With its parent company Westin Hotels the official hotel sponsor of this year’s U.S. Open Tennis Championships in Queens, the Westin Jersey City Newport is hoping to nab tennis tourists with a “Grand Slam Deal.”
As part of the package, the hotel is offering a free daily $10 MetroCard for each guest, to make traveling [...]
We’ve spent much of the last six weeks traveling on and off. Happily nothing horrible happened that matched the outright hostility we got during our trip to Montana early this year. But traveling with a two-year-old is tricky in the best of times and can be grueling when you make a long slog — besides [...]
This last weekend we made a huge tactical error. I was going up to cover the Montreal Jazz Festival and decided to drive so the entire family could come along. We love the city, the downtown is very walkable, and the festival grounds has tons of free music on outdoor stages. The idea was that we would cruise around town with child in tow taking it all in. The problem was that we forgot our stroller. This is second time we’ve left town without a stroller, but this time it was a bigger deal than a visit to the grandparents who drove everywhere.
- JCIA Litter Pickup Program a Victim of Budget Cuts: The Jersey City Incinerator Authority ended a 20-plus-year contract last week with the nonprofit Hudson Community Enterprises that employed 70 developmentally disabled and handicapped adults; they were all laid off on Friday as the agency grapples with a $4.1 million funding cut as a result [...]
Editor’s note: As promised in our profile of her that ran last week, Jayne Freeman — aka “Mamarama” — is now blogging for us on parenting issues. We think she’ll provide a nice complement to our other parenting blogger, Jersey City Dad. This is her first post; enjoy.
About a week before spring break my seven-year-old [...]
Photos: Verity Smith and Melissa Surach
Two Saturdays ago, I went to Atlantic City for the 5th Annual Celebration of the Suds, one of the biggest beer events in the state. I had tickets for the night’s sold-out session, and I arrived in town just in time to be greeted by the exodus from the afternoon [...]
The State Department’s Passport Day in the USA 2010 is slated for Saturday, March 27, and the Hudson County Clerk’s office (257 Cornelison Ave., 4th Floor) is getting involved.
The clerk will be open from 10 am to 3 pm on Saturday, and will be offering passport photos for no fee for those applying for [...]
It was a bit of a slow week in the Jersey City blogosphere; maybe everyone was at the beach?
- Over at Left Bank Art Blog, Irene Borngraeber waxes theoretical about the Creative Grove Artist Market.
- Marie Javins’ excursion to Bannerman Castle upstate makes a nice addition to our summer travel guide.
As we emerge from the official summer kickoff known as Memorial Day, we wanted to give you some tips and ideas about how to get out of town, with a focus on budget travel, day trips and destinations accessible to those without a car. Here are just a few of our top picks.
- Irene Borngraeber puts two cents in on how the businesses that participate in JC Fridays handle the art displayed during the events. “JC Fridays is not about art,” she concludes. Someone from Art House Productions responds in the comments: hopefully this conversation will continue and make JC Fridays even better.
- Ian Sacs of Planetizen [...]
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