Category: Jersey City News

A recent double murder at the Arlington Gardens housing development on Randolph Avenue has local officials concerned. Kevin Hodges, 36, has been charged with the brutal murder of his mother and grandmother on Dec. 5. “The Jersey City Police Department received a 911 call that there was someone screaming for help,” Hudson County Prosecutor Esther …

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For those familiar with the classic movie “On the Waterfront,” they know the basement of St. Peter & Paul Church in Hoboken was originally a meeting place of people attempting to reform the crime-ridden waterfront. People who really needed help came to meet there. Since 2013, in real life, this same basement has become a …

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For those familiar with the classic movie “On the Waterfront,” they know the basement of St. Peter & Paul Church in Hoboken was originally a meeting place of people attempting to reform the crime-ridden waterfront. People who really needed help came to meet there. Since 2013, in real life, this same basement has become a …

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“It’s raining, but there’s not a cloud in the sky,” Bruce Springsteen once sang, reflecting the horrible aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Springsteen was pointing out the irony that on one of the clearest fall days in September, the sky was filled with fire, smoke, and people. …

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Brooklyn-based not-for-profit Rooftop Films will presents two movies at the Harborside Atrium on Dec. 17, the Disney classic “The Muppets Christmas Carol” and a Sundance Selects film, “I, Daniel Blake.” The films are part of the Holidays at Harborside Atrium, and both are free. This is part of a holiday treat that includes face painting …

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Brooklyn-based not-for-profit Rooftop Films will presents two movies at the Harborside Atrium on Dec. 17, the Disney classic “The Muppets Christmas Carol” and a Sundance Selects film, “I, Daniel Blake.” The films are part of the Holidays at Harborside Atrium, and both are free. This is part of a holiday treat that includes face painting …

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For more than an hour before festivities were scheduled to start at Newport Towne Center on Thursday, kids and parents began to arrive. Although the Christmas music played over speakers, and a small trackless train spun around the square carrying kids, these were only side shows to the main act most kids had come to …

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Seated in the Brightside Tavern for breakfast two weeks after the Board of Education election, four women candidates gathered for a candid talk about their experiences. Although they all ran on different slates or independently, the four women appeared to have much in common, not just in their philosophies, but also in what they went …

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With Ward F Councilwoman Diane Coleman slated to resign by Dec. 31 because she won election as County Register, Mayor Steven Fulop wants to know who the community wants him to appoint as a replacement. Fulop announced last week that the city has set up an email application process for those who might be interested …

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For kids growing up in the 1960s, the East Village was always the hip place to go in New York, a remote almost mystical place where the most cutting-edge artists came together with the some of the most powerfully political radicals. Teeny boppers always wandered to the West Village and Washington Square, while those truly …

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