Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: The following is as letter to the mayor and city council of Hoboken Dear Mayor and City Council: As a bike riding citizen of Hoboken I am wondering what has happened to our highly touted and much publicized “Regional Bike Sharing Program”? I realize that during the Spring the program was delayed for …
Dear Editor: Dear Hoboken Municipal Court: Literally, every time I get a parking violation in this town, I have to question the validity of the violation – a huge contributor to why I moved out of this town. I received two parking tickets in the past two months. One, I have to object to because …
Dear Editor: Volunteering is quite a remarkable thing. One gives up one’s own personal time for it, without pay, and often one is never thanked for the effort involved. The driving force of volunteering results from a passion to accomplish some good deed such as helping to preserve something important which would otherwise be lost. …
Continue reading “The volunteers, the movie palace, and a slap in the face”
Dear Editor: The massive movement of unaccompanied children from Central America across our southern border has the potential for massive exploitation and trafficking of those children. All these unaccompanied children are extremely vulnerable to being exploited and trafficked both in the U.S. and on their way to our border for sex trafficking and sex tourism. …
Dear Editor: Summer is here and we are all enjoying the warm weather. I have to strongly agree with the anonymous reader that advocated the golden rule. The one thing that bothers me is when I see dog poop around, I always tell myself that the person that owns that dog is not fit to …
Continue reading “Dog do, the budget, zoning, and the Loews”
Dear Editor: Regarding Edward Friedman’s letter in the Reporter about bicycle riding on the sidewalk in Hoboken, I have to wholeheartedly disagree with him. Although Hoboken would like to think of itself as a bicycle friendly city, its streets are simply not wide enough for bicycles and cars to share the road. It is also …
Continue reading “I have to wholeheartedly disagree with him”
Dear Editor: Phil Cohen (Letters, July 6) says that the Hudson County Freeloaders (as a former “wacky mayor” called them) approved a budget that will raise Hoboken’s taxes by 14.5 percent. Mr. Cohen fears that those who have lived in Hoboken for years and depend on fixed incomes- retirements, Social Security, etc.—will be forced out …
Dear Editor: Officer Melvin Santiago did not serve in my small town. He served on the mean streets of Jersey City where he lost his life in the line of duty to a deranged thug who claimed with high arrogance, “I’m going to be famous.” Really? Not through any help from me; I refuse to …
Dear Editor: Hoboken is a highly densely populated city of about 55,000 residents squeezed into a one mile square footprint. Residents live shoulder to shoulder, either vertically or adjacent and with that comes the responsibility of each one of us to consider how our actions impact the lives of our neighbors. Case in point, noise! …
Dear Editor: After nearly two years of planning, designing, and leasing, our application for an outstanding mixed use development at 1300 Jefferson Street was denied by the Zoning Board of Adjustment last month. Apparently, a significant recreational improvement to this long neglected area of Hoboken was not deemed sufficient to allow for us to move …