Share/Save The Attic Ensemble will be holding their 5th annual Saturday night stand-up comedy fund-raiser show on Saturday, May 19th. Doors open at 8:30pm and the show will be held at the theater group’s usual stage, the Barrow Mansion (83 Wayne Street). The one night only event is hosted by Phil Rivo and will feature [...]
Share/Save The Historic Downtown Special Improvement District’s seasonal farmers’ market is set to return to the Grove Street PATH plaza this upcoming Monday, May 14th from 4pm – 8pm. The market, which is one of eight throughout the city, will be held every Monday and Thursday through the end of December. According to HDSID Executive [...]
Share/Save Jersey City will be holding a job fair for the new West District Precinct on Thursday, May 17th from 10am to 2pm at Mary McLeod Bethune Life Center (140 Martin Luther King Drive). Applications will be accepted for apprenticeship opportunities in the following trades: *Bricklayers *Carpenters *Electrical Workers *Glaziers *HVAC *Laborers *Operating Engineers *Plasterers [...]
Share/Save The 9th annual Newport 10,000 Road Race is set for this Saturday, May 12th, with the race starting at Newport Town Square (100 Town Square Place). Known as the fastest course in the tri-state area, the Newport 10,000 is a 10K road race along the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City’s Newport community. The [...]
Share/SaveWhen President Barack Obama announced yesterday that his view on marriage equality “evolved” into one of endorsement, it came in sharp contrast to other recent politicized discussions on the civil rights issue. Just a few days before, North Carolina’s voters adopted Amendment 1, a law explicitly forbidding marriage equality in their state constitution. And a [...]
Share/Save The Service Employees International Union local 32BJ marched down Grove Street Wednesday afternoon, drawing out storefront owners and residents as the purple-shirted mass of 125 or so protesters headed to City Hall in support of raising wages for security officers. These officers, at least one of whom is employed at City Hall, are some [...]
Share/SaveIn a 5-4 vote, Jersey City’s Council rejected Mayor Jerramiah Healy’s proposal for Police Chief Tom Comey to assume the responsibilities of the Police Director. The proposal was slammed by Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop earlier this week, when he came out against the mayor’s position. Fulop was joined by Ward B Councilman David Donnelly, [...]
Share/Save When it comes to negotiating with developers, “Jersey City doesn’t have a backbone in its body,” according to Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop at Wednesday night’s Council meeting, who said the city has to stop “rubber stamping” deals for developers. As it turns out, however, the Council’s disposition at this point in time appears [...]
Share/SaveJersey City public school teacher Victorina Wasmuth is one of four recipients of Princeton University’s prestigious Distinguished Secondary School Teaching Award for her excellent work as a mathematics teacher at McNair Academic High School. The award comes well-timed for McNair, which was recently ranked the number 3 school in New Jersey. The award has been [...]
Share/Save It’s easy to lose track of things as one walks the same city streets, day-in and day-out, while side-stepping slow moving tourists and non-9-5ers on your way to mass transit pick-up points for your morning and evening commutes. Sometimes we like to take it easy and remember that the city streets are meant to [...]
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