Posts Tagged ‘bookstores’

Jersey City’s Free Book Exchange Wants to Trade Books With You

By • Oct 24th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Jersey City’s Grave Robber Computer Repair Service boasts on its website, “We bring dead PCs back to life!” But along with resuscitating aging circuitry and software, the computer repair service owner, Anthony Olszewski, also finds a new life for discarded books. Olszewski, who says he hates seeing “anything– particularly books– go to waste,” says the [...]



Monday Morning News Roundup

By • Oct 25th, 2010 • Category: Blog

- Bonding for Retiree Payouts: Jersey City wants to borrow $22 million to cover payouts for unused sick, vacation and compensatory time to city workers who are retiring. The city — like others across New Jersey — has seen a spike in retirements this year as the Christie administration and state legislators have pushed a [...]



Iris Records Will Reopen to the Public October 28

By • Oct 18th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog, News

Ten months after closing its Brunswick Street doors to the public, Iris Records is reopening for three days each week beginning on October 28, owner Stephen Gritzan announced today. He says the success he’s had selling at the Creative Grove Artist Market has led him to give the storefront another whirl. “We’ve been successful there [...]



The Imagine Atrium Closing — For Real This Time

By • Mar 26th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Blog

After saying it was closing once, only to pull back and say it might stay open, the bookstore on Jersey Avenue is finally closing down for real. From an email: As we’ve been unable to work out alternatives pursued over the past month, Imagine Atrium will be closing its Jersey City storefront as planned during [...]



Thursday Morning News Roundup

By • Feb 19th, 2009 • Category: Blog

- At his State of the City address last night, Mayor Healy touted his administration’s record on crime fighting, economic development, property taxes and the environment to a packed City Council chambers. It was a friendly crowd, with more applause breaks than we could keep track of. But other candidates gunning for Healy’s job weren’t [...]

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