People would be fine if it was a fucking bicycle or a pedestrian bridge. Not a $20 toll road.

There’s a long tradition of “trolling” like this in activism! It’s another way to get attention and maybe/hopefully get people on your side.

You've got my signature, bud.

Lord knows why, the first one isn't full

If all you’re willing to do is from your keyboard, sure. And even, then it’s not useful.

They should use the land to build more housing. Jersey city needs housing. Not golf course that no one living there can afford.

This was actually in the works before he was mayor. But maybe he had something to do with it while he was on the city council.

This parcel was zoned for open green space back in 2010. It’s just taken a long time for Hudson County to work out plans to build the new courthouse and demolish the existing building to make way for the park.

There’s a detailed timeline of events here.

You've never read the economics behind how a land value tax can't be passed down?

The supply of land is fixed. You can't pass the burden of a tax onto consumers if the supply is fixed.

This has nothing to do with whether you can charge market rates for the housing. Of course you can charge market rates for the housing. The market rate ain't going to include the land portion of the property tax. As you yourself say they're gonna have to decrease the rent if they want to keep charging the profit maximizing rate with the land value tax. This is not true of the building portion of the tax. Supply is not fixed there.

My question was quite clearly rhetorical.

LFG. Signed and shared!!

They are for comparable units. A new “luxury” 1 bedroom with amenities in JC is going for $3500+, the same unit with amenities in NYC is $4500+

In fairness, there are bridges like this that operate on set schedules.

No thanks. Loved him as Jersey City mayor. But I won’t vote for him for Governor.

Now we just need a fruit and veg stand in this neighborhood and we’re good to go.

Tunnel. Although given how expensive anything like that is in the NYC metro area, it would require a $10 billion budget and still run over.

When was that? It always seemed packed when I went by

Nice

I'm actually surprised that all the highest ones aren't in nj

I've met people that moved from here to hells kitchen because it's cheaper, which is wild to me but I'm not as surprised as I thought I would be

lol didn’t see this one coming

It’s fighting back in the ways we can.

It’s trolling.

This is a pretty good point. So there are different levels of literacy I’ve noticed. Sometimes, I’ve seen it referred to as just broadly unable to read and/or write a simple, short sentence while I’ve also seen it specifically clarified as below a specific grade level. There are also more official levels that can be read about more and you can read more about what each level is defined at. I remember coming across a pdf a while ago that broke up what each state’s literacy rate by each level was. Alabama was still ranked very low.

I imagine to get a rough estimate, you could say that you should try to account for immigrants by checking the proportion of illiterate people per population of both state and then also state minus immigrant population to see both. However, it doesn’t truly give us a very good idea because inaccurate immigrant count might lead to inaccuracies in known population and because I don’t know if it’s fair to says majority of all immigrants can’t read or write a simple sentence in English. There are lots of citizens who are immigrants and a fair amount of the citizenship test involves being able to read and study beforehand for example.

Edited a word.

hardcore simping in here. yikes.

I’m well aware what eminent domain is but it can force the sale of the property at FMV.

It’s also not really the point of the petition. It’s more a statement about how ridiculous it is that a billionaire covets are park when he could use his own land to “help the children.”

*realistic solutions