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Direct_Ad18 t1_jd19xee wrote

Reply to Please help! - Looking for input on a 2br/2ba apartment in Jersey City by muchD

You are spending an absurd amount of money for a luxury apartment building. I promise you none of them suck. Relying on someone's extremely personal experience with their own needs and priorities will not be useful to you unless you have the exact same needs and priorities.

You will get more useful advice if you say what your priorities are. Easy access to PATH? Will you use the amenities or the pool? Do you want a lively or quiet neighborhood? Do you have a car? Are you away a lot? Commute to the city at all? Commute elsewhere?

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muchD OP t1_jd17vtx wrote

Reply to comment by DirectorBeneficial48 in Please help! - Looking for input on a 2br/2ba apartment in Jersey City by muchD

Why comment if you’re not going to help? This job opportunity requires me to be in the office and it’s close to Jersey City. I need to move but the company is covering the rent to relocate me. I have a max allowance of $6,500 a month on housing, and it can’t be used for anything else. Might as well max it out if I get it, and this location is the most convenient for me. Do you have any recommendations?

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bodhipooh t1_jd0vcnl wrote

Reply to Any recommendations for a good adult swimming school? by IndianSWE

Another vote for the YMCA option. Never used it for myself, but did lots of their programs for my daughter when she was younger and always great staff and results. The Chelsea location (YMCA McBurney) is particularly great and a two minute walk from the 14th Street PATH exit.

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blondieboo12 t1_jd0jxjq wrote

Reply to comment by vams19 in Piledriver, The Yellow Dread by imaluckyduckie

To be honest we moved out of jersey city because it was crazy that we were being asked to spend $3500 on a 700 sq ft 1 bedroom when we could get a HOUSE only 30 min away. But I would say ANY of the buildings at the same price point as VYV in JC would be “more affordable” because your peace and quiet wouldn’t be disturbed by the construction (not to mention the terrible management and unusable amenities)

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nuncio_populi OP t1_jczzkud wrote

Reply to comment by davebozo in NJ.com Needs to Stop Publishing Misinformation about LSP by nuncio_populi

Sure. Copying this from a response I gave on a different thread. See below:

Last year, the state legislature passed a $100 million act to fund Liberty State Park. There are two competing visions for the land:

The original plan calls for wetland, woodland, and grassland restoration to create wildlife habitat and scenic, passive recreation for all visitors to the park plus an additional sixty acres of sporting facilities, active recreational fields open, and a cultural center – all open to the public. The park also lies in a flood plain so habitat restoration will actually add a buffer to protect low-lying neighboring communities, particularly parts of Jersey City — Greenville, Bergen-Lafayette, and Downtown. You can see an older version of the state's plan here.

The alternative plan is promoted by the People's Park Foundation, which is funded by billionaire golf course owner Paul Fireman. This plan calls for the park to be turned into concert venues with multiple stadiums to be built and concession vendors spread throughout to "generate revenue." Predecessors to the overdevelopment plan have called for a new marina for yachts (conveniently located by Fireman's golf course) and, in the past, an outlandish formula-1 racetrack.

For context, Fireman has long coveted an environmentally sensitive portion of Liberty State Park called Caven Point to expand his golf course. His People's Park Foundation has been running a campaign in the op.ed section of NJ.com for the last year either claiming that the first plan does not exist or grossly underselling the state's vision for the park. They try and conflate opposition to their plan with the false idea that the state wants to abandon Liberty State Park.

Edit: Added in the links.

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