.On Sat, Sept. 20, from 11 am to 6 pm, Grove Street Plaza & Newark Avenue will be bustling with 125 local vendors; over 15 food and fashion trucks; live music performances; fun activities for kids, cool trinkets from local retailers, and art from area artists.  Itâ€s a little bit of everything that makes Historic Downtown Jersey City a very exciting place to be these days. The event is hosted by HDSID led by executive director Rachel Sieg.

“Basically the downtown businesses, artists, vendors, and food trucks all come out to enjoy Downtown Jersey City,” Sieg says. “Itâ€s our biggest event of the year. For one day, between 20-30,000 people come to Jersey City; people from Brooklyn, Newark, New York City, Hoboken. Weâ€re trying to get people to see that Jersey City is a great place to hang out, have dinner, go to art shows, and buy clothes. Thereâ€s so much to do down here. Its 20 minutes on the PATH train from New York, which makes it is easy to get here.”

The HDSID is a public/private partnership that brings together property and business owners to ensure they have an impact on Historic Downtown Jersey City neighborhoods and their development. HDSID works with local businesses, property owners and neighborhood associations, and City government, to promote Downtown Jersey City and improve the quality of life.

This yearâ€s participants in All About Downtown include Golden Grille, Hard Grove, L.I.T.M., Downtown Hardware, Capital One, TEDxJerseyCity, The BIG Straw, BCB Bank, Dominos, Union Republic, Roman Nose, Barcade, My Gym Hoboken, Morlees, Indiegrove, PNC Bank. Helenâ€s Pizzeria, CoolHaus, IndrediBalls, The Style Cruiser, Uber, Park and Sixth Comfort Food, Orale Mexican Kitchen, Left Bank Burger Bar, Pole Position Raceway, Zipcar, Dark Side of the MOO, Choc O Pain, BBQ @ Legal Beans, Goldman Sachs, Gymboree, WORD Bookstore and Two Boots Pizza.

Another Manâ€s Treasure vintage clothes; organic home-made ice cream from Milk Sugar Love; and unique jewelry and collectibles by Vera Vixenness of Union City will also be at the fair. This is the 3^rd year Vixenness will be selling her special jewelry designs and vintage clothes, and she fondly remembers her first year at the festival and how it became the launching pad she needed to start her own business.

“All About Downtown was the perfect place for me to test my product,” Vixenness says, “and it was very profitable. That first festival was successful for me; I got a solid brand.”

A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Vixenness repurposes jewelry and vintage clothes she finds at estate sales and thrift shops.

“I specialize in bohemian aesthetic,” Vixenness says. “At All About Downtown Iâ€ll be selling vintage clothes, collectibles and repurposed jewelry like my rock and roll rosaries, and ‘native†jewelry made from bones and stones. Iâ€m going to have $5 and $10 racks of vintage clothes and $5 bins of cuffs and stuff.”

Fair-goers can find Vixenness†booth on Newark Ave, close to Grove Street. All About Downtown is great for entrepreneurs like Vixenness who “flies solo” and calls herself a “mobile boutique” because her business can pop up anywhere. At the fair, she also gets to reunite with friends.

“All About Downtown is a blast,” Vixenness says. “I love Jersey City and I get to see friends all day. Itâ€s a great time.”

If you go:

Sat, Sept 20, 11 am to 6 pm

All About Downtown Jersey City Street Fair

Grove Street Plaza & Newark Avenue

Jersey City

For more info, www.jcdowntown.org

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STATE-OF-THE-ART INDOOR KARTING FACILITY IN JERSEY CITY

80,000 Square Foot Facility Featuring Two Quarter-Mile Tracks and Premier Elect ric Emission-Free Karts Is Company’s First East Coast Venture

 

November 22, 2010 — Jersey City, N.J. — Everyone… “start your engines”… Pole Position Raceway (P2R), a leading chain of indoor karting centers, makes its’ East Coast debut in the coming weeks in Jersey City, just minutes from Manhattan.

“Jersey City is one of the most diverse and rapidly developing cities on the East Coast of the United States.” said Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy. “We are aggressively marketing Jersey City as a global brand, which is home to international dining, several world class hotels, national landmarks, cultural and leisure activities. With the addition of Pole Position Raceway to our list of attractions, we are fast becoming a premier tourist destination”

The 80,000 square foot facility features two quarter-mile tracks and the latest in high-performance all electric emission-free indoor karts that are capable of reaching speeds of 45 MPH. It will give people an opportunity to experience authentic side-by-side racing action with up to 10 drivers per track. Pole Position Raceway will have adult karts for racers at least 56 inches tall, as well as junior karts for kids who are at least 48 inches tall.

“I think people are going to be really amazed at what we’ve created,” says Eyal Farage owner of Pole Position Raceway, Jersey City. “The experience is authentic, competitive, fun and green. Building a green facility was very important to me,” added Farage. “Ever since I was introduced to Pole Position Raceway, I wanted to bring it to the East Coast and there isn’t a better market or location. Jersey City has welcomed us with tremendous enthusiasm and appreciation for our interest to be part of the community.”

Pole Position Raceway was founded in Los Angeles in 2005 and currently has five other locations: Corona, CA, Las Vegas NV, Murrieta, CA, Oklahoma City, OK, and Summerlin, NV

“What’s unique about Pole Position Raceway is the sensation that people get while driving on a real race track,” says Ken Faught, president of P2R Karting, which franchises the tracks. “In most cases, this is the closest thing to real racing that people will ever experience. The karts are made in Europe and accelerate quicker than traditional gas-powered karts. This makes it very challenging and fun to navigate turns on a track with nine other drivers vying for the finish line; the company’s motto is ‘built for racers’ by racers,'” added Faught

Kurt Busch, 2004 NASCAR champion; Jeremy McCrath seven-time AMA Supercross champion; and Mike Metzger, X-games freestyle gold medalist are among the many professional car and motorcycle racers involved with the Pole Position Raceway brand.

Pole Position Raceway will be located at 99 Caven Point Road in Jersey City and offers a variety of racing options. It is available to the general public on a walk-in basis and is a available to groups for birthday parties, bachelor parties, Bar-Mitzvah’s, corporate events such as team building, product launches and company meetings. It will also be a fun interactive destination for New Jersey and New York tourists.

Pole Position Raceway will include a Tailgate café, video and arcade games, meeting and party rooms, an impressive display of racing memorabilia and more.

For additional information visit polepositonraceway.com or call 201.333.RACE.

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