In what one Hudson County official is calling the work of a ?sick? arsonist, a playground at Lincoln Park in Jersey City was lit up in flames early Tuesday.
?The damage indicates that someone poured gasoline all over the playground equipment and set it on fire,? Freeholder William O?Dea said of the fire at the playground located at the south end of Lincoln Park, near the Olean Avenue entrance.
?What kind of sick individual wants to destroy play equipment used by children??
Hudson County Sheriff?s Department spokesman Michael Makarski said the cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
A commuter getting off a Light Rail train at the West Side Avenue Station at 12:39 a.m. reported the fire, he said.
The fire engulfed the jungle gym in the playground, which also has slides and swings and was recently renovated with state Green Acres funding, officials said.
County officials have fenced off the area and wrapped the steel climbing frame and melted plastic slide in yellow caution tape.
The cost of the damage has not been determined as yet, a county spokesman said.
?I think it is terrible that someone could do that, especially in a playground,? said Sean Hudson, 36, who works with youth and was visiting the park yesterday with a child.
Residents who live near the playground said vandalism is an unusual occurrence in the park.
?I have lived here for 34 years,? said Harold Bradshaw, 70, of Olean Avenue, whose house is close to the park. ?We have never had that kind of vandalism in the park before.?
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... estroys_playground_i.html

A Jersey City man was left bloody after an assault by five men while robbing him of more than $1,000 in cash and property Wednesday night, officials said yesterday.
Officers responding to Bowers Street and Sherman Avenue at 11:58 p.m. found the 36-year-old Sherman Avenue man bleeding from his face, reports said.
He told cops that a white SUV pulled up and four or five men dressed in black and wearing baseball caps jumped out, reports said.
One of the men, he said, trained a gun and flashlight on him while the others roughed him up and robbed him, reports said. They took his wallet, money clip and cellphone before pistol-whipping him, reports said.
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... ty_heights_man_tells.html

ersey City police are on the lookout for a man accused of fondling an 11-year-old girl after leading her into a vacant Bergen Avenue apartment.
The man, who police say is ?known? to the victim?s family, appeared at the family?s apartment Tuesday evening looking for another member of the family who wasn?t at home, according to a police report.
When the family told the man the person he was looking for wasn?t there, he ?grabbed? the 11-year-old and ?pushed? her into the vacant apartment next door, the victim told police. Inside that apartment, he grabbed at the girl?s buttocks and kissed her ?with his tongue,? the girl told police.
When the girl told him she heard her mother calling her, he told her, ?Don?t tell her I?m over here, and come back,? the police report states.
The suspect, whose age and place of residence are unknown, is still at large, according to police spokesman Stan Eason.
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... police_say_man_who_1.html

For that price point, I would suggest JSQ, BL or Greenville. Unless you are looking for an apt to share at Grove or PH. You may find something on Grove but it may be a awful place.
Most of the rents on Grove start at 2100 for a 1 bedroom. Good Luck!

I am still puzzled to what this agency actually does... SHUT IT DOWN.

I honestly believe the city wants This area unsafe. There is a lightrail in Greenville which should bring in new people, but the lack of police on foot keeps the hood, the hood. If the city put some effort into Greenville allot more people would consider buying, renting or opening up businesses there. I think the over development of DT and The WF would mean the city would see many empty units. Just my opinion, but the plans is slowly backfiring in their faces.

Take a look at the many crime incidents within this year alone, mind you we are still in Feb.


Crime Date Address Link
A Assault 02/24/12 02:25 PM NEILSON WAY / OCEAN AVENUE Details
B Theft 02/19/12 07:24 AM 6XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
C Arrest 02/18/12 05:22 PM 14XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
D Assault 02/18/12 08:01 PM 13XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
E Other 02/18/12 01:43 PM 20XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
F Other 02/18/12 05:30 PM 14XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
G Other 02/18/12 07:38 PM 16XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
H Other 02/18/12 07:04 AM 12XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
I Other 02/18/12 10:47 PM 14XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
J Assault 02/19/12 05:35 PM 16XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
K Other 02/27/12 06:47 PM 19XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
L Arrest 02/18/12 03:28 PM 15XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
M Arrest 02/21/12 04:58 PM 17XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
N Other 02/21/12 06:54 PM 12XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
O Other 02/21/12 03:02 AM 10XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
P Arrest 02/22/12 08:01 AM 15XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
Q Arrest 02/24/12 09:55 AM 17XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
R Burglary 02/24/12 08:49 AM 13XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
S Theft 02/24/12 04:50 PM 17XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
T Arrest 02/27/12 01:07 AM 17XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
U Arrest 02/18/12 03:00 PM 15XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
V Arrest 02/20/12 01:30 PM 17XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
W Burglary 02/20/12 11:28 AM 14XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
X Theft 02/20/12 12:49 PM 15XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
Y Arrest 02/21/12 05:19 AM 15XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
Z Arrest 02/18/12 01:10 PM 8XX OCEAN AVENUE Details
Burglary 02/22/12 06:28 PM 2XX PACIFIC STREET Details
Other 02/21/12 01:20 AM 2XX PACIFIC STREET Details
Arrest 02/18/12 07:29 AM 123XX CULVER BLVD Details
Other 02/24/12 10:23 PM 3XX PACIFIC STREET Details
Burglary 02/20/12 04:57 PM 20XX BROADWAY Details
Burglary 02/19/12 09:14 PM 21XX BROADWAY Details
Burglary 02/19/12 10:54 AM 21XX BROADWAY Details
Other 02/27/12 01:45 AM HARVARD STREET / BROADWAY Details

Up to 8,100 residential units.
As much as 1 million square feet of office space.
Some 23 acres of open space.
Those are just some of the proposed features of Bayfront, a transit village set for 100 acres of chromium-tainted land along Route 440 in Jersey City. City officials hope their success in developing Jersey City?s eastern waterfront can be replicated on its West Side, The Jersey Journal reports.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... y_makes_plans_for_ne.html

A Jersey City store employee was struck with the barrel of a handgun and robbed at gunpoint of $1,150 at 9:40 p.m. Tuesday, Jersey City police said.
The employee was behind the counter at the variety store on Martin Luther King Drive when a man -- described as slim and 6 feet tall, wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt -- entered the store, pulled out a silver handgun and demanded money, reports said.
Initially the 64-year-old store clerk refused, but the assailant struck the man in the head, causing a laceration, police said. The worker then handed over $1,150 and the robber fled north on MLK Drive and then west on Oak Street, police said.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... ikes_clerk_robs_1150.html

The Liberty Science Center will be exploring further into the unknown as magical phenomena is added to their list of educational exhibits.
For the next two months, celebrated magician and endurance artist David Blaine has recently moved into the Jersey City institution as the science center's first "magician in residence," officials announced in a press release.
Widely known for his skills at street magic, Blaine has also made a career out of televised feats of physical endurance. Previous high-profile stunts have featured Blaine burying himself alive, encasing himself in ice, and submerging himself underwater for dangerous amounts of time with little to no resources.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... cian_and_endurance_a.html

A Jersey City drug dealer was arrested early Saturday on charges he assaulted, robbed and pistol-whipped a man in Greenville Friday night, officials said.

Charles Burrell, 36, of Ocean Avenue, was arrested at 3:53 a.m. at Forrest Street and Ocean Avenue and charged with aggravated assault, robbery, drug possession with intent to distribute, and weapons offenses including possession of a firearm by a felon, reports said.

On Friday at 9:30 p.m., police responded to Ocean and Myrtle avenues, where the 56-year-old victim told them a group of men had pulled him out of his car and began punching and kicking him, reports said.

The Summit Avenue man said Burrell was among the men and that Burrell pistol-whipped him with a revolver during the assault, reports said.

The victim said Burrell took his Bluetooth device and his BlackBerry before the group fled, reports said, adding that the Summit Avenue man was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center for treatments to cuts to his face and head.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... rged_with_robbery_an.html

Where does one call in anonymously to report crime? The JC Police website is awful it looks like a preschooler did it, when I lived in any other city there was a number you could call to report crime anonymously, here there is no number at all listed on the website for anonymous tips. I walk through certain areas and see crime being committed and I think If I see it why are the police not seeing it. There are stores were drug dealers are just dealing drugs right in the open. This town has become a joke. We have residents here screaming over the Jersey Shore, but wont say sh*t about the crime here because its not in there neighborhood. Well JC is small and these criminals have cars, bikes, take the lightrail, buses, and path. They move throughout the city spreading crime.

Two men were shot on Myrtle Avenue in Jersey City on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Called to Myrtle, between Ocean Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive at 3 p.m. on reports of a shooting, cops found a 25-year-old Bayonne man lying on the porch of a house with a gunshot wound in his right shoulder and a bullet fragment lodged in his tongue, according to police reports.
While there, cops were approached by a 27-year-old Leonard Street man who said he was shot in the leg in the backyard of a nearby house, reports said.
Neither man identified who shot them, police reports said.
Both men were taken to the Jersey City Medical Center to be treated for non-life threatening injuries, reports said.
A 42-year-old woman who came out of the Myrtle Avenue address where the first man was lying told police that a bullet smashed through her window and a projectile hit the back of her leg, reports said, adding the woman refused medical attention for the cut she suffered.
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... hot_on_myrtle_avenue.html

We hope this is the sign of the times...
Some tickets to a fundraiser held in Asbury Park last week for Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy were marked down 50 percent to help with sales, according to an item in today's The Auditor column in The Star-Ledger.
The event was held last Thursday at Synaxis in Asbury Park where Healy's family has plenty of roots, the column states.
According to an email sent to potential Healy supporters, the "discounted tickets" were available for $150 per person, half the original price.
Vin Gopal, who sent the email and is running for Monmouth County Democratic chairman, said it was a friendly discount for those who couldn't handle the full price.
"I typically invite a few friends as guests and we invite a few others at lower ticket prices because not everyone can afford $300 per ticket," Gopal told The Auditor. "It is a very common practice. Anyone who has ever hosted a fundraiser for any political candidate knows that."
And the mayor can use all the ticket sales Gopal can muster.
As of mid-January, the other declared mayoral candidate, Downtown Councilman Steven Fulop, had a roughly $432,000 war chest, having raised $657,512 so far, while Healy was sitting on only about $50,000, according to campaign documents.
At this point in the 2009 campaign, in which Healy vastly outspent his rivals, the mayor had nearly $1 million at his disposal.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... ces_to_fundraiser_fo.html

This says it all.... can not wait 4 2013...
? Shooting on 2XX RANDOLPH AVE? Shooting on 2XX RANDOLPH AVE? Robbery on VAN HOUTEN AVENUE AND CAS...? Assault on 3RD ST AND MADISON AVE? Robbery on NEWARK AVE AND GARDEN ST? Robbery on NEWARK AVE AND GARDEN ST? Robbery on NEWARK AVE AND GARDEN ST? Vandalism on W 1 STREET STREET/S GREEN...? Assault on 4TH ST. AND WILLOW AVE.? Other on 3XX JEFFERSON ST.? Assault on OCEAN AVE. AND CARTERET A...? Shooting on 5XX OCEAN AVE.? Shooting on 5XX OCEAN AVE.? Arson on 3XX NEWARK AVE? Assault on 1XX WAVERLY ST.? Assault on PROSPECT STREET AND PALIS...? Other on 2XX WILLOW AVE.? Robbery on DWIGHT STREET AND OCEAN A...? Assault on SOUTH ST. AND KENNEDY BLV...? Assault on CLINTON STREET AND GRAND ...? Other on 3XX JACKSON ST.? Assault on 1XX HUDSON ST.? Assault on 1XX HUDSON ST.? Arrest on BERGEN AND HIGHLAND AVENU...? Arrest on STEGMAN STREET AND BERGEN...? Robbery on PRINCETON AND LINDEN AVEN...? Assault on 7XX NEWARK AVE? Vandalism on 3XX WEST SIDE AVE? Assault on 4XX FIFTH ST? Burglary on AVENUE A AND W 45TH STREE...? Robbery on 1XX 12TH ST? Robbery on OCEAN AVENUE AND WEGMAN P...? Theft on FIRST AND WASHINGTON STRE...? Robbery on WOODLAWN AVE NEAR WESTSID...? Shooting on VIRGINIA AVE. AND BERGEN ...? Shooting on VIRGINIA AVE. AND BERGEN ...? Assault on RUTGERS AVE AND MCADOO ST? Other on 3XX JACKSON ST.? Other on 3XX JACKSON ST.? Assault on 4XX JACKSON ST.? Other on HUDSON ST. AND HUDSON PL.? Assault on HUDSON ST. AND HUDSON PL.? Other on HUDSON ST. AND HUDSON PL.? Assault on HUDSON ST. AND HUDSON PL.? Other on 4TH ST. AND WILLOW ST.? Assault on BRUNSWICK ST. AND FIRST S...? Assault on BRUNSWICK ST. AND FIRST S...? Other on 8XX MADISON ST.? Other on XX 2ND ST.? Assault on 1XX ARMSTRONG AVE

Jersey City police are looking for four men who robbed a Bayonne pizza delivery man after beating him with their fists and broomsticks in Greenville Thursday night, officials said yesterday.
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... y_police_say_pizza_d.html

Jersey City plans to promote about a dozen police officers to detective today, an action city officials say is their response to crime and quality-of-life concerns raised recently by numerous residents and City Council members.
The detectives, who city officials said will not receive a bump in pay for a year, will remain in uniform, but will have the added ability of conducting criminal investigations and taking statements, according to Mayor Jerramiah Healy.
The promotions - dubbed "appointments" by the city - will "accelerate the criminal justice process," preventing crimes from taking place, Healy said.
Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop, a 2013 mayoral hopeful and frequent administration critic, blasted the move as "political patronage." Taking police officers off the beat after residents have complained of rising crime "speaks volumes," Fulop said.
"With Healy it is say one thing and do another," he said. "Three indisputable facts are: uniform police can take complaints, detectives are known political promotions, and the budget allocates zero dollars to what Healy is saying. The facts are what they are."
Fulop on Monday criticized Healy's proposed $469 million 2012 city budget for not allocating money to hire additional police officers, a proposal touted in the mayor's State of the City last week.
Healy responded to Fulop's complaints in kind.
"Once again, Mr. Fulop is speaking on a topic for which he has no knowledge," Healy said. "As I said in my State of the City address, we are working to put more of a police presence on our streets and this is one of the mechanisms we are utilizing to do that."
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... y_promotes_a_dozen_c.html

I am childless so I not too familar with the schools here, but I go to Grace Church with the old Mayor of JC Brett Schundler who is opening a charter school in Greenville which might be a great alternative school.

http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/10/0523/1629/

Homeless after a five-alarm blaze tore through a building near Jersey City?s McGinley Square and destroyed everything last Sunday, shop owners and tenants are trying to rebuild their lives.
But they feel that Jersey City has turned their back on them, unlike Hoboken, which has already mustered at least two fundraisers for victims of a four-alarm fire that happened the same night.

Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal
Brian Palms with his mother, Twana, and sister, Talisha, outside the building on the corner of Monticello and Fairmount avenues in Jersey City where he lived and which was badly damaged by Sunday's five-alarm fire.
Six weeks after Asha Herbert, 22, a journalism and media major at Rutgers University-Newark, and her partner Brian Palms, 22, a lab assistant at Middlesex County College, moved into an apartment at 249 Monticello Ave., they lost all their possessions apart from a bag of clothes they managed to salvage.
Herbert also lost makeup for her job as a makeup artist at Sephora at Newport Centre Mall, and the couple also lost two pet turtles and 15 goldfish.
They had not obtained renters? insurance.
Now they are living separately with their mothers and looking for housing has become their full-time job, though they lack money for a security deposit.
?We are trying to move on,? Herbert said. ?We feel defeated and very weak.?
Herbert said they visited the Relocation Services Community Development office at 30 Montgomery St. and were told they can apply for help with the deposit and moving expenses, but it would take five days to process including a walk-through of the damaged building.
?There were holes in the wall and holes in the floor. One wall is missing,? Herbert said, speaking outside her boarded up apartment where a fire cleanup crew was throwing bags of burned belongings out of the solitary open window to a truck below. ?They are probably going to tear it down. What are they going to walk through??
Ernest Mallard, 30, lost two barber shops in the building B&M Barber Shop at 254 Fairmount Ave. and the Variety Spot at 251 Monticello Ave. that employed six people.
Devastated by the loss, he started drinking too much and found it only made his depression worse. Now he is optimistic. He is already looking to open a new barber shop down the street on Fairmount Avenue.
?I drank myself to the hospital. It?s not in my nature. I am a fighter. I don?t want to go back to a hospital,? Mallard said.
?I pray things go the way they are supposed to go. They say things happen for a reason. The structure is to be inspected by Jersey City building officials to determine if it can be repaired or if it must be demolished.
City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said the Mayor?s Office has been working to coordinate assistance for fire victims through the American Red Cross and the city?s Division of Community Development and has an aide working to track down the fire victims through the American Red Cross.
Fire officials have pointed to a chimney carrying the exhaust from 20 clothes dryers at the corner laundry as the source of the blaze and suggested there may have been a gas leak as well.
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... ty_fire_victims_fear.html

POLICE BEAT
Jersey City police are looking for two men who robbed a man of an iPod and assaulted him in Greenville early yesterday morning, officials said.
The 20-year-old victim told policehe and a friend were at Van Houten Avenue and Casper Court listening to music on his iPod at 12:32 a.m. when two men pointed a gun at them.
One of them took the iPod and punched the victim on the right side of his head before running away with his accomplice, officials said.
#
A Jersey City pizza delivery man was robbed of food and money when a group of men surrounded him on a Greenville street corner Wednesday night, officials said yesterday.
The 34-year-old victim was to meet the purported customer at Garfield and Myrtle avenues, but when he arrived at 6:38 p.m., he was approached by a man who said his brother had the money for the pizza upstairs, reports said.
That?s when four other men surrounded him and demanded the tomato pie and cash, reports said.
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... y_police_say_man_rob.html

I could not make it to Traders Joe's in Milburn last night so I decided to try Twin City on Garfield in the Greenville section, and to my surprise this is one of the cleanest and friendliest stores in JC. I was very impressed.

After a heated, prolonged debate last night, the Jersey City City Council approved a measure revising the tax abatement for a residential complex on Palisade Avenue near Ferry Street, a revision that Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop called a "bailout" for the developer, The Jersey Journal reports.
The revised tax break permits Hudson Palisades Urban Renewal LLC, developer of the 21-unit complex, to pay the city 10 percent of its annual gross revenue for 20 years. The initial abatement approved in 2009 called for 10 percent of the gross revenue for 10 years and 12 percent for the subsequent 10 years.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... city_council_appro_5.html

JWoww responds to bars that don't want her in Jersey City
After The Jersey Journal wrote a story about three bars who rejected filming contracts with MTV and 495 Productions for the Jersey Shore spin-off in Jersey City, Jenni "JWoww" Farley took to Twitter to call the bars "pathetic."

"Omg I'm crying over the bars that rejected us in jersey city. What am I gonna do Lmfao Ahh pathetic. Don't wanna be caught dead in them anyways," she tweeted.

She went on to say that she was getting lunch and her hair done with Sammi Giancola from The Jersey Shore.

JWoww, along with Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi were supposed to start filming their spinoff yesterday, but police said the filming has been postponed for a few days.

No sign of the duo yet as Jersey City awaits - some more excited than others - for their arrival.


I am not a fan of the show, never watched one episode, but I have to agree these lame bars banning them is stupid.

does anyone pay taxes down by the waterfront?

This explains other JC residents frustration with this administration, no development has happen worth while through out the city.When will the voters wake up. Disgusting!

I lived on 1st and Brunswick for 8 years and never once called it the village, this is something new and silly... when I first came to the area back in the early 90's it was known as "Little Italy" but to answer your question its Jersey City no where is 100% safe just watch your back.

Jerry Walker, a former basketball star for Seton Hall University and St. Anthony High School is house-hunting in his native Jersey City, The Star-Ledger's Auditor column reports today.

The house hunt has touched off speculation that he may be making a bid for mayor.

"I'm close to finding a home," the 6-foot-7 Walker told The Auditor. "I want to give back to the community so I'm exploring my options."

If he runs, Walker, 41, would join a field of fellow Democrats that includes incumbent Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy and Downtown Councilman Steven Fulop. State Sen. Sandra B. Cunningham is also reportedly toying with the idea of running.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... ton_hall_b-ball_star.html

Jersey Shore' spin-off TV crews are loving Jersey City
http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ss ... re_spin-off_tv_crews.html

Just got back from the pet store on Jersey Ave and Newark. I can't believe some of the merchant shops over there actually have signs on the front door that say No Snookie! WTF I mean really?

Seven people, including a 1-year-old child, suffered minor injuries, and a Volkswagen flipped on its side, during a hit-and-run crash this morning just outside the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City, officials said.

The injured people were taken to the Jersey City Medical Center, said Port Authority spokesman Hunter Pendarvif.

Three vehicles were involved in the crash that occurred at Marin Boulevard and 12th Street at 11:38 a.m., Pendarvif said.

The vehicle that caused the chain-reaction crash fled the scene, said Pendarvif, who didn't have any more information about the incident.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... le_including_1-year-.html