Category: Jersey City News

If Jersey City is ever really going to become the best mid-sized city in America, as the new mayor is oh so fond of saying, it’s going to have to prove, figuratively speaking, that it knows how to put on a tuxedo and heels and sit proper at the opera, just like the big kids. …

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A once-controversial warehouse project on Jersey City’s West Side that broke ground this past spring has picked up its first tenants. The AMB Warehouse Co. development, located where Sip Avenue meets Routes 1 and 9, broke ground in April, but already has tenants for its 880,000-square foot space on a site that was once a …

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According to illustrator Ana Benaroya, curator of the exhibit “Strange Bedfellows” at Gallery 313, illustration is, by definition, an art form that is generally married to some type of text – a book, an article, a story. Once divorced from this text, however, the best illustration should stand on its own as an independent work …

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Fulop administration beings process of dissolving the Jersey City Parking Authority Mayor Steven Fulop has directed the city Law Department to begin the process of dissolving the Jersey City Parking Authority. This week, the Fulop administration will present to the City Council a resolution to retain the law firm of Weiner Lesniak to investigate operations …

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With the 2013-2014 football season underway, Super Bowl XLVIII – which will be played in Northern New Jersey – is now less than six months away. Cities and businesses, including those in Hudson County, are playing a game of beat the clock in their efforts to capitalize on the event. As the National Football League …

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As was previously speculated, the administration of Mayor Steven Fulop worked behind the scenes and used the high-profile hire of new Public Safety Director James Shea as leverage to force the City Council to adopt a controversial measure that will merge several municipal departments. By a vote of 8 to 1 on Wednesday, the City …

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As families enrolled in Waterfront Montessori’s middle school begin to consider where they might want to send their children for high school, they are now better equipped for the admissions process. Like many independent schools, Waterfront Montessori does not give its students the traditional A/B/C/D letter grades commonly used at most public schools and many …

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CarePoint, a new network of three hospitals’ operations, is seeking to become a licensed provider for Medicaid in Hudson County in time to greet the flood of new patients who will require medical care starting in January 2014 when the provisions of the federal plan known as Obamacare kick in. CarePoint is a hybrid, a …

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Dawn Eden has had a wild career trajectory, from being a passionate rock-and-roll writer, to winning an award for a funny headline in the New York Post, to eventually studying theology and finding salvation in the arms of the saints. Eden, a former staff writer for the Hudson Reporter and former Hoboken resident, was a …

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