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| On River Street in Hackensack, customers actually line up and wait for a seat at White Manna, where they pay for the privilege of eating mystery meat and other unhealthy food. |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
Editor
Is the deal off between North Jersey Media Group and multimillionaire Fred Daibes for development of 20 acres in Hackensack where The Record prospered for more than 110 years?
A story on the sale of Daibes' luxury St. Moritz high-rise in Edgewater appeared in Friday's Local section (L-3), but there was no mention of whether he still plans to build apartments on the River Street property.
Despite all his wealth, Daibes apparently cut corners on security at the St. Moritz, and was a victim of a home invasion last November.
Four suspects yanked him from bed, broke his ribs and shoulder blade, and made off with nearly $2 million in cash, gold bars and other valuables, according to county prosecutors.
Daibes' luxury and exotic car collection was photographed for Bergen.com in the driveway of the St. Moritz.
The rental building, at 100 Daibes Court, boasts of hotel-like amenities, but its Web site doesn't mention security.
Today's paper
In today's edition of The Record, front-page stories speculating about the whereabouts of a missing jet and the fate of 239 people on board have been replaced by a story on the Jets (A-1).
Would four people killed by fire in a shore motel that was a refuge for Sandy survivors still be alive, if Governor Christie hadn't bungled the distribution of federal aid (A-1)?
Christie's mismanagement of state finances gets gentle treatment in another Page 1 story, which avoids discussing his inflexible stance against taxing the wealthy or raising the low gasoline tax to revive the bankrupt Transportation Trust Fund (A-1).
Local yokels
Today's Local section is heavy on Law & Order news, including a dramatic photo of a Norwood DPW garage fire that injured no one and whose cause eludes the talented local staff (L-6).
The Better Living editors waste their cover today on a half-dozen Jersey bimbos. A seventh bimbo wrote the piece (BL-1).
Whats the relationship between the Borgs and the Sanzari family? Friends or enemies?
ReplyDeleteI would think friends, but I'll look into it .
Deletethanks
DeleteJoseph M. Sanzari is chairman of board of the Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation, and his family has donated more than $10 million to the hospital. His name also is on the children's hospital.
ReplyDeleteJennifer A. Borg, NJMG vice president and general counsel, once sat on the hospital's board, and the paper has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars running ads for the hospital.
Despite the hospital's impact on Hackensack and the hundreds of millions of dollars in property that pays no taxes to the city, HUMC is treated deferentially in The Record's news columns in contrast to all the ink devoted to the so-called expansion of The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood.