HUDSON HAPPENINGS
Hudson West Fest
Launches this year-round open mic program in the heart of Jersey City!
The Songwriter Sandbox will be curated by Mark Aaron James and will occur the third Wednesday of each month “Under the Boot”--in the downstairs performance space of the eatery Boots & Bones. The goal of this Hudson West Fest program is to support musicians and an environment for live music in Jersey City by pairing beginning artists with established performers. If You Go: Boots and Bones is located at 116 Newark Avenue, Jersey City,
right next to the PATH train escalator
Wednesday, February 19th, from 7 to 9 pm visit www. HudsonWestFest.org
Bayonne
Mayor Davis Signs Purchase and Sale Agreement for Bayonne Ferry Terminal
Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis has signed the purchase and sale agreement to buy a parcel of land back from the Port Authority for a ferry terminal. Mayor Davissaid, “I am very happy that we are one step closer to completing this real estate transaction, which will help us achieve our goal of ferry service for the people of Bayonne.”
For a purchase price of $4.4 million, the City of Bayonne has obtained 2.3 acres at the former
Davis Administration signs purchase and sale agreement: Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis signs purchase and sale agreement for buying back a parcel of land from the Port Authority for a ferry terminal. Pictured left to right: Joseph Skillender, Jr., Bayonne Director of Planning, Zoning and Development, and Mayor Jimmy Davis.
Military Ocean Terminal
Bayonne (MOTBY), which juts out two miles into Upper New York Bay from Bayonne’s eastern waterfront. Of that parcel, 1.6 acres will provide space for the ferry terminal and parking. The remaining 0.7 acre will continue the Hudson Riverfront Walkway along the southern shore of the former MOTBY. An adjoining private property owner, Lincoln
layout, drainage requirements, and other factors. The City of Bayonne has issued a request for proposals/request for qualifications (RFP/RFQ) for constructing the ferry building and operating the terminal.
Equities, is contributing an acre of additional land for the ferry project in return for building the UPS Facility. The terminal will be located about halfway out the former MOTBY, approximately one mile east of the Bayonne mainland.
Plans for the ferry terminal are in the final design phase. The parking lot for the ferry passengers is expected to be 1.4 acres in size, with approximately 130 parking spaces. The number of parking spaces will depend on design,
In a previous attempt at establishing ferry service, the City of Bayonne selected Seastreak as the operator. However, the time for that selection expired, so the City of Bayonne has gone out to bid again for a ferry operator. The municipality’s goal is to select a ferry company by March or April 2025.
Mayor Davis concluded, “I am very happy that we have the contract with Port Authority to buy this land, so that Bayonne will have our own terminal and control our own destiny. This purchase will make it easier for us to achieve our goal of ferry service for our great community.”
HUDSON HAPPENINGS
JERSEY ART BOOK FAIR
Presented by Dense Magazine, and hosted by Monira Foundation and Mana Contemporary, the Jersey Art Book (JAB) Fair will feature 200 exhibitors, including publishing houses, artists, designers, collectives, galleries, and university programs.
In addition to perusing and purchasing books, zines, posters, and other print ephemera, there will be a packed schedule of demos, workshops, festivities and performances on both days.
In addition to visiting our table featuring artists from Mana Contemporary and the Monira Foundation, please be sure to explore the new exhibitions on the first floor.
JAB Fair returns to Mana Contemporary, New Jersey’s expansive arts center in Jersey City that’s an easy tenminute walk from the Journal Square PATH Station.
If You Go:
Jersey Art Book Fair Feb 21—23, 2025
FEB 21 KICKOFF
PROJECT 14C, 150 Bay St FEB 22-23 FAIR MANA
CONTEMPORARY, 888 Newark Ave FEB 22 PARTY
PROJECT 14C, 1 50 Bay St 200 EXHIBITORS
Book artists, zine makers and small press publishers across genres and subjects
THREE DAYS OF PROGRAMS
demos / workshops / signings / parties / exhibits / popups /installations / panels
Book Fair Sponsors Presented by Dense Hosted by Mana Contemporary Monira Foundation
Supported by Office of Cultural Affairs Jersey City Project 14C
Project Greenville Open Call for Art
Project Greenville is putting out an open call for art to put together a show for Friday and Saturday March 7th & 8th which will be part of Art House Productions JC Fridays free citywide arts events that weekend.
Looking for your art, photography, films or written accounts of your exploration of the great INdoors!
Portraits of the people or pets you share your indoors with, an ode to the cup of coffee you savor quietly when you have some alone time, the view out of your favorite window, the music you make--or just enjoy--that keeps you happy/sane/going, the studio and creative spaces that inspire you, the meals you enjoy
sustenance, the plants that bring the outdoors into your indoors etc. Due date March 2nd or sooner...reach out to Elizabeth Deegan directly and she will make arrangements for pickup/dropoff of your work;
Show dates: Friday and Saturday March 7th & 8th from 4pm7pm; part of Art House Productions JC Fridays, here in Greenville at 128 Winfield Avenue (indoors for March!)... Elizabeth (Deegan) projectgreenville@ gmail.com (646)361-1858
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Benefit for Christine n Bayonne
Christine has been battling High Grade Glioblastoma for 7 1/2 years now. It has taken a physical and emotional toll on her beyond words. It has also taken a financial toll on her family as she has not worked
since March of 2020 and will not be able to return to work unfortunately. If You Go: Benefit for Christine February 22, 2025 Masonic Lodge in Bayonne
Any and all donations welcome!
More details to follow If you’re not able to attend and wish to make a donation, please reach out for options at IFightForChristine@ gmail.com
Anything helps more than you know.
Hoboken Historical Museum presents Tim Daly’s “Sirens in the Night” Drawings from the 1980s If You Go: Now to March 9th 1301 Hudson Street, Hoboken NJ 201-656-2240
+1 (201) 654-2412
RON SEMPLE’S NEW BOOK “ON THE STOOP”
Cont’d from Cover cherishing the past and cursing the present.
It was a working- class world of immigrants, their children and their grand-children, very American in its peculiar way, very patriotic, hard-working, very Democratic, mostly Catholic albeit with a separation of Lutherans, half- educated, highly opinionated, very tough, parochial in every sense of the word, hostile to outsiders, indifferent to criticism, prejudiced, misogynic, cynical and compassionate in equal measure, fiercely loyal, ignorant as spit, and it was a wonderful world to grow up in.
In other words, Jersey City as it was then, not as it is today. That vanished Jersey City will be the center of my story surrounded by a
a circle of other places whose radius was not much more than 15 miles. My family and friends lived within that circle mostly in Jersey City, Hoboken, Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Union City, North Bergen and Secaucus. Mount Arlinton on Lake Hopatcong was the furthest reach of that world.
My family is mostly Irish and Italian with some Scots, Lithuanians, Slovaks, Poles, Jews, Albanians, Germans, Greeks, Mexicans and the odd WASP thrown in for blandness. You know, typically American. I should tell you now that much, perhaps most, of my family is not related to me by blood. But they are my family nonetheless and I love them all. You’re
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probably not going to figure out some of the relationships, but, then, I have trouble myself. I am a card-carrying member of the Silent Generation. Uncomfortably wedged between the glorious Greatest Generation and the pain-in-the-ass Baby Boomers, we were born in the Great Depression and were children during World War II. These two cataclysmic events formed us. We are known for not making much of a fuss about our culture We only produced one president, Joe Biden, and as he was born in 1943, he had no memories of either of our seminal events. We were also known as Traditionalists which is a more accurate description of our core values. Most of us are gone now, so I thought I’d try my hand in telling how
some of us got the way we are.
-Ron Semple Semple’s ON THE STOOP, Growing Up in a Vanished World can be purchased at Barnes and Noble and online at BN.Com Ron Semple has written three previous books:
Black Tom
A tale of sabotage, subterfuge and political shenanigans set in that colorful, raucous place that was Jersey City in 1916 when America is on the cusp of war and the fate of a president and the nation might hinge on the decision a young policeman is forced to make.
Her Morning Shadow
Neither World War I, nor a pandemic, nor a revolution in the Ukraine, nor worldwide
chaos, nor J. Edgar Hoover can stop this determined , young American immigrant from keeping his promise and starting a new life in Jersey City.
Miss Bidwells Spirit
Ron Semple & Warren Murphy
Publisher Note: The River View Observer asked Ron, “What inspired you to write ON THE STOOP,” Growing Up in a Vanished World,”he told us I really was impelled to write it for my family. I didn’t think many other people would be interested in my coming-of-age tale. But, as you know if you’ve ever written anything , your characters run away with the story. In this case, it was the Jersey City I grew up in close to century ago that’s all but vanished now The reader reaction has been wonderful. One woman asked, “Are you sure this isn’t the story of my family?”Any storyteller lives for that kind of reaction. I had written three previous novels centered on Jersey City but none of them got the instant reader response that “ON THE STOOP” did.
Being the seasoned longtime newspaperman who rose from cub reporter to publisher, we decided to use Ron’s Note to the Reader for our story, explaining his own book and background
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HUDSON HAPPENINGS
THE Z FACTOR: THE HYBRID REALMS OF CHERYL GROSS
In an age where biology and technology collide, Cheryl Gross’ work explores the boundaries between myth and reality. Do we turn to myth
to understand the world around us, transforming the familiar into the extraordinary? In a shifting reality, can these myths offer insight, meaning, and control over forces beyond our comprehension?
Curated by: Kristin DeAngelis, Senior Director of Strategies and Operations at Mana Contemporary
Designed by: Kele McComsey, Director of Mana Contemporary If You Go Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306
Feb. 22–Jun. 30, 2025
Preview: Saturday, February 22nd & Sunday, February 23rd during the Jersey Book Fair 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Official Opening: Wednesday, March 5th
5:00PM – 8:00PM
Image: From Umons Alternative Race Accordion Book. Artist Cheryl Gross. Image courtesy of the Artist.
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7PM Formerly Taverna on the Green For Reservations 314 Paramus Rd Paramus NJj (551)733-7908.
Bayonne Chili Cook-Off returns this Month
If you love Chili than this event is for you. Bayonne Mayor James Davis, the Bayonne Urban Enterprize Zone and the Bayonne Chamber of Commerce present the 2025 Chili Cook-Off a fun event with a variety of fresh Chili and Buffet, with Beer, Wine and Soda and live music by Mark Byrnes & She Said No
If You Go: Chili Cook-Off Friday, February 28 6:00 pm
St. John Paul Parish Center 39 East 22nd Street, Bayonne $40. per person (21 & over)
Purchase your tickets BayonneChamber.org for info 201-344-2740
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