Category: Hoboken News

A new ordinance granting city officials enhanced power to remove boats abandoned in Hoboken waters has generated concern among mariners who have been mooring their sailboats legally for years on the city’s northern edge. In addition, it appears that officials within Hoboken’s city government are also confused, with some disagreeing over what the ordinance was …

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Elderly pedestrian hit by van on Washington Street An 80-year-old female Hoboken resident sustained possible head trauma and was transported to Jersey City Medical Center after being hit by a van while crossing Washington Street on Friday morning, according to Hoboken Police Chief Ken Ferrante. The incident took place at the intersection of Fifth and …

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Circle June 2022 on your calendars. That’s the month state officials say construction is projected to be completed on new infrastructure designed to prevent flooding in Hoboken. Exactly which structures and systems Hobokenites should expect to see on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy has yet to be determined, though past statements …

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After the tassels were turned and the caps were tossed, a group of newly minted graduates of Hoboken Junior Senior High School piled together at the center of the football field at John F. Kennedy Stadium, cheering and dancing like they had just won a championship game. In a sense, they had. Though many of …

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You can go to Bayonne or Jersey City to see Fourth of July fireworks, but not North Bergen, West New York, Weehawken, or Hoboken. You can go to Secaucus as well, but their celebration is two days before the Fourth, and you must be a resident. Union City is planning its own event. A lot …

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The City Council has given Mayor Dawn Zimmer six more months to determine whether extending a 40-year old tax abatement is necessary to keep one of Hoboken’s longstanding mixed-income buildings affordable. In March, the administration was granted a three-month extension to complete their research. The extension to the extension, granted on Wednesday, allows the tax …

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For many Hobokenites, summer means fleeing to the shore as fast as possible for sandcastles, sno-cones and suntan oil, but for those who stay in town, there are a wealth of activities to take in, many of them quite highbrow. This summer, residents can see three different Shakespeare plays on the waterfront, appraise fine art …

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Some men feel woefully unprepared to be a new father, especially if changing employment circumstances mean they’re going to spend more time in charge of the anticipated offspring. Hoboken-based playwright Joseph Gallo, whose last one-man show ran off-Broadway, has been performing his new show about being a stay-at-home-dad, “Long Gone Daddy,” in people’s homes around …

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Stay of HoLa expansion denied in state court; seventh graders can matriculate in fall The fate of a lawsuit to block the expansion of the Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa) to seventh and eighth grade is still up in the air, but the 21 students slated to form the inaugural seventh grade class will …

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