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1. Closed Five Corners Library In Jersey City Will Host Event In Parking Lot (patch.com) — Jersey City residents are invited to a community celebration this Saturday in the parking lot of the closed Five Corners library branch on Newark Avenue. The outdoor event will feature cultural performances, poetry, music, food, and on-site library services, giving neighbors a chance to reconnect with a beloved Jersey City institution even while the building remains shut.
2. Local Events for Jersey City, Hoboken,Bayonne and Secaucus (riverviewobserver.net) — If you're looking for things to do this week, you'll find options from a Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame dinner at Saint Peter's Mac Mahon Center in McGinley Square to a production of Rent at Art House Productions in Downtown Jersey City. Nearby Hoboken and Bayonne also host markets, literary talks, fundraisers, and storytelling nights through Friday.
3. Judy Torres, 'Queen of Freestyle,' Honored by Hudson County (hudpost.com) — Jersey City residents packed Pershing Field on Sunday for a free "Freestyle in the Heights" concert honoring Judy Torres, the freestyle star who launched her career at local nightclub Foxes. Torres called Jersey City her hometown while Hudson County officials presented a resolution celebrating her decades-long impact on Latino freestyle music and her new memoir about resilience.
4. Compass Pathways celebrates opening of new Jersey City office to support U.S. commercial readiness (binje.com) — Compass Pathways has opened a new 6,327-square-foot U.S. office in Jersey City, positioning the city as a growing hub in the region's life sciences and biotech sector. The site will anchor tri-state employees as the company prepares for potential FDA approval of its psilocybin-based depression treatment, bringing more high-skilled jobs and industry attention to New Jersey.
5. Cameras are catching illegal parkers in N.J. towns, and tickets are arriving in the mail (nj.com subscription) — Jersey City is preparing a pilot program that would use camera-equipped SafetyStick poles to capture possible parking violations, with tickets mailed only after review by a parking enforcement official. The city says it will publish pilot results and seek community feedback before deciding whether to expand the technology, which other New Jersey towns already use to deter unsafe parking near crosswalks, hydrants, and busy downtown areas.
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