If he had a permit and the right to be there, then this is messed up. Sometimes the truck looks too close to the intersection. I believe 25 feet is the state law. And most times this guy’s music is so loud it’s actually painful to walk past. Like so loud it’s actually physically painful. (Or am I mixing him up with someone else on that corner?)

I can see if the music was too loud or it was too close to the intersection and he was gone the cops calling the tow truck. If he was there, I would hope they would just ask him to turn it down and/or back up a bit from the stoplight. Trying to get under the bus is a weird and bad decision and probably freaked out the cops.

Where does it say this was a car accident or road rage?

Yes and no. Making an area nicer and more attractive is going to drive up rents in that area because more people will want to live there. If the area is already attractive, then rents of existing units will go up regardless. But if the region as a whole doesn’t add enough units, rental pressure for existing units will be worse. So we need to add more market rate, more income-restricted units, and enforce the city’s rent control ordinance for the older existing stock.

I think the Ironbound in particular is a good example. If we don’t add enough supply close to Penn Station and downtown, people moving to the area will push deeper into the neighborhood looking for housing. It happened to me when we first moved here. We ended up much farther away from Penn than we had planned because there weren’t enough housing units available.

Burlington has been pussyfooting with that site for several years. FWIW, the landlord once mentioned the tenants were often way behind. “They pay rent when they can.”

Really serving up a mix of good and bad news here.

Waller Hub lists are trash but I’ll take it.

If it’s 11 stories it will certainly have enough units to trigger the city’s Inclusionary Zoning ordinance. Adding income-restricted units along with market rate is a good thing.

Sad to see a nice building go but we need more housing especially near Penn. If we try to preserve every old building, we won’t be able to accommodate the people who want to move here and rent pressure will continue to get worse and worse. Maybe we should look to preserve some areas of the neighborhood that have special significance or have a density of historic features like Bruen between Green and Elm but we can’t say demolition of every old building is bad.

Because this isn’t SimCity and the owners of this property don’t own the other one.

This isn’t a demo though. The facade would be preserved.

Big Brothers Big Sisters will likely have something.

The city is terrified of implementing real bike and pedestrian infrastructure despite having such a low car ownership rate. It’s infuriating and I don’t even bike.

RIP to the Ironbound QuickChek

They can only mandate in exchange for a historic landmark designation or for tax credits. They don’t have the power to mandate what people do with their unless they’re giving something in exchange.

The Kislak building is historic because it’s old enough but is not in keeping with the time period of the historic district which is why it stands out. It’s ugly as sin.

Go home to my family.

Oh? Did you hear why it looks like only the building on the left is preserved?

I think the tall portion on the left is mostly original judging by the historic pic in that Jersey Digs article. Given that the buildings were converted into one, I would guess most of the rest was pretty beat up and not worth saving. We’ll see at the historic commission.

I’m sure you’ll do a great job stopping criminals. So many gun owners with these fantasies. Ain’t gonna happen. More likely you’ll end up killing someone that doesn’t have to die or some kid will get your get gun.

You make shit like this more likely: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/09/two-michigan-drivers-shoot-and-kill-each-other-after-road-rage-incident

More guns means more death. Simple fact. The majority of guns used in crimes in Nj come from out state. Simple fact. Carrying your gun increases your chance of dying and your chance of killing someone else. Simple fact.

So we can have common sense gun laws and stop the Supreme Court from forcing us all to live in open carry states.

Repeal the 2nd amendment.

Interested in what people here think about how this commission nitpicks every little thing for historic homes. It’s like an HOA from hell.

Oh definitely not. Not with this work from home environment.