A new study by the ever-prolific financial website WalletHub places Jersey City in the middle of the pack as a place to raise a family.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-get ... ily-an-f-for-playgrounds/

A new private high school will open in Jersey City in the fall of 2022. Franklin School will be located in Newport at 100 Town Square Place, and will teach ninth through twelfth graders for a $29,500 yearly tuition.

https://jcitytimes.com/new-private-hig ... pen-next-fall-in-newport/

In objecting to the measure, Councilman-at-large Rolando Lavarro questioned the financial viability of a city-run museum planned for the Pathside Building and the plan to spend $15 million to renovate it.

https://jcitytimes.com/fifteen-million ... -at-city-council-meeting/

A body camera video obtained by NorthJersey.com and the Record shows an unsteady State Senator Sandra Cunningham asking about Public Safety Director James Shea during her drunk driving arrest on March 4.

https://jcitytimes.com/cunningham-aske ... r-shea-during-dwi-arrest/

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office has identified the woman arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Emmanuel Garcia.

https://jcitytimes.com/woman-charged-i ... rcia-shooting-identified/

A 21-year-old Jersey City woman has been arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of Emmanuel Garcia, according to a tweet from the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office.

https://jcitytimes.com/21-year-old-wom ... rested-in-fatal-shooting/

Last week we sat down with council-at-large candidate Chris Gadsden and got his take on a host of pressing local issues.

https://jcitytimes.com/council-at-larg ... ris-gadsden-an-interview/

Michael Manzo, an aid to Director of Public Safety James Shea, who is under investigation for assault, is once again at the center of controversy.

https://jcitytimes.com/public-safety-a ... iating-against-developer/

For Rev. Tom Murphy, leaving both his hometown of Jersey City and the Church of St. Paul and Incarnation will be bittersweet.

https://jcitytimes.com/a-beloved-pries ... -justice-takes-his-leave/

Friday is the day that many New Jersey residents have been waiting for, when social distancing and the wearing of masks will no longer be required in most indoor settings.

https://jcitytimes.com/governor-lifts- ... cial-distancing-mandates/

According to a report in northjersey.com, Governor Phil Murphy will lift the state’s indoor mask mandate for vaccinated people before Memorial Day.

https://jcitytimes.com/murphy-to-lift- ... ated-before-memorial-day/

This month in "In Our Midst," we spoke with Olivia Mitra Framke, whose hobby is creating crossword puzzles for publications such as The New York Times.

https://jcitytimes.com/olivia-mitra-fr ... sword-puzzle-constructor/

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office has identified the dead in last night’s mass shooting.

https://jcitytimes.com/dead-identified ... -lafayette-mass-shooting/

In a tweet this morning, The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office announced that two people were killed and at least one other injured in a shooting in the area of Crescent Ave & Brinkerhoff Street, near Lincoln High School.

https://jcitytimes.com/two-dead-in-ber ... ing-a-surge-in-homicides/

Since Mayor Fulop took office, crime overall has gone up, in some areas substantially.

https://jcitytimes.com/while-press-say ... -is-up-under-mayor-fulop/

City Council President Joyce Watterman sat down with us for an interview touching on motherhood, affordable housing, crime, policing, faith, Team Fulop and the public schools.

https://jcitytimes.com/city-council-pr ... e-watterman-an-interview/

Today, Hudson County officials broke ground on a new banquet hall and restaurant located in Lincoln Park.

https://jcitytimes.com/county-breaks-g ... the-view-at-lincoln-park/

Governor Murphy has signed an executive order repealing the requirement that individuals wear masks at outdoor public spaces.

https://jcitytimes.com/murphy-ends-out ... t-leaves-others-in-place/

To those who live here, Jersey City it is a vibrant, multi-ethnic agglomeration like no other; a small town feel with all the benefits of its bigger neighbor across the river. Filled with bars, restaurants, artists, entrepreneurs and every nationality under the sun, it would seem to be an excellent place to start out one’s career. Not according to one new study, however.

https://jcitytimes.com/starting-your-c ... -city-according-to-study/

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a fatal shooting Downtown, continuing a spike in shootings since the pandemic began.

https://jcitytimes.com/prosecutor-inve ... -fatal-shooting-downtown/

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla mounted bikes today at City Hall and rode to Hoboken to kick of a newly unified bikeshare system that will include 820 bikes across Jersey City and Hoboken under a five-year agreement.

https://jcitytimes.com/hoboken-joins-j ... unified-citi-bike-system/

The sound of jackhammers is echoing down Newark Avenue as the $6.7 million upgrade to the the Pedestrian Mall begins in earnest.

https://jcitytimes.com/work-begins-on-pedestrian-mall-upgrade/

Sustainable JC, a network of community groups and individuals advocating for more environmentally friendly practices and policies in Jersey City, this summer will map heat “islands,” areas of unusually high temperature and air pollution triggered by a disproportionate area of heat-absorbing asphalt and a paucity of trees, in Greenville and Bergen-Lafayette.

https://jcitytimes.com/group-to-map-he ... lle-and-bergen-lafayette/

On March 30, Heights resident Danielle Freire announced her candidacy for the Ward D city council seat currently occupied by Yousef Saleh. Freire, 33, sat down with me for an in-depth interview.

https://jcitytimes.com/ward-d-council- ... elle-freire-an-interview/

According to a new report from the website Apartmentguide.com, over the last year Jersey City ranked number nine among U.S. cities for the falloff in the price of its one-bedroom apartments.

https://jcitytimes.com/rents-in-jersey ... -means-cheap-says-report/

A 16-year-old male has been charged in the death of a 40-year-old Jersey City man who was found dead in his apartment last week following a welfare check.

https://jcitytimes.com/juvenile-charge ... death-of-40-year-old-man/

A Jersey City man, Terrance Nelson, age 29, has been charged with murder in the death of his mother, Jacqueline Nelson.

https://jcitytimes.com/son-charged-in-mothers-death/

With the Jersey City Board of Education nearing a vote on the 2021-2022 school budget, board trustees continue to discuss funding options with members of the city council. Representatives of the two governing bodies met for the second time Tuesday, while members of the public expressed skepticism in comments on the livestreamed session.

https://jcitytimes.com/budget-crisis-s ... -at-second-joint-session/

The Regional Medical Examiner in Newark has ruled on the case of a 40-year-old Bergen-Lafayette man found dead in his apartment by the police on April 27th during an early morning welfare check.

https://jcitytimes.com/case-ruled-homi ... ause-of-death-identified/