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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Governor’s Liquor License Plan Lacks Legislative Support, Top Dem Says
Republished courtesy of New Jersey Monitor A leading Senate Democrat said Gov. Phil Murphy’s push to expand the availability of liquor licenses for restaurants and bars has won little support from lawmakers, threatening to doom the administration’s efforts to retool the state’s Prohibition-era liquor laws. “I think the governor’s proposal to expand liquor licenses does […]
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For-Profit Donation Center Comes to Newport Plaza Downtown
Earlier this month a new option for donating clothing and household objects came to Jersey City. GreenDrop®, a for-profit company, is now accepting donations of household objects and clothing on behalf of their local nonprofit partners, in this case the American Red Cross, at its first Jersey City at Newport Plaza Downtown. Community members may […]
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While Schools Plead for Help, Many Businesses Escape Payroll Tax
Last week, following Governor Murphy’s proposal to cut $51 million in aid to Jersey City Schools, Board of Education President Natalia Ioffe complained that a payroll tax enacted to support the schools was coming up short. “There seem to be no mechanisms in place to ensure proper collection,” she charged. Ioffe is at least partially […]
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Faculty Union Rallies to Press State for Additional Aid for NJCU
They all came: students, teachers, union leaders, politicians from across the board, and, of course, the interim president of New Jersey City University. All of them came Monday to a union-sponsored “Fund NJCU” campus rally to plead the case for the survival of NJCU, to demand that Gov. Phil Murphy and state legislators come to […]
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Council Revisits Cannabis Rules, Portside Tenants Plead for Help
With Jersey City’s Cannabis Control Board having already endorsed 41 applicants looking to set up shop as retailers, city lawmakers are now considering revising the procedures it set two years ago and then modified last year. That prospect emerged as the City Council voted Wednesday to support two applications for the operation of cannabis businesses […]
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Friends of Loew’s Guardedly Optimistic on Negotiations with City and Operator
In its year-end message, the Friends of the Loew’s has struck a guardedly optimistic note on its ongoing negotiations with Jersey City and the theatre’s designated operator, Devils Arena Entertainment. At the same time, the not-for-profit group that saved the landmark baroque/rococo theater from the wrecking ball is raising concerns about some aspects of the […]