Category: Jersey City News

With a local waiting list of 4,000 people and only 13 enrollment specialists to help them sign up for insurance under the provisions of the federal Affordable Healthcare Act, officials at North Hudson Community Action Corporation (NHCAC) may not be able to get everybody covered by the March 31 deadline. Those who do not sign …

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Getting out of the ghetto is not easy; but it is not impossible either. This is a lesson that Edison Jaquez, founder of a New Jersey-based youth mentoring program, B-Men, tried to convey to kids at the Jersey City Boys and Girls Club on Feb. 21 when he came to talk to kids about social …

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Jersey City man sentenced to 22 years for strangling wife in 2011 Steven Acuna, 40, who was convicted of killing his 32-year old wife at their Jersey City Heights home in August 2011 and hiding the body in the basement in a 55-gallon drum, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. Acuna was convicted …

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Days after a fire destroyed the Muslim prayer center on West Side Avenue on March 1, the chilly air still held the acrid scent of smoke. Workers wearing hardhats and work gloves scrambled to pick up the pieces, ducking under yellow warning tape. Members of the community of the Al-Tawheed Islamic Center were forced to …

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Even as a police officer escorted a resident out of the City Council chambers for refusing to relinquish the podium after her time expired at the Feb. 26 meeting, Council President Rolando Lavarro bickered with two maverick council members, calling them “obstructionists.” Councilman Michael Yun argued that the resident should be granted more time to …

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“Hello, my name is Steve. What’s yours?” Mayor Steve Fulop asked on the second part of two-hour visit to Golden Door Charter School on March 4. First grade students lined up to greet the mayor, each gripping a letter they had written in gratitude for help he and the city has provided the school. “For …

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They say that the ghosts of actors haunt old theaters, that a special magic lingers in the rafters long after they cease to function as places of art. Perhaps that is why the lobby of the Majestic Theatre Condominiums in Jersey City still has a vibrant feel to it, and why the work of artists …

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The towns of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Weehawken will launch a regional bike share system this summer that will be the largest next-generation bike share system in North America. The system will feature 800 smart-bikes, 50 bike stations, and two full-service pavilions at no cost to the cities. “We are very excited to participate in …

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Freeholders urge DOT to hold community meetings on Pulaski Skyway closing The Hudson County Board of Freeholders have urged the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) to mitigate the impact of the Pulaski Skyway closure in areas of Jersey City and to hold community meetings in the impacted areas. On April 12, the northbound travel …

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If any of those who gathered at St. Peter’s University on Feb. 27 to listen to Mayor Steven Fulop give his first State of the City Address expected the eloquent rhetoric of a John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan, they didn’t get it. What they got was a nuts-and-bolts vision of Jersey City, as Fulop …

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