JERSEY CITY, NJ - City Councilmembers Denise Ridley and James Solomon agreed to talk about merging their separate versions of legislation proposing the creation of a civilian led board to review police complaints. Even with the compromise, Council President Joyce Watterman reminded the body at their caucus meeting Monday, both will have to wait until state lawmakers enact legislation to ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - In a news story written just after his taking the oath as the 49th mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop’s parents claimed that in high school, he tended to pay more attention to soccer than he did his studies.

Yet in some ways, Fulop got a different, and perhaps more practical, education working part-time at their family deli in Newark than he quite realized – ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - To the sounds of back hoes and scraping of stone, Mayor Steven Fulop joined members of the community to break ground on the city’s first all-encompassing public safety headquarters on Wednesday.

The project is part of an extensive municipal complex on the south side of Jersey City and will bring thousands of jobs to MLK Drive.

The 11-story building will be the fourth ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - As many as 3,000 Jersey City Public Schools students are starting the new year with no Chromebooks, a shortage of technology that will make it difficult for them to work remotely from home as classrooms remain shut due to COVID-19.

The Chromebooks were ordered in early August but won’t arrive until October. A similar issue arose last month in Paterson before a delivery ...

HOBOKEN, NJ - Just before 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Hoboken Police arrested a man accused of robbing a purse from one of two women walking together near 2nd & Clinton Streets.

According to the Hoboken Police Department, ESU Officer William Bullock and ESU Officer James Barbro responded immediately after one of the women called to report of a Robbery in progress. The officers were met by two ...

HOBOKEN, NJ - A Jersey City man crashed a bicycle into a Hoboken Police Officer as he attempted to flee Pier A Satruday.

According to reports at about 7:30 a.m. a man walked into headquarters reporting that he located a male he believed to have stolen his property the day before. The victim provided a description of the alleged perpetrator and told officers that he was riding a bicycle in ...

CAMDEN, NJ — The home of two Camden police officers — a male and female couple — was struck by half a dozen bullets Tuesday night with their 10-day-old newborn inside. 

Camden County Police Chief Joe Wysocki, other law enforcement members and city officials are asking for the public’s help in locating what is thought to be at least three ...

NEWARK, NJ – A Jersey City man was sentenced to 10 years behind bars Wednesday for offenses related to the possession of two firearms and fentanyl trafficking, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

Tyreek Martin, a/k/a “Reek,” 35, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John M. Vazquez to charges that he possessed the firearms as a convicted felon, and ...

NEWARK, NJ – A Jersey City business is among a dozen merchants fined Monday for violating consumer protection orders enacted by Governor Phil Murphy in response to the outbreak of COVID-19.

According to Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, Siya Cash and Carry LLC, 175 Tonnelle Avenue, was fined $1,750 for selling or offering to sell Shree Ganesh wheat flour for $12.99, a price more ...

NEWARK, NJ - Long before she became a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent nearly a decade in Newark as a professor at the School of Law–Newark, now Rutgers Law School.

Ginsburg, 87, who died Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, worked at the law school from 1963 to 1972, a period when it was at the forefront of the social justice ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - Five candidates are running in the special election to serve out the remainder of former Ward D Councilman Michael Yun’s term. Yun died from COVID-19 earlier this year. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3.

Rafael Torres, Patrick Ambrossi, Cynthia Hadjiyannis, and Lenny Lambert will be challenging current Councilman Yousef Saleh, who was appointed by the City Council to ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - While doubts emerged earlier this year about whether or not it would appear on the ballot in November, Mayor Steven M. Fulop this week reaffirmed his support for a “YES” vote on Municipal Question #1 which would dramatically change support for the arts community in Jersey City.  

If approved, Jersey City would be the first municipality in New Jersey to ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - The 30th annual Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST), scheduled to take place Oct. 1 to 4, will be virtual. The largest such event in the state of Jersey, this year’s celebration will be a four-day extravaganza of virtual events, organizers have said.

“Every year we are broadening the scope of JCAST to incorporate more and more new and upcoming artists, and ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ – Faced with a long-term closure due to the coronavirus, the Jersey City Free Public Library’s (JCFPL) management scrambled in March to determine new approaches to continue serving the community. 

Unable to offer book rentals or in-person resources until summer, the library began generating digital content to meet its approximately 70,000 cardholders’ ...

NEWARK, NJ - The Archdiocese of Newark will soon be getting a new state-of-the art homeless shelter in Jersey City that will provide greater resources and assistance for the marginalized.

The new 60,000-square-foot building will be constructed across the street from St. Lucy’s Emergency Shelter, which is operated by Catholic Charities.

Since 1986, Catholic Charities has leased the ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - Heavy Clouds hovered over the New York skyline like smoke on Friday, a foreboding reminder of the event that took place 19 years ago to the day. This serving as the backdrop for a scaled down 9/11 memorial in Jersey City.

In commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Jersey City officials joined residents and public safety ...