Category: Jersey City News

A behind-the-scenes campaign to relocate the U.S. Navy’s most decorated war ship from Camden to Jersey City is now underway, a campaign that threatens to revive an old tug of war between north and south Jersey. A decade has passed since the Battleship USS New Jersey sailed around the U.S. and landed in Camden, after …

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Jersey City parents are questioning the integrity of the search for a new superintendent of schools now that the state has appointed a professional monitor to supervise the public school district’s day-to-day operations under interim school superintendent Franklin Walker. The Board of Education gave Walker a six-month contract to serve as interim school superintendent through …

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While commercial real estate owners and the owners of non-abated residential properties have voiced their opinions and concerns about the revaluation currently going on, one group – the owners of tax-abated condo units – has largely been on the sidelines. What, if anything, does the ongoing reval mean for abated property owners? The reval, which …

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It has been said that bigger isn’t necessarily better, an adage that may very well apply to ethnic festivals and parades in Hudson County this year. A week after a Hoboken committee canceled that city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade comes word that at least one of Jersey City’s ethnic festivals will be scaled back. …

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In what may likely be seen as a dysfunctional political family, recent swearing-in ceremonies for county officials took two days to accomplish, despite pomp that included two U.S. senators and one member of the House of Representatives, as well as state senators, state Assembly members, mayors, council members, and other dignitaries. On Jan. 3, U.S. …

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Council prez showdown this week? This week, the City Council could get a new president – or not. The high drama showdown that began two weeks ago when the council majority introduced a proposal by Nidia Lopez to change city law to allow the council to elect a new president every two years, rather than …

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The city’s long-feared revaluation of privately-owned, taxable properties is now in full swing, with 22 inspectors canvassing neighborhoods in the Jersey City Heights and Greenville. By the time the current months-long reval is complete, the vast majority of Jersey City’s approximately 54,243 taxable properties will have been evaluated. The reval, which began last fall, is …

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By a vote of 5-3-1, the City Council introduced a measure Wednesday night to replace current Council President Peter Brennan with At-large City Councilwoman Viola Richardson, a move spurred by the change in makeup in the council after November’s special election for two at-large seats. The ordinance would give the City Council the ability to …

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Due to changes in population as detailed by the most recent U.S. Census, maps for congressional legislative districts across New Jersey were redrawn. The maps selected for the redistricting of House of Representatives seats will divide Bayonne and Jersey City, splitting each town between U.S. Rep. Albio Sires of West New York and Rep. Donald …

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It was reported last week that Jersey City is using tax breaks and land to try to draw the on-line grocery delivery service Fresh Direct from Queens to this city, along with as many as 1,800 jobs (see Briefs). If the firm crosses the river, it will be in good company. Mayor Jerramiah Healy recognized …

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