Exchange Place | Jersey City Gal

03
Jun
2014

Fifth Annual Jersey City Ward Tour 6/8/14

categories: Events, Exchange Place, Live Music, Neighborhood, Outdoor Fun!, The Waterfront

Bike JC is now accepting online registration for the Fifth Annual Jersey City Ward Tour and Festival, which takes place Sunday, June 8th in Jersey City at Exchange Place.

For those of you not in the know, the ward tour is a 15-mile bike ride of our city at a relaxed pace (not a race), that ends with a festival featuring live music, food, drinks, and other attractions on the waterfront. The ride begins at 11am and the festival is from 1-5pm. All the action begins and ends at Exchange Place.

Registration is free, with a $5 suggested donation to help fund our year-round efforts for better biking in Jersey City.

More info here.

Ride or die,
JCG

08
Oct
2013

Suicide Prevention Walk 10/13/13

categories: Community/ Volunteers, Events, Exchange Place

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is holding a suicide prevention walk (Hudson River Walk) on Sunday, October 13th at 12 noon. The FREE 3-mile walk begins near the Exchange Place PATH station at the J. Grundy Pier.

It’s free to register and you don’t have to donate or fund-raise unless you feel like it. Please register here. You can also register in-person at the walk on Sunday.

If you can’t make it but would like to donate, please do that here. The funds raised at this event are utilized to help raise awareness and bring us closer to a world without suicide.

Please join me, as this is a cause close to my heart.

Let’s save some lives!
JCG

P.S. My team will be rocking these bracelets below. Say hi if you see us!

06
Sep
2013

JC Fridays 9/6/13

categories: Art, Events, Exchange Place, Financial District, Grove Street, Hamilton Park, Historic Downtown Jersey City, Jersey City Families, Jersey City Heights, Journal Square, Live Music, Neighborhood, Newport, Outdoor Fun!, Paulus Hook, The Waterfront, This Weekend in Jersey City

The quarterly culmination of extraordinary Jersey City art and music is back! JC FRIDAYS, hosted by Art House Productions, is a city-wide full day of free events here in Chilltown.

Local businesses collaborate with artists in a celebration of culture. Events include art openings and exhibits, live music, film/video screenings and performances.

Below is a short list of happenings:

FRI @ 9:00 AM
JC Cultural Affairs | Jersey City Artists Studio Tour Preview Exhibition
FRI @ 11:00 AM
Saint Peter’s University Social Justice & Honors Program | Community Garden Art, Culture, Education & Food
FRI @ 12:00 PM
Rasoi
FRI @ 12:00 PM
JCAS : 313 GALLERY presents “A Time For Counting : Bunny Pearlman Closing Party
FRI @ 3:00 PM
All Iron Works NJ | Things I Found Around Town & Shop
FRI @ 3:00 PM
METROPOLITAN AME ZION CHURCH AND METRO-SPEC CORP
FRI @ 3:00 PM
Project Greenville | I Love Greenville
FRI @ 5:00 PM
Astor Bar | Mike DiFeo
FRI @ 5:30 PM
Sustainable JC | SJC Green Drinks + Art
FRI @ 6:00 PM
GALLERY 58 | “Quadrivium” by Maurizio Zuluaga.
FRI @ 6:00 PM
Casa Dante | An Evening of Live Music with The Laura Hull Jazz Trio
FRI @ 6:00 PM
Gia Gelato & Cafe | Uncommon Threads
FRI @ 6:00 PM
CAMILLE CESARI LOVEPRINT JEWELRY | “Jersey City Meets Coney Island.”
FRI @ 6:00 PM
Port-O Lounge | The 17 Year Cicada – Kayt Hester
FRI @ 6:00 PM
Indiegrove and Artmeme | Risk. Achieve. Grow. Quench the artist in you
FRI @ 6:00 PM
Franc Palaia | Windows on Columbus/Illuminated Polaroids.
FRI @ 6:00 PM
SUNMOON YOGA PRESENTS ARTISTS, KATHERINE MOJZSIS AND KATIE NIEWODOWSKI presents “Just a Moment”
FRI @ 6:00 PM
Pint | Victory! A Craft Brewing Event!
FRI @ 6:00 PM
Gaia | Labor of Love
FRI @ 6:30 PM
McGinley Square Project | Feminine Energy
FRI @ 7:00 PM
Grassroots Community Space | Jersey City Renaissance.
FRI @ 7:00 PM
City Life | Art Beats
FRI @ 7:00 PM
Balance Salon | Pee Wee’s Playhouse Costume Party!
FRI @ 7:00 PM
Narciso Espiritu | MASKS: A Prelude to Tales of Caution
FRI @ 7:00 PM
Silverman and Hamilton Square Condominium Association and Artbloc | Kati Vilim: Extempore Refrain
FRI @ 7:00 PM
Silverman and Hamilton Square Condominium Association presents “Mark Dagley: Recent Paintings,”
FRI @ 7:00 PM
Boca Grande Mexicana Cantina | de Colores
FRI @ 8:00 PM
The Corkscrew Bar & Grill | Screwed Up Comedy
FRI @ 8:00 PM
Fabulous Uptown Music | JC Orginals Jazz
FRI @ 8:00 PM
The Dopeness | Dope Art
FRI @ 8:00 PM
STEAM CAFE | “A New LEAF… At STEAM.”
FRI @ 9:00 PM
GP’s Restaurant | Joe Velez “Selected Verses”

Also note: *Groove on Grove’s finale starts at 5pm at the Grove Street PATH Plaza
*SunMoon Yoga is offering one week of unlimited yoga for $25 for first-time students who attend JC Fridays events.

Visit jcfridays.com for more info.

Celebrate the Arts!
JCG

23
Aug
2013

Celebrate Pride This Saturday

categories: Events, Exchange Place, Neighborhood, Outdoor Fun!

Woo-hoo! Jersey City Celebrates Pride in its 13th LGBT Festival on Saturday 8/24. Exchange Place Plaza is where the action starts and goes on from noon to 6pm. Come out and show your support for equality.

There will be plenty of entertainment—live music, games, an obstacle course, food, a vendor’s marketplace, a dunk tank, bronco ride and plenty of guest speakers who are prominent on the battle for local and national recognition. Our ever-present Mayor Steve Fulop will also be making an appearance.

This year’s hosts are Hudson Pride Connections Center and Humanity Pride. PRIDE co-chairs Jonathan P. Lucas and Michael Billy are expecting the biggest turnout yet.

Please recognize that this is a free event for all residents with no suggested donation, just simply that you support the message.

Other ways you can help:

Sponsorship: You or your organization can be a sponsor. Contact Jonathan Lucas at sponsors@hudsonpride.org or by calling Jonathan at 201-963-4779 x 420.

Vendors: Festival welcomes food, merchandise and community vendors, who will be furnished with a tent, table and two chairs at no additional cost to vendor registration ($25). Application here.

Volunteer: Application here.

Donate: Here.

Other details here.

29
Jul
2013

Restaurant Week on The Hudson Starts Today

categories: BYOB, Exchange Place, Filipino, Financial District, French, Grove Street, Historic Downtown Jersey City, Italian, Japenese, Lebanese, Liberty State Park, Mexican, Neighborhood, New American, Newport, Outdoor Seating, Paulus Hook, Restaurants, Thai, The Waterfront

Hudson Restaurant Week is back!

Starting today, July 29th, and continuing until August 9th, get your discounted prix-fixe game on and discover Jersey City restaurants you have yet to try. Here are the Jersey City restaurants participating this time around: