Category: Hoboken News

“Chum,” the new novel by Jersey City native and current Hoboken resident Jeff Somers, is in many ways just another step in what the author described last week as “a mobius strip of a career.” Written a little over a decade ago but never published, the dark comedy about relationships between a group of friends …

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The Hoboken City Council took the final steps on Wednesday night in a nearly year-long process to acquire a 1-acre plot of land in southwest Hoboken that is already in the process of becoming the city’s next public park. The final payment by the city for the property, in the area of $2 million, was …

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Rockefeller family: We’re not involved in Chris Christie/Hoboken issue, and we don’t own Rockefeller Group The Rockefeller family may be rich, but they don’t own land in Hoboken. They wanted to clarify that because recently, the Rockefeller Group, a development company in New York, has been mentioned in connection with a controversy involving Gov. Chris …

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The city of Hoboken will soon issue public requests for planning and design firms to submit concepts for how specifically the city’s North End Redevelopment Zone should be developed, officials said last week. The Requests for Proposals (RFPs) will be issued in the coming weeks, and the city is hoping to award a contract soon …

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A team of students at the Stevens Institute of Technology unveiled on Wednesday an unmanned submarine designed to locate and gather intelligence about suspected unexploded bombs sitting on the ocean floor. The drone, called Perseus II, was constructed by the students through a partnership with the Rapid Reaction Technology Office, an office in the Department …

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Approximately 25 Hoboken residents attended the second of three community meetings on Tuesday night meant to gather the public’s ideas for a new park in the southwest of town set to break ground sometime later this year. Representatives from the firm hired by the city to head the park’s design and construction, Starr Whitehouse, were …

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In 2013, the Hoboken High School Theatre Company performed one of their toughest shows yet. “Rent” – a story of love and love lost amidst the AIDS crisis in early ’90s New York City – was lauded both by audience members and, later, by the judges of the Paper Mill Playhouse’s statewide Rising Stars competition, …

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Garcia refiles nearly identical lawsuit against Zimmer, but without ‘ethnic cleansing’ accusations Newly elected State Assemblyman Carmelo Garcia, who also serves as the executive director of the Hoboken Housing Authority, recently refiled a lawsuit against Mayor Dawn Zimmer, along with her husband and a political operative, alleging that the trio engaged in patronage practices which …

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