saw a lot of shows in Manhattan/Brooklyn in 2022 on Wed or Thursday nights and the holland tunnel was almost always closed on my way home back to jersey. it’s horrible but I feel as if this happens semi often already

west side shawarma at the gas station on the corner of communipaw and west side ave, cash only and pick up only. chicken or lamb are my faves, and I always get extra white sauce

I live in bayonne about 3 min from the bridge and park cheap rent and have lots of parking and live near the light rail which takes me to JC or Hoboken for the weekends

I grew up in North Bergen which is sort of between JC and Pal Park, and we would volunteer to sing Christmas songs at the senior citizens care homes there. I’m not sure what homes have a piano though but it’d be worth calling some places, they love volunteer musicians

I can hate cardboard apartments AND other kinds of shitty living situations! it’s possible to do more than one :) this is a crazy “conversation” and you’ve just been assuming shit and barely reading what I’m writing- bye Jerome

who said I’m not outraged about that? And I never said only apartments made me mad, you’re assuming. I’m discussing a specific apartment complex that was built on university property not to help the students the university served, that’s it lmaooo

don’t worry Ibe been poor as shit for my whole life and finally my partner and 3 roomates and I can afford a beach house for like a week! you def know me because you’ve read through my post history. thanks for being happy for my growth out of poverty as an educator.

again, poor people can’t go on vacation is another super shitty take

a housing crisis isn’t solved by putting up cardboard luxury apartments low income residents of the neighborhood could never afford and that are poor quality. So if we want to help low income communities the luxury apartments no low income family could afford isn’t a solution at all. I agree w u on public transportation tho 1000% but unfortunately that’s not the case in that area of JC.

“poor people no have cars” isn’t a super great or nuanced take. lots of njcu students have cars. source, i graduated a few years ago and myself and many others saved for $1-2k beater vehicles to transport ourselves. NJCU is a commuter school, commuters will not attend without accessible parking. the destruction of the closest lot to the campus has not helped prospective students. The lot destroyed was a 15 minute walk from campus, the only affordable commuter lot available to students now is a 25 minute walk away

I’m so sorry you experienced that!! so crappy and expensive :/

doesn’t really matter to me since the university is one of the only universities that lower income people in the area can afford. the land was renovated by the old president of NJCU to give the university a lot of money and lots of money has since been reported missing in the tenure of said president! and meanwhile when the lots were running the university was in much better financial standing

Doesn’t surprise me. They destroyed two parking lots for New Jersey City University to put up those cardboard apartment buildings overnight. purely a scam