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In 1992, the New York Times called Delivered Vacant an “urban epic.” Now, the documentary about Hoboken’s painful gentrification in the 1980s will make an epic return this weekend. The eight-ye...
The rebirth of Ellis IslandConstruction begins on historic buildings, seawall with fed stimulu$
Ellis Island is a place shrouded in legend, the first stop for immigrants on their way to America before and after the turn of the 20th century. Many of the buildings that operated on the island ...
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Land owner can’t build two houses Zoning board denies application
Weehawken’s Zoning Board of Adjustment voted unanimously on Tuesday to deny an application to build a pair of two family-homes on the Palisade hills near Hackensack Plank Road in Weehawken. Afte...
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A walk through the pastHistorical commission offers free tours
The Weehawken Historical Commission continues to celebrate Weehawken’s 150th Anniversary with free-of-charge walking tours around town, including historical sites. The tours have lured former res...
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A spooky timeHoboken, Secaucus celebrated last weekend
Halloween on a Saturday – it was too good to be true! Hoboken hosted its Ragamuffin Parade in the afternoon, and the day before, Secaucus’ Clarendon School had hosted an event for the students. T...
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MIDWEEK BRIEFS11/5/09
Jersey City homeowners will see spike of at least $144/yr in water bill Jersey City residents will see a 24 percent jump in their water/sewer bill starting on Jan. 1. That’s due to the Jersey ...
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Capital cuisineLocal restaurateurs cook for White House event
It wasn’t as if Hoboken restaurateur Maricel Presilla and business partner and friend Clara Chaumont actually asked if they to go to Washington, D.C. to cook for the president. Instead, they were...
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Carnival of caringJC private school students raise money for African schoolchildren
Children are taught from an early age to show concern for others less fortunate, develop empathy, and be thankful if they’re in a more fortunate situation. Those lessons were taken to heart recen...
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Emerging voicesPower House Arts District café serves food and film
Too often artists struggle with the very real problem of lack of space to express themselves creatively. Yet on a recent Friday night, a bustling party in the Power House Arts District tells a di...
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All that brassSaxophone quartet blows through the waterfront
The Amstel Quartet, an all-saxophone group named after Amsterdam’s famous river, is coming to the Weehawken waterfront to give a free concert this Thursday. Featuring some of the group’s most pop...
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No coffee shop on the cliffsActivists sue to stop stores from being built into Palisades
Construction began last December on a small parcel of land across from Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, an attempt by Avak Properties and U&G Development to build three retail stores...
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Tinkerbell Reconsidered
Yoga is a bitch. The joints, man, those joints. You lay off a few decades and everything stiffens. My liftoff is a joke. Five feet tops, then I crash, face first. Never learned how to land proper...
Yoga is a bitch. The joints, man, those joints. You lay off a few decades and everything stiffens. My liftoff is a joke. Five feet tops, then I crash, face first. Never learned how to land proper...
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MIDWEEK BRIEFS10/29/09
A high price for feeding the birds After numerous supposed warnings, a North Bergen woman received more than $4,000 worth of fines and $33 in court fees for feeding Canadian geese along the Hud...
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