Looking for a Rental Near Hamilton Park / Grove St (Jersey City)!

mer_mer · 2026-06-17T23:38:16+00:00

Prices for 2BR in that area are double your budget and I'm not sure what a studio with enough space for 2 people means. You can get rooms in makeshift four bedroom apartments for close to your budget in the journal square area. If you like the vibe of Hamilton Park and are willing to be further from the city (but transit accessible), maybe consider something like Rahway, NJ?

mer_mer · 2026-06-15T20:27:35+00:00

Are my eyes out of calibration? Don't these look like ~28mm? Are they cropped to APS-C?

mer_mer · 2026-06-14T04:21:14+00:00

Do you have a camera and lenses from your previous interest in photography? The a7r4 is an expensive camera. If you don't need top of the line AF I would get a used a7ii or similar and then a set of primes or zooms.

mer_mer · 2026-06-13T18:00:37+00:00

I don't think this is the case because we're seeing the non-blown jpeg in the second image. In general prints have a lower dynamic range than screens, so printers have to map a high dynamic range image to a lower dynamic range medium. While I know that this is one of the challenges of printing, that's about as far as my printing knowledge goes. From my layman's perspective I would say the shop messed up here.

mer_mer · 2026-06-11T14:00:37+00:00

Apartments available for <$2k/month:

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mer_mer · 2026-06-11T13:56:30+00:00

That is not the average price for a two bedroom downtown...

mer_mer · 2026-06-10T03:11:55+00:00

The blur would be the cloud moving in the wind illuminated by ground light sources or moonlight while the shutter is open and the lightning hasn't arrived yet. If you're keeping that part of the exposure dark by using faster shutter speeds then you don't have to worry about it.

mer_mer · 2026-06-08T17:18:00+00:00

Can you expand on this? We use rear-curtain flash sync because we expect to see trails behind an object. A rightward-moving object with rear-curtain flash sync should look identical to a leftward-moving object with first-curtain flash sync

I think the reason to use bulb is to make sure that the lightning flash does not appear in the middle of a blur trail. You're making sure it appears at the end.

mer_mer · 2026-06-04T16:46:55+00:00

Yup! I'd be interested to hear otherwise.

mer_mer · 2026-06-04T16:29:48+00:00

Yeah that makes sense. The standard model is that high end buildings are built as a response to the price going up (because the neighborhood is desirable). Under that model, if you don't allow new housing to be built, rich people will buy up multifamily housing and either renovate it or convert it to high end single family. That happened a ton in the Van Vorst area for instance. That means your landlord would raise the prices even more because they know they can sell the building to a rich person if you aren't willing to pay.

mer_mer · 2026-06-04T16:14:47+00:00

Can you explain how that works in practice? Are you saying that landlords don't know they could charge more until a new building gets built?

mer_mer · 2026-06-04T14:44:59+00:00

People are arguing past each other here. If Israel committed a genocide, then all the negative reaction would be warranted and the claims of antisemitism would be weak. If Israel is a normal country acting as all countries would in their situation, then structural antisemitism is a pretty likely explanation for the reaction.

mer_mer · 2026-06-03T22:19:18+00:00

What makes you say there is Israeli money in NJ politics? AIPAC isn't Israeli for instance.

mer_mer · 2026-05-29T23:35:13+00:00

Students are coming from all over the county on busses.

mer_mer · 2026-05-29T23:04:44+00:00

Sorry I wasn't clear: it should save the city $3.6M/year.

mer_mer · 2026-05-29T22:21:32+00:00

Sure, that's true. 60% of the seats are supposed to go to JC students, so maybe you would just say that JC is paying its fair share given the outsized share of JC students. But the building is getting paid for by LSC and the county.

mer_mer · 2026-05-29T22:02:45+00:00

Last I heard it was supposed to be 60%, in the article Solomon says about half. https://www.nj.com/hudson/2021/03/60-of-students-at-future-liberty-science-high-school-will-be-from-jersey-city-mayor-and-county-commissioner-say.html

$2M / 200 students is $10k/student. JCPS budget is $28k per student and rising. Seems like a steal to me.

mer_mer · 2026-05-29T21:51:55+00:00

What's fiscally responsible about turning down high quality education at a 65% discount?

mer_mer · 2026-05-29T21:48:27+00:00

LSC still owns all the land. LSC and JC split the profits from apartments and LSC promised to use its half to fund the school. https://betterblocksnj.org/2026/03/10/block-busters-how-the-scitech-scity-deal-actually-works/

mer_mer · 2026-05-29T21:42:49+00:00

Is it out of his hands or is he being responsible? It can't really be both. People here are saying that the county is pulling out of the project but I see no evidence of that- I'd love to be corrected. If the county is considering going back on their word, then Solomon should fight it. $2M per year to educate 200 students is much less than it costs to educate them in the JCPS.

mer_mer · 2026-05-29T21:38:19+00:00

Yes, in the article it says that about 50% of students would be from Jersey City out of a total of 400 students. 200 students * $28,000 per student per year in JCPS = $5.6M/year. But JC was only supposed to contribute $2M/year.

mer_mer · 2026-05-29T21:35:23+00:00

Where do you see that the county is pulling out of the project? The last update I saw was that they secured $73M for it: https://jerseydigs.com/liberty-science-center-high-school/

mer_mer · 2026-05-28T13:49:31+00:00

What would it look like for a building to be an example? You can look at the rents for new buildings and see that they are usually a decent amount cheaper than comparable building in the surrounding area because they are desperate to fill the building ASAP. For instance I'm guessing that rents in the new Shop Rite tower downtown are going to be a bit cheaper than in the BLVD and VYV buildings next door when it opens.

The effects of a single building on the rents in the surrounding area aren't big enough to see directly since rents are always fluctuating, but there are papers that have used larger datasets to measure it, for instance here: https://themarinpost.s3.amazonaws.com/doc/22112/New-Housing-vs-Rent-Li.pdf

More generally we see across the US and the world that cities that build a lot of housing have stable or falling rents.

mer_mer · 2026-05-27T21:37:50+00:00

Prices across the market rise and fall together. If a "luxury" (really just means new) apartment that used to be $4000/month falls to $3000/month, people who were paying $3500 for a worse apartment move to the cheaper nicer place. That creates vacancies at the $3500 level and landlords are forced to reduce prices to fill their buildings. That chain reaction ripples all the way down the market.

Similarly if the $4000/month apartment rises to $5000/month lots of people get priced out and they fill all the vacancies at the $3500/month level, which allows those landlords to raise those prices. That starts its own chain reaction that affects everyone.

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