Win a Superbowl by intercepting a late pass by a future Hall of Fame quarterback on a team generally disliked by large swaths of the country and you too might have a private boulevard named after you, a key to the city, and the opportunity to give inspirational talks to an area’s youths. It helps [...]
Newly-opened Steam Cafe will be holding their fourth art show Wednesday, February 8th, from 6-10pm. The cafe (276 Newark Avenue) will have music and refreshments on hand. “The art shows have been very well attended,” said Christina Coaker, the cafe’s owner, who sees art as an integral part of the cafe. “The idea is to [...]
Nine months after Jersey City rejected an initial “preposterous” settlement with developer Steve Hyman, owner of the 6th Street Embankment, an agreement was reached Friday that will transfer the valuable downtown land to the city for $7 million, pending Council approval. The settlement comes after a 7-year legal battle that has accrued millions of dollars [...]
Jersey City would like to remind residents that the city’s local Heat Ordinance, which requires that landlords maintain a temperature of at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit between the hours of 6am and 11pm, and at least 65 degrees Fahrenheit between 11pm and 6 am, remains in effect through April 30th. “Everyone has the right to [...]
Two Most Dangerous Miles in U.S.: Congressman Albio Sires took the Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security on a tour of four of the nation’s most high-risk terrorist target sites along what the New York Times called “the two most dangerous miles in the United States” in Hudson County–including the Holland Tunnel and [...]
The Jersey City Housing Authority will be the recipient of a $998,400 grant as part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Capital Fund Education and Training Community Facilities (CFCF) program, Congressman Albio Sires announced in a statement today. The CFCF program earmarks money for the construction of facilities that provide early childhood [...]
“Shocked” and “offended,” William Colgan, the managing partner of Community Healthcare Associates, emphatically denied a charge by Christ Hospital’s Board Chairman Geoff Curtiss that CHA was unprepared to follow through with their bid. Colgan says CHA contacted Christ Hospital immediately after the deal with Prime had “fallen apart, which was literally a couple days ago,” [...]
The longstanding Saturday morning tradition of kids hovering around the television to watch cartoons wasn’t the case at the Shurin household, where Michael Shurin – aspiring Republican candidate for Congress and Jersey City resident – instead spent his childhood mornings absorbed in charged political discourse. For Shurin, it was Meet the Press and the McLaughlin [...]
After months of assuring Jersey City residents that Horizon Health Center is fully able to provide the equivalent STD prevention and tracking services as the city-operated Preventive Medicine Clinic, Horizon has backed away from the contract after New Jersey Primary Care Association, a group representing 20 Federally Qualified Health Centers in the state, sued the [...]
Bar LITM (140 Newark Ave) will be holding an opening reception for Darin DeField’s “Afrocentricity,” an exhibition of mixed media collage that explores race, gender, sexuality, and identity, on Tuesday, February 7th, from 6pm-8pm. One of Jersey City’s most influential artists, DeField’s work has appeared in both public galleries and private collections such as the [...]
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