I find the real estate taxes anywhere in Jersey wipe out the 3% income tax - it's not exactly the same but it can be close.

That being said, living in Hamilton Park/Van Vorst approximates Brooklyn Heights or Cobble Hill at 50% of the price (if buying).

I see this car parked on street sweeping days all the time. About time they finally towed it.

You could probably put both in your window at night and not have to switch them at midnight.

Sorry now it's June 2025. I don't make the rules.

Probably more like $10 for ingredients, but you also have to do at least an hour of work and cleanup, so the cost of convenience isn't excessive for most.

Every time someone asks on Reddit, I heard they move the opening date one month back.

This could be a whole thread: things that were announced after Whole Foods and opened before. I bet some of them have even opened and closed.

If nothing else, it could be flair.

It depends on your residential status; your building's parking situation will also determine eligibility if you are a resident.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Jersey+City+parking+permit&l=1

It doesn't matter if you loop around the block. If parking enforcement sees you there at 12:05p and then comes back at 2:30p and you're still there: you get a ticket.

I believe the rule is actually for all of Zone 4, so you can't park anywhere else in Zone 4 after 2:05p in my example.

Yes, you need a permit.

I had a guy come to my door a few weeks ago and demand to see my bill so he "could verify you're not seeing this on your bill." He flashed an ID card at me, referenced PSEG about 5 times in 30 seconds and tried to get me to show him a bill.

I questioned him about who he worked for several different ways, asked him what he was selling, what he was here to do and he kept coming back with gibberish. I told him it sounded like gibberish to me and he sounded insane. After he told me that I was the one who sounded insane, I decided to close my door on him. He rang two more times before ringing the upstairs door.l and eventually moving on to the neighbors.

Glad my radar was up; I can totally see how these guys can scam you into doing something you don't want to do.

Ah thanks - I missed that. Yes, NYS can be a bit cheaper for high earners than NJ.

I've looked at this a few times, and while I haven't run the numbers specifically, I don't think this is true. There does not appear to be an income level where living in NYC is cheaper than living in NJ. This is assuming you work in NYC in both cases, but I also believe it is true if you live and work in NJ.

I'm interested in being shown I'm wrong though, can you show us some math?

I recently tried FB Marketplace and it's almost all scammers now. They're all running some dumb Venmo scam where they to get you to send them money because they "overpaid" or some nonsense. They're not even local to try to get the item.

At last check (years ago), you can redeem your coins at Coinstar and get an Amazon gift code without the fee. A good deal if you were going to spend that money anyway. (there are other retailers, too - but none were as broad as Amazon)

Being a biker involved in a hit and run is a very good JC 2022 Halloween costume. If you can get the councilwoman yelling at you in the pic, it's an all timer.

My annual tax bill (calculated by taking the last quarter, plus the three quarters they just posted) is up 41% over the previous 4 quarters. I just moved here and while I knew taxes were going to go up, this is by far the most I have ever seen over the course of 1 year.

Election is in two weeks: I assume I can vote against at least the schoolboard. Can't wait to make the rest of them feel the pain when they're on the ballot.

It's pics here, not picts!

The real question is *when* do they tell us what the actual numbers are? Bill is due in under 2 weeks, and they still can't tell me what I owe. What on earth is going on at City Hall? If you can't publish the numbers 30 (ideally 90) days ahead of time, you have to skip the increase this quarter and go with historical values. Go ahead and hit us next quarter. You can't expect people to just fly blind to one of the biggest costs of the year.

Wait, but where are the good donut shops?

Yes, it starts with something like yellow paint or those plastic bollards. That kind of stinks for implementation though.

Ideally you want curb bump outs like Hoboken has been doing. This also helps pedestrians with shorter crossings.

I don't think I said that pedestrians should be crossing against the light, but to be clear, pedestrians should not be crossing against the light. Is that better?

I agree that drivers don't really stop at the stop signs. Plenty just kind of slow down and then plow through the intersection. Here's what will help, roughly in order of easy to impossible to imagine the city doing

• Better street markings - a lot of existing stop lines are worn away and stop signs are not as obvious as they need to be. Also solid color crosswalks would help

• Intersection daylighting - this is when you lose the last parking spot on a street to make it easier for pedestrians and drivers to see each other - Hoboken has done this all over the place and it works

• Narrower streets - protect the bike lanes and squeeze the parallel parking closer to the drivers, like has been done in lots of areas of Paulus Hook (although those streets are much much wider to start from). This has been proven to slow down drivers and we get better bike lanes

• Raised crosswalks - acts as a slight speed bump and stands out that the pedestrian has the right of way

• Enforcement - a few well positioned cops for a few days every month would pay for themselves in traffic summons, but unlikely to be a priority of JCPD until someone gets killed

• Speed bumps - I haven't seen any city really do this, but I suppose you could put these throughout the roads to slow everyone down. Unfortunately, many drivers just accelerate up to them - they don't exactly create calmer drivers

Here's what we shouldn't do:

• Add traffic lights - drivers see a green as an invitation to accelerate through it. This would improve traffic flow, but make walking more dangerous

Haha, just poking fun, it reads like the business posting but we know you're real.