Neighborhoods

Apparently, the race for the Ward F City Council seat has another entrant, Vernon Richardson. Richardson has launched a website announcing his run and describing his reasons for throwing his hat in the ring.

On Sunday night, a group of Wilkinson Avenue residents gathered at a storefront church on Martin Luther King Boulevard to plead for help.

Over 200 people turned out Saturday in Hamilton Park for the kickoff of Ward E Councilman James Solomon’s re-election campaign, where campaign staff engaged them with balloons, signs, and speeches along with kids’ crafts and stories.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit has arrested a 16-year-old young man and charged him in the April 13 murder of Rodney Wallace. The incident took place on Wilkinson Avenue. Wallace was 22 years old.

Pompidou Jersey City will be expensive, very expensive. And the use of so much money on a cultural project that will cater largely to highly educated, well-heeled residents is simply immoral given the city’s myriad needs and vast economic disparities.