Category: Jersey City News

The City Council has voted to expand Jersey City’s earned sick day ordinance so that all businesses are now required to provide paid sick days to their employees. Using a health code provision, on Wednesday the council voted 7 to 1 with one abstention to require businesses with fewer than 10 employees to let workers …

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Want to attend an entertaining off-Broadway-like play produced in your own backyard, with actors and staff who are your neighbors or maybe those shopping next to you at the supermarket each week? Then “Jackson is Gone,” a “serio-comic” play being staged by the Hudson Theatre Works from Nov. 4 to Nov. 21, may be just …

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Soon there will be more beds available in the local homeless shelter that serves Union City and nearby towns, but it is not enough. On Oct. 15 the Union City zoning board approved an expansion to the second floor of their location on 37th Street, where the offices and storage are currently located. An additional …

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Al Sharpton to visit Jersey City Rev. Al Sharpton will be the guest speaker at an 84th anniversary of Calvary Christian Methodist Episocopal Church, 25 Oak St., Jersey City, on Sunday, Nov. 8 at the 11 a.m. service. Sharpton, born Oct. 3, 1954, is an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, television/radio talk show host …

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Four candidates vying for three seats on the Board of Education aired their views at a forum sponsored by the Paulus Hook Neighborhood Association on Oct. 19. Incumbents Vidya Gangadin and Marilyn Roman along with John Reichart are running on a ticket together, and have the endorsement of the Jersey City Education Association (JCEA), the …

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Facing stiff fines for failing to fence in a vacant lot, a property owner on Wegman Court may have inadvertently caused a traffic nightmare and a safety hazard. Residents who appeared before the Oct. 14 City Council meeting said that compliance with a relatively new vacant lot law has made it impossible for cars to …

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Councilman Daniel Rivera grinned like a kid as he moved through the crowds in front of City Hall on Oct. 15. Latin music echoed off the stone face of city government buildings, while at the foot of the city’s tribute to veterans of World War I, flags flew, representing the numerous Latin nations from which …

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After an extremely successful art program for kids last year, Jersey City resident Susan Newman, founder of Frogs Are Green, will expand it this year. Based in Jersey City, the program managed to get student art displayed in a number of public venues last year, including a display in the City Hall rotunda, the City …

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When poet Joyce Kilmer wrote, “I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree,” he did not have a tree in Hamilton Park in mind. But he could have. His lyric poem, “Trees,” written in February 1913, is said to have been inspired by one of several locations in New Jersey …

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Jersey City to combat inequality in awarding city contracts Mayor Steven Fulop has announced that he will begin implementing a strategic plan to combat inequality in the awarding of city contracts. The plan was approved by the City Council last week, and aims to address the persistent under-representation of women- and minority-owned businesses among the …

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