On the same day that Hudson County Sheriff Frank X. Schillari was touting the arrests of 32 people wanted on warrants in “Operation Spring Roundup,” the Jersey City Police Department was responding to a report of shots fired in the rapidly-gentrifying Lafayette neighborhood. The county-wide warrant sweep involved individuals who had failed to appear, violated probation, and/or willfully failed to pay support. The Hudson County Sheriff is responsible for process service, writs, court orders, foreclosures, court executions, and criminal warrant arrests as well as security at Hudson County’s cou ..read more

Paintings don’t move. This, once, must have felt like a dare for visual artists. Some of them devised clever ways to tell viewers that what they were looking at was meant to be in motion, even though it wasn’t. Then movies were invented, and painters ceded that territory to the people with the cameras. They escaped into abstraction, or realism, or neo-still life, or modern portraiture, and comforted themselves with the knowledge that there were, and are, many things that a static image can do that a reel of footage cannot. Well, certain painters did. Others fought it all the way. They incorpo ..read more

Authorities have identified the victim of a deadly Downtown fire early this morning. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, at about 4:50 a.m., the Jersey City Fire Department was notified of a fire in a high-rise residential building at 270 Marin Blvd. Emergency responders found smoke coming from a unit on the twelfth floor. An unresponsive man – later identified as Ramon Abello, 61, of Jersey City – was found inside the unit and taken to Jersey City Medical Center. He was pronounced dead a short time later. Vehicle from Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office at 270 Marin Blvd. this ..read more

Authorities are investigating a deadly fire Downtown last night. According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, The Hudson County Regional Arson Task Force and the Jersey City Fire Department are investigating a fatal fire that occurred at 270 Marin Blvd. Vehicle from Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office at 270 Marin Blvd. this morning. This morning, city officials were seen outside the building. No other information has been released. The post Investigators Probe Deadly Downtown Fire appeared first on Jersey City Times ..read more

Despite opposition from some residents, new apartments for senior citizens in Jersey City’s Ward D and a new cannabis retail shop in Ward C got legal approvals from the city Planning Board Tuesday night. The board voted unanimously to allow a partnership of Onkar Singh, Avtar Singh and Arvinder Minh develop a vacant lot at 216 Palisade Ave. as a 51-unit, 10-story luxury “senior housing” building, including an 11-car garage. Rendering of 216 Palisade Ave. courtesy of MVMK Architecture and Design In a separate action, the board agreed to permit Greenstop Wellness LLC to reconfigure 1,321 square ..read more

So here we go: another spring, another opportunity for Jersey City to distinguish itself as a place to make and hear music. There’ll be strumming under the stars; there’ll be long nights in clubs and bars; there’ll be bands in basements, solo singers stuffed in restaurant back rooms, jazz combos in statuaries, rappers on mansion stoops and roaring parties in historic cemeteries. As it has for the past few years, it will, once again, feel like we’re on the verge of a breakthrough. Maybe an artist will leap from Grove Street to national consciousness. Maybe the threads that comprise the Jersey ..read more

Authorities have identified the man fatally shot last night near New Jersey City University. Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez identified the victim as 24-year-old David Jones, killed by “an apparent gunshot wound to the upper body.” The Jersey City Police Department received a report of shots fired in the area of Audubon Avenue and College Street just after 12:40 a.m. last night. The police reportedly found a weapon and multiple shell casings at the scene. Jones was found at 1 College Street and taken to Jersey City Medical Center where he was pronounced dead a short time later. A 23-ye ..read more

A man was shot dead in the vicinity of New Jersey City University last night according to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. Authorities are investigating. News 12 is reporting that the shooting in the area of Audubon Avenue and College Street took place at approximately 1 a.m. Residents told police that they heard shots and saw a black vehicle fleeing the scene. Police reportedly recovered a weapon and shell casings nearby. The victim has not been identified. NJCU posted a message related to the incident on its website. “Please be advised that members of the Jersey City Police may be on ..read more

It’s time to put Pompidou x out of its misery. In the wake of last week’s bombshell report that the Kushner-inspired gift to Journal Square developers would cost a whopping $23 million a year to run — on top of the estimated $200 million to build it — the project needs to die the ignominious death it deserves. From the very moment it was announced, we opposed it. We wrote “Pompidou Jersey City will be expensive, very expensive.” We argued that “the use of so much money on a cultural project that will cater largely to highly-educated, well-heeled residents is simply immoral given the city’s my ..read more

When both sides in the legal fight over New Jersey’s county-line ballots met in a federal courtroom in Newark for a hearing in March, it was clear which side had the most firepower. On the defense side were the attorneys for the county clerks and Camden County’s Democratic Party — so many lawyers that, at one point, the judge seated some of them in the jury box. The clerks had representatives in the audience, too, and there were other attorneys off-site, filing briefs in the case as the hearing progressed. Representing the plaintiffs were Yael Bromberg, Flavio Komuves, and Bret ..read more