The nearly 100-year-old statute of Peter Stuyvesant by famed sculptor J. Massey Rhind was on Friday delivered to The Beacon condominium complex as it continues its journey back to where it had previously stood for 97 years: Bergen Square. The statue, which was removed from its location on Bergen Avenue in front of PS 11 [...]
When Jersey City was forced to vacate the offices it leases at 201 Cornelison Avenue in December after a burst pipe flooded the facilities, it was believed to be a temporary but necessary measure. But as it turns out, city officials say it was a blessing in disguise, as it allowed the city to break [...]
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday announced that Jersey City will receive a Planning Grant to study how best to transform the Montgomery Gardens-McGinley Square corridor into a mixed-income neighborhood. The $250,000 grant falls under HUD’s new Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, an extension of the HOPE VI program that has transformed [...]
The Christie administration today announced it has approved the applications of two Jersey City charter schools that it had rejected last fall, as part of a green-light for 23 new charter schools statewide, the largest ever number approved in one application cycle in New Jersey. The charters approved in Jersey City are the Mathematics, Engineering, [...]
The Independent’s office will be closed Friday for the holiday; this will be the last news roundup until Monday. Happy new year, all! – Winter Storm: Jersey City residents aren’t the only ones frustrated by the pace of cleanup post-storm, and municipalities across the state say the slower-than-usual response was in part due to budget [...]
- Pay-to-Play Issues Cloud Contract’s Future: The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency could void a multimillion-dollar contract for a City Hall annex because the developer violated the city’s pay-to-play law when it donated $1,500 to Ward E councilman Steven Fulop. Fulop and a company representative both maintain that the donation did not come from the company [...]
On Tuesday night many of Hudson County’s business owners gathered at the former Jersey City Medical Center (or as it is now known, The Beacon) for the inaugural event of the Hudson County History Series.
- A Costa Rican woman who is wanted for murder in that country, but was arrested in the U.S. last year, has filed a federal lawsuit over negligent health services at the Hudson County jail, where she remains as she awaits extradition to stand trial. The woman alleges she didn’t have access to a doctor [...]
- Hudson County judge Maurice Gallipoli is scheduled to hear arguments tomorrow on whether Hudson County violated the state’s pay to play law when it awarded a contract to Correctional Health Services for prison medical services. That company’s president, Geoffrey Perselay, donated $1,000 to Hudson County freeholder Anthony Romano on May 30, 2008. The contract [...]
If you ask a local artist why he or she participates in the annual Jersey City Artists Studio Tour, “to sell art” probably won’t be a phrase you hear very often. This year Victory Arts Projects, Cultural Affairs, the Jersey City Museum and the Beacon Condominiums tried to rectify that by launching an art fair. Will it work?
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