November 28, 2008 -- From left Henry Newberger, "Banjo Bob", and "Chicken Joe," who call themselves Holiday Brass, bring some holiday cheer to Black Friday shoppers as they play Christmas tunes at the Hudson Mall in Jersey City, Friday.
November 26, 2008 -- Phillipe Sanchez fights with a turkey before weighing and slaughtering it at the Marzigliano Poultry Market in West New York, Wednesday, November 26, 2008.
November 26, 2008 -- Phillipe Sanchez, center, spent the day weighing hundreds of turkeys, poultry, and other fowl for pricing before their slaughter on the eve of Thanksgiving. Customers got the opportunity to choose the main dish of their feast at the Marzigliano Poultry Market in Union City, Wednesday.
November 21, 2008 -- Hoboken defenders try to take down Secaucus running back Joe Impreveduto during a game at Secaucus High in Secaucus, Friday. Hoboken went on to shut out the Patriots 14-0.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 -- A Jersey City Police Department Bomb Squad officer disposes of a suspected package, which turned out to be a shoe box left on a bench, outside of School 11 on Bergen Ave. in Jersey City.
November 15, 2008 -- Bishop Manuel Cruz, the first Cuban-born priest to ever be elected bishop of the Newark Roman Catholic Archdiocese, blesses wine during mass at his hometown parish, St. Rocco's Church, in Union City, Saturday.
November 11, 2008 -- Bayonne veterans listen to a keynote address given by fmr. Bayonne Mayor Richard Rutkowski during a Veteran's Day ceremony commemorating the men and women who served in the armed forces, in Bayonne.
November 1, 2008-- Solomon Osman, 10, gets a strike, during a neighborhood block party on New York Ave in Jersey City, Saturday.
Saturday, December, 27, 2008 -- The "Pumoja Dancers," Kamille King (from left to right), Yewande Kelley-Johnson, and Audrey Davis dance to the African rhythmic drumming of Master Drummer Rudy Walker and the Drum Troupe during the Kwanzaa Celebration held at the Miller Branch Library Cultural Arts Auditorium in Jersey City.
December 19, 2008 -- Jersey City Public Works employee Rich Venezia talks with his dispatcher while on his snow plowing route on West Side Ave. amidst a snow storm in Jersey City, Friday.
December 19, 2008 -- A Bayonne Public Works employee smiles as he looks out at the snow storm before he goes out on his snow plowing route at the Bayonne Centralized Garage in Bayonne, Friday, December 18, 2008.
December 16, 2008 -- Marco Mani from Millennium Communications endures the cold weather to install a new camera system near the light rail station at Exchange Place in Jersey City, Tuesday.
December 12, 2008 -- Jersey City Police Officer Nathaniel Montanez, the president of the 74th graduating class of the Jersey City Police Academy, hugs his former drill instructor, Detective Rhudy Snelling, after his graduation ceremony held at the Margaret Williams Theater at New Jersey City University in Jersey City, Friday.
December 9, 2008 -- New York Giant's Linebacker Zak DeOssie, right, compares the size of his hand with that of Alexander Wu's, 6, before speaking to the students at the Horace Mann Elementary School about how leading a healthy lifestyle is one of the keys to success in the future, in Bayonne, Tuesday.
Friday, December 5, 2008 -- Mike Conte, Jersey Journal crime reporter, hangs out behind an abandoned car wash that was being used in a towing company scandal in North Bergen.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 -- A black cat hangs out on the steps of its trailer home at the Manhattan Mobile Home Park in North Bergen.
