Category: Jersey City News

When Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop pushed the plunger and demolished three buildings at the Montgomery Gardens Housing project on Aug. 29, hundreds of housing units for the poorest residents in the city turned to rubble. Although federal housing regulations require the city to replace those units, the city intends to build more upscale housing. …

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The good news for many Jersey City students who will go back to school on Sept. 10 is that the district has spent the summer repairing trailers that serve as classrooms alongside most of the district’s schools. Many of the elevators in disrepair in certain schools have also been fixed in time for the reopening. …

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He’s lived half his life in Jersey City and half in Bayonne, and PJ Leonard has seen a lot. In fact, he is the kind of guy who pops up right in the center of political action, even it’s only as the manger of a tavern. In his 48 years on this earth, Leonard has …

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“One quarter mile,” County Executive Tom DeGise told Marilyn Shazor, the regional administrator the Federal Transit Administration (and a Secaucus resident), during a countywide tour of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail Line on Wednesday, Sept 2. He explained that if the existing light rail tracks were extended just a quarter of a mile in Jersey …

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After drawing an estimated attendance of between 8,000 to 10,000 people, organizers of this year’s Jersey City LGBT Pride Festival called it a great success. “The week exceeded my expectations,” said Eduardo Baez, co-founder of Gayborhood. “The events during the week were all well-received and attendance to all was great. The festival itself has officially …

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Jersey City to commemorate 9/11 tragedy Jersey City will mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack with a ceremony starting at 8:20 a.m. near its Exchange Place Memorial on Friday, Sept. 11. The ceremony will last about an hour and a half, and will honor the victims of the attack on Sept. 11, …

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Neighborhood kids rushed through the sprinklers and slipped down the slides at the newly-reopened Boyd-McGuiness Park on Aug. 25, while adults gathered to cut the ribbon to celebrate the reopening. An $850,000 refurbishing expanded the size of the space at the corner of Duncan Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard after a fire gutted a house on …

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When you grow up in a housing project, you’re bound to get mixed feelings when the buildings are demolished to make way for the future. One part of you might remember the after-school fights, the scary walks home at night, the street gangs, drug dealers, and the visible and invisible scars of living with tension …

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Founder Bill Sorvino predicts The 2015 Golden Door Film Festival will be bigger and even better than ever. The festival will take place from Sept. 24 to 27, with the opening and closing nights at the Landmark Loew’s Theater and screenings in venues all over the city. This year’s festival has drawn 50 percent more …

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Brittani Bunney didn’t grow up in Hudson County. But after being here more than a decade, she has come to understand what it means to realize her dreams. A native of Spearfish, S.D., Bunney attended Hudson County Community College, then Montclair University, before working as a manager for Leasing and Communications for Silverman, a prominent …

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