Yesterday it came out that the presumed dead plans to extend the 7 train to New Jersey were very much alive if very much in its infancy. And now the plan has gotten a vote of confidence from no-less than the man who killed the last big New York-New Jersey tunnel project, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. more ›

[Update Below] A direct MTA subway connection to New Jersey has been mankind's greatest dream ever since the founding bros first glimpsed the glory of the Meatpacking District from Hoboken. Now, rumor has it, Mayor Bloomberg is moving heaven and earth to make the dream a reality before the end of his third (and final?) term. You'll recall that the Bloomberg administration gave a quarter-million dollar no-bid contract to an engineering firm to study the feasibility of extending the 7 line to Secaucus. Now sources tell the Post that Bloomberg wants to get the project moving before he leaves office. more ›

It's a win for corporate welfare and a loss for Brooklyn: Panasonic has decided to move its headquarters—and its 950 jobs—from Secaucus, NJ to Newark, NJ, deciding against a Brooklyn property owned by Forest City Ratner. According to Crain's New York, "In the end, Brooklyn could not compete with a $102.4 million subsidy package offered to the consumer electronics giant to move to Newark." But it's not so cut-and-dry, because Panasonic's landlord in Secaucus and the town of Secaucus are suing! more ›

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who recently scrapped the plan to build a new NJ Transit tunnel from New Jersey to Midtown, said he would consider using state funds to extend the 7 train over to Secaucus. He said on a radio show, "It would actually connect us to the east side of Manhattan...go through Penn Station like we always wanted to, at what appears to be less of a cost, and with New York bearing part of the burden for that project." He has yet to speak to Bloomberg about the plan, but this brings us one step closer to subway access to the 182nd best place to live in New Jersey. more ›

What if you could get to the promised land of New Jersey without ever leaving the convenient confines of the NYC Transit system? Such a revolutionary transit transformation could encourage thousands of Jersey residents to leave their cars at home, while enticing more New Yorkers across the Hudson in search of cheaper rent and "alt scenes." The Bloomberg administration is currently floating a plan to extend the 7 train as far as Secaucus, which means the 7 would be the new L, and Weehawken should probably brace for a wave of Prohibition-era cocktail lounges. more ›

A former security guard of the NBA Properties office in Secausus, NJ has been arrested after making multiple bomb threats against the building. Officials say Jose Quesada, 19, left at least seven threatening voicemails, including one which warned, "Leave the building. It's gonna blow up...No where to go. It's gonna go up. It's gonna go 'Boom!'" He turned himself in yesterday, and is being held at $100,000 bail. Man, some people are just not taking this whole LeBron thing easily. more ›

Yesterday, federal agents arrested dozens of individuals, many of them NJ politicians and lawmakers as well as prominent religious figures in NJ and NY, in a probe that began as a money laundering investigation but then turned into a political corruption bust as well. The Star-Ledger reports, "The bribes went down in diners, living rooms and parking lots. New Jersey Assemblymen took them, mayors took them, and so did dozens of others. Orthodox rabbis, acting more like crime bosses than religious leaders, laundered millions through synagogues and yeshivas in Deal, one of the state's wealthiest towns. And a Realtor tried to sell an informant a black market kidney for $160,000." more ›