Environmental Protection The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is suing the owners of Gas Mart gas station at 1568 John F. Kennedy Blvd. to enforce their legal obligation to remediate gasoline contamination in the soil and groundwater around their underground storage tanks, which was discovered in 2007. A previous lawsuit was resolved in 2019 […]
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Centre Pompidou’s Finances are Unsustainable Say Auditors
Renovations, a new branch, stagnant ticket sales, and inflation are straining the finances of Paris’s Centre Pompidou, according to a report from France’s Court of Auditors. News of the audit, released on Tuesday, was first reported by Le Monde and picked up by ARTnews. In 2021, Mayor Fulop announced a controversial plan to open a […]
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Board of Ed Passes Budget with No Tax Increase for Second Year
For a second year running, Jersey City taxpayers won’t be shelling out more of their money for school taxes. This was the takeaway from Acting School Business Administrator Dennis Frohnapfel’s half hour, 25-page, 2024/2025 budget presentation at last night’s Board of Education Meeting. The budget, which passed unanimously, totaled $1,035,721,424, a modest increase over the […]
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State Agency Threatens to Pull Funding for Pompidou x
A state agency is threatening to pull funding for Pompidou x, the planned Jersey City outpost of the Centre Pompidou art museum based in Paris. According to an article today in NJBiz, Tim Sullivan, the chief executive officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, wrote the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency questioning the agency’s budget shortfall for the […]
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This Weekend
This weekend, Jersey City has an ’80s Dance Party, the HunterFest 5k, and a Spring Plant Walk. Plus, there’s more Earth Day events, music in the park, and more. Friday Chilltown Street Club – Weekly Cooldown: 45min Yoga | Fri., Apr. 26 | 8:15-9:15 a.m. | Betty’s Ceramics Club, 224 Ninth St., Jersey City | […]
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Gaza, E-Bikes, Rent-Control, Cannabis and Animal Shelter Occupy Council
Jersey City lawmakers heard familiar refrains Wednesday from advocates for an end to hostilities in Gaza and Portside Towers tenants continuing to seek relief from what one city agency has labeled illegal rent hikes. This past December, an effort by Ward D Councilmember Yousef Saleh to adopt a cease-fire resolution was derailed by five abstentions […]
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Rep. Donald Payne Jr., Hospitalized After Heart Attack, Has Died at 65
Congressman Donald M. Payne Jr. has died, nearly three weeks after he had a heart attack that left him hospitalized in a coma at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. He was 65. The six-term Democrat and Newark native has represented the 10th Congressional District, which covers parts of Essex, Hudson, and Union counties, since 2012, […]
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The Rancor Continues on the Board of Education
The dust has settled on last month’s Board of Education ouster of Trustee Younass Barkouch as vice president, but bad blood remains. At Monday’s caucus meeting, Vice President George Blount recounted a professional development conference Blount and Trustee Alpa Patel attended in New Orleans earlier this month. Barkouch was originally planning to attend, but last month the […]
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Animal Shelter Morale Sinks After Manager is Bitten, Hospitalized And Fired
In her thirty years working with animal rescues, Darcy Del Castillo had never been hurt by a dog. She prided herself on her ability to read a dog’s mood, to judge a dog’s body language, to pick up the cues that would keep herself and those she worked with safe, particularly around big animals. It […]
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Health Kiosks, Strays from Hoboken & Gutenberg, New Pavonia Pool Liner Top Council AgendaÂ
Separate public safety measures aiding humans and animals highlighted Monday’s caucus of the City Council of Jersey City. For the city’s two-legged creatures, the city’s Department of Health & Human Services, is prescribing a strategy simple as operating a vending machine … without depositing currency. At the department’s behest, the council is being asked to […]