Category: Jersey City News

“Chum,” the new novel by Jersey City native and current Hoboken resident Jeff Somers, is in many ways just another step in what the author described last week as “a mobius strip of a career.” Written a little over a decade ago but never published, the dark comedy about relationships between a group of friends …

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The city of Hoboken announced last week that it had entered into a partnership with the city of Jersey City and the Township of Weehawken to bring a joint bike sharing program to the three municipalities that will allow residents to rent one of 650 bikes available up and down the Gold Coast. The Regional …

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While estimates vary on just how much it will cost to replace the county administration building and court house at 595 Newark Ave., some freeholders say local taxpayers can’t afford it. This is not just because the construction costs could be as high as $250 million, said Freeholder Jose Munoz recently, but also because to …

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Hudson County is football territory, what with the Giants and Jets playing right in our backyard in East Rutherford, next to Secaucus. And North Bergen and Jersey City residents can jump on Tonnelle Avenue to Route 3 West to get to MetLife Stadium for the Super Bowl next year. So it’s no surprise that the …

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Reporter holiday ad deadlines, office closings The offices of the Hudson Reporter will be open on Monday, Dec. 30. They will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 in observance of New Year’s Day. The office will reopen Thursday, Jan. 2. Thus, the advertising and editorial deadlines for the Hudson Reporter newspapers …

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The City Council has decided to postpone voting on a resolution to give a contract for basic life support ambulance service with CarePoint/McCabe Ambulance. The matter became controversial because for decades, the service has been performed by the EMS unit of Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC). Faced with a protracted conflict over the awarding of …

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With all of the nervous hilarity of a state room scene in a Marx Brothers movie, more than a dozen local and regional media reporters – including from ABC, CBS and 1010 WINS – crowded into a small storage closet to get a glimpse as professional locksmith opened two small wall safes in Jersey City …

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That urban living is the new trend is no big secret. People are moving back into the cities, provided that the location and the housing stock are right. This could mean good things for places like Journal Square, which is but a hop, skip, and jump (or more rightly a few PATH stops) from Manhattan. …

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For some it’s dolls to add their collections. For others it’s a $500 video game system or the newest iPhone with all the upgrades. For many it’s a staple, like a new pair of shoes or a backpack. The gifts that children want this year run the gamut from the simple to the very expensive. …

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