Remember Jersey City, we're shopping small today

It's a Small Business Saturday Jersey City so let's get out there and support our friends and neighbors who have invested in our town to make their mark and make Jersey City a better place. Try and remember these stores are there the other 364 days of the year as well. Don't just make today a one-time event.

Support Jersey City with your dollars!

OK Hudson County and the surround, today is Small Business Saturday

So give the big box stores a chilly shoulder today and especially avoid the one who doesn't want to pay workers too much and then hands then food stamp and welfare applications on payday, it's a Small Business Saturday. There is no shortage of wonderful and worthwhile small businesses to shop at around the area. They are probably hurting more than usual after the big storm.

If you're gonna drop some cash on a gift why not buy it from your neighbors? If they do better, you do better.

Toy drive this Saturday in Jersey City for kids -- BE THERE!

A handful of celebrities and Giants football players will be at Sneaker Room on Central Avenue this Saturday (and since this Saturday is small business Saturday these are the kinds of stores to shop at as well) from 10am to 8pm to help collect "toys, board games and stuffed animals that will be distributed at shelters in Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jersey to kids in need."

Celebrities who will be stopping by throughout the day include New York Giants Victor Cruz and Justin Tuck, hip hop legend Jadakiss, producer and MC Jim Jones of the Diplomats, TV and radio personality DJ Envy of HOT 97, and DJ Clue, according to a press release.

A lot of these kids had to leave their houses fast fast fast and didn't have time to bring toys or anything to play with to their shelters. This toy drive will help alleviate that. We're going to give the famous Jersey City Desk last word to Sneaker Room owner Suraj Kaufman:

"Shelters can be a scary place. We're doing the toy drive to try to give kids in shelters some kind of normalcy. We're giving back."