Category: Hoboken News

Hoboken woman allegedly threw boyfriend’s pit bull out window An argument between a Hoboken couple this past Wednesday, May 18 escalated to the point where the girlfriend allegedly threw her boyfriend’s pit bull out of a second-story window. In a press release sent to the Reporter by the Hoboken Police Department, Jasmine Briggs, 38, was …

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Can Hoboken be the heart of innovation in the northeast? Silicon Valley certainly has the other side of the continent covered in California. Aaron Price, who launched “NJ Tech Meetup” (the monthly technology gathering at Stevens Institute of Technology) six years ago, thinks the Mile Square City can claim the moniker — and he’s putting …

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BRIEFS Mayor Zimmer’s mother-in-law passes away Funeral services were held May 10 at Riverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook, for Gertrude (nee Schecter) Grossbard of Hoboken. She was the widow of Henry Grossbard, mother of Rebecca Grossbard and mother of Stan Grossbard, who is the husband of Mayor Dawn Zimmer. She was the grandmother of Jacob and …

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In a rare unanimous vote, the City Council approved a $111.8 million budget with a 2.8 percent tax rate increase for the 2016 calendar year at a public meeting on Wednesday, May 4. The total budget is up 3 percent from last year’s $108.4 million. Other media outlets reported that Hoboken adopted a $107 million …

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Sister Symphorosa Imbori wants to tell the world about the great education she got in Hoboken and Jersey City. Imbori, one of three honorees at Sts. Peter & Paul’s 2016 Gratitude Gala last week on April 28 at the Chart House in Weehawken, said, “I always thought of America as a land of opportunity. But, …

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Hoboken’s school board voted 6-3 last week to approve a $69.7 million budget with a 3.6 percent increase in tax levy after a public hearing on Tuesday, May 3. Less than a dozen members of the public attended the meeting, most arriving well into School Business Administrator William Moffitt’s slideshow to outline the district’s spending. …

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Where is the city’s history stored? Although Hoboken Historical Museum organizers asked that the details remain hidden, it’s stored in an innocuous storage room in a Shipyard building in the north part of town. “The space is bursting at the seams,” is how museum communications coordinator Melissa Abernathy puts it. And that’s no exaggeration. Over …

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