NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—In front of a packed audience at City Hall's Council Chambers, the Planning Board announced it would hold off on a controversial plan for a new Sixth Ward apartment complex in an effort to hear more testimony.
Their meeting went on for more than three hours Tuesday night, as the developer, experts, and opponents testified before the board on the proposed 57-unit apartment building, and a 43-space underground parking garage.
FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA—Jonathan Rodriguez, a 21-year-old New Brunswick resident who was charged with the recent murder of Raheem Fuqua, was arrested by a joint task force Friday morning.
According to published reports, Rodriguez was arraigned on a charge of being a fugitive from justice and was taken to Bucks County prison, where he is awaiting extradition. At the time of his arrest, authorities said he was in the company of two Central New Jersey men and large quanitities of heroin
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Helping to kick off the opening week of the New Brunswick Jazz Project’s “Women in Jazz Month,” organist Akiko Tsuruga brought her swinging and grooving brand of jazz to Makeda. The Osaka native’s rhythmic approach and mastery was evident, as she poked and prodded her band into an excellent performance.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Three men with at least two guns broke into a home at 82 Louis Street and pistol-whipped a Rutgers student early yesterday morning, according to a Rutgers crime alert and police radio transmissions.
Police first learned of the situation at 3:56 am, but because many officers were on meal break at the time, a police car on Route 1 was dispatched.
"I know some of the other cars are on [meal break]. Can you start heading over to 82 Louis Street?" asked the dispatcher calmly.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Here a pothole, there a pothole, everywhere a pothole.
In order to respond to the drastic toll this winter has taken on New Jersey's roads, the NJ Department of Transportation (NJDOT) announced last month that it will soon be launching a massive road repair campaign.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Amidst an increase in unsolved, violent, and seemingly random crimes against Rutgers University students, the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office released a sketch this week of a possible suspect in one of the cases.
In the early morning hours of January 31, authorities say a man attacked a 24-year-old Rutgers student walking on Townsend Street, and sexually assaulted her.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Unity Square, a project of Catholic Charities that focuses on a 37-block neighborhood in the heart of New Brunswick, is searching for a new community organizer and "housing and tenant rights coordinator" for New Brunswick.
The charity is a partnership between Catholic Charities-Diocese of Metuchen and Sacred Heart Parish located at 56 Throop Avenue. Last year, organizer Jason Rowe proved instrumental in helping secure the passage of a local law against wage theft, the first in New Jersey.
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