Residents and businesses in Jersey City’s Marion section are wondering whether they’ll ever see the reopening of a closed-off section of Sip Avenue below West Side Avenue that has compelled detouring of vehicular traffic to complete a prolonged sewer project. The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority acknowledges there have been unforeseen complications but insists there’s […]
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Officials Scramble to Address Shutdown of Vital Bus Company
Jersey City commuters who depend on public transit to get to work, shop and more will be facing hardships soon when another independent bus line leaves the driving to someone else. A & C Bus Corp., which operates four routes through different parts of the city, had advised NJ Transit – from whom it leases […]
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Prosecutor Seizes Guns and Drugs from West Side Man’s Apartment and Car
Authorities have seized a large quantity of drugs and firearms from the apartment and automobile of a West Side man. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, the office’s Narcotics Task Force arrested David Pineiro, 29, of Jersey City, and recovered four firearms and various illegal narcotics with a street value of more than $50,000. […]
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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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Jersey City Man Nabbed in Sexual Assault of 63-Year-Old at Local Business
A Jersey City man was arrested yesterday in Wednesday’s sexual assault of a 63-year-old woman inside a local business. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit arrested Elijah Lloyd, age 18, of Jersey City. Lloyd has been charged with Kidnapping; Aggravated Sexual Assault; Robbery; Terroristic […]
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Report: Multiple Shots Fired on West Side With One Injury
Multiple shots were fired tonight on the West Side, leaving on man slightly injured. According to radio reports, three men in black clothing engaged in a shootout in the vicinity of Van Wagenen Avenue and Pavonia Avenue at approximately 10:08 tonight. A security guard was said to have suffered from a “graze wound” during the […]
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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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Ten Connected to Marion Gardens Gang Charged in Drug Trafficking Conspiracy
Ten members of a Jersey City gang associated with the Marion Gardens Housing Complex were charged today for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy. According to U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, Myron Williams, aka “Money,” aka “Tunchi,” 29, and Andre Alomar, aka “Dre8,” 21, both of Newark; and Herbert Thomas, 48; Roger Pickett, aka […]
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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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Forestry Standards, Lead Pipes and West Side Development on Council’s Docket
At tonight’s City Council meeting, the council will finally be asked to vote on passage of the city’s revised forestry standards, guidelines that were initially adopted in 2018 and that have been undergoing hotly debated revisions for over a year. According to Tuesday night’s council caucus meeting, the lawmakers will also discuss issues involving residential […]