Tuesday, February 23, 2016

No honking, yelping or squawking: Jersey City councilman wants ... and other top stories.

  • No honking, yelping or squawking: Jersey City councilman wants ...

    No honking, yelping or squawking: Jersey City councilman wants ...
    A Jersey City councilman wants you to cut out that racket! Rich Boggiano, who represents Ward C on the City Council, has proposed a new law that he hopes will bring more peace and quiet to city neighborhoods. The measure, up for final adoption at tomorrow's council meeting, would implement decibel caps on noise coming from residential and commercial properties. The measure (Ord. 16.027) would also ban certain activities during evening and overnight hours. Use of power tools, for example, would..
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  • 2 dead in Turnpike crash in Jersey City, state police say

    2 dead in Turnpike crash in Jersey City, state police say
    UPDATE: Two killed in Turnpike crash identified as high school teacher, young daughter.  Two people were killed in today's crash on the New Jersey Turnpike Hudson County Extension, authorities said. New Jersey State Police have confirmed that the 3:20 p.m. crash just west of the 14C toll plaza in Jersey City left two dead and three others injured.  NJTPK crash at Int. 14C Jersey City, update: 3 veh. crash. 2 confirmed fatalities. No additional info. available. รข€” NJSP - State Police (@NJSP) ..
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  • 2 Jersey City men charged with PCP

    2 Jersey City men charged with PCP
    JERSEY CITY -- A Jersey City man owing $14,000 in child support and a second city man have been arrested on charges they possessed two jars of PCP with intent to distribute near a school and public property. George W. Mack, 43, of the 100 block of Stegman Street, and Ray Pickett, 55, of the 100 block of Wade Street, were arrested on Saturday, criminal complaints say. Both are charged with possession of PCP with intent to distribute, intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of School 15, located ..
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  • Jersey City lottery player wins $1K a week for life

    Jersey City lottery player wins $1K a week for life
    A Jersey City liquor store sold a Cash4Life ticket for Monday's drawing worth $1,000 a week for life.New Jersey Lottery  Another Jersey Cash4Life drawing, another second-prize ticket sold in New Jersey. Monday's lucky ticket was sold at EZ Market and Liquors on Mallory Avenue in Jersey City, state lottery officials said Tuesday morning. The winning ticket is worth $1,000 a week for the winner's life or $1 million if he or she prefers to be paid in a lump sum. Monday's winning numbers were 8, 9..
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  • Jersey City school board member to N.J.: force a vote on super ...

    Jersey City school board member to N.J.: force a vote on super ...
    A school board member and critic of Schools Superintendent Marcia V. Lyles is asking the state education commissioner to intercede in the fight over Lyles' new contract. Lorenzo Richardson, who was elected to the nine-member board in 2014, asked Education Commissioner David Hespe in a Feb. 22 letter to oversee a special board meeting before March 1 and "monitor" a vote on whether Lyles' four-year contract should be renewed. The move comes less than a week after Richardson attempted to force th..
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  • Poll: Should Jersey City's Planning Board lower parking minimums ...

    Poll: Should Jersey City's Planning Board lower parking minimums ...
    Jersey City's Planning Board today is scheduled to hear a request to lower the required "one parking spot per unit" minimum for a developer of a building going up on 10th Street, The Jersey Journal reported yesterday. Developer LeFrak had initially agreed to set aside 163 spots for its Revetment project on the 10th Street Embankment in the neighborhood of Hamilton Park. The developer is requesting that the requirement be lowered to 123. The change would be similar to a previously granted adj..
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  • Jersey City's top planner Bob Cotter stepping down

    Bob Cotter, Jersey City's top planner, is retiring after 26 years on the job, a span that saw the city's Waterfront transformed from an industrial backwater into one of the most desirable real-estate markets in the nation. Cotter called Jersey City's growth "the stuff of legend" in a statement released by the city last week. "The city is a much better place than I found it, and that is what city planners hope and study to do," Cotter said. Bob Antonicello, who led the Jersey City Redevelopment..
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  • Jersey City school with rodents to be cleaned after visit from Health ...

    Jersey City school with rodents to be cleaned after visit from Health ...
    A rodent inside Ferris High School. (Photo sent to The Jersey Journal)Caitlin Mota | The Jersey Journal  JERSEY CITY -- A worker at Ferris High School has three words to share: "enough is enough." Rats, or very large mice, have been roaming the school for weeks -- according to the worker -- and Monday night the building was due for a cleaning after a visit in the afternoon from the city Health Department.  In a letter sent to The Jersey Journal, the school worker said the rat infestation is so..
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  • See the dance, talk to the performers Sunday in Jersey City

    BY ALISHA MORALES-LIZARDO Nimbus Dance Works will perform "Shadow of Sound" by Huang Yi (Taiwan), "Untitled" by Korhan Basaran (Turkey), and "Surface Tension" by Artistic Director Samuel Pott as part of NimbusPresents. Performances are at 2 and 6 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 28, at the Nimbus studio theater, 209 3rd St., in Downtown Jersey City. Following the performances, there will be an artist talk back with choreographers and performers. Nicholas Ranauro, recipient of the Winter 2016 Nimbus Choreogr..
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  • 81-year-old Jersey City woman found murdered; video recorded of ...

    81-year-old Jersey City woman found murdered; video recorded of ...
    JERSEY CITY Lucila Cardenas-Viejo, 81, was found dead on the living room floor of her Lexington Avenue home on Feb. 7, the victim of a brutal attack.Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said that at approximately 10:31 a.m.., Jersey City Police were dispatched to 64A Lexington Avenue on a report of an unresponsive elderly female, later identified as Cardenas-Viejo.Upon arrival, police found the victim on the floor of her living room with multiple blunt and sharp force injuries to her body. ..
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