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A crowd at the 2018 Fourth of July Festival in Jersey City. (Adrienne J. Romero / The Jersey Journal) Many Hudson County municipalities—and across the river—are hosting celebrations for Fourth of July, America’s Independence Day, which is also celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary. And with these...

Open Mon–Thu, 5 PM–10:30 PM | Fri–Sun, 11:30 AM–2 PM & 4 PM–10:30 PM. Don Angie is the kind of West Village comfort-food haven locals love to claim as “their spot.”. Word traveled fast about its playful Italian-American plates, cozy size, and high-reward, shareable...

Jersey City Announces Fourth of July Festival & Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks® Viewing Celebration at No Cost to the City. Day-long festival, free concert series, and prime fireworks viewing made possible through generous sponsor support. Mayor James Solomon and the City of Jersey City today announced details...

A New Mayor: Mayor Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski takes the oath of office. Pictured left to right: Charlie Nadrowski (the mayor’s son) and Mayor Ashe-Nadrowski. After being sworn into office on July 1, Mayor Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski said in her inaugural address that her mayoralty would bring “a new beginning, a fresh start, and

Fourth of July weekend is always a fun one in Essex County, but 2026 is shaping up to be an especially big year. Between America’s 250th birthday, local parades, town-wide celebrations, fireworks, live music, family festivals, and park events, there are plenty of ways to spend the holiday close to home. Whether the pla

New York City is heading into the back half of 2026 with some of its lowest serious crime numbers in years, according to City Hall and the NYPD. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Thursday rolled out citywide crime figures for the first six months of the year, saying major categories are down

A plane ticket to Sicily sounds lovely, but a dinner reservation is much easier to pull off. On Long Island, surrounded by farmstands views and country-road calm, this restaurant gives New York a little Mediterranean daydream. Housed inside a beautifully restored farmhouse, it’s the kind of place where garden-fresh veg

It’s station hot 101.5. The Big Apple is burning with the mercury climbing to nearly triple figures on Wednesday and Thursday beneath the “heat dome” scorching the Northeast. That day, Central Park reached a blistering 100-degrees for the first time in nearly 15 years . To add insult to heat stroke, real-feel temps rea

As New Yorkers endured another day of extreme summer heat, the NYPD issued a wave of Crime Stoppers alerts seeking suspects in robberies, assaults, subway attacks and gun-related incidents across the city.

Even a localized equipment problem can quickly turn into a broader public safety issue.