UPDATE, JANUARY 25 at 7 AM: An earlier version of this story had some errors in the explanation of the difference between worker cooperatives and the Downtown Coop. The story has been updated and corrected; we apologize for the error. After delays with permits and other issues pushed its opening back by several months, the [...]
The MLK HUB’s newest tenant has officially opened its doors, marking another milestone in what city officials hope is the continued revitalization of the Jersey City shopping plaza long plagued by vacancies. A nearly 4,000-square-foot McDonald’s franchise has opened in the former Burger King space, one of several vacancies at the shopping center that on-site [...]
- ARC $: Transportation officials are scrambling to reexamine how to spend as much as $1 billion in federal highway funding that had been pledged for a new Hudson River rail tunnel but could now go to other projects throughout New Jersey. Meanwhile, the $3 billion the Federal Transit Administration committed to ARC is no [...]
Photos: Steve Gold This story also appears in the Fall/Winter 2010 issue of NEW magazine. Carmen Mendiola likes watches so much she sometimes wears two at a time. She owns about 700, ranging from playful — a lifesaver face on a liquid-filled band — to tributes — a swatch by Keith Haring, one of her [...]
The eight-story historic Lackawanna Center warehouse officially kicked off a massive renovation yesterday with a reception for its newest big-name tenant, “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro, the reality TV star and famed baker who is expanding his Hoboken-based bakery to a Jersey City space almost as old as his family business. Carlo’s Bakery will lease 32,000 [...]
Ten months after closing its Brunswick Street doors to the public, Iris Records is reopening for three days each week beginning on October 28, owner Stephen Gritzan announced today. He says the success he’s had selling at the Creative Grove Artist Market has led him to give the storefront another whirl. “We’ve been successful there [...]
Rustic wood shelves, counters propped up on wine barrels, vintage corkscrews mounted on concrete walls. Is this a winery in the middle of Jersey City? No, it’s just the new Madame Claude wine store, opening today in the ground floor of the Hamilton Square development near Hamilton Park.
The owners of Lackawanna Center, the eight-story, 1.3 million-square-foot industrial complex at 629 Grove St. in Jersey City, plan to introduce the first phase of a multi-million dollar retail renovation in the middle of October. Emmes Asset Management Co. plans to renovate 200,000 square feet of retail space and two 300-car parking lots at the [...]
- Liberty Humane Axes Director: Just one week after Liberty Humane Society’s board resigned, the new three-member interim board fired shelter director Joanna Hopkinson last night. Interim board member Diana Jeffrey says they fired Hopkinson mainly to dispel the notion that the shelter is too beholden to its largest donor, John Neu. She says Hopkinson’s [...]
To break up the long drives he would regularly make between New Jersey and Michigan, North Carolina and Maine for his job as a skate shoe sales rep for Converse, Chase Whitaker took up thrift shopping. Over time, he amassed such a collection of vintage menswear, military tchotchkes, and taxidermied ornamental animals, that he decided it was time to shift gears, as it were, and create a shop of his own.
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