a few weeks ago, I was at a bar and they charged my card $2 more in tips than I remember leaving, but I can't be sure so now I photograph both copies of the signed receipt so if it ever happens to me again, and I don't think the monetary amount is too small to make it worth my while to take action, I might do something about it."

If your claims are legit, and you have a photo of your signed receipt that includes a lower tip than what your subsequently issued credit card transaction email shows, then you have no legal issues.

The truth is an absolute defense to any claims that could potentially be made against you - assuming the establishment(s) even go through the time and expense of serving a subpoena on Reddit and overcoming Reddit's objections to providing identification info for your account.

You don't have to show photos, or name names, or do anything else you don't want to do, but there's also no need for you to hide behind a contrived "legal issue" to justify your decision.

Why you would send a post like this and not expect to be bombarded with people asking "where", as one would naturally expect, is another conversation in and of itself.

You will receive a notice (if you haven't already) providing instructions on how to sign up to get the Zoom link. When you do that, you will be instructed to watch a YouTube video explaining the virtual Municipal Court process.

Start a new life off the grid.

Grace O'Malley's right across the street shows all the NFL games.

Grace O'Malley's on Newark usually has sound for big games like this.

Healey's, also on Newark, and Hudson Hall, and O'Hara's, both on Marin, might also have sound.

I blamed the BoE and the city council, just as the portion of my original quote you clipped says.

The BoE most certainly deserves blame because their budgets go up seemingly without concern for the economic realities the residents that fund them face.

The city also deserves blame, and if you accurately described the situation with the payroll tax, then that is a terrible job by the city since the tax was upheld by the NJ Supreme Court so there is no reason for it not to be fully enforced.

You're right about the article you posted being solely about the municipal budget, which is the only one the city council gets to approve/reject.

I referenced the separate issue of the huge increase in the BoE budget, apparently not offset by the subsequently "discovered" windfall, because it is a factor in the total property taxes and emblematic of the overall problem, which is that the politicians (BoE members are elected, do they're politicians, too) responsible for setting the taxes generally take the same, totally insincere and pandering approach of condemning tax hikes and vowing that this will be the "last time" they agree to an increase and that "things need to change", and then put on the same performance again year after year.

I also referenced it because an alternate approach might have been for the city council to have increased the payroll tax to account for the BoE claimed shortfall instead of raising taxes on the homeowners instead of approving a budget that put the burden on the residents. I'm sure the response to that would be that they don't want to drive businesses away. Hey, that's great, but the alternative is forcing residents to move.

And, of course, we the public are partly to blame because while we grumble now, we keep voting in the same people.

You're right - I mistakenly attributed his comment to a yes vote. My bad.

Typical politicians.

Comment: "Things have to change here. This can't continue." Vote: Yes Comment: "This is not a happy budget." Vote: Yes Comment: "The only word I have for this is unacceptable." Vote: Yes Comment: "This needs to get reined in, the overspending." Vote: Yes

Nothing changes because nothing has to change. Taxes go up, modest income people have to move and wealthier people fill their spots. Rinse and repeat.

Remember the Jersey City payroll tax implemented in 2019 specifically to fill in the loss of state funding for the Board of Education?

Remember the $84 million "windfall" in Covid-related federal funds the BoE received a few months ago?

Well, clearly the BoE and City don't, since taxes are going up again, allegedly due in major part to the BoE budget.

But at least you can console yourself with those empty condemnations of the budget above while you put your house up for sale or move because of an unaffordable rent increase.

If you like Indian and other similar cuisines, Little India on Newark, west of Kennedy, has a bunch of fantastic spots.

You now have me thinking about the biryani at Rasoi.

If you want something more American, Emma's has good food but to be fair, it often closes early if it doesn't have a crowd.