Share/Save Tax Break for Goya: Jersey City is hoping to offer Goya Foods a 20-year tax break in what city officials say is an enticement for the Spanish food giant to move its headquarters from nearby Secaucus. The company has already been awarded an $80 million tax break from the state to relocate to Jersey [...]
Five months after the City Council tabled an ordinance expanding city oversight of food truck vendors because it was deemed to be an “unfair burden” on businesses, a revised version of the ordinance will be presented at tonight’s City Council caucus meeting.
Share/SaveDear Editor: It is a time of change, indeed! Seton Hall and Stevens Institute of Technology recently inaugurated immigrant presidents. Two immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as students decades ago became presidents of two of New Jersey’s largest private universities in separate ceremonies last week. Jersey City Public Schools needs a new superintendent to [...]
Share/SaveLikening her exclusion from Thursday’s At-Large council candidates forum to the “actions of a Communist dictatorship,” Adela Rohena insisted to JCI that she had valid reasons for not responding in time to qualify. “This is outrageous, this is not Cuba,” Rohena fumed in the lobby of PS 28, flanked by two supporters after the event. [...]
Last Thursday’s PS 28 forum among 10 candidates seeking to serve the remaining 18 months of two At-Large City Council seats was conducted in a friendly atmosphere among participants with the fireworks being reserved before its start; police ejected one candidate from the dais for allegedly not responding to an invite by a deadline.
Share/SavePhotos: Steve Gold City Hall’s council chambers were packed last night with supporters of the McGinley Square East Redevelopment Plan, including throngs of construction workers lining the back wall and a handful of representatives from St. Peter’s College, who all greeted the unanimously passed plan with loud applause. The months-long plan went through numerous revisions, [...]
Share/SaveThe 17 candidates for two At-Large City Council seats will have a few opportunities to discuss their ideas in front of the public over the next few weeks, as two candidate forums are scheduled and a virtual forum is currently chugging along on Facebook. First up is next Thursday’s candidate forum in the Heights. The [...]
Share/SaveTo the Editor: On Tuesday, September 27, I had the opportunity to attend the City Council meeting in Jersey City. As you may or may not know, the City Council finally passed a budget. They also claimed taxes will not be raised. I believe that is a lie, because the City Council always says taxes [...]
Share/SaveNeeding a crucial sixth vote at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting to override Mayor Healy’s veto, Ward E councilman Steve Fulop mustered only three in support of his ordinance requiring city seals on most city-owned vehicles. Still, some city-owned vehicles displaying the identifying seal will likely be spotted on the streets of Jersey City in [...]
Share/Save A developer’s rendering of the proposed new-look McGinley Square. The shot above is Montgomery Street looking east from Bergen Avenue; the shot below at right is a proposed pedestrian mall that would run east-west from Jordan Avenue to Tuers Avenue, in between Montgomery and Mercer Streets. The McGinley Square East Redevelopment Plan was unanimously [...]
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