Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Residents get reval letters Property owners throughout Jersey City have begun to receive letters from the Office of the City Assessor alerting them about the upcoming revaluation, scheduled to begin later this year by the firm Realty Appraisal Company. A revaluation is a reassessment of taxpaying properties so that they can start paying the correct …
Last week Jersey City residents started receiving their most recent quarterly property tax bills in the mail, and some people don’t like what they see. In a year when the mayor promised to keep taxes stable some residents say they’re being hit with tax increases. Longtime resident Shelley Skinner, who lives in a downtown brownstone …
Continue reading “Is municipal budget to blame?
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When a craft fair draws crowds of city hipsters to an empty parking lot to buy handmade jewelry formed from bullet shell casings and feathers, or sterling sliver mixed with cement, you know you’re not in Kansas anymore. Hundreds of guests and nearly 100 vendors turned out on June 25 in the Morgan parking lot …
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One of these years, Hudson County’s Fourth of July waterfront secret is going to get out, and we’ll be elbowing crowds from Staten Island and Bergen County for views of the annual Macy’s fireworks display on our home turf. Hopefully, 2011 isn’t that year. For the third year in a row the Macy’s Fourth of …
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As is the case with every graduation, the McNair Academic High school commencement ceremony was marked with speeches, pomp, circumstance, and, naturally, tears. Some proud parents admitted that with the graduation came some feelings of trepidation. “It feels a little scary,” said Tonya Robinson of her daughter Charmaine Robinson’s graduation. “She’s the eldest. She’s the …
Continue reading “Parting glances
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Jury awards $4M for lost skyline view In what could be a precedent-setting case, a Hudson County Superior Court jury has awarded nearly $4 million in compensation to 16 condo owners whose prized Manhattan skyline views were obscured by another high rise. In a lawsuit brought by 16 residents who own condominium in the Shore …
In recent years, as downtown Jersey City has reveled in its newfound status as a fashionable hub for artists, professionals, and cosmopolitan progressives, the community has experienced the growing pains that often go with being trendy. High rents and parking problems have been challenges in the neighborhood for years. Now noise seems to be the …
Continue reading “All quiet on the downtown front?
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When hundreds of high school students trade in their school uniforms for square hats and flammable nylon robes, it must be commencement season. Jersey City’s six public high schools – Henry Snyder, Ferris, McNair Academic, William L. Dickinson, Liberty, and Abraham Lincoln – will graduate their 2011 classes on Monday, June 27. Jersey City-based County …
Continue reading “The best is yet to come
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What the #@*% is that smell? It’s a question that’s asked a lot these days by PATH riders who stop at Journal Square and residents who live in the vicinity of the transit hub on Kennedy Blvd. “Oh, God, I can’t breathe,” said one PATH passenger who darted off a Journal Square train and practically …
Continue reading “Talking trash
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With the summer vacation season about to kick into high gear, millions of visitors are expected to travel to the Big Apple before Labor Day. (Last year, an estimated 48.7 million people visited New York City – a record – according to a spokesman for Empire State Development.) The thriftiest of these visitors won’t be …
Continue reading “Tourism tax to the rescue
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