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A resident living in one of the Galaxy Tower’s 43rd floor penthouse apartments returned home to discover the front door splintered and the apartment ransacked. Down the hall the doors to the other three apartments on the floor had been similarly smashed in. Police estimated the apartments were robbed of about $50,000 worth of jewelry. …

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The explosion near Jersey City was so colossal it felt like an earthquake for hundreds of miles around. Black Tom, the former island just off the Hudson County coast, where two million pounds of ammunition and small arms were stored, was utterly razed. Thousands of windows in Manhattan were shattered, including the stained glass in …

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The dismal, sad weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks were an epiphany for Kevin Delaney of Bayonne. A Wall Street employee at the time, Delaney was affected by the event like much of the New York metropolitan area. Thrust into a period of introspection, Delaney, 43, pondered where he would go professionally. But more …

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As developers search for new opportunities in the Gold Coast, the 19-mile stretch of New Jersey from the Bayonne Bridge to the George Washington Bridge, they are seeing their target market of renters broaden beyond the 25 to 35-year-old millennials that were once the primary focus. The future of development in Hudson County was the …

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North Bergen to host free immigration clinic on March 28 The Township of North Bergen, in partnership with The North Bergen Board of Education, Hudson County, and the non-profit group We Are One New Jersey, are set to host an immigration clinic on Saturday, March 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at North Bergen …

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“Every year about 49,000 of our co-residents in the state of New Jersey get diagnosed with cancer. About 4,000 of them come from right around here.” So said Dr. Andrew Pecora, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.P.E., at the ribbon cutting on March 11 for the new John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) on the grounds of the Palisades …

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North Bergen Public Safety Commissioner Theresa Ferraro, who served the people of North Bergen as an elected official since 1999 and as a community leader for decades, has passed away at the age of 90. Ferraro also served as chairperson of the North Bergen Housing Authority Board of Trustees and was a successful business owner. …

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