Category: Jersey City News

Over 350 guests dined and danced to the music of an eight-piece orchestra at the Christ Hospital Foundation’s second annual charity black-tie fund-raiser, “Dancing Under the Harvest Moon,” held on Saturday, Nov. 7 at the Marriott at Glenpointe in Teaneck, N.J. The event raised over $400,000 – a new record – and all proceeds benefit …

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Warehouse-sized liquor store has grand opening The new Buy-Rite liquor store on Manila Avenue in Jersey City had its grand opening Monday morning, as shoppers stocked up on beer and wine for the Thanksgiving holiday. The 60,000 square-foot space, located only blocks away from the Holland Tunnel in a building that was once a warehouse …

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How bad is unemployment in Jersey City? In September, the unemployment rate in Jersey City was 12 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a 66 percent jump from the 7.2 percent rate in September of 2008. That means 13,989 people were not working, out of a labor force of 116,815 residents. A …

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Jersey City residents will see a 24 percent jump in their combined water/sewer bill starting on Jan. 1. That’s because the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority Board of Commissioners voted at their board meeting on Oct. 29 to raise the combined water/sewer rate from this year’s $6.58 per 100 cubic feet to $8.15 per 100 …

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Never has the old adage of “necessity is the mother of invention” been as true as when Terri Lalka found herself in the middle of Journal Square trying to get to Manhattan. She decided there had to be a better way to commute than the existing transit systems. So after her job was downsized due …

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‘Anne Frank’ 50th Anniversary Screening at Loew’s A 50th Anniversary screening of the classic movie, “The Diary of Anne Frank,” will take place Sunday, Nov. 15th at 3 p.m. at The Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre, 54 Journal Square. Directed by Hollywood legend George Stevens, and starring Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, and Shelley Winters, this Oscar-winning …

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Seven people have pled guilty and three have pled not guilty in connection with the July 23 arrests of 44 religious leaders and public officials resulting from the federal government’s dual investigation of public corruption/money laundering. There are 35 people who still have not entered a plea – one of whom will never have the …

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