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City Offices Closed & Street Sweeping Suspended in Jersey City for Monday Holiday

By • Jan 13th, 2012 • Category: Blog, News

All Jersey City municipal offices will be closed Monday in observance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday. All street sweeping, as well as alternate-side and meter parking regulations will be suspended. Garbage and recycling pickup will not be affected.



New Downtown Jersey City Cafe Celebrates with Ribbon-Cutting This Weekend

By • Nov 4th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food

The newest addition to Downtown Jersey City’s cafe scene, Steam Cafe, has been opened for a few weeks now on Newark Avenue between Monmouth and 3rd Streets. While many new food businesses have had trouble on that particular stretch over the past few years (the corner spot most recently home to Rue Viet has, for [...]



Weekly ‘Geeks Who Drink’ Pub Quiz Launches in Jersey City This Wednesday

By • Oct 25th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food

A hipper version of pub quiz is coming to Jersey City this week, when the Colorado-based company Geeks Who Drink launches a weekly quiz at Pint. After starting out in Colorado five years ago, Geeks Who Drink has slowly expanded across the nation, currently hosting live weekly pub quizzes at more than 165 establishments in [...]



Jersey City Names First Annual Garden Award Winners

By • Oct 21st, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food, News

Jersey City officials have announced the winners of the city’s first-ever Garden Awards, which will all be recognized at a ceremony this weekend. Downtown’s Public School 5 is the winner of the Best School Garden award, the Storms Avenue Community Garden is being dubbed the Best Start-Up Garden, the garden at Van Vorst Park takes [...]



Steven Fulop Starts Looking for Candidates to Back in 2012 School Board Elections

By • Oct 14th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News, Politics

After his candidates successfully swept the Board of Education (BOE) elections in 2010 and again this year, Ward E councilman Steven Fulop today started the process of seeking out candidates to back in next spring’s school board election with an email to supporters. “Big changes are coming for education in Jersey City,” Fulop promises, pointing [...]



Jersey City Announces Winners of 4th Annual ‘Green Awards’

By • Oct 14th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Jersey City will honor a handful of developers, organizations and individuals next week at its fourth annual Green Awards ceremony in City Hall. “The Green Awards is our way of thanking and recognizing the City’s green pioneers,” Mayor Jerramiah Healy says. “These awards are part of a community of trail blazers who are lending our [...]



Free Engineering Program for Local Youth Launches at Boys & Girls Club Today

By • Oct 14th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Today the Boys & Girls Club in Jersey City will host the kickoff for the new Young Einstein Science and Engineering Program (YESEP), which is aimed at increasing 4th through 8th graders’ knowledge of math, science, technology and engineering. The free program is an educational initiative of Pass the Roc basketball apparel company, which is [...]



Hudson County Hosting Hazardous Waste Collection Day Tomorrow in Jersey City

By • Oct 14th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

The Hudson County Incinerator Authority’s Fall 2011 Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day in Jersey City is Saturday, October 15. Residents are encouraged to bring any number of hazardous waste items to the Jersey City Incinerator Authority between 9 am and 1 pm. The program, sponsored by a state Department of Environmental Protection grant, helps ensure [...]



Friday Morning News Roundup

By • Oct 14th, 2011 • Category: Blog

- Where are the Cities in the Charter School Backlash? New Jersey’s fierce debate over charter schools has had a distinctly suburban feel of late, leading NJ Spotlight to ask: why? – SEC Sanctions JC Exchanges: The Securities and Exchange Commission has sanctioned Jersey City-based Direct Edge Holdings and two electronic exchanges it operates for [...]



Thursday Morning News Roundup

By • Oct 13th, 2011 • Category: Blog

- West Side Avenue Post Office: The U.S. Postal Service, which earlier this year announced it may close the West Side Avenue, Jersey City branch, has sent out questionnaires asking customers to describe how frequently they use the location. – Tire Slashings: Jersey City police have released a video clip showing the man believed to [...]

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