Chamber Events

🏌️‍♂️ So, You Think You Can Golf? Clinic

• When: July 21, 2025, 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM
• Where: Skyway Golf Course, Jersey City
• Highlights: Learn the basics or brush up your golf skills in a stress-free, welcoming atmosphere—breakfast, lunch, and clubs provided! (Register)

Member Events

• 🎨 Brick City Jam Music Mural & Graffiti Festival Experience art and music all day on July 18th at this creative festival presented by Artillery Creative (See Details)
• 🎨 Brick City Jam Music Mural & Graffiti Festival Art meets music at this all-day urban festival on July 19th, presented by Artillery Creative (Event Info)
• 🎨 Brick City Jam Music Mural & Graffiti Festival All-day festival celebrating music, murals, and graffiti art on July 20th, presented by Artillery Creative (Event Info)
• 🆓 Free Narcan Training Available
  July 22nd from 6:30 to 8:30 PM in person at the Kearny Health Dept, with other online sessions available throughout the spring and summer (See Details)
• 🎶 New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music After Hours July 30th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Provost Square Plaza in Jersey City (More Info)

Local News

• 🚭 North Bergen Clamps Down: Tobacco Retailers Need Local License ASAP
  Starting August 1, North Bergen shop owners selling tobacco or nicotine products will need a local sales license, with stricter rules, harsher penalties, and a flavored tobacco ban coming in 2026. (NJ.com)

• 🎉 Hoboken Business Alliance Re-Ups $15K Event Grants
  The Hoboken Business Alliance is offering up to $15K for events that boost local business and community spirit, with applications open for events from July 2025 to June 2026. Creative proposals are encouraged, and last year’s program awarded over $67K to organizers. (ROI-NJ)

• 🛑 JPMorgan Chase & Barclays Slash Hundreds of Jersey City Finance Jobs JPMorgan Chase is rolling out a fourth round of layoffs with 88 more jobs cut this September, while Barclays is also trimming staff as the finance job market cools rapidly post-pandemic. Economists warn this signals a slowdown for Jersey City's finance sector. (Rutgers.edu)

• 📰 NJ Pulls Plug on Newspaper Subsidies—Print Legal Notices Go Digital
  Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law ending taxpayer-funded subsidies for print legal notices, moving all public notices online to city, county, and state websites—freeing up about $20M a year and signaling another blow to struggling print newspapers. (Shore News Network)

• 🚇 Hudson Tunnel Project Digs Deeper: $16B Rail Upgrade Making Progress
  The $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project is actively building new bridges and tunnels to connect NJ and NYC, with massive tunnel-boring machines set to arrive in 2026. The twin-tube rail tunnel is on track for a 2035 opening, promising smoother commutes and fewer travel headaches. (NJBIZ)