Jersey City
29th Annual Toy Drive Donations 2025: You can donate new, unwrapped toys to this event.Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. City of Jersey City Hall, 280 Grove St.
Mayor Steven M. Fulop and the Resident Response Center will be accepting donations of new, unwrapped toys to distribute to children in Jersey City.

Movement Monday Yoga with Meg: This yoga class is for all levels.
Location: Made of Leaves at 195 New York Ave.
Time: 7:30 p.m..

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Most Affordable Housing of Any Private Mixed-income Community This Size in the Country

Jersey City Mayor Steven M. Fulop joins state and local officials to officially break ground on the first building in the long-anticipated Bayfront Redevelopment Project on May 14, 2025, marking a historic milestone in Jersey City’s largest mixed-income community initiative to date.

80% of the units will be dedicated to affordable and workforce housing.

With the Fulop Administration’s stringent affordable housing requirements throughout the entire project, Bayfront will provide the most affordable housing of any private mixed-income community of this size in the country.

    10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 14, 2025

 Bayfront Redevelopment Site

Kellogg Street & Society Hill Dr. N

Jersey City, NJ

 Mayor Steven Fulop, City Council Members, NJ Economic Development Authority, NJ Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, Jersey City Redevelopment Agency, Pennrose LLC, PATHS Development LLC, Jersey City Together, Bayfront Avisory Committee, Building Trades

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Mayor Fulop and Liberty Science Center Announce new Partnership with Hudson County to Create High School that will Reimagine Public Education

JERSEY CITY – Mayor Steven M. Fulop joins the Liberty Science Center (LSC) and Hudson County to announce an agreement by the Hudson County Board of Education of the Hudson County Schools of Technology to establish a unique public-private partnership for the creation of the new proposed Liberty Science High School, located within the new cutting-edge SciTech Scity.  The planned 30-acre innovation campus, a “mini city of the future”, will be a revolutionary technological hub for students, innovators, entrepreneurs, and scientists working together to create a community for learning and innovation.

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Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Paterson Mayor Joey Torres held a joint press conference Monday afternoon in Jersey CIty to launch a cross city partnership to share services such as police sharing information amongst departments for tracking criminals moving through those towns to employment training and prisoner reentry.

The press conference took place at the Hub Plaza on Martin Luther King Drive, about a mile away from the shooting death of Jersey City Police Officer Melvin Santiago at a Walgreens pharmacy on July 13, and only blocks away from the site of a memorial (taken down by the city) for Lawrence Campbell, Santiago’s killer.

Fulop said that this partnership formed out of the three mayors recognizing that they “share similar challenges on the crime front.”

“There have been instances where the Paterson police have made arrests, significant arrests for people that the Jersey City police were looking for on significant crimes, and there’s significant examples of people making bad decisions here in Jersey City and going over the Wittpenn Bridge or the Pulaski Skyway and going to Newark,” Fulop said. “And there’s examples of people from Newark doing horrible things in Newark and coming towards Jersey City.”

Fulop then spoke about the importance of the new partnership.

“This is a significant day because it represents a significant partnership and a way of doing things going forward that we think will be meaningful and set an example in local, state and hopefully, federal politics, and government in how to work together moving forward,” Fulop said.

Baraka weighed in on working with his fellow mayors.

“It is a breath of fresh air to be able to work with Mayor Fulop and Mayor Torres around issues plaguing our cities collectively…it is a great opportunity for us to work together around issues of public safety, issues of foreclosure that are hitting our communities very hard,” Baraka said.

Torres said the partnership was vital in many ways to the respective towns they represent, especially when combatting crime.

“The recent tragic death of Genesis Rincon in Paterson and Officer Melvin Santiago in Jersey City broke our hearts but must never break our spirit. We owe it to our communities to act, doing nothing is an option,” Torres said.

Rincon was a 12-year old girl who was shot dead on July 5 while riding a scooter near her home. Three men were arrested and charged with her murder.

Torres said the first part of the shared partnership initiative that has gotten underway has been the sharing of intelligence between the Paterson Cease Fire Task Force and Newark Police Cease Fire unit.

Fulop said after the press conference that in the next four to eight weeks the three towns will be working on tangible goals such as drafting joint purchasing agreements from vendors to make bulk purchases from them such as road salt.

The partnership will include a roundtable discussion about shared services hosted by the three mayors in September at the Rutgers University campus in Newark.

Nearby residents sitting the plaza witnessed the conference. Among them was 45-year-old John Cee, who hoped the mayors†new partnership will not just address primarily crime but also jobs.

“Hopefully, the major thing that I think besides the crime issue is jobs,” said Cee, who is currently between jobs. “Without jobs, you are at the bottom of the barrel. You should provide more job opportunities, open more factories.”

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JERSEY CITY – Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Municipal Council, and the Division of Cultural Affairs present the annual Summerfest Concert Series, the annual Jazz for Lunch Music Series, Free Concerts at the MLK Hub, and the Summer Dance Fest Series during the months of June, July and August.

The Summerfest Concerts on the Hudson, a two month-long program that runs from July 7th through August 18th on Sundays and Tuesdays brings more than a dozen recording artists to Jersey City and is the longest concert series in Jersey Cityâ€s history. The historic concert series dates back to when Liberty State Park was founded and has since grown.

Tuesday, July 16 7 p.m. -9 p.m. Fillet of Soul 60â€s & 70â€s

July 11 Ginettaâ€s Vendetta

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