April marks two years since I moved there. No issues at all. Maybe I’m just lucky but I don’t hear my neighbors at all which is great. You don’t have to worry about parking or street sweeping. The HOA fees cover snow removal which is nice. Love using their pool in the summer which is usually empty. You definitely need a car to make life easier. Apparently they’re opening up Target in the complex that has Acme. It usually takes me 15-20 minute drive to get downtown whenever I meet friends and an Uber usually costs me anywhere from $15-20 for those nights I plan on boozing it up.

Where are you quoting that from? I don’t see it in the article linked.

Edit: for clarification, i tried searching for details on the lawsuit, but can’t easily find it. Another article (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna77415) says it was “faulty” window guards.

Yup. Especially something like this- I wouldn't know how to install this either (I'm a homeowner and hire people for anything safety related because of this). God forbid you install it yourself, incorrectly, and then something happens. So you deal with the guilt and you're culpable.

I'm so sad for the mom reading these takes. Like "how could you not do something you're not comfortable doing in a place you don't own!" Where's the empathy, damn.

Horrible! Praying for him!

That was a proposal from the towns vision zero consultant, but not adopted

My 4th floor apartment gets HOT when it's cold out. I almost always have at least one window open. (And I run cold, so for a normal person they'd probably need more.) Older buildings were actually designed this way to increase air circulation in the winter months.

Maybe it was cracked and the kid opened it the rest of the way.

I think it's a little....cruel to blame the victims in this. The mom reported it to the landlord, you're not supposed to have to do this work yourself in a rental.

Jeez, what's next, an elevator toll? I get the manager's impulse to shift costs off the rent so your advertised rent is lower, but there's gotta be limits, otherwise this is going to be a race to the bottom where every 'whole building' expense is a separate bill and 'rent' is just the start of your monthly housing expenses. The only time I've broken out expenses is with included heat and free laundry. It became clear apartment hunters were unable to do the math comparing that to units without.

That said, I've had the quarterly water bill in a 3 family top $700, so boy is it tempting to bill separately!

Times change.

They are currently on line for the cops behind Taqueria car accident

This was 3 weeks ago. And why not just crack the window, or open the top not the bottom. If you're concerned about your kid's life that is....

> The other time my Lyft driver was watching videos while driving on his phone

You should report this to the police, or, at a minimum, to Lyft. Preferably the police.

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Once again crying about it on Reddit does nothing. Stop voting for mayors that don’t care if the PD does anything in a given day. When the mayor and the PD announce the success of Vision Zero bombard their Twitter with #bullshit. Make sure you council people know that vision zero is bullshit propaganda and we are just getting better at getting out of the way of assholes.

They’re still waiting for the cops to arrive.

Some people are also just totally unaware of how to do this stuff. I grew up helping do home repairs and even constructed my own tool box when i was a little kid. On the other hand my wife grew up in buildings with on site maintenance guys, before I moved in with her the only tools she had came in that orange Ikea toolkit.

Waiting for a professional to install something critical that you don't think you have the tools or knowledge to install isn't too crazy.

That’s what we should begin calling a jersey city welcome.

Sounds fishy. Didn’t he just win a 80m settlement

Definitely not. The only thing I pay in my JSQ building is rent to the landlord and electricity to PSE&G.

I appreciate dark humor, but there’s nothing funny about a child falling 5 stories from a window

From Shoprite. You steal them. Would prefer you don't, since it's nice that they finally brought them back after all this time.

It was Amy again?

I just upvoted you in a barrage of downvotes. Felt like walking thru a hurricane.

Some people just dont appreciate dark humor

the people that will take him up on the offer are probably people that would not have spent the money on it anyway. Grab a few people with some simple store / restaurant pages or something simple .

Cast a net and pick and choose what he does for free. I doubt he is doing corporate level BI/ AI that people pay the real money for and more of a here a few business pages i did and helping the local community.

There was a time in my life where 3/4 of the business in my area had free pages done by me just to help the community . Restaurants that wouldnt have them otherwise or half ass self builder in frames sites that look 20 years outdated otherwise.

Leave the man be

Yes. When your options are waiting for a lazy landlord and allowing your child to be in potentially mortal danger. Or spending $10 and doing 10 minutes of work yourself and taking it out of the rent payment. The decision should be clear. To most people anyway