It sounds about right.

Heading type, number of windows, insulation, exposure direction, floor number, etc will make a difference.

No idea, because they haven't told us what the study found.

NYC doesn't run their own transit system, so that doesn't help. It's worth keeping in mind that NY State also fucking hates NYC and their Governors have been pretty actively antagonistic toward the city for most of all of our lives.

Because it’s the de facto park of downtown and jersey city. People from all over come to use it. Schools use it as their playground because the schools don’t even have playgrounds

It’s a wonderful park and kids need to play.

Yea I haven’t lived there in years and this was always a problem back then, they’d have large sections fenced off to let the grass regrow and the second it does, people stomp all over it again. It just doesn’t stand a chance.

I saw in a comment you're coming from downtown. The most straight forward way is to bike up Newark Ave and then turn right on Palisade. Newark Ave has a protected bike lane, so it's a safer ride, although you have to cycle up the hill. Palisade does not have a protected bike lane. It doesn't even have a separate bike lane. The "bike route" on Palisade is just sharing the one-lane road with cars. There are signs that say "Bike can use entire lane", or something like that, but the law is one thing, and people are something else.

Personally if I cycle from downtown up to heights, I prefer to turn right on Central Ave, not on Palisade. Palisade had too much road work done in the past and the road hasn't been repaved. I find Central Ave to be a smoother and safer ride (if you do choose to turn right on Central, ride on the sidewalk for the one block stretch from Newark to 139). Central doesn't have a separate bike lane, so you'll still have to share the one-lane road with cars. Personally, if there's traffic, I often ride slowly on the sidewalk.

Most roads in the Heights don't have a separate bike lane. None have a protected bike lane, as far as I know. Feel free to explore around the Heights. You can also cross into Union City if you want. If you have any of those cycling apps (Strava, Ride with GPS), I think you can see popular cycling routes that people take, so you can use those as a guide for where to cycle.

If you have difficulty cycling up the hill on Newark Ave, you could always use take the PATH from Grove to Journal Square. Both stations have elevators for your bike. If you do take the PATH, it can be a bit tricky to figure out how to enter/exit the stations with a bike, but once you know where to go, it's an easy option. And from JSQ cycle on Central into the Heights. Feel free to ask all of us if you have more questions. You should also follow BikeJC on instagram/whatever socials they have. I'm not involved with them, but they do great work.

Bike lane with divider makes a big difference

Everything is electric in the apartment and I work from home.

Go up Hoboken Ave by cast iron lofts

Terrible soil that doesn’t drain, just pools water, high season (summer) grass is under massive canopy from trees which results in thin weak rooted grass and high foot traffic.

Depends...are you using gas for heating or a stove? Or is it all electric?

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I see you're coming from downtown. Newark Ave hill has bike lanes on both sides. It's a healthy challenge. You can also go into Hoboken and take New York Ave (I thought it used to be Ravine, so that's confusing) or Mountain Rd. The latter is the steeper of all these options, but it also has a large staircase as well. And if you really want to head through HBK, the 9th Street Lightrail stop has an elevator that goes up the cliff. There is also technically the 14th Street viaduct, but I personally only go down it, not up, for safety concerns.

Nope. Just get Precheck, CLEAR really only works at certain airports with single mega lines where the ID check is out of control, like Orlando or Atlanta.

It's also a Delta product so often only found at airports with a large Delta presence.

Except it did change? 119 reliability improved dramatically (there is statistical evidence of this) after July NJT takeover, and more rush hour trips were recently added.

This is an easy one. Cities like New York learned long ago that you cannot maintain grass without management in dense urban areas. Dogs especially destroy open lawns, but so do all kinds of heavy use, especially in the off-season.

If you look at spaces like Madison Square Park, the grass is entirely fenced off with mesh and stakes and specific gates are opened (and rotated) to enable use of the lawn at appropriate times. Hamilton Park lacks those barriers and this is the result.

Sad that they let it get to this point. It looks more like neglect.

NJ is pretty sensible for the most part.

NJ’s objection to congestion pricing is largely that it’s a tax on NJ while we still have to donate billions to the MTA via federal tax dollars. On top of that NY has been absolutely obstructionist in mass transit between states. They torpedoed the ARC project for new tunnels by capping what they’d contribute to the project and spent decades fighting replacing port authority bus terminal. Even with a new terminal proposed it’s still not as big as NJ wants so it can have more buses. Which is presumably so it doesn’t eat away at congestion pricing revenue, because they’d have to make up the losses via other taxes or program cuts.

NYC pretends to be much more pro transit than it really is. It’s mostly a tax grift.

Could have had new tunnels for NJ Transit and a massively expanded bus system. But NYC shot that down. Don’t forget that.

Def not huge open lawns but there are sections. point was more just van vorst feels very alive and lush with its little paths and nooks and crannys of greenery. Even with canopy as thick as ours it’s in way better shape and pleasant to be in. Like a park.

Seriously it’s parents who let there kids run rampant on the grass and there’s your answer. But ain’t no one gonna stop hat behavior even if this is the result.

I’ve seen it in summer. It looks almost as bad. And this has been the mildest winter in a while with no snow or significant frost. Grass should be somewhat green year round. Look at most New York City parks that are maintained.

I think it's a good idea, I'd love to see it, but if enough people supported Leonia then that should have been a catalyst to get something done, it wasn't.

NJ is a car first state, we can't agree that congestion pricing into NYC is a good idea and our Gov and other state politicians are trying to widen a highway through a city with no pushback from anyone outside JC.

We can't get state and county roads to have any design other than 'more room for cars', the State DOT is actively antagonistic to complete streets in towns.

I hope/wish you are correct that this is something that could get done, but I don't see it.

> …most of the trees in Hamilton Park are suffering from serious issues that either indicate or significantly impact their overall health and condition. Almost every tree exhibits some degree of fungal infection, a number of trees have open cavities and cankers, and both girdling roots and root rot symptoms have been observed.

ewww our trees have cankers. after skimming this report I guess just be glad there’s any living plant life. Also watch out for falling diseased branches.

Van Vorst also has like, zero grass though.

Oh yeah, you’re right. I was kind of cherry picking my memories of the street - I was imagining the part of palisade between the hospital and ravine when I made my comment and forgot about the rest.