Looks like this is the stuff. https://photoblocker.com/ They claim it's not even illegal! So where does this lead? Facial recognition cams instead of plate cams? Then laws against wearing masks in your car? I remember a story from pre-covid where guy drove the cops in AZ nuts by driving with a mask on.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-traffic/2017/02/03/phoenix-speed-photo-cams-driver-wears-monkey-mask-racks-up-37-tickets/97447212/

To shoot light back at the camera from an oblique angle like that requires a coating with cubic reflector nanobeads like are in reflective tape and cloth, they direct light back at it's source. If it were just the letters or the background, it might be readable, but in its entirety its not.

https://www.jerseycitynjdentist.com/

In McGinley Sq near St Peters. Great young dentist, my whole family has been seeing him for some years.

No, but he could. I had that removed from another roof, but that roofer's work leaked basically immediately!

S&S Roofing. Seymond is not a slick guy with color brochures like Capitol, but he pointed out that the parapets that Capital told me they'd wrap the roof over were actually crumbling and needed rebuilding. He took his knife and plunged it to the hilt in the mortar! He looks at the big picture not just slapping a roof on.

I had no idea, but I've never been a comic nerd. Nothing against nerds, I've been lots of other kinds of nerd.

Yeah, True World or Amazon or Tackle World up rt 17. I get squid for porgy fishing the Sound at 99 Ranch! They have giant ones that strips of really stay well on the bucktail.

• Harbor Freight, because you can never have too many cheap Chinese tools
• A Red Hook style Costco Downtown to kick BJ's ass
• We no longer have a 'bait and tackle' when we used to have 2!

Wait, what? Gotham is in the Pine Barrens??? Is is hidden like Wakanda?

Once more, did you lose the key or do you want to just change it? Big difference in process.

Ok, you said homemade. I know you didn't mean your home, but here's my goto fast soup.

Go to 99 Ranch and buy 2 60g packs of MAMA brand Shrimp Tom Yum ramen, an onion, eggs, and cilantro (or mint or thai holy basil). Some fish or meat if desired.

While you boil 3 cups of water, slice onions (amount to your taste) as thin as you can, beat 2 eggs, and chop some cilantro. Put water in bowl and swirl it fast with a spoon and then while it's still spinning drizzle in the eggs from the bowl through a fork to make an egg drop soup. Then dump in the sliced onions followed by the noodles and soup packets. Toss in meat if you wish, like roast pork, sliced shrimp, or thinly sliced raw fish, the latter 2 will cook in the hot soup. Top with cilantro when noodles are done. Makes a qt of soup, 1 large or 2 small servings.

Seriously yummy, and about 10 minutes of prep. I put on the water and have the eggs and onions ready by the time it's boiling.

EDIT: saw the shellfish allergy comment, buy a chicken ramen.

Your landlord should handle this. But if it's like mine and you still actually have the key but just want to re-key( because...what, a sketchy roommate?) It's super easy to do with the door open, hardly any tools required. If you lost the key however you're going to have to have the mailman leave it open, landlord does not have that key.

Welcome to r/JerseyCity! Someone should do a parody of the classic west view New Yorker cover with Marin boulevard standing in for 9th Avenue! Journal Square would pop up like Chicago with Newark barely visible on the horizon.

I have actually never heard that '25% of net' number, far more commonly used is 1/3 or 30% of gross income.

You can easily find a place for 1/3 your gross rent in the low $70ks, that is around $2k/mo. I have a 1br DT listed right now, and just leased a 2br in the Heights in that range. Don't listen to the 'luxury' snobs about having to live 'East of Grove'.

If you're really serious, make them yourself! We have done this for many years. You can make the dough easily in a regular breadmaker, then roll it and cut it with a tabletop pasta roller. Great for linguini, ravioli and pierogi too! The night I proposed I made lamb ravioli.

It's hard to imagine you're allergic to rodent baits, but are you allergic to snap traps too? How about being a little less high maintenance and helpless?

Yeah, sensitive subject. I just had a brand new tenant break their lease because the previous occupant was a slob and let mice get a foothold, but being a landlord who doesn't want an angry, high maintenance tenant around, I was happy to let them go. Cheap 1br available in HP folks! Mice have been vanquished, BYOC preferred. (Bring your own cat)

Be sure to enter the lotteries for the charters like LCCS or Ethical Community Charter School which are in your area. I believe if you get into their pre-k you are into the k-8.

My wife says she thinks Hoboken has a piano in the lobby.

What a sweet idea! If you need to borrow a portable electric, we have a decent quality one in a closet unused since my daughter quit lessons years ago. My wife works at Hoboken Hospital, I'll ask if there's an appropriate place there. There's also the 'Atrium At Hamilton Park' assisted living facility on 9th st, they have a common room with a piano IIRC.

Yes, my number is correct, but so is yours. The union set this up to reward seniority at the expense of new hires, then use the newcomers low income numbers as a cudgel to complain about how poorly paid they are!

Go to the State education website, they have income statistics on every public employee. You can actually burrow down and do the same calculation I did to see the median income. And I excluded admin.

Lots of good advice so far, Being in Hamilton Park for 25 years of course I'll recommend it, but I'd like to address the outdoors portion of your ask. It varies. With a car, there's mountains within 1-2 hrs to the N and NW, and nice more suburban parks closer. Even without a car you can take a train to Harriman State Park in NY, in addition to our city parks and Liberty State Park on the Harbor.

My outdoor thing is kayaking, and we live on a peninsula! There's all sorts of interesting places to paddle within a 20 minute drive, from the NY harbor and Statue of Liberty, to winding tidal creeks and reed mazes on the Hackensack River.

Lastly, about the 'is it worth it?'. That's up to what you make of it. There's people here who never go see theater, museums and music, whether in NYC or one of our great local venues and theater companies. Sad but true.

Pretty much our experience with a few exceptions. We knew one family that moved when their eldest didn't get into one of the magnet high schools.

We have zero regrets about staying in Jersey City. Our kids were extremely well prepared for college and had multicultural experience that cannot be replicated elsewhere. In fact one of my few regrets is my kids as teens did not take advantage of the proximity to New York City to the extent that I had hoped! My son would hop on a train to Harriman instead of a train into The Village!

You need a wider circle of acquaintances. I raised my kids here, they went to LCCS & McNair and got fantastic educations.

Yes. There's a whole of of JC that's not Downtown, where a 2br can be had for under $2500. Do you really think they can live for less than that in the suburbs? The median JC teacher makes $95k.