Ghouls of Lincoln Park

They are there. Feeding on the blood of the citizens. Using up all the goodness in the borough. They come dressed as humans, but underneath their cloaks they are ghouls. Be careful.

Bad Wind + Recycling Day = Garbage Dump

We have a wind advisory since last night. High winds, gusting up 60mph. Whoo!

So last Monday was President's Day. Garbage pickup, no recycling. That got shifted to Thursday. But we have the weakest snowstorm of all time on Wednesday into Thursday. So while my cardboard got picked up, my cans/bottles/plastic did not. So now we have a lot.

Cut to last night. Put out the recycling to curb. Around 11PM I could hear bottles and cans rambling down the road. Heard it all night long. Awesome. Got up at 5:30AM to take out doggies and decided to check it out after they did their business. One of my recycling cans was halfway down the street. The cardboard container was flipped. I have recyclables everywhere. MY accross the street weird neighbor (Canadian) had his empty cans already in at 5:30 so I can assume his flipped and he just put away the cans. Since I found an empty jug of whole milk (we don't drink whole milk) I'm surrounded by everybody's trash.

So I picked up what I could and put cans out again. At 6:50 or so I heard them flip over again and spill all over yard. SO I spent about 20 minutes this morning picking up what I could. I still have a boatload to go. With a little luck it'll be so windy it becomes somebody else's minefield.

More Rain

The Borough of Lincoln Park is saturated. More rain over next day and a half. Wow.

Main Street LP

What the hell is going on where Hong Kong Kitchen used to be? Rumors of an Empanada store but no progress? Who's to blame?

The New Development

So if you travel Main Street towards the viaduct (it's not a bridge), you'll see a big sign on the front of the Wexford Inn announcing it has been sold and is no longer in business. To be honest, though it may have been open for the last few years, it was essentially out of business.

You're proprietor of this steaming blog is a long-time resident of LP, since I was a kid. I remember when it was a hopping place called Henri's (pronounced Henny's) back in the day. It book-ended Main Street proper with The Park Lounge where 202 Italian Bistro stands today. The town didn't have a McDonald's of Dunkin Donut's back then. And until the shopping center on Comly was built in mid-70's, we had one pizza place. Two package stores (three if you count Wolfson's). Simpler times.

So now the Meridia Transit Village will be developed at the corner of Main and Station Road. Three stories tall, 43 units (they are gonna be small apparently). Parking will be fun no doubt. Expect to be ticketed new people.

Time moves on.

November Rain

And snow has made rivers very high. Sump pumps bustling all over town. Could use a warm(er) dry spell to usher this away.

While we are at it, we should also (once again) ask the Powers that Be to reconsider the dredging of the Pequannock & Pompton Rivers. IT would help immensely. But they do nothing year after year.

The Issue With Recycling

In case you didn't know, the rules for recycling in the borough have apparently changed. At one time, the mantra was "recycle everything". As a matter of fact, when they restarted curbside recycling a few years back, they encouraged everything to be put in the blue & yellow cans. As it was explained to this entity: "this will significantly reduce our cartage fees (for trash)". OK

But in recent months, there's been a big change in what companies that will accept recycling will accept. They don't want plastic that's not #1 or #2, plastic bags are verboten. So in recent weeks, the LP DPW sends out a scout (at least on my route they did) to rummage through your cans for "contraband". Now I get that people probably throw a shitload of stuff in there. But for the most part, at least on my part, I play by the rules. Now though, I am consciously tossing anything questionable in the trash. Is that sustainable behavior? Don't know.

Aluminum cans go to KoC at church; plastic bottles to a relative in CT that can recycle for a deposit (which he puts in his 7YO grandson's college tuition account). The styrofoam, bags, etc go in garbage. So my recyclables have dwindled. Hope I'm doing my part.