Standing at a lectern with the Manhattan skyline behind him and 250 supporters looking on, Friends of Liberty State Park President Sam Pesin, did not mince words. “We must once and for all liberate the park from privatization assaults.”

https://jcitytimes.com/over-lunch-pesi ... tate-park-protection-act/

Mayor Steven Fulop predicted that over the next four years Journal Square will become a mecca for new residential high-rises, new entertainment and cultural venues.

https://jcitytimes.com/mayor-forecasts ... roperty-values-in-ward-c/

Lasagna Love now boasts 30,000 volunteers who have labored to donate 150,000 homemade lasagnas in three countries. Hundreds of those impacted — as either a recipient or a “lasagna chef” — live in Jersey City.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-vol ... na-for-neighbors-in-need/

A Jersey City man has been convicted in the 2018 Greenville shooting death of a man from Bayonne.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-man ... 2018-greenville-homicide/

A security guard employed by the Jersey City Public Schools was arrested by members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Insurance Fraud Unit.

https://jcitytimes.com/school-security ... ged-with-insurance-fraud/

Last night the Jersey City Planning Board held a special meeting to evaluate a dozen Cannabis Class 5 (retail business) applications with respect to the city’s zoning laws.

https://jcitytimes.com/seven-hours-of- ... oard-meeting-on-cannabis/

Preservationists are sounding the alarm about renewed efforts by St. Peter’s Prep to demolish two historic buildings in the Downtown Jersey City neighborhood of Paulus Hook.

https://jcitytimes.com/preservationist ... olish-historic-buildings/

Fernando Uribe shares little politically with those who appear on his podcast “Talk on the Hudson,” where he conducts weekly interviews with movers and shakers on the local political scene.

https://jcitytimes.com/fernando-uribe- ... -interviewing-local-dems/

Members of the Jersey City Board of Education came together at Thursday night’s meeting to donate nearly $28,000 for survivors of the war in Ukraine and honor those who have fled the country.

https://jcitytimes.com/school-board-turns-to-ukraine/

“Mothership Connection,” an all-female show that will run at Deep Space Gallery (77 Cornelison Ave.) until Apr. 10, features more than a few artists whose local prominence isn’t merely about aesthetics.

https://jcitytimes.com/mothership-connection-at-deep-space-gallery/

During its Monday caucus, the City Council mulled over construction projects that will collectively cost over $100 million.

https://jcitytimes.com/city-council-mu ... in-construction-projects/

A West Orange man was arrested today and charged in a November Bergen-Lafayette homicide.

https://jcitytimes.com/west-orange-man ... ergen-lafayette-homicide/

The Jersey City Board of Education narrowly approved a $973.8 million budget on Monday that will keep school staffing and operations stable in the 2022-23 academic year and raise school taxes.

https://jcitytimes.com/board-of-educat ... dget-big-tax-hike-coming/

Ward F Councilman Frank Gilmore and a coalition of local organizations have filed suit to invalidate a controversial map that redrew the boundaries of Jersey City’s six wards.

https://jcitytimes.com/gilmore-and-loc ... -invalidate-new-ward-map/

A recent study crowned Jersey City first in the nation when it comes to cellular service.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-has ... lular-service-in-the-u-s/

A Jersey City man was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually assaulting an 11 year-old girl.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-man ... ault-of-11-year-old-girl/

Yesterday, a crew working on the movie “Things Like This” set up shop on Wayne Street, a few feet east of the Barrow Mansion.

https://jcitytimes.com/another-gay-romcom-is-filmed-downtown/

At last night’s virtual special meeting, Jersey City Interim Superintendent Norma Fernandez and School Business Administrator Regina Robinson presented a $955.6 million budget for the 2022-23 academic.

https://jcitytimes.com/proposed-school ... nd-portends-big-tax-hike/

Producer Melissa Ulto has just released a video case study that looks back at what she believes she and the Spears campaign were able to accomplish together.

https://jcitytimes.com/producer-releas ... he-lewis-spears-campaign/

The Morris Canal Community Coalition, fighting to preserve the largely one- and two-family Berry Lane Park neighborhood in Jersey City’s southern end from development of a luxury residential high-rise, is pushing a compromise vision.

https://jcitytimes.com/community-group ... wer-near-berry-lane-park/

Dr. Fernandez has spent her entire 40-year career in Jersey City in various positions without controversy and is extremely qualified and dedicated to the children, parents and the entire Jersey City community.

https://jcitytimes.com/letter-forget-t ... fernandez-superintendent/

In some ways the shortfall is the result of two local success stories — rising home values and the Board of Education’s decision last year to “fully fund” Jersey City schools for the first time in fourteen years

https://jcitytimes.com/the-school-budg ... ictim-of-its-own-success/

All aboard: Ferry service from Liberty State Park in Jersey City to Liberty and Ellis Islands has resumed.

https://jcitytimes.com/ferry-service-t ... from-jersey-city-resumes/

Authorities have released photos of a suspect in yesterday’s hit-and-run collision that left a man seriously injured.

https://jcitytimes.com/authorities-rel ... n-yesterdays-hit-and-run/

Tris McCall reviews the "definitive Jersey City pandemic-era art show."

https://jcitytimes.com/coming-into-foc ... he-majestic-condominiums/

With scarcely a peep from Jersey City’s taxpayers, a City Council majority voted last night to increase each member’s salary from $60,000 to $85,000 and the council president’s pay from $65,000 to $90,000.

https://jcitytimes.com/three-council-m ... dvances-17-story-project/

Leaders of the Jersey City Public Schools and Board of Education committed to fully staffing the schools, working to ensure safe drinking water in all of the district’s buildings, and making other improvements asked for by members of the multi-faith coalition Jersey City Together in a virtual meeting on Monday.

https://jcitytimes.com/citys-school-le ... ing-increase-in-tax-levy/

t was a busy day yesterday for Jersey City’s fire department as they battled multiple fires, both in and out of the city.

https://jcitytimes.com/dramatic-footag ... -battling-multiple-fires/

A letter sent by the Journal Square Community Association to members of the Jersey City Municipal Council and the city clerk asks that they “immediately implement hybrid in-person/virtual city council meetings.”

https://jcitytimes.com/journal-square- ... -conduct-hybrid-meetings/

Perhaps the best way to describe Medly is a cross between Doordash, Walgreens and your local trendy “apothecary” doling out homeopathic remedies.

https://jcitytimes.com/downtowns-new-p ... -to-disrupt-the-industry/