Community Life
By TAPINTO PLAINFIELD STAFF
January 9, 2025
PLAINFIELD, NJ — The Plainfield Special Improvement District (SID) would like feedback from residents and visitors alike in order to enhance the experiences of those who come to Plainfield's commercial district.“Your feedback helps us better understand what brings people to the area so we can ...
CRANFORD, NJ — The UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ Esports team won the National Junior Athletic Association Esports (NJCAAE) Championship for Call of Duty. In a two versus two matchup, student-players Bryan Carrillo and Paulo Matias won the title and broke the previous seasonal record by ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Mayor Mapp's address at Wednesday's reorganization meeting was a recap of many of the recent items in the news, for the most part.The three-term mayor highlighted how crime in Plainfield is down, mentioned the beginning of demolition of a North Avenue building, reiterated his ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — For the year 2024, Plainfield has achieved a milestone not observed in the Queen City for decades—a year when no one lost their life to violence.“This year marks the first time in at least 40 years that the City of Plainfield, NJ has not had a homicide,” said Police Director James ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — On Monday Afternoon, the City of Plainfield held a ribbon cutting for its second cannabis cultivator and manufacturer, located at 1355 West Front Street.“I think you all know that I have been very supportive of this industry from the very outset, which is one of the reasons why ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — The 2024 Plainfield luminaries were as big as expected, with somewhere around 12,000 lights placed in a growing arrangement around the city. See TAPinto Plainfield's map, which reflects, more or less, where luminaries were ultimately displayed.“This year’s luminaries were nothing ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — After a large expansion last year, the Plainfield Luminary Program will take another big step on Tuesday evening. After engaging the entire community through press, public meetings, and build parties, the organization — along with Sleepy Hollow Neighbors, Netherwood Heights ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — On May 2, 2023, residents of a residential complex on Kensington Avenue were evicted, with the City of Plainfield citing poor conditions and neglect. The owner, an LLC connected to Cyclone Investments, bought the buildings at 701-711 Kensington Avenue in November 2020 and, ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — In mid-November, New Jersey residents in a growing number of municipalities started to report seeing drones in the sky at night. The number and range of sightings only seems to have proliferated in recent days and weeks.TAPinto Plainfield held off on reporting drone sightings in ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Just before 9pm on Tuesday, at least 60 residents gathered at the corner of E 2nd Street and Garfield Avenue as part of a vigil to pay respects to Steven Marinero, the 18-year-old who lost his life Monday from injuries sustained in a Saturday night car accident.Marinero, who ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — On Saturday, the Neighborhood House Association held its much anticipated annual Holiday Train Ride, departing on the 10:13am westbound train at Plainfield Station before returning at around 11:35.Holiday hits played in the two train cars reserved for event attendees, as a large ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — If you live in or travel to Plainfield, you may have noticed the Lopez house on Leland Avenue between Front and East 2nd Streets this time of year, as it's been one of the most decked-out homes in the city around Christmas recently. Luis, Doreidy, and their daughter Desiree really ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — With plans to feature thousands of more lights than last year, the Plainfield Luminary Program has been busy connecting with residents all around the Queen City who would like to take part in the growing yearly tradition.“We have been getting great responses from all areas of the ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — On Tuesday night, the City of Plainfield held its annual Holiday Lights Celebration. After remarks from Councilor Charles McRae and Assemblywoman Linda Carter, former Councilman Barry Goode sang “O Holy Night.” The Plainfield High School Band performed before Councilor McRae hit ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — On Tuesday, December 3, the City of Plainfield will host its annual lighting of the Christmas tree in front of City Hall, located at 515 Watchung Avenue. The festivities will begin at 6pm, and Santa Claus will arrive at 6:45pm.Aside from an appearance by the jolly old elf, ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — On Saturday morning, volunteers met at the Neighborhood House to pack up gifts and other goodies for children who will participate in the Neighborhood House Association's Holiday Train Ride next Saturday, December 7.The Holiday Train is a long tradition going back more than two ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Last week, the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) announced its designation of four new communities to the Main Street New Jersey Program (MSNJ), and Plainfield was one of them—joining a group of only 29 municipalities statewide to have done so.The initiative is aimed ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — After decorating Plainfield with 3,000 luminaries on December 24 of last year, organizers intend to place between 4,000 and 6,000 luminaries along Plainfield streets this Christmas Eve.The program expanded greatly a year ago, increasing its footprint in 2023 mainly to a handful of ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Readers have a new way to experience TAPinto Plainfield's news and digital marketing platform.You can now listen to local news, in addition to reading it. It's an option to help anyone on the go, and improves accessibility and inclusivity for people with vision impairments and ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — On Thursday night, the City of Plainfield held perhaps its largest trunk or treat in the City Hall parking lot. The event, which grows in popularity each year, attracted many hundreds of residents over around 3 hours—evidenced by the line that nearly wrapped around City Hall to ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — From afar, one might assume the intricate haunted pirate ship in front of one Watchung Avenue house near Fernwood Lane was part of a beautiful store-bought display. That's not the case.“I built all of this by hand,” said Abraham Lopez, gesturing towards the impressive pirate ship.
PLAINFIELD, NJ — There will be four large Halloween events on Thursday for residents who would like to make the rounds or choose which event suits them best.Starting first, there will be the Plainfield Public Library's Halloween Party and Parade. It will begin with a 3:30pm short Halloween film, ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — All over Plainfield, homes are decorated in anticipation of Halloween, which takes place Thursday. TAPinto Plainfield asked readers to send pictures or addresses of their homes. We went out and took pictures of each along with several homes we found on our own.Some residents didn't ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — On Saturday afternoon for four hours, #OPEN hosted a haunted block on Arlington Avenue between Laramie and Randolph Roads.The well-attended event featured free food and candy, a bouncy house for kids, a trunk or treat, scary decor, and creepy characters lurking up and down the ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Notoriously lacking cash or out of order, both drive-through PNC Bank ATM machines on West 2nd Street have worse problems after seemingly being vandalized this week.The popular ATMs were first reported damaged on social media Thursday morning. The damage is significant, with the ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — You may have read about #OPEN's grocery program or its neighborhood clean up. Maybe you remember the group's neighborhood patrol program that TAPinto Plainfield wrote about this summer. On Saturday between 3 and 7pm, the organization will host a haunted block on the 1200 block of ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — To start Tuesday’s Plainfield City Council meeting, Mayor Adrian Mapp took time to thank a city employee for acting fast and helping save the life of a young resident.“I want to take this opportunity to present this proclamation to Ms. [Kellyann] Hines based on the life-saving ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — On Wednesday, a day after the Plainfield City Council will meet, the Pemberton Area Block Association will host a community information meeting that will feature guest speakers in charge of a handful of City of Plainfield departments.The meeting will take place in the Anne Louise ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Area residents were treated to a rare light show on Thursday night. Pink and green Northern Lights, or auroran were visible across the region because of a large coronal mass ejection or CME according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA’s Space Weather ...
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Do you know of a nicely decorated house in Plainfield this Halloween Season? TAPinto Plainfield is collecting photos of Plainfield's Halloween Homes to share on October 29th.We'll be going around Plainfield taking photos to use, but we need readers' participation to help us find ...