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Police & Fire
Men Stabbed Outside Hackensack Bar, Female Assailant Caught After Fleeing: Police Men Stabbed Outside Hackensack Bar, Female Assailant Caught After Fleeing: Police
Men Stabbed Outside Hackensack Bar, Female Assailant Caught After Fleeing: Police A 21-year-old Hackensack woman stabbed one middle-aged man with a knife and wounded another who disarmed her outside a city bar before dawn Friday, authorities said. One of the mid-50s victims was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening following the assault in the parking lot of Lenora’s Bar and Grill on Johnson Avenue at Orchard Street just after midnight Oct. 27, Capt. Michael Antista said. Their accused assailant, Cynthia Frank, had fled but was nabbed near her home without incident by Detective Pedro Dominguez, said Antista,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Pedestrian, 78, From Fairview Struck, Killed In Hackensack UPDATE: Pedestrian, 78, From Fairview Struck, Killed In Hackensack
Update: Pedestrian, 78, From Fairview Struck, Killed In Hackensack A 78-year-old pedestrian who was struck and killed by an SUV in Hackensack early Wednesday apparently wasn't in the crosswalk of a dangerous intersection, authorities said. Vilma Tasciyan of Fairview was struck in front of Hallak Cleaners on busy Johnson Avenue near Zabriskie Street around 6:45 a.m., police confirmed. An off-duty EMT rushed to give her CPR, which was taken over by responding police officers, Capt. Nicole Foley said. Tasciyan, formerly of North Bergen, was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center at 7:18 a.m., a little over a half-hour after she was struck. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Hackensack's Newest Brewery Will Preserve Essence Of City During Redevelopment Hackensack's Newest Brewery Will Preserve Essence Of City During Redevelopment
Hackensack's Newest Brewery Will Preserve Essence Of City During Redevelopment An endeavor that began in a Hackensack residential kitchen more than a decade ago is moving into a new home next month. Hackensack Brewing Co. began unofficially in 2006 by Mike Jones, who -- after work at Hackensack University Medical Center -- would come home and brew in his high-rise apartment. He and his longtime friends Irfan Qureshi, Alexander Ferenczi and Herbert Lamont Barr III on Feb. 2 are celebrating the opening of the Hackensack Brewing Co.'s taproom on Johnson Avenue. Jones hopes the new space will shine a light on city's history -- the taproom decor and beer names a…

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by Cecilia Levine