Category: Hoboken News

The Hoboken City Council approved a $108.4 million budget with no city tax rate increase for the 2015 calendar year at its Wednesday, May 20 meeting. The total budget is down almost 2 percent from last year’s $110.5 million sum. At the behest of City Council members, the administration of Mayor Dawn Zimmer made minor …

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In a wide-ranging talk with members of the city’s business community at a Hoboken Chamber of Commerce breakfast this past Tuesday, Mayor Dawn Zimmer addressed a number of concerns and cited initiatives regarding zoning, a forthcoming bike share program, and redesigns for Observer Highway and Washington Street. Businesspeople asked that Zimmer streamline the process for …

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It still takes a dreamer to open a bookstore—or in the case of Little City Books, Hoboken’s first independent first-run bookstore since 1995, three dreamers. Even in a city made up of 74 percent college graduates (according to the 2013 American Community Survey), a city that boasts Daniel Pinkwater, Mark Leyner, and Anna Quindlen as …

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Hoboken officials last week strongly criticized a recent PATH train schedule change that reduced rush hour service on the Hoboken-33rd Street route by 14 percent. The service adjustments, unannounced by the Port Authority and first publicized by Mayor Dawn Zimmer on Tuesday, eliminate five trains departing Hoboken during morning rush hour and three trains during …

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Hoboken Housing Authority board awards contract to lock doors In a major step towards fixing some of the worst and most persistent damage wrought on Hoboken’s public housing projects by Superstorm Sandy, the Hoboken Housing Authority Board of Commissioners awarded a $264,000 contract to an unnamed contractor to repair the electronic door locking system in …

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The Hoboken Police Department broke up an alleged open air market for marijuana, heroin, and crack cocaine operating in front of a strip mall near the city’s public housing two weeks ago and made 18 arrests. After receiving multiple complaints about persistent drug dealing in front of the West Side Plaza, a collection of restaurants …

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The United Synagogue of Hoboken will mark the hundredth anniversary of the Star of Israel Synagogue at 115 Park Ave. this Sunday, May 17 with a day-long block party. More specifically, they’ll be celebrating the building’s rebirth and restoration as a house of worship and landmark for Hoboken Jews. From the very outset, the temple …

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With the assistance of a friend from the local charter school, Jen Giattino, councilwoman for the 6th Ward in Hoboken, struggled up Second Street carrying three shopping bags filled with pre-made meals. As is her routine on Tuesdays, Giattino was delivering meals she and other parents made for distribution at the Hoboken Homeless Shelter. “I …

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Writers and graphic artists for The Hudson Reporter newspapers recently won a total of 17 awards in the competitive statewide annual Memorial Journalism Contest run by the Garden State Journalists Association. The company, with offices in Hoboken and Bayonne, publishes eight weekly newspapers: The Hoboken Reporter, Bayonne Community News, Weehawken Reporter, Jersey City Reporter, Secaucus …

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