Borders have always been disputed in Jersey City as long as I can remember and what makes it more confusing is alot of these neighborhoods have been changed. Me personally I never heard of alot of the borders and new neighborhoods until the light rail was built. For example harsimus cove, I grew up in that area but never heard of that name until the signs went up after the light rail was built. When I was younger we always considered the Lafayette area and Booker T part of Downtown but alot of new residents dont. Bergen/Lafeyette was just something that it used to say on the buses to describe what areas they head to we never considered the Bergen area and Lafayette area as one neighborhood. We would refer to Greenville as "the hill" and Journal Square and McGinley Square as Uptown.

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This is not Bergen Lafeyette it is Greenville, not only is it Greenville its a long way from Bergen Lafeyette. I remember a while back someone posted a link to a map of the Jersey City neighborhoods for you because you do this so often why dont you save that site and use it next time and if your still not sure where a neighborhood is rather then guess just dont post the neighborhood at all.

IM GUESSING THIS IS WHAT LED UP TO THE MURDER


Fled stolen car, had illegal gun, cops say
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A Jersey City man jumped out of a stolen car and took off when he saw police, but with one cop chasing him on foot and his partner racing ahead in the police cruiser he was quickly arrested on weapons offenses and other charges, officials said.

At 3 a.m. yesterday, police arrested Morris Funchess, 18, of the A. Harry Moore Public Housing Complex on Duncan Avenue, and charged him with eluding police, receiving stolen property and numerous weapons offenses, reports said.

Cops on patrol spotted a speeding car and got behind it at Fairview and Monticello avenues, but when they turned on the flashing lights, all three occupants got out and ran, reports said. Officer John Friend chased Funchess, who was running with a 15-year-old girl, and Officer Vincent Alberto sped ahead in the cruiser, reports said.

As Funchess and the girl ran up Monticello Avenue, Friend saw him toss what turned out to be a handgun loaded with hollow-point bullets and with its serial numbers filed off. After a while, the girl got scared and stopped running, reports said.

At the intersection of Monticello and Storms avenues Alberto's cruiser and two other police cars converged on Funchess and he was arrested, reports said. The girl was not charged, reports said, adding that the second man that ran from the car was not caught.

Police also cited Funchess for two motor vehicle violations

Saturday, July 14, 2007
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A Hoboken man was shot to death during a confrontation in a Jersey City public housing complex yesterday morning.

James Cardona, 27, of Jefferson Street, was shot once in the chest at about 8:30 a.m. at the rear of the A. Harry Moore public housing complex, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said yesterday. The bullet pierced his heart, DeFazio added.

Cardona managed to run to the corner of Duncan Avenue and Freeman Street before collapsing, DeFazio said, adding that he was rushed to the Jersey City Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

"This was a completely gratuitous act of gun violence," DeFazio said yesterday. "There are going to be ramifications now that this shooting took place at that site. There will be ramifications to the gang-banging, drug-dealing, gun-wielding persons."

Cardona and two friends went to the housing complex apparently to buy drugs, DeFazio said. One of his friends frequently loaned a relative's car to the drug dealers in exchange for drugs, DeFazio said.

There was a recent incident in which the car had not been returned on time and the relative reported it stolen to police, DeFazio said. That resulted in the man behind the wheel being arrested and he remains in the Hudson County jail in Kearny, DeFazio said.

When the victim and his two friends walked to the rear of the complex, they apparently ran into friends of the man in jail, words were exchanged, apparently about the car, and after a while the victim and his friends turned to walk away, DeFazio said. As they did, the man they were arguing with took out a gun and fired once, striking Cardona, DeFazio said.

The single bullet appears to have pierced Cardona's heart, but an autopsy has yet to be done. DeFazio said there is no reason to believe the Hoboken men were armed. Cardona worked for a Hoboken cab company.

Investigators have spoken to witnesses to the shooting but ask anyone else with information to call the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345.

Alright since I see no one has commented on this I will be the first. I think this city is making a big mistake by not being a part of this program. Jersey City has one of the highest HIV rates in the country and dirty needles just help spread this. Jersey City has a large heroin problem and this is the first step to getting some of the addicts treatment. Even if many dont want treatment and just a clean needle it will atleast be saving lives.

Needle exchange program now a moot point after missed deadline

Wednesday, June 27, 2007
By N. CLARK JUDD
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy may have missed getting the city on board a needle exchange pilot program because city officials failed to read the fine print, state officials said.

Initially, Healy - a supporter of needle-exchange initiatives - refused to join the pilot because he opposes a portion of the state plan that he says calls for a van to rove the city to hand out clean syringes and methadone as part of a drug treatment program

"Do you think it's a good idea to have a roving van all throughout the city, like an ice cream truck? Except instead of kids after ice cream, you'd have intravenous drug users?" Healy said.

However, the state says Healy and other city officials are mistaken, explaining the state offered two separate pilot programs: a syringe exchange that the city could design and fund on its own and a drug treatment program with vans that the state would fund.

"You can have a needle exchange program and not offer treatment, but we really encourage them to offer it," said Ellen Lovejoy, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services.

State officials said the deadline to be part of the pilot program was May.

City spokesman Jennifer Morrill said Healy and city Department of Health and Human Services Director Harry Melendez based their decision not to apply on a request for proposals related to the drug treatment program they received from the state.

They did not follow up on the request, Morrill said.

Jersey City is one of eight cities that were eligible for the program that refused to apply. Other cities cited problems like the absence of state funding or the controversial nature of the program itself.

Trenton, initially a part of the program, later withdrew its application. The four cities still in the program - Atlantic City, Camden, Paterson and Newark - have either just passed ordinances authorizing programs or have applications under review by the state, said Tom Slater, a spokesman for the state Department of Health and Senior Services.
City Council President Mariano Vega, a former public safety director for Hudson County, says the needle exchange and the drug treatment grant are both good ideas.

"This is an effective method of doing outreach," Vega said. "We've done this before with the homeless. You don't wait for them to come to you, you go out and reach them."

Tonight, the City Council is expected to introduce an ordinance that would require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a syringe exchange program.

But state officials say that because no new applications are being accepted for the pilot program, any debate over needle exchange in Jersey City is moot.

"Unless legislation changes or there is new legislation, these are the only programs," Slater said. "The four that we're looking at right now are the only ones being considered."

Downtown Councilman Steven Fulop said the council resolution was introduced by the Healy administration "more to create dialogue," and that many people in city government were hazy on the details of how to move syringe exchange out of resolutions and into reality.

"I think the state is clear on it," Fulop said. "I don't think we are."

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safety director for Hudson County, says the needle exchange and the drug treatment grant are both good ideas.

"This is an effective method of doing outreach," Vega said. "We've done this before with the homeless. You don't wait for them to come to you, you go out and reach them."

Tonight, the City Council is expected to introduce an ordinance that would require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a syringe exchange program.

But state officials say that because no new applications are being accepted for the pilot program, any debate over needle exchange in Jersey City is moot.

"Unless legislation changes or there is new legislation, these are the only programs," Slater said. "The four that we're looking at right now are the only ones being considered."

Downtown Councilman Steven Fulop said the council resolution was introduced by the Healy administration "more to create dialogue," and that many people in city government were hazy on the details of how to move syringe exchange out of resolutions and into reality.

"I think the state is clear on it," Fulop said. "I don't think we are."

Westside is not in the Hieghts.

Sounds like the "victims" were drug dealers that got setup for there money.

I think more should be done to help prevent juvenile crime, a good part of the blame is on parents but not all. Other factors I believe contribute to juvenile crimes are bad school systems and not enough activities to keep the youth off the street. These young criminals are going to be the next wave of adult crime. I think measures should be taken to prevent kids from thinking like criminals. The cities highschools I feel are a big part of the problem they treat the kids like criminals from day one then they start acting the way they are treated. Schools should have programs that prepare students for the real world (how pay taxes, pay bills, vote etc.) Jersey City also needs recreation centers in all different neighborhoods to keep kids busy and off the streets.