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Hoboken postal worker during the rains and flooding of May 9, 2013.
Showers predicted on and off all week...but sun returns for Memorial Day weekend
HUDSON COUNTY -- The local Accuweather forecast for this week is rain, rain, rain, rain, and rain -- but then, sunshine emerges for Memorial Day weekend. For each day, Monday through Friday, at lea...
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Painting of nude Bea Arthur, done in Hoboken, sells for $1.9 M
HOBOKEN AND BEYOND -- A painting entitled “Bea Arthur Naked,” which depicts artist John Currin’s vision of how the “Golden Girls” star might appear without clothing, sold for $1.9 million to an ...
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Three JC council candidates may concede rather than face runoff...but they must sue to have names kept off ballot
JERSEY CITY AND BEYOND – On Monday the Office of the City Clerk will draw ballot positions for the June 11 runoff election for eight of the nine council wards. Some candidates whose names are ex...
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Will New Jersey raise smoking age to 21?
HOBOKEN AND BEYOND -- Hoboken-based Assemblyman Ruben Ramos plans to sponsor legislation in the state Assembly to move the age of buying tobacco products from 19 to 21. He joined lawmakers in Ne...
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N.J. authority expected to OK American Dream plan to add indoor amusement, water parks
MEADOWLANDS -- According to an article in the Record on Thursday, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority is expected to sign off tomorrow on a developer's plan to add water parks and i...
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DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES – As recent events have shown, any strong rainstorm during high tide will most likely result in severe flooding around Hoboken.
City takes steps to curb flooding
Announces varied approach

Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced on Wednesday a plan to install a $9 million emergency flood pump station on 11th Street near the Hudson River, which she said would help alleviate the city’s long-term...
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ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FOURTH GRADER? -- All Saints Episcopal Day School fourth grader Stephen Christopher presents a piece of his class’ research into the consequences of dog waste on Hoboken streets to the City Council on Wednesday night (see sidebar). Following the students’ presentations, the council descended into its usual infighting.
Fighting words
Councilman refers to Ku Klux Klan as members spar over plan to revamp the projects

Residents of the city’s public housing projects came to Wednesday’s City Council meeting to protest what they said was a politicization of the Housing Authority board, which is supposed to overse...
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HOMETOWN PRIDE – Hoboken residents can bask in the drama of their own history at Mile Square Theater’s “7th Inning Stretch” this weekend. The show consists of 7 10-minute plays about baseball. Here, Paul Muccini and Frank Rosner in Chris O'Connor's “The Mascots” at last year’s show. Photo by Joe Epstein.
Curtain, and batter, up!
Mile Square Theatre kicks off annual baseball-themed ‘7th Inning Stretch’

Before Buddy Valastro took over the Food Network, Hoboken used to be known to the masses for two things – Frank Sinatra and baseball. And while Ol’ Blue Eyes famously detested his hometown, baseb...
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RIDE OUT – Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer (left), Ryan Rzepecki, the CEO of Social Bicycles (middle), and Buddy Valastro, TV’s “Cake Boss” and owner of Carlo’s Bakery, ride some of Hoboken’s new bicycles that are for rent. Hoboken’s partnership with Social Bicycles and Bike and Roll has formed the first hybrid bike sharing/bike rental program in the country. The bike sharing component will be one of the first to use a more flexible, lower-cost “smart lock” technology.
HOBOKEN BRIEFS
City to hold meeting on Willow Avenue redesign The city of Hoboken has invited residents to attend a community meeting to provide feedback on a proposed complete street redesign of a section o...
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Right now, cities from New York to Secaucus are lobbying and jockeying to line up funding and other support for their Super Bowl-related activities.
Super Bowl prep
As preliminary plans come together, local towns search for funding, profits

With the weather heating up, baseball in full swing, and the NBA playoffs just around the corner, it may not seem like time to think about 2013-2014 football season. But with MetLife Stadium playi...
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Arts and Music Festival drew thousands
New foods, local bands were the highlights

It was a mob scene on Washington Street last Sunday, but the good kind of mob scene, where the kids are all smiles and the only obstructions are groups of old friends catching up on what may have...
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SHOVELS AT THE READY – Various elected officials and labor leaders broke ground on the $131 million Park Place development on Park Avenue just north of Fourteenth Street Tuesday morning. From left: Chairman of the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders Anthony Romano, Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, architect Dean Marchetto, developer Larry Bijou, PNC Realty Investors President Kevin McCarthy, Tishman Construction Chief Operating Officer Ed Cettina, Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise, and New Jersey AFL-CIO President Charles Wowkanech.
Zimmer, labor unions break ground on $131million Park Place
Multi-use apartment building will include education, retail space

Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, representatives from a powerful union, developer Larry Bijou, and various Hudson County officials broke ground on northern Hoboken’s newest building on Tuesday morning, ...
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THE GANG’S ALL HERE -- A group of Hudson School students will put a spin on the classic 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” by adding music from Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon,” but the original characters are all accounted for. From left: The Tin Man (Robert Stark), the Scarecrow (Matthew McGowan), Dorothy (Rainni Moran), the Cowardly Lion (Blake Faucher), and the Wizard (Edward Horan).
Dark side of the rainbow
Hudson School re-imagines ‘Oz’ through Pink Floyd and hip-hop

When “The Wiz” hit movie theaters in 1978, it made waves as one of the most daring re-imaginings of a classic in history. Diana Ross as Dorothy? Michael Jackson as the Tin Man? Richard Pryor as th...
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CONCERNED CITIZENS – Around 200 Hoboken residents attended an information session at the city’s high school Thursday night on an impending real estate revaluation process that will begin on Monday.
Citywide tax ‘reval’ to begin Monday
Some will see higher taxes, some lower

Approximately 15,000 Hoboken property owners will see their taxes either rise or fall after a citywide real estate reassessment, or ‘reval’ that begins this Monday. Hoboken homeowners, many of who...
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FACING THE MUSIC – County Executive Tom DeGise introduced the county budget, saying some towns will get hit harder than others.
Will your taxes rise?
Secaucus, Weehawken, Hoboken will suffer most from new $304M county budget

Your property taxes are made up of city taxes, school taxes, and county taxes – the last of which will depend on a $304 million budget that was introduced by the county freeholders last week. This...
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SEUSSICAL – Hoboken High School put on a production of “Seussical: The Musical” last weekend. Over 30 students performed in the show, which was lauded by the community. Got photos or information about a school event in Hoboken? E-mail DeanD@hudsonreporter.com.
HOBOKEN BRIEFS
Stuiver out as Hoboken Housing Authority chairman, Davis voted in with fanfare Hoboken Housing Authority residents cheered as Robert Davis III, a longtime city resident, was elected the Authori...
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HASTY EXIT – Hoboken City Council President Peter Cunningham abruptly left Wednesday night’s council meeting before its conclusion after refusing to call a vote that would support a new public housing building on Harrison Street.
Council members walk out during housing vote
Firefighters get paid; silence on rent control is broken

The Hoboken City Council saved its best for last on Wednesday night, when Hoboken Housing Authority Executive Director Carmelo Garcia made a last-ditch effort to gather support for a new housing ...
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