Damn. That security grilling is a harsh look in the mirror for Treehouse.

The place looks great on the street, but here in b/w ... ouch.

If you can get them through customs, I think either would be perfect.

Barring that, I think anything Asbury related would be the most identifiably Jersey while avoiding the reality TV connotation that's plagued everything south of Manasquan. Not sure how easy it would be to get anything during the winter, though.

Bring Taylor Ham and don't worry about customs because no one believes it's an actual meat product.

Or maybe a small slag of hexavalent chromium. Just a little won't hurt anyone.

Or just find something with "Jersey City" printed on it at Kanibal & Co. Or even go get an Asbury Park t-shirt/beachtowel/whatever.

It's a tough one, because Jersey doesn't have many worthwhile gifts that aren't food.

We have a long way to go in making our streets not completely injurious, but reading this is a reminder that, for all the "tactical urbanist" shortcutting, remediation doesn't happen quickly.

Every time I'm almost clipped by a 6000-lb hurtling douche I remember that it's been a little longer since the last time that happened compared to a few years ago, when it was so frequent I barely even thought about it. That's the progress we get in this world.

When you measure success in ridership, low capacity looks like winning. That's great for people in municipal leadership who want to check boxes, not so much for people who want to use it, let alone depend on it.

When Via says 20 minutes then disappears, that's worse than nothing. We need more real transit.

Sort of. High pressure areas of a storm can "bulge" seas into low pressure areas, but most surge force by far is from wind moving in the same direction.

Atmospheric pressure is absolutely a thing on this planet, but the difference between typical high and low pressure systems isn't that great compared to the total mass of air.

*Edited to add link and remove "compress." As another poster points out, water is essentially incompressible.

>It was without that kind of agreement, Mr. Cucci said in an interview before the meeting, that the turnpike extension was built in 1948, 'splitting The Village and “starting the deterioration.”
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>“The northern part couldn't have absorbed even 10 percent of the people who were displaced,” he said. “The turnpike destroyed the economic base of the community.”

So glad we don't do that anymore.

That's great to hear! In a spat between a notoriously unaccountable builder and a beleaguered transit agency I was pretty sure the only resolution would be the fence falling over.

The developer of 88 Regent built a staircase that bottoms out on train tracks. NJ Transit said that's an incredibly dumb thing to do, change it or close it. So the developer barricaded it with a cheap fence.

It will come as no surprise to many here that said developer is Peter Mocco.

What you see is what you get. All the conveniences and problems of new construction condos, nice enough neighbors, Lafayette Park is pleasant, occasional roudiness on Van Horne and Communipaw but nothing you can't walk through.

It's not actually a gated community but it sure feels like one. Gates work both ways and with zero public amenities on the property, it's hard to escape the feeling that you're in a compound. If that's what you're looking for, go for it. If not, there are plenty similarly priced places that are a little less tucked away.

Yeah, I have little doubt it's going to be a very sad place in a decade or two.

I'd look to Harmon Cove for an alternative take, but damned if I know what keeps that alive.

I believe that's phase IV.3.iii of the gleaming swamp metropolis envisioned in the early aughts for Secaucus Junction/Xanadu-American Dream.

Like everything else there, I'm surprised it's gotten this far, and not at all surprised at its clusterfuckedness.

From the article I'm seeing a 2:3 spot:unit ratio, plus 110,000 SqFt of retail presumably sharing those spaces. That's more parking than most DT/JSQ developments, but looks like the city and developers are still expecting a fair number of carless or keep-the-car-at-mom's tenants.

Context is everything. How often do you see CHUDs in the country?