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Erin Peterson, 24, met her fiancé when they were both working at the ShopRite in Hoboken four years ago. This coming July, their life will be full of magic, as they plan to wed in one of their favorite places – Disney World in Florida. “We always like going there,” Peterson said last week. Peterson, …
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Before the year ends, another first-class hotel in Jersey City will break ground when construction starts on a 300-room Hilton Hotel on Marin Boulevard in the downtown Liberty Harbor North Redevelopment Area. Discussion on that hotel project took place at the Jersey City Planning Board’s meeting on February 24, after which several deviations from its …
Horizon Foundation awards grants to JC organizations The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey announced recently that the Foundation awarded $6.6 million in grants to 125 organizations in 2008. Among the local grant recipients are: • Jersey City Museum in Jersey City received a grant of $10,000 to support its Arts Education programs that are offered …
The Jersey City City Council, at its meeting Wednesday, tabled the Journal Square Redevelopment Plan. The plan outlines how to revitalize the Journal Square area of town, adding 10,000 to 15,000 new residential units within a 244-acre area. The proposal also envisions development of thousands of square feet of commercial and retail space and 9 …
Bob Hurley did not become the legendary coach of Jersey City’s powerhouse St. Anthony High School basketball team overnight. Nor was there an immediate path to his current enshrinement in the Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame. Hurley and four other current Hall of Famers shared their life experiences leading up to their current success …
Over an hour was spent by the Jersey City Planning Board at its Tuesday meeting listening to a presentation of the Provost Square project, a three-tower, 925-unit complex proposed by Pennsylvania-based developers Toll Brothers for downtown Jersey City. The presentation will continue on March 10 in City Hall, 280 Grove St., to allow for public …
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As Black History Month, February is a time to ingrain the accomplishments of African-Americans in the minds of the next generation. It is also a time to get them fully engaged in learning rather than simply observing. Some members of that next generation were on display at in the City Hall in Jersey City on …
Continue reading “Speeches fit for a kingChildren compete in city’s MLK Oratory Contest”
The six-building Montgomery Gardens housing complex on Montgomery Street in downtown Jersey City is either a relic of bad housing policy and should be torn down, or a group of necessary affordable apartments for hundreds of residents – depending on whom you ask. Montgomery Gardens is managed by the Jersey City Housing Authority, an autonomous …
Over the last several weeks, news outlets have been abuzz about the eBay sale of the 201 area code version of the phone number made famous by the 1980s rocker Tommy Tutone in the song “867-5309/Jenny.” Weehawken Disc Jockey Spencer Potter had the number for five years as the contact for his business, A Blast …
There is an electric billboard, the kind one sees on a highway alerting drivers to construction or an accident, several feet from the southern corner of Grand and Monmouth streets in downtown Jersey City. Flashing across this billboard is a message from the Jersey City Police Department, a few words at a time, asking the …