North Ward
By TONY GALLOTTO
February 12, 2023
NEWARK, NJ — A 45-year-old tenant at the troubled Bradley Court housing projects died Saturday after cops found him severely wounded in the hallway of his North Munn Avenue apartment building. Police found Keni Johnson inside 54 North Munn Ave. when they responded to reports of gunfire at 8:30 ...
NEWARK, NJ – Taino's Kitchen has been a mainstay of Puerto Rican and Caribbean cuisine in Newark's North Ward for the last eight years. On Monday, the family-owned eatery opened a second location in the heart of the city's busy downtown business district, between Rutgers University’s Newark ...
The 50th anniversary of Roberto Clemente’s passing was commemorated during a mass Saturday at Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in a ceremony where he was remembered not only as a great baseball player but as a humanitarian. Councilman-at-Large Luis A. Quintana, who organized the ...
NEWARK, NJ - A larger, modern Cherry Blossom Welcome Center will soon bloom in Essex County Branch Brook Park. Officials Thursday broke ground on an $10 million 11,000-square foot welcome center that will replace the existing welcome center. Funding for the project comes from grants from the ...
NEWARK, NJ — When visitors to Newark's Forest Hill neighborhood walk its leafy streets, they often marvel at the existence of such a green oasis in the midst of New Jersey's largest city. Once a year, a neighborhood-wide artistic and architectural showcase lets everybody know what locals already ...
NEWARK, NJ —The neighbors of Newark's Forest Hill neighborhood are opening up their porches, patios and driveways to celebrate and showcase Newark’s cultural vibrancy. Newark PorchFest 2022, to be held on Saturday, Sept. 24 from noon to 6 p.m. and will feature more than 60 musicians, dancers, ...
Newark lifted its boil water advisory for homes in the city that were impacted by a water main break ealier this week. The boil water advisory has been in place since Tuesday when a 72-inch main in Branch Brook Park in Belleville ruptured. The Department of Water and Sewer Utilities’ State ...
NEWARK, NJ — Newark's Boil Water Advisory is still in place as city officials announced Wednesday that 99% of the city’s water service has been restored in the areas impacted by yesterday’s water main break in Belleville Township. City officials said that water leaks have been stopped and full ...
NEWARK, NJ — A 30-inch water main in Newark's West Ward burst Thursday morning as city officials work to restore water service following an initial main break that occurred earlier this week in Belleville Township. “After restoring water to 100% yesterday evening, we experienced a pressure surge ...
NEWARK, NJ — With just one week to go before Newark voters will head to the polls in a runoff election to choose which candidate will represent the East Ward council seat, political leaders from Newark’s North Ward Democratic stronghold pledged their support to candidate Michael Silva. Silva, a ...
NEWARK, NJ — Runoff clashes will take place next month in Newark's East and West ward council races, with a potential third runoff taking place in the South Ward, according to unofficial results from Tuesday's nonpartisan municipal elections. Newark's East Ward race is gearing up for runoff ...
NEWARK, NJ – Newark residents are invited to grab their fishing poles and cast their lines to participate in Essex County's 2022 Fishing Derbies. Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. and county Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs officials announced the annual event, ...
Several arrests in recent months that have taken guns and drugs off the streets in two commercial corridors in Newark’s North Ward are the direct result of supplemental policing funded through the two Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). “Our focus from day one has been the improvement of ...
NEWARK, NJ — Emaija West, an eighth-grade student at Luis Muñoz Marin Elementary School, always had concerns about crossing Broadway each day amid morning rush traffic to get to school. “It gives me anxiety because I don’t want my mom worrying about if I get injured or not,” Emaija told TAPinto ...
NEWARK, NJ — North Ward council incumbent Anibal Ramos Jr. on Friday officially announced his bid for reelection in Newark’s May nonpartisan municipal elections as he prepares to seek a fifth term on City Council. “It’s part of my goal as I sit in office to help bridge that gap every day between ...
NEWARK, NJ — Newark commuters are asked by city officials to prepare accordingly for alternative traffic routes in the North Ward this Friday ahead of the Holiday Light Parade and Tree Lighting Ceremony. The event will be held at 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 10. The parade begins at 6 p.m. at ...
NEWARK, NJ — Plans to convert the lower levels of the Saint Francis Xavier School building in Newark’s North Ward, which closed in 2020, into a child daycare facility were approved on Monday by the city Planning Board. First Class Learning and Development Center Inc., which operates a daycare ...
NEWARK, NJ — More affordable housing projects are planned in Newark to meet the demand of residents after the city this week announced the first seven projects to be built under “Affordable Newark,” a new housing initiative targeted to families earning $32,000 and less. Affordable housing has ...
NEWARK, NJ — When longtime Democratic power broker and North Ward Center Founder Stephen N. Adubato Sr. died last year at age 87, the COVID-19 pandemic barred the Adubato family from holding a memorial service that would have surely drawn hundreds — if not, thousands — of people whose lives were ...
NEWARK, NJ — When people think about sitting on the porch of a house, they think about sitting back and watching the world go by. However, the tables turned during the Newark PorchFest in Forest Hill when the world focused on the porches. On a gorgeous early fall day, the whole world was ...
NEWARK, NJ – A longtime friendship that has helped push the ambitions of Marcelino Trillo and Paul Parada throughout their personal lives, collegiate education, and careers as educators will take shape in a new way this year as they now lead the Robert Treat Academy Charter School campuses in ...
NEWARK, NJ--Newark-based artist Yasmin De Jesus designed and unveiled a music-themed mural on July 22 at the Grafton Ave Community Garden in the North Ward. It is the third mural out of five that is planned for the Newark community. The 1,630 square-foot three-wall installment features ...
For one glorious Sunday afternoon, Newark's North Ward was all Italian-American again as more than 1,000 people blocked Bloomfield Avenue to watch Italy narrowly defeat England in the 2020 European Championship football final. The avenue between North 11th Street and North 13th Street was shut ...
NEWARK, NJ — A suspected member of the Bloods street gang was arrested Tuesday at a North Ward apartment complex, authorities announced. Lazarus Blackwell, 42, of Jersey City, was arrested at an apartment complex located at 219-221 Mount Prospect Ave. The Essex County Sheriff's Office Tactical ...
NEWARK, NJ — A building that sat vacant for years on local nonprofit North Ward Center Inc.’s Roseville Avenue campus will now serve as a newly built recreation center complex for youth in the Newark community. North Ward Center CEO Michele Adubato was joined on Tuesday by Newark and area ...
NEWARK, NJ — When siblings Delilah and Nathenial Adams celebrated their seventh birthday this year, they didn’t ask their mother, Miriam, for a party or even gifts. The North Ward family, instead, chose to celebrate by giving back. Inspired by their mother’s work as a longtime volunteer for ...
NEWARK, NJ — The North Ward welcomed the Hope & Esperanza Community Health Center to the city on Monday, a Federally Qualified Health Center aimed to provide healthcare for Newark’s low-income and uninsured residents. About 5,000 residents signed a petition last year and submitted it to the ...
NEWARK, NJ — Newark officials are bringing COVID-19 community vaccination sites to every ward across the city for adult residents as part of an initiative to create greater access and ensure equity in vaccine distribution. Faced with some of the lowest vaccination numbers in the state, city ...
NEWARK, NJ — Newark’s first-ever supported group home for adults with autism and intellectual disabilities will welcome its first four tenants this month after nearly two years of planning and preparation. Headed by The North Ward Center, a non-profit organization that educates, advocates and ...