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Deadline for closing on Municipal Garage sale is this Friday The scheduled date of a closing between the city of Hoboken and S. Hekemian, future developers of the city’s Observer Highway municipal garage property, is Friday, Aug. 13. But despite a recent deal for the city to move some of the garage operations off the …
Money from the federal government is headed toward Hoboken’s southern border, and before anything is done with it, Mayor Dawn Zimmer and city officials convened a meeting to hear how citizens would like to see it spent. Around 20 community members and city officials gathered at the Multi-Service Center on Grand Street on July 19 …
Continue reading “Heading south (in Hoboken)
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With additional reporting by E. Assata Wright Reporter Staff Writer Some luxury housing is still selling in Hoboken during a tough economy, while other projects remain only partly completed for now. Recently, the developer of Maxwell Place, a luxury mixed-use development owned by Toll Brothers, Inc., has reported an uptick in buyer interest for its …
Continue reading “Rising on the waterfront
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Alleged sex offender nabbed in Hoboken park Hoboken police said on Thursday that they had nabbed a man with a record as a sex offender and violent kidnapper on Tuesday in Pier A Park on the waterfront. According to a police report, around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, four officers went to Pier A Park to …
Weehawken and Hoboken plan to pay $15,000 per month to share space at a private facility near both towns’ border for storage of public works equipment and salt. The city of Hoboken announced the joint venture in a press release on Monday, after it had searched desperately for a place to move some operations from …
Continue reading “Where’s the garage?
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Steps taken toward Hoboken hospital being sold The Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority board met Wednesday and took a step – according to City Hall – to look for new buyers for Hoboken’s only hospital. The city made a point of saying that the step will ensure that Hoboken continues to have an acute care hospital …
One year later… One year ago this week, I assumed office as acting mayor as a result of a state-wide anti-corruption operation. Residents were already paying for years of fiscal mismanagement, but now the very integrity of our government was being questioned as our city suffered a string of humiliating headlines. Since then, my administration …
It could be a month before residents and senior officers in the Hoboken Police Department (HPD) find out how 18 impending police layoffs, announced on Wednesday, will affect staffing in the department and crime in the city. Under this budget-cutting plan Mayor Dawn Zimmer said that besides the 18 impending layoffs in the Police Department, …
Continue reading “Layoffs coming to Hoboken – but who?
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For a few years before the Mary Stevens Hammond Home for Children on Park Avenue in Hoboken closed for good in 1964, two of the children staying there, Denise Chemidlin and usually one of her four sisters, would get up each morning and walk the 12 blocks southeast to what is now Carlo’s Bakery on …
Continue reading “Out of a Hoboken orphanage
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Fees for obtaining public records will be dramatically lowered if Gov. Christopher Christie signs legislation that was unanimously passed by both houses of the state legislature last month in response to residents’ complaints. The Open Public Records Act, or OPRA, is the name of the New Jersey law guaranteeing taxpayer access to public records in …
Continue reading “Get gov’t documents – cheap!
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