I woke up exhausted this morning. Maybe it was the cumulative effect of yesterday’s 10-mile JC Bike Tour (or the 100 bike miles over the course of the previous week) piled on top of Fridays’ Machete y Ron performance and Saturday’s Everything JC festival in the Heights, but I’m not complaining. It’s a happy exhaustion.
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Here’s our interview with Mayor Healy.
Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy says the corruption scandal that rocked his administration this summer has not damaged his ability to do the city’s work. In an exclusive interview with BCB, the mayor says he’s moving ahead with plans for waterfront development, mass transit expansions and job creation.
I’m what you’d probably call an avid cyclist. I take my bike everywhere, work, play, errands, etc. I’m experienced on these streets and respect the rules of the road, for the most part. (I sometimes ride on the sidewalk and don’t stop at every red light.) That said, I still usually take a tumble once [...]
There’s an expression en español: “En la casa lo conocen.” Loosely translated, it means “they know him in his home,” suggesting that the person being referred to isn’t especially well known, especially not as well known as he thinks he is. To really bring the point home, you might say: “Ni en la casa lo [...]
This is the end, or maybe the beginning of the end, to summer and vacation and long, sunny days. It’s the beginning of dark afternoons and cooler winds that don’t refresh as much as … portend. For us, who watch and wonder what’s next, we can only assume that there will be some noise [...]
Technical difficulties prohibited me from posting this video on Monday. Sorry. But I can’t let a day of shooting go totally to waste. (Not after sweating through 90 degrees on Sunday!) I’ve said all I’m going to say about the parade, so I’ll just leave you this video, with no additional commentary. Except this: The [...]
Momma (or somebody equally influential) always said “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” And we’ve all heard the advice to “count to ten” before you respond to something that makes you angry. Well, I’m not especially good at holding my tongue, but I have gotten a lot better [...]
This is the time for piragua, that frozen concoction that helped me hang on for many a summer. Piragueros, the men who pushed their carts of block ice and fruit syrup bottles from corner to corner, were once more plentiful around Downtown. No Mr. Softee truck, the piraguero had to herald his own arrival, unplugged. [...]
All this talk about JC city council people who should resign led me to an interesting discussion with a former Jersey City councilman, who happens to be Latino, about who might/should replace the two (Latino) council members in question: Mariano Vega (at large) and Nidia Lopez (Journal Square). If they were to resign (or be [...]
