Jersey City

Police in New Jersey are investigating a shooting that left a 47-year-old man dead Friday night. Police responded reports of gunshots near Lafayette Park in Jersey City not long after 8 p.m. Responding officers found the victim unresponsive and he was later pronounced dead at the scene. Officials have identified the man as Teyan Grant of Jersey City. The shooting…

Police say a man was found dead in or near a playground at Lafayette Park in Jersey City.

A man whose phone number was found in the pocket of one of the assailants who killed a police officer and, later, three people in a kosher grocery store in Jersey City last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to an unrelated weapons offense. Ahmed A-Hady’s connection to shooter David Anderson provided a tantalizing lead in the days after authorities say...

Police officers in Jersey City opened fire on a man who had a gun, officials said, injuring him in the shooting. Officers were conducting surveillance around the area of Martin Luther King Drive and Union Street Tuesday night, according to officials, when they saw a suspect taking a gun from a car and putting it in his pocket. The cops…

Jersey City police opened fire at a man armed with a gun on Tuesday night, police said. An officer and the suspect were injured. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

A diocesan priest in northern New Jersey is accused of allegedly groping a woman over the course of months, according to the Hudson County prosecutor. Rev. Donato Cabardo, 56, was arrested Friday in connection with alleged sexual crimes that occurred in the rectory at St. Paul of the Cross Church in Jersey City where Cabardo is a diocesan priest, according…

Jersey City issued a boil-water advisory for all residents Friday morning, urging them to boil water for consumption through 5 p.m. Saturday. The order was lifted shortly after the city’s deadline by officials that said “the drinking water quality meets all regulatory requirements and is no longer necessary for customers to boil their water.” The advisory was prompted by...

Boil water advisory for all residents was issued Friday in Jersey City until 5 p.m. Saturday.

Police in Jersey City shot and wounded an emotionally disturbed man who law enforcement sources said may have threatened his family with a knife

The Jersey City officers fired at the emotionally disturbed man after he refused to drop a knife he was holding. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

A man wanted in the death of a 17-year-old girl gunned down on a northern New Jersey street earlier this month was captured early Tuesday in Pennsylvania, authorities said. Jahquell Carter, 24, was arrested around 7 a.m. in Plymouth, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. Authorities had tracked him to a home in the small town near Wilkes-Barre and,…

A teenage girl found shot and wounded in a northern New Jersey city has died from her injuries, authorities said. Jersey City police responding to reports of shots fired around 10:30 p.m. Monday found Tyeah Garner, 17, with gunshot wounds to her upper body, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Garner was taken to a hospital but died there early…

Jersey City police say they arrested three men in connection with the shooting of a 12-year-old Tuesday evening near MLK Drive and Oak Street. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

Extra outdoor dining space expands Friday as New York City restaurants try to attract customers without while indoor options remain on hold. Erica Byfield reports.

Civil liberties groups have raised concerns over the new tech, but officials said the data will help in the fight against spreading COVID-19. News 4’s Myles Miller reports.

The Roman Catholic bishop of New York’s Brooklyn borough, already under a church investigation for alleged sex abuse, has been accused by a second man who says he was molested in the 1970s

Humans aren’t the only species missing seeing their friends and other people during the coronavirus pandemic. Without any guests at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, the animals who live at the now empty museum are lonely too. That’s where Nicole Conklin comes in. She’s on the museum’s animal husbandry team and goes to work every day to...

What happens inside a museum when no guests are there? NBC New York’s Ida Siegal takes us inside the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey for a tour.