I'd think real carefully about how attractive any job opportunity was if it forced me into a car under any circumstances. And doubly so if I depended on free street parking to make the difference in pay.

I didn't dig into it, but I figured as much. In the video, one of the principals talks about wanting to build a sort of production community around the studio. Any idea if that has been attempted or successful around any of their other spots?

There are also several grocery delivery services out there if you're the kind of shopper who doesn't need to fondle every squash.

NYC recently lowered the speed limit city wide to 25mph and rolled out 2000 speed cameras.

I'm all about keeping the bike lanes clear, but technically these are not official bike lanes...YET. This was a temporary test using wash away paint.

I don't know. It sounds like you've sorted out car ownership and storage. And I agree that I want to know what this suburb is that is not transit accessible. But this new resident listed learning to street park as a top concern. You want to blunt the financial, emotional, and operational costs of an unexpected year in Journal Square? The first thing you do is ditch your car.

Being comfortable riding bikes is the ultimate hack to making it very easy to live in the heights. And now that Hoboken also uses Citibike, it's even better. If you must commute to NYC , you can ride or walk to two PATH stations, two ferry terminals or take the bus to Port Authority. Do not even consider getting a car. Central Ave is much better than it looks at first pass.

I mean, how do you think Amsterdam got that way?

Just a note that coinstars are unpredictable. They often go offline --maybe when they fill up? And then you hauled your heavy bucket of coins and have to take it back home. When I've used it, it was only after checking first and then going home to get my stash.

Yikes! Yeah, if you posted a few photos, folks could help you decide if it's scrap or worth saving. I'm about at my limit for bikes but would consider storage for the right hoard!

There are lots of folks using Citibike as well. Those have dedicated racks. I know Pittsburgh has a bike share system, but my sense is that it is relatively small. The other thing is that the sidewalks are pretty narrow around here, and not too many businesses understand how many of their customers and employees arrive on bikes, so they don't make racks a priority. So the bikes kind of get locked up all over the place instead of concentrated in racks.

Welcome to town!

Fairly soon you'll have nice places to walk to on the Hackensack River too! And that's closer to Journal Square.

You will, most likely, not need a car, and if you are used to living without a car, you will HATE having one. You'll hate parking it, even if you have plenty of extra money to park it. And more than that, you'll hate DRIVING it. 40% of households in Jersey City do not have cars.

I've been DIY kimchi-curious for a bit, and one of its virtues I am told is that, like other pickled items, it never really goes bad. That said, I haven't actually made my own. And my fam is also a tough sell on the smell when I open the jar! I'm maybe closer to Asian Market than you are and like their stuff too. Otherwise H Mart, whenever I can get near one.

Side note: Read as much as you can in this subreddit, Facebook and Nextdoor about what it is like to own a car in Jersey City. You may decide you don't need or want one!

Ooh! That looks good. The shoulders were so bad for so long out there. Thanks for the heads up!

I'm sitting here trying to do the math on how 4% of your salary is covering MOST of your rent!

Awhile back there was a company called Greenspot that was trying to get a foothold in Jersey City. Their plan was to help you run a metered line from your house to the curb in front of your house and then split the profits with you from anyone who used it to charge a vehicle. Not the worst idea, but I'm also not in love with turning over more public space to private interests and cluttering up the sidewalks with whatever these things would look like.

Edit: these folks https://joingreenspot.com/ and they appear to be located downtown! Now I'm wondering if I've been unwittingly pulled into a marketing ploy...

I mean, I don't support Change for Children and think they are scuzzy, but I wish you had cited better reasons to oppose them than a misleadingly designed campaign mailer!

I have a neighbor who does this, and it seems fine. There are much worse tripping hazards on the block. It's a midsize apartment building, and she runs a cable out the window. I would consider it a real hassle, but she doesn't seem to worry too much about getting "her" spot. I think it's just opportunistic. If it's available, she'll plug in. I guess if there were 40 cars plugged in on the block, that would not be ideal, but it seems fine at this scale.

I guess this would make sense as an alignment of interests if LeFrak had thousands of 3-4 bedroom dwellings in the pipeline or on existing rent rolls. I don't think that's the case. I think their primary incentive is to keep taxes low and appeal to single and couple buyers and investors. For their primary buyers with kids (if any), subsidizing private schools is a much cheaper and more precision-guided strategy than actually trying to make the public school system better.