OgdenRes

Garbage not picked up, three bags clearly visible despite snow. Second week running. Have surveillance video of truck and crew blowing by at 00:39 without checking my side of the street at all.

At about 01:00am EST 11-Nov-2018 a resident at the Alaris retirement / nursing home at 178-198 Ogden triggered a false fire alarm, probably by smoking a cigarette in their room. Happens about once a month--quite annoying.

However this time the Fire Department appears to have been dispatched to my address, which is four houses south of the facility on Ogden.

I believe the reason this happened is that I just set up a cell phone extender in my house due to the lousy coverage we have. Cell phone extenders have a GPS receivers in them for several purposes, one of which is providing location information if a 911 call is placed by someone who's phone is actively using the device for service. My suspicion is that cell phone extenders appear on the 911 dispatcher interactive maps at all times, even if they are not the source of an emergency call. I am 100% absolutely certain that the extender here did not service any calls last night, and I am also certain that the fire alarm at Alaris reported the incident because their alarm is so obnoxiously loud when it goes off.

Please contact Fire Department management and ask them to look into the false dispatch problem. Probably an inexperience 911 dispatcher mistook a cell extender mark on their map as the source of the alarm, or possibly the 911 system has a technical problem where the system confused the Alaris alarm with the GPS location from the cell extender at my location. Either way this is a serious matter--false dispatch information can lead to injury to people and property damage.

As many as six helicopters hovered for more than one hour from 17:30 through 19:00 on October 6th 2016 at very low altitude over our residential neighborhood. Low-flying helicopter traffic is both a chronic and at times an acute problem because the airspace over the Hudson and parts of Hoboken are restricted and off-limits to aircraft, so operators of tour services and news agencies hover over the residential neighborhood at the edge of the restricted zone. This behavior is dangerous, unbelievably loud, disruptive and uncivilized.

Would appreciate action by the Mayor's office in the form of official communication in regards to the problem with FAA Newark / Teterboro flight standards at 201-556-6600.

Operator of Mister Softee ice cream truck license plate NJ XACY35 repeatedly and flagrantly violates JC 16-070 222-10(D) despite being asked on two occasions to ceased violating this ordinance. In addition a web-form communication to Mister Softee Corporation on July 29th did not result in this operator ceasing violation of the law.

Have two videos (with sound) of recent violations. In addition the operator of NJ XACY35 refused to display his license to vend food, which most likely is a violation of applicable statutes. Operator refusal to show license captured on video.

Text of referenced statute:

Continuation of City Ordinance 16.070 page 8

222-10. Motor Vehicles

Violations of paragraphs A through D of this section shall be considered purposeful and therefore not a minor violation.

D. . . . Ice cream and other food vending trucks, while in residential neighborhoods, are prohibited from the playing of jingles while stationary. Jingles may only be played when the vehicle is in motion.

We are very pleased by the arrival of the new speed bump this week. Thank you. However several neighbors have commented that the speed bump is two low and that it should completely cross the road rather than covering just the center. I've seen several cars with good suspensions hit the bump traveling at close to 50mph (speed limit is 25mph) and not bottoming out their suspension. I'm not kidding, 50mph. In addition non-resident drivers are maneuvering at high speed around the bump if the parking spaces on either side are not occupied.

A speed bump the size of the ones on St. Pauls Ave between JFK and 139 seems to me to be the right idea. They are high enough and wide enough to discourage miscreant drivers.

We have at least three families with small children immediately past the speed bump and the large number of short-cut-seeking speeders coming through are a grave danger to their safety as well as an overall menace to the neighborhood.