Was just at Decoy recently and honestly their quality has gone down since pre-covid. Not saying they don’t still have a decent Peking Duck but imo definitely not anything special anymore.

There is a place called Uluh in lower east side NYC and their PD is fantastic. Highly recommend.

Jiang Nan serves a pretty solid version. If you're willing to travel though, definitely recommend Decoy or Hutong in NYC.

thanks for the map! I will go get my bikes out of storage, do some basic maintenance, and then venture out at some point during the Winter break.

The train cars themselves are fine, that's not what keeps it slow and clunky. It has to do with service priorities and the terrible way the lines are set up. They focus too much on rush hour and not enough on the rest of the week. The 33rd st line is just all kinds of terrible, the platforms are too small for longer trains, tracks are ancient and they are too afraid to run trains more tightly on them. I mainly wish they would improve frequency outside of rush hour, and improve the whole interchange/stub situation at Hoboken that is just so damn clunky and slow.

i know it's not exactly what you're looking for but 99 ranch has everything you need to do this yourself. get the extra dry duck, you can cut it yourself if you are good with a knife and are picky about making like the restaurant style, otherwise ask them to cut and take the bones out by hand.

the buns are in the freezer, scallions in produce, cucumbers in produce, sweet bean paste is in a can.

if you really want to get to the bottom of it just read the meter yourself and turn different things off... no heat for 1 day see what happens. no cooking on an electric stove (i.e. eat out for a day). track it for a few days and you might figure it out

i'm kind of confused what the issue is you might need to streamline your question rather than provide all the details. is the end situation that you had your meter read and it says you used 2000 kw?

they can do an energy audit or you can pay for a new meter. however the existing meter is almost certainly correct, the only low likelihood possibility is somehow your meter is including something that is not your apt (i.e. the garage or something). the much more high likelihood situation is that you are indeed using that much power (PTAC heater is the biggest culprit)

People have a problem with Amy because she’s a POS

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FTFY......

"also take NYC duck recommendations". LOVE that.

Peking Duck House in NYC. 28 Mott St

Yeah it's the getting to Fort Lee that is hard, but I've spent a lot of time refining my route. I focus on quieter one way streets so definitely not Central . It's actually a delightful route! Not a detailed screenshot, but gives you the idea. https://imgur.com/iw6AVpC.jpg

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Shut up douche

People here are lying bc too many affluent people moving to JC and creating affordability crisis for families who grew up here.

Don’t take what you read as gospel.

Downtown is best but most expensive. Heights/journal square are safe but less going on. West Bergen and south the more crime you’ll see.

Prepared to get downvoted for honesty.

okay lets say Im having the same issue, then what

From time to time I do the Palisades Interstate Park route that enters just south of the GW bridge and meanders its way all the way to the Park headquarters, and then continues. It's a beautiful ride (heck, even had a first date with an Italian beauty that consisted of doing that ride and then swinging back into NYC) but getting there is the biggest headache, really. I have tried going up Central Avenue and that's just as bad. At least with River Road you can sort of avoid some of the nonsense by riding along the waterfront, though that is also not super convenient due to its haphazard layout. In any case, that whole ride through the park, all the way up to Nyack, is positively beautiful and really, really nice. I should give it a go again. It's been a long while.

Was this up by Bergen Square a couple days ago? (your second instance.) I was approaching the intersection on my bike... heard the engine revving and hopped onto the sidewalk to get the hell out of there.

Motherfucker went 100% blind, at speed through the intersection from Academy onto Van Reypen... a pedestrian in that intersection would have been dead / maimed. Scary as hell.

Lmaooo so true

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I've been seeing that too. I guess once you get away with it you start to make a habit of it.

To be fair (not that these aggressive drivers deserve it), it's hard to tell when a car is stopped ahead of you if it's for a good reason and you should be patient, or if it's someone who just decided they can come to a stop in traffic for the hell of it. I try to assess the situation first at least, rather than just immediately blast around.

Wtf are we gonna do about it

My favorite game is trying to get home from 14th Street and having no clue if the downtown side is the side that is closed or not until you physically walk down the stairs and have to haul ass back across 6th Ave. Schrödinger’s PATH.

I commuted by bike over the GW into NYC from JC for a few years until the pandemic, and there's a much more sedate, bike friendly, and picturesque route north if you stay up on the cliff. I tried river road a handful of times years ago and then went looking for alternatives. Anyway, just a suggestion if you are feeling like getting back out on the road at all.

How? Like it doesn't even make any sense. I can understand making a mistake but good God this is just straight up dumb.

If you ride defensively and are comfortanle on a bike, it's pretty safe. Though I guess compared to what? They've added a ton of bike lanes lately. I don't think anyone is really policing where you lock up. I recently tried the Oonnee Pod at Journal Square and recommend it if that's one of the places you plan to lock up.