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Posted by Just say NOW! on September 02, 2004 at 09:28:06:

Eatery ordered closed
Health official says complaints mounted

Thursday, September 02, 2004
By Earl Morgan
Journal staff writer

Jersey City health officers shut down the Hard Grove Cafe yesterday after the Department of Health received a number of complaints from people who allegedly became ill after eating there, city officials said.

Sergio Lamboy, director of the city's Department of Health and Human Services, said inspectors ordered the restaurant, located at Grove Street and Christopher Columbus Drive, to close pending further inspection yesterday afternoon.

Sources in the health department said inadequate refrigeration was among the problems uncovered during the last inspection. The date of that inspection could not be determined.

Hard Grove owner Domenic Santana called the closing "political," and denied that anyone became sick from eating at his establishment.

"In 10 years, I've never had any complaints," Santana said. "This is all happening because I'm backing a candidate and they know at City Hall when I dig a trench I dig it deep."

Santana is backing Jersey City Police Chief Ronald Buonocore, who has announced his intention to be a candidate in the special election in November to fill the unexpired term of the late Jersey City Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham. Cunningham died May 25 after suffering a massive heart attack.

Santana's name appears on an Election Law Enforcement Commission application, filed Aug. 10, as the chairman of the "Buonocore for Mayor" candidacy committee.

Buonocore will be running against acting Mayor L. Harvey Smith, who was the late mayor's political rival and who as president of the City Council assumed the mayor's office at the time of Cunningham's death.

Santana was a close ally of Cunningham and the late mayor appointed him to a position on the Jersey City Incinerator Authority. Cunningham was also a regular guest in Santana's Asbury Park home.

Roger Jones, the acting mayor's chief of staff, denied any political involvement by City Hall in the decision to shut the restaurant down.

"The health department took the action it did because of complaints from people who said they got sick after they ate there," Jones said. "Politics had nothing to do with it."

Similarly, Lamboy said he spoke to Santana a.t home by phone before the restaurant was shut down and assured him that the health department's action was not predicated on political considerations.

"This had nothing to do with politics," Lamboy said "When we get complaints from people we have to act. When the inspectors arrived they found problems and the decision was made to close the place."

Lamboy could not give the exact number of complaints the health department received concerning the Hard Grove but indicated there had been more than one and confirmed that the Hard Grove has had prior difficulties with health inspections.

"In the past they've received warnings about conditions Domenic was told to correct," Lamboy said.

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: Eatery ordered closed
: Health official says complaints mounted

: Thursday, September 02, 2004
: By Earl Morgan
: Journal staff writer

: Jersey City health officers shut down the Hard Grove Cafe yesterday after the Department of Health received a number of complaints from people who allegedly became ill after eating there, city officials said.

: Sergio Lamboy, director of the city's Department of Health and Human Services, said inspectors ordered the restaurant, located at Grove Street and Christopher Columbus Drive, to close pending further inspection yesterday afternoon.

:
: Sources in the health department said inadequate refrigeration was among the problems uncovered during the last inspection. The date of that inspection could not be determined.

: Hard Grove owner Domenic Santana called the closing "political," and denied that anyone became sick from eating at his establishment.

: "In 10 years, I've never had any complaints," Santana said. "This is all happening because I'm backing a candidate and they know at City Hall when I dig a trench I dig it deep."

: Santana is backing Jersey City Police Chief Ronald Buonocore, who has announced his intention to be a candidate in the special election in November to fill the unexpired term of the late Jersey City Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham. Cunningham died May 25 after suffering a massive heart attack.

: Santana's name appears on an Election Law Enforcement Commission application, filed Aug. 10, as the chairman of the "Buonocore for Mayor" candidacy committee.

: Buonocore will be running against acting Mayor L. Harvey Smith, who was the late mayor's political rival and who as president of the City Council assumed the mayor's office at the time of Cunningham's death.

: Santana was a close ally of Cunningham and the late mayor appointed him to a position on the Jersey City Incinerator Authority. Cunningham was also a regular guest in Santana's Asbury Park home.

: Roger Jones, the acting mayor's chief of staff, denied any political involvement by City Hall in the decision to shut the restaurant down.

: "The health department took the action it did because of complaints from people who said they got sick after they ate there," Jones said. "Politics had nothing to do with it."

: Similarly, Lamboy said he spoke to Santana a.t home by phone before the restaurant was shut down and assured him that the health department's action was not predicated on political considerations.

: "This had nothing to do with politics," Lamboy said "When we get complaints from people we have to act. When the inspectors arrived they found problems and the decision was made to close the place."

: Lamboy could not give the exact number of complaints the health department received concerning the Hard Grove but indicated there had been more than one and confirmed that the Hard Grove has had prior difficulties with health inspections.

: "In the past they've received warnings about conditions Domenic was told to correct," Lamboy said.

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