ShopRite Employee Makes the Cheerios Box Jersey City ShopRite Associate Barbara Avilez represented the store on this year’s Cheerio Box after the store raised $13,500 for local food pantries and fighting hunger. As a winner of this annual contest, the store awarded a $2,500 check to local food pantry the Sharing Place. The celebration was […]
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Port Authority Rules Out Foul Play in Grove Street PATH Death
Investigators at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey do not believe that the death of a man at the Grove Street PATH station on March 2 was the result of criminal activity. In response to a request from the Jersey City Times for information, a spokesperson for the PANYNJ said “There was […]
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Fire Department Responding to Reports of Damage from This Morning’s Earthquake
According to radio traffic, the Jersey City Fire Department is responding to several reports of damage to buildings following an earthquake that shook Jersey City today. It did not appear that any of the reported damage was confirmed to be earthquake related. The 4.8 magnitude quake hit a 10:23 a.m. and was centered in Lebanon, […]
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Mayor to Cut Ribbon on Tonal Art Music Center at Cast Iron Lofts
The area between the Holland Tunnel and the southern border of Hoboken doesn’t have a handle, but it’s full of creative potential. The Art House occupied the ground floor of a building there for awhile. Last year, there was music in Coles Park during the summer. Its freshly-minted high rise towers are filled with new […]
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This Weekend
This weekend, Jersey City has a Liberty State Park Salt Marsh Cleanup, the Jersey City Night Market, and a Block Party. Plus, there’s comedy, music, and more. Friday “Read a Road Map” Craft for Teens | Fri., Apr. 5 | 2-3 p.m. | Heights Branch Library, 14 Zabriskie St., Jersey City | Teens – Learn […]
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SMUSH Opens Their Spring Dance Series With “Mold”
With her legs bowed, a blank look on her face, and a pinky raised, a woman oozed toward the middle of a crowded room. She bent her knees and moved her hand in a tight circle, stirring the air, feet splayed, knees bent and tongue slightly out. She crouched as though she’d sit on an […]
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PATH Trains Headed to NYC Will Bypass Grove Street on Weekends Until July
The second phase of the Port Authority’s station modernization project will begin on Saturday, preventing New York City bound trains from stopping at the Grove St. PATH station every weekend until July. From 6 a.m. Saturday, April 6, to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, April. 7, and on most weekends through approximately Sunday, June 30, World Trade […]
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Appeals Court Won’t Block Order Barring County Line in June’s Primaries
A trio of federal judges on Wednesday rejected county clerks’ entreaty to block a preliminary injunction that bars the use of the county line in June’s Democratic primaries, the latest blow to party leaders in a case that could end the use of New Jersey’s unique ballot design. The decision is another win for Rep. Andy […]
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Kismet of Kings Continues 10-Year Mission to Mentor Urban Young Men
Raised in the rough-and-tumble world of Booker T. Washington public housing in Jersey City’s Lafayette section, Lewis Spears became an up-close observer of urban hardship. That lesson was driven home, especially after his 9-year-old cousin was killed in the aftermath of a local street fight. But these formative experiences – rather than wear him down […]
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Property Manager Admits to Kickback Scheme at Canco Lofts
A Jersey City property manager has admitted to conspiring with two others in a kickback scheme to defraud Canco Lofts, a condominium complex in Jersey City, of $470,000. According to U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, Ranaldo Bennett, 56, of Jersey City, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Karen M. Williams today in Camden federal […]