Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Port Authority tables proposal to end overnight PATH service Port Authority Chairman John Degnan has agreed to table a bi-state reform panel’s proposal to eliminate overnight PATH service, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto announced on Wednesday. Sweeney and Prieto secured the commitment from Degnan at a recent meeting organized at their …
Is there still a place in Hoboken for a genuine dive bar, a gracefully disgraceful doghouse where men come to sit with clasped hands and confess their sins? For 44 years, Stinky Sullivan’s at Sixth and Washington streets was just such an establishment, with a jukebox and dollar drafts and a deep cherrywood bar that …
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Councilman-at-large Ravinder Bhalla was elected the new president of the Hoboken City Council at the body’s annual reorganization meeting this past Wednesday. Bhalla replaces Councilwoman Jennifer Giattino, and will reprises the role he previously served for the 2011 calendar year. Bhalla was elected by a vote of 7 to 1, with Councilwoman Beth Mason (a …
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“I want the Port Authority to say that this option is off the table,” said a very angry Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer at a rally of local, state and federal officials near the Grove Street PATH station on Monday. The officials met to oppose several proposals by the Port Authority, including eliminating night time PATH …
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Councilwoman Beth Mason and three council slatemates from her 2009 mayoral campaign have paid a total of $37,160 in fines resulting from violations of state election law, according to a settlement reached with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC). The payment arose from complaints over unfiled reports, late reports, and late filing of …
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City faces choice after commissioners assess southwest Hoboken property at $5.4M A panel of three Condemnation Commissioners appointed by the Hudson County Superior Court has assessed the value of Block 12, a nearly one acre property in southwest Hoboken, at $5.4 million, a letter from Mayor Dawn Zimmer to the City Council revealed this past …
It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times. After 78 years, Helmers’ Restaurant opened its doors for the last time on Wednesday, Dec. 31. Opened in 1936, the landmark German eatery at Eleventh and Washington streets had been operated by the local Lueders family since 1949. Helmers’ provided one of the …
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Did Councilman Ravinder Bhalla violate a state ethics law when he voted in 2010 to award a city contract to a lawyer with whom he shared an office lease? In 2013, the New Jersey Local Finance Board ruled that Bhalla did, in fact, violate the law. Then, in September of 2014, an administrative law judge …
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Ever since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, local bloggers and journalists have told stories of being stopped by police from taking photographs in train and bus stations, and near bridges and ports. But is there really a law against this, and if so, what’s behind it? As it turns out, there are no …
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F. Ron Smith, president of Leverage Global Partners, recently welcomed Hudson Place Realty as the network’s exclusive member in Hoboken. A unique alignment of the most prestigious independent real estate brokerage firms around the world, Leverage Global Partners offers its members the opportunity to better serve their clients’ relocation and real estate portfolio needs by …
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