Don’t worry Whole Foods is coming and everyone can have their 6 dollar leeks.

I wish I could make sense of it, but I assume it's just something about our lovely streets.

I saw this on there, and thought "is this Jersey City??" and then didn't investigate further... so thanks for confirming that I recognized this somehow. Beautiful loaf!

The PATH has some kind of "commuter council" that regularly addresses concerns, and I'm sure NJ Transit might have something similar but I haven't been using their services enough to see any ads pertaining to that as I did on the PATH. I can't really say that the Jersey City local level government has any control over either agency, but they probably have some influence if someone was able to put together a plan that doesn't hike taxes or do some other sort of harm.

"be careful next time" means "you are not being fined THIS time because we feel your status as newly arrived here might have contributed to confusion over the ridiculous light rail honor system"

In Amsterdam they just put those punch machines ON the tram so you can still punch your ticket accurately if you happen to forget and they were checking... also I liked that they had a long strip you punched so you didn't have to keep buying individual tickets.

As someone who has lived in the Heights for 20 years, it's very chill here. not a ton of bars or anything fun really, but not super far from downtown where there is a ton of food/drink/etc. We have never felt anxious around here and I used to work super late and come home walking by myself at 2-3am routinely with 20lbs of camera gear in my bag and thankfully it's been incident free. I don't do the late nights in recent years, and use Uber a lot more... but overall we are pretty damn content here and were lucky enough to find our most recent rental, and the owner lives next door so we don't have any challenges dealing with absentee landlords etc.

shhh you will be massively downvoted for both sarcasm and telling the truth!!!

I’m not protesting anything, I just think the area has been grossly overlooked while we waited 10 years for Kushner’s towers to go up. Some of you people need a sense of humor.

Your friend sounds like it's possible they have something that is complicating their mood stability and feeding into unhealthy coping mechanisms... probably something like Borderline Personality Disorder, and I offer that only because the OP's description is freakishly similar to a close friend who had that Dx and when she was sometimes unable to afford her medication, she quickly spiralled into her own personal doom. Same meltdowns, "my life is over" sort of stuff all the time... constantly in a state of imminent abandonment and overall chaos... Dated the worst types of guys who were never going to treat her properly or allow her to be herself fully... so it was just constant fighting and conflict.

Since then I also went back to school for psych and so I got a lot of useful education that helped me understand how much of what she was doing was really not within her ability to avoid doing. So no, OP, you did not FU here. Your friend needs help, regardless of what the formal Dx would be... as her behavior is not indicating she's in a good place and she's engaging in some degree of self-harm even if it's just financially.

My friend is doing great now, btw. Found a very kind partner, got married, had a kid... once she got herself back on track and the right meds/therapy. Assuming there is a legit psych reason for her unstable behavior... there IS hope things will sort themselves out.

If your friend gets themselves under the care of someone who can help them see they are not living their best life by allowing their dysfunction to rule their chance at happiness... then a lot of the other stuff should fade into yesterday and leave room for a much more stable tomorrow.

it can happen... I don't like it much, but yeah, it seems VERY disgusting to assume people can handle that type of increase.

Yeah I'm agreeing since our rent was raised specifically because taxes increased, but it wasn't 10%. I think it was closer to 4-5% for us, but we rent from the owner directly and she lives next door and so her expenses also increased, etc. No increase last year, been living in this particular rental for about 2 years now.

So I've lived here for almost 32 years and you think that I hate it here, and that I myself should leave? I'll go, but you have to pay for it.

if they repave them the same way, they'll be shredded next time we have a snowstorm. They don't use the right materials. I talked to friends in other parts of the US and anyone I know with understanding of road repairs are confused since all of their roads are paved using a mix that allows the shrinkage/expansion due to weather, so they don't end up with giant potholes filled with nonsense. We just dump hot stinky rocks into the hole and smash it down and then it just falls apart again. Even when they re-pave the entire street... I don't know what we are using because it clearly cannot handle the traffic we get.

edited: Hey u/mindless-Budget9019 here is your Deleted Comment:

>"I don’t know if we can trust the sincerity of this statement since you have the name LUCIDrevolution. What a horrible stock."

I don't know what your issue is with my username but it has nothing to do with "stock" and I have no idea what you're talking about and you deleted your comment so fast... just DM next time so I can try to understand exactly what the problem is. This sub is such trash with all the weird downvoting and comment-then-delete shit.

LOL yes, everyone will come visit BEAUTIFUL JOURNAL SQUARE to go to a museum in a building that is literally falling apart and next to a cluster of ever-present vagrant/drugged up street people. We have so many great restaurants.... Boulevard Drinks, Wendy's, Dunkin... I mean... it seems like a premier destination.

Edited: I assumed it was obviously sarcasm, but here is an official /s otherwise known as "sarcasm" and everyone needs to get a sense of humor.

It's suitable for most stuff but I don't think I'd recommend anything in JC area if I had a serious need for interventional care. My dad was in rough shape and was at both hospitals at some point before he passed last year, but I felt JCMC was 100x better from my perspective and my dad seemed to be in good hands (he was just too sick to come back from his overall situation)... I know people who work there as well, but that's besides the point.

I would still recommend Hackensack based on having a lot of in-law family who are up in years and most of them have been trying to go there whenever they need a procedure or such. I realize that even "great" hospitals can fail in certain areas or for certain complicated things... I have a close friend with a rare genetic condition and Columbia and NYU Langone both failed her terribly and she's back down at Hopkins for her care now. It's possible the care she got in NYC actually contributed to how much surgery she needs now. So I 100% understand the concerns you have and why you are asking for more recent validation.

You are welcome to DM if you have any specific concerns and I can try to offer more specific information...

Same type of people who turned Bushwick into "East Williamsburg" in Brooklyn.

As long as you avoid Carepoint/Christ Hospital you'll probably also avoid being butchered and abused. JC Medical Center (most recently acquired by RWJB who are decent reputation wise) is probably the only "local" hospital that doesn't completely suck, but I can't pretend they aren't really busy sometimes.

Hackensack is "a bit far" as you commented on another suggestion but I will tell you that hospital is VERY good and extremely recommended by anyone I know who needed care there.

I'd say it would probably be most effective to get the other dog owners to collectively agree to clean up after their dogs shit, at least. I realize pee is probably not something we can do much about, but if I had a dog, I would assume I'd be responsible for my dog's waste, especially in a shared resource?

Maybe we can just get Amy DeGuise to clean it up as some kind of community service.

thank you for that. I get nervous contributing in this sub because we have a couple of really persistent trolls here that feel the need to pick and peck at everything... but I've been here over 30 years and frankly this Fulop generation needs a reality check about gentrification.

I have been in Jersey City since I was 10, and so I went to school here (public school) and have lived in various areas and spent a good deal of time out and about at all hours the evening once I was older or when I was younger and being reckless with my friends... One thing I have observed is groups of young people (sometimes male sometimes female or coed) trying to egg someone into a fight.

They wanted you to do something so they could beat you up and laugh about it. They don't care about getting caught, and I've seen it turn into a "game" for people running away from the cops, switching outfits, etc. Getting locked up is street cred for some juveniles, a rite of passage perhaps. They have already decided there is no point in doing something better with their lives because this is literally the world they know and how they choose to communicate.

As usual JC focused a lot of the incoming luxury people over the years and the more recent residents always seem to be upset that the poor people who were displaced still in fact exist and their kids are out of control. I'm not excusing the behavior, just saying this is part of the problem overall when we don't give a shit about people who have less and only focus on the people who have more. The people who have less struggle a lot, work multiple jobs, etc... and these kids who are doing these aggressive or violent actions unfortunately don't see that there is something better for them.

Let the downvoting begin, I realize everyone just wants the aggro gangbanger kids to disappear but it's a deeply systemic problem. If you want it to change, then do some outreach to the local youth and help build healthy mentorships that keep them from feeling hopeless and resorting to petty street crimes and unprovoked violence. I can't think of any other solutions.

I think it's because I was literally right where the major roadway goes down to the Tunnel and I often saw the helicopter news people during the traffic reports... Newport I can see having more issues with the helipad stuff... but I haven't lived downtown in a very long time.

Usually I just let myself relax when they don't stop next to my house. Maybe it's from like 20 years of working in NYC, but noise is basically just part of living/working/existing here. 40/41 years have been lived in this general 10mi radius and it's always been a cacophony of WTF.

If you are near the Holland Tunnel you are gonna be stuck with helicopters because the morning news has to like, fly over and "show you" the traffic. and we have a ton of major roadways converging into 1/9 towards the Tunnel so it's basically "all the time". I lived off 1/9 on Baldwin for about 20 years and it was REALLY loud at times, to the point where I occasionally worried something might crash into the area.... but yeah sound is just weird and things bounce around sometimes and sound even worse.

Agreed here, long term JC resident and can confirm we have a few really nice raptors hanging around... I see a Red Tailed Hawk once in while near JSQ area, sometimes near the courthouse, really amazing to see in flight.

Talk to PeaceCare... my psychiatrist who passed away from COVID used to volunteer and play piano for the elderly residents at St. Ann's and St. Joseph's. If you want a connection there DM me, I will get you in touch with someone. I also know an art teacher who works with St. Joseph's school for the blind.

Not very poignant given that the OP had a specific question that was answered by others... but I have some books sitting in my Kindle queue written by the consulting internist who helped them break down a lot of the medical cases in the show (Lisa Sanders, MD)... I first got into trying to find the "real" cases they reference from being into Grey's for years, and realizing some stuff I read popped up in the storylines when they need a weird rare disease.