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For the past four years, Newark developers have been trying to breathe new life into a landmark building in a troubled neighborhood. This month, a plan to convert the Hotel Rivera at 169 Clinton Avenue into a homeless shelter with transitional housing on the upper floors finally received approval. The use of the...

A school bus carrying 10 children caught fire Wednesday afternoon in Newark, but no injuries were reported after the driver extinguished the flames, authorities said. Police and firefighters responded to Colleen Street and Stuyvesant Avenue at about 3:26 p.m. on a report of a bus fire, according to Public Safety...

ROSELLE PARK, NJ — Roselle Park police arrested a suspect Monday after he fled officers near the Roselle Park Train Station and ran through residential yards toward the Roselle Park Middle School and Robert Gordon School area. Police said officers were dispatched at about 12:53 p.m. on a report...

Jersey City Mayor James Solomon and Acting Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose announced bringing the police department out of the “Stone Age” by updating their policing model and launching a new data accountability system. “The Stone Age of the Jersey City Police Department is moving, starting today,” Ambrose...

Michael Griffin, a member of the Jersey City Council, said police will be more engaged with communities with the end of fixed-post patrols. The new mayor, with a new public safety director, touted the reforms as ways to build community trust. [ more › ]

Journal Square, a neighborhood that has long pleaded for a major grocery store, will finally get one — and that store will be Whole Foods, the company confirmed Thursday. 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...

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told City Council budget members on Wednesday that an internal review found some of the NYPD’s top brass cruising around in souped-up cars that were supposed to be reserved for undercover investigations. She said the department has started clawing those vehicles back and tightening...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently warned New Yorkers that they have "for too long been misled and misinformed about the true state of our city's finances." He added, "I will be blunt. New York City is facing a serious fiscal crisis." The mayor's proposed solutions are troubling: either...

"When I heard the amount... there was no words," the professional driver told CBS

A teen thug charged with viciously slashing a Queens mom in an unprovoked attack was taken into custody trying to hop a flight to Peru — and charged after his own dad ID’d him, law enforcement sources told The Post. Luis Emmanuel Valencia Ponce, 18, who is charged with viciously stabbing mother-of-three Lisette...