WASHINGTON, NJ - Federal legislation that would extend the eviction moratorium for those impacted by COVID-19 to March 27, 2021, as well as expand it to cover all renters, passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 232-180, with the support of Congressman Albio Sires (D-NJ-08).

The bill, H.R. 7301, also provides $100 billion for emergency rental assistance that can be used to cover rent ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Plans to upgrade a park at the northeastern most portion of Bayonne got a boost recently from the city council in the form of an approval to apply for $500,000 from the Hudson County Open Space Trust Fund. If awarded, the funding will more than half of the anticipated nearly $900,000 total cost of the project.

City officials have been seeking funds from the county and other ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Protesters continued to call for the resignation of Bayonne Board of Education Trustee Michael Alonso for his posting of what some claim were racist remarks on his personal Facebook page.

In June, Alonso took to the social media platform to ask: “Where will the Bayonne Riot Start? Walmart- QuickChek- Shoprite?” in reference, he said, to seeing stores boarding up their ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Had this been any other year, graduation ceremonies would have followed the usual pattern, each grammar school celebrating the rite of passage for its students to the high school, and seniors at Bayonne High School preparing to embark on a journey to college or some other way of life.

But the classes of 2020, reaching these academic milestones in the middle of a global health ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Unable to hold the LGBTQ flag raising due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bayonne city officials, with the help of the Urban Enterprise Zone and workers from the Department of Public Works, have decorated a portion of Broadway with rainbow flags.

June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Pride March in New York City, a year after the Stonewall Inn ...

TRENTON, NJ  – New Jersey Lottery officials issued an alert Monday after recent reports of alleged lottery scams cropping up over the past weeks in social media posts. The agency cautioned players to beware of any social media postings, emails or telephone calls from anyone promising lottery winnings, asking for money or offering to share money from lottery prizes ...

BAYONNE, NJ - In what could be a major blow to the hopes for the purchase of Bayonne Medical Center operations by BMC Hospital LLC, the New Jersey Department of Health denied a request to expedite the sale.

While this means BMC Hospital LLC and CarePoint Health, will have to go through a much lengthier process of approval for their proposed transaction, the buyer said the decision was strictly ...

BAYONNE, NJ - More than a hundred members of the Bayonne Medical staff, nursing staff, union delegates and local public officials gathered on the front lawn of Bayonne Medical Center Wednesday to show their support for BMC LLC – which has offered to take over the operations from CarePoint Health.

The rally was prompted by a letter dated June 19, and reviewed by TAPinto ...

HIGHTSTOWN, NJ - FeedNJ, an initiative by SoupKitchen411, announced the receipt of several large grants from local and national companies to help combat food insecurity while supporting local restaurants. AT&T, New Jersey Manufacturers, New Jersey Bankers Association, O’Toole Scrivo LLC, and Federal Business Centers each donated $5,000 to SoupKitchen411’s FeedNJ initiative to ...

HOBOKEN, NJ - Hoboken University Medical Center was one of 17 hospitals through Hudson, Bergen, and Essex County to benefit from the generosity of IBEW Local 164, the Paramus based union that represents more than 3,000 electrical workers.

In total the union donated more than $50,000 worth of PPE, including KN95 masks, gowns, hand sanitizer, and food to the hospitals, also including Jersey City ...

BAYONNE, NJ - When searching for a name for her new bookstore in the Bergen Point section of the city in 2017, Sandra Dear asked around as to what people called that part of the city. People she talked to told her they called it “BoHo,” a kind of hip Bayonne version of SoHo in New York City.

“So, I decided to call the store The Little Boho Bookshop,” Dear told TAPinto ...

BAYONNE, NJ - A 53-year-old Bayonne man was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday after he allegedly stabbed another male in the face with a kitchen knife.

According to Captain Eric Amato, members of the Bayonne Police Department responded to a home at 31 Street and Broadway where they found a man, later identified as Joseph Matusaitis, seated on a bench outside.

Other officers entered the ...

BAYONNE, NJ - The latest crisis in the area isn’t a virus. 

In the absence of officially sanctioned fireworks due to the COVID-19 virus, residents of Bayonne as well as other cities appear to be setting off their own displays in the sky.

Officials in Bayonne, similar to in Jersey City and Hoboken, are dealing with an influx  of illegal fireworks being set off in the streets ...

NEWARK, NJ – A Bayonne man’s failure to file a tax return on more than $1.3 million in income has landed him an 18-month prison sentence, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced Wednesday.

According to court documents Patrick Franconeri, 57, was the owner and operator of several construction businesses that performed work for a major insurance company in New Jersey. His guilty plea ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - A Bayonne man who served as shop steward with the United Production Workers (UPW) Union Local 17-18 out of Brooklyn was among three people charged with the theft of more than $50,000 from the pension funds of two different Hudson County factories, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced Monday.

According to Suarez, Elkin Garcia, 55, was charged with Theft ...

TRENTON, NJ -- The COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program offered through the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) will provide temporary rental assistance to low- and moderate-income households that have had a substantial reduction in income or became unemployed due the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

Applicants may be eligible for a maximum of up to six months of ...

TRENTON, NJ – Low-risk competitive youth sports such as golf and tennis can resume as early as Monday as Gov. Phil Murphy continues to steer the state down the road to re-opening.

Other youth sports that are considered medium or high risks of transmission of COVID-19 will be allowed to start up in the coming weeks, Murphy announced Monday at his daily news conference.

The State ...