A few candidates for Jersey City's greatest athletes | Letter
After leaving Jersey City 53 years ago I have now returned to Matawan, N.J. from Honolulu, Hawaii. I have been thinking of Jersey City's greatest all-around athletes -- guys like Al Blozis, who was classified as (the greatest among) greatest. He was a WWII combat infantry man killed in Europe charging a German machine gun outpost. Others were Mickey Albers, who played football in the 1930's, and Jackie Hyatt of St. Peter's Prep and Fordham football in the 1950's. Hyatt contracted polio playin..>> view originalJersey City shooting leaves man in 'critical' condition, official says
JERSEY CITY -- A Paterson man is listed in critical condition after being shot early this morning behind County Prep High School, a city spokeswoman said. The 30-year-old victim was shot in the upper body just after midnight on Florence and Bright streets, city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said. While Morrill did not provide how many times the victim was shot, unconfirmed reports from a police scanner indicated the victim was struck multiple times. The victim was brought to Jersey City Medi..>> view originalJersey City cooling centers to remain open through Sunday
JERSEY CITY -- With the temperature expected to remain in the 90s for the next couple of days, cooling centers throughout the city will remain open this weekend. The Mary McLeod Bethune Community Center on Martin Luther King Drive will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for residents to escape the heat, city officials announced. Both of the city's senior centers -- the Joseph Connors Senior Center and the Maureen Collier Senior Center -- will also be open to the public from..>> view originalGroundbreaking set for $20M City Hall annex project in Jersey City
JERSEY CITY รข€” Two years after Jersey City announced plans to build a City Hall annex on Martin Luther King Drive, a groundbreaking for the $20 million project has been scheduled. Mayor Steve Fulop's administration believes the project will attract long-awaited economic investment to the struggling inner city. The annex is planned for a lot near the Hub shopping center on Martin Luther King Drive. The city is teaming up with developer Brandywine on the project. Brandywine will build the annex..>> view original4th time's a charm? Gina Verdibello again seeking seat on Jersey ...
Despite unsuccessful bids to make it on the Jersey City Board of Education for the past three years, education advocate and mother Gina Verdibello will once ...>> view originalOff-Duty Firefighter Rescues Girl from Jersey City (NJ) Fire
An off-duty Jersey City firefighter saw smoke coming from a Randolph Avenue home and rescued a 4-year-old girl trapped on the third floor yesterday afternoon, ...>> view originalJersey City felon steals $400 worth of items from car: criminal ...
Jeffrey Jones, 57, appears in court in Jersey City today, July 12, 2016, on charges he stole more than $400 worth of property from a car. Michaelangelo Conte | The Jersey Journal A 57-year-old Downtown Jersey City man with a long criminal record has been charged with breaking into a vehicle and stealing items valued at more than $400 last Saturday.Jeffrey Jones, of Grove Street, was arrested Tuesday and charged with burglary and theft, the criminal complaint says.The incident was captured on ..>> view originalJersey City opens 70 new West Side homes, pre-k center
Jersey City officials this week marked the grand opening of the fourth and final phase of a 274-unit public-housing complex on the city's West Side.The Gloria Robinson Court Homes, developed by Pennrose Properties, partnering with the Jersey City Housing Authority, include a 10-classroom pre-k center that Mayor Steve Fulop said he hopes will become a model in similar developments in the future."We couldn't be more excited about this project as it truly encompasses what we envision for a mixed ..>> view originalDonor behind $1M to super PAC connected to Fulop is revealed
The mysterious $1 million donation made last year to a Super PAC that is connected to Mayor Steve Fulop came from the founder of local hospital system CarePoint Health. The news that CarePoint owner and founder Vivek Garipalli made the seven-figure contribution is included in a campaign finance report filed today by the Super PAC, Coalition for Progress. CarePoint owns three hospitals in Hudson County, including Christ Hospital in Jersey City. The PAC's initial FEC filing, dated Dec. 31, liste..>> view originalSweet deal tax abatements still based on 1988 reval | Letter
Every year, property owners receive cards from the tax assessor telling them their taxes they paid last year as well as their assessments. While the information about the taxes is correct, property owners know their assessments are off because that information was based on the 1988 revaluation, which is 28 years old. Yet, for some reason, when the City of Jersey City puts together a tax abatement ordinance, they use information based upon data from the 1988 revaluation. The value of some New J..>> view original
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