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Massive Fire Ravages Seaside Park, New Jersey Boardwalk, Rebuilt After Sandy

A fire has destroyed much of the iconic Seaside Park boardwalk in New Jersey, including large portions of the Funtown Pier amusement park. Around 11 p.m. last night, after nine hours of work by fire...

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Jersey Shore Boardwalk Fire Was Ruled Accidental [UPDATE]

Update: This post has been updated throughout. Ocean County prosecutor's office released the results of their investigation into the 10-alarm fire that burned down nearly 50 businesses on the Jersey...

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In New, Shutdown-Timed Ad, NJ Governor Chris Christie Just Wants to Remind...

This morning, for no particular reason--not because the federal government has ground to a screeching partial halt, and certainly not because he might like to be president someday--Chris Christie would...

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New Jersey Mall Shooter Found Dead From a Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound

Hours after police cleared the Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, the shooter who walked into the mall just before closing time was found dead in a remote corner of the building...

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Newark's Been Paying Pensions to Dead Employees (But They Haven't Been...

With Corey Booker all set up in his new digs down on Capitol Hill, the rodeo hogtie that is the Newark mayoral race to replace him has officially begun. The first thing on State Attorney General and...

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A Guide to Chris Christie's Fun Traffic Jam Scandal [UPDATED]

Update, 4:35 p.m.: Christie has issued a statement denying all involvement in the controversy, and pledging to hold his staffers responsible. We've reprinted it in full at the end of this post....

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Watch Live as Chris Christie Tries To Explain Away That Traffic Jam His...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's in big trouble, and he knows it. Yesterday morning, it was definitively revealed that his office helped orchestrate a massive traffic jam in Fort Lee, New Jersey...

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TLDR New Jersey Primary Results: a Loss for the Tea Party, a Win for...

U.S. Senate Former Reagan speechwriter and septuagenarian Jeff Bell will face incumbent Cory Booker in the fall after narrowly beating the closest of his three rivals for the Republican nomination,...

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.NYC to NJ: Get Your Own Damn Dot!

Look out the window right now and you'll see a giant barge floating up the Hudson River from Red Hook to Riverside. And not just any barge -- this one's been outfitted with a giant banner, draped over...

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Why Does Penn Station Only Have Six Public Bathrooms for 650,000 People?

Penn Station entertains 650,000 visitors each day. And if at any given time even a small fraction of them want to use the bathroom, there's a good chance they could be waiting awhile...

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New Jersey Boater Who Faked Own Death Surrenders After 7 Months on the Lam

On July 20 of 2014, the Great Egg Coast Guard station in Longport, New Jersey, received a distress call after a boat struck an offshore buoy, knocking the two men on board into the sea. The call was...

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Dear Chris Rock, Here's How You Can Get More Black People to Watch Baseball

On April 21 Bryant Gumbel aired a monologue by Chris Rock on his HBO show Real Sports. The comedian's topic was the deteriorating relationship between baseball and African Americans. Rock played it for...

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Jersey City's Battello Proves It's More Than a Happy-Hour Destination

For anchor restaurants serving the waterfront office towers occupying Jersey City's Newport neighborhood, business centers around the bar. At VB3, chef Mike Colletti found his niche with iced vodka...

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Citi Bike to Meet With Bronx Borough President After Critical Comments

The first 500 people to register for the CitiBike in Jersey City get a free tote bag. They should be so lucky in the Bronx, where the borough of 1.4 million can only dream of a fully stocked bay of the...

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Roadside-Style Burger Joint Burg Opens in Newark's Military Park

Manhattan's Bryant Park, strewn with those simple forest-green café chairs, has served as the backdrop for early Law & Order episodes, a venue for sunset dancing and a charming place to ice skate...

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New Jersey Leads New York in the 'Race' to Legalize Recreational Marijuana

If you're not interested in legalizing recreational marijuana, New Jersey State Senator Nicholas Scutari is not interested in hearing from you. Scutari on today held a hearing that allowed only...

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After a Voice Investigation, Newark Is Looking to Make the Port Authority Pay

On a mid-June morning on the steps of Newark's City Hall, community activists, labor organizers, and politicians gathered to demand that the Port Authority finally do right by the people of Newark....

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Governor Christie's Aides Found Guilty in Bridgegate Trial, But No...

Two former aides to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were convicted on nine counts of conspiracy and fraud this morning for their participation in a scheme to close lanes at the George Washington...

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After Spending Millions, the Port Authority Rethinks Plan on Curbing Ship...

"If the city had announced to the community they were going to build a parking lot where 35,000 trucks would be idling for days at a time, people would be pretty pissed off," Adam Armstrong tells me in...

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Fab 5 Freddy Remembers Glenn O'Brien, Downtown Icon

I cannot stress enough how influential Glenn O'Brien was on my life. I went to Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn for about two semesters in the Seventies, and around that time I started reading Andy...

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