Cost of living in NYC is also 154% higher then average so they are STILL underpaid for the market which is the crazy part. The real issue is they probably only need about 5,000 staff. Half the guys i knew that work there have the easiest most low key / low effort jobs that any equivalent job with be 3x the amount of work for 30% less pay and much worse benifits

But at least you can next to Korben Dallas and have Chinese delivery come fresh right to your window.

The most unrealistic part of that is thinking they would spend the money to knock down any buildings over there . They would just put new cabinets in or maybe just cabenit paint and change a few fixtures call it " Modern luxury updates" Change owners and building names and remarket the older buildings as NEWLY RENOVATED .

Those buildings are there to stay till they fall down ---which with the way they were made might actually be about 2045 lol

once again reminding people why your one of the best community places around and more people need to go buy there beer from you!!

Left the area and don't do my own micros anymore but you guys and Ed and Marys are what i miss most about not being over there anymore!

Right like even my gut reaction is to be snarky about like ...why would you or look at you being all fancy and i generally love being super helpful to my community members haha.

That was one of the original justifications for it among many others yes.

Now they are trying to say it can be up to 15c cheaper a gallon because of cost savings at the gas station. Never seen a more blatant lie form someone clearly lobbying for the gas companies.

You really think gas stations are going to pass on their cost savings at the gas pump and cut into their already small profit . Most station make more on the store then they do at the pump.

They will pass it then use the insurance going up even if it doesnt go up as an excuse to keep it high

Its not official but there is a bill out that last I read had just enough support. It still under committee review right now .

I think people started rallying against it and they stalled long enough now to have some numbers changes in the assembly so hoping it gets fully shot down next time.

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My big worry is that since it means less workers and more money for gas station chains they will start lobbying FOR it and push it over the edge. Really really hope it gets shot down but still active as of right now

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https://legiscan.com/NJ/bill/A3105/2022

Ok the real Jersey thing would be to double down...O you don't like THOSE signs...ehhh.

Wait till you see the next batch then!

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"Hey Fuck wad im driving here, use a blinker to change lines"

"Body shots and driving = body bag ,"

"Scarface only drinks the carbonated coke when he drives , be like Tony "

"You're moms going to kick your ass when we tell her we caught you driving drunk"

"are you blind....the sign says 65 not 95 , slow the fuck down"

exactly this!

100% sure people considered the intent behind those messages 10x more then would of with standard ones everyone tunes out.

Bro you can't take this away form is , its so jersey its like not being allowed to pump our own gas . When you go to the other states and sit there a couple minutes before you go out and do it because you forgot or see the people getting out of the cars with confused deer in headlight looks in PA and your like AHHH my fellow Jersian!

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FYI Yes i know they gas thing is set to end next year !

someone with a small wee wee exercising power or rules just for the sake of doing it .

and had SHE stopped he would of been the one at fault . Instead we have a failure of duty of care and fleeing the scene

this is exactly why the "good" buildings have that "maintenance guy" that gets the free or dirt cheap apartment . But too many of them corpo buildings can't sacrifice a precious revenue stream apartment to do that anymore. You show me a building that has the maintenance guy the speaks ESL living for free in the basement for first floor apartment and ill show you a greatly run / maintained building lol.

Very well though out response while its mostly correct they do have the John wick deal - id say that was a extremely major picture. But for the most part you hit the nail on the head most of their schedule is 2-3 month commitments , overflow / local filming for L&O and lot of sound stage work for other productions.

It still does not mean its a hard sell. Alot of the people that work there including actors have started to prefer the locations over here - easier to get in and out of sometimes easier to get to all together.

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also "Both their studios are also brand new, and their equipment rental division is pretty much non-existent in the area" Not true at all They have several massive facilities around here including one in Newark , with booms , cranes , lifts ,track carts and other specialized industry versions of all the above and they can barely keep them in stock long enough to do maintenance and send them back out . Again they did the entire productions equipment for the last and now the next john Wick .

Never heard anything more incorrect in my life . It's not a hard sell at all

They keep building more studios here and expanding because they are fully booked for almost 2 years with the space they have including major picture deals cinelease also has multiple studios in the area and nyc along with being the place a lot of those bigger studios rent their equipment from because they also have an equipment rental division .

Yes they did a show about jersey city but shot in Atlanta instead and only did B roll here but that's more the outlier then the mainline

When i found out the state had been running the BOE for years up till a few years ago and a lot of these people are legacy BOE members who were collecting 6 figure checks for only doing 1/3rd of their actual job i realized they probably all have to go .

You can't give people super easy 6 figure jobs then actually think they do the work after years of not having to do it.

They had to have local BOE members to handle staffing issues , compliance and HR stuff mostly

trespassing is half the fun! But if you really want to stay above board .....off the top of my head Clinton road , devils tree , Gravity road ( also know as Abbys road IIRC). Feltville Historic District ( Abandon town in watchung )

you do realize that was the case for the last 20 year and they only JUST got control of it themselves like last year

some guy robbed my car but dropped his cell phone in my car and JCPD tracked him down via that . ( They pulled prints of the phone and guy was in the system , not some high tech hackery)

Jersey isnt a big state - grab and friend or two and go for a ride . It not big but super scenic outside of Bergen / hudson county

maybe its an economy thing or something then all the jobs reports i see put WFH at 20-30% . Or maybe that many people and businesses moved out of NYC

you should do weird NJ trips !

Most those places other then race tracks already do ban it

The ONLY reason it got better since 2016 is Covid. IT was nearly at a breaking point , then covid hit no more demand, coming out of covid 20% of the workforce is still WFH - huge relief on the transit system . However endless growth and buildings DTJC are putting it right back to where it was along with more and more companies going back to office. .

They used the signal issue to say they couldn't handle more trains in the system . Now they got the new signal system but they have not put more trains in still the same time gap / amount of trains - actually 2 less an hour then at former pre covid peak IIRC . I think with the new system they can at 4 more trains per hour (6 more total then currently ). They lost a ton of money during covid so they are trying to make it up with reduced service now