Category: Hoboken News

Even in this social media-dominated era, Twitter and Facebook can’t resolve everything. Sometimes, neighbors just have to get out pen and pad and write notes to other neighbors. For the seventh installment in our ongoing photo series of Hoboken signs, we’ve collected signs we’ve seen outside over the past year. Some offer free grapes; others …

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After nearly a decade since northwest Hoboken was designated in need of redevelopment, the City Council approved a plan during the Aug. 5 public meeting. With the adoption of the Western Edge Redevelopment Plan, an 11-acre series of warehouses and empty lots along the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) track between Ninth Street and the Fourteenth …

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Parents file suit against school in Hoboken after video goes viral The parents of a pair of children seen on video allegedly being handled roughly by employees of a Hoboken Montessori school earlier this year have filed a lawsuit against the organization that runs the institution, according to NBC 4 New York. The suit was …

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In one sense, Uber’s decision to open its first New Jersey partner support center in Hoboken is a no-brainer. The ridesharing service, which allows users to summon a car with the tap of a smartphone, has exploded in Northern New Jersey since opening here in 2013, and the dense commuter town of Hoboken is a …

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Perhaps the most fascinating display in the Hoboken Historical Museum’s new exhibition devoted to “Frank Sinatra: The Man, the Voice, and the Fans,” which opens this Sunday, Aug. 2, is a cabinet filled with correspondence from the hundreds of Sinatra fan clubs that sprouted up in the 1940s – “Frankie’s United Swooners,” “The Slaves of …

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So far this year, eight kids across the country have died because their parents inadvertently left them in hot cars – including the 18-month-old daughter of a Florida fourth grade teacher who left her in the school parking lot after forgetting to bring her to day care, and the toddler daughter of a prosecutor and …

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Appellate court ruling could mean 55 new affordable units in Hoboken Four Hoboken developers could be forced to convert at least 55 market rate rental units into affordable units thanks to a July 28 state appellate court ruling, according to Fair Share Housing Center, a New Jersey tenant advocacy group. At issue in the case …

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The City Council has advanced an agreement allowing the Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa) to lease 1,183 square feet in the Multi-Service Center for its incoming seventh grade class. If fully adopted at the next council meeting on Aug. 5, the lease could help answer the crucial question of where the new 21-student class, …

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In “Gotham,” their landmark history of New York City, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace chronicle how Italian street festivals emerged in Harlem as a boisterous response to marginalization. Confined to the basement of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 111th Street, the church their laborers had built, the Italian immigrant community …

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