Category: Jersey City News

JC Fridays launches into fall with a host of events throughout Jersey City on Sept. 5. Restaurants, galleries, stores, and event spaces throughout Jersey City will showcase a variety of art-related happenings including visual exhibitions, live music, performance acts, educational demonstrations, and more. All events are free and open to the public. With one of …

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Enjoy Greek food, fun, and music on Sept. 6-7 Greek hospitality will be in full effect to celebrate the annual Jersey City Greek Festival at the Evangelismos Tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church of Hudson County, 661 Montgomery St., Jersey City. The festival will take place from noon to midnight on Saturday, Sept. 6 and from …

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Thomas Wolfe was wrong; you can go home again. That’s the theme of a new feature film that had local and international talents shooting a full length independent film at various locations in Hudson County over the last two weeks. Called “Sugar!” the film is produced by Jersey City-based Silver Phoenix Entertainment along with Lauren …

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Not all of the pre-recorded music that came out the speakers at La Festa Italiana were Frank Sinatra songs, but so many were that he might have been considered among the saints being honored. The La Festa Italiana, which ran from Aug. 13 to 17, is held every year near Holy Rosary Church in downtown …

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  The City Council has introduced an ordinance that would authorize a 25-year agreement with a developer who will build a new $14 million City Hall annex on Martin Luther King Drive. The annex, in the neighborhood popularly known as The Hub, would be leased to the city in a lease-purchase agreement. But Ward D …

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On almost any Monday or Thursday afternoon from May to December you can find healthy food at the Grove Street PATH plaza. You can also find a lot of other stuff, like dancers dancing with ears of corn, or singers performing. But the real treasure is the remarkably wide selection of eatables. The farmer’s market …

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Newport came alive with movement and color as kids demonstrated dances of India, traditional and modern before a crowd of nearly 500 people in the River Market Place on Aug. 15. Hosted by NewportMommy.com and Surati, a nonprofit Indian dance and education group, the event will include singing and dance, including kids from local schools, …

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City Council defeats five-minute rule for ordinance remarks Gadflies and community activists railed against an ordinance that would have put a five-minute speaking limit on public comments in regard pending ordinances.While a few of the almost two dozen speakers at the Aug. 20 meeting supported the council proposal, most opposed the measure.Councilman Richard Boggiano had …

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People came dressed for a ball to the site of the former First National Bank of Jersey City on Aug. 11, passing under the brass ornamental door and across the marble floors of the once-posh lobby and into what once was the broad interior of the bank. Beyond the gate, the old walls had been …

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Heifer, the black and white goat and presumed leader of the herd of goats who are spending the summer at Harsimus Cemetery in Jersey City, bleats from the top of a fallen tree. Out of the maze of historic gravestones and the few remaining patches of weeds, other goats emerge. Carmella, a brown goat with …

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