Category: Jersey City News

Picture a smaller version of the Hoboken Arts Festival with its host of food vendors, and you get a fair idea of what JC Project EATS looked like when it was unveiled in front of City Hall recently, a day-long street fair celebrating warm days, cool drinks, and delicious eats. The spirit of the event …

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Most of the 15 Jersey City residents that came to the Mary McCleod Bethune Life Center on July 24 wore blue shirts and black pants, a kind of uniform for the next step in their lives as potential emergence medical technicians (EMTs). But they had already gone through a rigorous selection process that showed they …

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Jersey City Det. Ed Dolan knew a good thing when he saw it. Five years ago, he came across a program offered by Barclay’s Golf Tournament that offered to give money to charity if a charity helped sell tickets to the event. This was not just a percentage of the ticket sales, but the entire …

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Superstorm Sandy produced the worst local flooding than any storm in recorded history, according to findings presented July 30 in Jersey City at a forum at City Hall. But even without a catastrophic hurricane, climate change and rising sea levels pose serious risks to low-lying portions of Hudson County unless preventive action is taken. That’s …

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It was party time in downtown Jersey City, as the developers of the newly-opened luxury rental building at 18 Park invited their friends and supporters for a shindig on the building’s landscaped roof deck. Mayor Steven Fulop joined officials from Ironstate Development company and Kushner Real Estate (KE) Group on July 29 to officially open …

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After three young teenagers from Jersey City were implicated in the death of a 46-year-old homeless man in Hoboken a year ago, two of them are serving probation and a third is serving six years in juvenile prison for murder, said Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Gene Rubino last week. The case made national news …

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Considered the local parade with the longest route, the 19th Annual West Indian Caribbean American Carnival & Parade kicked off from Lincoln Park on July 26 and weaved its way through the streets for a grand finale near City Hall, with an after-parade festival at Exchange Place. Hosted by the Jersey City Caribbean Carnival Association, …

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With two years until the McCabe Ambulance contract expires in Bayonne, city officials apparently are looking for other bidders who will provide the service without cost to the city. Sources connected to the Davis administration said the city is looking more closely at its contract with McCabe, a company based in Bayonne. In a separate …

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Shooting leaves one person dead in Jersey City Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office investigators are looking for suspects in a shooting that left one person dead shortly after midnight Thursday near Lexington Avenue. The police responded to a report of gun fire. No names have been released. Persons with information about the shooting can call the …

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