Category: Hoboken News

The Hoboken Reporter has been profiling all three slates running for the Hoboken Board of Education in the election on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Last week, we profiled Parents for Progress. The following installment takes a look at the Education for all Children slate. To read past stories, see hudsonreporter.com. Watch for a wrap-up next week. …

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The Hoboken Reporter has been profiling all three slates running for the Hoboken Board of Education in the election on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Last week, we profiled Parents for Progress. The following installment takes a look at the Parents for Change slate. For older stories, see the Hoboken section of hudsonreporter.com. Of all the slates …

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When Hoboken’s residents get tired of fighting for empty seats on the PATH train and promotions at work, they come home and relax by trying to top their neighbors with the earliest and most outlandish Halloween decorations. This phenomenon is most visible the upper reaches of Park, Bloomfield, and Garden streets, where by the beginning …

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After an almost 15 month lapse, live music returned to Maxwell’s Tavern this past Friday with the debut performance of singer-songwriter Elise Testone in Hoboken. After reopening the iconic bar and music venue at Eleventh and Washington Streets as a family friendly Italian restaurant in July, new owners Peter Carr, Evan Dean, and Rick Sorkin …

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Food pantry to hold benefit concert and dinner Sunday Oct. 26 In Jesus Name, a faith-based food pantry in Hoboken, will hold a benefit concert this Sunday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m. at St. Matthew Trinity Church, located at Eighth and Hudson streets. The performers all hail from Redeemer Hoboken, a local independent Presbyterian church, …

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The City Council has taken its boldest step yet to overhaul the city’s confusing and much-maligned parking regime, approving a $5 million bond to install automated meters throughout the city, including residential areas, at a meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 15. Expanding and modernizing the city’s parking meters was one of the recommendations included in the …

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Your Move Dance Festival is New Jersey’s longest-running annual modern dance event, designed to support choreographers from New Jersey, New York and beyond. Now in its fifth season, Your Move announced recently a new partnership with DeBaun Performing Arts Center in Hoboken, while keeping its previous partnership with Jersey City-based Art House Productions. This year …

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Over the next two weeks, the Hoboken Reporter will be individually profiling all three slates running for the Hoboken Board of Education in the upcoming general election on Tuesday, Nov. 4. The following initial installment takes a look at the Parents for Progress slate. If you aren’t a Parent Teacher Organization member at Wallace Elementary …

Continue reading “Running without the rancor

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Stevens Institute of Technology remains convinced that a proposed two-building academic complex at Sixth and Hudson streets can and will become the crown jewel of its ambitious plan to grow, modernize, and diversify its campus on Castle Point. However, university representatives this week officially requested a delay of the complex’s hearing before the Zoning Board …

Continue reading “Stevens Gateway hearing postponed – for now

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The first time Erin Esteves worked at Hoboken Catholic Academy, she hardly ever made it out of the basement. After the Hurricane Sandy storm surge triggered an oil contamination in the crawl space beneath the academy building at Seventh and Madison streets, Esteves was called in as a senior scientist to help reclaim the site. …

Continue reading “From the basement to head of the class

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