Recent comments in /f/newjersey

Im_bout_2_b_a_bish t1_jdko0ci wrote

I have done the drive 3 times and it depends the time and how much you like to drive. It was about 5 days when driving in 8 hour spurts. Stayed in hotels and stretched when we needed. Depending on route it could be a really nice trip or boring trip. Do you like mountain driving? When are you going because right now snow in the mountains are fucking terrible. You will need chains and not a guarantee that the passes are open.

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beltalowda_oye t1_jdkn4ma wrote

Unless there's a major crash, it'll probably keep going up. And if there's a major crash, the housing prices going down will be the last thing you think about.

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Imalawyerkid t1_jdkmxzz wrote

I think geography actually explains a lot here. Jealousy of richer towns like Westfield and scotch plains versus poorer towns like linden and Rahway leaves Clark in the middle wanting to be one and not the other. Some of the mansions in Irvington that have been converted to 10 family homes makes me think white flight, and Clark isn’t far from there, so you get generational racism. I grew up with a lot of Italians with Newark history, lots of hard r racists. The police doing driving while black stops- that shit was done where I grew up and racists loved it… made them feel safe, reinforced the “not in my neighborhood” vibes. When we looked at homes in Clark, it was a lot of dead old people homes. I know racists come in all ages, but those old racists hit differently- way more willing to come out and be out, no fear of being exposed on the internet or lose their jobs.

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nuncio_populi OP t1_jdkmgjg wrote

No, let me explain the point again: the objective isn’t that this petition would ever come to fruition.

It’s mainly a way of 1) rallying support and showing Trenton and Phil Murphy how angry Jersey City is at Paul Fireman and his attempted theft of our public land; and 2) highlighting the nonsensical farce that a billionaire (who claims to want to “support the children” of Jersey City) needs our public park to build his amenities instead of using his own property.

If he’s so keen on building these stadiums, concert venues, and community centers, then he’s welcome to donate his golf course to the state park system. Otherwise, we’ll continue this form of protest and seek signatures “asking the state to use eminent domain to compensate him for it.”

What we really want is for Fireman to leave LSP alone so the DEP can complete its environmental remediation and finish restoration of the park’s interior.

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