The Port Authority released a revised schedule for the new World Trade Center site. In order to make their deadlines, PATH service to the World Trade Center will be suspended weekends beginning in 2009 and lasting through 2011. PATH riders have already taken a beating by the Port Authorities weekend service changes. As recently as […]
The plague of BJ’s shopping carts in downtown Jersey seems to be slowly subsiding as the wholesale retailer begins installing locking mechanisms on the carts. However, that hasn’t stopped Port Authority employees / contractors from making use of the carts as they do maintenance work in Hoboken.
A U-Haul truck with an attached trailer struck a traffic signal on the corner of Marin Blvd and Grand Streets on Saturday night. The U-Haul continued on without stopping.
Saturday evening at dusk, a car burst into flames on Second Street in downtown Jersey City. The car was located between Erie and Grove Street.
While New York City in recent years has been quite proactively reclaiming space for pedestrians and bicyclists, the same can not be said in Hudson County. That could change thanks to the efforts of Bike Hoboken, a group working to convince city officials to add bicycle lanes throughout Hoboken. They have a plan.
The Hoboken rail yards will eventually be a 54 acre mixed use development with high rise towers according to plans released last week. Three quarters of the land falls within Hoboken with the remainder in Jersey City bordering against Newport. According to The Hudson Reporter, the project will cost as much as $500 million dollars. […]
The New York Times has a bit on New Jersey office real estate markets; construction on several projects in suburban north Jersey are moving forward. More importantly though, vacancy rates on Hudson coast are down to about 8 percent, and new projects are being planned including another tower in Hoboken. Part of the continued strength […]
The Port Authority might be looking to sell the Freedom Tower. Even though the PA was able to build two 110 towers back in the 1960’s, a single 102 story tower may prove too much for them in 2008. Perhaps its time to rethink trusting these people with the Moynihan Station.
A train conductor’s conversation over the weekend provided a few insights on the mysterious new PATH train cars that should arrive this year. Accordingly, the new cars won’t be in service until September at the earliest, and even then, they will undergo a number of test runs through the system before customers actually see the […]
Curbed mentions a bit in the Sun about the fate of the World Trade Center PATH station. Last week, the director of the Port Authority resigned. He was closely linked to sex-o-holic Spitzer, and newly minted Governor Paterson supposedly forced him out. Paterson’s new choice might take this opportunity to scrap plans to build a […]
