Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Correction Last week, mayoral candidate Frank Raia’s profile answer contained a misprint. Below is his answer to the question: What makes you the most qualified candidate for the position? Raia’s answer should have read: “The priorities of the other candidates don’t reflect the needs of Hoboken. I know how to create jobs and affordable housing. …
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Walking around the mile-square city of Hoboken, with its gorgeous rowhomes and waterfront views, can make for a great day as it is – but on one day each year, visitors and residents can also stop into dozens of artists’ studios and enjoy their creations. The 29th annual Hoboken Artist Studio Tours run on Sunday, …
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A City Council minority prevailed last week in voting to not pay city workers or municipal bills in order to make a point. On Wednesday, Councilpersons Theresa Castellano, Beth Mason, and Michael Russo voted against temporary emergency appropriations, a measure that makes money available to the city until a time that it has an approved …
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Two out of Hoboken’s last three mayors have been whisked away in handcuffs. Is this becoming a trend? There are at least seven people in Hoboken who don’t believe so. Seven contenders want to run the mile-square city, and on Tuesday, Nov. 3, the residents will decide who is most qualified to be the new …
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The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office arrested more than a dozen people on Tuesday in connection with a Jersey City drug operation, including a Hoboken police officer, Hoboken fire battalion chief, a Hoboken Parking Utility employee, and a suspended Jersey City police officer. Police believe the network allegedly distributed about $35,000 worth of cocaine per week. …
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When US Airways Flight 1539 miraculously set down on the Hudson River last January, NY Waterway ferries rescued 143 of the 155 survivors. On 9/11, they were there too, carrying traumatized commuters back to New Jersey after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. NY Waterway has a fleet of 34 boats crossing the …
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Even though Terriann Saulino Bish studied advertising, writing, and computer science at New York University, it’s dog training and photography that draw her creative energy in her free time these days. Bish, a full-time graphic artist for the Hudson Reporter newspapers, won Employee of the Month this month. Bish grew up in Hoboken and still …
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NJ Transit bill by November State Sen. Paul Sarlo (D-Wood-Ridge) said this week that his state bill to grant NJ Transit development authority over local municipalities will be amended and put forth to the Senate by November. There is not yet a similar bill introduced in the state Assembly. Hoboken Acting Mayor Dawn Zimmer had …
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A City Council subcommittee is holding a series of hearings to analyze city’s rent control regulations, and advocates for both landlords and tenants are gearing up for what promises to be contentious debate over potential changes. Hoboken’s Rent Leveling and Stabilization Ordinance, passed in 1973, limits how much a landlord of a multifamily building (built …
Continue reading “Next big debate: How much can rents rise?
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Acting Mayor Dawn Zimmer said last week that she was able hold up a state bill that may have paved the way for NJ Transit to build 70-story towers in Hoboken. Last year, residents were presented with a plan for the transit agency to build a massive commercial and residential development near its train station …
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