Category: Jersey City News

Healy plans to file for intervenor status to oppose pipeline M ayor Jerramiah Healy announced Wednesday afternoon that he will file, on behalf of Jersey City, for intervenor status within the next 10 days. Filing for intervenor status will give the mayor legal standing if a lawsuit is filed to stop the natural gas pipeline …

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Darren Rivers earned the nickname “Demonslayer” early in his career as a Jersey City fire fighter for his aggressiveness and fearlessness in going into burning buildings. “I really didn’t have a lot of fear, and I attribute a lot of that to the firemen who were my superiors – some of the best I ever …

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Tears came to Rosa Felix’s eyes when she got ready to speak to the audience gathered in front of her new home Tuesday morning on Ocean Avenue in Jersey City. They came out for the dedication of the first home completed by Habitat for Humanity of Hudson County, a branch of the international organization that …

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More than 40 years has passed since the controversial killing of the Jersey City light heavyweight boxer Frankie DePaula. DePaula was shot in the dark alley of an apartment building on Harrison Avenue on the city’s west side on May 14, 1970, allegedly lured there by a note from his manager. DePaula died four months …

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The Golden Door Mini-Golf course has been quite an attraction for downtown Jersey City residents, young and old, who wanted to get in some putting fun. But the fun’s over, because the course near Hamilton Park shut down officially at a closing party/fundraiser Tuesday night. About 50 people attended the event, playing a nine-hole course …

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Prosecutor: Jersey City man shot in robbery that went ‘tragically wrong’ Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said on Tuesday that a Jersey City man was killed in his apartment earlier that morning in what is believed to be a robbery that went “tragically wrong.” DeFazio said Ardell Blake, 30, was found dead in his Forrest …

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The battle rages on at The Liberty Humane Society’s animal shelter in Jersey City between the shelter’s management and former volunteer workers over the shelter’s euthanasia policy. And the shelter is still in danger of closing, because state inspectors on Aug. 24 found violations that must be remedied within two weeks. The shelter provides animal …

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Right now, “Empty Sky,” the state’s $13 million 9/11 memorial project in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, is just a huge hill framed against the Manhattan skyline, and not ready for any tributes or memorials this coming Sept. 11. But plans by the state moved forward last week to finish the memorial. It will …

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