Fulop stopped awarding abatements a while back. Has Steve Fulop evolved on tax abatements? - nj.com Future Jersey City tax abatements will add to school funding - nj.com

Crystal Point was developed around 2010, I think they only got a 30 year because it was extended when no one was buying.

Haus25 is a special case because of the school, as the link above mentions.

No, the city stopped abatements to downtown maybe 7-10 years ago. Most of the abatements downtown are expiring the next few years, with some exceptions like Crystal Point. There used to be a good map here but doesn't work any more Mapping Abatements in Jersey City – Civic Parent - that has links to spreadsheets with the data incl expiry dates.

The problem with this is that JC has built more new supply than any other city. We are the poster boy for new development. Instead it made the city nicer and somehow more desirable?

More crime. Only realistic way to bring down the rents.

Plus it opens at 11, which means its empty around that time. Probably need a reservation for 1 though.

The stats vs last year are meaningless because Covid had such a big effect. Stats vs 2019 would be useful to see. 2020 and 2021 lots of apartments were half empty and rents were slashed to attract anyone, no wonder things are different now when people are returning to the office.

The county schools always seem to have some secret admissions process. Explore middle school is the same. My guess is the want a mix with a cross section of people from all the parts of the county rather than people with high academic scores.

The liberty landing ferry used to go twice an hour for $1. After covid they haven't been running on weekends, and now are only once an hour during weekdays.

Interestingly there are still fewer people living in JC today than there were 100 years ago. Jersey City, New Jersey - Wikipedia NYC has grown, but only by 10-20% in 100 years.

Meanwhile 100 years ago the whole of Florida had less than a million people.

I'm just waiting for them to turn Fridays into a weekend service... I'd like them to use that money to improve weekends but I guess I'm dreaming.

Those buildings was one of the first in the area and help build downtown. Still it pays $3-4 mil a year.

You can look up any building on the website. Which building do you think doesn't pay enough? City of Jersey City Online Payment System

Lol the city doesn't want rent control for downtown. They need DT to pay those sweet property taxes.

General Plumbing Supply store is down on the Bayonne border. There are dozens of plumbers go through there, not sure how you find a good one. Maybe if you ring them?

Yeah I went there for the first time after recommendation here and is now my go to place.

Lets bring back the cops episodes. (1) COPS Season 3 Episode 18 New Jersey Part 1 - YouTube (1) COPS Season 3 Episode 19 New Jersey Part 2 - YouTube (1) COPS Season 3 Episode 19 New Jersey Part 2 - YouTube

EWR line? Does that mean its happening?

Faq is good. Its worth adding you can search for apartments in a bunch of places like trulia.com, apartments.com, I like hotpads.com . https://www.equityapartments.com/ and https://www.newportrentals.com/ are the two biggest corporate building owners.

If you like the beach, somewhere down the end of the Monmouth line. Mountains end of Morristown, Bergen or Pascack lines. Northeast goes to Princeton. Expensive suburbs like Summit, Short Hills, Milburn. Nice suburbs out from there. Bergen County has classic upper/middle America. Essex more like city fringe. This is a big city that covers a lot of space.

Its worth saying the trains a slow and infrequent compared to UK so JC is actually pretty good. :)

Its new! Ive been asking for this since the Oculus opened. I'm excited to see it.

If you really want a backyard, DT JC isn't a good place to look. If you WFH half the week and the office is JPM or Citi for example in Newport, you're pretty close to Hoboken train station and would probably be better to commute from the suburbs. https://content.njtransit.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/maps/NJTRailSystemMap-Aug2022.pdf

That's pretty vague, depends on what your lifestyle is. Mahattan if you want the true NY lifestyle. Hoboken skews younger and more bars etc. Lots of expats in downtown JC. You can commute from the suburbs easily too. I did the same 12 years ago, DM if you have any questions.

You're perfectly allowed to sell the car then buy back again in the summer or next year. Me personally I think its worth having a car for the few trips away but I dont pay for parking.

To be clear I'm not seriously advocating arming drivers, I put that in the headline after the other video earlier in the week where the driver did have a gun.