Category: Jersey City News

The latest version of the Journal Square Redevelopment plan is up for consideration by the Jersey City Planning Board at its July 13 meeting, after which the board may – or may not – recommend the plan to the City Council for approval. The 57-block area that contains the Journal Square PATH/bus station and historic …

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People seeking new educational alternatives in Jersey City have three reasons to be hopeful about the future. Applications for three charter schools to open in Jersey City in fall 2011 have been submitted to the state. The results will be announced by Sept. 1. Charter schools are public schools, but they are usually founded by …

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Jersey City continues to benefit from companies deciding to leave Manhattan. Intrasphere Technologies Inc. a life sciences consulting firm, relocated to Jersey City’s Harborside Plaza 10 building this month when its lease expired in New York City at the end of June. Princeton Information Ltd., an IT consulting firm, began shifting employees from New York …

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When St. Anthony of Padua Church in downtown Jersey City holds its annual festival on July 9 through 11, the focus will be not only on sharing a joyous occasion for the community – but also on money. The church, on Monmouth Street near Sixth Street, is seeking the public’s help to raise funds for …

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Investigation ongoing into Jersey City man’s murder The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Squad is still investigating the murder of a Jersey City man Monday night after he was shot several times. First Assistant Prosecutor Guy Gregory said Darren Edwards, 22, of the Holland Gardens public housing complex on 16th Street, was pronounced dead at …

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Is Jersey City about to buy the Sixth Street Embankment? The embankment consists of six blocks along Sixth Street from Marin Boulevard to Brunswick Street in downtown Jersey City that carried a Pennsylvania Railroad freight line from 1902 through the 1970s. Right now, the property is owned by New Yorker Steve Hyman and his wife, …

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The six regular Jersey City public high schools will hold their individual graduation ceremonies this Wednesday, June 30, while one public charter school will hold its ceremony the same day and another already held its graduation June 17. Meanwhile, hundreds of students from the five Catholic high schools in town already graduated from their respective …

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The Jersey City Museum held its annual “Artrageous on the Green” benefit fundraiser on Wednesday in downtown Jersey City – an event that carried more importance this year than in previous years. The museum is open only on Saturdays for five hours, a big change from its four-day-a-week operating schedule that was slashed on April …

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