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The third installment in the first-ever Movies in the Park(s) series in the Heights has been canceled due to what forecasters are saying will be a rainy evening. Tonight’s screening of Ratatouille in Riverview-Fisk Park has been rescheduled for Wednesday, August 24 around sunset (about 8 pm). Two days later, the Washington Park Association and [...]

If you read this site regularly, you know the Jersey City farmers market scene is thriving, with a market somewhere on most days of the week. Now starting Sunday, the Heights will have its first-ever Riverview Farmers Market in Riverview-Fisk Park. The market is the brainchild of the relatively new Farms in the Heights organization, [...]

As it enters its fourth year, the Movies in the Park program in Jersey City’s Heights neighborhood is expanding from just one movie night each summer to four nights, thanks to collaboration between two neighborhood groups. For the past three years, the Riverview Neighborhood Association (RNA) has held one movie night in Riverview-Fisk Park in [...]

After more than a year of discussion and revision, the city’s redevelopment plan for Journal Square was approved by the City Council at its Wednesday meeting.

Ward C councilwoman Nidia Rivera Lopez and Ward D councilman Bill Gaughan are scheduled to appear at the Jan. 12 meeting of the Riverview Neighborhood Association (RNA). The group says its monthly business will be kept to a minimum in order to devote more time to a question-and-answer session with the two representatives. The evening [...]

On Tuesday, 11 of the 13 candidates for three At-Large seats on the City Council headed up to the Heights to take part in a forum presented by the Riverview Neighborhood Association. To go along with our written report on the event, we’ve got video of a number of candidates talking about specific issues, from [...]

Photo by Steve Gold Candidates for the City Council At-Large seat gathered on Tuesday evening to introduce themselves and field questions from voters at a forum held by the Riverview Neighborhood Association (RNA) in the Heights. About 75 people crowded into the dining room of the Harborview Health Center to hear from the candidates. Eleven [...]

Well, that was fast. When we published our list of upcoming election forums this morning, we said we’d post blog updates when other forums were announced. Here goes. On Tuesday, April 14, at 7:30, the Riverview Neighborhood Association will host a forum for all At-Large council candidates at its regular meeting at Harborview Health Center [...]

- At a presser in Hackensack yesterday, Sen. Bob Menendez said NJ should land billions dollars of federal stimulus money, particularly in the form of tax relief, infrastructure funding and green energy projects from the package scheduled to be signed by President Obama today. Mayor Healy says Jersey City will seek funding for the new [...]