Dear Editor:
The latest Hoboken Reporter notes that Sinatra Drive will be closed on week-ends for public enjoyment. What a great idea!
I often walk along Sinatra Drive from the Path station to Hudson and 11th Streets. The amount of accumulated old trash along the sidewalk is shocking and disgusting. It’s never cleaned up, and there are even old green garbage bags that have been abandoned there for at least six months (north of the skateboarding park, along the dock side, before the new apartment building.)
The parking lot that I believe belongs to Stevens is never swept or cleaned, and nasty trash that is years old continues to pile up along the wire fence. The fence itself is severely damaged and not maintained properly.
Now that parking lot is filled with heavy equipment. Even more debris is accumulating. Can’t the city force them to clean up?
I suspect some of these areas are public property. For instance: the gazebo just north of the Stevens parking lot, which is also strewn with the same old trash I’ve walked past for at least six months. Why isn’t the city cleaning up?
Can’t Stevens clean up their property, or be penalized for not maintaining it?
Is this worth a story? The pictures would be appropriately disgusting, no problem, just send a photog on foot.
It could be a gorgeous walk along Sinatra Drive if only the city of Hoboken would take responsibility for keeping this area clean. It wouldn’t even be that big a deal, so why not do it? Please help! You’d be doing us all a public service.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Janet Horton