smorgasburg was lame. overpriced food in a boiling hot parking lot.

smorgasbar, on the other hand, is a lovely place to grab a beer and hang and sit and watch the river after work.

if you ask at decarlo for small jobs they send you to Star Cleaners.

a friend of mine described coming to jersey city in the '80s and getting a both a glass bottle and racial slurs chucked at her. she didn't come back for years

went in only once while on a dog walk. i knew it was pretty toxic so the dog and i kept to areas where you could just step on umpteen layers of fallen-over weeds, not in the wetter areas or areas where there is exposed dirt. (western/southern corner). there's scrub and weeds and some rusting trash and blown plastic trash.

(mini castles? what?)

do i boycott 902, or show up and ask difficult questions?

with black pepper! https://www.umassmed.edu/nutrition/blog/blog-posts/2019/6/using-black-pepper-to-enhance-the-anti-inflammatory-effects-of-turmeric/

swim

i swear i am always yelling "stop sign" at the back of speeding cars, sigh

my favorite places are the fragments of the natural world still left:

the short but calm, beautiful boardwalk of caven point btw the stupid golf course and port liberte (it sparkles with lightning bugs in the summer)

the few times a year the Reservoir is open so you can hike the perimeter, it's like stepping back in time. (if they tear down those very OLD trees up there i will be so upset)

and

the fact that there are fewer than 100 steps at the 100 steps (i think it's 96. lol)

yeah but it's ignored by locals, sigh

curious if you both turning around and filming them with your cameras woulda done anything... (this is a question, not necessarily a suggestion)

my 2 cents: hamilton park would benefit from something van vorst park did a few years ago--making one section just for people who want to sit in the grass--i.e. no ball playing/no dogs.

so there's just one really NICE soft grass patch in van vorst. it's only about an 8th of the park, or less.

absolutely feeling the same. i have lived here for 28 years and now cannot afford to live here. i weathered the reval, but barely, and this is basically putting me into apartment-poverty. i can't afford to go to the dentist and a lot of other basic needs.

is the the "Slow AF" running club still going?

i lived on warren for years and had a view out one of my living room windows...until they put the condos in. it was cool while it lasted.

the low-lying areas of bergen lafayette totally flooded in 2012 during the Sandy storm surge. just fyi. as you hit grand/garfield the elevation rises a bit, though.

i'm still so sad about the cost of NY NJ ACA pretty much tripling or quadrupling since covid.

Frank still runs the cleanest studio with the BEST glaze room and the only cone 10 kilns this side of the Hudson that i've found (any other cone 10 leads--anywhere in NJ? ) but it's basically luxury clay at this point.

i also heard that some clay folks spinning off from Artshack in brooklyn will be opening a studio somewhere in jersey city.

it's so reasonably priced!

i cannot see a transit cop understanding that. all they see is jumper. (this has happened to me about 5x at grove street too)

as are a bunch of trails/hikes north and northwest of here

that liquor store used to keep the tennis court nets for hamilton park, you had to go ask for them there then put them up yourself on the courts. fun jersey city history lol

you have to book it in advance and they have crazy rules about bags on the rink, but bryant park in nyc is essentially free if you have your own skates.

a little sad to lose the subway. it was cheaper and had more veg options.