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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Mayor Touts $500 Million Holland Gardens Revitalization Project
Calling it a “big deal,” Mayor Steven Fulop hit Twitter and blasted out an email today to tout a $500 million plan to revitalize the Holland Gardens public housing complex. Plans to tear down and replace the 76-year-old, 3.3-acre complex at 15th Street and Jersey Avenue date back to 2019. At a press conference yesterday […]
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Video Shows SUV Ramming Taco Spot as 911 Doesn’t Answer
An apparently drunk and angry customer rammed a popular taqueria on Saturday night with his SUV. According to reports on social media and the lifestyle website Hoboken Girl, an inebriated party entered Taqueria Downtown just before the restaurant’s 11 pm closing and demanded to be served. When refused service, the group began pushing and spitting […]
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Workers Cheated and Taxes Unpaid on Controversial Developer’s Building
A building owned by controversial developer Peter Mocco is once again mired in legal issues. A multi-agency team of investigators has assessed more than $1.3 million in back wages and penalties to 20 contractors performing construction work at 88 Regent Street, Mocco’s latest project in Liberty Harbor North. In a four part series, The Jersey […]
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Downtown Parking Gets Tougher with Closure of Popular Lot
For years, a large parking lot on the corner of Christopher Columbus Drive and Barrow Street has been a convenient option for motorists looking to access Downtown amenities or to grab a Path train at Grove Street. This week the lot closed for good to make way for a condo development, potentially exacerbating a shortage […]
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Nimbus Reimagines “The Nutcracker” for a Jersey Audience
There are three restaurants at the intersection of Grove and Mercer Streets — one Mediterranean, one Pakistani, and one American. Also, there’s City Hall. I mention this because it’s here that “Jersey City Nutcracker,” our version of the seasonal dance favorite, locates a magic manhole that allows its inhabitants a glimpse of the city as […]
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City to Convert City Hall Parking Lot into Green Space
Mayor Fulop and the Department of Infrastructure have announced the creation of a one-acre perimeter park surrounding all four sides of City Hall. Under the plan, the employee parking lot behind City Hall will be removed and converted into park space, nearly doubling the amount of green space around the building. “Any time of day, you will find […]
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An Olympian Teaches Table Tennis in Jersey City
When Wang Chen, now 48, came to New Jersey via China in 2000, it wasn’t her intention to focus on table tennis, a sport she began playing at age 7 in her native Shanghai. “When I first came, it was to help my sister with her business in New Jersey,” Chen said. “I thought for […]
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Mayors Announce New Bike Lane Between Jersey City and Hoboken
Continuing the integration of the two cities’ bike systems, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and Hoboken Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla have announced the completion of a new protected bikeway along Marin Boulevard and Henderson Street, connecting 18th Street in Jersey City to Observer Highway in Hoboken. The connection is being touted as part of “Vision Zero,” which seeks […]
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Jersey City School Security Guard Charged with Child Sex Crimes
A Jersey City Public Schools security guard stands accused of multiple sex crimes involving two children. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit arrested Freddy Salas, 60, of Bayonne, today and charged him with Aggravated Sexual Assault, two counts of Sexual Assault by Contact, and two count […]