Navratri Festival starts Friday night on Newark Ave.
Portions of Newark Avenue in Jersey City will be closed Friday and Saturday nights for the Navratri Festival
Navratri is a nine-day cultural and religious festival celebrating deities worshipped by people worldwide. The Jersey City celebration, in its fourth year, will be held on Newark Avenue between Kennedy Boulevard and Tonnelle Avenue. Those streets will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday and from 7 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday. The same closings will be in effect Oct. 6 and 7.
The Jersey City Asian Merchant Association, in cooperation with the Govinda Sanskar Center, Journal Square Restoration Corp. and the Urban Enterprise Zone, is sponsoring the event.
Music, dancing and traditional foods will be featured. The event also hopes to raise money for scholarships at Hudson County Community College and to support a hospital in Hudson.
In previous years, the event has been popular, with estimates of more than 10,000 people attending.
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