Jersey City expands police citizen advisory board and other top stories.

• Jersey City expands police citizen advisory board

  

  Jersey City is expanding its public safety citizen advisory board, booting three people and adding six new members, including one vocal administration critic. The change comes as the city tries to include "many voices and viewpoints" in its effort to improve public safety, Mayor Steve Fulop said in a statement announcing the move. The city sought out new members after a series of town hall meetings Fulop hosted earlier this year. "Several community groups expressed they wanted a more vocal rol..

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• Jersey City orchestra debuts with City Hall concert

  

  JERSEY CITY — Soon after Michael Yun was elected to the City Council, he suggested Jersey City improve its cultural cachet by forming an orchestra, an idea that sounded outlandish at the time. But Yun's dream became a reality last night when the Jersey City Philharmonic Orchestra gave its inaugural performance at a City Hall concert, with Korean conductor Gum Nanse at the baton. The orchestra debuted with just 22 musicians playing four light pieces like Mozart's Symphony No. 29 in A major, mus..

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• Jersey City blaze displaces nearly 40 residents, injures 3

  

  Nearly 40 people are without a home after a three-alarm fire raged through two apartment buildings in the Greenville section of Jersey City Monday night, officials said. At about 8:40 p.m., firefighters battled the blaze that involved 68 Neptune Ave. and 183 Garfield Ave. The three-story wood-frame buildings sustained heavy damage from the blaze, city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said. Helen Figueroa, who has lived on the first floor of the Garfield Avenue building since January, said the fire..

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• Jersey City teen channels grief over cousin's murder into anti ...

  

  JERSEY CITY -- At only 17 years old, Aaliyah Tisdale has experienced more than her fair share of loss. A junior at Snyder High School, Tisdale says she's known a number of people whose lives were claimed by the gun violence that has plagued the southern section of the city, where the school is located. Her cousin, 17-year-old Dickinson High School student Rondell Rush, was fatally shot in broad daylight on Fulton Avenue just last month on Fulton Avenue. "Violence has affected me in major ways...

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• Religion Notes

  TODAYHOBOKEN "Faith and Medicine ," "Theology on Tap" program with St. Joseph Hospital neurologist Nicole Conroy, Morristown Hospital emergency room director Patrick Wuthricha and Rutgers internal medical resident Daniel Bodek, 7:30-9 p.m., Hoboken Bar & Grill, 230 Washington St. Registration required. 201-659-0369.JERSEY CITY Thursday Free Lunch, with free clothes, shoes, counsel and prayer, 1 p.m., also May 26, June 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30, 1 p.m. Metropolitan AME Zion Church, 140 Belmont Ave. m..

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• $50K bail set for man nabbed in 'attempted scooterjacking'

  

  DarnelleFrancis.jpg Darnelle Francis, 31, appears on court in Jersey City today, May 16, 2016, on charges he attempted to carjack a motor scooter. A 31-year-old Jersey City man charged with a May 9 attempted "scooterjacking" is being held on a $50,000 cash or bond bail. Darnelle Francis, of Manning Avenue, allegedly committed the crime of carjacking by using "physical force to throw the victim (name omitted) to the ground while at..

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