Posted on September 24, 2011 in News
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2011
THE EIGHTH ANNUAL
4TH STREET ART & MUSIC FESTIVAL
Part of the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour
For more information please see
www.4thStreetArts.org or call (224) 444–9615
Come out for a day of Community, Art & Music. The 4th Street Art & Music Festival will take place for the eighth time on Saturday October 1st. 4th Street Arts – Founded in 2004 continues to grow as an organization as does the festival that started it all.
For this years main event the table is full of tantalizing art projects, sizzling musical performances and awe inspiring artists and their work. Some of the confirmed projects are ….
Posted on September 22, 2011 in News
VNA 2011-2012 “Season” Starts Monday!
Monday, September 26, 2011
7:30 PM
Madame Claude Cafe
364 1/2 Fourth Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
On behalf of the The Village Neighborhood Association Board of Directors, I’d like to invite everyone to our first 2011-2012 meeting on Monday, September 26, 2011 at Madame Claude Cafe.
We were thrilled when Alice Troletto and her husband Mattias Gustafsson invited us to have our meeting in their restaurant. The restaurant will be closed to the public, so the VNA will be providing refreshments for our meeting.
To say the summer was quiet is truly an understatement. Hurricane Irene left many Village residents under water, while exposing city-wide problems with our infrastructure. Newark Avenue construction was often difficult to negotiate, and quality of life issues around student lunch hour unexpectedly resurfaced.
So what’s on our agenda for Monday?
Posted on June 12, 2011 in News
Help the Embankment Preservation Coalition win up to $25,000 in the National Trust for Historic Preservation “This Place Matters” Community Challenge. The Trust selected the Coalition from 250 entrants to compete with 99 others in the challenge.
Now It’s Up to You!
As of this weekend, we rank #10 out of 100 participants. To bring a prize home, The Embankment Coalition needs your vote!
Just click on embankment.org for instructions.
Voting ends June 30, 2011
Anyone with a valid email may vote.
You do not need to be a New Jersey resident.
Please vote and forward to Facebook, Twitter – help the Embankment Coalition
GET OUT THE VOTE!
The Coalition works to preserve a massive stone structure, one of the last remnants of the Pennsylvania Railroad Harsimus Branch, for use as a habitat-oriented park and segment of the East Coast Greenway biking and walking trail from Maine to Florida. For more than one hundred years, the Embankment and a predecessor elevated structure carried the PRR’s freightway to the Hudson River, contributing to the growth of the Port of New York and New Jersey. Preservation of the transportation corridor is essential to good public Continue reading →
Posted on May 18, 2011 in News
A Walk Through Historic “Little Italy” Section of Jersey City, NJ
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2011 (rain or shine!)
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Cost: $5 ($3 for seniors and students with school identification)
Meeting Place: Meet in front of Madame Claude Cafe, 364 1/2 4th Street, Jersey City, NJ (at the intersection of Newark Avenue and Brunswick and 4th Streets)
More Information: Contact Joshua Parkhurst at [email protected]
Preservationist Joshua Parkhurst will take tourists through Downtown Jersey City’s Italian Village district, a late-19th century Italian-American neighborhood that has held on to its cultural roots despite the passage of 140 years. Meet both long-time and newly established merchants who are helping to drive The Village’s resurgence. The walking tour will conclude with a visit to the Lamp Post Bar & Grill at 382 Second Street. Continue reading →
Posted on April 29, 2011 in News, Village Helpers
JC Landmarks founder, John Gomez, with Village Helpers founder, Adriana Crow and her sister Elise at the clean-up held last fall at Harsimus Cemetery.
This Saturday, April 30, 2011, join the VILLAGE HELPERS as they help support a huge clean-up at the Historic Harsimus Cemetery.
The Village Helpers had a blast last fall handing out food and drinks to the students from PS #4 as they spruced up the cemetery grounds.
This year proves to be extra special as the clean-up is a prelude to very cool music concert, The 2nd Annual Celebrate MOTHER EARTH CONCERT which starts at 3 pm. Don’t miss it!
Check out all the details below provided by John Gomez, founder of JC Landmarks. Continue reading →
Posted on December 19, 2010 in News
In late May, the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy proudly presented their tenth annual Preservation Awards Ceremony in honor of those who have significantly contributed to the preservation of Jersey City’s architectural and cultural heritage. Categories include the Excellence in Preservation Award, the Theodore Conrad Preservationist Award, the J. Owen Grundy History Award, the Preservation Initiative Award, and the Jersey City Legend Award. A tour of the historic Loew’s Jersey Theatre followed the ceremony presented by the JC Landmarks Conservancy.
I was thrilled when I learned that The Village Neighborhood won the prestigious Theodore Conrad Preservationist Award “For its spirited grassroots efforts to preserve the cultural and architectural heritage of the Italian Village district of Downtown Jersey City”. On behalf of the VNA Board of Directors, I would like to thank the JC Landmarks Conservancy for this wonder acknowledgement of our efforts, and we look forward to working with the Conservancy on future collaborations such as The Village Historic Walking Tours and other preservation initiatives.
Check out this nice overview of the ceremony from the JC Independent HERE.
The ceremony was excellent, and as an added bonus, the VNA was also presented with a Citation from Mayor Jerramiah Healy in honor of our work supporting The Village. Needless to say, it was a great night!
Posted on October 26, 2010 in News
Village Residents:
The Division of Parks and Forestry is holding its annual fall tree planting. The Village Neighborhood Association fully supports this initiative, and urges you to participate. The images below demonstrate the dramatic improvement that tree planting could have on our neighborhood.
The true cost of planting each tree is approximately $500. However, the city has successfully obtained grants which will fund the majority of the project. As a result, the city is offering to plant each tree for a small fee of $100. Additionally, in order to further incentivize plantings and reduce the cost to residents, the VNA is offering a $10 rebate* for the first 50 participants who sign up by Wednesday, November 3rd. This brings the final cost to just $90. Continue reading →
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Posted on September 14, 2010 in News, Village Park
The Village Neighborhood Association, in collaboration with The Jersey City Parks Coalition, has received the highly sought after recommendation from the Hudson County Open Space Trust Fund Board of Directors and County Executive Tom DeGise for $295,000 of matching funds for the redevelopment of The Village Park on First Street in The Village section of Downtown Jersey City. This is huge!
Throughout the Winter and early Spring of 2010, members of the VNA, The Jersey City Parks Coalition, and Future Green Studios painstakingly compiled and completed the phone-book sized grant application. On April 8, 2010, designer David Seiter (Future Green Studio), Jim Ayers (VNA Vice President), Michele La Monica-Egar (Jersey City Parks Coalition) and myself pitched our formal presentation to the the Hudson County Board of trustees. And then, we waited….
The news came late last week via an email from Stephen Marks, Director of the Hudson County Division of Planning. The Village Park was one 17 projects to be awarded this endorsement. With the passage of this introductory resolution, the final public hearing on these awards will be scheduled for the October 28, 2010 Board of Chosen Freeholders meeting. There is more work to be done for sure, and we’ll be reaching out to residents for their support, but for right now, feel free to smile.
For more details, check out the article from The Jersey Journal.
Posted on August 2, 2010 in News
UPDATE: For all the latest pipeline news, please visit NOGASPIPELINE.ORG
I’m sure many of you reading this are well aware of the proposed construction of a huge 30″ gas pipeline to be run through Jersey City to service New York City by Spectra Energy, a Texas-based company. Over the course of the year, many Jersey City residents have been unsure of the exact route the line will take through our city. As you can see from the photo above, the gas pipeline runs right next to the western border of The Village.
Now look at this photo… Continue reading →
Posted on May 10, 2010 in News, Village Helpers
The Village Neighborhood Association (VNA) is proud to announce the formation of a new neighborhood group dedicated to children of all ages who want to get involved in their community.
The group is called The Village Helpers. The name and idea of the group was thought of by my nine-year-old daughter, Adriana. She has attended several VNA meetings over the past few years and conceived the idea to form a group “just for kids”.
With the guidance and support of the VNA, the primary goal of The Village Helpers is for children to bond with other children in their neighborhood through community involvement – to demonstrate to children of all ages that this is their neighborhood, their future, and their opportunity to shape the world.
As the name implies, the focus of the group is to make The Village a better place to live, although children from any neighborhood are more than welcome to join.
To sign up and get in on the fun, click HERE