The stuff at 99 Ranch is fine. If I want what's good instead of fine, I just hop on the PATH and buy in Chinatown.

Other commenters are either full of shit or ignorant here. The basic rule for owners in a full-service building is tipping one month's maintenance split amongst the staff. Renters should take that rule of thumb and use that as their starting point.

A maintenance charge in a luxury full-service building in JC would be roughly $500-1000/mo, depending on apartment size and building quality, so take that $500-1000 number and adjust it accordingly based on how good the service is, what size apartment you have, whether any of the building staff went above and beyond in helping you over the year, and how much you use their services.

Your apartment building doesn't need to have service staff, and that service staff doesn't need to go above and beyond to help you with your bags, open the door, etc. When you buy or rent in a full-service building, you agree to that relationship. Period.

You can just rent in a walkup if you don't like it.

Understaffing the desk isn't really your concern, unless that means they give poor service. Your total holiday tipping is the concern. If they are able to diligently serve 400 apartments with only 3 people, they are fucking unicorn rockstars and deserve a whole lot more money.

Right, that seems to be a good starting point, one that you can adjust if you have particularly good/bad service.

Property managers are generally not expecting a tip, they are professionals who are likely getting a bonus from the management company, not service staff.

If you have under 10-ish staff, write a card to each, include the tip in those cards, and you can give the cards to the staff you may not interact with to their colleagues to pass out or drop them in a box if your building provides one.

If you have much more than ten staff, chances are your building does some sort of tip pooling, so participate in that, and maybe slip anyone who has gone above and beyond a little extra.

It is extraordinarily low. The general rule for owners is one month's maintenance for a condo/coop as your total tip for building staff in a full-service building. Of course, as a renter, you're not going to give a full month's rent, but that one-month maintenance of $600-1000 depending is about right, depending on quality of service, size of your unit, etc.

Wow, making sure they really, really hate you, lol.

In completely unrelated news, my mother loves Hudson and Co.

Agreed with the luxury Applebees comment. That doesn't mean it's bad, it's wedding food - fancy-sounding ingredients used incorrectly resulting in something that's just good enough.

Lokal is better food-wise, with decent enough New American fare, but if you have picky eaters, may want to lean towards Hudson & Co since it's as safe as possible.

Best in JC used to be Hudson Hall but they stopped griddling the bread properly sometime during the pandemic.

Best in NYC, probably Mile End? Shame you need to go to Brooklyn for it now that they closed the one in Soho.

Coolvines has a small caviar fridge.

Then, another company will see the giant market opportunity and undercut them.

It won't be monopolized, there are many companies competing on it, so the competition will drive down prices.

Can't wait until Uber/Lyft gets fully automated, it will fix a lot of these annoying transportation issues, kill these bullshit unions, and make the streets safer and drive these costs down.

Eww, who wants to live near that?

We are not the bad guys. They are the bad guys. We are bad at strategy. We are bad at message discipline. Unfortunately, those things fucking matter.

edit: I don't think that I fully got my reply out in my initial message, so I want to add on to this:

Jersey City, it's time to protect abortion rights.

Jersey City, it's time to prevent antidemocratic, fascist forces from taking over a second branch of our government.

Jersey City, it's time to protect the right to contraception, gay marriage, and privacy rights from a stolen Supreme Court.

Sure, Christopher Columbus was a dick, but comparing naming a street after him to the statues of actual traitors who levied war against the United States is either ignorant or disingenuous, but is unquestionably really, really fucking stupid. Would I choose to rename Columbus Drive? Sure, seems fine with me, but it's like, the 100,000th most important political cause out there these days. Shut the fuck up about that and spend your time advocating for something actually meaningful.

This nonsense is why we're going to lose the midterms. This shit is a pointless waste of time.

Lol, I went on a Scott's Pizza Tour with some friends before the NYT review and asked about Razza and Scott just went on and on about how awesome Dan was and how it was probably the best pizza around, etc, etc. Does that make me a Pizza Hipster, too?

I think that the virtual doorman is the optimal setup. There are benefits and negatives to both the full-service and the walkup buildings, but the virtual doorman feels like the best of both worlds.

It has to do with the fact that the PATH is (wrongly) classified as a commuter railroad, not necessarily that it goes into NYC or between states. That said, changing it would probably piss off the conductor's union, so it's not likely to happen...

Depends on the time, it's not as regular, they go from 20 minutes to something like 45 minutes at 2-4am.

That's not late. The PATH will still be running standard evening schedule until 11, it's also just a block away from MSG.

I found an important piece of data!

> Data: Ghosts don't exist. What are you, 8?