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 […]
Hoboken’s automatic parking garage that last week we mentioned for its failure to return cars to its owners has
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg blasted developer Larry Silvstein’s involvment in the the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. Of course, let us not forget that the World Trade Center was owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. When the trade center was built, a compromise was reached where the […]
The much talked about rent control ordinance changes was passed by Hoboken’s council, despite recent revelations that three of the council members are landlords with a questionable history of following the existing rent control laws themselves. Shortly after the ordiance was passed, Hoboken was sued. Good Government surrenders.
Another passenger on the light rail who failed to produce a ticket stub was arrested for having Crystal Meth making the light rail one of the most effective anti-drugs. In other news, the Light Rail line apparently extends to someplace where people use Crystal Meth, otherwise known as Iowa.
Three Hoboken council people accused of having incomplete property ownership records have accused the city’s rent control office of losing the paperwork. Not so, says the head of the city’s rent control board, demanding that the council members prove they actually filed the reports. In other news, the city council is rumored to be looking […]
The Newport Mall is raising parking rates ensuring that the last five people who actually shop at the mall will not be returning this holiday season. Malls in Paramus, Wayne, and Woodbridge still offer free parking.
Having solved all the other problems with New York’s subway system, the MTA is looking into granting a fare holiday to riders of the subway and local buses on weekends between Thanksgiving and the New Year. The fare holiday is in lieu of improving weekend service, which is particularly abominable during the holiday season when […]
The council voted to extend drinking hours of bars along Newark Avenue creating a restaurant row. Essentially the ordiance allows restaurants to serve alcohol beyond the 11pm curfew previously enforced, to 2 a.m. on weeknights and 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. The intent is that new restaurants will open along Newark Avenue, further […]
Two New Jersey comics are hoping to make Hoboken the star of a new sitcom. The pitch involves an Italian-American family with creators Mike Marino and Sarit Catz hoping to sell the pilot for the 2006 season.
