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Bergenfield Widower, 94, Charged In Hit-And-Run Death Of Beloved Teacher From Dumont
UPDATE: A 94-year-old widower from Bergenfield was charged with the hit-and-run death of a teacher from Dumont, authorities confirmed on Friday. Ernest F. Hofmann was driving a 2002 Ford F-150 pickup that struck Elizabeth Feliciano-Rosa, 54, as she crossed Madison Avenue at Washington Avenue at 5:19 p.m. Thursday, March 14, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. Hofmann kept going, the prosecutor said. CPR was being conducted on the 44-year-old victim after she was struck at Washington &a…
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Meet The Leaplings: Introducing New Jersey's Leap Year Babies
New Jersey welcomed several new Garden Staters on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024 — and they won't celebrate their first birthdays for another four years. At 12:10 a.m., Angelica Prieto, welcomed her son Simon Prieto at Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack — the first Leap Day baby born across the HMH network. Simon weighs 7 pounds 2 ounces, and is 21 inches long. Angelica Prieto, welcomed her son Simon Prieto today at Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center at 12:10 a.m. Hackensack Meridian Health Baby boy Oliver Grayson Corrado was born …
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! South American Theft Network Fugitive Pegged In $25,000 NJ Home Burglary, More
A wanted member of a notorious transnational group of thieves was tied by Dumont detectives to the theft of $25,000 in cash during a home break-in two months ago. Jhan Michael Rodriguez-Fonseca, 26, lives in Jersey City and most recently worked as a food delivery driver, Dumont Police Chief Brian Joyce said. He really belongs to what’s known as the South American Theft Group network and is tied to other burglaries in the state, the chief said. He was also wanted by the NYPD and by agents with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), he said. Primarily from Colombia, the members of the…
Lifestyle
ICU Nurse From Bergen County Dishes On 'Next Level Chef'
With just two weeks notice, Christina Miros, a Bergen County native, found herself getting ready to fly to Ireland to compete on the new season of "Next Level Chef." Miros, a Dumont native who lives in River Vale, is a contestant on the third season on the FOX cooking show hosted by Gordon Ramsey. And when she's not serving up culinary delights in the kitchen she works as a nurse in the intensive care unit. On "Next Level Chefs", Ramsay, Nyesha Arrington and Richard Blais mentor the chefs as they face "unique" challenges on three different kitchen levels — literally. Contestants…
Business
First Portnoy, Now Gorga: Bergen County Restaurant Gets Another Boost
A restaurant in Bergen County seems to have a penchant for attracting people with platforms. Joe and Melissa Gorga, stars of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," recently dined at Grant Street Cafe in Dumont, the restaurant shared on Facebook. Grant Street Cafe had gotten a boost in business in 2022 after Dave Portnoy, the outspoken CEO of Barstool Sports, popped in to review its pizza, giving it an 8.2. 🍕 Great Having Melissa and Joe Gorga from Real Housewives of NJ at Grants🍕 #grantstreetcafe #grantstreet #grants #njeats #realhousewivesofnewjersey Posted by Grant Street o…
Schools
Early Dismissals For These Somerset County Districts Ahead Of Snow Storm
School districts across New Jersey have begun announcing schedule changes for Friday, Jan. 19, ahead of the second snow storm of the week. Parts of the state could see up to six inches of snow, expected to begin falling between 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. Friday, the National Weather Service said. The following districts have early dismissals: Cranford Dumont Franklin Lakes Hackensack Hanover Park Regional HS Lyndhurst Marlboro Maywood Millburn Mountainside North Arlington Oradell Parsippany-Troy Hills Pompton Lakes Rockaway Roselle Park Scotch Plains-Fanwood Totowa Warren Watchung/Watchung Hills R…
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Jackpot
! Bergen County Jersey Cash 5 Player Wins Big
A Bergen County lottery player found the perfect way to end 2023. A ticket sold Dumont matched all five numbers in the Jersey Cash 5 drawing held on Friday, Dec. 29, winning the $461,643. The winning numbers were: 19, 21, 32, 33 and 42 and the XTRA number was: 02. The winning ticket was sold at Dumont Cigars and Lotto.
Lifestyle
'What A Threesome:' Gordon Ramsay Tangles With NJ TikTok Influencers On 'Kitchen Nightmares'
First, he battled with the Culinary Gangster. On the Monday, Oct. 16 episode of "Kitchen Nightmares," Gordon Ramsay had to deal with the Gigante brothers and rescue their North Jersey restaurant at the same time. "Three brothers, (expletive) me," Ramsay said on Monday's episode. "What a threesome." Ramsay helped give Da Mimmo, an Italian restaurant in Dumont, a makeover — both aesthetic and culinary, while also whipping the Gigante brothers, known for their antics on TikTok, into shape. The pizzeria is the creation of mom Melissa and sons Vincent, Antonio and Vito Gigante, who opened th…
Lifestyle
North Jersey Pizzeria Owned By TikTok Stars Getting Gordon Ramsey Makeover
A Bergen County pizzeria is the next North Jersey restaurant to get a visit from fiery celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Da Mimmo, in Dumont, will be featured on the Monday, Oct. 16 episode of "Kitchen Nightmares." Ramsay was spotted filming at the pizzeria in June. We decided to not make you wait any longer! Earlier this year we were blessed to be a part of the revamp of @... Posted by Da Mimmo on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 The pizzeria is the creation of Vincent, Antonio and Vito Gigante, brothers and TikTok influencers, who opened the place last November in honor of their great uncle,…
Lifestyle
Two North Jersey Restaurants Featured On 'Kitchen Nightmares'
There's apparently something rotten in the kitchens in Northern New Jersey. Two North Jersey restaurants, Bask46 in Woodland Park and Da Mimmo in Dumont are being featured on the new season of "Kitchen Nightmares", which premiered on Monday, Sept. 25. The series, hosted by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, is returning after a 10-year absence and filmed the new season entirely in New York and New Jersey. Bask46, which airs on Monday, Oct. 2, will feature a chef who calls him "the culinary gangster", showrunner David DeAngelis told Variety. Bask46 closed for a week in May to allow for filming, …
Business
Dad Who Left Corporate Job To Pursue Dream Expands Cuban Restaurant To Paramus Park Mall
Cuban Eddie's is growing. The Cuban restaurant located in Dumont and River Vale is bringing new digs to Paramus Park Mall, its website says. The eatery is owned by Eddie Sanchez, a first-generation American whose parents hail from Santa Clara, Cuba, its website says. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cuban Eddies (@cubaneddies) In 2007, Sanchez left his corporate job and, in pursuit of his dream of owning his own restaurant, opened Cuban Eddie's in Dumont. Six years later, his daughter, Jacklyn, opened the River Vale location. T…
Lifestyle
Gordon Ramsay Raves About Popular Jersey Shore Restaurant
Gordon Ramsay has good things to say about the Jersey Shore food scene. The celeb chef popped by The Black Swan in Asbury Park Thursday night, June 22. The restaurant is owned by Chef James Avery who was Ramsay's on-air sous chef and consultant on "Hell's Kitchen" and "Kitchen Nightmares" — which he is reviving after a 10-year absence. On Instagram, Ramsey wrote: "One of Jersey’s best !! Great seeing @chefjamesavery and dining at his @theblackswanap pub last night !" View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gordon Ramsay (@gordongram) …
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Gordon Ramsay Spotted Filming 'Kitchen Nightmares' Revival At TikTok Brothers' NJ Pizzeria
Gordon Ramsay appears to be giving a Bergen County pizzeria an overhaul. The celebrity chef was spotted at Da Mimmo in Dumont on Monday afternoon, June 5, architectural photographer Daniel Gorrin tells Daily Voice. Ramsay is believed to have been filming an episode of "Kitchen Nightmares," which he is reviving after a 10-year absence. No word on what Ramsay believed was so nightmarish about their kitchen. Da Mimmo is the creation of Vincent, Antonio and Vito Gigante, brothers and TikTok influencers, who opened the place last November in honor of their great uncle, a chef who always drea…
Business
Most Popular Pizzerias In North Jersey
Some North Jersey pizzerias have been around for decades. Others are brand new. Some have a thin and crispy crust. Others are fluffy and plump. Whatever your pizza preference may be, one thing's for sure: There are plenty of places to choose from in North Jersey. Daily Voice polled our Instagram followers on their favorite pizzerias, and (in no particular order) here were the most common answers: Ralph's, Nutley Danny's, Bloomingdale Grant Street Cafe, Dumont Tenth Street Pasta & Pizza, Hoboken Nellie's, Waldwick Park Tavern, East Rutherford Mario's, Saddle Brook Star Tavern, Ora…
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Six-Figure Sum: Lotto Tickets Sold In Bergen County, Union County Win Big
Lottery tickets sold in Bergen County and Union County matched all five numbers in the Jersey Cash 5 jackpot on Thursday, April 27. The winners will split the $319,748 jackpot, taking home $159,874. One ticket was sold at Stop and Shop in Dumont while the other ticket was sold at North Broad Food Mart in Hillside. The winning numbers were: 07, 13, 18, 22 and 44 and the XTRA number was: 05
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Mega Millions Lottery Players Win $40K, $10K
There were two third-tier prizewinning tickets sold for the Friday, March 3, Mega Millions drawing. The tickets matched four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball, winning the $10,000 prize. One of those tickets was purchased with the Megaplier option, multiplying the prize to $40,000. Those tickets were purchased at the following locations: Hudson County ($40,000): Gro Mart, 135 Front St., Secaucus; and Bergen County ($10,000): Krauszer’s Food Store, 11 A Grant Ave., Dumont. The winning numbers for the Friday, March 3, Mega Millions drawing were: 08, 25, 36, 39, and…
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Southern Fugitives Charged With Posing As Feds In Violent Bergen Home Invasion Brought To NJ
UPDATE: Three Georgia men charged earlier this month with shooting a Bergen County resident while posing as FBI agents during a summer home invasion have been brought to New Jersey to face charges. Two others remained held down South pending the outcome of extradition proceedings. Aaron Thomas Perry, 53, of Dunwoody, Ali Sadeeq Muhammad, 33, of Atlanta, and Roderick Moracle Carmichael, 50, of Stockbridge will remain held in the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack while the case against them and two other co-defendants proceeds. They were brought up separately over the past several days -- Car…
Business
Rockland Pizzeria Rivals Bar Pie At Popular Bergen Joint Grant's For Barstool's Portnoy
In the history of Barstool's One Bite pizza reviews, CEO Dave Portnoy has never had to make a decision as tough as this one, he said. The self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur said he's never had two consecutive bar pies he liked as much as the one from Grant Street Cafe in Dumont, NJ and Mountain House on Route 340 in Sparkill. So, he gave them both the same rating: 8.2. "People are going to say I'm soft," Portnoy said. "That I'm the kid from BYU, Zach Wilson. Because I'm giving this an 8.2. I can't decide. They're equal." Established in 1926, Mountain House has been drawing regulars for dec…
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Five Charged With Posing As FBI Agents In North Jersey Home Invasion Shooting
UPDATE: Authorities in Georgia captured five men accused of shooting a Bergen County resident while posing as FBI agents during a summer home invasion. The 60-something victim survived the July 7 shooting in Cresskill’s East Hill neighborhood, which multiple sources told Daily Voice occurred after the robbers followed him home from a cash business. An intense five-month investigation led to a series of raids and arrests in Georgia on Tuesday, Dec. 13, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. “Multiple handguns, long guns and ballistic armor were recovered” during the raids, the pro…
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': Pizza Sales Triple At North Jersey Restaurant After Barstool CEO's Visit
Business is booming at a North Jersey restaurant, thanks to a recent visit from Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy. A manager from Grant Street Cafe in Dumont tells Daily Voice pizza sales have tripled this week, with patrons coming from as far as Pennsylvania and Connecticut, after the popular joint earned a high review — an 8.2 — from the self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur. "He was very nice to our entire staff and patrons," Chris DeLaura said. "He came back inside to take pictures, talk and even kept eating the pizza." Since the review, Grant's is making nearly triple the amount of pies an…
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Portnoy Blown Away By Bar Pie At Popular North Jersey Restaurant
A popular North Jersey restaurant got a visit from Barstool's Dave Portnoy. The CEO who tours the country sampling pizza had high hopes for Dumont's Grant Street Cafe, excited to bite into their "bar pie." It didn't disappoint. "Light, good flavor, it's got the perfect amount of grease," Portnoy said from outside the restaurant. He scored it an 8.2 — "a confident 8.2," he said.
Business
TikTok Influencer Brothers Bring Italian Restaurant To Bergen County
A trio of influencers who rose to fame on TikTok are opening an Italian restaurant in Bergen County as an homage to their late, great-uncle, who worked as a chef in the area for many years and dreamed of opening a place of his own. The Jersey boys Vincent, Antonio and Vito Gigante are bringing Da Mimmo to Dumont in memory of Dominic Rizzi, who worked at Casa Dante in Jersey City, as well as the Valley Regency in Montclair. “We are excited to show Dumont our family faves & hope to offer a modern twist on old school Italian cuisine in our brand new space," Vincent said. In addition …
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Practicing Dentistry Without License, NJ Resident Charged With Aggravated Assault: Report
A dental assistant and an Ecuadorian national who drives a truck for a living were charged with aggravated assault by Dumont police for severely injuring a woman with do-it-yourself at-home dentistry, authorities said. David Pharaoh Crosby Jupiter, the 44-year-old self-employed trucker, was arrested last Friday, Sept. 23, and sent to the Bergen County Jail only to have a judge release him the next day, records show. Dental assistant Diego Rodriguez, 32, had already been arrested two weeks ago before being released from headquarters on a summons, Dumont Police Chief Brian Joyce said Tuesday,…
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Update
: Investigation Into NJ Man Recorded Urinating On Ex-Wife's Grave Announced
HERE'S THE LATEST: A Bergen County man who was recorded urinating on his ex-wife's grave received a summons and is being investigated further, police in Rockland County confirmed on Monday, Sept. 26. Daily Voice broke the story Friday about the secret recording made of Dean Eichler, 68, desecrating the grave of Bergen County native Linda Torello. Torello's son, Michael Andrew Murphy of Dumont, watched from a hiding place as his cellphone recorded the incident. Murphy and his sister, Renee Eichler Barragan, said it's been going on for months. And not just that, either -- he's also left bag…
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Family Of NJ Grandmother Anguished Over Man Recorded Urinating On Her Grave
For months now, a Bergen County man has routinely visited a cemetery just across the New York state line and urinated on the grave of a woman he was briefly married to nearly 50 years ago, her survivors say. They have proof. Video secretly recorded by the late Linda Torello’s son shows a man identified as Dean Eichler, 68, of Bergenfield pulling into the Tappan Reformed Church Cemetery off Old Tappan Road in an SUV. The vehicle is left running as he approaches Torello’s grave while unzipping his fly. He looks around, then does his business. Then he ambles back to the SUV. Not only did …
Police & Fire
Bergen County Man Victim Of Double Fatal Wrong-Way NY Crash: Police
A Bergen County man was identified by authorities as one of the two people killed in a wrong-way, head-on crash overnight in New York. George Gonzalez, 68, of Dumont, was heading north in the southbound lanes of I-87 in a 2017 Toyota RAV4, when he drove into a 2022 Nissan Altima around 1 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6 in Tuxedo, New York State Police said. Gonzalez's car became engulfed in flames. The Altima driver was identified as Yehuda Weinstock, 67, of Chester, NY. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene. Neither vehicle had any passengers. All southbound lanes were closed during the crash …
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Update
: Young Man Struck, Killed By Train In North Jersey
A witness said a young man was playing chicken when he was struck and killed by a freight train overnight in Dumont. The victim was pronounced shortly after midnight Thursday, Sept. 1, after being struck by the southbound CSX train at the Madison crossing about 20 minutes earlier. A witness told responders that the young man ran across the tracks trying to beat the train but didn't make it, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the incident said. CSX requested assistance from the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification forensics team. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS
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: Cool-Headed NJ Dispatcher Talks Barricaded Man Out Of House
A personable police dispatcher convinced a barricaded Dumont man to surrender after a SWAT team and police from multiple departments converged on his block, authorities said. Officers from Dumont initially responded to the First Street home following a 911 call from the 33-year-old First Street resident late Tuesday morning, Police Chief Brian Joyce said. The caller asked for a SWAT team and the FBI, saying that he wanted to “show them something,” the chief said. The man wouldn’t say exactly what that was, then refused to come out, Joyce said. As a result, he said, the dead-ended street w…
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Woman Struck, Killed By Freight Train In North Jersey
A woman was struck and killed by a freight train Saturday morning in Dumont. The victim, wearing a pink sweater, was struck by the southbound CSX train just north of the New Milford Avenue crossing near West Shore Avenue around 10 a.m., responders said. An ALS unit pronounced her dead at the scene soon after. The relatively short train -- for CSX-- wasn't blocking any crossings, contrary to reports, witnesses said. It was remaining in place indefinitely while Dumont police and CSX investigate. The victim was truck by a CSX train in Dumont just north of the New Milford Avenue crossing…
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'Goodfellas' Actor With Deep NJ Roots, Ray Liotta, 67, Dies Suddenly: TMZ
Star of television and film Ray Liotta died at the age of 67, according to multiple media outlets. EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: Ray Liotta Has Died. He Was 67. R.I.P. https://t.co/WsskKD7qUE — TMZ (@TMZ) May 26, 2022 Liotta's New Jersey roots run deep. He was born in St. Michael's Hospital in Newark in 1954 and spent his first six months at an orphanage there before he was adopted by a couple from Union Township. His father owned an auto parts store and his mom was a municipal clerk. Liotta got his BFA from Miami University before moving to New York City, where he took work as a bartender befo…
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Swatting
: Tactical Units, Hackensack Police Respond To Another Bogus Call From Same Number
Yet another in a series of bogus "emergency" calls brought a SWAT team and other responders to a Hackensack home while forcing yet another high school lockdown early Tuesday afternoon. The May 3 "swatter" used the same bogus local phone number that was connected to a series of threats to Hackensack High School in March, city Police Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Students, staff and particularly parents and law enforcers had grown irritated by the recent string of calls, including one in which a threat was made to shoot up the school. This time, members of a Bergen County Regional SWAT Tea…
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