A truck stop on Tonnele Avenue in Jersey City has been hit with a large bill for overtime owed to its employees. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, Petroline Inc., operator of Putnam Truck Stop, at 565 Tonnele Ave., cheated 15 of its gas station attendants out of $100,000 in overtime […]
Jersey City Times Staff
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Art House Launches $500,000 Fundraising Campaign for New Space
Art House Productions, one of Jersey City’s preeminent performing and visual arts organizations, is launching a fundraising campaign June 2, 2023, to raise $500,000 for capital and operating expenditures as it prepares to formally open its new space at 345 Marin Blvd. “The reopening of Art House Productions and our new home marks an exciting […]
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Weingarten, AFT Call on Trenton To Avert Closure Of NJCU
As the New Jersey Legislature prepares to reconvene and finalize the state’s fiscal year 2024 budget, union leaders with a stake in New Jersey City University are telling the state Senate and Assembly that there is an urgent need to address NJCU’s well-documented financial crisis. “For Trenton, this is a ‘what side are you on’ moment. […]
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Five Greenville Gang Members Sentenced in Stabbing of Rival
Five members and associates of a Greenville street gang have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a gang-related stabbing. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today that Yahsier Brown, 21, was sentenced today to 51 months in prison. Jaylen Boone, 22, was sentenced on May 2, 2023, to 56 months in prison. Jamil […]
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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 […]
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Four-Alarm Fire Consumes Two Downtown Brownstones
Updated at 6:11 p.m. 5.30.23 Smoke enveloped the Downtown neighborhood of Van Vorst Park this afternoon as two Montgomery Street brownstones were consumed by fire. Though the Fire Department has not yet issued an assessment, the fire appears to have begun in 234 Montgomery Street, which has been under construction. The fire then appears to […]
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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 […]
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Woman Dies in Multi-Vehicle Car Crash in Greenville
Go here for an update to this article. Roadblocks have been set up along Garfield Avenue following a multi-vehicle crash that left one person dead. According to radio reports, at approximately noon today, a tan Chevrolet Tahoe struck several vehicles along Garfield Avenue between Stegman Street and Bayview Avenue and then flipped over. The female […]
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Liberty State Park Advocates Hope for Large Turnout at Wednesday Open House
Tomorrow night, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette will get another chance to present his vision for Liberty State Park. The open house, scheduled for 6 p.m. at the historic Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal building located within the park at One Audrey Zapp Drive, has taken on enormous significance for long-time park advocates. In […]
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Greenville Gang Member Admits to Stabbing Rival
A Jersey City man has admitted to stabbing a rival gang member with a knife in 2020. According to U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, on Thursday Sheldon Mays, aka “Thottie,” 23, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty in Newark federal court to one count of assault with a dangerous weapon – a knife […]