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In Jersey City, if someone needs to rent a house/apartment, who should pay the broker fee? Landlord or tenant? Let’s say the tenant found the place from Zillow, and contacted the agent name under the property listing? Thank you!

Hi! I run a women's social club based in Jersey City for women primarily in their late 20s through 45+. I'm currently planning a new event series for November centered around interesting, conversation starting talks in a relaxed social setting. I'm thinking less of a formal lecture, more like a TED Talk over cocktails. I'm looking for women who are experts in something genuinely fascinating and would enjoy speaking to a room of curious women for approximately 30 to 45 minutes, followed by an informal Q&A and conversation.

I'm especially interested in topics around psychology, criminology/true crime, relationships and dating, women's health, money, pop culture, sociology, history, law, careers, and behavioral science. BUT, I'm completely open to topics outside of those areas. If you know something people could happily talk about over drinks for another hour afterward, I want to hear about it. The event would take place in Jersey City, NJ. This would be a paid speaking opportunity, and we're currently looking at November dates.

If you're interested, send me a little bit about yourself, your area of expertise, the topic you'd love to speak about, and your speaking fee/rate if applicable. And if you know someone who would be PERFECT for this, please feel free to send this their way!

Happening right now, at least 8 cops with handguns, shields, and rifles. Station evacuated, or at least we all ran when we saw this. No updates from the police.

Edit 1: station officially closed, at least one train evacuated, cops clearing a path

Edit 2: two kids removed from train and arrested, cops clearing station

Edit 3: people have taken it upon themselves to go back onto the platform

Edit 4: all clear now and trains moving as usual

Saturday (10/3) morning, I tried to take the train scheduled to depart WTC for NWK at 06:30, but the train wasn't there. Turns out NWK-WTC trains were running at 25-minute intervals until early morning instead of the usual 20 around that time. No announcement was made whatsoever regarding this modified schedule on either the PATH app, website or X. I ended up missing a connecting Amtrak train b/c of this (and in spite of the 22-minute buffer I added for the connection time).

When I reached out to Port Authority, they insisted they did make this announcement on X, but all it said was that the boarding platform had changed. They wouldn't admit any error in not having publicly communicated the modified service.

No, I'm not new to JC, and I've known trains are unreliable in this country, so I made sure I was prepared by subscribing to all possible alerts and adding schedule buffers if necessary. Clearly that wasn't enough. Should I have done something differently? Is there anything we can do to make PATH better, or should we just accept the fact that this is what they're going to do, and we only need to take what they give?

I'm a big believer in public transit, and I cherish the fact that JC is one of the very few cities in North America that even has a functioning metro. But episodes like these make me almost lose trust in anything government-run and turn me into a tired skeptic.

Did the PATH recently reduce service on the JSQ/HBK- 33rd line on weekend evenings? took the PATH home from dinner last night around 10 PM and we were packed like sardines from 33rd to Hoboken. Brutal. i didn’t realize that they start combining the lines at 9 PM and only doing 20 minute headways at 10 PM on weekend evenings. I don’t take that line a ton anymore on Saturday nights but I don’t remember it being this bad before. Is it always like that not even that late on Saturdays? this made me never want to go out to dinner along that line on Saturdays.

TL;DR - get your shit together PATH. There’s clearly immense demand until later in the evening.

Is anybody else noticing this? Seems like a lot of inventory, the response to my listing is unusually slow. I thought my rent was right in the middle, but perhaps the wheel is turning to a renter's market, I guess I'll drop it $100.