New York's loss is Jersey City's gain

Moo hoo ha ha ha, Jersey City will be gaining 300 jobs and will now be leasing 100,00 square feet of office space as the Arch Insurance Group Inc., moves most of it's corporate HQ operations to the good side of the Hudson River in March. Arch will be moving into the Harborside Financial Center. Mark D. Lyons the big cheese (no, really it's his title) said the choice was easy considering the lower lease rates (In Jersey City things lease for $30 a square foot while in Manhattan it's $60 per square foot, you do the math) and an attractive package of incentives. In Jersey we call those tax breaks. No doubt they also wanted to be closer to the blogging capital of New Jersey, it's why the Yankees flirted with building here.

Jersey City welcomes Arch and reminds those who might have a little issue with giving up the Big Appletini for Jersey City, you can't beat the view ya know? Al those years you looked at JC, now you can lovingly look back at a pretty nice skyline.

As promised, here's your Monday Moanin' open thread

Talk Giants, talk weather, talk news, talk anything you wanna....Johnny's gotta say up front as a Cleveland Browns fan, next Sunday's Baltimore vs Pittsburgh AFC title game makes him wanna cheer for the overhead blimp to catch fire and crash onto the field.

Petty? Nah

Late night open thread

Johnny's gonna be very very busy tomorrow with, uh, JCD editorial meetings and, um, important stuff like that there so feel free to talk anything you wanna when we toss up another slapdash open thread....

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Sunday open thread

Johnny and the crew have some other business to tend to today, we'll leave you with the question of the day--

Giants fans, are you worried?

Late night open thread

The legacy of one George W. Bush, as told by David Letterman in a Top Ten list...


Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Stevens Institute of Technology student admits to starting dorm fires which raises one question...

The Stevens Institute of Technology has dorms?

19 year old Zachary Siebel admitted his deeds and said he was ashamed, well he didn't he had his lawyer admit it (nothing like manning up there Zachary--nothing like letting your lawyer admit how sorry YOU are), of setting fires in a dorm at dear old SIT and actually threatening to blow the place up.

Siebel got three years of probation. No word from his attorney if he was sad.

This is a public service announcement....

We're gonna get about 4-6 inches of snow in the next 24 hours. Clean your sidewalks. Be a good neighbor, handle your responsibilities and shovel and or salt your walks. It's that simple...

We're gonna start listing properties that don't and publicly shame them.

Late night open thread

Snowball throwing contest at Giants Stadium Sunday all afternoon. Contestants will be judged on speed, accuracy and distance. No, we meant inside Giants Stadium, not in the parking lots.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE SUPREMES!

And Supreme they were. Did you know The Supremes had 12 #1 hits? They had 5 #1 hits in a row at one point. They had a #2 and several other top twenty hits. They went head to head with The Beatles and Rolling Stones at the height of the British Invasion and knocked the Brit lads from the top of the charts several times. And, as strange as it sounds, they NEVER won a Grammy. Not ever.

As Motown celebrates it's 50th anniversary Monday with a worldwide celebration, The Jersey City Desk wants to help celebrate a great great American sound. We're gonna kick things off with The Supremes and the timeless classic 'Baby Love' from 1964.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES!

Twenty six top ten hits. They charted hits in doo-wop, soul, R&B, and disco. When Smokey Robinson topped the charts with 'Shop Around' in 1960, Motown had arrived and the series of hits following 'Shop Around' paved the way for the rest of the Detroit sound.

William "Smokey" Robinson actually handled most of the song writing duties early on in Motown's history. Smokey wrote chart toppers for The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, The Marvelettes, and Mary Wells. Before the Holland-Dozier-Holland brilliance, there was Smokey.

Here are Smokey Robinson and the Miracles with the song that broke Motown to the world, 'Shop Around'