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Councilwoman Mira Prinz-Arey said that the center will give people “a sense of dignity.”
The renovations would allow the center to provide meals, laundry facilities and showers for those that are homeless in Jersey City.
ICYMI: Murphy called the overwhelmingly Democratic Hudson County “the heartbeat of New Jersey”, while Booker and state Senate President Nick Scutari heaped praise on Mukherji and Union City Mayor/state Sen. Brian Stack, one of the state’s last dual-office holders.
The powerful Democratic organization officially endorsed its new candidates as the fallout of redistricting comes into full play.
Police officers quickly responded to the area of Martin Luther King Drive and Grant Street at 12:35 p.m. when shots rang out, police said in radio transmissions.
One person was taken into custody within minutes of the shooting incident after a brief struggle with a police officer trying to detain him.
The 55-year-old, whose name was not released, was crossing the roadway just north of Paterson Plank Road at 6:33 a.m. when he was struck by a 2009 Dodge pickup truck in the northbound left lane.
Six people were killed in crashes in North Bergen last year, including four on Tonnelle Avenue.
Realpe is also facing a civil lawsuit that says he s*xually assaulted multiple girls at Union Hill High School.
Realpe forfeited his right to current and future public employment and permanent restraining orders are in place for both victims.
The settlement comes on the heels of a $925,000 settlement awarded to a Jersey City dog owner who suffered facial bone fractures when he was punched by a police officer in 2017.
Morrieson was initially charged with assault, resisting arrest and drug offenses.
Concerns about parking, traffic, environmental impact and affordable housing were raised, according to Prinz-Arey and others who attended the meeting.
The West Side has long lagged behind Downtown and now even Journal Square in the city’s revitalization efforts, but appears to be poised for a building boom.
Jabbour said she plans to also ensure that there is ample balance and communication in the room during meetings, a response to Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher’s request that the council ensure residents feel that they are being heard.
“I appreciate everyone’s support and I will do my best to serve both the governing body as well as the residents to the best of my ability,” Jabbour said.
Fulop said his successor should have both a clear vision for the city and the grit of a risk taker.
“I have had experience with both the legislative side and the executive side, and I much prefer the executive side," Mayor Steven Fulop said.
“Non-essential helicopter flights coming in low over our community have caused significant disruption to Hoboken residents’ lives and adversely impacted the quiet enjoyment of our homes, gardens and local parks.”
“Helicopter noise pollution is a detriment to the quality-of-life of many Hoboken residents and the city is exploring all avenues to curtail the problem."
DeGise capped off the episode with a tone-deaf, 4-minute diatribe at a City Council meeting in which she portrayed herself as the victim.
There was tragedy and triumph, plenty of the usual unkept political promises, and controversy over issues like recreational cannabis sales and the future of Liberty State Park.
“O’Dea could definitely be the mayor, but it is kind of hard to imagine a white guy ends up as mayor again,” another source said
“What I decide past the November election, you will find out after the November election,” O’Dea said.
The announcement further fuels the speculation that Fulop will run for governor in 2025.
“I will continue to focus with the same energy on the projects and initiatives that we started,” Fulop said Tuesday. “I love Jersey City, and the city’s future is bright.”
“Immigration issues are always (the) top of mind for folks,” he said. “So, immigration, visa issues, working with the different federal agencies, different cases that people have to solve their immigration challenges, that will always be a priority.”
Democratic Rep.-elect Rob Menendez Jr. will be representing the district his father, now-Sen. Bob Menendez, represented from 1993 to 2006.
Retracing the teen’s steps, officers said they recovered a sweatshirt and ski mask he was originally seen wearing along with a semi-automatic handgun from the sidewalk on 18th Street.
The semi-automatic handgun was found to be loaded with 11 bullets, 10 of which were hollow-point bullets, police said.
The victim was taking items he'd bought out of his car when he was approached, police said.
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Another West New York man has been charged with aggravated assault, officials said.
The body of Jose Cepeda of West New York was found in the cliffs area of 60th Street and Boulevard East, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
The injured include a 14-year-old, according to police radio transmissions.
The locations of the shootings may be difficult to pin down because it appears that shots may have been fired from moving vehicles.
The position pays $107K a year, reports say.
Jaime Davis will assume the role Jan. 1 that mayoral candidate Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski’s sister, Diane Liming, had held for the last four years.
The Christmas spirit is alive and well at these brightly decorated homes.
The winners faced stiff competition as dozens of homes were under consideration in each municipality, Hudson Media Group President Pat O’Melia said.
Assemblyman William Sampson IV said he plans to appeal.
He was removed from the longshoremen’s register by the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor for what it considered “excessive absenteeism."
The funds come from surcharges on documents filed or recorded with the County Register's Office and County Clerk's Office.
The grants are funded by the Hudson County Homelessness Trust Fund.
Should Jersey City students get priority admission to a new county high school? Some pols say yes.
Fulop feels “pretty comfortable” that the school will be a predominately Jersey City school.
No one on the city council is requesting that Solomon resign over the incident, council President Joyce Watterman said.
When asked about Solomon’s situation Tuesday, Fulop said “at this point, it is much ado about nothing.”
Adams, a 6-foot-3, 275-pound defensive lineman selected Rhode Island over scholarship offers from Maine, Sacred Heart and Duquesne.
Pharrell Adams signed a National Letter of Intent to play at the University of Rhode Island.
“It’s been devastating to so many, but especially to my neighbors who live above the proposed dispensary,” Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher said. “There are seven condos, seven residents live directly above it, and their rights were taken away from them.”
Story Dispensary, a cannabis applicant that has been embroiled in controversy since early this year, can now get permission from state officials to potentially open.
"When they are being released immediately when we catch them, it just increases their opportunities to continue doing those little petty crimes that really destroy the quality of life for everybody.”
Robbery was the only other criminal offense with a slight decrease from 309 incidents to 300 incidents.
Bhalla was asked, hypothetically, if he wouldn’t mind a gelato store near his home being converted to a dispensary, to which he said it would not oppose it.
The charges are considered motor vehicle violations and not a felony because the crash did not result in serious bodily injury.
The bus driver allegedly retaliated against the teens after they assaulted him outside a bus, according to police.
The illegal gun was stolen out of Virginia, the documents said.
The weapon was recovered after it discarded by the teen during the pursuit by police.
The weapon was recovered by police.
The condo association’s insurance will not renew its policy if cannabis is sold on the property and the association may be forced “to hire additional security, should cannabis and/or ma*****na be sold at or in the vicinity of the Condominium, thus adversely affecting the general welfare and safety of the Association,” an amended lawsuit says.
The controversial cannabis applicant will be up for a vote that could grant them all the needed approvals to head for state approval.
Herman Walz, a trial lawyer and a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice said ticketing Solomon sets a “bad precedent." People in Solomon’s situation "will not ... leave a note if they were to damage someone’s car, which is done often.”
"I took immediate accountability for my error, as all people and especially elected officials should do.”
And after only a year in Jersey, I’m technically still new here. So, one morning at the school when another mom named Marisol Santana, who’s Puerto Rican, mischievously leaned in and said, “You know about Millie, right?” I gave her a puzzled look and said, “Yeah, the sweet crossing guard? What about her?”
All through the year, she helps families safely cross the street. But come Christmastime, she helps many "feel at home" with her pasteles.
“We are a suburban-ish type town,” Turner said. “First of all, it is a way to break rent control in ... multi-family rent-controlled buildings. So it takes affordable housing away from people who need the apartments.”
Turner says short-stay rentals are taking away housing opportunities and causing rent prices to rise.
The new plan would prohibit parking in all but two places — at curbs near Fifth Street and throughout the northern section of the road near Hudson Street.
The city presented it's latest iteration of a $4.4 million proposal to redesign the waterfront road name after Old Blue Eyes.
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“It’s daytime, the walk signal is on, the pedestrian is already halfway across the crosswalk before being struck. If the driver really did not know he hit someone because he couldn’t see, under those conditions, then what happens if every driver claims they did not see someone?" -- Johan Andrade, vice president of Hudson County Complete Streets and president of Bike North Bergen
"The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office needs to apply the full extent of the law here."
State Sen. Nicholas Sacco says "There is no question that an investment in public transportation is important, and in the county and state a renewed focus over the last few years has been placed on it and will continue to be."
The county, state and region require a Hudson County Turnpike Extension that is built to safely accommodate modern and future vehicles, meet increasing demands and ensure conditions that will reduce traffic and idling, the author writes.
The Jersey City Fire Department averages approximately 14,000 emergency responses per year.
The department now has a total of 682 uniformed firefighters and superiors.
The “bombing” began around nine minutes into the Zoom meeting with the perpetrator writing “No one cares lol” onto a presentation by Community Development Director Christopher Brown recapping the process of creating a redevelopment plan.
Hoboken police have launched an investigation into the incident that interrupted the meeting with scribbling and p**nographic content.
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