Honestly, most of LSC is not geared toward toddlers. If you have a car available the Staten Island Zoo and Staten Island Children's Museum are easy to get to and quite good. The zoo has a fair bit of indoor exhibits.

The counters I build you'd have to do a double take to even see that they're not slab. The black grout lines on the black 12*12 tiles are 1/16 wide. The first one I built is 17 years old and still looks perfect.

It wouldn't be bad if it was a kitchen two or three times the size! It's a corner 5 ft on a side, less than 17 square feet of stone. I think the problem is something I've ran into before when I was trying to do one of these, is that they have a minimum charge for preparation and installation. Some are explicit about this, others simply give a high price.

I guess things didn't change since then, I've already built 6 stone tile counters, time to do another...

That site is hopelessly in error, I would not trust it at all. I just looked and it had a shooting at "TEENS NEW HOPE LANE" marked at 6th and Coles instead of by Mercer Park! Not 1st time I've found map errors like this there.

Thanks just tried them both. Tri-State has a 35 ft minimum for installation, VVLs phone is disconnected.

Another place just told me $1,800. It looks like I'm probably going to be building another tile countertop!

Whatever Comrade. You clearly have no idea what a capital and labor intensive business rental property is. You seem to imagine we plucked the property from tree and didn't have to borrow vast sums, or have to continually invest to bring crumbling shithole 140 year old buildings back to habitability.

Sure, we just sit back and have nubile young girls drop grapes in our mouths! Grow the fuck up.

I guess you don't run a business or you wouldn't be asking silly questions.

Yes, theirs was the $70/ft!

Fund extracurriculars above basement levels. We're like 10 of 92 in our group statewide in extracurricular spending, while the reverse of that for salaries. We're prioritizing staff over kids. Extracurriculars like sports, clubs and arts can be what keeps 'non-academic' kids engaged in school.

I think that decades ago folks thought it was amazing to have a french bistro in DT, whatever it's quality. We found the menu somewhat limited for my vegetarian wife, and only went once.

Yes, most US cities have such poor Transit that Transit is only for the poor, and gains that stigma.

I'm going to taking a page from the 'LUXURY HOUSING!' guy and banging my BRT drum in every applicable thread.

Make Ocean from the Bayonne line up to Summit, JSQ PATH and all the way to 495 (and then to 42nd St PA) a Bus Rapid Transit route. No cars, just buses with loading platforms and stops every 1/2 mile like a subway or Light Rail. Signal priority so they zoom through the lights. It would be just like having a Subway line the length of the city and it would transform JC!

All the whining about needing parking for cars will be undercut by a massive improvement in the local transit and connections to the city and PATH at a relatively cheap cost compared to any other option. Yes there's current bus lines, but they are slow and often undependable especially during the heavy traffic hours they're needed most. This would be more like a Light rail with no tracks to lay. And make them electric or hydrogen powered.

Here's the route: https://imgur.com/qlDOTO1

I eat the migratory fish from the river like fluke, tog and the rare barely keeper striper. They are only here a few months of the year unlike crabs or white perch, and there's really no difference between the fish population in the River/Bay and those in the Sound or Raritan Bay. The striper you catch off of Montauk might have been up the Hudson River just a few days earlier.

Amelia's seems like a nice quiet place for a date, and has good food. I hated loud places when dating.

Haha, yes I figured out you were a train nerd! Nerds unite! What never gets enough due is the fuel efficiency of rail, what I've read at 25% that of trucking. That it's only half the cost says we don't tax fuel enough.

If Dixon is as big a mess as indicated downthread, you may be on your own here. If you wanted to get it done instead havin git collapse while you're sending messages in a bottle, you could hire a contractor yourself and withhold the cost from the rent. As long as it's meticulously documented, including the log of attempted contacts, you should be fine.

Or you could withhold rent and put it in an escrow account. That will get their attention. I think that the Housing Court even manages escrows, but I don't really know.

Dr Haroon Faraz. He has several affiliations and offices, I saw him last in Hackensack. When I asked a relative who works at Hoboken Hospital for a recommendation I was told he was very highly thought of by the staff.

Depends on what crabs we're talking about. Are they big blue claws like you'd see in the restaurant, or are they small, only a couple inches across? Blue claws are eaten but you shouldn't eat them from the river. If they're the latter, they're invasive European green crabs, and a very popular bait for blackfish.

There are some people in New England trying to develop a culinary fishery for them, but it involves catching them, waiting for them to shed, and then eating them as soft shell crabs.

You're off the scent. We are talking long haul container shipping, not local deliveries. I said 25%, u/trafficSNAFU said 25-35%, but its still by far a minority of LONG HAUL shipping. Retail shipping is probably a tiny fraction of ALL cargo traveling the country.

>Effective freight rail systems aren't measured by speed but by efficiency.

Interesting. I'm a ship nerd not a rail nerd, and with shipping time=money because the cargo value of tens of thousands of containers is so high, and it's all financed, with interest accruing every day at sea. The biggest container ships will pay a $1m toll at the Panama Canal because it's cheaper than the time to go round the Horn. (Fun fact I learned visiting the canal!)

People often wonder why we don't revive sail cargo ships to reduce fuel consumption, and thats why. The last market for sail cargo was the Australia to Europe grain trade before WW2.

That doesn't jibe with the recent stat I read that only 25% of long haul is by rail.

Why is it so hard? Back in the day JC was lousy with rail spurs to warehouses. And with containers those trains could be moving in and out far, far faster than the breakbulk days. If there were incentives to build on them, I'm sure there's plenty of sites in NJ with legacy rail spurs.

Long haul freight does not respond to induced demand the way commuters do. It's pure economics. We subsidized roads and fuel, creating competitive advantages for trucks over rail while letting them offload their externalities like pollution and traffic. Rail lines had to build and maintain their entire system themselves, what's not to like having the taxpayers do it for them!

Like most of the problems we face, carbon taxes would go a long way towards solving this. Unfortunately this country's leadership is likely heading in the exact opposite direction starting tomorrow.

Fantastic answer! Thanks!

<Another issue is that many modern warehouse facilities aren't suited to being rail served.

Surely this is a choice that can be changed with the proper incentives, not a natural logistical feature. Before the Interstates all factories and warehouses were rail served. We let Detroit destroy that infrastructure.

I get sick every time I drive the Cross Bronx and it's so back to back trucks it looks like train, except they're stopped dead burning diesel for hours. We can do better.

I'd be surprised if 'multiple trains per day' is anywhere near capacity, but I really don't know how to find out. I recently read that only 25% of long haul cargo in the US goes by rail, which seems scandalously low. The average ship has 15k containers, that's a lot of fucking trucks burning diesel needed if it doesn't move out by rail!!!

One of my favorite factoids: The PA was created a century ago to build a rail crossing over the lower Hudson or the Harbor. They built a huge empire of ports and vehicular bridges, but never accomplished their original mission!