Category: Jersey City News

Pres. Barack Obama endorsed New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine in front of 20,000 people at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on Thursday, including Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, who stayed briefly but was summoned back to Jersey City for an afternoon press conference on a tragic shooting. Some criticized Healy for attending the …

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Two Jersey City police officers wounded in a shootout Thursday remained in intensive care on Friday and three other wounded officers were recovering as police continued to sort out the aftermath of the melee. What started with police acting on a tip about an attempted robbery and shooting near the Pulaski Skyway turned into a …

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The controversy over Jersey City Councilwoman Nidia Lopez’s dual residency in Florida and New Jersey is a battle just like her recent election. The candidate she defeated in a May race for the Ward C council seat, Jimmy King, is challenging her legitimacy as a candidate, but this time it is through a lawsuit rather …

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The Jersey City Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners recently approved two development companies to replace the Montgomery Gardens housing complex on Montgomery Street in downtown Jersey City. But residents of the low-income public housing project have gotten no guarantee that they can return when their units are replaced with mixed-income housing. In fact, JCHA Executive …

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Lawmakers in Trenton recently passed legislation to limit abuses in absentee ballot voting – potentially cutting down on dirty tricks in local elections. The “vote-by-mail” law, which went into effect July 1, could have major implications for several close races this fall, including the statewide race for governor and the local mayoral race in Secaucus. …

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Council approves funding for Embankment lawyer; Hyman files suit The City Council at its Wednesday meeting approved by a 5-2 vote another contract with Seattle lawyer Charles Montange, who has been providing legal counsel to the city about the Sixth Street Embankment, the historic group of sandstone and granite walls spanning Sixth Street downtown from …

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Back in 2005, Cheng C. “Terry” Tan fought off an effort by the city to condemn his downtown Jersey City bar so they could use the property for an athletic field for St. Peter’s Prep High School. Now his own development plans for the land have been met with silence from the city, and he’s …

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While the internet is always full of angry chatter about political incumbents, in recent weeks, a downtown Jersey City website called JCList has been filled with talk of initiating a recall of the mayor and the members of the City Council. Is this idle chatter, or an actual movement? It’s hard to tell. Longtime city …

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Alfa Demmellash’s personal experience of coming to America is what informs her to this day. She emigrated to the U.S. from her native Ethiopia in 1992 at the age of 13, joining her mother already living in Boston, Mass. Her mother worked as a waitress by day and a seamstress by night. It was the …

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The Jersey City Public Library is inviting well-known authors from the city to the second annual A Tale of Our City book festival on Sept. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Van Vorst Park. Sonia Araujo, the assistant library director for the Jersey City Public Library, said last week that authors participating in …

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