Photo by Stephen Marks/Hudson County Division of Planning The Jersey City Reservoir Preservation Alliance and the city are hosting a public meeting this Wednesday to give residents an update on the progress at the urban oasis that calls the Heights home. Specifically, the meeting is designed to give an overview of a project, begun two [...]
- ACLU Seeks Cellphone Tracking Data from JC, Others: Information on how and when New Jersey police departments use cellphone data to track citizens is being sought by the American Civil Liberties Union, with the group saying it wants to learn if the government provides appropriate protection when the data is accessed. Open records requests [...]
The Hudson County Open Space Advisory Board and the Hudson County Division of Planning are inviting all county residents to take a short five-minute survey about the state of the county’s parks, open spaces, recreational facilities, historic preservation sites and cultural spaces. The survey will help guide planners as they undertake a formal reexamination of [...]
Thousands of folks from Jersey City and beyond are expected to descend on Central Avenue in the Heights this Saturday for the fourth annual Everything Jersey City Festival, a free daylong celebration featuring bands, vendors, artists, retail deals, rides and performers.
- UEZ: State lawmakers who argue that Urban Enterprise Zones should not be abolished made the case Monday that the program especially helps minority-owned businesses. – ’100 Steps’: The long-delayed “100 Steps” restoration is one step closer to completion now that Jersey City officials have completed a deal with a developer to pick up the [...]
Jersey City will soon add another former Superfund site to the list of open space parks along the city’s bordering waterways, as it once again reclaims land — this time the old PJP landfill — once thought lost to an industrial past.
A much-needed 15,000 square feet park in a mostly industrial area near Journal Square will officially open to the public Thursday after a formal dedication and Veterans Day ceremony. The park, which was built by the developers of the CANCOlofts across the street (who have dubbed it CANCOpark), will include open green space, landscaping and [...]
- Smith’s Defense: Former Assemblyman and City Council member L. Harvey Smith has embarked upon a multi-pronged legal strategy to have federal corruption charges against him dismissed, including arguing that he was only helping a constituent when he was busted on bribery charges and that the government entrapped him. – Open Space Projects: Hudson County [...]
Tomorrow is Park(ing) Day, that annual global event in which alternative-transportation advocates temporarily transform street parking spots into temporary public parks and other social spaces. The event, initially created by a San Francisco art and design collective in 2005, has grown tremendously over the past five years, with scores of temporary parks popping up in large cities all over the country.
Jersey City’s Planning Division has received state Office of Smart Growth grants to conduct a study about how best to implement Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) in the city, and a series of three public meetings on the process begins tonight. TDR is a planning device used to preserve historic structures while continuing to allow [...]
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