Everyone is family at Holy Rosary Church, and to celebrate our extended family, the Very Rev. Pastor Jerzy “Jurek” R. Zaslona invites everyone to La Festa Italiana, the annual Italian street festival held in August in Historic Downtown Jersey City. Starting, Wed, Aug. 15, from 5-11 pm, and running every day through Sunday, Aug. 19th, La Festa Itali...

Jersey City Heights is getting a little more Italian with new restaurant Corto, which soft opened this past Friday at 507 Palisade Avenue. Owners Marc Magliozzi, Drew Buzzio, and Peter Fontana have teamed up on this new spot, which took the space of what used to be a deli. The decision to choose this neighborhood for the location was an easy one as...

Sunday, April 29, 2018. 1–7PM. Verdiana Patacchini & Franco Losvizzero. Spring Open House 2018 features new exhibitions, programming, performances, and open studios all day. Mana Contemporary - 888 Newark Avenue - Jersey City, NJ. Shuttle service will depart every half hour from Milk Studios (450 West 15th Street, New York, NY 10011) starting at 12...

A hospitality group with almost 30 years of experience in Italian cuisine will officially be coming to Downtown Jersey City next week, bringing homemade pasta, an expansive cocktail menu, and some unique fusion dishes to a historic property at 279 Grove Street. Just about three months ago, it was revealed that the owners of Paisano’s in Rutherford ...

Al giornalista Rocco Colombo l’onorificenza di Journalist of the year 2018 “Per il servizio svolto al servizio della comunità campana in America in qualità di direttore editoriale di Ondanews.” La cerimonia si è svolta ieri, in occasione della “Festa dei campani nel mondo” nello Stato del New Jersey, alla presenza dei presidenti delle Associazioni...

Lower Manhattan staple Buon’Italia has found a second home in Jersey City, thanks to funding from New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s (EDA’s) Premier Lender Program. The purveyor of imported Italian food has been wholesaling and distributing to NYC restaurants for nearly sixty years. In 2015, founder Domenico “Mimmo” Magliulo developed a pl...

There are at least 42 monuments to him in New Jersey, but Christopher Columbus remains one of the nation's most controversial figures. Was Columbus a hero who opened the Americas to European exploration and innovation, or a villain who lead to the enslavement of natives and the death of thousands due to disease? The federal holiday, celebrated on t...

Italian flags lined Newark Avenue and Grove Street on Saturday as the eighth annual Columbus Day parade made its way through Jersey City's historically Italian-American neighborhood. Residents came out to Jersey City's downtown district on Saturday to celebrate Christopher Columbus' arrival in the America's in 1492. The parade kicked off at 1 p.m....

A taste of classic Italy will fill the air in Jersey City for a week-long celebration. Holy Rosary Church will host the 114th "Old World" Italian Street Festival, La Festa Italiana, at Sixth and Brunswick streets from Aug. 9 to 13. A different live band and DJ will be at the festival on each of the five nights. On Aug. 9, DJ Dan E Ariazza will be o...

The Jersey City Public Arts Advisory Board at its July 18 meeting gave the go-ahead to a mural by an Italian street artist at St. Peter’s University, the latest in a number of large mural projects being produced over the summer. Mural artist Peeta will decorate a wall of Rankin Hall at 910 Montgomery St., home to the university’s Fine Arts Departme...