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People lined up outside the funeral home yesterday in Journal Square

[Update: 12PM] Photos of the procession on Bergen Avenue HERE.

[Original Post: 2AM]More than a thousand people attended the wake of the fallen Jersey City Detective Marc DiNardo yesterday at McLaughlin Funeral Home in Journal Square. He was shot in a shootout last week and died last Tuesday.

He is survived by his wife Mary and three young children (ages 4, 3, 1).

From McLaughlin Funeral Home, DiNardo’s casket will be brought to St. Aedan’s Church on Bergen Avenue for a funeral mass that will begin at 1030AM. Streets surrounding the funeral house and St. Aedan’s church are shut down and no-parking zones on some streets are in effect as heavy turnouts are expected.

Marc DiNardo Funeral Mass
Where: St. Aedan Church
Address: 800 Bergen Avenue, Jersey City 07306
When: July 24, 2009 1030AM

* mourners will continue to Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington for burial.

Parking Rules
Temporary no parking zones from 6AM – 2PM July 24, 2009 for the funeral mass and procession:

• Montgomery Street from Summit Avenue to Kennedy Boulevard
• Bergen Avenue from Sip Avenue to Fairmount Avenue
• Tuers Avenue from Mercer Street to Montgomery Street
• Glenwood Avenue from Bergen Avenue to Kennedy Boulevard
• Mercer Street from Summit Avenue to Bergen Avenue
• Tuers Avenue from Vroom Street to Mercer Street
• Cornelison Avenue from Bright Street to Fairmount Avenue

Street Closings
The following streets will be closed starting 8AM July 24, 2009 until the procession passes through. Traffic will be back to normal after the mass and procession:

• Sip Avenue to Summit Avenue
• Newkirk Street to Summit Avenue
• Academy Street to Summit Avenue
• Vroom Street to Summit Avenue
• Mercer Street to Summit Avenue
• Highland Avenue to Kennedy Boulevard
• Montgomery Street to Summit Avenue
• Bergen Avenue to Sip Avenue
• Bergen Avenue to Academy Street
• Montgomery Street to Kennedy Boulevard
• Bergen Avenue to Fairmount Avenue
• Monticello Avenue to Fairmount Avenue
• Glenwood Avenue to Kennedy Boulevard
• Montgomery Street to Westside Avenue
• Glenwood Avenue to Westside Avenue
• Stuyvesant Street to Westside Avenue
• Sip Avenue to Westside Avenue
• Pavonia Avenue to Westside Avenue
• Broadway Avenue to Westside Avenue