Mayor Steven Fulop and the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation (JCEDC) have announced over $2.5 million in rent relief and utility assistance to over 1,600 low-income households throughout Jersey City.
https://jcitytimes.com/city-announces-rent-and-utility-assistance/

It was 3:30 in the afternoon on February 5th when Bill* heard screaming outside his Newark Avenue apartment. He looked out the window and saw an elderly?man on the ground "with blood running down his face."

https://jcitytimes.com/editorial-is-anyone-home-at-911/

Sadly, we only had the information provided to us by the Hudson County prosecutor. Will update if and when it's available.

On Saturday night, a man walking along the northbound lane of the Lincoln Highway Bridge was seriously injured after being hit by a vehicle. The driver fled the scene.

https://jcitytimes.com/man-seriously-injured-in-hit-and-run/

Two children died last night in an apartment fire that broke out at 470 Martin Luther King Drive.

https://jcitytimes.com/two-children-die-in-bergen-lafayette-fire/

A study conducted published yesterday found dangerous levels of particulates in the air of the PATH system.

https://jcitytimes.com/dangerous-level ... found-in-path-system-air/

Last night, in a 7-1 vote, the City Council awarded a $6.7 million contract to upgrade the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza to Rahway based J.C. Contracting Inc.


https://jcitytimes.com/council-awards- ... edestrian-plaza-contract/

Members of civic group Jersey City Together urged the Jersey City Board of Education to fully fund the city?s public schools at Monday?s listening session on the 2021-22 school budget, at which board trustees said the district is in need of more money from the state.

https://jcitytimes.com/group-urges-boe-to-fully-fund-schools/

We thought it would be interesting to sit down with Frank Cretella, the developer of the Albion Hotel and adjoining Felina restaurant planned for the Capital One Bank building at the corner of Jersey and Newark Avenues.

https://jcitytimes.com/hotelier-detail ... -boutique-hotel-downtown/

The election and inauguration of Vice President Kamala Devi Harris, the first woman, South Asian American and Black vice president, sent ripples of pride through Jersey City?s Indian American community.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-citys-in ... munity-celebrates-harris/

A community group filed suit on Friday to stop the construction of a 17-story 420-unit luxury high-rise in Bergen-Lafayette. The project, known as Morris Canal Park Manor, would replace a dilapidated factory on Communipaw Avenue known as ?Steel Tech.?

https://jcitytimes.com/group-files-sui ... en-lafayette-development/

This month in "In Our Midst," local entrepreneur and music business executive Eric Speck interviews indie rock tastemaker Tom Gallo.

https://jcitytimes.com/tom-gallo-indie-rock-tastemaker/

Governor Phil Murphy today declared that New Jersey will enter a state of emergency beginning Sunday, January 31, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. in response to the expected winter storm.

https://jcitytimes.com/governor-declares-state-of-emergency/

When the City Council voted on Wednesday to authorize large salary hikes for directors and other top city officials, it did so without evidence that the increases were necessary, according to Ward E Councilman James Solomon, who along with councilmen Rolando Lavarro and Jermaine Robinson, voted against the ordinance.


https://jcitytimes.com/council-passes-pay-ordinance-in-the-dark/

Jersey City Superintendent of Schools Franklin Walker will petition the New Jersey Schools Development Authority (SDA) to allow the Astor Place Community Garden to remain after being notified some uses of the space violate an agreement with the authority.


https://jcitytimes.com/walkers-fight-t ... r-place-community-garden/

Over the last two years, Councilman-at-Large Rolando Lavarro has emerged as one of the Fulop administration?s loudest critics, having waged pitched battles on issues from inclusionary zoning to police funding. This comes after years on the inside as a member of ?Team Fulop? and as city council president.

https://jcitytimes.com/the-evolution-of-rolando-lavarro/

A recent decision by the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency to authorize a condemnation suit to acquire a derelict warehouse in Bergen-Lafayette is raising new questions about the testimony of the agency?s executive director, Diana Jeffrey, regarding another project known as Morris Canal Park Manor.

https://jcitytimes.com/news-analysis-new-questions-on-steel-tech/

If you?d love to be able to take a ferry from Hudson County to the Jersey Shore, you?re not alone. So would lots of other ferry-friendly folks who attended a Jan. 14 virtual meeting of the Hudson County Division of Planning.

The division is conducting a study of six different proposals to add ferry service to and from the area in order to alleviate the county?s congested roads and trains.

https://jcitytimes.com/new-ferry-servi ... idered-for-hudson-county/

An assault involving Michael Manzo, a former firefighter and a current aide to Public Safety Director James Shea, is under investigation by the Hudson County Prosecutor?s Office according to HCPO spokesperson Jennifer Morrill.
https://jcitytimes.com/assault-involvi ... aide-under-investigation/