Except Newark. Newark can go fuck its hat.
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nemo (JND), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
I've been asked for a cigarette by five different people in the last 20 minutes.
― cdwill, Friday, 29 October 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
We are also a bizarre state filled with mysteries to a degree that makes most other states boring. Please visit http://www.weirdnj.com/ for starters.
I live in Brooklyn now, which I love, but I intend on moving back there eventually.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
haha when chris saw harold and kumar out in california, an audience member exclaimed "i didn't know new jersey had trees!"
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
If you see the movie Garden State, which is interesting, not a great film, a bit sentimental/melodramatic but pretty entertaining, it's pretty OTM as far as Jersey is concerned. The giant cavern they visited? There was something like that right near my house. They had started to dig it out for construction but it was too rocky and they had to strand the cranes at the bottom of this pit. I used to play on them.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I was born and raised in West Orange, NJ. Home of Thomas Edison and the House of Music recording studios, where much of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell were recorded.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
i go to school in new york and i love it here to death, but "indefensible?" any state that contains the godlike and glorious MAGIC GRILL (in garwood, nj) is way more worthy of defense than, say...actually, no, i'm not stooping to the "trash a state i've never been to" level. and yeah, fuck you to the people who judge nj from the vantage point of the turnpike/GS parkway alone (and i love the GS parkway, FWIW).
(this sounded a bit more jingoistic than i'd intended, but really. nj's a fine state.)
― joseph (joseph), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
this was my l-school in newark experience, only it was for 3 years -- and made bearable by the fact that had i gone to camden instead, i woulda been shot for refusing to give a cigarette to a panhandler.
― Jerseybär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
and where Uncle Floyd started ... don't forget Uncle Floyd!!! (or you lose yer jersey license!)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― darragh.mac (darragh.mac), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Adding to the contradictions that is NJ, disregarding the request to not discuss proximity to NYC, yes, while a portion of NJ is a suburb of NYC, another portion is a suburb of Philadelphia, and people who live in south Jersey do not in any way identify with north Jersey or NYC, despite it not being that long a drive. My family was split in two, my cousins were all in Cherry Hill.
also...Ruts Hut to thread, world-famous "ripper" hot dogs.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 30 October 2004 04:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
John Berryman, Ralph Ellison, James Garner, Paul Harvey, Ron Howard, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Bill Moyers, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Tony Randall, Will Rogers, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Bill Blass, James Dean, Theodore Dreiser, Virgil Grissom, David Letterman, Eli Lilly, Carole Lombard, Andrew J. Moywer, Cole Porter, James Whitcomb Riley, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Wilbur Wright, Ralph Abernathy, Tallulah Bankhead, Nat "King" Cole, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Emmylou Harris, Helen Keller, Coretta Scott King, Harper Lee, Jesse Owens, and Rosa Parks in being illiterate and uncultured slobs shocker.
i.e., Hurting, your obscenely narrow-minded world view appalls me. It is my hope that you're just a glorified trollbeing, but it is my fear that you truly believe the unenlightened bullshit you spew.
― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link
(This could also apply to the original thread topic challenge, I think.)
― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Relax. I thought it was pretty clear that I was being somewhat facetious.
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
(You want someone to "defend the indefensible", region-wise? I'm [mostly] your girl.)
― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic, Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Other reasons to love NJ:
Because of my Joisey accent, my best friend thought I grew up in Marstown until he flew out to NJ with me for a short vacation and we got off 287 at Morristown. He's from Virginia, where they don't skip syllables.
Incredible bakeries.
You had to get on a highway & back off one exit later to reach the closest place to buy milk from my parents old house. However, the store, was really only 1/4 mile away- just on the wrong side of the highway, without which, you could have walked over to it.
DINERS. I can't believe the rest of the country hasn't caught onto how to do these right.
― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic, Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
I know a lawyer that specializes in that but he is $$$
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Btw Spectrum if you settle somewhere a bit west or north-west of where you are you can find much more defensible environments. Why be so close to Newark?
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
forks I don't know anything about jersey landlord tenant and I don't want to commit legal malpractice. Anything I told you would just be from the internet anyway.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/13/dont_vote_for_cory_booker/
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
yay
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
lucky me, they're doing polling at a school right outside my apartment. i'm going to vote for rush holt. booker's the wrong kind-of democrat.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/realestate/meanwhile-in-jersey-city.htmlit's all downhill from here
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 August 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Or maybe the nytimes means Queens?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/realestate/costly-rents-push-brooklynites-to-queens.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Next week it'll be yonkers.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 17 August 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
Can't believe they used that photo! That statue is like the funniest in-joke in Jersey City. I used to take people to see it b/c they didn't believe me.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 17 August 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
that statue is in appallingly bad taste.
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Saturday, 17 August 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
NYCers, please stay out.
i have mixed feelings about that statue -- glad it exists, but it is bizarre.
― عليك ارتداء ماكياج من مهرج مثلي الجنس المتداول مائة عميق في سيارة مصغر (Eisbaer), Sunday, 18 August 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
p. sure JC's charter expressly forbids ~entertaining nite lyfe~
― Hellhouse, Sunday, 18 August 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
this article is basically because fulop has connections i think
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Sunday, 18 August 2013 01:48 (ten years ago) link
probably right but couple of things are starting to percolate around here over the past year
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 August 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah but JC's perennial pending resurgence has been noted so many times that its dormant potential has become its defining narrative (the city's been cheap and accessible and unpretentious for so long precisely b/c its residents have insistently declined attempts to establish ~NYC culture~ that would essentially destroy it's raison d'etre even while raising its pulse above torpid). (11,000 new housing units in the pipeline obv suggest cultural upheaval via market forces, but I've also seen a fair amount of these new multi-unit monstrosities almost pitch black at night).
xp
― Hellhouse, Sunday, 18 August 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
higher prices are inevitable given NYC's real estate trajectory, but I'm not sold on the stale gloss being hustled again.
― Hellhouse, Sunday, 18 August 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
i'm looking for an apartment out here and a nice, grown up 1bedroom at 1750 is nowhere to be found
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 August 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
I've had four apartments in the downtown area, but I haven't looked for a rental f/ years. (prices f/ property tho have been stagnant since the RE bubble popped, but I have noticed some of the larger buildings tenaciously clinging to their prices despite numerous empty units). $1750 admittedly seems high f/ a one-bedroom but it obv depends on yr criteria f/ ~nice and grown up~ (also JC's currency is p. cyclical compared to the more rigid arcs of NYC, maybe yr caught in a temporary upswing? idk).
― Hellhouse, Sunday, 18 August 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
i think that post-sandy everyone wants to rent and no one wants to own. There are about six for sale signs on each block out here. condos near public transit start at 2k+ for a 1br
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 August 2013 03:30 (ten years ago) link
no yr right, iirc NYC is experiencing the same upward pressure on rental prices. (I'm just curmudgeonly waving away JC's played cultural renaissance pitch, nothing to see here, move along).
― Hellhouse, Sunday, 18 August 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
i'm not arguing it's played; i heard the same schtick when i moved here a decade ago. but damned if it don't look like it's kinda taking root finally. not that i'm pleased exactly.
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 August 2013 03:56 (ten years ago) link
i moved to Hoboken in 1998, and talk about JC's resurgence was rife back then too (as well as "evidence" that it wasn't just some will o' the wisp/typical realtor bullshit). so i'll believe when i see it (to wit: when it's too late to jump in and make a mint)
― عليك ارتداء ماكياج من مهرج مثلي الجنس المتداول مائة عميق في سيارة مصغر (Eisbaer), Sunday, 18 August 2013 04:14 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/realestate/24hunt.html^five years old now.i'm friends with these guys, their great dane died unfortunately. sweet dog.
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 August 2013 04:29 (ten years ago) link
oh no i agree like everything feels a bit 'nicer' each year but its so gradual you barely notice. but there are these storefronts that seem to keep trying to get ahead of the curve, and have a succession of things like 8$ organic juices that just are not going to cut it, and eventually either they become another pizza and wings shop or office space. worst 'old jersey is going away' moment for me lately was europa deli having to close up.
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Sunday, 18 August 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Didn't they reopen? I thought they just renovated? Totally agree on the dipshittery of eight buck juice places. Plus they are generally poorly managed! My ex calls jersy city "the and of the half assed idea".
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 August 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
they renovated and reopened and then one day there was an eviction notice up and now they're gone entirely. at one point before they folded, they started smoking their own salmon on occasion. it was the freshest smoked salmon i've had.
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Sunday, 18 August 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah forks I don't think you're ~rong~ or w/e, I mean, sure, there's Barcade and the bike shop and a handful of new restaurants and the goddamn family circus obstacle course at the Grove Street PATH entrance and how can I forget Lucky 7 next door which proudly hosts the worst garage rock in the Tri-State, but it's just a hodgepodge of misc. venues w/o any real traction. (waiting to see if JC will do anything interesting with the ~Powerhouse Arts District~ or will look to emulate WALDO's heroic transformation from thriving art community to noxious condo cluster).
― Hellhouse, Sunday, 18 August 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
that sucks about europa, i rarely pass by there but i was happy they were there.we need a music venue very badly. one appears to be coming soon.
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 August 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
RIP Uncle Joe's
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 19 August 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
Didn't Uncle Joe's close years ago?
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, came to post this, which my friends make:
http://www.drivingjersey.com/drivingjersey.com/Home.html
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
It seems the real Bridgegate story may be in Hoboken
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mayor-christie-camp-held-sandy-money-hostage
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
i'm starting to smell prison
Governor Chris Christie today announced that New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox will transition back to the private sector by the end of the month, when NJDOT Deputy Commissioner Joseph Bertoni will take over as Acting Commissioner.
A prominent Democrat who worked for both former Governor James McGreevey and former Senator Bob Torricelli, Fox worked as a lobbyist for United Airlines prior to going to the Christie Administration, and prior to the resignation of a United Airlines CEO amid a federal probe of the Bridgegate scandal.
WNYC’s Matt Katz reported earlier this week that while a lobbyist, “Fox tried to influence Democrats in the Legislature to back off from its investigation of the mysterious lane closures at the George Washington Bridge in the fall of 2013, according to three sources from the Legislature and Port Authority close to the investigation.”
http://politickernj.com/2015/10/christie-fox-done-as-dot-commissioner/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2015 23:44 (eight years ago) link
Cory Booker's cutesy pandering to HRC crowd at today's rally makes me want to fwow up on him weal bad
@KattyKayBBCCory Booker - Teddy Roosevelt was wrong it's not a man we need in the arena, it's a woman.
@dick_nixon The Navy has a name for this sort of thing.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
Jennifer Epstein@jenepsCory Booker: "I hate to contradict Bon Jovi but, dear God, Hillary Clinton you give love a good name"
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
@pareenePpl shouldn't get rich as the country falls into crisis, I agree with the failed Newark mayor who became a millionaire thru a sham startup
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/christie_pictured_at_island_beach_state_park_durin.html#incart_river_home
People hoping to visit Island Beach State Park this holiday weekend were not allowed in because of the state government shutdown Gov. Chris Christie ordered amid the state budget standoff in Trenton. But there was one family there: Christie's. They are using the summer beach house provided by the state for a weekend down the Shore.And here are exclusive aerial photos by NJ Advance Media showing Christie surrounded by wife Mary Pat and others. It was taken early Sunday afternoon before the governor headed to Trenton to hold another news conference about the shutdown.
But there was one family there: Christie's. They are using the summer beach house provided by the state for a weekend down the Shore.
And here are exclusive aerial photos by NJ Advance Media showing Christie surrounded by wife Mary Pat and others.
It was taken early Sunday afternoon before the governor headed to Trenton to hold another news conference about the shutdown.
― j., Monday, 3 July 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
it's not often that you get a shot of the governor looking up at the helicopter camera
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 July 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
Christie's money quote this weekend was "You're lookin' at Mr. Reasonable."
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 July 2017 03:43 (six years ago) link
He must be trying to sink his approval ratings as low as possible. #embracethedisgrace
― Treeship, Monday, 3 July 2017 03:47 (six years ago) link
"as saltwater taffy shortages continue across the state a life-sized taffy sculpture of the governor's wife was wheeled into his mansion"— slackbot (@pareene) July 2, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 July 2017 05:26 (six years ago) link
Chris Christie: From Here to Eternity pic.twitter.com/Rxf6uZhjLW— Nell Scovell (@NellSco) July 3, 2017
― j., Monday, 3 July 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
Normandy Beach #NeverForget pic.twitter.com/dRx4HJoRpk— Edel Rodriguez (@edelstudio) July 3, 2017
― j., Tuesday, 4 July 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
And here I was thinking that purposefully creating traffic on the GWB was the height of douchebaggery...
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
ICYMI
In bombshell testimony that’s likely to dog the Christie administration in its final months, NJ Transit’s fired chief compliance officer said Friday he was forced out with little explanation after his repeated attempts to raise questions about systemic issues at the troubled agency, which he called a “runaway train.”...
Particularly troublesome to lawmakers were the issues of patronage hiring, which they have been looking at closely since last year. NJ Transit has been unable to provide resumes for numerous top staffers and officials could not explain why it had been unable to locate any such records.
http://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2017/08/25/fired-nj-transit-executive-says-agency-is-runaway-train-114153
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
https://explorepartsunknown.com/new-jersey/bourdains-field-notes-new-jersey/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 June 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
thanks,going to watch that one again tonight!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 14 June 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
:(
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/trenton-arts-festival-mass-shooting-leaves-20-injured.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 17 June 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
Today, I signed historic legislation to protect reproductive freedom in New Jersey – codifying the right to choose into state law and expanding contraception coverage. In New Jersey, we trust each individual person to make their reproductive choices for themselves. pic.twitter.com/5fOb6azXIa— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) January 13, 2022
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 13 January 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link