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  5. Belmar Rentals Targeted...WTF!!!

    in New York / New Jersey

    Posted

    BELMAR MAP WITH TARGETS

    Where summer crowd must cool it

    Tuesday, July 03, 2007 BY MARYANN SPOTO

    Star-Ledger Staff

    Stumbling up the driveway with a plastic drink cup in hand, a young woman approached a house on 16th Avenue in Belmar one recent Saturday night, yelling a greeting to the guys on the porch.

    They whisked her inside just as a Monmouth County sheriff's officer, parked out front, rushed from his vehicle to tell her she'd be issued a ticket if she didn't keep her voice down.

    Welcome to summertime in Belmar, where so-called "Animal Houses" have been the bane of local officials and neighbors for years and where past crackdowns have had only moderate success. Now officials have resorted to an age-old remedy, public shame.

    Town officials began using the Internet this summer to try to embarrass tenants and property owners into compliance with noise regulations, publishing the addresses of violators for all to see. They say the modern-day Scarlet Letter serves as both a warning to summer partiers and a guide to vacationing families seeking the quietest neighborhoods.

    Mayor Kenneth Pringle makes no apologies for the acts of humiliation that appear in cyberspace and in a weekly newsletter he personally delivers to summer renters.

    "A lot of tenants who find it difficult to comply with the law may decide Belmar is not the place for them to summer. That's fine," the mayor said. "If you know how to behave, ... Belmar is a great place to vacation."

    Pringle boasts that this seaside Monmouth County town, which he has led for 17 years, has the Shore's most aggressive plan to deal with quality-of-life issues that accompany summer crowds.

    Animal House laws have been on the books since the early 1990s, but the state Legislature toughened them in July 1998, giving Shore communities the authority to distinguish between summertime and year-round rentals in setting rules and penalties. The laws cover offenses such as public drunkenness and urination, fighting, noise and residential overcrowding.

    When Pringle took office in 1990, there were 1,200 rental properties in town. Over the years, a combination of escalating property values, strict enforcement efforts and the Animal House laws have driven landlords to sell to year-round residents.

    Now Belmar has 328 summer rentals, 53 of which have been deemed Animal Houses. Most of the offenders are between 10th and 19th avenues, usually within two blocks from the ocean.

    The town displays the locations of those houses and their status on a Google Earth satellite map (www.belmarrentals411.com). Icons of the police chief from "The Simpsons," Clancy Wiggum, denote the locations of rentals where a Monmouth County sheriff's officer is posted on weekends to keep an eye on things.

    A rental property earns the Animal House designation with two convictions of "disorderly, indecent, tumultuous or riotous" behavior within any 12-month period. A third violation invites a sheriff's officer to be stationed outside the house on weekends.

    Houses won't come off the list until they log four years without a violation.

    This summer, the town also implemented a "beat the clock" system of penalties for noise violations. The later the noise, the higher the fine. Wee-hour violations can elicit a $750 fine.

    'DESIGNATED RESIDENTS'?

    To some tenants and property owners, the increasing crackdown is trampling their rights. They complain even outdoor conversations at normal tones have gotten them ticketed.

    Rich Potter, 23, of Dunellen was visiting friends in the 16th Avenue rental being watched by the sheriff's officer.

    "It's like you're living in dorms all over again," said Potter, a Rutgers University graduate. "It's all a kangaroo court. It's their season where they make money."

    Potter said the house, which has seven people on the lease, will probably start having at least one sober resident or guest keep an eye on the others.

    "Instead of a designated driver, you have a designated resident," he said.

    Joey "Fist Pump" DiSalvo, 23, of Middlesex brought his free weights to lift outside as Potter talked to visitors. DiSalvo labeled the house's occupants "the biggest goofballs on the street" but said they are harmless.

    "We're all here just to have a good time," DiSalvo said. "We're not disrespectful."

    A couple of houses down, Amy Jones, 25, of Wood-Ridge sat on the porch with friends Marissa Hassen, 24, of Colts Neck and Tim Short, 24, of New York City as music from the stereo inside played at a moderate level.

    Hassen described their rental as the "mellowest" on the block and said, "This is the only town I know that has these ridiculous rules."

    Hackensack attorney Randy Pearce agrees.

    Pearce has represented about a dozen landlords who contend Belmar goes too far. They complain a rental gets slapped with an Animal House designation even before a conviction or guilty plea.

    Pearce said two guests visiting a rental on 16th Avenue were hit with $350 fines for noise violations just for speaking at normal levels after dark.

    "If they trample on a couple of rights," Pearce said of Belmar officials, "they don't care."

    He said the endgame of the town seems to be expelling summer rentals altogether.

    Pringle denied that claim and talked about the need for people get along together. "In terms of peaceful coexistence between people who live here all year round and the people who visit, we're making some headway," he said.

    MaryAnn Spoto may be reached at mspoto@starledger.com or (732) 462-8603.

  8. Tunnel music from 99 to 2001

    in Music & Media

    Posted

    TO ALL PERFECTIONISTS

    im am just listing some of my favorite hard tracks of that era...im not including mixes nor were all of them played "at the tunnel". just tryin to help the OP out.

    space frog - follow me (no track says Tunnel like this 1. many mixes)

    sm trax - got the groove

    hani - baby wants to ride

    johnny vicious - ecstacy

    sal dano - hands up (this is the police!)

    666 - amokk (attenzione!)

    superpower - in the midnight hour

    tropicana - things to come

    trancesetters - roaches

    voodoo & serano - blood is pumpin

    plasmic honey - ***

    razor and guido - the build up, do it again

    benny maze - deep kemical

    mike ski - ***

    mind trap - drum theory

    anthony acid - bump (do a bump)

    mike macaluso - final chapter, bump 2K

    robbie tronco - fright train, oompa loompa song, night at the opera

    sioux - pho

    emma shaplin - spente le stelle

    faithless - insomnia, we come 1, god is a dj

    airscape - kiss

    vinny cozzi - daddys little girl

    green velvet - flash

    insider - boots on the run

    whachamahcalit - the chocolate track 99

    marcel woods - de bom

    derb - derb

    da boy tommy - kol nedra

    hi gate - pitchin (in every direction)

    tiesto - urban train

    dj scot project - F (the future is now)

    hennes & cold - the second trip

    beam vs cyrus - thunder in paradise

    cosmic gate - exploration of space, fire wire

    dj macguyver - do you, is calling

    the moon - blow the speakers, sushi

    sf97 - the room, the room 2

    avancada - go!

    aquagen - you are so quiet

    mauro picotto/megamind - taub, iguana

    embargo - blackout

    kai tracid - trance & acid

    progressive maniacs - fuck the police

    dj shah - claps

    brainbug - nightmare

    *** many songs

    I kind of went on a "my favorite hard trance AND classic tracks" list...but that should get you started.

  10. Scot Project @ Webster Hall, Fri 3/30

    in New York / New Jersey

    Posted

    Wow, Scot Project.. now that brings back some memories..

    It sure does. Last I saw him was at Tunnel...he played there the last week or so it was open. Saw him at Avalon and at World too...and I would def. go see him at Webster Hall...regardless of how much it sucks. It's not too often he's around these parts.

    And he didnt get softer...his style did change up a bit. It is def. different than his infamous 98-01 sound that I love the most.

    Bass line...builllllld up...BOOM...Womp Womp Womp...:clap2:

  14. Who remembers SYSTEMS?

    in New York / New Jersey

    Posted

    SYSTEMS

    I think it was on East 13th. Street & Broadway

    Which later turned into Spa/Key Club/Etc...

    That club originally had a sick sound system, small intimate venue with 6 stacks of bins.... I think if that place was still around the way it was when it was Systems there would be great events going on there....

    I loved System...there is a set that cirulates of JP there June 30th 2000...with Dangerous Dave Hanson...good times good times!!!

  18. So anybody excited about DANNY TENAGLIA playing with MAURO PICOTTO at spirit

    in New York / New Jersey

    Posted

    nah, Mauro hasnt played any trance for a good 5 years now... its a whole part of his career that hes just blocked out... hes really gone into a lot of electroey tech lately, its good but in moderation.

    I will def. go to see Mauro. He plays all his Meganite era tracks now...no trance or even tech trance, just the dirty dirty...chugga chugga chugga chugga. Last time I saw him was December 2000 at Twilo when he dropped all his clasixx and all I can say is...it was by far the best DJ experience ever! The closet thing to a religious experience I've had.

    Who would go on first???

  20. Old skool Track ID (Vicious NYE 2002)

    in Music & Media

    Posted

    Anyone have the Johnny Vicious NYE 2001>2002 set. I was just listening to part II (missing I) and the opening track goes a lil somethin' like this:

    No where to run...no where to hide...

    Here I stand in a dream

    The universe on my own

    And your arms are open wide

    {HOOK}

    Sometimes it hurts...this love like fire

    I lose myself in your desire

    ------

    I'd love to know the track/artist...the voice sounds very familiar...like a big name.

    Thanks!

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