overpriced and isolated. not a fan of gated communities. feel so weird to me.

White supremacist law enforcement in this country? Let me know when they catch the other tens of thousands of them.

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Doktor Dutchers in Hawthorne has done me well for a couple decades now.

Not a lot of options to negotiate rent downtown, unless they seriously overprice it and it sits and sits.

Because the housing market in the burbs is so screwed right now, renters that would normally leave and buy a house are just continuing to rent, for one thing, and in general besides that some first time homebuyers are still fearful of interest rates, even though they don't realize those rates of a couple years ago were really abnormal and not coming back . This past couple weeks anything decent downtown in the rental market priced fairly goes in a week or less, basically depends on how easy it is to show.

What a moron -

signed,

a very progressive Elizabeth Warren supporter.

are you becoming allergic to luxury air?

Those numbers are still drops in the bucket of what we need. And it would NOT be profitable to only charge higher rents, as that article states about most vacant spots, if there was enough supply where it would be a lot harder for landlords to hold out for higher rents. Now they can do it, and people like you make it possible. Renters and buyers would just have more supply to choose from if you let housing be built, and the prices would stabilize. That is the problem.

Tell me, why do you want to continue to fuck over the middle and lower classes by keeping housing prices so high.

Wall Street is buying up real estate like mad. And they'll gladly tell you why. Housing prices are artificially inflated because there are way too many obstacles to building new housing, so they can make bank due to lack of supply.

Do you work for unethical exploitative Wall Street corps? Because then this would make sense.

You are posting numbers with no context, because you want to ignore reality.

https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/16-million-homes-vacant-in-us

Small town America is dying, as you see from this list, the highest ratio of empty homes are in places where nobody wants to live or can't be productive enough to live. Housing in those places is pointless and not solving anything. This is basic data and knowledge. Empty houses in those places is a pointless statistic.

Sure there are empty units sitting in populated areas where the wealthy park their money, and that should be addressed, I am all for that too, but it is nowhere near the big part of the problem.

You haven't posted an iota of work. Want me to link one of the many supported articles that shows we are over 4 million housing units short where people need and want to live? I suspect you'll gloss over that and repeat your nonsense that completely ignores reality and common sense.

Perfectly said. It's an area where Democrats and Republicans are an agreement, by being nimby's. Republicans are all for small small government, but when it comes to strictly dictating What you can do on most of the land rather drastically, They are all of a sudden big government lovers.

Then you have liberals who are all about a more equitable society with wages and health care and housing but when it comes to the one solution that will actually help housing prices, building more were people actually need and want to live, they quickly change their minds about everybody's problems.

I mean you are really stupid at this point. There can't be a reduction of prices of an essential product that is so far behind in supply it's insane.

I'm surprised you can walk and chew gum at the same time.

As a progressive things like universal healthcare, higher wages, mandatory pay leave, reducing work hours, strict overtime pay, and other things, another huge goal of mine is to help solve the housing crisis we have that is destroying the middle and lower classes.

The only way to do that is to get towards an equilibrium of supply and demand. In the context of this issue it is so fucking basic that if people don't grasp this they are simply part of the problem.

Let me know if you ever understand the concept of supply and demand and please show me a point in recent history where we haven't been millions of units short of demand in housing. It doesn't matter if you're building housing if you're so far behind demand. It's not going to do much until you get closer and closer and we're not even remotely close.

If you can grasp those simple concepts please let me know and then we can discuss further.

THe people that downvoted you are morons.

As a progressive I fight for higher wages, universal healthcare, affordable daycare and mandatory paid vacations and sick days for all. I also realize that we need to build a ton of housing, and as you say, not just anywhere, but where people need and want to live. That is the only way we can solve our housing price crisis.

Incorrect. You have to build enough units to equalize supply and demand.

This isn't rocket science. But it is to dictators that want to rule land like fiefdoms and keep oppressing the middle and lower classes with these insane housing prices due to a huge supply gap.

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Indeed, and I agreed, but just in case the OP is new to Banh-Mi, to keep exploring if they want overall greatness, just not the best in JC.

It's good, but not great. But definitely the best in JC

Paterson for lots of Arabic/Middle Eastern food. The Fort Lee area-ish for lots of Korean and Japanese.

I asked a bus driver dropping me off on Congress and Hancock from the city and he said 2 zones

Actually the primary reason for egg prices going as high as they have and continuing even when inflation is going down is because of the bird flu.

We have lost tens of millions of egg laying hens in the last year.

The most safe way to get up to the Heights from downtown is to go through Hoboken on their quiet streets to the 9th st light rail stop in Hoboken, take the elevator up to the Heights, ride up one block to Palisade, and go explore. It's the best way for safety, and less hills too.

Best Sabich I've had is Taim in the city. You can take the path to Christopher and walk to their West Village location from there.

Thanks for responding. I had figured there had to be a few people out with this experience in the area, whether for themselves or someone they know, so I appreciate the info.

There is a Porta in Montclair where she lives and we ate there, they were very accommodating and knew her. So she goes often.

Her allergies are the usual - nuts, seafood, soy but also nightshades like tomatoes and eggplant (Porta subs ricotta for the tomatoes on the Margherita pizza and it works). I found out today sunflower seeds and chick peas and coconut are a no go zone as well. Are you in a similar situation?

Thanks, really been wanting to go there too

Definitely going to do this. Just figured on asking for anybody with experience already.