Category: Hoboken News

Hobokenites who are interested in exploring renewable energy options in their homes may soon have greater opportunities to go green. The City Council has introduced an ordinance that will streamline its current solar panel approval process. “Solar panels have not been a permitted use in any of the zones in the city. So it made …

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During World War I, more than three million soldiers from across the nation passed through the Hoboken waterfront. They lined up along the piers, and embarked on ships sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to the European battlefields. According to the Hoboken Historical Museum, those with the hopes of an early return from battle developed their …

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Mayor Dawn Zimmer is used to fielding questions from the press, aides, council members, and city directors. However, last week, a new group of green-shirted citizens asked Zimmer a question of their own: why doesn’t Hoboken ban plastic bags? _____________ Would you support a phased in ban on plastic bags in the Mile Square City? …

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Global Entrepreneurship Week is coming back to Jersey City for another year to acknowledge local enterprise in a tough economy. Over 100 countries will hold more than 40,000 events and bring out 10 million people during the week of November 15-21. And in Jersey City, a host of events will take place featuring a variety …

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While Hudson County is one of the most densely populated areas in the nation, it is woefully bereft of general-interest bookstores, with several closing in the past few years and one Bayonne store closed and selling off its furniture. Since 2008, the B. Dalton bookstore in Jersey City’s Newport Centre Mall, the Imagine Atrium bookstore …

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Pier C Park partially opened Mayor Dawn Zimmer has announced that Pier C Park is now partial open. Located between 4th and 5th streets on Sinatra Drive, the park will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. The partial opening will allow residents to enter the promenade and grass area. “The parks night …

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Councilman-elect Tim Occhipinti walked with the press, his attorney, his parents, and a few supporters by his side along Paterson Avenue late on Election Day, Nov. 2. He beamed with excitement, having just defeated incumbent Michael Lenz in a special 4th Ward election. His campaign attorney Michael Goldberg hung a few steps back and told …

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There’s a new swagger on the left side of the City Council table. The evening after a hard fought campaign by two candidates who represent two sides of a politically divided city came to an end, the council convened for their shortest meeting in a long time. The business of the city was discussed until …

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The city’s long-term goal ever since it rescued Hoboken University Medical Center from financial disaster in 2008 has been to find a private buyer to purchase the hospital for more than $52 million, the amount to which the city has underwritten the hospital’s operations by guaranteeing a municipal bond. After two meetings of a stakeholders …

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On Nov. 18, 800 well-heeled Hobokenites will come together at the Westin Hotel in downtown Jersey City to break bread and sniff the bouquet of fine wines, paying a $75 admission fee for the privilege. But despite the tony trappings of the annual event, known as the Grand Tasting, now in its fifteenth year, the …

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