The Holland tunnel to NJ being closed at night from now till 2025 might make those Uber rides a bit longer FYI.

Ubers are going to be annoying from Brooklyn/lower Manhattan overnight for the next few years with the WB Holland Tunnel closure, probably best to take an Uber to WTC and use the RidePATH app to judge when to actually go to the station so you're not waiting on the platform for 30+ minutes.

You know about r/AubreyMaturinSeries/? It can be interesting.

Jersey City Runners has group runs everyday: https://meetu.ps/c/81dS/XmCw7/a

You should be ok to be honest. Path runs every 40 minutes at that time. Pretty sure the subway is running as well.

My partner and I are typically out late in the city (usually Brooklyn) around once a week. Depending on where you are and what time of night, the Uber situation is fine and the best path. You’d be surprised how quick the ride is from deep Brooklyn at 4/5a with no traffic. Sometimes the price can be on the steep side but I’ve also been surprised at how reasonable it is more than a few times.

The path frequencies suck overnight, but otherwise if you check via the path app you can usually plan it pretty well. If we’re taking the path home we always try to time going from wtc to grove rather than on the 33rd street line to avoid the stopover in Hoboken.

LUXURY DINING

Probably better to move to NYC

No, but can highly recommend Sage Vet Center on Erie Street in Hamilton Park. Fantastic vet, the best I've ever visited.

Base gets a lot of hate for some reason and yea, it's expensive, but I love it. I think all of the things it has to offer make the price well worth it.

You will be glad you don't have heatpumps this weekend!

Sam AM does it every Wednesday morning at 6. Or at least used to.

It's early february. All the gyms suck right now. Given that you said all you need is some minor nonsense, just pick the least expensive chain near you.

If you are not going to be lifting super heavy and have the space, I’d recommend investing in a set of adjustable dumbbells and whatever cardio machine you need and working out at home. The gyms here are super expensive for your use case, plus very crowded this time of year.

I go to Base and like it, but I’m also making use of heavy weights and machines that I would never be able to fit in my apartment.

Already doing it with Community Solar!

If you can't get solar panels put on directly to your home, check out community solar. You basically get the panels installed somewhere else, and the power generated gets net-metered off your PSEG bill. We used Solar Landscape and our panels are on top of a warehouse in North Bergen. There are a few other companies in Hudson Country you can check out too.

Awesome - I will. thank you!!

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Yeah so the database I mentioned above apparently is no longer online for some reason, it used to exist at http://openpv.nrel.gov but it is not available, its unclear if that is permanent or temporary- a doc from another part of the site kind of implies that they might charge for the data now, but if that's true, its not clear how you would even do that- but it was the only site that actually got me to someone actually willing to do a project around here.

If you get some real leads, please share!

Base on Columbus

You should check out r/booksuggestions

Jersey Journal is where it's at.

I am exactly where you are. I submitted some info to a few different companies and everyone ran away after talking to me for 5 minutes when they actually looked at the satellite imagery one typical example: "is your roof, like, _attached_ to other roofs? Do you live in an apartment?" It was as if the tech had never seen a row home before.

I'm extremely well qualified to do a DIY install, but I simply don't trust myself to not screw up my roof and cost myself $10s of thousands of dollars and a huge hassle.

I've already signed up for Community Solar - a total no brainer - it's just a net savings for everyone, regardless of your opinion of solar/solar incentives/GHG reduction.

Thanks for these details - I have some other leads based on this post, and will update when I lock in someone to do this so hopefully you can get on this path as well.

Do not go on typical sites like EnergySage- its a complete waste of time and they will resell your phone number to dozens of companies that will blow up your phone for literal months.

I have attempted to do this twice- the first time was at the end of February 2020, and everyone ghosted on me because of Covid. Regardless, dozens of companies called me after I put my info in on some sites like energysage but almost all of them ran away when it was not your stereotypical single family house. The last time was this past spring/summer. I didn't love the quotes because they couldn't guarantee anything specific due to supply chain issues- and panel quality can very tremendously, and a warranty doesn't mean anything if its from some fly by night company in China. I shelved it, as the IRA had just been passed, and we had some family health issues, waiting for a better day when you can just buy panels without issue. The IRA should hopefully bring costs down as well when it fully kicks in.

Anyway, Greenhouse Solar and Apex Solar were two companies that were actually willing to do the work (and that's all I could find). I found these companies by looking at a database online of actual installs that listed, the date, size, address of the install, and the company who did it that exists somewhere. I can't seem to find it at the moment, which is frustrating. I begged Brooklyn Solar to give it a go, but they politely declined. I also wanted a battery as well. These guys were balking, until I made it clear that I am not too worried about payback periods and such with a battery system. Of these two, Apex seemed like the much better option, an actual knowledgable person spoke to me, did not panic when we veered off his script- I had all the numbers already worked out in terms of payback or not. There are multiple issues with brownstones/townhouses- the biggest is the roof area and the fire code. You need to be at least three feet away from anything up on your roof- a skylight, AC equipment, the edges of your building, so firefighters can potentially get up there. This dramatically limits the amount of panels you can fit up there. My house has power lines in front of it, so there is even extra BS/permits terms of getting a crane to get the stuff up on the roof. There is also the issue that no one wants to puncture a flat roof, so you need to get a ballasted system, which means you need to get approval that the roof can handle the additional weight, etc.

Another option is to go with community solar. There are several projects out there, I went with solarlandscape.com. It seems like a scam- a guaranteed 15% off your bill and you get powered by solar? But its worked, and while they seemed to have figured out their issues, I was actually getting like 80% off my electric bill for awhile. I wasn't going to complain about it.

Finally, you can attempt to DIY a part of it- I seriously considered this. Companies like renvu solar: https://www.renvu.com/ Will design a system for you, and get all the permits taken care of, for a very reasonable price- $500 for their "full" package. You can then subcontract out the rest. I came up with a way to get a small jack/crane on my roof, so I could hoist all the stuff up there, that seemed to be a major sticking point for most of the little guys doing single family homes. They didn't want to deal with cranes.

Anyway, send me a DM if you want to discuss further. I really want to do this but it just has not worked out... yet.