Author Archives: Anthony Olszewski

On 9/11, I was in Jersey City. I remember the stunned crowds on the Waterfront staring at the devastation. I saw one young man hysterically sobbing. Nobody was cheering.

My mother told me that during WWII — since St. Nick’s in the Heights was still then an ethnically German parish — all activities outside of church services and the regular school day were cancelled. This was by direction of … Continue reading →

The Our Jersey City original music was among the Nick Baffa material. The Bureau of Special Service was a Hague innovation. The overt purpose was to treat wayward youth as troubled and by providing guidance and understanding so keep them … Continue reading →

Superior Court of New Jersey,Appellate Division. NEW JERSEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY and Banque Nationale de Paris, Houston Agency, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. PAVONIA RESTAURANT, INC., Ernesto A. Tolentino, James A. McLaughlin, Jr., Paul S. Freeman, Manmohan Patel, William H. Constad, Donald Cinotti, … Continue reading →

Here are some emails that I received from Michael Galdieri in 2012: If you are asking who  I think wrote ‘we the people” letter.  I think it might have been Jack Hill.  I remember telling him when they first grabbed … Continue reading →

Back around ’99 or so, when I was working in City Hall, I happened to be in the City Clerk’s office one day. I was up front in the public reception area talking to a slight older woman on the … Continue reading →

Back in 2003, some sore losers tried to overturn the election of then Jersey City Mayor Glenn Cunningham to the State Senate. One of the votes called into question was that cast by one Fr. Anthony Azzarto, S.J. — a … Continue reading →

By David Friedland In 1965, a young man (Tommy D) asked for my help as a lawyer. He was a teamster driver and had just been arrested (the second time) for robbing a Federal Bank of $2500. In the first … Continue reading →

“. . . an FBI report . . . purportedly establishes that the FBI was apprised by some informant that Manna was involved in a plot to murder: the trial judge, Maryanne Trump Barry; and the United States Attorney, Samuel A. Alito; and the chief prosecutor, Michael Chertoff . . .” Continue reading →

The settlers implemented a final solution to the question of the place of Native Americans in Colonial society. After promising to protect the Lenape Indians from the Mohawk, the Dutch slaughtered virtually the entire local tribe – including the women … Continue reading →