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An effort to legally require that building owners inform prospective tenants of parking limitations is getting new life two years after Mayor Healy vetoed Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop’s first attempt at passing the law. When the bill first came to Healy’s desk in 2009, the mayor decided the ordinance’s good intentions were outweighed by [...]

Assignment of On-Duty Cops to Political Fundraiser Draws Criticism: On-duty Jersey City cops were stationed outside Mayor Jerramiah Healy’s political fundraiser at Puccini’s restaurant on West Side Avenue Tuesday night, drawing criticism that protection for a fundraiser should not be paid for by taxpayers. Councilman Fulop Wants Law Warning New Residents of Parking Rules: Jersey [...]

Jersey City 18th Happiest City: Men’s Health released America’s Saddest Cities, landing Jersey City with a “B” rating. The magazine looked at 100 cities and ranked them from 100 — being the saddest — to one — being the happiest. Jersey City took home spot 18, right above Austin, Texas. Hudson County Rents Rise: The [...]

Jersey City municipal lots will be available for two hours of free parking beginning Monday, December 5, and running through Monday, January 2, in an effort by the city and the Parking Authority to ease the holiday shopping experience. “We want to encourage our residents to support our small businesses throughout the City during the [...]

City Council Reconsiders Tow Pound Bill: Faced with a less than enthusiastic reception from tow-truck operators, Jersey City officials have decided to revise the ordinance that would privatize the city car pound. Beldini Seeks Prison Term Delay: Former Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini should have her prison sentence delayed because the federal prison system [...]

Central Avenue Special Improvement District (CASID) president Michael Yun, who has held the position for 19 years, says that it hasn’t been by accident that the group has kept him in charge. “There hasn’t been an increase to the tax in the [Special Interest District] in the time since I’ve been president,” he says, referring [...]

- PATH Fare & Toll Hikes: Despite a negative reaction from both governors to its proposed package of toll and PATH fare hikes, the Port Authority is defending the increase as “absolutely necessary” and says it will stand by its initial proposal. Remember, there are public hearings today in Jersey City. – Parking Sign Confusion [...]

Although Jersey City is now in possession of new license plate readers designed to assist in enforcing parking violations of “egregious offenders,” the Healy administration is pulling a proposal that would permit the police to use them, just one day after making its case at the City Council’s caucus meeting.

Looks like there will not be a parking deck constructed on 1st Street after all, according to city planners, who last night told the City Council that a deck would be cost prohibitive and unfeasible, as well as antithetical to Jersey City’s broader planning goals. Planning Division director Bob Cotter, speaking at Monday’s council caucus [...]

A proposal to sell and redevelop the JCPD headquarters on Erie Street and an adjacent parking lot was held up at last week’s City Council meeting by Ward E councilman Steven Fulop, who argues that the city needs to retain the adjacent site and build a city-owned parking deck there to serve the area’s bars and restaurants — an option city officials say they too are considering.