Category: Jersey City News

Many of the longstanding Christmas decorations of Jersey City’s past are long gone. Some, such as a display at the corner of Terrace Avenue and Bleeker, will soon vanish as redevelopment makes inroads on some more traditional neighborhoods. But many new displays are appearing each year, especially as the local economy improves. Jersey City comes …

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Development proposals to help Liberty State Park pay for its upkeep and possibly reduce its $35 million debt continue to come under fire as the Hudson County Board of Freeholders joined the Jersey City Council and other local activists in opposition. At the request of Gov. Christopher Christie to find a way to help make …

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City spokesperson to leave Saying he has been approached with an offer he could not pass up, city spokesperson Ryan Jacobs, 28, will leave Jersey City government after only five months. Jacobs said he has an opportunity to author a political analysis book at a key time before the presidential elections next year, and could …

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Despite a report revealing rats and cockroaches at motels where Hudson County welfare officials temporarily house people made homeless by economics, fires, or disasters, the Board of Freeholders has voted to pay more than $170,000 in bills to them. However, the county has not had contracts with the motels since 2013. Robert Knapp, deputy director …

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With last week’s opening of a branch office in Jersey City and branches coming soon to Bayonne and Hoboken, Investors Bank Chief Executive Office Kevin Cummings has come home. The son of a Jersey City police officer, Cummings was born in Arlington Gardens on Randolph Street before moving across town near St. Peter’s University. “It’s …

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The kids from Happy Face Day Care center in Jersey City couldn’t wait for Mayor Steven Fulop to cut the ribbon on the newly-reconstructed playground in Janet Moore Park on Ogden Avenue. So they decided to start without him. Begun in September, the $233,257 renovations finished a month early, prompting Fulop, community leaders, residents, and …

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Perhaps the most hopeful sign at this year’s menorah lighting in City Hall on Dec. 7 was two Jewish kids, one African American and the other Caucasian, playing the dreidel game on one of the tables just prior to the event. A dreidel is a pointy, four-sided top that can be made to spin on …

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Arrest made in Dickinson High School shooting Jefferson Sencion, 18, of Jersey City, has been arrested for allegedly shooting another 18-year-old boy near Dickinson High School on Dec. 8. According to Jersey City Police Spokesperson Jennifer Morrill, a dispute that began inside the school escalated to a physical altercation and the youths left the school. …

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As many as one hundred people gathered in the cafeteria of Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health on Dec. 1 to participate in what has become a historic walk, marking World AIDS Day. A national commemoration which began in 1988, World AIDS day provides an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in their fight against HIV, …

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Members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) gathered on Thursday with public officials, members of the Muslim community, and religious leaders from nearly every faith from Jersey City and Northern Jersey to challenge recent statements by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, especially his claim that Muslims in Jersey City and Paterson cheered during the …

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