Category: Hoboken News

Since it was launched in 1907, the Yankee Ferry has shuttled immigrants from Ellis Island, probed Boston Harbor for German subs in World War I, and relayed more than 1,000 soldiers onto military ships in World War II. Nowadays, the 104-year-old vessel is docked on the Hoboken waterfront and serves as a full-time house for …

Continue reading “Hoboken couple lives in old boat

“

In a meeting that included some controversy, the City Council on Wednesday changed their budget’s fiscal year from July-June to a January-December, and reworked their Law Department to provide for a contracted attorney and his contracted firm. The calendar change that the city approved will put the city’s budget on the same schedule as the …

Continue reading “Financial fix, or political move?

“

Summer lovin’, you’ll have a blast… Hoboken has released a schedule of free events for the summer, including Summer Concerts at Sinatra Park, Family Fun Nights at Shipyard Park, and Movies Under the Stars at Pier A Park. All events are free to the public and paid for by sponsorships and grants, Mayor Dawn Zimmer …

Continue reading “HOBOKEN BRIEFS”

Considering everything else that has happened to Peter Cammarano since his election as Hoboken mayor last June and his arrest and resignation a few weeks later, settling tens of thousands of dollars in campaign debt may not be high on his list of priorities. But while Cammarano contemplates his upcoming August sentencing for pleading guilty …

Continue reading “Cammarano campaign’s trail of debt

“

Computer software developers, pharmaceutical researchers, “adventure gift” salespeople, and members of the Marine Corps. Whatever one’s interest, there is likely a profession to represent it in the large downtown office building called the Hoboken Business Center at 50 Harrison St. On Tuesday, Hoboken High School students visited the offices to learn about careers. Professionals in …

Continue reading “Life after school

“

When musician Dwight Thomson went through a divorce, “My wife got the house and I got the business,” he joked last week, during a conversation about some changes at his unique sandwich shop, D’s Soul Full Café on Willow Avenue. Thompson first came to Hoboken from Canada seven years ago to make it in the …

Continue reading “Don’t call it a ‘smash,’ and don’t call him Josh

“

Christie to unveil his ‘toolkit’ in Hoboken Monday On Monday, May 17, Gov. Chris Christie will be in Hoboken to unveil a “Mayor’s Toolkit,” his package of potential legislation to better enable municipalities to control property taxes, at Hoboken Catholic Academy on Monday at 11 a.m. The package reportedly includes controversial limits on salary increases …

Continue reading “HOBOKEN BRIEFS”

Councilman-at-Large Ravi Bhalla and 2nd Ward Councilwoman Beth Mason publicly lobbed complaints last week at each other, each saying the other had violated state campaign finance regulations. Last weekend, a local newspaper found that Bhalla had not filed political contribution reports with the state for three years, and Mason on Monday called for his resignation. …

Continue reading “Faulty filings

“