- Selling JCPD HQ: Jersey City officials are planning to sell Police Headquarters on Erie Street and move the department to another city location. – Cost of PATH Hub at WTC Rising: Planners of the new World Trade Center say they need another $180 million to finish the major transit hub at the site. – [...]
- Corruption Ruling: A federal appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling that says Ron and Lou Manzo can’t be charged with selling access to a public official, since they did not hold public office at the time of their arrests on federal corruption charges. The ruling could lead to a ripple effect of others [...]
- Diversity: Jersey City is the most diverse city in the state, according to recently released Census data. – Gateway Project: At a Monday morning press conference in Newark, Amtrak officials and Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Bob Menendez announced that Amtrak plans to invest $50 million to begin preliminary engineering and design work on two [...]
- Charges Upped for Murder Suspect: Two men already charged with killing a Jersey City high school student in 2004 in a case of mistaken identity are now being charged under federal racketeering laws with killing the boy to gain entrance into or elevate their positions in the Bloods street gang. – School Funding: Gov. [...]
- Stabbing: Cops say a 41-year-old Jersey City man stabbed his wife more than a dozen times Tuesday night and then stabbed her four children, the youngest of whom is his 6-year-old son. His bail has been set at $1 million dollars and he’s been ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluations. The Journal has two more [...]
- Manzo Case: Federal appellate judges in Philadelphia will hear arguments today in an appeal filed by federal prosecutors in New Jersey seeking to overturn the dismissal of four of six corruption charges faced by former Jersey City assemblyman and perennial mayoral hopeful Lou Manzo. – Habitat for Humanity Fights with a JC-Based Contractor: Habitat [...]
- Bedbugs: School officials are now saying they aren’t sure if School 23 has bedbugs — a different story than they gave last week. – Bus Driver Wins Arbitration Award: A New Jersey Transit bus driver from Jersey City who was arrested and suspended at work after a co-worker reported him making threatening comments won [...]
- Cop Layoffs: Negotiations to avoid the layoffs in the pipeline for the JCPD have stalled. – Public Golf Course Coming to JC: The Hudson County Board of Freeholders has adopted a resolution to build a nine-hole golf course on the sandy wasteland straddling Duncan Avenue adjacent to Lincoln Park. The 60-acre, $12.7 million project [...]
The Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation (AFHDC) is currently running an online survey to help assess the affordable housing needs of local residents engaged in the performing arts/entertainment industries. The survey will help steer AFHDC’s development of arts-related affordable housing in the New York/New Jersey area. “Actors, dancers and musicians have median incomes below $24,000 [...]
- Bonding for Retirement Payouts: Jersey City officials hope to bond for $9.3 million to cover payouts to retiring workers for unused sick, vacation and compensatory time, instead of $22 million as initially planned. The ordinance will be up for introduction at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. – NJ Transit Gets the ARC Tunnel Bill: The [...]
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