Category: Hoboken News

It was supposed to be a simplest of administrative changes—every time a new chair is elected to lead the Hoboken Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners, he or she must be officially authorized to sign the agency’s checks. Somehow, that never happened after Dana Wefer took over as chairwoman of the board that oversees Hoboken’s public …

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Interim police chief comes in third in civil service exam Provisional Police Chief Edelmiro “Eddie” Garcia, who was appointed by Mayor Dawn Zimmer in June to replace retiring Chief Anthony Falco on an interim basis, had the third highest score on the civil service examination required to become chief permanently. Sgt. Melissa Gigante told NJ.com …

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Crime decreased slightly in Hoboken from 2012 to 2013, according to statistics released last month on the state police web site. More recent statistics released at the end of June showed a slight rise when comparing January through May of 2013 with the same months in 2014. From 2012 to 2013, the total number of …

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The 2013-2014 school year has come to a close, but the fight within Hoboken’s public school community over the expansion of a charter school continues. The Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa) got state approval in March to expand to seventh and eighth grade, but some school district officials complained that the district’s charter schools …

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The FIFA World Cup is back, and with it the quadrennial debate over when soccer will finally break through in the United States. Americans, the traditional line goes, are too saturated by football, basketball, baseball, and hockey to pay attention to soccer. But in an area as ethnically diverse as Hudson County, where everyone is …

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HUD Letter questions investigation of Housing Authority Director Garcia The ongoing investigation into Hoboken Housing Authority (HHA) Executive Director Carmelo Garcia’s administrative and financial practices by the agency’s own board hit a snag this week. At a special meeting on Wednesday, the HHA Board of Commissioners tabled a resolution that would have expanded the scope …

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After graduating from Hoboken High School this past Wednesday, the 104 members of the Class of 2014 filled the streets with such boisterous celebration that police officers arrived to direct traffic. The festival mood was a bittersweet complement to the atmosphere of gratitude and obligation struck during the preceding commencement ceremony at John F. Kennedy …

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In the shadow of the Fourteenth Street Viaduct along Hoboken’s northern border, workers are putting the finishing touches on a basketball court and playground. The new county park-in-progress may seem out of place when abutting an empty lot, a defunct factory, and a strip mall. But a planned development that could have brought around 600 …

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