Drive around areas you want to rent and look for signs?

Over the last 10 years we've had to look for tenants 5 times, 2 of those came from just putting a sign in the window. We stopped even using craigslist since 99% of calls were people who thought they can get an apartment for like $500/month, or real estate agents looking for clients.

That's the one on 6th and Monmouth? When they started that it was being built like a fortress, with the whole frame being cinderblock and steel under those fake bricks and wood. But it's been like this for what seems like years now, so perhaps the developer went bankrupt or something happened, because now it's just being left to rot.

Granted if I was buy something I'd go for this over the one they built on the 7th street corner, which went up in about 3 weeks and looked to be made of balsa wood.

That developer (7th street) probably skimped badly all around, but then sold at the right time and made a mint off people who didn't know what they were getting, while this developer looked like they were trying to build something good, and then had to slap cheap cladding on the outside to sell it before going belly up.

My thought would be you may not exactly know where you're calling. The "billing department" could be an outside vendor in another state, so it would seem safe to just let them know.

Also its probably a good way to keep them honest and possibly even work harder to get you the answers you're looking for.

These people moaning are all those who would be given $1 million, and weeks later be poor. They need to give excuses why their own laziness, or their belief that everything should be easy for them, and that usually means demonizing others.

Outside of huge buildings, most Jersey city landlords are locals or people who worked their asses off in order to afford a house. Even if someone inherited the house, they did so from family members (probably parent) who also worked their asses off and were probably still too poor to move out of Jersey city, as anyone who made money Pre-2000s left and went down the shore.

And for these landlords they aren't raising rents to get rich, they're doing so to pay the huge taxes that help those aforementioned moaners get their bike lanes and $50k park fountains.

Hudson county isn't devoid of government housing, so these people could go see what happens when "eeeeeevil landlords" are out of the picture.

Riding the NY subway, even at high speeds, I very rarely get jostled around, but with the PATH the thing could be going 5 MPH and it hits a turn that will throw everyone in to the wall.

In Manhattan at least, many of the trains are running a pretty linear path, with a few turns here and there, so speeding up is much more doable.

The PATH always loved to have scheduled "delays," where it may say they run every 30 minutes on say the :00 and :30, but then for 6 hours over night they'll just happened to have a delay of 10 minutes on every train, where 1 train magically disappears every 2 hours.

I guess we have to count our blessings with them, as they actually wanted to completely stop weekend service.....as if no one works on weekends, or may just want to enjoy their free time in the city.

I don't think so. My father was from around there and they called it that 70 years ago in his childhood.

They did some exteriors for all the avengers films in NYC, and I know a lot of Hawkeye was shot here, but having never seen it I'm not sure if it was very special effects heavy.

Another thing i hope doesn't happen, as did in NYC at one point, is the novelty wearing off for locals (when it comes to location shooting)

A production at first has everyone excited, but if you've got your streets lined with trucks every day, and your commute is backed up, then people start to complain.

Jersey City is so new to these productions they should be able to move all around and not congregate in one area to shoot for long periods of time, otherwise we know the JClisters or that type will be protesting how a Production Assistant asked them if they can just wait 30 seconds for them to get a shot, and now all filming should be ended.

I think the tax advantages of ATL are way too good. CA had to expand their tax credit system to pull shoes like the Resident, and even The Flight Attendant here from NYC.

I haven't seen Ms Marvel, but if it's very special effects heavy, most nyc studios aren't equipped for that. They shot in a studio that was part of Pinewood, which was the studio in England that did James Bond and the Marvel movies, so they are set up for Special Effects (also they have those connections where they'll stay with a production company)

Everyone is building/expanding more studio space, so Cinelease needs to contend with the big players like Steiner, Silvercup, Kaufman, Cinemagic, and Broadway Stages, all which have long built relationships with those who choose where productions go.

Just like the Meadowlands, Cinelease will benefit from the slow pace of building in NYC, but as soon as spots opened in those other studios shows fled (like Equalizer and Law and Order Organized crime). It's a problem with people in NYC thinking even downtown Jersey City is like tracking into the heart of darkness. NY's tax credit also benefits those productions more, and the way those credits work you're not going to really see a production jump between states for more than a few days of shooting.

Cinelease, as said above, will get the Tier 1 & 2 movies that really have no need for NYC, and have a 2 month shooting schedule (They'll claim these as "Major picture deals" when they aren't, which isn't a big sin, as NYC doesn't really get gigantic movies anymore anyway.) Maybe even a smaller streaming show, but they'll have a hard time getting an 8 month network show, or a streaming series/prestige series with a long schedule. They also could end up with more commercials and other small projects.

As for being booked for 2 years, it's because that's what happens now even without productions, Silvercup North is booked solid for 10 years, not because they know what will film there, but because Apple made a lease deal just to hold the space (Netflix was in talks to do the same with some studios, but with their troubles I'm not sure if they pulled the trigger)

Both their studios are also brand new, and their equipment rental division is pretty much non-existent in the area. The productions shooting from the studio will use their Heavy EQ and Grip products, but pretty much every major studio offers the exact same products for their productions, and Kaufman, Silvercup and Steiner are big leasers to those who don't even use their studios.

It's good their here, and hopefully the industry as a whole grows, but the way JC/NJ does everything half assed, this could easily turn in to a huge investment by the city and this studio, just to have everything pulled out from under them. Remember what happened when Christie killed the tax credit, Law and Order SVU literally made a plot that blew up their studio just to stick a finger in the eye of NJ and to say "We'll never shoot here again"

Jersey city has had about 6 or 7 movies shooting here in the last year, along with many more commercials. With NY running out of studio space, and NJ easing Covid restrictions earlier, we're blowing past where we were even in ther old times of L&O SVU and the Sopranos.

It's still a tough sell, because productions are so hesitant to look at anything outside of NYC, and the production managers/ line producers want to build relationships with the 3 big studio companies, while Cinelease is very small in the area. So TV series will probably still steer clear unless they have absolutely no choice, while movies that have more location than studio days will probably enjoy the cheaper price and chance to save with the tax credits.

Best Anvils, Rocket cars, and comical bundles of TNT in Jersey City.

Gotta second P&K, thier fruits/ vegetables have always been tops, they have very very good prices, and for those in need of Flowers I've always had good luck with theirs lasting longer than any others.

Plus their such a nice family and long time Jersey City locals.

KeyFoods might also be a tiny bit more than Shoprite, but they carry some brands that are great and hard to find at other stores in the area.

That article leaves out that Hoboken had 1 traffic death a year for the previous 3 years before this was implemented, and 0 deaths in 2014, which means what they enacted didn't actually do anything, as the years 2017, 2016 and 2015 were statistical blips.

It's like if Hoboken put out huge statues to scare away Lions, and then claimed the statues worked.

Nancy is a political activist that poses as "just a working mother"

She's also a NY lawyer who expects others to pay for her kids to go to school.

None of them are putting the kids first, they're putting their wallets first. If they were putting kids first we wouldn't see their budget expload, while the schools collapse and grades plummet.

70% of the BoE budget goes to salaries, and one of the members recently commented that next year, with the state cutting the funding to JC, they would be against cutting jobs over raising taxes, which means they are in it just for themselves.

You're telling people to not think about their own personal tax bill, which is a pretty asshole statement, as you don't know their situation. So someone should just lose their house because someone shouts "think of the children!" Screw that. In that case people would be justified to respond that parents should then pay their own way for their children, because a lot of well off parents are putting their kids in to JC public schools in downtown.

The author here also lists herself as a "working mother" leaving out how she's an activist connected with the Saul Alinsky founded network of activist groups. She shows up in every NJ school tax article, but is being disingenuous by portraying herself as just a working mom (she also happens to be a lawyer at a NY lawfirm, so it's cute of her to tell others that they should pony up money)

But if you think that's someone who "gets it" you clearly don't get it at all.

Yeah, the people that move in, vote stupid policies that make our lives worse, then move out, are who really matter!

Anyone who puts effort in to making the city better and stays around for the results, be it a newbie or someone with 100 year roots here, is whose opinion should matter most.

That's really disappointing. Was such an interesting building, always thought it could have been a really cool concert venue (there's one very similar in England)

The plan for so many of these historic places is probably to just let them crumble, so they can defend knocking them down and putting an Applebees there instead.

There should be some basic life skills class that teaches all the stuff you actually need to know, like you said taxes, finance, balancing a budget (though god help us if anyone on the BoE teaches that)

Also, and this would probably be beyond the purview of a single school, try to give kids a reason why they might want to pay attention. We were always told "you'll need this in life" for math, but never why. So try to teach the subjects in a way that can help them, where they know what jobs math can get them, or science, etc. I bet many kids would take math more seriously if they were told "see those stock brokers in huge houses and nice cars, they need some understanding of math"

Every situation is different. If someone has a four family house and hasn't reached the current market value for their apartments they may have to raise a high amount like 20%, but if someone is on Year 2 at their current house, they may already be paying top of the market rent, and their landlord could get away with a small percentage raise (if they just intend on raising to cover the Tax hike, and not just raise them a high amount since they see it's possible.)

Even for Renters it's going to be a tough choice, especially if you want to stay in Jersey City. Say you get a $300/Month raise. That $3,600 a year raise may just cover moving expenses and broker cost (landlords are going to be hard pressed to cover that cost now) and the place you move in to could end up giving you the same raise next year, knowing you're very unlikely to pack up and move yet again. It'd be a much easier choice for Renters if there was a buyers market for houses right now, but buyers are getting hosed too.

You can check what the new taxes are on the JC website, and see how much your landlord was raised. Then you've just got to figure out that amount divided by the number of tenants, and assume that's the amount you'll be raised, if not a little more to cover the rising cost of everything else (insurance, new trash/water fees, incidentals) You may get raised 10%, but someone in another apartment paying less rent may get raised 20%.

This would be a valid point, if these students were educated at schools.

As a country (and especially Jersey City) school spending has exploaded, while grades have plummeted. Like a business at some point they need to justify their spending with results.

I feel like this is similar to a joke I would tell people, that was 75% truth. I learned far more watching the discovery channel and learning channel (back when the stations were actually about science and learning) as a kid than i did in grade school.

Like you said, today children have many more resources than we had, but instead of parents saying "spend 1 hour watching this educational video" they'll let them play on their phones (all those free chrome books and deeply discounted internet connections for students and low income families have most likely spent minimal time actually educating children.) This actually will help children in the long run too, because they can focus on things that aren't taught in schools, which are more applicable to future careers, as most schools still just teach you whatever book the School Board approved for this year's classes.

Good teachers are a vital resource, but the many bad ones and the million "teacher's aids" aren't. And no parent should want to leave their child to be 100% educated by schools, as you're then not trying to help your child better themselves above their classmates, which means it'll be hard for them to better themselves later in life.

For Q3 we got a 33% raise over Q3 of last year. For Q4 we got an almost 100% raise over last year. And for next Q1 and Q2 we'll be back to 50% over last year.

Then next Q3 and Q4 we'll probably get another huge raise the way people are talking.

We have to raise our tenants, but understand there's a balance, and raising too much may get them to leave. But 20% is a risk, we're thinking maybe a 5% raise, which won't nearly cover the Tax raise of just 1 1/2 quarters (not to mention the leases aren't up until the summer.) Basically we'll have to come out of pocket for nearly 70% of the tax raise, giving a 20% raise though would end up covering the taxes and some (though not taking in to account next Q3 and Q4 raises)

I remember back in the early 90s people were stealing those added headlights on Jeeps, so the thing to do was put some razor blades on the back so if someone grabbed them they'd end up paying more than the lights were worth for stitches.