Why This Women-Owned Cafe Has Become One of New Jersey’s Most Beloved Neighborhood Spots
There is something very Jersey City about finding one of the area’s most talked-about brunch plates inside a revived old luncheonette on Montgomery Street. Cafe Alyce does not sit on a glossy waterfront strip or wave people in with a giant neon brunch gimmick. It lives at 641 Montgomery...
Parent of Special Ed Student Arrested After Refusing to Leave School Board Meeting
The mother of a student with disabilities was arrested and charged with trespassing Thursday night, after she shouted during a Jersey City Board of Education meeting and then refused to leave. By sharing your email address with us, you’ll be entitled to view two Jersey City Times articles each month....
After guidelines released by NYC Public Schools, students question how much teachers should be...
While schools have been grappling with the student use of artificial intelligence in classrooms, a growing shift is happening on the other side of the desk. Teachers are increasingly turning to AI tools for grading, lesson planning, and other responsibilities. As platforms like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are shifting th
NYC plans year-round sports complex at abandoned Staten Island tennis courts
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A long-promised Staten Island sports complex is closer to reality in Bulls Head after the city Department of Parks and Recreation presented plans Monday. A Parks Department team led by Tony Macari, the agency’s director of concession architecture and development, presented the Eton Place plan...
‘This Should Shock the Conscience’: Outrage Erupts After Woman Gives Birth Inside Courtroom While...
Legal advocates, public defenders and elected officials gathered outside Brooklyn courthouses on May 18, demanding accountability after a 33-year-old woman gave birth on a courtroom bench while handcuffed and awaiting arraignment on low-level criminal charges. The incident, which advocates described as a preventable me
The Effects of Climate Change Are Showing up in Brooklyn’s Exam Rooms
It was one afternoon in September, when a middle-aged construction worker nearly collapsed in my clinic from heat exhaustion, that I understood that climate change is an immediate reality rather than a distant concern. In Brooklyn, extreme heat, flooding, and dirty air are shaping who gets sick and who stays well. We c
Two Legionnaires’ Cases Found at East Village Complex
City health officials are advising residents of an East Village apartment complex to take precautions after two residents contracted Legionnaires’ disease there within the last 11 months. The advisory went out Tuesday in a Zoom call arranged by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in which the agency rev
The Alligators-in-the-Sewer Myth Is Real, and Florida Has the Video to Prove It
New York has the legend. Florida has the actual alligator. A public works crew in Oviedo, Florida, sent a camera-equipped robot into a stormwater pipe to figure out why a stretch of road kept developing sinkholes. What they found, staring back at the camera, was a 5-foot-long American alligator. The...
The Comeback of Century 21 NYC
Join Shelley and Larry Mentzer, COO of Century 21 NYC as they tell the story of the courage it takes to learn from mistakes and protect a legacy. They discuss second acts, managing a balance sheet, competing in physical retail and the dramatic shift in shopper behavior.
New York Presbyterian and UnitedHealthcare Have 10 Days Left and Neither Side Has Announced...
Ten days. That is what remains before the May 31 deadline that determines whether hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lose in-network access to the city’s largest hospital system. As of Thursday May 21, both NewYork-Presbyterian and UnitedHealthcare’s patient-facing websites show the same language they have shown for
