Showhank Hill, a blog, has uncovered a the Library of Congress archive of photographs, including one of a Jersey City Streetscape. Potholes be damned, at least the streets today are paved.
The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority hired Dan Becht to serve as the executive director for a mere $100,000. “The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority pledges to operate and maintain its sewerage and water facilities in a fashion that will protect the public health and environment of all its constituents. It will always strive to […]
One of the new developments in Hoboken’s backwater has promised space for artists, many former residents at 111 First Street in Jersey City. For now it seems the developers are hoping that the artists will help bring in higher rents for the luxury developments they are building. After all, at least for now, the many […]
Today you should be voting between 6AM and 8PM. The big choice on the ballot is for the next Governor of New Jersey. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, is a Hoboken resident. Doug Forrester, a Republican, is not a Hoboken resident. The real question that’s burning in our mind is that if Corzine wins, will he […]
After weeks of discussing the use of eminent domain to seize a local bar for use by a Roman Catholic High School, the city has relented and decided to allow the bar to stay.
Hoboken’s PATH station is not particularly pedestrian friendly, or at least, for pedestrians not willing to make cars stop for them [experience shows us that cars will stop if you walk in front of them]. A traffic light has been erected at Hudson Place to allow pedestrians to cross. Meanwhile, another “pedestrian friendly” initiative is […]
Hoboken’s recent controversial rent control ordiance changes may very well be reversed by a referendum in the near future. Former mayoral candidate Dan Thumpson delivered 70 pages of signatures to the clerks office. That’s 1,500 people who support a referendum. The changes to rent control ordinances which limit tenants’ ability to collect reimbursements for illegal […]
When Newport Mall raised its parking fees last week, we were appalled, less so because of the fee increase and more so that people actually go to Newport to shop. Meanwhile, the Jersey Journal did a survey and the results are in. 66% of respondants said they would go to the mall more often if […]
The Village Voice has taken the time to cross the Hudson River and ventured into Hoboken. Choice quotation: “[The PATH], late at night, predictability wanes, making the F train seem as punctual as a Buckingham guard by comparison.” It makes you laugh because its true.
The Newport Mall’s recent decision to raise fees for parking might be revisited, though no effort to turn the mall into a place that people actually want to shop at will be made. In what might not surprise anyone at this point, Councilman Steve Fulop, or one of his many clones, somehow turned up. Fulop […]
