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Passaic Street, Hackensack, NJ
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Damaging Tight Squeeze Brings Hackensack Firefighters
A moving company box truck got boxed in when its driver misjudged the height of the parking garage of a Hackensack office building. City firefighters removed the truck, which had damaged the ceiling of the ground-level garage on Passaic Street at Vanderbeck Place while getting wedged in around 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 12. No injuries were reported. A city building inspector didn't report any structural issues. The driver clearly misjudged the height of the parking garage of the Passaic Street building in Hackensack.HACKENSACK FD
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Homeless Man Found Dead Behind Dunkin' Donuts Dumpster In Hackensack, No Foul Play Suspected
No foul play was suspected in the death of a homeless man found in back of a Dunkin' Donuts in Hackensack, authorities said. The body was found behind a dumpster in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot on Passaic Street off Railroad Avenue shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday, responders said. The Hispanic man, believed to be in his 30s, apparently had been camped out behind the trash bin, they said. City police cordoned off the area for the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office, which collected the body, and the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification, which gathered evidence. An…
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Worker Escapes Excavator Mishap In Hackensack
A worker crawled out after an excavator tipped over at a Hackensack demolition site Friday afternoon. The 26-year-old Haledon man refused medical treatment after the mishap around 4:30 p.m. at 11 Passaic Street off River Street, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. "He only had minor scratches," the captain said. City police and firefighters responded, along with a Bergen County Hazardous Materials Unit, which removed the fuel from the machine, and city building inspector. OSHA was notified. OopsieHACKENSACK FD
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Hackensack PD: Pedestrian, 76, Struck, Killed By Pickup, Landscaping Trailer
A 76-year-old Hackensack pedestrian was struck and killed Thursday night. Carol Ventura, a North Bergen native who lived on Prospect Avenue, was in the crosswalk when she was struck by a 2021 Dodge Ram pickup truck that was turning from southbound Summit Avenue onto eastbound Passaic Street shortly after 8:30 p.m., police Capt. Nicole Foley said. "After being hit, she was subsequently run over by a westbound landscaping truck’s trailer," Foley said. Ventura was pronounced dead a short time later at Hackensack University Medical Center. The pickup truck driver, 42, of Rochelle Park, told…
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Hackensack Pedestrian, 76, Struck, Killed
A 76-year-old Hackensack pedestrian was struck and killed Thursday night. Carol Ventura, a North Bergen native who lived on Prospect Avenue, was in the crosswalk when she was struck by a 2021 Dodge Ram pickup truck that was turning from southbound Summit Avenue onto eastbound Passaic Street shortly after 8:30 p.m., police Capt. Nicole Foley said. "After being hit, she was subsequently run over by a westbound landscaping truck’s trailer," Foley said. Ventura was pronounced dead a short time later at Hackensack University Medical Center. The pickup truck driver, 42, of Rochelle Park, told…
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Hackensack Mom Drove Drunk With Child In Front Seat, Maywood Police Charge
A Hackensack woman drove drunk with her 9-year-old son in the front seat, said Maywood police who got help from a good Samaritan who followed her until officers arrived. Responding to the concerned citizen’s call, Officer Matt Della Bella and Officer Noel Hodgins stopped Shavone Jones, 41, on Passaic Street, Detective Sgt. William Phayre said. Jones with charged with DWI and child endangerment and released to a responsible adult, the sergeant said. Police also released the boy to a responsible adult and notified the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, which Phayre said was c…
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Car Topples Light Pole, Rams Tree At Busy Hackensack Intersection
A runaway sedan toppled a traffic light before slamming into a tree at a busy Hackensack intersection late Saturday morning. The driver wasn't injured in the crash, which left the Honda Accord on the lawn of a single-family home across from a pair of apartment complexes at Passaic Street and Prospect Avenue. City police, firefighters and EMS, along with the Bergen County Sheriff's Office, were among the responders. Aftermath of crash at Passaic Street & Prospect Avenue, Hackensack.COURTESY: HACKENSACK FIRE DEPARTMENT
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: Pastor, 72, Struck, Killed By Commuter Train In Hackensack
A local church pastor was struck and killed by a commuter train Saturday afternoon in Hackensack, authorities said. The Rev. Robert Davis Sr. was struck at the Passaic Street crossing off Railroad Avenue across from the Hackensack Market around 2:45 p.m., city Police Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. It wasn't immediately clear how Davis, the pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church, ended up in the path of the Spring Valley-bound #2115 NJ Transit train or which part struck him. His wife, the Rev. Carolyn Davis, was doing voter registration outside of the market and he was walking from home to be wit…
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Local Pastor Struck, Killed By Commuter Train In Hackensack
UPDATE: Police identified a man struck by a commuter train Saturday in Hackensack as a local church pastor. The Rev. Robert Davis Sr. was struck at the Passaic Street crossing off Railroad Avenue across from the Hackensack Market around 2:45 p.m., Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. It wasn't immediately clear how Davis, the pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church, ended up in the path of the Spring Valley-bound #2115 NJ Transit train or which part struck him. His wife, the Rev. Carolyn Davis, was doing voter registration outside of the market and he was walking from home to be with her when he was str…
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Hackensack Police Nab Church Burglar
Hackensack police who were tipped off by an alert resident captured a burglar moments after he broke into a church 'round midnight Wednesday, authorities said. A caller told police that the intruder – identified as Justin Draper, 24, of Anderson Street – had removed a window screen at First Presbyterian Church on Passaic Street and climbed in, Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Special Police Officer Stephen Koller nabbed Draper as he fled out an exit door, DeWitt said. Draper “claimed he was simply trying to find his cell phone inside a female's bedroom” but got lost, the captain said. …
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Woman Hit By Train In Hackensack
A woman was hospitalized with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening after she was struck by a passenger train Saturday afternoon in Hackensack, authorities said. The woman was clipped by Pascack Valley Line Train #2111 near the Passaic Street crossing around 12:45 p.m., NJ Transit’s Kate Thompson said. The train left Hoboken at 12:36 p.m. and was due to arrive in Spring Valley at 1:23 p.m., Thompson said. None of the few people aboard were injured, she said. Service was suspended in both directions and then restored less than an hour later, Thompson said. Hackensack and NJ Tr…
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Police: Ex-Con Breaks In, Chokes Hackensack Ex-Girlfriend Twice In 19 Hours
A Paterson ex-con broke into his ex-girlfriend's Hackensack apartment and assaulted her twice in 19 hours, said police who arrested him. The victim had returned home at 3 a.m. Monday when she was grabbed in the dark hallway by Junior Dani Nunez, 29, who’d burglarized her Passaic Street apartment, Hackensack Police Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Nunez – who records show has a violent criminal history -- "put both hands around her neck, squeezed and let go only to punch her several times in the stomach," DeWitt said. The victim fled to a bedroom and locked the door. He was gone when she emerged s…
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Hackensack Store Sells Winning Lottery Ticket
A winning New Jersey Lottery ticket was sold in Hackensack. The lucky winner takes home the $10,000 jackpot from Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing. The ticket was sold at Lucky Stop, on Essex Street. The winning numbers for the Tuesday, Dec. 17 drawing were 22, 30, 53, 55 and 56. The Gold Mega Ball was 16, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 02. Another Mega Millions ticket was sold at the 7-Eleven on Passaic Street last week. The winner of the $372 million jackpot bought their ticket in Ohio. The next drawing will be held Friday, Dec. 20, at 11 p.m.
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: Dancing Hackensack Crossing Guard Pulls Out All The Stops
It's difficult not to smile watching Hackensack crossing guard Sharon Skinner at her post. She swings her hips and waves her stop sign at the corner of Byrne and Passaic streets every day. Skinner, in her third year on the job, is affectionately known to locals as "The Dancing Crossing Guard." "I want everyone to wake up in the morning and just be happy," said Skinner, 55, dancing and waving to drivers Tuesday afternoon. "Some people ride by just to see me. It makes their day." Skinner has always been a positive force and full of energy, her cousin David Johns said. "She's hap…
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Overnight Clifton Stolen Car Chase Begins In Lyndhurst, Ends In Hackensack Crash
A Lyndhurst police officer pursued a stolen car through six towns overnight Wednesday before the driver crashed and bailed out in Hackensack. Officer Mark Rivera saw the driver of the silver Ford Focus reported stolen out of Clifton make an improper right turn onto Riverside Avenue from Valley Brook Avenue around 12:30 a.m., Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. Rivera tried to pull the driver over, but he kept going, making unsafe lane changes and crossing over the double yellow line into Rutherford, he said. Speeds topped out at 55 mph as the pursuit continued onto Jackson Avenue and into …
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4-Week-Old Boy Killed In Hackensack Crash
A 4-week-old boy was killed in a car crash Saturday night in Hackensack. The child apparently was on his mother’s lap when the late-model Mercedes sedan struck a utility pole in front of 286 Passaic Street just after 9 p.m., a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the tragedy said. The boy "sustained head trauma as a result of the accident and was later pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said in a brief release Sunday afternoon. A responder reported seeing a child's car seat in the rear cabin of the car. "The ca…
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