Same. I'd never get meat there, but I'm only a few blocks away, so it's unavoidable sometimes.

I guess I have some affection for Stop and Shop because when I lived in the neighborhood, it was that or the C-Town on Central, which was far and away worse than any of these other options. Probably should have gone to North Bergen! I often used to take the elevator down to the Hoboken Shop Rite.

How high was the person who wrote this word salad?

Here's my ranking:

Garden of Eden (Hoboken)
King's (Hoboken)
Trader Joe's (Hoboken)
99 Ranch (Grand St.)
Shop Rite (Hoboken)
Acme (Marin Blvd.)
Morton Williams (River Dr., pricey but good)
Stop & Shop (Central Ave.)
Supremo (Palisade Ave.)
Hudson Greene Market (Hudson St., pricey, small selection)
Target
Pioneer (MLK)
Asian Food (440)
Central Square (Bergen Ave.)
Key Food (Jersey Ave.)
Acme (440)
Bravo (West Side Ave.)
D-Mart (JFK, perfectly fine, just small selection)
La Conga (bodega, Grove St.)
Shop Rite From Hell (Marin Blvd.)
Any other bodega
Week-old leftovers from the back of your fridge
The dumpster behind Trader Joe's
C-Town (West Side Ave.)

Fucking Hamlet was a remake of an earlier play. There's nothing new under the sun.

So despite the beginning of your original post, you're not actually mad about remakes, you're mad that they're not sufficiently Aryan for your tastes.

Aren't we still watching The Wizard of Oz, a remake based on a book?

I mean, it's not like 80s network television was exactly a bastion of feminism in the first place.

When I graduated college and got my first job, I made less than a waiter. But now I make six figures, and if I hadn't gone to college I'd still be a waiter. That job that pays $45k is the first rung on a ladder, and given the median income in the US is $33k, it's a pretty high first rung.

And has that helped? Is putting a developer in charge of the Board of Ed going to help?

Right, it's not teachers who care about education, it's billionaire developers! Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?

Oh for fuck's sake.

Yes, well, logically I think educators should be on the Board of Education and not shills for a developer.

If I wasn't already planning on voting for teachers and against real estate developers, the nonstop high-decibel astroturf campaign running on this channel would have convinced me several times over. #EducationMatters

> one is in bed with the Union and status quo

Translation, one side is "in bed with" teachers and have long been involved with JC public schools. I guess those things are bad somehow, so we should put a developer's lackeys in charge?

And God forbid you acknolwedge that /r/jerseycity has turned into /r/changefordeveloperscampaignhq or you get downvoted into oblivion.

Simplest version: a billionaire developer bankrolls the Change For Children ticket every two years, on a platform of cutting school funding so there's more money to give taxx cuts to billionaire developers.

Education Matters is a ticket actually supported by educators, and the main arguments against them are Union Bad and How Dare They Spend Tax Money On Paying Teachers.

HummusJC on Instagram is all JC-related posts. Maybe 30% news, 70% what's going on around town.

Both! I tend to spread the love around between these two and Little Boho in Bayonne.

One emotional argument for Word is that they just had to move into a smaller space, so I do favor them a bit as I feel like they need the support right now.

And the stereotype is that vegans can't shut up about being vegan.

Lin, it's the day after Halloween.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oq6snFSQUU

I moved out of the Heights about five years ago, after living there for 12. It's a perfectly nice residential neighborhood — a few good restaurants, several nice parks, two good grocery stores that are three blocks apart on the far side of the neighborhood.

And transportation's not terrible — there are shuttle vans every few minutes on JFK and Palisade that go to the PATH, plus the elevator to the light rail (which also goes to the PATH), and lots of city buses going every which way.

But is it worth LUXURY prices? Not really. You've got overpriced modern apartments wedged in between saltbox houses, a few nice places to eat in between fast food and dollar stores. And there's nothing wrong with fast food and dollar stores! But don't expect it to be Brooklyn Heights. Or Prospect Heights. Gentrification has laid its claim, but it still hasn't moved that far from the working-class neighborhood it was 20 years ago.

A lot of that abysmal reputation comes from two things: A) people haven't revised their opinion since 20 years ago, when JC was the poorest city in America. B) people like to complain.

This isn't exactly scientific, but Niche gives the JC school district a B-. Like anywhere, the richer neighborhoods have better schools, so it's generally As downtown, Bs in the Heights, Cs in Greenville, with a few exceptions. And besides the elite high schools, we have a few elite middle schools — Infinity and Academy One. Conti, McAuliffe, and Zampella are all pretty highly rated.

And, of course, there's a lot of school choice. We have some very good community-run charters — LCCS, TECCS, Golden Door, and Explore Middle are all good (and those are just the ones I know well); small class sizes, specialized curriculum that doesn't just teach to the test. And there are a few good private options if you want to go that route. Primary Prep is well-regarded and relatively affordable. (Don't get suckered in by an overpriced school like Stevens!)

We have plenty of good public elementary/middle schools, it just depends on your neighorhood (or whether you win a charter school lottery). And we have four of the top 15 high schools in the state (McNair, High Tech*, County Prep, Liberty) — yes, it's difficult to get into those, but it's far easier than the insane competition for Stuy/Bkn Tech/Bx Science.

Also, venue-wise, we have White Eagle Hall, and the Lowe's had music pre-pandemic and will likely have more post-renovation. And venues have been getting priced out of Brooklyn lately.

* Yes, I know High Tech is in Secaucus, but every Jersey City kid can apply there, before the pedants come out of the woodwork.

Right, but New York isn't just Soho. And couldn't you say the same thing about Hamilton Park and downtown compared to the rest of JC?