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New Union City Playa Bowls Giving Free Bowl To First 50 Customers New Union City Playa Bowls Giving Free Bowl To First 50 Customers
New Union City Playa Bowls Giving Free Bowl To First 50 Customers Union City is getting its own Playa Bowls storefront. The store will be located at 1816 Palisade Ave., and will Saturday. Jersey Shore's original Acai Bowl shop will be celebrating the opening of the new Palisade Avenue location with a grand opening on Saturday.  The 1,000-square-foot store at the corner of Palisade Avenue and 19th Street will be serving up bowls to customers from Union City, Jersey City Heights, Weehawken and Secaucus.  Union City location will be giving out 50 free bowls to the first 50 customers in a socially distanced line beginning 10 a.m. on Saturday,…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Driver To Blame In Union City Truck Crash That Closed Lincoln Tunnel: Prosecutor Driver To Blame In Union City Truck Crash That Closed Lincoln Tunnel: Prosecutor
Driver To Blame In Union City Truck Crash That Closed Lincoln Tunnel: Prosecutor A garbage truck crashed onto Route 495 West in Union City earlier this summer because the driver hit the gas instead of the brake, investigators from the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said Thursday.  Eulalio Diaz, 53, was at the wheel of the Union City DPW truck July 3 when it was involved in a collision at 30th Street and Palisade Avenue. Diaz's truck was traveling east when it hit a Honda Odyssey, sending it crashing into another car, the prosecutor's office said.  Diaz continued east and hit another vehicle, sending that crashing into yet another car, a Nissan Murano, befor…

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Driver Critical After Garbage Truck Plummets Off Overpass Driver Critical After Garbage Truck Plummets Off Overpass
Driver Critical After Garbage Truck Plummets Off Overpass A Union City DPW garbage truck plummeted off an overpass onto westbound Route 495 in Weehawken after the driver suffered a medical emergency Wednesday afternoon, responders told Daily Voice. The driver was taken to Jersey City Medical Center with critical injuries, they said.  A passenger in the truck sustained a broken femur, police at the scene told Daily Voice. The driver -- who apparently suffered a heart attack -- and another person who was on the street above were also hospitalized, as were several people who were aboard a bus that struck the truck after it landed, they said. In to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Missing Union City Woman Found Safe UPDATE: Missing Union City Woman Found Safe
Update: Missing Union City Woman Found Safe UPDATE: Maria Polo was found safe Sunday night, police said.  Police in Union City are looking for a 65-year-old woman last seen Sunday morning.  Maria Polo's last known whereabouts were at 4409 Palisade Ave. around 9:45 a.m. She appeared to be heading north on Palisade Avenue.  Polo, who suffers from dementia, was last seen wearing a red long sleeve shirt with white lines on the elbow area, grey short sleeve silk blouse on top, black pants, and Nike sandals.  She is approximately 5’5" feet tall and weighs approximately 160 lbs. Anyone with information is asked to call…

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by Paul Milo