Calling all photographers and lovers of old warehouses

No Parking signs next to the old warehouse at Warren and Bay St. warning of 'concrete removal' beginning Monday and lasting til the end of the year have been posted. Johnny has a pretty good idea Toll Brothers is going to tear that warehouse down as part of their downtown clusterfuck where they create parking issues and tons of litter (not to mention their workers urinating in public) for local residents to deal with.

So if you're a photographer who loves old buildings you have 36 hours to shoot that particular warehouse.

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Say Jersey City, why not stay home and shop here and eat here tomorrow. There will be tourist shoppers acting like cholesterol on the sidewalks of life uptown, righteous protestors by the tens of thousands starting in Union Square and the spectre of SantaCon popping up wherever drunken brawls pop up, usually near a subway stop.

Let's face it, getting around tomorrow in NYC is going to look a lot like...like...like THIS!


So shop here, eat here. You'll avoid a mess and you'll probably realize Jersey City had what you wanted to buy and eat all along.

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Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE PAT TRAVERS BAND!

A blackout theme here tonight Jersey City with the events of tonight. What better way to kick it off than with the Pat Travers Band and their classic 'Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)' from way back in the happening 70's.

So Johnny knows you're listening when the 'Out Go the Lights!" part comes on open your window and sing it LOUD. Thanks in advance.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE BLASTERS!

Let's keep this blackout theme going before the power goes out again. The Blasters with 'Dark Night'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with JOURNEY!

A slow song about the lights going out (And a ci-teh) to wrap up this blackout version of the Music Series. This song fits so well into the theme tonight and also walks that very fine line of how much Johnny can stand Steve Perry yowling.. Journey with 'Lights'. Side A is for dancin', side B is for ramancin'

A sad story today but one we can do something about

OK, we're not talking about Jersey City here but Wantage in Sussex County. There a fire ripped through a barn owned by Assemblyman Parker Space. The worst part of all this (the barn can be repaired, thankfully) is that the Assemblyman had stored 150 turkeys for those less fortunate in the barn and those turkeys were destroyed which really sets back the effort to feed people in Sussex County.

When he read this Johnny called the Assemblyman Space's office to see if there was something we as a city of good people could do to help. Space's Chief of Staff said they don't have a fund set up or a place to make donations but that she's get back with Johnny and Johnny in turn will pass that info on to you. If you'd like to contact Sussex County Social Services directly you can find them at:

Department of Human Services
Stephen Gruchacz, Administrator
One Spring Street, Newton, N.J. 07860
Office Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Phone: 973-579-0559 Fax: 973-579-9894
humanservices@sussex.nj.us

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The word 'typewriter' is the longest word in the English language that can be spelled with just the top row of the keyboard.

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Jersey City student Tiffany Fahmy has won the PATH Holiday Poster Contest!

We are very proud of Tiffany Fahmy this morning as the Jersey City eighth-grader at School 11 won the PATH Holiday Poster contest and her design will adorn the PATH Trains all holiday season.

We'd never be one to spoil Tiffany's thunder so if you'd like to see her international and very worldly design you'll have to follow this handy link.

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The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
 -- Henny Youngman

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And as if this day couldn't get any happier, funner or more superer Johnny's alma mater, the mighty HURONS Of Eastern Michigan went into Ann Arbor a mere three nights after NJIT beat Michigan at Crisler Arena and won 45-42 playing a ferocious zone defense. NJIT and the small team a stone's throw down Washtenaw Avenue have beaten the defending B1G champs from a year ago...this week.

What must that feel like for a Michigan fan you ask?

Snork. Big ups to the EMU team and coaching staff. Party at Sidetrack and Frenchie's tonight! This calls for the fight song!

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