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Pretty much yeah.

Unless you have a punk rock mom then you could just get lucky 7 tachos & a tall boy. I don't want to assume everyone's mom is as picky & straight laced as mine

Interested!

>basic new american take your parents to brunch place

Isn't that Mathews?

At least in the case of ABP, Panera sold the brand to Ampex along with ~500 leases, and of the remaining ABP locations, converted some into Panera concepts and closed down the rest.

To your broader point though, IMO a lot of retail is being right-sized or going through a correction of sorts. Many store concepts are ill-suited for their particular location or companies have too many locations. Latham, specifically, is in a weird location.

same guy blocked me too after I said downtown ShopRite sucked. weirdo

Correct. YIMBYs believe that the root cause of high housing costs is a lack of supply and support policies to allow more housing to be built near places where they themselves live to reduce housing costs. For example, a core YIMBY position would be that single-family zoning is bad because it limits the the production of affordable apartments, and so a developer who wants to build an apartment building in a single-family zoned area should be allowed to do so.

This has become a byword for a certain kind of guy that the original poster refers to. For the record, I am in fact a straight white guy who rides a bike who moved from NYC, but the bike is 11 years old and it cost $600 at the time.

Personally, since I now work from home full-time, I get so many more things delivered. I used to be able to hit various shops on my way home but now I need to make an intentional choice to go out.

Just confirmed. No idea why they would block me. Thanks!

I’ve only ever gotten pizza there and always found it very enjoyable. Is the best pizza? I don’t know, but it’s consistently good and imo not overpriced. Also, I have always found the service there to be very pleasant.

We stopped going there because the hours just were too late in the morning. Opening up at 10 is great for brunchers, but my old ass is up at 7, and I want to eat by 8. There's just not many places around here for breakfast, period. And ones that open for earlier-than-brunch hours, are even less.

Technically, Urby was finished before 56 Leonard, but 56 Leonard definitely started construction earlier.

In my opinion though, you can't really say one copied the other, as their designs are very different.

You almost make it sound like the rental market is any more generous. In any event, I’m still a union worker and not a millionaire.

Why did they take down all the sister city flags at Exchange Place?

Exactly.

The food used to be so good, you could overlook the service issues they always had.

But, post-COVID, the service got much, much worse and the food quality/consistency dropped, which caused me, and obviously a lot of others, to cross it off of their list.

Additionally, in my opinion, LH was an owner-driven place, and once the owners shifted attention to their shiny new toy in JSQ, things at LH suffered, as is often the case in such situations.

Come to think of it, I notice there was no mention of Emma's in the LH farewell post.

You either blocked that user, or they blocked you.

The only places I see at that valuation have tremendous HOA fees pricing out the working class

For sure interesting -- especially because the financials are some of the more prominent ones to first bring back and be pretty strict about it. It seems to be completely circumstantial even within the same company. My overall company has brought people back on the 3/2 plan, but plenty of divisions or departments are doing their own thing as well; I have no mandated return schedule. Go in on my own when I feel like cuz I go crazy at home. But I've heard from higher ups there's a lot of pressure building to make it more strict and possibly even more FT in office.

Also JC vs NYC is interesting -- JC local economy not really as dependent on offices. I'm not one of the people saying NYC is dead, but man midtown is definitely a shell of its former self. So much of Manhattan is based around office culture contributing to economy. Selfish people from LI crying about having to commute again don't really get that. It's a huge issue on a longer timeline. I'm not looking to go back 5 days at all, but I also don't understand the entitlement thought that I should be able to do whatever I want.

Fortunately AOC is way smarter

Every person moving into a new building would be displacing someone if that new building weren’t built

I am an IT consultant. The majority of my clients are law firms and insurance firms, peppered with a slew of financial firms. Among law firms, I find they have hybrid setups (3/2 mostly) while the insurance firms are almost entirely remote. The financial firms are all over the place. Some hedge funds are entirely remote, with an office available for those who which to come on site, while some did away with their offices. A few seem to have settled on loose hybrid setups. I don't have any clients doing full on site, and have only heard of one recently pushing for a 4/1 hybrid setup. I seldom go anywhere on site (I have been almost entirely remote since Summer 2017) but I do visit my JC client somewhat often because they are 5 minutes away and I do enjoy hanging out with those guys, so why not. It's hard for me to square all those RTO headlines with my personal experience, but I also know my perspective might be warped considering the combination of work and clients.

Oh I totally missed this, I’ve been in JC off and on since 2004 and moved around a bit. When I lived on Mercer (2004-2009) I used to visit that bodega almost daily. I can’t remember when it closed but it was still there when I moved back in 2016.

what industry are we talking?

Why top comments in this subreddit keep getting deleted or removed?

Despite the fact that I’m a hardcore progressive—and like many others here, would be your natural ally—this retweet makes me not like you. I’m not saying this is fair, since I don’t know you, but first impressions matter.

Whether you like it or not, now you’re in a position of having to change my mind about you based on further actions and words. And it’s clear this is a widely shared sentiment. However, given your defensive (and at times reactionary) responses in this thread, my first impression of you stands.

If you can’t recognize the difficult position you’ve put yourself in with many Jersey City progressives because of your unnecessarily charged rhetoric and the seeming inability to recognize legitimate reasons that your potential allies may not like what you say and how you say it, then you’re not as skilled of a politician as you think you are.