A potential theory: Maybe people with kids moving away to lower cost locations, and housing stock being bought up by DINKs? That would cause both a population drop as well as reduced housing stock.

Nothing solid to go on, more of a hunch...

Depending on budget and how often you have to do it (especially if this is just a one or two time deal), maybe just bite the bullet and get an Uber or Lyft? The train would have you get you all the way to Secaucus before putting you in the right direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGg5rfBfWT4

At 1:39 if you're curious.

It's a Simpsons reference to the monorail episode.

Sorry u/rollotomasi07071, the mob Port Authority has spoken!

At this rate I'm awaiting her proposal to name a street in Brighton Beach "Vladimir Putin Way" in honor of his peace efforts in Eastern Europe.

> EVERY single other congestion zone in the world gives variance to residents if the zone and.people.immediately adjacent because it's made.foe a purpose, not a money grab

Not to mention other variances or discounts to things like, say motorcycles. But I guess according to MTA logic, a motorcycle that takes up 1/6th the space of a car generates the same congestion, so it should therefore pay the same 10-20 dollars as a large car or SUV.

Seems like a total crock of shit, of you ask me...

Rail tunnels going under the Hudson River to Penn Station. Currently there are only two tracks under the river. Plan is to have two more tracks to run more trains.

I park in downtown, off of Columbus in one of the high rise garages by Grove. Depending on timing and weather, I may walk down a little farther to Exchange Place to catch either the PATH from Newark or Hoboken.

Parking is about $18 a day, but I only do it 2x a week max, so it's doable.

As far as getting there, I take 78, which you would be too if coming from Berkeley Heights or New Providence. 280 is too far north.

If you're moving to the Berkeley Heights/New Providence area, you may want to check parking with those towns. New Providence I think does parking permits requests online sometime in March for a six month or one year parking permit for non-residents (don't remember the exact time, but it was either for Murray Hill or New Providence stations). Berkeley Heights has a waitlist for parking, but no idea on how long you'd be on the waitlist. Summit use to have a surface lot next to its resident-only garage on Broad Street, but that's been closed as the site of the new firehouse under construction. No idea on non-resident parking options there through the city.

One potential option for you (especially if you don't need to park 5x a week) is using the Boxcar app, which my wife uses on occasion when she goes into the city, because you can reserve the night before.

One other possibility depending on your schedule that I do (since I leave for work in the city early a couple times a week) is to go to Jersey City, park there and then take PATH in.

Hope this helps!

Yeah, I feel like if OP ever went to the place when it was Brownstone, they would not be recommending this place.

I know a lot of restaurants have had troubles with staffing and inflation since COVID, but this remodel, IIRC, was in 2019 before the pandemic, so their quality, prices, portion sizes were already going down before from what I could tell the one time I went after the remodel.

I'd hate to think what it's like now...

Depends...are you using gas for heating or a stove? Or is it all electric?

But there's nothing behind that number that anybody put out there. Someone made a comment that it was 1/3 the cost, then you say it was a "fact" in your comment? At least there's articles re: the Turnpike cost escalation to show ehen and how it's increased.

> fact that it's 1/3 price

The only fact is that someone on reddit says it's 1/3rd the price. Even if priced out only a year ago (and there's no ondication it was), you think that'd hold between materials escalation costs due to inflation and the spike in interest rates?

My thought exactly. It's not like there aren't other H-Marts nearby, or Hannam Mart over in Fort Lee. If I don't have to pay for parking at any of those, what exactly is the draw for this one?

Random guess, but it may be being delivered to PATH from the factory. I think there's actually a Kawasaki factory in Yonkers of all places that manufactures them. So it kind of makes sense that it'd be delivered by road from Yonkers given the dearth of rail connections that would allow freight on that stretch of the Hudson.

Nope. I mean, I still get junk mail for my house for people that moved away years ago. That's not going to be proof to MVC that you're a current resident at an address.

Best bet is to have a bill sent to your new address. Anything in your name that has utilities, or a cell phone bill, even?

> The 747 was probably the most profitable losing bid in history

Some additional context here:

Boeing developed the 747 after it lost out on a bid to build a large cargo plane for the Air Force in 1964. The winner of that competition, Lockheed, went on to build the C-5 Galaxy, of which only 131 were built in two phases, one in the late 60s-early 70s, and some more in the 80s.

Meanwhile, Boeing used a lot of that experience on that bid in the development of a passenger airliner, the 747, and ended up being produced for over 50 years, with over 1500 of the type being built.

Monroe, maybe? I feel like it's been mostly 55 and over communities for ages now...

Yes, but the way I read it is the bike path runs north/south, and has the northern end at Grand.