Category: Hoboken News

What do Michael Lenz, Justin Bieber, Shaquille O’Neal, and Tim Occhipinti all have in common? They’re not all candidates for the 4th Ward election or basketball players, but they do all use Twitter. Social networking isn’t just for college kids anymore. In the midst of a heated election season in Hoboken, candidates for office have …

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Washington Street named ‘Top 10 street’ in nation for 2010 The American Planning Association (APA) announced the designation of Washington Street in Hoboken as one of 10 Great Streets for 2010 under the organization’s Great Places in America program. APA Great Places exemplify exceptional character and highlight the role planners and planning play in creating …

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Mario Lepore opened a chocolate store at the corner of Garden and 6th streets 30 years ago because he wanted to share his talents as a homemade chocolatier with the people of Hoboken. Now after all those years in the same building, he hopes to take his business to another neighborhood in the city. He …

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How did the reader’s polls turn out? To see the results of our unscientific reader polls on the questions “Is an 18-story office building a good idea for the NJ Transit area?” and “Do you drink unfiltered Hoboken water?” log onto www.hudsonreporter.com, and check out the Hoboken section. Hoboken woman shot in uptown Clinton Street …

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After a unanimous vote adopting a 2010 transitional municipal budget, the attention of the City Council has turned toward providing more tax relief in 2011. The $52 million budget, which pays for municipal operations for the second half of 2010 and allows for a five percent municipal tax cut, was passed 9-0 on Oct. 6 …

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The candidate who wins the 4th Ward special election will have to prove he has a key characteristic in a post-Peter Cammarano Hoboken government: integrity. Since the beginning of the campaign season, Councilman Michael Lenz and challenger Tim Occhipinti have both called into question each other’s integrity and ethics. Last week, as Cammarano reported to …

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If everything goes according to Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s plan, Hoboken University Medical Center will no longer be a financial burden on the city government, and will remain an establishment where acute services are provided to city residents. The city has received proposals from outside companies to purchase the hospital, which might ultimately relieve the city …

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Some 45,000 units have been added to Hudson County’s residential housing stock since the early 1990s, when the county’s real estate boom began, with at least 2,000 more units planned. This translates to thousands of new residents and commuters flowing through Hudson County everyday. And there’s more on the way. Just two weeks ago NJ …

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The public will get to sound off on Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. at City Hall on the controversial, six month transition year budget. Since the Sept. 1 council meeting when the budget was introduced, directors have filed into the council chambers to defend their own departmental budgets to the City Council in a series …

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