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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Board of Education Approves Contract Raising Teachers’ Salaries Across District
The Jersey City Board of Education approved a renewed four-year contract that will give Jersey City teachers long-awaited raises. Under the new contract, teachers will receive a yearly salary increase of four percent until 2027. The Board of Education and the Jersey City Education Association (the union representing Jersey City’s district teachers) negotiated the agreement […]
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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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Jersey City Sees Drop in Parks Ranking But Maintains Good ‘Access’
Jersey City has dropped in an authoritative ranking of park systems in the 100 most populous U.S. cities. The Trust for Public Land annual ParkScore® index ranked Jersey City 45th, down from 36th last year, owing largely to the fact that spending on parks did not keep pace with population growth reported in the 2020 census. […]
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Audit Finds Severe Shortcomings in Schools’ ‘Financial Management’
An independent financial audit of the Jersey City Schools found serious concerns regarding how the district manages all aspects of its finances, including missing payroll information, late federal payroll tax payments, and months of utility bill arrears. Some of the other most serious infractions include failing to report paid time off data, failing to monitor […]
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Right-To-Counsel Moves Forward, Smoke Shops to be Licensed
The Jersey City City Council Wednesday night took the first step to establishing a “Right to Counsel” for the city’s tenants who comprise about 70 percent of the population and who, advocates say, face increasing prospects of evictions by landlords’ hiking rents to unprecedented numbers. Tenants at Portside Towers on the city’s waterfront, in particular, […]
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DEP Commissioner Appears to Put Kibosh on Stadium Plan at LSP
At an open house last night, Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette told a large crowd of activists that commercialization of Liberty State Park is off the table. Also quashed, it would appear, is a plan put forward by groups allied with billionaire Paul Fireman to build two large stadiums, an indoor professional sized hockey rink […]
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City Unveils Mural Saluting Tuskegee Airmen with Local Roots
This past Saturday, during a “Special Remembrance” ceremony at the Pershing Field Veterans Community Center, Jersey City unveiled a mural dedicated to city residents who served with the Tuskegee Airmen, a unit of Black military pilots and crew members who served primarily in World War II. Assemblyman Raj Mukherji (D-33rd district), a Marine Corps veteran, told the crowd […]
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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 […]