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2 weeks ago | 
northjersey.com | Darren Tobia
Doby helped break baseball’s color barrier when he became the first Black player in the American League in 1947He is among the pantheon of Paterson immortals, a seven-time All-Star and member of the National Baseball Hall of FameThe field is the home of the Eastside High School Ghosts. PATERSON — Even though the season is almost over, it felt like Opening Day for the Eastside High School baseball team.
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2 weeks ago | 
jerseydigs.com | Darren Tobia
A Jersey City preservation group has stirred up a frenzy of criticism over the handling of the city’s ongoing restoration of the Loew’s Theater. Chris Perez, executive director of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy, posted pictures of the historic theater’s iconic marquee being “jaggedly torn down,” arguing that it should have been preserved. “We understand that a replica of the original marquee design will be put in its place,” Perez wrote in a social media post.
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2 weeks ago | 
jerseydigs.com | Darren Tobia
Linda DaRocha, who has spent much of her life in Harrison, was ready to move to the surrounding suburbs to raise her family. But when the historic home at 300 Davis Avenue went on the market, she and her husband, Tom, decided to spend another thirty years in town. “We fell in love with it,” she said. “We drove by and they had a ‘For Sale’ sign on the house,” she said. “I told him, if we can get this house, I’ll stay here.”That was back in 1989.
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3 weeks ago | 
jerseydigs.com | Darren Tobia
The day was forecast for rain, but I was determined to visit the Laurelwood Arboretum when the rhododendrons were in peak bloom. I feared that Scott Broadfoot, who curates the garden, might begrudge me for a tour on such a gloomy day. But that was furthest from the truth. It turns out that Broadfoot’s first visit to the arboretum was in similar weather, and he fell in love with the park nevertheless.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Darren Tobia
PATERSON — Salman Chowdhury, a Harvard University-bound teenager from Paterson, knows that much of his academic success came as a result of his parents’ sacrifice. “The reason my parents came to this country is because they wanted their children to have great opportunities,” Chowdhury said.
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1 month ago | 
northjersey.com | Darren Tobia
Chowdhury, a senior at Passaic County Technical Institute in Wayne, is leaning toward getting a degree in applied mathChowdhury’s humble nature comes from his gratitude to his parents. His mother, Fathema, said the family struggled to find work as immigrants in a new land. PATERSON — Salman Chowdhury, a Harvard University-bound teenager from Paterson, knows that much of his academic success came as a result of his parents’ sacrifice.
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1 month ago | 
jerseydigs.com | Darren Tobia
Now might be a good time for New Jersey residents to rethink our rail network. Sometime this decade, the Gateway Project is expected to open two new tunnels underneath the Hudson River, alleviating congestion to one of the nation’s busiest corridors and allowing for more trains than ever before. Meanwhile, there are rumblings of moving Madison Square Garden one block to the east, which means we might finally have an opportunity to rebuild New York Penn Station.
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1 month ago | 
northjersey.com | Darren Tobia
3-minute readDarren Tobia | Paterson PressShow Caption Hide Caption School 28 in Paterson NJ ranked best in state: VideoUS News & World Report ranked School 28 in Paterson the best elementary and middle school in New Jersey in 2024. The change is driven through a program called the Next Generation Science Standards. New Jersey adopted it in 2017, becoming only the 12th state to do so. In other Paterson classrooms you might encounter crayfish and mealworms wriggling in makeshift habitats.
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1 month ago | 
jerseydigs.com | Darren Tobia
Tamara Remedios lives in a historic row house on MLK Boulevard and has seen the renovation at St. Michael’s Hospital drag on for the past seven years. The hospital is not only one of the most well-known landmarks in Newark’s University Heights, but it is also a sign of the neighborhood’s slow but steady transformation. Despite the halted progress, fortunately, a new proposal recently came before the Planning Board that could give the project new life.
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1 month ago | 
jerseydigs.com | Darren Tobia
The southeast side of Newark’s Ironbound is heavily industrial. On Wheeler Point Road, where the Pulaski Highway crosses over freight train tracks, there are still scrap yards and factories. Every few minutes, a diesel truck appears, chuffing exhaust into the air. Around the corner on Avenue I is what might be Newark’s worst illegal dumping site. Needless to say, this is an unlikely location for an apartment building.
