Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Hoboken unlikely to see a St. Patrick’s Parade this March Hoboken has not had a St. Patrick’s Parade since 2011. The popular event was held every year for 25 years on the first Saturday in March in order to get the best marching bands ahead of St. Patrick’s Day. Residents threw house parties that same …
HOBOKEN — Hoboken, the mile-square city across the river from New York City, has been a popular place for people to move after college for at least the last 20 years. It has also developed as a place for young people to party in the numerous bars, and in house parties on holidays (particularly the …
The first stage of a planned Southwest Park could be ready for construction in July and completed by December, according to the landscape architecture firm contracted by Hoboken to produce a final design. Last September, Starr Whitehouse won a $358,000 city contract to design, engineer, and oversee construction for the park. This past Wednesday, the …
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Should property owners eager to move forward with major projects at the underdeveloped edges of Hoboken have to wait for the City Council to weigh in on the future of their neighborhoods, and if so, for how long? This past December, the City Council approved its first new redevelopment plan since 1997, for the NJ …
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The men of Hoboken’s American Legion returned to their post this past Tuesday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy, thanks to the generous aid of Hoboken businesses and the local Rotary Club. Post 107, which occupies a former garage on Second Street between Clinton Street and Willow Avenue, took on six feet of floodwater …
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Even in defeat, Colonel John Stevens III set milestones. In 1808, the lawyer, soldier, engineer, inventor, botanist, and forefather of what we now call Hoboken launched the Phoenix, a steamboat of his own design, with plans to ferry passengers between New York City and New Brunswick, N.J. Unfortunately for Stevens, New York State had already …
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Après le déluge, la bureaucratie. Some 813 days after Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, and 232 days after a flood mitigation proposal for the Lower Hudson won $230 million in the federal Rebuild by Design competition, the relief money has yet to be disbursed to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). …
Continue reading “DEP: Hoboken flood barriers 7 to 10 years away
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A new front has opened in the simmering legal battle between the Hoboken Board of Education and the Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa) over HoLa’s state-approved expansion to seventh and eighth grades. After the New Jersey Department of Education granted HoLa’s expansion last year, the Hoboken school board filed a challenge before the state …
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While many of Hudson County’s most influential people remain relevant year to year, their impact waxes and wanes. Influence can mean different things, not only political power. Artists, activists, and not-for-profits influence the lives of the public over the course of the year, sometimes more significantly than it would appear on the surface. Each January, …
Continue reading “The ‘Power List’
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After a year and a half of waiting, the Hoboken Housing Authority has approved funding to install some of the backup power generators it purchased after Superstorm Sandy. Fourteen of the mammoth metal machines have been sitting in a parking lot in the federally funded projects since the summer of 2013, through changes in HHA …
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