Share/Save – Twenty-three families are still living in the high-rise A. Harry Moore public housing complex on Duncan Ave., even as parts of it are being demolished. They’ve been left without on-site security and a building manager while they figure out what to do next. The housing complex is being replaced by the low-rise Gloria [...]
Share/Save- The fight over chromium cleanup at the former PPG Industries site at 900 Garfield Ave. may be heading to federal court. Yesterday the national environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), along with the Hoboken-based Interfaith Community Organization, filed a lawsuit against PPG in federal court that calls for the immediate cleanup of 900 [...]
Share/Save- A substantial crowd gathered yesterday in hopes to getting into one of the 56 new affordable housing units at the Barbara Place Terrace public housing development on Pacific Avenue. JC Housing Authority executive director Maria Maio says that 300 applications were handed out by lunchtime for a total of 67 apartments (there are 11 [...]
Share/Save- At last night’s City Council Caucus meeting, council members grilled Jersey City Housing Authority executive director Maria Maio and vice-chair Raj Mukherji, who answered questions raised by former Housing Authority chair and current at-large candidate Lori Serrano at the last council meeting. Maio said there was no longer a problem with a lack of [...]
Share/Save- At the Temple Beth-El’s regular service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. last night, the dean of UMDNJ talked about race in America, linked King and Barack Obama, but said that work still needs to be done to achieve true equality. The Journal notes that the service was well attended by local pols, including [...]
Share/SaveWe read the JJ so you don’t have to: It’s a big-time-crime day at the Journal, which gives us a chance to critique the paper’s “unique” brand of crime reportage. Front pager is the old-lady-cart suspected murder on Palisade Ave. (again). This one is perfect for the tabloid, as apparently the details are getting more [...]
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