Dear Mr. Mayor and City Councilpersons, We strongly oppose the city’s plan (proposed City Ordinance 23-027) to permanently close St. Pauls Ave. to eastbound traffic between Tonnele Ave and Kennedy Boulevard. The plan overlooks the detrimental impact to residents and businesses in the immediate area as well as to the greater Journal Square area. There is no […]
Opinion
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Op-Ed: Governor Murphy, Expand Rail not the Turnpike
With clean energy and a conscious citizenry and administration, New Jersey appears to be a shining example of climate action. But will it always be? Expanding the turnpike will completely undo all the work that has been done to transform New Jersey into a sustainable, climate change-conscious state. Turnpike expansion will cause dangerous road conditions and negative health and […]
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Letter: Combination of JCAST and 14c Will Concentrate Art Downtown
Well, Tris, it appears you and Robinson will get your wish, a ‘more concentrated’ JCAST. Tying it to 14c will concentrate attendees downtown leaving the rest of the city’s art communities (with the possible exception of Bergen-Lafayette) out in the cold (and the change to mid-October almost guarantees this). When will those managing this city and […]
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Cheryl Gross Comes Out Swinging at Lemmerman Gallery
There aren’t too many cowgirls in Jersey City. But it’s probable that everybody in Jersey City has an idea about what a cowgirl acts like. A cowgirl is strong, resilient, direct, and maybe righteously impertinent, too. She’s is nobody you’d want to mess with, lest you get tangled up in a lasso or threatened with […]
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JC Fridays: Our Picks
2022 was not kind to Jersey City artists. It was defined by hesitancy, half-measures, and a doozy of a pandemic hangover. 2023, by contrast, is off to a roaring start. Our early-blooming shows have been glorious. If the first JC Fridays event of the year is often a survey of the scene and an indication […]
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Op-Ed: Essex Hudson Greenway Project Will be a ‘Transportation Masterpiece’
Published courtesy of New Jersey Monitor In the future, we will look at the Essex Hudson Greenway in awe: A nine-mile vertical park running from Montclair to Jersey City, passing through Glen Ridge, Bloomfield, Belleville, Newark, Kearny, and Secaucus. The state of New Jersey is taking an abandoned rail line and converting it into a walk […]
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Letter: Should the Times Have Used an “Unconfirmed Report” on Paris Junket?
Regarding your recent editorial, offering conjecture about whether or not covid funds were used to pay for the trip to Paris by Fulop et al, I am struck by your use of the phrase “The Jersey City Times has received an unconfirmed report.” Although born and raised in Jersey City, I haven’t lived there since […]
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Editorial: Did Covid Money Pay for the Mayor’s Secret Parisian Junket?
The Jersey City Times has received an unconfirmed report that this week’s secret mayoral junket to Paris was paid for with federal Covid money. It could be just a rumor, although the source insists that it is reliable. But it highlights why the mayor should immediately disclose who funded his tour of the City of […]
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A Jersey City Artist Paints His Way Through Cancer Treatment
Three and a half months ago, Thomas John Carlson, of the Jersey City Art School, shook up Art Fair 14C with a wallful of historical paintings distinguished by their sensitivity, energy and imagination. The paintings were full of drama, struggle, and acute observations of human beings under duress. His turn at the fair reminded local […]
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Postpartum Mental Illness: When Mothers Kill
On January 24th, 2023 Lindsay Clancy, a 32-year-old labor and delivery nurse from Massachusetts, killed all three of her children before slitting her wrists and jumping out of a second-story window. She survived. On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates a 37-year-old mother in suburban Texas, drowned all five of her children in their bathtub […]