I’m afraid every day as a pedestrian in this city. The drivers are incredibly selfish and entitled and seem to take red lights and stop signs as suggestions to be ignored. Zero traffic or parking enforcement. Honestly this is a great city but if we ever leave, it’ll be 100% because of this issue.

Yes everyone except you is a terrible driver, I’m sure.

I have no idea why you wouldn’t just hire a realtor instead of going through this much effort to even type out this post, much less maintain a 50 row spreadsheet of buildings. At $5-6k a month surely you can afford one.

Absolutely all of this. Very well said.

Honestly, I feel like I could have written your exact comment back in like 2015, but my opinion has completely evolved on this issue. Build more housing. All types of housing. Build it now, build it everywhere, including in this woman's district. She is directly standing in the way of over 900 affordable apartments because of semantics. When my in-laws in the Bronx are applying for housing lotteries and there are decade long waitlists for senior housing in NYC, this woman says "nah I don't want 900 affordable apartments. Not good enough for me. Zero is better."

She should be voted out for this, and she only won by I believe a few hundred votes to begin with.

I’m rooting for housing to be built in the 5 boroughs, period. The government isn’t building it, so we’re gonna have to rely on developers until that changes. Why would a developer agree to build something that is not profitable? You can argue all day that this isn’t how things should work, and I’d agree, but this is literally how things do work right now. Her total refusal to compromise with these developers is why there’s a truck depot now, instead of 900+ affordable homes.

And now nobody gets any apartments, and instead everyone gets more truck pollution. Fantastic logic.

Because she vetoed any offer that wasn’t 100% affordable by her own metrics. Her logic seems to be that having zero affordable apartments is better than 900+. And now she gets a truck depot instead.

In NYC the councilmember for their district has an unusually high amount of sway over local projects like this. It’s the main reason why there’s so much NIMBY bullshit happening in NYC over the past decade+

Atlantic City is the most depressing place I’ve ever been. The desolate parts and the casinos.

I love CLEAR. I've never waited more than 5ish minutes to get through security when using it at local airports (most recently at EWR in October).

I see this every single day -- seriously, every day -- at the crosswalk on Sip leading into the back entrance of JSQ PATH, near the bus area. Every SINGLE day a car is parked in that crosswalk. I've never seen a more entitled group of people in my life than drivers in Jersey City.

Hoboken tends to be a little more like, affluent, 30’s-ish couples/families with strollers at brunch vibes with some early 20’s fratty bro-ish stuff mixed in. JC is definitely more diverse overall.

It’s changed a lot over even the 3 years that I’ve lived here

I’m a woman who has lived near this exact area (between 55 Jordan and the PATH) for a few years now, it’s overall very quiet and there’s really not much to worry about beyond occasional typical city nighttime shadiness, and that’s really not until very late at night. The area is rapidly coming up and there are a few pretty nice restaurants that have opened up there now (Cafe Alyce, ITA, some others). It won’t phase you if you’re moving from Brooklyn or Philly, it might feel a little edgier if you’re moving from a suburb. But overall, I feel very safe here 95% of the time. It’s a very residential area outside/around Bergen & Montgomery. Hope you find this helpful!

Hahaha glad to hear it! JSQ is for everyone, even folks from cornfields.

That would be true of nearly any place in northeast NJ that is anywhere near NYC though. Agreed about JSQ, I’ve lived here since 2020 and it’s been great. Far and away much safer and less seedy feeling than it was circa mid-2000’s the last time I was around this area, and it’s only getting better from here.

That’s wildly high, I’ve never spent that much in my 1BR even in the dead of august when the AC is on every day and night.

This is awful advice.

Secaucus is best for older, retired people or young families, it’s extremely suburban and residential. Nothing going on for anyone single and/or under 60. Night and day compared to Jersey City, not to mention it’s not cheap and you’re 100% car reliant living there

Your realtor is nuts, JSQ is absolutely fine unless you’re moving from a cornfield and have never been in any city for more than ten minutes. And honestly she’s suggesting Downtown JC and Rutherford for the same client? Fire the realtor, that’d be my first step.

Hate to say it but all of the produce I’ve ever bought in JC at those little outdoor stands (not farmer’s markets, the small partially outdoor markets that are common in the McGinley Sq area) is either already bad on the shelf or goes bad within 2 days of buying it or the taste is awful. It’s not saving money if you have to re-purchase the same stuff twice in the same week because the quality is so bad. Same goes for Central Square in JSQ. After 2+ years of crappy wilted lettuce and soft onions, I gave up entirely on buying produce in this area outside of the farmer’s market.

There is “affordable” and there is “high quality” in the vicinity of JC but you have to choose one, both don’t exist.

Yup.

Fresh Direct or Whole Foods in Weehawken