Jersey City Crossword Puzzle (Neighborhood Character)

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Across
  1. 2. Last name of the current president of the JCBOE?
  2. 4. Candidate for mayor
  3. 5. Since 1872, Northern NJ has been the capital of this fiber art, according to a sign on the highway
  4. 6. “Tea garden”; classic JC restaurant once known as The Hudson Royal
  5. 7. Last name of the current president of the JCBOE?
  6. 11. “A crooked family history,” first word in the title
  7. 14. First Jewish mayor; owned a rock candy business
  8. 15. Doo-wop group founded in JC in the 1960s that sang “You Belong To Me”
  9. 17. Beloved distillery, RIP
  10. 18. Candidate for mayor
  11. 19. Original occupants of what became Jersey City
  12. 21. A top resident complaint
  13. 22. Street that flanks NJCU
  14. 23. Youngest mayor in JC history
  15. 24. Mansion built in Greek Revival-style for a local physician; was once a YMCA
  16. 25. Acting mayor after Glenn Cunningham died in office
  17. 26. Cemetery with 267,000 burial plots and mausoleums
  18. 27. Got in trouble for “throwing hands” at the Newport Mall
  19. 28. Third most common language spoken in JC
  20. 31. Union located in Marion neighborhood
  21. 33. Church that is the oldest continuous congregation in the city
  22. 38. What you call JFK if you grew up here
  23. 39. “A crooked family history,” second word in the title
  24. 41. Candidate for mayor??
Down
  1. 1. Candidate for mayor??
  2. 3. Hispanic weekly publication distributed in the area
  3. 4. common local bird with distinctive call
  4. 8. Food writer Peter Genovese calls this the “best diner in NJ… there is no runner up either”
  5. 9. Her School for Crippled Children at Clifton Place from 1921 is now the A. Harry Moore School on JFK
  6. 10. “A crooked family history,” third word in the title
  7. 12. Bacteria found in JC water in 2020 that started a multi-day boil water advisory
  8. 13. The “diner of the future”
  9. 16. Used to be part of the Newport PATH station
  10. 20. Candidate for mayor
  11. 29. Architectural style that Jersey City is known for
  12. 30. Native of JC, trans icon, member of the House of Xtravaganza
  13. 32. Classic JSQ hotel built in the 1920s
  14. 34. Jersey shore town that Frank Hague summered in
  15. 35. Removed from office of the mayor because it was determined he wasn’t a citizen
  16. 36. Other street that flanks NJCU
  17. 37. According to Wikipedia, “[Newport] mall's official opening was on November 12, 1987, attended by New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, Senator Frank Lautenberg," and these characters.
  18. 40. Along with pal Snooki, she was part of a reality TV show filmed in JC in 2012