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soresident
Citizen
Username: Soresident
Post Number: 331
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 6:45 pm: | 
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A camera has been installed on the lightpost at the intersection of Glenview and SO Ave. It is pointing in towards Glenview. Any one know why? Have cameras been installed anywhere else in town? |
spw784
Supporter
Username: Spw784
Post Number: 847
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 8:06 pm: |
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So maybe THAT is why the light was non-operational -- i..e blinking - for the past 2 days! |
millie amoresano
Citizen
Username: Millieamoresano
Post Number: 264
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
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There was a segment on News 12 this morning about the new cameras. The town is going to install 4 cameras around town to keep an eye on gang activity. To a tune of $48,000 |
South Orange Maven
Citizen
Username: Somaven
Post Number: 99
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 10:11 pm: |
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Gang activity on Glenview and S.O. Ave?? Really?? |
Ace789nj
Citizen
Username: Ace789nj
Post Number: 238
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 10:43 pm: |
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I don't think it's a camera, I believe it's a sensor to make the light change. |
Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3910
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 12:43 am: |
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Considering recently several bags of body parts were found by Glenview, I think it's a good thing cameras are there. If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. Unless of course the cameras are aimed into someone's home. |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
Supporter
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2991
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 9:39 am: |
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If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.
Boy does this phrase infuriate me (sorry,JTA!) It's the excuse the Administraion uses to disregard the Constitution and listen in on telephone calls and get lists of checked out library books. Guess I should go to the Political Soapbox for the rest of this. |
mjc
Citizen
Username: Mjc
Post Number: 1042
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 11:15 am: |
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Thanks ace, that makes a lot of sense for a signal in that location. Looking forward to more. I hate to sit at a light in the middle of the night when no one is crossing the intersection. |
ril
Citizen
Username: Ril
Post Number: 469
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 11:41 am: |
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I've been told there are cameras along South Orange Ave. and on Grove Park. (in the context of "you shouldn't worry about your safety when you walk there." Tho I'm not sure how much these cameras could see at night, or who is monitoring them. if they exist at all) |
mrosner
Citizen
Username: Mrosner
Post Number: 2545
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 11:52 am: |
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ril: There were cameras years ago. They are not currently operational. We have discussed putting cameras in the municipal parking lots.
My guess is Ace is correct, but if there is a camera, it does not belong to the village. That traffic light belongs to the county. |
bettyd
Citizen
Username: Badjtdso
Post Number: 70
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 12:52 pm: |
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To keep an eye on gang activity?! Is that what the news said?! Say it isn't so. Just what we need to go along with the vacant storefronts, the "weathered" look of downtown, and the soon to be erected parking decks. |
U. Kabish
Citizen
Username: Parkingsux
Post Number: 308
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 1:10 pm: |
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Soon to be erected parking decks... where?
We should have millenium build a parking deck on the shop right lot. We own the property, no hurdles.
Who knows whether the grocer is still interested or committed to this lambast excuse of a development project? When confronted with village counsel representation by Mr. Edwin Matthews, he must wonder!
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bettyd
Citizen
Username: Badjtdso
Post Number: 71
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 1:31 pm: |
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Let me rephrase: the someday to be erected parking decks. Out of all the projects on hold or "coming soon", I'm sure unsightly parking decks will be the first ones }to get completed. |
noracoombs
Citizen
Username: Noracoombs
Post Number: 128
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 2:51 pm: |
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Re: grocery store operator--I could swear that at last night's meeting, Trustee Jennings said that the grocery store operator also operates the Fairway market at 72nd and Broadway in NYC (she specifically gave the address)--but I thought that it was determined that that wasn't the case. The most recent operator, John Choi, had some smaller markets in Manhattan and on Long Island, but was not involved with the upper west side Fairway.
Trustee Rosner--can you tell us specifically whether or not John Choi is still on board as the grocery store operator? |
mrosner
Citizen
Username: Mrosner
Post Number: 2547
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 3:33 pm: |
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noracoombs: I was as shocked as anyone to hear Trustee Jennings say Fairway was now the supermarket operator. I was even more surprised the VP did not correct her, which made me think I must not have seen a memo or something.
As far as I know, Mr. John Choi is still the operator - and the connection to Fairway is the architect he hired was the one who designed their most recent stores. The one on 75th and Broadway was the original store (a converted Pioneer Grocery store).
If I find out otherwise, I will post it.
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I. Kabish
Citizen
Username: Parkingsux
Post Number: 309
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 3:57 pm: |
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Quote:the connection to Fairway is the architect he hired was the one who designed their most recent stores. The one on 75th and Broadway was the original store (a converted Pioneer Grocery store).
If we were in grade school the teacher would give Stacey a time-out. She's the head of the Planning and Zoning Committee during this critical time. Stacey, dear, wake up and smell the coffee. Perhaps you should find out what you should already know before you speak to group of residents as an elected official. Just curious, is he an architect of diversity? What was it I. Kabish said about the new diversity.... I get so embarrassed sometimes. The problem is, I only recognize it after I said it....
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Spitz
Supporter
Username: Doublea
Post Number: 1387
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 5:08 pm: |
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I'm sorry - if Trustee Jennings said that, it's inexcusable. I've refrained from the other discussions, but am actually more concerned than ever about the governance of this Village.
Most anybody who has been following what's been going on (or not going on) for the last few years knows John Choi is not connected with Fairway.
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kmk
Supporter
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 971
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 5:24 pm: |
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And the "architecture" of Fairway - as lovely as it can be in that sort of warehouse chic way - is not what makes it a successful business!
Successful businesspeople like Fairway's owners with a proven track record should be on the resume - not a friend of the architect of a successful business. If we used "six degrees of separation" on our resumes we could all be considered successful. |
soresident
Citizen
Username: Soresident
Post Number: 332
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 8:13 pm: |
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So, Mr. Rosner, since you are reading this thread, could you comment on the original question asked (why is there a camera at this intersection)? Is the information contained in the post about the News Channel 12 report accurate (that the town is paying to install these and that it has to do with gang activity)? |
mrosner
Citizen
Username: Mrosner
Post Number: 2552
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 8:21 pm: |
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S. Orange does not have a camera at that location, but I will check to see if the county or Maplewood put one at that location. (For those who do not know the south side of S. Orange Ave from just past the reservation to just past "the Top" is Maplewood property).
We are looking at putting cameras in some municipal parking lots but still in the discussion stages. |
Daniel M. Jacobs, PP, AICP
Supporter
Username: Conrail
Post Number: 94
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 8:37 pm: |
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My guess is that it is a microwave detector for the traffic signal. I will go up and look at it in person this weekend, to make sure. Traffic signals located at intersections between a major street (heavily trafficked) and a minor street generally have long "cycle times". To keep vehicles on the minor street from waiting forever, you can install an actuated signal, where the presence of a vehicle on the minor street shortens the green time on the major street. Many cities have done this for decades, but they used a "loop detector" under the pavement which sensed the large body of metal above it. Loop detectors have lots of problems, but one of the more important is that paving crews will sometimes accidentally wreck them when repaving. So over the last decade or so, many cities have converted to microwave detectors mounted on a traffic pole. This has the added advantage that the microwave detectors can cover a wider area of street than the old loop detectors. |
millie amoresano
Citizen
Username: Millieamoresano
Post Number: 266
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 9:32 pm: |
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My mistake News 12 was talking about Maplewood.
www.news12.com/NJ/topstories/article?id=171896 |
bettyd
Citizen
Username: Badjtdso
Post Number: 74
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:53 am: |
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Gang activity in Maplewood doesn't make me feel all that better. Is there a gang problem next door? |
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