Category: Jersey City News

Arguing that if the city can condemn and seize property in one part of town, it can do it anywhere, a group of McGinley Square property owners last week launched a citywide campaign to pressure local officials to protect the rights of Jersey City property owners. Specifically, the group wants the City Council to beef …

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Every trash collection night they’re out there, alley cats digging and pawing at garbage bags in search of food. Some residents consider these cats a public nuisance. Others take pity on them, leaving food and water in bowls on the street. But a growing number of animal welfare activists argue that neither response offers a …

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The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority (JCMUA) has reached a settlement with the federal government to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Under terms of the settlement, the JCMUA has agreed to pay a $375,000 fine, and will also spend more than $52 million to repair and upgrade …

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As luxury high rise development continues to sprout along Jersey City’s “Gold Coast,” there’s a perhaps less noticeable building boom taking place elsewhere in the city. The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency and the Franklin Redevelopment Group are just months away from groundbreaking on the Mary O’Malley Homes, 16 units of workforce housing in the Jersey …

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A year after the Hudson County Schools of Technology board voted to do away with sports at the two countywide public high schools, Hudson County Freeholders are still trying to find a way to restore some programs. During a heated exchange between Freeholder Chairman Bill O’Dea and Schools Superintendent Frank Gargiulo at a freeholder meeting …

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For-profit entity strikes deal to buy Christ Hospital; state says 3 hospitals should combine services Christ Hospital in Jersey City has announced that Prime Healthcare Services, a California-based for-profit healthcare company, has struck a deal to buy the medical facility. The deal must still be approved by the office of the State Attorney General, the …

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Over the past several years the area outside the Journal Square transit station on Kennedy Blvd. has become the de facto year-round home to a growing community of homeless people who congregate near the 9/11 Memorial Fountain or the farmers market area. Residents and neighborhood groups have periodically asked the city, county, and advocates for …

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The city’s McGinley Square East Redevelopment Plan does not currently include plans to take over residential properties through the use of eminent domain, but residents in the affected area still fear their homes could be in jeopardy later as the plan moves forward. In the second of several meetings to discuss the plan, residents voiced …

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On Saturday the city completed the second of a two-day gun buyback program designed to get illegal firearms off the streets in an effort to reduce violence. On the first day of the buyback, held on July 16, more than five dozen guns were turned in for cash, including a machine gun known as a …

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