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Photos: 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, [...]

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 introduced [...]

As the final amendment to Jersey City’s 2011 budget was passed by the City Council at Tuesday night’s special meeting, there was visible relief and much gratitude directed towards business administrator Jack Kelly as the city nears the end of a grueling six-month process from when the budget was first introduced in March. “It wasn’t [...]

While the latest developments inside City Hall show signs of promise for some restored funding to the Community Awareness Series, the founder of the 34-year-old program alleges that the budget cuts are not related directly to the library’s fiscal health, but are instead a matter of personal and political payback — a charge library officials deny.

Jersey City took another step this week towards the sale of the Jersey City Police Department (JCPD) headquarters on Erie Street, approving an ordinance to adopt the 8 Erie Street Redevelopment Plan to guide the development the JCPD building and an adjacent surface parking lot.

The administration’s plan to close Jersey City’s Preventive Medicine Clinic is on hold for at least for another 30 days, Council President announced at Wednesday night’s City Council meeting. The plan to close the clinic has been hotly contested, with a number of council members questioning both the idea of closing the free clinic and [...]

A long-awaited proposal to revise Jersey City’s law governing food truck and street carts was tabled Wednesday night by the City Council after food vendors made an impassioned plea to defend their businesses from what they saw as misguided legislation.

Some called it foolish, others called it ill-timed, but in the end the Healy administration’s planned property tax revaluation was narrowly passed by Jersey City’s City Council last night.

More than 100 residents and union workers came out to be seen — if not heard — at last night’s City Council caucus meeting, where Texas-based Spectra Energy gave a presentation on its proposed natural gas pipeline through Jersey City.

Photo: Steve Gold The City Council last night gave final approval to an ordinance indefinitely freezing the annual cost-of-living salary increases that are given to 16 high-ranking Jersey City employees. The council voted for the proposal by a 7 to 1 tally, with Council President Peter Brennan voting against, and At-Large councilwoman Willie Flood absent. [...]