Jersey City NJ

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The 26-year-old victim of a car crash early Saturday morning has been identified as Liam Morrissey-Murphy, of Midland Beach, according to the NYPD. Police said the crash occurred around 6:30 a.m. at the intersection of South Gannon and Ardmore avenue sin Meiers Corners. Officers responding to the 911 call said Morrissey-Murphy was driving a 2002 Chevrolet...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- An incident on Monday night at Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices in Huguenot has left a young Staten Island family shaken. Michele Gatens, 37, a mother and teacher, was visiting the cherished dessert spot on Monday evening at 7:20 p.m. when a group of unidentified men on dirt bikes surrounded the back of her Cadillac Escalade.

A Friday night delivery in Brownsville turned violent when a 41-year-old worker was shot outside a Chinese takeout shortly after 8 p.m., police said. The man was hit in the left thigh and ended up lying in the middle of Riverdale Avenue near Hinsdale Street, according to witnesses and authorities. He was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he is...

Union Township, NJ — A 23-year-old man was killed and six others were wounded when gunfire erupted inside a busy Chick-fil-A on Route 22 last month, and prosecutors say a suspect is now in custody.

Mayor James Solomon found a city native and resident to serve as director of the Recreation and Youth Development Department. By sharing your email address with us, you’ll be entitled to view two Jersey City Times articles each month. In addition, you’ll be signed up for the daily email “Jersey City Today, ” the weekly “This Weekend” events email, and our Sunday news roundup email...

Jersey City is a town of participant-organizers. Most gallerists are artists themselves. Choreographers oversee the dance studios and cooks own many of the most creative restaurants. Even the live music venues are mostly operated by musicians. The Statuary (53 Congress St.), the town’s quintessential jazz club, was founded almost two decades ago by trumpeter Ted Chubb and music producer Rachel Ryall. They’ve run...

Curtis Sliwa has been the embodiment of public service since he founded the Guardia Angels. He recounted on 710 WOR's Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the Morning program a recent trip he had on the Staten Island Ferry, and how the MTA could do more to help. @iheartradio.com

If these walls could talk, they’d probably ask for a raise after everything they’ve seen since the 1700s. The Old ’76 House in Tappan, New York, isn’t just old by restaurant standards; it’s older than the country itself, serving meals since before America decided being a British colony wasn’t really working out.

For a lot of workers north of New York City, New York's new $16 minimum wage is already spoken for before it ever hits their bank accounts. Rent, child care and basic bills keep climbing, and many upstate households say they are still one car repair or medical surprise away from a full-blown crisis. Community groups and local researchers say the recent statutory...

The building looks almost too small to be this famous. Sitting at 470 Tonnelle Avenue in Jersey City, White Mana has the rounded, red-and-white shape of something you might expect to find in a toy train set, not beside one of Hudson County’s busiest roads. Step inside, though, and...