A Jersey City Police officer pleaded guilty today to a charge that he traveled to Atlantic City in order to sexually assault two underage girls, according to Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-pol ... y-assault-underage-girls/

Jersey City has been uniquely slow in distributing money under a federally funded rental assistance program.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-uni ... ederal-rental-assistance/

There's a lot going on this weekend. Check it out!

https://jcitytimes.com/this-weekend-17/

Workmen on the $6.7 million upgrade to the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Mall have been laboring furiously to ready the street for this weekend's 10th Annual All About Downtown Jersey City Street Fair.

https://jcitytimes.com/workmen-on-pede ... his-weekends-street-fair/

It was the winter of 2017 and I had had enough, enough of the puddle of water straddling a piece of sidewalk just down the street from my home, enough of homeowners who didn’t give a sh** about their neighbors.

https://jcitytimes.com/the-sidewalk-se ... t-fix-a-personal-history/

By early 2023, Jersey City’s homeless will have a new place to shelter and obtain help Downtown.

https://jcitytimes.com/city-breaks-gro ... owntown-homeless-shelter/

Last night, the City Council declined to add Councilman Lavarro’s inclusionary zoning resolution to the agenda, voted to supply free menstrual products in all city buildings, and authorized the city to spend an additional $50,000 to defend itself against allegations of falsifying financial records.

https://jcitytimes.com/council-rejects ... dable-housing-resolution/

A 24 year-old Jersey City man was found dead yesterday in a North Bergen parking lot.

https://jcitytimes.com/24-year-old-jer ... und-dead-in-north-bergen/

There's lots to do and lots to remember this weekend.

https://jcitytimes.com/this-weekend-16/

Next time you get into a Jersey City taxi, you might want to ask to see the driver’s insurance card and registration.

https://jcitytimes.com/prosecutor-char ... ors-with-insurance-fraud/

At Tuesday’s caucus meeting, Jersey City Municipal Council members castigated Suez North America for its poor communication and “flat-footed” response during last week’s boil water advisory.

https://jcitytimes.com/at-caucus-city- ... ez-ceo-over-ida-response/

This is an excellent piece on the lack of transparency in police officer discipline by Dana DiFilippo at New Jersey Monitor.

https://jcitytimes.com/case-of-jersey- ... k-of-police-transparency/

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will be hosting a plethora of events at the iconic former site as well as at locations throughout New York City.

https://jcitytimes.com/port-authority- ... 20th-anniversary-of-9-11/

Jersey City native Raymond Martin earned a gold medal in the men’s T52 100-meter dash in the Tokyo Paralympic Games Friday, Sept. 3. With a time of 16.99 seconds, the wheelchair racer garnered his tenth Paralympic medal since his first such Games in 2012.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-nat ... old-in-tokyo-paralympics/

Call them Easy Riders with an attitude. A plague of loud, unlicensed dirt bikes has struck Jersey City’s neighborhoods, driving residents crazy and fearful that their antics will leave someone crippled or dead.

https://jcitytimes.com/outlaw-dirt-bik ... n-jersey-city-and-beyond/

It’s hard to believe, but it’s already Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer. It’s a great time to get outside and explore Jersey City while the weather is still warm. And this weekend, there’s plenty to do: outdoor music, exercise classes, food markets, and more. There’s also back-to-school giveaways to help students get ready for the new year.

https://jcitytimes.com/this-weekend-15/

From New Jersey Monitor - New Jersey’s eviction moratorium for middle-income renters ended Wednesday, with courts starting to hear some of the 83,800-plus residential eviction cases landlords have filed since the start of the pandemic.

https://jcitytimes.com/courts-begin-to ... g-stalled-eviction-cases/

The task facing Councilman-at-large Rolando Lavarro was daunting: amass 1,680 signed petitions to secure a place on November’s ballot in only nine days.

https://jcitytimes.com/with-little-tim ... res-a-spot-on-the-ballot/

Jersey City’s President Barack Obama Community School (P.S. 34) will be one of two schools in the state to provide free menstrual products.

https://jcitytimes.com/fighting-period ... -with-menstrual-products/

It’s time to ask Mayor Fulop a question. Can we keep our campaigns about the issues and not deal in spreading lies, half-truths, or innuendo?

https://jcitytimes.com/op-ed-mayor-ful ... ease-focus-on-the-issues/

Roughly half-a-million jobless New Jerseyans will see their unemployment benefits lapse next week, and the state doesn’t plan to extend them, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday.

https://jcitytimes.com/state-wont-exte ... ng-unemployment-benefits/

Mayoral candidate Lewis Spears celebrated a successful petition drive just as the Fulop campaign attacked him as a former Republican.

https://jcitytimes.com/spears-hails-ce ... him-as-former-republican/

Mayor Fulop has cancelled an event featuring "celebrity guest," rapper Tip "T.I." Harris, who was set to arrive in the city with a lengthy rap sheet and beset by fresh charges of abusing women.

https://jcitytimes.com/under-pressure- ... multiple-sexual-assaults/

If you’ve taken a stroll Downtown through the Village lately, you may have come upon a strange sight: a flamboyantly spray-painted 1971 Volkswagen bug. The car is now on its way to becoming even more modern: by going electric. The team behind the conversion is a father and son duo, Dave and Lucas Slurzberg.

https://jcitytimes.com/watch-out-elon- ... on-build-an-electric-bug/

A Jersey City man has been charged in connection with a fatal early morning February collision with a guardrail on Christopher Columbus Drive.

https://jcitytimes.com/crash-on-christ ... -to-manslaughter-charges/

On Monday, we sat down with Ward F Councilman Jermaine Robinson for a wide-ranging discussion covering everything from developer Peter Mocco to an infamous Zoom meeting on the future of Liberty State Park.

https://jcitytimes.com/ward-f-councilm ... ne-robinson-an-interview/

A recent college graduate and an advocate for the hearing-impaired are among the eight candidates running for three seats on the Jersey City Board of Education in November. With all the current board trustees who are up for election not running again, three newcomers will fill the three-year terms.

https://jcitytimes.com/eight-candidate ... three-school-board-seats/

Armed with placards and fueled with donuts and coffee, a perky group of protesters gathered early this morning on Morris Pesin Drive across from Liberty National Golf Course.

https://jcitytimes.com/protesters-conf ... ional-golf-clubs-fireman/

Councilman-at-large Rolando Lavarro has announced that he is running for re-election.

https://jcitytimes.com/lavarro-to-seek ... to-at-large-council-seat/