Dear Editor:
I wanted to respond to Scott Gibson’s letter to the editor in which he characterized young renting Hobokenites as having “no real stake in the community.” I strongly disagree. I moved to Hoboken two years ago and was intending to stay here only temporarily while attempting to secure an apartment in New York. After a month of searching, I decided to stay because of the small town aspect of the area combined with easy accessibility to my job in Manhattan.
I love having Hoboken as my home and now couldn’t imagine living any place else. I do agree that many of apartment construction projects in our area are ill-conceived and shoddy. Quality of life issues are also important to single people without families. The future viability of Hoboken depends not on skating rinks and parks but on the so-called transitory renters deciding to stay and purchase our homes and raise our families here, not on us moving out.
Beth Rutkowski