To an outsider, Monticello Avenue has all the makings of a street ready to take off: a hip café, a bike shop, a jazz club, and a funky store specializing in banana pudding.
September 2022
Posted inRecreation and events
Pro-Wrestling Rock Musical Comes to Jersey City
Jersey City Theater Center will present two performances of “The Last Match: a Pro-Wrestling Rock Musical.”
Posted inBusiness
Landmark Celebrates a Milestone and Pushes Ahead with the Albion Hotel
With restaurants and hotels throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Frank Cretella already had reason to celebrate. But reaching Landmark Hospitality’s 20th year in Jersey City seemed like a special milestone worthy of a party. And party he did. On August 24, friends, family, staff and local dignitaries, including Senator Sandra Cunningham, Former New Jersey Governor […]
Posted inLatest News, Narrate, News
Once Again Jersey City Places First for Ethnic Diversity
Once again Jersey City has taken the prize for the most ethnically diverse city, besting such multicultural meccas as New York City and Los Angeles.
Posted inDowntown, Latest News, Narrate, News
Following Orders Police Stay Put During Brawl on Pedestrian Mall
The problem of fixed posts isn’t just a downtown problem. In fact, it’s far worse and more consequential on the south side of the city. At a community meeting in June last year, angry and desperate residents from Wilkinson Avenue complained that police at fixed posts on Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. couldn’t leave their posts to address issues just a half a block away.
Posted inDowntown, Latest News, Narrate, News
Div. of Planning to Hold Public Meeting Sept. 7 on Embankment Redevelopment Plan
The Jersey City Division of Planning will hold a public meeting Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 6:30 p.m., the second in a series of meetings on the draft Redevelopment Plan for the 6th Street Embankment downtown.
Posted inPerforming Arts
Album Review: “For Executive Meeting” by The Paranoid Style
Though they’re not shooting for the charts or even a mass audience, they nevertheless elicit powerful responses from the many who feel marginalized by the reverbed-out mushfest that is modern American alt-rock.
Posted inLatest News, Narrate, News
Asian-American Coalition Asks Police for Investigation Into Recent Attacks
A local coalition of Asian Americans today expressed concern about a spate of attacks on Chinese individuals that have taken place in Jersey City since February and called on the Jersey City Police Department to open a special investigation into the incidents.
Posted inDowntown, Latest News, Narrate, News
Ruling by Federal Agency Delivers Blow to Embankment Greenway Advocates
A recent decision by a federal agency has dealt a setback to local groups hoping to turn a 1.4-mile abandoned elevated railway bed known as the 6th Street Embankment into an elevated greenway for pedestrians and cyclists.
Posted inNarrate, Visual Arts
Kristin DeAngelis Says Goodbye With “Transport” at Hamilton Square
These are dramatic paintings, full of Hudson County energy, powered by thick, muscular brushstrokes and daubs of bright color amidst the black lines of the steel crossbars.