Category: Hoboken News

“Please love me for Christmas! I have tried to be a good girl,” wrote a Hoboken girl named Molly, before presenting an itemized list of approximately 50 items she wanted for Christmas. “Dear Santa, I love you because your beard is the biggest,” wrote another child. Tuesday is the last day Hoboken children can mail …

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Though they continue to approve the vast majority of her funding requests, City Council members both allied with and against Mayor Dawn Zimmer want earlier warnings and more information when costs of professional contracts and capital improvement projects increase. Three resolutions at recent council meetings were criticized for either expanding the size of a contract …

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Reporter holiday ad deadlines, office closings   Due to the Christmas holiday on Thursday, Dec. 25, and New Year’s Day the following week, advertising and editorial deadlines for the Hudson Reporter newspapers have changed. Instead of the regular Secaucus Reporter, North Bergen Reporter, Union City Reporter, West New York Reporter, Hoboken Reporter, Jersey City Reporter, …

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Does the stress and scrutiny currently engulfing the New York Police Department have any bearing across the Hudson River in Hoboken? At first glance, the comparison seems laughable—the NYPD’s 49,526 employees could form their own city rivaling Hoboken’s size, should they tire of the five boroughs. But as protests over a Staten Island grand jury’s …

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It was billed as yet another chance for the public to weigh in on the course of development in Hoboken’s southern rail corridor, but the City Council special meeting on the Hoboken Yards Redevelopment Plan this past Wednesday appeared to be as much a chance for the council to justify their decision to forge ahead …

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Depending on what hour of the day you arrive, the Hoboken Shelter could be a drop-in center, soup kitchen, classroom, or dormitory. Like the city it proudly serves, the shelter strives to satisfy every need in the smallest possible space. And so the room that was filled with at least 50 people eagerly awaiting lunch …

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The new head of Hoboken’s federally subsidized low income housing projects said two weeks ago that the federal government recently sent representatives to help investigate the agency’s past spending practices. Hoboken Housing Authority Interim Executive Director Robert DiVincent confirmed that the HUD Office of the Inspector General was conducting an investigation of the HHA’s procurement …

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School board: charter school payments higher than expected The city’s public school district must give more money than originally anticipated to local charter schools for the 2014-15 school year, district Business Administrator William Moffitt announced at a Dec. 9 meeting of the Hoboken Board of Education. After fall enrollment numbers showed a higher concentration of …

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The Planning Board ruled this past Tuesday that the city’s Redevelopment Plan for the Hoboken rail yards is sufficiently consistent with the city’s Master Plan to clear the way for its approval by the City Council. However, it added 13 recommendations for the council concerning the contours of development near the city’s southern border. The …

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