The reality about downtown Jersey City is it's a bunch of weirdos (for the US) that *choose* to live so that they can walk around with their kids, take the train to work, have dining options, etc. But people give up a car or cars and live in much, much smaller homes than in most of Jersey City.

Join our office and the Harsimus Cove Association this Saturday at 10am to clean up the Harsimus Cove area! Supplies, coffee, and donuts will be provided. Volunteer hours are available. See you there!

Mayor Solomon today announced the appointment of James M. Leavy as Director of the Jersey City Department of Public Works. Leavy brings 25 years of municipal operations experience, most recently serving as Borough Chief for Manhattan at the NYC Department of Sanitation.

Transit Friendly Planning News - mailchi.mp/njtod/news-a... - Sherrill proposes $1B for NJT • YIGBY in NJ • SB79 definition problem • MARTA launches BRT • Mexico-US high-speed rail - #transit #NJTOD #NJTRANSIT

Jersey City marathon is placing mobile digital signs on our bike lanes, @bikejc.org members reported these signs on Pacific/Communipaw and 18th/Jersey. They should know better.

Discovering that the fantasy universe is entering a new era. Star Wars -> Harry Potter -> Lord of the Rings -> Game of Thrones -> New Greek Myths Hopefully we can use something other than British accents to represent the old gods and the new.

Some local flavor: downtown JC has a 15% IZ set-aside for upzoned land. In five years, not a single affordable unit has broken ground in downtown JC. When thr IZO passed, then-councilman Solomon pledged to relax the IZO if it didnt work. Instead he ran on making it more onerous & applying citywide

The Port Authority quietly added and raised new fees and tolls to help pay for the new $11B Port Authority Bus Terminal - so quiet even its own users didn't know. Its biggest user - NJ Transit - is facing a 60% increase in costs in FY27, compared to FY25.

Good old Etsy still selling "artisanal" smoky license plate covers. How far they've fallen as a brand: www.etsy.com/listing/4454...

If we could fund better transit in NJ through a new revenue stream, how would you do it? Didn't Pompidou reveal we could be using special improvement districts for regional/localized public goods? @upzonenj.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social @mdasilva.bsky.social @eaconner.bsky.social

So...tonight JC's new infrasturture director asked neighborhood meeting attendees for a show of hands if we should have paid parking permit zones. Is this how we're going to do street safety improvements now, under the new admin? Straw polls at NIMBY meetings with an average age of 65?

Original headline: Five groups getting fucked by World Cup But we're a family news org, I'm told. Story by my esteemed colleague Katie Sobko

New York City's lack of daylighting is atrocious.

Not enough attention is paid to buses in NJ. From FY2025 ridership data, I estimate there were at least 30M NJ Transit bus rides in Hudson County. For context, PATH serves 60M rides a year, the HBLR serves 15M, and the NEC serves 22M. Why are these buses ever stuck in traffic?

Reality is microtransit in Jersey City can be cheaper than NJT's low-frequency bus routes; but NJT's high-frequency routes have lower costs. Serving transit deserts is one thing. A rider refusing to ride the bus to JSQ – on one of the busiest bus lines in the state – is not a good use of Via. Ban it

One thing about riding year round including when there is salt everywhere is the chain rusts easily and changing it can be a hassle. Counting links, chain breaking down to a custom length, who wants the fuss? Just discovered ordering custom length chains from KMC! Was done in ~5 minutes, easy-peasy

Even Reddit is fed up with dangerous intersections like Jersey/Grand. Everyone is exposed to danger here, pedestrians, cyclists, patients and drivers. I never know if it’s safe to proceed through the intersection when cars make sudden and desperate left turns. www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity...

Kind of loving this postmortem from Mayor Solomon about the failures by Jersey City in the last couple of snowstorms. Two takeaways: 1. Climate change is messing with transmission of knowledge. We have no idea how to deal with snow anymore. 2. City has lacked strong professional managers. /

Buses here are too often stuck in traffic even though they provide millions of rides a year. Hudson County needs to finally build BRT on JFK. Go Ron! #FixJFKBlvd #VisionZeroNJ

Love a good stop sign, but can someone cool tell me why this post about a new stop sign in Jersey City is going viral? x.com/tzukima/stat...

Bergen County proposed a massive new redevelopment housing project and brand new Hackensack bus terminal, which was set to start construction last fall. It would have been a win-win-win for NJ Transit. It hasn't happened and no one knows why. Our story ⬇️

Horrible rise in housing costs incoming. Really don't love how much we play musical chairs with housing and deny that the answer is more housing.

One of the wild things about the accusations that Scutari was selfishly acting in the interests of insurance companies with NJ's bad new e-bike law is – that's exactly what the insurance industry said about the bill. Good for business $$$. 🤑💰💸 blog.pia.org/2025/11/12/e...

The moment Gov. Sherrill said this: “In the final working days of the last administration, New Jerseyans were stuck with $3B in extra spending, $2.5 in corporate tax breaks and $240 million in giveaways. That can’t keep happening … it’s not what the people of NJ deserve.”

Local politicians hold this wild idea that all people care about for street parking is that it's free or nearly free. It is so obviously wrong *especially* to residents that actually street park. If raising prices would improve availability, that is a huge savings in time & frustration. 20 minutes!

Now would be a great time for the NJ Legislature to reconsider the new e-bike laws. If electric rates doubled tomorrow the cost of charging my Class 1 250W Cannondale from zero will rise from 7 cents to 14 cents. bicyclecoalition.org/governor-mur...

For decades, Jersey City has run one of the largest, most unacknowledged welfare programs in its history, for wannabe suburban car owners. By giving away 60,000 street parking spaces of expensive public real estate for free, it's a multi-hundred million dollar annual wealth transfer.

In the twilight of Governor Murphy's administration, he tried to lock in a bad deal by giving up very little. $10.2B Turnpike widening instead of a $10.7B widening. Many people wanted to just accept the deal or prioritize trucks over the people of Newark/South JC. Win or lose it was worth the fight.

Murphy left a $10.7B project a $10.2B project. Sherrill fully scaled it down to $6.7B. One new bridge, the old one will be torn down. *Repair-first* approach to the rest of the extension. 0 new lanes. Full cushion to continue to invest in NJ Transit. Sherrill so far has been a breathe of fresh air.

Guess which city devotes the most land to highways. Newark. But bcs Newark's prop values aren't as high as, say, Oakland's, it doesn't rank among cities w/ the most to gain from redeving its freeways--in terms of total $. But Nwk prop tax revs could ⬆️ at least 32%, more than Manhattan or Oakland.

🚨🎉💪 We will have more to say soon, but this is a huge win for transportation and the environment. Our coalition's brief statement below 🌳🚶🛤️

Hello! We're the official account for Jersey City! By way of introduction, Here are some facts that might surprise you 🧵

Officially adopting Jersey Fortress

Hello world! jct.rbw.sh is a map of @jerseycity.bsky.social property tax payments

65 groups and three state legislators ask Governor to back the downsized one bridge option fo NJ Turnpike project www.nj.com/news/2026/02...

I do apologize to whichever fellow Jersey City-an I am grabbing Killed By a Traffic Engineer from. JCFPL should order more. Looking forward to reading this @wesmars.bsky.social

Anyway, the solution is obvious. There are good and bad faith critiques of 150 Bay St. But if it's not a viable plan, let's see another one that gives more density in exchange for a school. I am hopeful Eleana Little is willing to do this.

Join us at City Hall TONIGHT at 6:00 PM to support the Franklin St. Protected Bike Lane! An ordinance to turn Franklin Street one-way and add the Heights' first protected bike lane will have a first reading TONIGHT (Wednesday, February 25th, at 6:00PM). cityofjerseycity.civicweb.net/Portal/Citiz...

This is very good. Exasperated yet playful. Don't let the seemingly niche topic drive you away.

JC Birds Continues to Mislead Jersey City on Costs, Impact of Bird Ordinance Ever since the bird-safe glass ordinance was introduced in 2025, Better Blocks has worked hard to make it a better, more targeted ordinance [Jersey City Times]. Our goal is to reduce bird strikes in high-risk areas…

Oregon's state senate just voted to ban unfunded inclusionary zoning, recognizing that it makes housing *less* affordable, not more affordable.

This is like the tenth research group using a totally new dataset to reach this same conclusion: building new market-rate housing helps low-income tenants. "These findings demonstrate that housing supply expansions benefit lower-income households through moving chains"

Unfortunately, more snow is forecasted Sunday into Monday for Jersey City. Stay safe and warm during the storm, and off the roads if possible.

Even if you could take fictional liberties, it would not be possible to create a more credible South Jersey Everyman than this 🤣

NYC should help Chinatown go full pedestrianization for the month of Lunar New Year at the very least. It's more like Christmas than your average single day holiday. They have 9 days off in Taiwan this year for example. #FixCanal

The gall of developers erecting out-of-scale apartment buildings that violate the neighborhood character of single family homes. (Duncan Ave, Jersey City)

Bike lanes still full of snow today. It's been *three weeks* since the big snow storm with several 40+ degree days. If the City of Jersey City was praying the warm weather would melt all the snow, let's remember for future years that it's unlikely to be the case when it's this much snow.

Governor not ruling out cuts to Stay NJ tax relief program, treasurer says newjerseymonitor.com/2026/02/16/g...

Thank you to this mighty team of volunteers for clearing a bunch of crosswalks and bus stops yesterday! 💪 As we anticipate another ~2 inches of snow tonight, please remember that it is the responsibility of corner property owners to shovel the crosswalk out to the plow line.