Ridgewood NJ, Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of Ridgewood , the VILLAGE OF RIDGEWOOD invites you to the GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY of the new RIDGEWOOD PARKING GARAGE on Saturday, September 7th, 2019 at 9:00am .
Please come with your cameras to the Hudson Street Parking lot (corners of S. Broad and Prospect on Hudson St.) (across from Mt Carmel Church) Following the ceremony, you are invited for coffee at The Table at Latona’s – 26 E. Ridgewood Avenue (next to Haagen Daz) .
“Just imagine spending $30.99 per person at Mike’s ice cream? There are very few restaurants on the list that would be able to say that $30.99 without tax and tip would be a bargain. Add in several dollars for parking and no one will come. It was fair years ago when it was $20.00 and up and real dining places were included. Now it is a real joke! The old quote “Build a better mousetrap and they will come” fits here. The thought frequently expressed recently by The Chamber of Commerce–that Apple, Trader Joe’s etc. may happily come to Ridgewood now that we have a costly parking garage for their customers is really a pipe dream. Number one, where would they build “near the garage” and two, what incentive is a garage, or a street, with high parking costs for anyone’s potential customers? Someone, not naming name, has a serious problem if he thinks the garage is “The perfect solution to all of Ridgewood’s parking problems.” I think that instead of a “solution” the high costs of parking will actually drive customers and businesses away. Now we still have new stores leaving in a year or less and that trend will only be intensified by the higher cost in parking when all the near by towns have all we have to offer at no addition costs like parking!”
Sun, August 11, 2019 – Thu, August 22, 2019
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce presents
Summertime Restaurant Week 2019 @ $30.19
Sunday-Thursday, August 11-15
Sunday-Thursday, August 18-22
FREE PARKING ALL DAY SUNDAY
Come to Ridgewood and treat yourself to a selection of Pre-fix dinners for $30.19 (tax/tip/beverage not included)
are included below:
Any questions please reach out to the chamber at 201-445-2600.
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Annual Farmer’s Market Celebrating 18 years with Farm to table/fresh/delicious produce.
Ridgewood’s Farmers’ Market Every Sunday from 9am-3pm
westside of NJ Transit train station…
Enjoy our farmers vegetables and fruit until Halloween.
Stroll and get some fresh Mozzarella.
Homemade Jams-with flavors you cannot get any other place.
Fresh baked goods, preservative free.
Pickles on a stick for the kids and more.
Beautiful flowers for your yard.
FARM – and more – TO your TABLE…
for more details – [email protected]
201-445-2600
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewod’s own Christina & Willie Geist Saturday, August 3rd at 2:00pm , Author, businesswomen and wife of Sunday TODAY host Willie Geist, Christina Geist, willl sign her new book:
Sorry Grown-Ups, You Can’t Go to School!
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce warns of Chamber related phishing scam.
CHAMBER ALERT, CHAMBER ALERT PHISHING SCAM
Please disregard the email sent today that says:URGENT
from: [email protected]saying:I need your assistance.Can you help me purchase giftcards and get reimbursed later today.
Regards, Joan Groome
DISREGARD THIS EMAIL…PHISHING SCAM.Please call or email office…201-445-2600[email protected]
“Don’t forget Rurik, Jim and company (BOE) who got up night after night and assured us all that we were wrong – – we were volantis – – we were naysayers – – and that he and his wife and other seniors like him would move into these slums and life would be beautiful for us all.
And don’t forget the developers in town who are building these monstrosities and laughing all the way to bank over the ineptitude of the Village.
And don’t forget, while the betrayal started with Arohnson and the Puke, the betrayal continued with the current council when it sold out the Villagers who had used their own resoucres to file a lawsuit and stop these monstrosities, after having run on a platform of saying they would contain these slums from being built.”
“Not so many years ago Ridgewood water was so good that pediatricians said it could be used for babies formula without being boiled. Now it is literally toxic and there are many times that our water filter cannot overcome the purely nasty taste and smell. Recently it was announced that our water rates will once again go up as Ridgewood isn’t selling enough water to meet their cost. Since most of it is being supplied by Suez they have to pay them first. Remember, the neighboring towns who receive Ridgewood water sued them because part of their bill payment was used to subsidize other Ridgewood departments. Ridgewood’s response was to hire someone who “proved” that the rate the other towns were paying was the right rate and thus the suit should be null and void. The other towns did not give up and Ridgewood will be eventually forced to pay reimbursement of the overage in charges. Unfortunately, our “wonderful Council” says the water company is self supporting and that it doesn’t cost anything in Ridgewood taxes. That is why they used “water company money” to buy the Elks. (Presumably all the water company’s cars and trucks will take the Library and Village hall parking spots on Maple as “adequate parking is not available at the Elks.”) Anyone want to bet that that building will not become the Library’s auditorium? Honesty and truth telling cannot be found in the Council, the BOE, or from any other official in Ridgewood. We are left to wonder WHY they prefer to hide their true actions?”
“All these problems that the Village has been denying would occur are almost here. The fact that the official people in Ridgewood would constantly parrot the builders quotes when it was obvious to even a child that all these additions would include a massive influx in needs for all our services. As someone stated “What did they get out of it for lying so freely?” Paul got his first state political appointment which he hopes will lead to bigger and better things. Our present Mayor changed to becoming a real estate agent and all these new developments will benefit him. What was gained by the others happily rushing into this? Will they all be gone when reality sets in? They all HAD to know what would be the reality of all this development. What did they gain by their massive pretend ignorance?”
“When I moved to Ridgewood 25 years ago, water restrictions were imposed rarely, for relatively brief periods due to drought conditions. In recent times, these restrictions are more-or-less a permanent feature. Now we can justify this, as the first commenter has done, by championing conservation and how unnecessary grass is. However, the reality is that potential home buyers want their green lawns and towns that are competing for this real estate market do not have similar restrictions. This may be a minor point in the real estate decision making, but when people start doing their Google research, the Ridgewood negatives (e.g. school rankings, multi-story garage, low-income apartments, and permanent water restrictions), it has an effect.”
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood blog previously reported that on July 15th, an East Ridgewood Avenue business reported being the victim of harassment in the past. The business owner reported surveillance cameras have captured a female actor opening the business dumpster during the overnight hours and removing garage on a nightly basis. Garage is repeatedly thrown about creating a hazardous condition and annoyance. The business wished to document the incident at this time.
Continue reading Alleged Dumpster Diver Caught on Camera in Ridgewood
Thu, August 01, 2019– Sat, August 03, 2019
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Ridgewood NJ, Sizzle into Summer with Sidewalk Sale Days..Rain or Shine…in or outside shopping…
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Ridgewood NJ, looks like Ridgewood’s plastic bag ban is nothing more than “Virtue Signaling “at its worst and in reality make the pollution issue even worse.
In 2011, the UK’s Environment Agency published an earlier-drafted life cycle assessment of supermarket carrier bags. The aim: establishing both the environmental impact of different carrier bags which are in use and their reuse practice. The intention was to inform public policymakers about the impact that a crackdown on plastic bags could possibly have. Needless to say, politicians had little concern for the actual assessment the report presented.
Continue reading Study Says Plastic Bag Ban is Actually Bad for the Environment
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If your house is not already on the market, then you are not sitting on what you think will be a sizable retirement plan. Have you noticed how many for sale signs there are? Way more than is seasonably normal. There are a number of reasons for this exodus, some of it due to national and international changes, and some of it local. The local stuff that is negatively affecting real estate are things like the new SALT changes to what is tax-deductable in property taxes. The Ridgewood issues are the loss of that special vibe that Ridgewood had, which is quickly fading with affordable housing, apartment blocks, and a multi-story car park. Other factors that once made Ridgewood a highly desirable place to live was its schools reputation. This was mostly a myth, made possible by realtors, and parents that had fallen for the bs and now needed to re-state the myth to friends so that their home investment was maintained. These days, we live in a world of data. Home buys have a multitude of online tools where they can do their school research.
The world is also changing. There’s a gradual flattening process in terms of work. NYC generates most of the high-paying 6 figure salary jobs that fuels places like Ridgewood. These high paying jobs are slowing moving out. The advancements in technology are slowing changing the global landscape and places like NYC will no longer be one of the special places where “the talent” is.
I am moving out, having sold my place already. I’ve enjoyed my time here but I won’t be looking back at Ridgewood with any fondness.
file photo by ArtChick
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Ridgewood NJ, Getting Folks Downtown: Ten Programming Tips from a Community Revitalization Expert Vibrant downtowns lead to vibrant communities. But first you have to give people a reason to come downtown. Community revitalization expert Quint Studer explains how.
Downtowns are hot right now. A great walkable, livable downtown attracts young talent. (These days they want to work, live, and play in the same place.) It boosts the tax base. It gets citizens engaged and activated and generates enthusiasm for further growth. It’s the heart and soul of a growing, thriving community. So if you’ve got revitalization on your mind, Quint Studer says you must start by building a vibrant downtown. And the first order of business is non-negotiable: programming.
Essentially, programming means creating activities that drive people downtown.
“You want to get citizens and visitors alike to hang out downtown so they’ll shop, eat, drink, and maybe stay overnight,” notes Studer, author of Building a Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America (Be the Bulb Publishing, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-9981311-1-5, $24.95) and founder of Pensacola’s Studer Community Institute (SCI). “But first you need to give them something to do there.”
Continue reading Revitalization Expert Says ,”you have to give people a reason to come downtown”
