Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Warm up your green thumbs at a Hoboken Garden Club workshop To inspire gardeners during these winter days, the Hoboken Garden Club (HGC) will present a Houseplant Workshop on Sunday, Feb. 22 at the 14th Street Garden Center at 793 Jersey Avenue in Jersey City, just over the southern Hoboken border. Noted horticulturist and master …
The city of Hoboken moved one step closer to bringing the first major initiative of its comprehensive parking plan to fruition this week. On Tuesday, the City Council approved an ordinance designating the visitor parking side of every block in Hoboken as metered parking zones. However, parkers who have a business or other permit won’t …
Continue reading “No more visitor parking permits
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A long winter lies ahead for Hoboken taxi and limousine operators, and it doesn’t take a groundhog to see what is casting the shadow. Fifteen months after the ridesharing service UberX debuted in northern New Jersey, owners and drivers say they are handling a fraction of their former business and may soon have to cut …
Continue reading “Taxi drivers cry: Deliver us from Uber!
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The baby stroller has become such a symbol of Hoboken’s gradual gentrification – it’s often the first thing people mention when they talk about the city’s changes, regardless of their stance – that it’s easy to forget that it is an object without politics or preference. Strip away the designs and connotation, and a stroller …
Continue reading “Strollers for needy moms
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Another week, another Hoboken bar apparently shut The long, slow death of the neighborhood bar continues apace in the mile-square city. Historic hole-in-the-wall Mario’s Tavern, which has stood at the corner of Third Street and Park Avenue for 66 years, appears to have closed. A phone number given for the bar in online listings has …
Now that the multimillion dollar renovation of the 14th Street Viaduct in northern Hoboken is complete, various restaurants and businesses with hip amenities have opened just north of the historic bridge, as well as small residential buildings boasting unusual architecture. With a cobblestone path, new park, dog run, two community theater groups, and a cooking …
Continue reading “Welcome to NoVHo!
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It’s no surprise to hear the actors and actresses in “Grease,” the newest musical production of the Hoboken Junior Senior High School Theater Company, say they identify with the characters they play. After all, they’re high school students playing high school students. The musical, which opens on Feb. 6, follows a gang of greasers at …
Continue reading “‘Grease’ is the word
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The third annual Hoboken Mutzfest saw no change in the top prize-winners, with M&P Biancamano winning the people’s choice award for best mozzarella for the third straight year and Vito’s Deli winning the critic’s choice for mozzarella for the second year in a row. Vito’s earned the critic’s choice for best sandwich for the second …
Continue reading “Mountains of mutz
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A recent public symposium regarding $230 million in federal flood mitigation aid for Hoboken and its neighbors made at least one thing clear: choosing how to spend the money will be a massive intergovernmental undertaking. At the Jan. 20 meeting, Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer and Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner were joined by representatives from Jersey …
Continue reading “Will agency fill up canal behind railyard?
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Last weekend’s weather forecasts called for a “historic” storm—a phrase all too familiar in Hoboken, where Hurricane Sandy still dictates funding objectives and political fortunes. In response, Mayor Dawn Zimmer pulled out all the stops. Five snow pieces were rented to supplement Hoboken’s fleet of plows and salt spreaders, 40 to 50 police officers were …
Continue reading “Travel bans, tickets, a warming center, and 7.5 inches
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