When Lionel Medina moved with his wife from the Bronx to Port Liberté in 2022, he thought he’d finally found peace and quiet. “It was the place we wanted to spend the rest of our lives.” His Bronx neighborhood, Riverdale, had grown noisier after the pandemic, with loud music blaring from cars on the streets […]
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Op-Ed: Climate Change Poses Severe Risks to Vulnerable Jersey City Residents
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is affected more of them all? As an international public health student, I’ve observed that climate change affects different populations unequally, regardless of their geographic location or country. People with fewer economic resources and certain racial/ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected due to climate change. In the state of New […]
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Saturday Blurbs: Interesting Little Stories From the Past Week
Gaza Invades Board of Education Jersey City Board of Education Trustee Younass Barkouch finds himself under fire after shouting “from the river to the sea” as students were honoring National Arab American Heritage Month during the April 25 Board meeting. The Board will hold a special meeting on May 14 to file ethics charges against […]
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Shots Ring Out in Lafayette on Day That Sheriff Arrests 11 Locals on Warrants
On the same day that Hudson County Sheriff Frank X. Schillari was touting the arrests of 32 people wanted on warrants in “Operation Spring Roundup,” the Jersey City Police Department was responding to a report of shots fired in the rapidly-gentrifying Lafayette neighborhood. The county-wide warrant sweep involved individuals who had failed to appear, violated […]
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“Static Motion” at Gallery 14C
Paintings don’t move. This, once, must have felt like a dare for visual artists. Some of them devised clever ways to tell viewers that what they were looking at was meant to be in motion, even though it wasn’t. Then movies were invented, and painters ceded that territory to the people with the cameras. They […]
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Authorities Identify Victim in Deadly Downtown Fire
Authorities have identified the victim of a deadly Downtown fire early this morning. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, at about 4:50 a.m., the Jersey City Fire Department was notified of a fire in a high-rise residential building at 270 Marin Blvd. Emergency responders found smoke coming from a unit on the twelfth floor. […]
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U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez Seeks Reelection as His Father’s Corruption Trial Looms
About eight months ago, it seemed likely Rep. Rob Menendez would be seeking his second term in Congress with only nominal Democratic challengers, if any. But the indictment of his father, Sen. Bob Menendez, on Sept. 22 turned the Menendez name, once a selling point for the young congressman, into a potential liability. It not only […]
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Investigators Probe Deadly Downtown Fire
This story has been updated here. Authorities are investigating a deadly fire Downtown last night. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, The Hudson County Regional Arson Task Force and the Jersey City Fire Department are investigating a fatal fire that occurred at 270 Marin Blvd. This morning, city officials were seen outside the building. […]
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Planning Board OKs Controversial ‘Senior Housing’ Apartments, Cannabis Retail
Despite opposition from some residents, new apartments for senior citizens in Jersey City’s Ward D and a new cannabis retail shop in Ward C got legal approvals from the city Planning Board Tuesday night. The board voted unanimously to allow a partnership of Onkar Singh, Avtar Singh and Arvinder Minh develop a vacant lot at […]
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Op-Ed: Why am I Being Excluded from a Debate with Menendez and Bhalla?
On May 5th, two of the three candidates on the ballot for the NJ 08 Democratic Congressional Primary will participate in a debate hosted by the NJ Globe. Despite being the second candidate to enter the race, and being at around 10% in the polls, I am being excluded from participating in this debate. The […]