Bringing people, places and events to life
This Saturday, September 21st, is the all-out awesome All About Downtown Street Fair.
Stroll up or down Newark Avenue (between Grove St. and Jersey Ave.) to soak up live music, nosh on noms, sip adult bevvies, and shop from 11am-6pm. There will be over 100 local vendors, and plenty of fun activities for the kids, too.
Shop local. Support local.
JCG
(seen on the street in JC; hoping to find something like it)
Friday, September 20th is PARK(ing) Day in Jersey City. The annual event (also global) is when citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces, a.k.a. temporary public spaces. Ours takes place at the Grove Street PATH Plaza from 5-9pm.
Bike repair demonstrations will be provided by Bike JC. There will also be a special 3rd Friday Ride, which will depart circa 6:50pm and last approximately an hour at a relaxed pace. Don’t forget your helmet!!! and, of course, your lights—because it will get dark.
Riverview Fisk’s Farmer’s Market is open from 9am-2pm. Today they’ll be having a kids’ “Art in the Park” activity at 10:30am, as well as Yoga in the Heights‘ usual 11am session. Top it all off with DJ Pastiche performing at 2pm.
Happy Sunday!
JCG
Getting Creative with Farmer’s Market Finds:
Farmer’s market cherry popper tomatoes (Alstede Farms) stuffed with prosciutto and mozzarella from the Sal’s Salumeria (not Andreas, though they are excellent as well).
Hollow out your cherry peppers, stuff in the cheese and prosciutto, and bake on a cookie tray at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Yum!
This Sunday marks the opening of the 6th Borough Market, an outdoor family-friendly market located at 1 McWilliams Place (Hamilton Park) featuring quality homemade and vintage goods, gift items, jewelry, stuff for kids, beauty and bath treats, and then of course kids’ activities and food. Event is from 11am-4pm.
Lots of different vendors are participating. Whet your purchasing palette: Check out the event’s FB page here to see preview pics of all of the neat things you can buy for you and your family.
Personally, I’m going to try to find a bike to buy from We Build Bikes, because as I said before, I think it’s high time I join the cyclists of this great city.
If you can’t make it this weekend, the market will be held one Sunday each month for the rest of the year. Stay tuned for reminders of the future dates.
JCG
Van Vorst Park plays host to Jersey City’s 6th Annual Book Festival tomorrow, Sunday September 15th. This year’s theme is “Tales of Our Cities” and features local authors, performers and artists from 10am-5pm.