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How does Jersey City manage to keep this brokerage parasites out despite being only 1 mile away?

Because JC has always played second fiddle to other boroughs of NYC despite being physically closer to downtown Manhattan than the other boroughs. Even today it's cooler to live in Brooklyn and commute into Manhattan then to live in JC and take the PATH in.

the path train also sucks ass, it's incredibly slow, only goes as far north as 33rd st, has dogshit headways on weekends, and never runs on time on weekends

It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. JC is about 15 minutes into the West Village and only a little more into Greenwich Village and Soho, which arguably constitute the best parts of the city. And on top of paying top dollar to live in Brooklyn, people furthermore get soaked for nearly 4% in NYC city tax. It's amazing how foolish people will be just to play status games.

Burning 30 minutes of my time every time I want to go somewhere in nyc is worth more than 3% of my money, if you go by my salary

Jersey City is more than welcome to stop being second fiddle by simply making the PATH train at least as functional as MTA trains. A bunch of transit planners tried to help and the Port Authority said, "No thanks." Until that changes, nothing will ever help New Jersey.

https://newyorkyimby.com/2014/09/the-port-authoritys-missed-...

Jersey City has the broker problem too

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