Category: Jersey City News

Frank Hague was 73 years old on May 10, 1949. Even though he had retired two years earlier from his 30-year job as mayor of Jersey City, Hague still had a stake in the mayor’s race that night, as he was putting up his handpicked successor, his nephew Frank Hague Eggers, for the seat. During …

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The Friends of the Loew’s is the volunteer group that operates the 79-year-old historic Loew’s Jersey Theater in Journal Square. Their relationship with the city, which owns the theater that the group is constantly restoring, has become strained in recent years. The city has questioned the validity of the group’s lease to operate the theater, …

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Severn Willis stepped up to the podium in the City Council Chambers of Jersey City’s City Hall on April 22 and asked a piercing question regarding chromium cleanup in his neighborhood: “How could the corporation counsel advise the city administration to settle for 20 parts per million?” Willis, a longtime resident in the city’s Bergen-Lafayette …

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JC man stabbed to death in apartment; city’s 10th homicide Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said on Friday that Manuel Reyes Sr., 48, of Van Wagenen and Pavonia avenues, was pronounced dead at his home at 9:40 p.m. DeFazio said Reyes was found by a relative in the doorway of his apartment, stabbed in his …

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The five men running for mayor in the May 12 Jersey City municipal election – incumbent Jerramiah Healy along with L. Harvey Smith, Phillip Webb, Louis Manzo, and Dan Levin – met at the Hudson Reporter’s main office in Hoboken for a 90-minute debate on April 21. _____________ The debate was also videotaped and can …

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Kaushal Saran, 52, currently resides in Norman, Okla. – over 1,300 miles away from his former hometown of Jersey City, and over 20 years removed from the incident that changed his life forever. Saran, previously known as Sharan, was a 30-year-old physician who walked out of an office building on Central Avenue and Ferry Street …

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After nine homicides in Jersey City this year, not to mention several non-fatal shootings of young people in a park in the Greenville section recently, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio last week said there may be a connection between at least three of the incidents, and that some may have been gang-related and for revenge. …

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Steve Hyman, the owner of the Sixth Street Embankment property – a former railroad property that some activists want preserve as a public park – spoke out recently at two public meetings last week about his desire to develop homes there. Hyman shared his struggles at the April 22 City Council meeting and at a …

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The Brunswick Street Community Garden means a lot to downtown Jersey City resident Barbara Landes. “It’s a wonderful place to be,” said Landes in an interview last week. “It is a beautiful oasis of green in the inner city.” The garden, two lots on Brunswick Street adjacent to the Sixth Street Embankment that total one-tenth …

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