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from River View Observer August 15-August 31,2023

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Partner to Bring Much-Needed Upgrades to Neighborhood Park in Ward F

Mayor Steven M. Fulop stood alongside neighborhood residents and local community groups at this months’ribbon cutting on the new and improved Gateway Park. As part of the final transformation, major upgrades to the park were designed in close collaboration with community members, including a new multipurpose turf field, a resurfaced basketball court outfitted with new basketball hoop posts, stormwater drainage systems, and a brand new playground with a wide range of accessibility and challenge levels for kids of all ages.

Jersey City officials spent the last three years collaborating with Friends of Gateway, the Jersey City Parks Coalition (JCPC), and community members to ensure the park improvements fit neighborhood residents’ needs.

“In addition to the much-needed equipment improvements, we restructured the plaza to accommodate more public events and build stronger communities by bringing people together. As has become standard practice in Jersey City, the entire park project was workshopped with local community groups to best meet the needs of the residents who will actually use it,” said Mayor Fulop. “Even before COVID brought the need for parks to the forefront, we have always prioritized accessible outdoor community space, and Gateway Park is one of the many park improvement projects we have completed in recent years utilizing grants to provide safe spaces for residents to connect and actively enjoy the outdoors.”

Gateway Park has been a well-used asset to the community for decades, and these recent upgrades will help encourage even more residents to utilize the modernized playground and fields for sports and other outdoor recreation use. Playground upgrades include furnishings and new equipment for youth to enjoy safely.

“Gateway Park has always been a place full of community pride. It’s where residents and their families gather, play, and create memories. It’s here on the sports fields and courts where Jersey City residents have the opportunity to play and develop their athletic abilities.

We are pleased that the improvements include an updated plaza and amenities for future community events,” added Paula Mahayosnand, JCPC President. “The Jersey City Parks Coalition would like to express our sincerest thanks to Mayor Fulop, City Council Members, and all the City employees we have worked closely with over the years for the continuous support to improve parks throughout Jersey City.”

The $500,000 turf field installation was funded through the Hudson County Open Space Trust Fund and includes stormwater drainage infrastructure. To read the entire article sent via press release visit www.riverviewobserver.net

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The Bayonne Division of Recreation 2023 Summer Sounds By the Bay Concert Series Featuring...

Wednesday, August 16: Yacht Rock Gold

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Yacht Rock has built a loyal and unwavering fan base who are today’s prime ticketbuying audience. Yacht Rock Gold brings all your favorite hits from the late 1970’s-early 1980’s to new generations of music fans. Celebrating the smooth sounds of the Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Little River Band, Ambrosia, Boz Skaggs, and so many more, Yacht Rock Gold engages fans with amazing harmonies and musicianship that brings audiences back to a time when music made you feel good and soothed the soul.

Wednesday, August 23: Super Trans Am Super Trans Am is the most unique and innovative theme band on the market today, playing all of your favorite arena anthems and chart-topping radio hits of the 1970’s. Combining unparalleled musicianship with artistic and inspired A/V production, you’ll enjoy revisiting classic singalongs from one of the most deﬁnable decades in American history. Performing masterworks from icons such as The Eagles, Hall & Oates, Queen, The Doobie Brothers, Paul McCartney & Wings, Peter Frampton, Foreigner, Kiss, Boston and Journey as well as

“Yacht Rock” favorites such as “Still the One” by Orleans and Pilot’s “Magic,” your audience will fall in love with this epic decade of memorable music all over again.

Wednesday, August 30: Rain Date

The public is invited to the courtyard of the Barrow Mansion and enjoy a free concert by some of JC’s ﬁnest, jazziest, sultriest, funkiest, rocking-est musicians around! We’re kicking oﬀ the season with Mary Aiken and the @brightsidetavern band. Bring your kids and a friend or two and enjoy some great music on the porch!

If You Go:

Barrow Mansion 83 Wayne St. Jersey City

July-September 6:30pm -8:30pm

In the event of rain during concert season, a concert may be rescheduled to August 30 from an earlier date. Details will be announced, if the rain date is needed. Find

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Aug. 20, Stone Pony Summer Stage

By Aaron Irons

There’s no mistaking the blunt force melody of the Pixies, as singular a sound as ever committed to album in seven decades of rock n’ roll. Formed in Boston by college pals in the waning ‘80s, the band, originally consisting of Black Francis aka Frank Black (pseudonyms of singer/guitarist Charles Thompson), guitarist Joey Santiago, bassist/vocalist Kim Deal, and drummer David Lovering, the foursome hooked anti-pop idiosyncrasy around limber reverb and distortion to escape teeth first from a cultural big bang that would spit out fresh worlds of alternative rock, hip hop, metal, No Depression country music, and electronica.

Maybe the Pixies didn’t reinvent fire, but they certainly found new ways to burn across four exceptional fulllengths (and the “Come On Pilgrim” EP) that inspired a subsequent legion of artists. Sadly, the center couldn’t hold, and the band broke up in 1993 with members fending off calls for a reunion amid other pursuits.

In 2004, the Pixies announced their return with a tour culminating in a 20-song set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in

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Indio, California that mined cuts from the four seminal albums “Surfer Rosa” (1988), “Doolittle” (1989), “Bossanova” (1990) and “Trompe Le Monde” (1991).

That was the pattern for several more years, but eventually, the Pixies realized they needed to create new music, which resulted in a string of EPs that were then folded into the 2011 album “Indie Cindy.” The albums “Head Carrier” (2016) and “Beneath

The Eyrie” (2019) followed (with bassist Paz Lenchantin replacing Deal), before the pandemic put things on pause and sent the Pixies on to creating their next batch of songs.

“Doggerel,” the Pixies’ latest effort, could be their strongest postreunion album to date. Realized through a combination of quarantine tracking and sessions at Vermont’s Guilford Sound, “Doggerel” is this incarnation at their most mature and fluid. Santiago has called the record “Doolittle Senior,” though tracks like “Nomatterday,” “Vault of Heaven,” “Haunted House” and the Leonard Cohendipped title track evoke classic Pixies mythology without recycling. This isn’t nostalgia; it’s experience.

“We all played very, very well on [“Doggerel”]. I think that’s Joey’s comment, why it was like ‘Doolittle.’ And I think that the song content that Charles came up with is exceptional. I think that “Doggerel” stands out (as) different than all the albums from after the reformation,” said Lovering.

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“It’s all just by Charles and us with hand signals or him talking to a microphone that we only hear,” Lovering said. “I must admit it’s fun. You don’t know when the set’s going to end!”