Hobbs, you truly feel this is the most competent administration you have ever seen? You have lived a sheltered life at best.

Today's nit pick - 1600 Park was not "cleaned up", it was "remediated". The toxins remain under a layer of dirt that is a few feet thick in some areas... and 0 inches thick in other parts due to erosion. That's what $484,000 bought.

The toxins are under a membrane. The membrane is under the dirt used to cap it. The $484K paid for a hell of a lot more than just dumping some dirt on that site and spreading some grass seed to control erosion. I am guessing you didn't drive by much while they were working on it?

Bad guess - i saw the work being done. i am guessing you have not WALKED by recently and seen just how much of the fill is now missing. Regardless, the point is that the toxins were not removed, just capped.

I drive by it almost every single day and I see exactly how much of the fill is gone. And I also know that the membrane is what keeps the toxins under wraps and not the fill. I also know that they spent something like 2 weeks screwing around w/ that membrane and almost no time at all spreading topsoil and grass seed. Your point is you were nitpicking for no reason about a temporary cap that was always designed to be temporary.

Actually, you should go to the DEP website. You'll see that the membrane does not surfice as a cap. the soil above is just as important and the amount of soil needed is dictated by the severity of the toxins. Therefore, if the soil is not contained, the likely hood that toxins will rise above the cap is a significant concern.

red, you think the cap is temporary? why? the prior patch story mentions they are just waiting for NJDEP approval before further construction... nothing at all about further remediation efforts. i'd say the cap is there for good.

I worry that the remediation was done sloppy, judging by the lack of basic erosion control... and also the membrane doesn't extend to the street, as if that last 10 feet of soil is miraculously clean. hence my comment that it wasn't a "clean up" because the problem wasn't solved, only indefinitely deferred. these things matter to me.

What matters to you? What is the point of your posts here?

The cap is temporary b/c the permanent cap was always intended to be the field and park that will be built on that site. I suppose the fact they are building a retaining wall, filling in the area w/ more dirt and it will be a permanent fixture in this town slipped your mind, right? Go find something else to nitpick about. I suggest you start complaining about clouds or something equally trivial.

Interesting perspective Ken on 10, what is your view point of the construction/contractors who built the collapsed road?

you assume the additional construction will serve as part of the remediation, which seems unlikely since the DEP must inspect BEFORE that. But, perhaps I should move on to cloud nitpicking... a vastly more worthwhile endeavor than your endless, mind-numbing nattering about masonite / russocrat / zimmertini plots.

Jeez you are dense. The remediation is the membrane that permanently seals away the contaminated soil from the surface. Anything put on top of that membrane (like a park or field) as a permanent fixture is naturally going to be part of making sure that contaminated soil keeps the metals and coal dust contaminating that site from escaping. Now you are complaining to just complain.

You just can't admit that you are dead wrong and that erosion you were moaning about was not what we spent $480K on in your initial post. Sucks to be wrong but seriously dude, man up already and admit you were wrong. You are looking sillier w/ each post.

Is the site "cleaned up"? No, it is not. Is it a potential hazard? I don't know but there is bad erosion and the membrane doesn't cover all the soil. Maybe that is good enough for you, but for $480k I'd prefer more thorough work.

No matter, you wouldn't know right from wrong any better than you know the meaning of the word the "temporary" (which you use to mean "unfinished").

One hallmark of not-very-smart people is that they tend to call other people dumb, dense or stupid... a regular theme in your posts.

Ken, that is because you are dumb. You started off complaining about how much we spent on remediation and erosion that you thought exposed contaminated soil not realizing the contaminated soil was sealed under a membrane that to this day still remains buried. You ignore the fact that the dirt and grass on that site was always meant as a temporary measure to cover that membrane (don't give me semantics about "unfinished BS") until we could get a park built. And as usual, you are wrong and refuse to admit it. Don't worry, I am used to you useless complaining about a whole lot of nothing b/c the one thing that never changes is you nitpick whenever you post.

But I'll tell you what. Since you seem to think the city overpaid how about you put your damn money where your mouth is and bid on remediation project somewhere in town and do it for less than the contractors that do that work professionally. Personally I think you not only will screw up the job but you will go bankrupt in the process.

sure red, anyone who disagrees with you is dumb. anyone whose opinion you don't understand is dumb. Einstein said that a lot, too.

I understand your opinion plenty. You hate Zimmer, you hate the proposed park b/c it won't have the trees and grass you want to complain about it. So you nitpick about a whole lot of nothing.

I think the city is waiting for permits from the state and feds. Can't do anything til then w/ respect to repairing Sinatra Park.

You didn't care about potholes or crumbling waterfronts when the city neglected its infrastructure and made dumb moves related to the waterfront when Russo and Roberts were in charge. But now that an outsider is in charge, you expect her to fix decades of neglect in 2 years and with no money? Please, spare us your feigned outrage. Tell Mason she needs some smarter less obvious trolls.

Fact is your facts are erroneous. We have fewer cops on the payroll but more on the streets b/c they aren't eating donuts at HQ. The mayor has upped how much we spend on paving to start the long process of correcting the negligence of previous administrations. That is how you fix roads, not w/ patches that are rougher than the pothole they replaced. Taxes are still too high but that is b/c we pay people too much and she can't force the unions to take the sorts of pay cuts I'd like to see happen. Sinatra can't be repaired til we get permits (DUHHHH). The rest of the parks are fine, how about you toss your trash in a trash can instead of on the ground and nobody cares about street sweeping. Street sweeping is just done to harass car owners into moving their cars and give the city an excuse to write tickets. The city did no better or worse w/ snow than anyone else in the area (clearly you've never lived in a town that sees blizzards every year). As for parking, the new muni meters added more spots, Sacs is increasing utilization of the garage so again you are full of crapola. But here is a solution they aren't pursing that I'd like to see them pursue, parking permits should be increased in price to $500 or more per car. That would do wonders for parking. The only thing you are right about is crime is up which is why the FBI is here looking at the people you support.....LOL

Now please wipe that drool off your chin you brain dead troll.

Recall that during the the winter not even emergency routes were cleared. That was a pretty big oversight on the part of the management of the city in my opinion. I'm not surprised at the idea about $500 parking permit---seems consistent with also asking parents of children to pay for them playing (even when we had millions of dollars in surplus). I find the Zimmer supporter's to be sounding more and more like tea-baggers with each passing day.

Counter-intuitive to say the least. Over the fourth of July weekend I saw several "corner cars" taking up spaces formerly used by residents. Some parking improvement. Genius. Winning. Sinatra Park being cleaned up? Sure looks like a lot of work is being done on a daily basis. How much does Stan pay you to come up with this stuff? What will the FBI find on the City Hall computers about your relationship with the mayor's cartel? C'mon Roman, own up.

Keating Five once again doesn't have a single fact straight.

I am not talking about Mason who needs to learn to work smarter than she has been doing. I am talking about you. Your blog has consistently been nothing more than a propaganda factory, distorting facts, attacking anyone perceived as a threat to Zimmer's total dominance of every political aspect of Hoboken. You are either the most blindly loyal person imanginable or you are paid. Either way, you are frequently wrong and instead of moving on all you do is attack people based on perceived "alliances". As I said before, paranoid.

Newark? I have lived in Hoboken long enough to have voted for Tommy Vezzetti for mayor. How about you?

He's just having a hissy fit because his is group couldn't make it a month without the cuffs and now once again the feds are sniffing around.

With all her cash and advisors, the best Mason could come up with is a rumor that Zimmer is using city hall to campaign for her race 2 years from now?

Has to be frustrating.

Your sticking with that whole sniffing around city hall thing, huh?
Has to be frustrating.

In April at the City Council meeting he said the Federal Attorney's Office, the Attorney General and the Governor were "protecting/cozy with Zimmer."

That followed with the Hoboken411 screed the FBI were after Zimmer.

Then the attacks on the mayor's aides for emails and local Reform writers in retaliation for her citing Mike Russo's corruption. (Great idea that one. How's that working out?)

The the "rumors" on the Albany firm brought in to work on the system and the resulting deeds that came to light are not the issue but claimed "deletions."

Now it's "sniffing around" City Hall.

See where it's going. One step away from....
silence.

Potholes that swallow a volkswagon? That's mighty large. She had better get on that, especially if she's riding around on a bike.

You are a hack. Gifted at weaving 7-8 lies in in a sentence but a hack just the same. Again, prove your false accusations in your own name. I triple dare you. That's right I'm calling you out. Lame!

You are a pathological liar, a paid minion and you are going down.
Did you know she already threw you under the bus?

Recess is over and justice is just about served.

If it is Lame, completely agree. And based on the posts I've read by this particular author this week, not sure I'd care to bother spending time to try and figure it out. Lame isn't worth the effort and neither is Keating. Next topic!

@Redrider765

The latest slip showing is elevating Hoboken411 to "biased journalism."
As if.

To your point, agreed.

A journalist follows newsworthy items. 411 stopped doing that about 3 years ago in favor of either mudslinging or ignoring the news completely. Personally I didn't mind his bias b/c it was easy to see through it especially when he wasn't censoring everyone. But when you combine his bias w/ censorship then add in ignoring the real world, well it went from being a biased news site to complete trash that even Rupert Murdoch would be ashamed of.

Was better? Come on folks. Am I the only one remembering the disaster that occurred in the 1990s when the city was closed for three effing days to all incoming traffic because the snow couldnt get removed? Anyone else remember the snow dumping in the river that cost the city a bunch of money in fines? Please - last year was an historic snow event. Get over it. While it may have been incrementally better, it was not the complete "disaster" that is now being claimed. People in Chicago, Syracuse or Boston laugh at the whining about snow that goes on here. Criticize, but dont try and re write history to prove a rather dubious point to begin

Was better? Come on folks. Am I the only one remembering the disaster that occurred in the 1990s when the city was closed for three effing days to all incoming traffic because the snow couldnt get removed? Anyone else remember the snow dumping in the river that cost the city a bunch of money in fines? Please - last year was an historic snow event. Get over it. While it may have been incrementally better, it was not the complete "disaster" that is now being claimed. People in Chicago, Syracuse or Boston laugh at the whining about snow that goes on here. Criticize, but dont try and re write history to prove a rather dubious point to begin

No, it was not better. These people are confusing 6 inch snow falls w/ the 3rd or 4th largest storm ever to visit area and the snowiest 30 day period ever. None of these complainers ever bother to mention that some streets in this region didn't see a plow for a week, that the Turnpike & almost every major highway was shut down overnight and that almost every town & city asked everyone to stay off the roads til Tuesday b/c the roads were impassable everywhere. They even pretend that snow falling at a couple inches an hour or blowing around in 70mph winds is something you can clean up immediately even though in reality that is next to impossible. And all of them forget this happened the day after Christmas when thousands of residents were out of town and hundreds of unattended cars were left by their owners on city streets over the holidays. I agree, the whining about snow here is laughable. The only thing that is a bigger joke is how bad people here are at driving in the snow.

I don't disagree with her frank self assessment. She should have started towing early on Christmas Day instead of waiting til the next day to tow cars. Unlike the people you support, she acknowledges when she makes a mistake and takes corrective action. Next time, she won't be nice and give people a break b/c it is Christmas. Of course, then you will complain about that b/c that is all you ever do. That being said, the streets in town were in no worse shape than anywhere else and we cleared a hell of a lot sooner than most places. My street was plowed at 7 AM on Monday. The city did fine considering the unique nature of this storm.

BTW - great job in just picking one passage of a lengthy commentary on the snow storm. Great of you to ignore the idiots who abandoned their cars in the middle of the road or the fact that our towing contractor couldn't handle towing the cars in the snow or that a storm that was expected to drop several inches morphed into a blizzard that dumped over 2 feet w/ 70 mph winds. You honestly think if the roads are so bad people are abandoning cars in the middle of the road, that a plow can plow it or a tow truck tow any cars out of that mess? Nobody is dumb enough to fall for your ignorant trolling. Give Mason her money back. Your poor rhetoric and off topic commentary merit a refund!

From their own mouth and words men will be judged (Mt. 12:37; Lk. 19:22 cp. 2 Sam. 1:16; 1 Kings 20:40)

Gee, I lived here in the 90's and things were much better. I checked today and there were NO fines issued to the city for dumping snow into the river. Do you just make this stuff up? I also checked at the library and the city was only closed for a few hours before Weehawken complained and the roads were re-opened.
Perhaps you should take a walk to the library and check your facts instead of sitting on your ass making up stuff.

Funny - you didn't care when Russo was caught on tape saying he'd take a bribe. Hypocrite. Of course, I am used to that from you.

OOC - I don't know about fines but a month after the storm the DEP issued a memo discussing snow removal policies. Read it. It is very clear it is illegal to dump snow w/o DEP approval.

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dwq/pdf/snow_removal.pdf

Hopefully this ends the silly commentary from people claiming we could just dump it all in the river.

MUCH easier to make up facts than discuss the truth...

That might explain why you make so much up then.

Don't worry, I suspect the FBI will force a few people to admit their mistakes.

Again RedRider, you only report the things you feel like reporting. During the 90's the snow was piled along what is now Vezzetti way and NOT dumped in the river. The following year, the Governor signed an emergency declaration allowing waterfront communities to dump snow in the river. NYC does it all the time and the Governor recognized the need. She reacted to requests from the mayors.
Considering how far Zimmer has her head up Christie's butt, she should have asked for a waiver. But you leave out the fact that she didn't come back to town until Wednesday.
The info can be found in the library, but not online. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to get away from the keyboard to get the facts,

NYC does not do it all the time. They use melting equipment and dump it in the sewers. Talk about making stuff up.

RedRider, you were talking about dumping snow in the river in the 90's. NYC did not use snow melting trucks back then, they dumped the snow in the river, you moron.

THE RUSSO CIVIC ASSOCIATION CLOSED !

I was thinking it is not unknown for some to try to transfer wealth in advance of possible litigation so the can avoid paying court ordered fines. :-)

Why do you think i am Lane? I have lived here longer and do not write as well as he does. You guys love to "out" people while you hide behind facades. Give it up. Only 43% of the city supports your beloved leader, even after over two years of her term - never have we had a more divisive mayor. Do you really feel that everyone who disagrees with her or her policies is part of some major plot? How paranoid are you guys? Once the opposition unites, your done. Until then, keep consolidating power and villifying your opponents. It will only cost Dawn, her council people and Kids First votes.

Your sounding very lame if not Lane. :-)