NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–September 18 marked the return of "parklets" to New Brunswick, courtesy of PARK(ing) Day, a nationwide event celebrating green spaces in urban areas.
The concept, thought up by anti-automobile thinkers in San Francisco, is to turn metered parking spaces into parklets, also known as "PARK(ing) spaces," for a few hours.
This year, from 10 AM to 5 PM, three spaces in different locations, were turned into parklets. Each pop-up parklet had a different theme.
EDISON, NJ—Macy’s says it will hire 85,000 seasonal workers nationwide for this year’s Christmas and holiday shopping season and has already begun filling positions at New Jersey's Secaucus direct-to-consumer fulfillment center.
The “megacenter” in Secaucus was cited as one of nine facilities where approximately 15% of the temporary positions will be filled.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Commuters, Rutgers students and residents in have found themselves subject to massive tie-ups on George Street as a result of a recently constructed pedestrian-favored traffic light known as a HAWK signal.
Rather than the vertical green-yellow-red light that most motorists are accustomed to, the the High-intensity Activated crossWalk (HAWK) signal features two red lights placed horizontally above a single yellow light.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—On September 17, in an intimate gathering in the Douglass Student Center at Rutgers University, the Community Food Bank of New Jersey (CFBNJ) and Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) teamed up to educate the public on hunger.
The meeting began with a brief introduction to the 40-minute special presented by the Food Network, followed by a video showcasing three families across American who struggled with food insecurity.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–Located on Bayard Street, the Octopus Music School has been providing music education for special needs children since November 2010.
Fresh out of Rutgers University, owner Joseph Fekete has created the only special needs program of music in the New Brunswick area.
“I believe we are the only music school in the area and county,” said Fekete. “Our special needs services provide to disabilities such as Autism and Down’s syndrome.”
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh has brought her artwork to New Brunswick, and her work will be on display in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library.
This gallery is open to students, as well as the public, and will be on display from September 1 to November 3.
Ganesh has been named the 2015-2016 Estelle Leibowitz Endowed Visiting Artist in Residence.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A city police officer with a bad habit of not wearing his department-issued nameplate has been discplined for violating the New Brunswick Police Department's (NBPD) uniform policy on multiple occasions.
An Internal Affairs investigation sparked by this reporter found that Officer Jeffrey Monticello had failed to wear his name badge, a mandatory part of the standard uniform.
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