Our neighborhood said goodbye to a quiet, humble man with an overwhelming outpouring of appreciation and respect. A crowd of 300 or more first gathered at Hamilton Park and then walked to Kiritkumar Parikh’s grocery store on 7th and Coles streets, filling the street in a massive manifestation of grief and defiance. Parikh was [...]
Since the Miracle on the Hudson splashdown of a couple of weeks ago I’ve been waiting for the lawsuits to be filed and wondering what kind of compensation U.S. Airwaves (like the new name?) would be offering passengers of the ill-fated Flight 1549.
Today’s New York Post reports that the airline is upgrading survivors to something [...]
Governor Jon Corzine says New Jersey’s share of the $800 billion stimulus plan is going to be around $4 billion. That’s down from the $6 billion he said he expected earlier this month, and way down from the $17 billion some officials were talking about late last year.
While he wasn’t specific, Corzine says the aid [...]
I’m sorry to say that death, or more precisely the fleeting nature of life, has been more of a preoccupation than usual around here this week, so I apologize if this is getting a little maudlin for your taste.
I came across this poem in the New York Times. It’s by John Updike, ironically enough. I [...]
There will be a vigil held for Kiritkumar Parikh on Friday.
I left the deli at 7th and Coles Street this morning just before 9 a.m. with my quart of milk and stick of butter. Kids from McNair Academic High School across the street were ordering buttered rolls and hot chocolates. Little old ladies were getting their lottery tickets and local paper. The usual busy morning [...]
Former Jersey City Mayor and Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith is definitely running for mayor, as most people who watch this kinda thing already know. In fact, Smith announced three running mates this week: Ron Greco Jr., a teacher’s union board member, running at-large; Frances Thompson, a familiar former councilwoman, school board member and director of [...]
New York Governor David Paterson is about to become the first black governor in New York history to get his ass kicked at the polls. In what has been a month of missteps on the issue of appointing a new U.S. Senator to replace Hillary Clinton, Paterson settled on what’s-her-face from upstate and the reaction [...]
You would be hard-pressed to find someone in the media business who loves the sound of his own voice more than MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. You know him; he’s the former ESPN anchor whose wacky antics (along with Dan Patrick) on the set of Sports Center in the 90’s first brought him to a national audience. [...]
When you cover Jersey City politics, or politics in any of the cities around here for long enough, you get used to the smell. I’m not talking about the metaphoric smell of corruption and incompetence, which can be as ripe as that fat-rendering plant in Newark from a few years ago. No, I’m talking about [...]
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