Category: Hoboken News

With a mayoral election two months away, this past Wednesday’s meeting of the Hoboken City Council can best be described as cantankerous. Barbs were thrown from all sides at Acting Mayor Dawn Zimmer and her four-member voting bloc. Zimmer’s bike was even stolen from outside City Hall while the meeting was in session. Councilwoman Beth …

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A feast that originated in Italy 600 years ago will return to Sinatra Drive in Hoboken next weekend. The 75th annual Hoboken Italian Festival, one of the largest Italian-American festivals in the tri-state area, is a four-day feast offering great food, a firework extravaganza, and an 800-pound statue of the Mother Mary carried through the …

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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” Heeding those words of William James, local difference-makers are collaborating on Mitzvah Day, a day of good deeds. While the event was originally founded by members of the Hoboken Synagogue, it is open to members of all religions, and they need more volunteers for …

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Officials to revisit state takeover this week City officials will appear before the state’s Local Finance Board on Wednesday to argue that the state financial takeover of city government is no longer necessary after one year of monitoring, according to Acting Mayor Dawn Zimmer. The state board will decide whether or not to continue the …

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Many drivers using the Park Avenue and Willow Avenue bridges from Hoboken to Weehawken wonder about an oddly-shaped building that is climbing between them in a corner of an otherwise empty plot of land. As reported here previously, Hoboken-based developer Mark Settembre managed to buy the small corner of the vacant land in 2007 even …

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Filmmakers can sometimes have dreams beyond making the next movie. Sometimes they are about being the next big movie mogul. Coppola formed Zoetrope Studios, Lucas created Lucasfilm and Spielberg co-founded Dreamworks SKG. Garry Pastore, Deborah Mello, and Chuck Abate, who run Hudson Film Group in Jersey City, a small film production company, are the next …

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