Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Supported Incumbents and Now Complain

2005-05-16 Thread muffolettom
Let's drop the election as the source of all discussion. Just because a majority opted to stay with the the devil they know doesn't mean they can't complain or even that they were satisfied with the incumbents in the first place. It's the road not taken now. -Original Message- From:

[AsburyPark] Re: Supported Incumbents - Now Complain; drop the election as the discussion

2005-05-16 Thread Skip Bernstein
Let's drop the election as the source of all discussion. What and miss all these rich opportunities to point out that a village is more than freedom to do whatever you wish when ever you wish, that four years of capital gains during the hottest market ever and the benign neglect of all that

[AsburyPark] Re: Supported Incumbents and Now Complain

2005-05-16 Thread bluebishop82
Dan said: Thus, I say, don't bring the complaints to us. You will soon tire of getting blank stares and being marginalized... Skip said: Waste not your script here... Do you two want this board to be just people who agree with one another? Do you wish these writings to be just you folks

[AsburyPark] For Skip.... Re: Supported Incumbents - Now Complain; drop the election as the discussion

2005-05-16 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Joe D'Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skip I'm curious. Would your anti-Fishman sing-song be any different today if your event production deals with Fishman and Raver had not been abruptly cancelled in 2003? Joe, why do always try to find an ulterior motive

Re: [AsburyPark] Supported Incumbents and Now Complain

2005-05-16 Thread Allan Peterson
I assume this is about my positing. Yes I do support and raised a question about the lighting on the boardwalk. Maybe these lights are temporary? That they would be used here this year and when the buildings along the boardwalk are replaced and the threat of them being damaged by kids are

[AsburyPark] For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread Skip Bernstein
Would your anti-Fishman sing-song be any different today if your event production deals with Fishman and Raver had not been abruptly cancelled in 2003? Good question; poor understanding of what Raver believed he could get Fishman to support. Raver's a smoke and mirrors guy, he believed that

[AsburyPark] Re: Supported Now Complain - And the answer is!

2005-05-16 Thread Skip Bernstein
Sorry it exceeds 4 lines/it is a repeat …lights selected are a disappointment. …the city website …designs for the waterfront area but those lights are nice… When I congratulated Fish Bag on managing to get exact reproductions of the Parkway's lights, Jim Bruno informed me that those are the

[AsburyPark] Re: Supported Now Complain - answer is! not temporary

2005-05-16 Thread Skip Bernstein
ps And they're not temporary! They are here for all time. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Skip Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry it exceeds 4 lines/it is a repeat …lights selected are a disappointment. …the city website …designs for the waterfront area but those lights are nice…

[AsburyPark] Re: Supported Incumbents and Now Complain

2005-05-16 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Allan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition, I do not believe that you should make such a comment. This is a board to post questions and to discuss. Maybe I should ask that you limit your posts to just 4 lines rather than the endless posts to

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread bluebishop82
Thank goodness Larry hasn't painted anything that mental patient bedroom green color like the Palace was. I love the Wonder Bar but damn Fasano for recreating that eyesore on the beach. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dfsavgny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com,

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, bluebishop82 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank goodness Larry hasn't painted anything that mental patient bedroom green color like the Palace was. I love the Wonder Bar but damn Fasano for recreating that eyesore on the beach. BB, I'm not so much of a

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread Joe D'Andrea
At 5:03 PM + 5/16/05, dfsavgny wrote: ...Skip, in all fairness, you have to stop giving Fishman heat for the choice of paint colors. I thought I read somewhere recently that it was the TRC that suggested the colors and they realize the the yellow was not the best choice. If left to his own

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread Skip Bernstein
Sorry Dan, but I get deja vu all over again when any president, supreme being or Master Developer fails to recognize that the buck stops with them. The historical board may have dreamt this abortive color, but it took The Fish to paint with it. As to his own devices, there are still plenty

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Joe D'Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice to know we're judging $1B development on issues as critical as exterior paint color. What else has Fishman done but paint things? I am sure if he did something else we would be fair and criticize that too. There

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Skip Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I say Larry owns the puke yellow. As JoeyDee's post implies, so little has been done that we are left to bicker over paint. Of course, you and I and others realize that this is the tragedy itself; that paint, whether

[AsburyPark] The Naked Readings This Sunday!

2005-05-16 Thread Jesse Taylor
The Naked Readings :Poetry:Music:Art:Life:Art:Music:Poetry: This Sunday May22nd 7-10 @ Makeready's Gallery 214 Artspace 214 Glenridge Avenue Montclair, NJ Please join us at this inspiring event celebrating the words and worlds of poets from all over the Metropolitan area

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Supported Now Complain - answer is! not temporary

2005-05-16 Thread charlie leonard
i dont think their temporary either,but who knows. being the new council or at least one of those members will speak up about certain topics regarding the plan. missed deadlines, and any other thing that wasnt done by the books. how about let them slide on some things, if they fix the lights?

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, bluebishop82 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you miss the new boardwalk and condominiums being built at the beach? No. The boardwalk was paid for by the city with credits against the cost from the purchase of our waterfront buildings. I look at the boardwalk

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread bluebishop82
This isn't your best day on this list. First I catch you and Skip in no uncertain tems telling people who disagree with you not to post here, and despite that being in writing, you then deny that's what you meant, when in fact its exactly what you wrote. As of for the Boardwalk - it was

RE: [AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread Tyler, Mark
Title: RE: [AsburyPark] Re: For Skip Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry BB82 - You're on target till you get to the developer part. Hovnanian may not be driving nails but that isn't what a developer does. Fishman is not a developer but a purchaser of tax liens and one

[AsburyPark] Developers vs. Gatekeepers

2005-05-16 Thread oakdorf
As in Long Branch - where developers built asap the green light was issued. Ugly, but built. Triggered the rest of the town into action and of course drove up values. Maybe Rooney's will figure out now how to make good food. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread bluebishop82
Considering that anyone who develops this property has to go through TRC, Planning Board, Council, CAFRA and get bounced around between them, I disagree that anyone could have gotten this done any faster. I do still disagee with you about Fishman being a developer. A guy like Rich DePetro

[AsburyPark] Re: Hojo's Lease

2005-05-16 Thread Skip Bernstein
HoJo's …some other agreement was reached whereby he could stay m-m until Fishman kicks him out. George had the `deal' with the city for roughly 40 years. 2 possibly 2 ½ years ago The Fishman bought George's liquor license and business for $250,000. George still runs the business on a mm basis,

[AsburyPark] Re: Hojo's Lease

2005-05-16 Thread oakdorf
George is a trooper. He belongs there. Someone should fix the building - like the current owner. The 40 year deal is questionable - other then there were some unwritten rules about bidding. Like don't. When the legal notices were placed in the paper were also a game - so they say. The status

Re: [AsburyPark] Digest Number 1268

2005-05-16 Thread asburyben
Mental Ward Green? Does that come in semi-gloss? Ben Schneider Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo!

RE: [AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread Tyler, Mark
Title: RE: [AsburyPark] Re: For Skip Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry You are confusing what a Developer's lawyer does with what a Developer does. A developer makes a set of complicated business decisions about development. Those decisions include scheduling.

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread oakdorf
- when you walk in a bank - they don't look at your doodles... they ask you who are and what you've done - and what were the results. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread bluebishop82
I guess we have argued our way to the point where we are simply going to disagree. Loved fighting it out with you though. You seem like a smart fellow. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Tyler, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are confusing what a Developer's lawyer does with what a

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread jerseyjohn99
Do you really think the council said, WTF, just use the cheapest wood possible!??? Here's Asburypark.net's reporting of this issue in February '01. (before Fishman, when the ONLY thing happening was the holes in the boardwalk): http://asburypark.net/news/2001/02/index.html One funny quote:

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread bluebishop82
Thanks for the research JJ. Remember too that 2 years after that controversy, the council passed a resolution that they would never again buy the wood that the enviromental groups didn't first certify. That certified pine is softer than the ipe and more expensive. Yes, the tree-huggers are

[AsburyPark] Re: 1268 - beauty is in the eye of the beholder

2005-05-16 Thread Skip Bernstein
Thought I'd replied to this earlier. Of all the silly bitching I've heard this one takes the cake. Mental Ward Green? Take a look at the Casino's patinaed copper, that which Fish Bag hasn't sledge hammered into oblivion, can you see any similarity? I understand that Dan of our beloved city

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread charlie leonard
wasnt asbury partners listed as the master developer? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

[AsburyPark] Re: For Skip.... Now Complain; drop the election - I quite like Larry

2005-05-16 Thread Skip Bernstein
It's piece work; if Larry thought he'd get away with it, the boardwalk would now be 4 x 8 sheets of particle board. The bigger the dimensional lumber used, the cheaper the labor component in the finished product/contract price. You didn't think The Fish was worried about aesthetics for one

[AsburyPark] Re: asbury partners - just bad luck for Asbury Park

2005-05-16 Thread Skip Bernstein
…they really don't care, and are just in it for the money Wow; and you heard it here! The difficulty for those of you who hope Fishman will do the right thing, is understanding that, here we have a guy who, figuratively, just got off the boat. He's never built anything, never developed

[AsburyPark] the most popular of the 7 deadly sins!

2005-05-16 Thread asburycheech
Dear Group,In case your plans for Saturday night have somehow gone awry and you're casting about for something to do, you can always come to the Stephen Crane House at 7 PM. We will be screening the 1947 English Technicolor masterpiece: Black Narcissus(101 min.) plus a cartoon and coming

[AsburyPark] Re: New Group!

2005-05-16 Thread bluebishop82
That's fantastic JJ! This group will empty out soon, along with Maureen's show. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, jerseyjohn99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Allthere's a new Yahoo Group: The Asbury Park Bitch Moan Group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apbandmoan/ Per the

RE: [AsburyPark] New Group!

2005-05-16 Thread Art Vanderlay
Thanks for the new group John! I think it's very appropriate. I'm getting bored to death on here and end up deleting most of the messages as it's sounds like a bunch of old ladies arguing. I also created a new yahoo group for those who just want to talk about history: