On Monday, with summer coming to an end, the Board of Education held its first public caucus meeting since June. The board took the opportunity to present proficiency assessments, take public comment, and introduce potential resolutions for the coming months. Tensions still linger amongst some board members months after April’s chaotic public meeting in which […]
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State-Appointed Monitor to Oversee Troubled NJCU
State officials have appointed a monitor to oversee all fiscal operations, budgeting, and staffing at New Jersey City University, just over a year after mounting mismanagement drove trustees to declare a financial emergency and replace top administrators there. Henry J. Amoroso, an attorney and tenured associate professor of legal studies at Seton Hall University’s Stillman […]
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Activists Call for Change After Police Kill Bergen-Lafayette Man
A police killing in Bergen-Lafayette Sunday has renewed calls from social justice activists who say mental health professionals, not police officers, should respond to calls involving people going through mental crises. Sunday’s fatal encounter came five months after Paterson police shot and killed a man whose family said was exhibiting signs of mental illness, and […]
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In Emotional Vigil, Mourners Celebrate Andrew Washington and Demand Change
Last night, hundreds of mourners gathered in front of a simple wood frame house on Randolph Avenue to sing, pray, reminisce, rage and exhort. Inside, just two days earlier, their relative and neighbor Andrew Jerome Washington had been gunned down, felled by two bullets from a Jersey City police officer’s gun. The circumstances surrounding the […]
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Controversial Barrow Street Closure to Remain in Effect through December
The controversial closure of a section of Barrow Street that crosses the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza will remain in effect through the end of the year. According to a notice yesterday from Jersey City Department of Infrastructure, Barrow Street between Christopher Columbus Drive and Bay Street is to remain closed under a “pilot” that went […]
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Mayor Calls on Attorney General to Release Video in Fatal Police Shooting
At a news conference today Mayor Fulop called upon the New Jersey Attorney General to quickly release body-cam video of yesterday’s fatal confrontation between Jersey City police and an emotionally disturbed Bergen-Lafayette man. According to Fulop and Public Safety Director James Shea, 52-year-old Andrew Jerome Washington was shot with a firearm and taser by members […]
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Attorney General Investigating Fatal Police-Involved Shooting
The New Jersey Attorney General is investigating Sunday’s fatal police-involved shooting in Bergen-Lafayette. According to the Attorney General, the shooting, first reported by the Jersey City Times, took place at approximately 2:28 p.m. on Sunday when police officers from the Jersey City Police Department responded to a home on Randolph Avenue. Emergency medical services personnel […]
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Mentally ill Man Shot by Police Officer in Bergen-Lafayette
This article has been updated here. A mentally-ill Bergen-Lafayette man was shot this afternoon in a confrontation with a Jersey City police officer. The man was taken to Jersey City Medical Center in critical condition. According to one report that could not be confirmed, he succumbed to his injuries a short time later. The shooting […]
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Public School Bathrooms Will Have Free Menstrual Products Under New Law
A bill signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy Wednesday will require at least half of all girls’ and gender-neutral bathrooms in New Jersey schools to have free menstrual hygiene products, part of a move to end period poverty. Almost one in four U.S. youth struggle to afford menstrual products, with students of color and […]
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Project to Repair Collapsing Sip Avenue Finally Nears Completion
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 […]