Journal Square is changing rapidly so this is just silly.

Also how dare you imply Boulevard Drinks is anything but a cultural pillar for the city.

If you hate JC and never want anything to happen here just leave ¯\(ツ)/¯

I used to really like to do a figure 8, run up Newark, right onto Palisade, right onto Hoboken Ave, take Cole’s street to York, right onto Warren, left onto Dudley, run the waterfront till Columbus then up Columbus.

Or maybe this person holds some misguided political beliefs but isn't an "asshole." We should be careful about judging others when we have very little information about them.

From what I've seen online police hate sovereign citizens. Extremely unlikely this guy is connected with them at all.

eh, I'm a woman and walking home at 4am is a non-issue

When there are no "luxury" containers for yuppies they just end up making our existing housing into luxury and pushing even more people out. This is what happened to San Francisco. Luxury housing is a necessity. Don't build it and things just get worse even faster. You can't stop yuppies from moving to JC. You can build them housing to keep them from making a 4th floor walk up studio in Greeneville $2500/month.

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this is biggest thing critics always overlook. just see the price tag and not the subsidies from the state etc that are actually taking most of it.

I don't disagree with you on the build more housing or that landlords increase as much as they want.

However landlords do increase rent if their costs go up too. It's not mutually exclusive. They have a floor and ceiling. The ceiling is what you're talking about, they can and often will charge whatever the market will pay for. The floor is what they need to charge to break even. An increase in property tax and inflation raises this floor. So my og statement was basically that the floor increased around 7%, and the landlord increasing the ceiling side by 3% on top of that makes a 10% increase. It is a big increase but it is explainable with more than only "landlord bad". However an increase of say >10% is much more explainable by landlord greed than anything.

Also in case it sounds like it I do not support landlords in any way. But we should discuss things with nuance when it exists.

> I've seen many people doing endless HP laps

That sounds so incredibly boring, but I guess if you live nearby and can't go too far away from home for whatever reason you have to make do with what you've got.

If I had to guess, since the police already ignore those tinted plate covers (which triggers another whole rant from me...) probably to hide it from any officers who might care to question this wildly illegal plate. Not saying it makes sense....

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Well, instead of having a state-issued license plate identifying the car's owner, this person saw fit to mount this fake plate making it impossible to track them down in case of an accident or crime. Also, since this "New York" (maybe? who knows?) car was near the tunnel, I doubt its owner paid the toll if they traveled through it. Should be very illegal on several levels.

Also, if you were to be involved in an accident with this person, do you think they have insurance? Or any intention of even stopping to deal with it?

Why do you need to obscure an incoherent plate with a cover like that?

> Free Public Library Assistant Director Kate Davis

Why was the library assistant director on this trip? Is there some connection between the museum and the library?

...I thought it was just me....😄

Who needs sunlight when you can brag about how many hideous luxury rental buildings your city allowed to be built with no oversight 🤩

Can someone elaborate on what this is and what it means instead of just crying about the guy lol

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Does the Double Tree parking lot where 50 Cent got shot that one time make the list?

That's what they thought about the Trumpists before 1/6. They got it just a little wrong.

I mean this ideas in this thread are alittle West Side light. Depends if we get desperate

I'm pretty sure their gripe is against paying any taxes or fees associated with being part of society.

Honestly I thought you were referring to a restaurant cause the point above it you mention Philippine Bread House, which is a restaurant, not a general area. But of course if I was talking to someone and they said Little India, then with context, I'd understand what they meant no problem.

Now, if somebody I was talking to said Curry Hill, then I would not understand what they meant lol. That sounds too weird to me, but whatever. I've never seen it in print either. Of course if you're saying that Indians that live there call it Curry Hill, then who am I to correct them. I guess I'm just not "in the know."