Politics

Despite the easing of most COVID-19 restrictions, landlords in Newark are still unable to raise rents on their properties due to a moratorium on rent increases on rent-controlled apartments.

City officials say that the structure "poses a danger," but that there are no funds to tear it down.

Locals can now weigh in on the proposal, which would add a $15 fee for most drivers passing through a large swath of Manhattan.

Lamor Whitehead aka Bling Bishop, a preacher charged with fraud, has been cozying up in a 6,200 square-foot New Jersey home since being released on bail and maintaining his innocence.

Newly proposed changes to Newark’s zoning laws intend to speed up development, ease the backlog in zoning board applications, and fill vacant storefronts.

The City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance that would use new tax revenue assessed on about 300 commercial properties to spruce up one of Jersey City’s major retail corridors.

A builder renovating two homes says that longtime politico Michael Manzo revoked his permits to “teach [him] a lesson,” later demanding a friendship to avoid his wrath.

Both candidates in the city’s mayoral race discuss affordable housing, what’s currently being done to support it, and what they want to see moving forward.

In part five of our ongoing interview series with Jersey City’s nine city councilpeople, Council President Rolando Lavarro discusses plans and expectations for his next four years in office.

The first step has been taken to revitalize a theater in the Raritan Valley town that has been vacant for almost two decades.