Palisades Park News

A Tenafly man, described as an essential cog in a scheme to build up credit scores for a Bergen County identity theft and bank fraud ring that catered to Koreans, was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison.

Virginia Caso San Lorenzo spent all her 49 years in St. Paul, the Apostle, Parish in the Greenville section of Jersey City, which corresponds to one-third of its history.

When the barber shops, boutiques, banks, car washes, butchers and even the Chinese restaurants all have signs in Korean, you know you're in an unusual New Jersey town.

Mayor James Rotundo of Palisades Park said the lobbying began obliquely late last month.

Over 5,000 Japanese people have signed a petition to remove a public monument in the U.S. commemorating women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during World War II.

The Rotary Club of The Palisades received its first Florie Scialla Community Service Award last month, garnering praise for providing weekend meals to schoolchildren who might otherwise go hungry.

Japanese lawmaker Tsukada Ichiro is surrounded by South Korean correspondents after meeting with the mayor and council of Palisades Park on May 5. Ichiro and three other Japanese lawmakers visited the borough government to call for the removal of a 'comfort women' monument set up at a Palisades Park library, while asserting the content of the ... (more)

Last month, Japanese officials visited Palisades Park, a suburban enclave across the Hudson River from New York City, with a curious request: they wanted the town to remove a small plaque in front of the public library.

Japanese officials are asking a small northern New Jersey town with a large Korean immigrant population to remove a public monument dedicated to women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II.The New York Times reports in Friday's edition that Palisades Park administrators were surprised by the request from two ... (more)

Two delegations of Japanese officials visited Palisades Park, N.J., this month with a request that took local administrators by surprise: the Japanese wanted a small monument removed from a public park.

Some Bergen County officials were unaware of the controversy that my colleague Monsy Alvarado wrote about this week regarding the Palisades Park monument to "Comfort Women." The freeholders donated the stone that commemorates the 200,000 Korean woman who reportedly were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers before and during World War II, ... (more)

Members of the National Assembly of Korea, including, from left, Byoung-Wan Chang, Myoung Su Lee and Choong Whan Kim lay flowers before the monument.

Town police detectives arrested six women at four spas Tuesday who allegedly were working as masseuses without state licenses.

Michael Cawley of Bayonne was convicted of raping a woman and dumping her in the Bergen County municipality Palisades Park.

City Councilman Peter Koo 's proposal to honor Asian women used as sex slaves by Japanese soldiers in World War II is sparking outrage from across the globe.

Four Japanese lawmakers have demanded the removal of a monument in the U.S. dedicated to the thousands of Asian women used as sex slaves by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.

The annual exhibit rotates among museums statewide, and its theme this year is 'New Media: New Forms.' Above, Andrew Demirjian's interactive piece, 'The Week in Review.' In Andrew Demirjian's interactive art piece "The Week in Review," the user scrolls through a week of music companies' financial data by playing a turntable, as a DJ would.

The arrest Friday of Sui Kam "Tony" Tung may put to rest one unsolved murder in Bergen County .

The New Jersey Fine Arts Annual 2012 aA A" New Media: New Forms includes this portrait of "A AoeMad Men"A A character Don Draper by artist Matthew Wilson.

You probably didn't know this, but penalties for speeding, careless driving and most other moving violations come with a tiny silver lining: Small pieces of these fines support several funds, most of which relate to road crashes such as spinal-cord and brain-injury research and training for the emergency medical technicians who one day might save ... (more)