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A multi-story residential building at the former Bayonne Community Bank location at 5th Street and Broadway and The Promenade at Bayonne, a downtown waterfront residential project, are two of the development projects picking up steam, according to city officials. Kaplan Companies’ Promenade, former site of the Texaco Oil Terminal, at the southwest corner of the …

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Writers and graphic artists for The Hudson Reporter newspapers recently won a total of 17 awards in the competitive statewide annual Memorial Journalism Contest run by the Garden State Journalists Association. The company, with offices in Hoboken and Bayonne, publishes eight weekly newspapers: The Hoboken Reporter, Bayonne Community News, Weehawken Reporter, Jersey City Reporter, Secaucus …

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He can be seen five nights a week on the wooden pedestrian walkway by Newark Bay in Stephen R. Gregg Park, arms spread apart and singing, like a bird ready to take flight. In his dramatic tenor voice, Hossein Aghabeikzadeh, 72, may seem like a character out of a Broadway play, but he is more …

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Port Authority announces Bridge closures The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced closures of the Bayonne Bridge as part of the “Raise the Roadway” Navigational Clearance Project. The remaining multi-hour closures for this week are Thursday, May 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. Friday …

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Daniel Kane, the man who guided Bayonne Medical Center through its most tumultuous period in its history and helped keep its doors open despite its bankruptcy status, died Friday, May 8 after a long struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In a statement sent to the Bayonne Community News, CarePoint Health system owners Vivek Garipalli, …

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Bayonne continues to be one of the safest cities in the state, according to unofficial 2014 crime statistics released by the New Jersey State Police last month and statements from Bayonne’s top cop. But increases were seen in assaults with a knife or cutting instrument (66 percent, from 21 to 35) and simple assault (12 …

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Although recognizing that progress is part of life and that renovations to the Bayonne Bridge and New Jersey Turnpike Bayonne toll plaza must happen, Bayonne retailers say that the two projects are having profoundly negative effects on their businesses and are looking for solutions. Up and down Bayonne, but specifically at the main entry points …

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With at least four major infrastructure programs underway in Bayonne or its vicinity, drivers coming into the city say they are frustrated by the lack of signs and other communications that should be available to apprise them of the projects and of the work being done on any given day. A Union County driver who …

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Port Authority announces Bridge closures The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced closures of the Bayonne Bridge as part of the “Raise the Roadway” Navigational Clearance Project. The remaining multi-hour closures for this week are: Thursday, May 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 8:30 pm. to 5 a.m. Friday …

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Business Administrator Joseph DeMarco sees the $131 million 2015 Bayonne municipal budget as not only the city’s financial document of record for the current year, but also as a blueprint for the future. The goal is to close the gap in the city’s structural deficit, a recurring annual debt which was $24 million last year …

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