Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
About this issue This is the annual “Year in Review” issue of the Hudson Reporter newspapers. It replaces your regular issues in Guttenberg, Hoboken, Jersey City, North Bergen, Secaucus, Union City, Weehawken, and West New York. The Reporter will return to publishing regular issues next week. To keep up to date, follow our breaking news …
In spite of the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, builders and developers broke ground on projects in almost every local town in 2013, looking to capitalize on the county’s geographic prominence and influx of young and wealthy residents. Jersey City For much of the past decade, the LeFrak Organization’s massive Newport development project, …
Continue reading “Gold Coast continues to shine
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For local politics, 2013 wasn’t the best of years or the worst of years, but it will be marked as a year in which the old political order in several corners came to an end. This is particularly true in Jersey City and Hoboken, where the traditional political party lines were pushed aside in favor …
Continue reading “End of an era
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With Superstorm Sandy more than a year in the past, many businesses have started to thrive again. The Super Bowl in February is expected to bring significant business to the area. In addition, even in a slowly recovering economy, thousands of new units of development are being created throughout the county, adding new residents who …
Continue reading “Opportunity meets ingenuity
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The city of Hoboken announced last week that it had entered into a partnership with the city of Jersey City and the Township of Weehawken to bring a joint bike sharing program to the three municipalities that will allow residents to rent one of 650 bikes available up and down the Gold Coast. The Regional …
Continue reading “Riding up and down the waterfront
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The City Council approved the hiring of a New York-based engineering and design firm a week ago Wednesday to head a massive renovation of Frank Sinatra Drive. Some council members said they were more comfortable with the company after meeting with them privately and hearing their ideas for the project. Community activists from the Fund …
Continue reading “After controversy, city approves Sinatra Drive design firm
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“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 …
Continue reading “A successful sci-fi author and his ‘Chum’
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Nobody could be happier than Ligia Builes when she was able to purchase a modern remake of the classic Edward Hopper painting “East Wind Over Weehawken” earlier this month. That’s because nobody else can claim to own the white home prominently featured in the painting. Back in 1934, popular American artist Edward Hopper painted a …
Continue reading “Hopper comes home
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Reporter holiday ad deadlines, office closings The offices of the Hudson Reporter will be open on Monday, Dec. 30. They will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 in observance of New Year’s Day. The office will reopen Thursday, Jan. 2. Thus, the advertising and editorial deadlines for the Hudson Reporter newspapers …
About 30 Hoboken residents attended a public meeting on Monday night to discuss what they consider major issues associated with a massive renovation and redesign project of Washington Street that is expected to begin sometime in 2014. The meeting, which was moderated by the urban design firm RBA Group and city officials, was set up …
Continue reading “Parking, bike lanes, and traffic lights
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