JerseyCityVibe has listed some more information about the Jersey City Medical Center revitalization project. The Art Deco building is a little outside of the area we consider our coverage zone, but we also can’t ignore a project of this size, especially since we have a fondness for Art Deco. The project’s scope is a massive […]
Councilman Steven Fulop wants developer Steve Hyman to pay for the city lawyer investigating the sale of the Sixth Street Embankment. Hyman wants to build condos, Fulop it seems is taking up the advocacy of park supporters.
Hoboken blogger Mister Snitch has raised the subject of free, cheap, and commercial citywide Wi-Fi internet. Which brings up a little suggestion we’d like to make to our own city government: bring free municipal wi-fi to Jersey City. Philidelphia is getting it. San Fransisco is getting it. Dozens of smaller towns across the west already […]
Fuel costs are hitting cab drivers, say their union who are considering a strike if the Taxi and Limousine Commission does not raise fares. Also causing friction is the proposal to install GPS units in taxi cabs. Meanwhile, your cab driver still insists he can’t cross the Hudson River without an introduction to Ben Franklin.
The MTA approved a new set of rules for subway riders, although the changes lack the provision on open containers such as water bottles. MTA officials insisted such bottles had been and are still prohibited. The New York Times on summing up the enforcement of oopen containers: “The police will use common sense. Riders are […]
Apparently for months there has been talks of building a Freedom Center at the site of the World Trade Center. The center would have been part museum, part memorial, and in either case, many people who lost friends and relatives saw it as offensive. The project has been effectively killed by a grass roots effort. […]
For those of you who embrace independent coffee shops and are quite happy not to have a local Starbucks, chceck out the review of the Janam Indian Tea Shop in the Hudson Current. “It is definitely a neighborhood shop. People kept popping in to say hello to the friendly counter girl”
The elevated sixth street embankment that has recieved quite a bit of attention as developer Steve Hyman attempts to replace the structure with condos. The land was sold to them by by Conrail and now the city is spending $20,000 to study whether the sale of the land was legal. The city seems to be […]
Hoboken Terminal is on the List of stations set to recieve improvements to the public address systems by NJ Transit. Anyone who has ridden NJ Transit knows that often they must announce delayed trains, and almost inevitably, these announcements are garbled beyond recognition. The new system will not be any clearer.
It seems that Hoboken’s financial situation has not much improved from last year. Is anyone still surprised?
