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Huge Pride Month event at North Jersey university abruptly canceled
WAYNE — A celebration billed as the first-ever countywide event for Pride Month was abruptly canceled Tuesday, but its organizers are promising to return with an even bigger blowout next year. Michael Stracco, the chairman of the Pride Alliance of Passaic County, said the four-hour event was called off because there were “too...
WINNER! Jersey City Lotto Player Nets Big Bucks
It was a magical Monday for a lottery player in Jersey City.One player purchased a $10 Team USA Fast Play ticket and turned it into $49,712 on Monday, June 10. Fast Play Progressive is a series of games that offers quick play play styles and are printed on demand from the lottery termina…
Summer heat ahead for the second half of June
The summer solstice isn’t until June 20, but summer heat arrives Friday. We’ve already gotten a few tastes of summer warmth this year, including an 87-degree day in New York City in April (still our warmest day of the year to date), but so far this year, stretches of summer weather have been fleeting. That is going to change quickly in a big way.
Munchy migrant bites three NYPD cops in three separate incidents after shoplifting at Target: prosecutors
He has a taste for New York’s Finest. A migrant serial shoplifter bit three NYPD police officers in three separate incidents after he was arrested for stealing clothes from a Manhattan Target, it was revealed in court Tuesday. Ysmael Qintero, a Venezuelan migrant with 18 shoplifting busts since December 2023, was ordered held on $50,000 bail on charges of two counts of assaulting a police officer and petit larceny after allegedly sinking his teeth into police officers last week — leaving two officers wounded, Manhattan prosecutors said. The munchy migrant first laid his fangs on a police officer after stealing three pairs of...
What to know about the G train summer shutdown
The 11.4-mile long Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown G train subway service will be partially shut down this summer for track reconstruction and modern signal installation. Starting Friday, June 28, the G train will undergo the first phase of an extensive multi-week, 24/7 project to replace its 1930s-era legacy signal system with Communications-based train control (CBTC) — a wireless connectivity system that keeps trains in constant contact, and in turn, more reliable.
Paterson ranking cops have tapped a new union leader. Who is Christopher Benevento?
PATERSON — Mason Maher, the unsuccessful GOP candidate for Passaic County Sheriff in 2022, was defeated Friday in his bid for reelection as president of the union for Paterson’s ranking police officers. Maher, who had held the Superior Officers Association leadership post for more than a decide, finished third in a three-man contest...
2 N.J. men plead guilty to string of armed robberies at gas stations
Two Hudson County men admitted to participating in a string of armed robberies at gas stations, as well as an attempted carjacking in 2022, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said Tuesday. Wendell Bradely Jr., 27, of Bayonne pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count each of Hobbs Act robbery and conspiracy...
N.Y. weather: First heat wave of 2024 to bring scorching temperatures to Northeast
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island has seen its fair share of summer-like days in the last few weeks, but with a heat wave on the horizon, the true sweltering heat of the season will soon kick into high gear. AccuWeather meteorologists are keeping an eye on what appears...
Point View Shopping Center in Wayne sold, Corrado's Market leased. What we know
WAYNE — Atlantic Health System has signed a lease to take over most of the former Corrado’s Market on Berdan Avenue, an agent for the property owner said Monday. Shane Wierks of Jeffery Realty said the nonprofit medical group will assume 25,000 square feet of the 35,000-square-foot anchor space, which has been vacant since the grocery store closed last summer. ...
Man Shot In Newark: Police
A man was shot in Newark on the evening of Monday, June 10, authorities said.At 6:26 p.m., police responded to Vanderpool Street near Sherman Avenue and found a man who had been shot, Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said. He was transported to University Hospital and is in critical b…
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