Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.

I have checked 1,308,206,305 comments, and only 252,905 of them were in alphabetical order.

Brownstone Diner JC old website:

https://www.brownstonediner.com/history

Some background on the origin:

https://www.brownstonepancakefactory.com/history

I went for the first time since the rebrand recently and they were blasting music, at like 11am. Between that and the decor it's like they want it to be a night club. So strange.

Like my fellow structural engineers have said, looks like an architectural and structural choice that is well coordinated. Or I should say a well coordinated engineered solution to an architectural choice.

I think Jemma loan will be the first dispensary to open in DTJC. I went in there recently and it looks like it’s operate any day now.

Yeah, I feel like if OP ever went to the place when it was Brownstone, they would not be recommending this place.

I know a lot of restaurants have had troubles with staffing and inflation since COVID, but this remodel, IIRC, was in 2019 before the pandemic, so their quality, prices, portion sizes were already going down before from what I could tell the one time I went after the remodel.

I'd hate to think what it's like now...

The last two times I’ve been here there was hair in my food

If they serve pancakes, it’s a fuckin diner

We did just re-elect some of the BOE geniuses who refused to even discuss fiscal responsibility

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Spending other people’s money with zero accountability is fun. Property owners have got to pay taxes or move out, it’s not like they will vote out the BOE clowns. To the people bringing up teacher pay, it’s a great point but look up how much of that budget spend goes towards teacher pay and let’s talk about it after.

groovy.

It's called walking columns or in more layman terms sloping columns, totally normal in concrete construction. We do it all the time in architecture either to clear an area or this case to pick up extra load or be within spacing constraints.

But why would you cheat on Wonder Bagel PEC?

The upper levels are probably more than the lower ones so the floor to ceiling windows is a plus I guess

I'm not sure what you mean about the city being less diverse, but there were gangs that beat up on minorities back then, notably the Dot Busters and the Bones, who were violent and despicable. Most people can't jump up and move when these things happen, so I don't think there was a mass exodus of any type. Aside from that, there was also run of the mill robberies, car thefts, etc.

The service at Life Pancake House isn’t good. It was decent when it first opened back up compared to Brownstone. One time (and last time) at Brownstone, there was a waitress who was going to every table and saying “It’s my birthday, give me money”. Currently, Life Pancake isn’t that much better than how the service was before. Stopped going there a while back, I take the trip to Edgewater instead to Original Pancake

I used to get their chicken and waffles all the time before the rebrand. Only been once shortly after it reopened and it was the same, but that was years ago…

We ordered to go. It arrived on time. We actually got vegan pancakes and they were good! Had some nonvegan items and enjoyed them. Packaging was good. We didn't complain. Would I order again? I would. My issue with going is that it seems to have odd hours. Oh...the lady on the on the phone was super helpful. Yes I called and didn't order through an app.

They ruined it tried to like it went a few times but it is no good :(

Yes, that's exactly what I mean.

Take it you're new to the area?

A classic example of how to fix something that wasn't broken.

Hoss, I've said this three times now, it doesn't mean a fucking thing that it's $33k/per. That puts JC as 36th/44th in the state, depending on whether or not you include special districts.

Your entire premise (JeRsEy CiTy PaYs MoRe ThAn AnYwHeRe ElSe) is bullshit.