Category: Jersey City News

After three months of controversy and protests, the Jersey City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution declaring McGinley Square East as an area in need of rehabilitation and then voted to introduce a revised redevelopment plan for the area. The McGinley Square East Redevelopment Plan will come up for a final vote on Oct. …

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Hudson County residents who want to see high-end work from noted painters, sculptors, photographers, and other artists no longer have to trek into Manhattan or pay $20 admission fees at pricey museums, thanks to Mana Contemporary. A new art complex at 888 Newark Ave. in the Journal Square neighborhood, Mana served as host of the …

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In 1955, the year 16-year-old Dennis Hayes went to work part-time for the Jersey City Free Public Library, his hourly wage of 50 cents was enough for the youngster to give his mother 10 bucks for household expenses and still have enough left over for 12-cent movies at the Palace Theater on Newark Avenue. Some …

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Hudson County hospitals were front and center at a state Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Senate subcommittee meeting on Monday. Sept. 19, that focused on for-profit hospitals in New Jersey. The hearing came just days after allegations of bankruptcy fraud were made against Hoboken University Medical Center (HUMC), and on the same day it …

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Missing JC mom found dead, husband arrested Steven Acuna, the husband of Randy “Amanda” Lehrer, who went missing from Jersey City on Aug. 13, has been arrested and charged in her alleged murder. A week ago Friday, police found Lehrer’s decomposing, folded body encased in cement in a 55-gallon drum in the basement of the …

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On Sept. 11, 2001, Maggie Ruperto-Rivera worked as an in-house security guard for the 22-story Marriott World Trade Center. A former employee of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Ruperto-Rivera had worked at the World Trade Center since the 1980s, first for the PA, then later for the hotel chain. In discussing …

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This month, Jersey City inspectors, armed with newly-acquired decibel meters, will hit the streets to measure sound levels each time residents call the Police Department to file noise complaints. The meters are part of a multi-strategy approach the city is using to monitor sound levels in the Newport and Grove Plaza communities, two of the …

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An ongoing legal battle between Jersey City’s Liberty Humane Society animal shelter (LHS) and several of its ex-volunteers will continue this fall when criminal charges against two ex-volunteers will be heard in Union City and Secaucus municipal courts. A war of words began during the summer of 2010 when groups of shelter volunteers, managers, and …

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Jersey City will ask a Hudson County Superior Court to postpone mandatory redistricting for the city’s six municipal wards pending the results of an appeal of the city’s census numbers. City Clerk Robert Byrne said Friday the appeal will likely be filed this week. All cities must redraw the lines of their wards due to …

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Federal appeals court upholds Beldini conviction The Third Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld the conviction of former Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini. Once a political ally of Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, Beldini was among 46 public officials and religious leaders who were arrested in 2009 as part of a Federal Bureau of …

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