Jersey City Jazz Festival Swings Into Action at Exchange Place
The Jersey City Jazz Festival kicked off this afternoon despite threats from iffy weather and the ongoing construction at Exchange Place. According to organizer Bryan Beninghove, it was touch-and-go this week as the city raced to replace water pipes under the soon-to-be renovated plaza at the foot of Montgomery Street.…
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BUSINESS
Local Writers Picket Jersey City Film Productions
Armed with horns, bells, placards, and the power of their voices, a group from the Writers Guild of America gathered this afternoon in front of Angel Ramos Park on Wayne Street downtown. Their target: the filming of a new Billy Crystal series in St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church across the street. Over the noise of the…
Study: Jersey City is a Tough Place to Start a Business
You’d never know it from the new buildings and restaurants that seem to sprout up seemingly overnight, but Jersey City is a tough place to start a business. At least that’s what a new study from the financial website WalletHub concludes. Of the 100 cities in its ranking of 2023’s best large cities to start…
Bergen-Lafayette Twins Create Award-Winning Fashion Brand
Working from their home office in Jersey City’s Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood, twin sisters Yvette and Eva Estime have created an award-winning brand of women’s fashion accessories called “Dirty Celebrity” notable for sustainability. According to Urban Dictionary, “Dirty Celebrity” is a “style of fashion worn by modelxcore girls” and consists of “designer clothes mixed with grunge or…
Fairmount Avenue Couple Converts Vans to High-Tech Campers
I’ve barely gotten out of my car when Sophie Colle apologizes for her English.” Even zo I half bean leaving in Jersey Ceety for sirty years, I half zees accent,” she says sheepishly. A native of Marseille, France, Colle came to Jersey City in 1993 after a short stopover in Brooklyn. But indeed, she still…
BergEn Lafayette
Marathon Head Hopes to Reduce Gridlock During Future Events
For the organizers of Sunday’s first Jersey City marathon, things couldn’t have gone much better. Nursing a case of laryngitis, organizer Steve Lipski croaked that he was “beyond ecstatic. It really was a dream come true.” The feeling wasn’t mutual for many drivers caught in bumper to bumper traffic around the 13-mile course. Standing next…
Downtown
Jersey City Man Faces Murder Charge in 2022 Gas Station Attack
A Jersey City man is facing a murder charge following the death of a man he allegedly assaulted at a Downtown gas station in 2022. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, Nixon Marquez, 26, of Jersey City, was arrested today at the prosecutor’s Secaucus office and charged with Murder. Marquez was previously charged with…
Greenville
Authorities Disclose More Details on Yesterday’s Deadly Greenville Crash
Authorities are disclosing more details surrounding yesterday’s deadly Greenville car crash. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, Desiree Milow, 36, of Jersey City, died at the scene after colliding with six vehicles along Garfield Avenue between Danforth Avenue and Wegman Parkway. A video of a police officer unsuccessfully attempting to administer CPR to Milow…
Westside
Jersey City Man Nabbed in Sexual Assault of 63-Year-Old at Local Business
A Jersey City man was arrested yesterday in Wednesday’s sexual assault of a 63-year-old woman inside a local business. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit arrested Elijah Lloyd, age 18, of Jersey City. Lloyd has been charged with Kidnapping; Aggravated Sexual Assault; Robbery; Terroristic…
Journal Square
Young Man Dies in Fiery JFK Blvd. Crash
A young man died early this morning in a fiery crash on John F. Kennedy Blvd. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, responding police officers found a vehicle fully engulfed in flames on the northbound side of the roadway in the area of St. Pauls Avenue at approximately 2:22 a.m. The driver, tentatively identified…
Heights
Diners at Box Cafe Eat and Drink to Immersive Dance Performance
Bars and restaurants are often disaster areas. The floor of a café can be a cavalcade of dismay. The stood up, the broken up, the lovelorn, the hopelessly inebriated and the would-be heroes, the frustrated rockers and out-of-control dancers: they’re all hanging somewhere in the shadowed corners of the public house. Going out means putting…
Obituaries
Anthony Armagno dies at 87
Anthony J. Armagno, 87, of Palmer Township, passed away at home peacefully on Monday, April 17, 2023 with his loving family by his side. Anthony was born in Sant’ Arsenio in the province of…
Caesar Paul Del Trecco Dies at 71
Caesar Paul Del Trecco, age 71, passed away on Monday, December 12th. Born and raised in Boston’s West End and Medford, MA, he was the son of the late Carmine and Mafalda (Genovese) Del…
Jonathan E. Pitre, Dies at 30
Jonathan E. Pitre, age 30 of Jersey City, formerly of Bellmawr, NJ, passed away suddenly on December 5, 2022. He is the beloved son of Edwin Pitre and Norma Morales; dear brother of Belinda…