Campaign to stop cuts in services

A struggle to save essential services for a large section of the predominantly Black neighborhoods of Greenville and Bergen-Lafayette in Jersey City, N.J., gained momentum with an afternoon rally in front of City Hall on Jan. 28 to protest the cancellation of bus service to the entire area.

Community organizations are also mobilizing to stop the closing of the Greenville Hospital, the only hospital left in Ward F. The closing of the neighborhood post office was another loss to essential services in the neighborhood. These cuts will impact 100,000 of Jersey City’s poorest people.

A community meeting organized by the Communipaw Avenue Block Association at Monumental Baptist Church on Feb. 4 drew several hundred concerned residents, who met to plan further actions on Feb. 6 and 7.

—Report and photo by Sara Flounders