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Hoboken Artists’ Studio Tour drew many

Caren Matzner, Editor
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Hoboken Artists’ Studio Tour drew many

The Hoboken Artists’ Studio Tour (Saturday, Nov. 3 and Sunday, Nov. 4) drew hundreds of visitors to the city’s art studios, restaurants, and other creative venues to enjoy paintings, photography, fashion, music, and all other art forms. The free event ran both days from noon to 6 p.m.

Especially popular were two former factory buildings that now hold artist lofts and businesses: the Neumann Leather building near the city’s southern border, and 720 Monroe St. But there were also numerous individual workshops, apartments, and businesses to visit, including eight galleries.

To learn more, read our story on the event by clicking <<HERE.>>

Hoboken’s 500-foot rule now includes exemptions

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Hoboken’s 500-foot rule now includes exemptions

HOBOKEN – On Wednesday, the Hoboken City Council approved an ordinance which amended the city’s longstanding 500-foot rule.
The 500-foot rule does not allow owners of a plenary retail consumption license to open establishments within 500 feet of each other.
The now amended ordinance includes exemption areas in Hoboken where liquor license owners may open closer to one another. These areas include several redevelopment zones the Central Business District, Third Ward, and portions of the First Ward.
These areas of exemption are limited by a specific amount of licenses allowed in each area. Officials said the exemptions will not increase the current number of liquor licenses.
The highest amount is 25 plenary retail consumption licenses in the Central Business District and the lowest amount is three plenary retail consumption licenses in the Neumann Leathers Redevelopment Area.
For more information, check out this week,s edition of the Hoboken Reporter.

Opening Reception for “Unclassical: Contemporary Still Lifes by Deborah Pohl”

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Opening Reception for “Unclassical: Contemporary Still Lifes by Deborah Pohl”

The Hoboken Historical Museum invites you to the Opening Reception for our latest Upper Gallery exhibit, “Unclassical: Contemporary Still Lifes by Deborah Pohl.” The reception will take place at 1301 Hudson Street in Hoboken on Sunday, September 11 from 2 – 5 p.m.

The artist will be present, and refreshments will be served. On Friday, September 9 at 7pm, the Museum will also be livestreaming an Artist Talk with Deborah and Museum Director Bob Foster at “hobokenmuseum” on YouTube and Facebook.

Deborah Pohl was awarded a 2022 Fellowship for painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work has been shown in dozens of solo and group shows for over 30 years. Of this latest series, she says, “My paintings occupy the category of still life while working against the genre’s expectations. Classic still life objects, like fruit and drapery, are combined with overlooked and often discarded relics of our everyday lives. I use traditional oil painting methods in order to beautify the ignored and mundane.” www.deborahpohl.com/

Deborah Pohl has been a proud and involved Hoboken artist since 1996. Deborah’s connection with the Hoboken artist community began with figure drawing classes at the Liquid Lounge. She later started working out of an art studio in the Neumann Leather Building and has been displaying her work through the years in the city’s local art spaces and citywide arts tours.

KILNISAN, STEPHEN

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KILNISAN, STEPHEN

A celebration of the life of long-time Hoboken resident Stephen Kilnisan, 68, took place Feb. 1. He passed away Jan.  27 due to complications arising from end-stage renal failure. Stephen was born in Budapest, Hungary. At the age of six, he fled his native Budapest at the height of the 1956 Revolution. Evading the advancing Soviet tanks, he and his parents trekked 100 miles by foot, through the fields and forests of the Hungarian countryside until they reached safety in Austria over a week later. They subsequently immigrated to Hoboken and within several years, through diligent saving and sweat equity, acquired the Hoboken Dairy Queen, which in the 1970s under his management became one of the first retail outlets on the East Coast to offer video rentals. A life-long entrepreneur and community activist, Stephen created a variety of businesses reflecting his varied interests from jewelry making to e-commerce to comic books. In the 1980s, working with a local business group, he helped spearhead the revitalization of Hoboken’s First Street as a viable commercial district. After earning a degree in gemology, he opened a small boutique on First Street, specializing in custom-made jewelry, eventually expanding operations to New York City’s diamond district. In the latter end of his career, he returned to his first love, comic books, establishing a comic book emporium in the Neumann Leathers Building. A gifted raconteur, Stephen was working at the time of his death on a memoir chronicling his early years as an immigrant, entitled “The Boy King of Hoboken.” He was a graduate of Stevens Academy and attended Stevens Institute of Technology on full academic scholarship. He leaves behind his wife Maureen, his mother Eva Kilnisan of Hoboken and cousins George Jambor of Chicago, Ill. and Teresa Kilnisan of Budapest, Hungary. Services arranged by the Lawton-Turso Funeral Home, Hoboken.

HUDSON REPORTER BRIEFS

Marilyn Baer, Staff Writer
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HUDSON REPORTER BRIEFS

45 people let go from CarePoint Health corporate offices in Jersey City

Forty-five people from the corporate offices of CarePoint Health in Jersey City were laid off on Tuesday, March 3.

CarePoint Health has dissolved and has been liquidating its assets, including selling Bayonne Medical Center (BMC), Christ Hospital in Jersey City, and Hoboken University Medical Center (HUMC).

Hoboken community meeting on Neumann Leathers Redevelopment agreement scheduled

Hoboken’s Department of Community Development will host a community meeting to solicit input for a proposed Neumann Leathers Redevelopment Agreement.

The meeting will take place on Monday, March 16 at 6:30 pm at the Multi-Service Center,124 Grand St.

Pro Wrestling event raises nearly $3K for Special Olympics

Despite some underhanded shenanigans by villainous challengers The Masked Superstars, including a sneak attack on the ref, the winners of the main event lumberjack match at the Rec Center on Feb. 29 were the Law & Order team, featuring NPBD’s own Frank “Mr. North Bergen” Mena and Big George Sombarriba.

With strong support from the community, the event raised nearly $3,000 for the Special Olympics. This is the seventh year the Township of North Bergen, the Recreation Department, and the NBPD have collaborated to bring ECPW to town to support the Special Olympics.

Public hearing announced for NJ Transit Records Building

A public hearing regarding the future of New Jersey Transit Records Building, adjacent to the Hoboken bus terminal, is scheduled for Tuesday, March 17 at 6:30 p.m at the Multi-Service Center (124 Grand Street).

The building was constructed in 1904 and has fallen into disrepair and is considered unsafe structure by the NJ Department of Community Affairs.

As required by the State Historic Preservation Office, NJ Transit is analyzing alternatives to demolition of the building, which will be presented at this public meeting.

Hundreds fill Lawler Community Room for Immigration and Census Forum

Hundreds of North Bergen residents filled the large community room in the Lawler Towers on Feb. 26 for Mayor Nicholas Sacco’s forum on the 2020 census and immigration issues.

Sacco stressed the critical importance of responding accurately to the census, which determines how much money is allocated to the township for key public services like hospitals, fire departments, schools, roads, and other resources.

Support the Hoboken Community Center

The Taste of Hoboken, a fundraiser to pay for the renovation of the Hoboken Community Center, will take place on March 18 at the Wesley J. Howe Center, 1 Castle Point, in the Bissinger Room. The evening begins at 6 p.m. and includes wine, beer, live music, and bites from favorite Hoboken restaurants. Tickets begin at $75. To purchase a ticket or for more information go to http://hobokencc.org/taste.

See the ‘The Lion King’ for free at the Kennedy Branch on March 14

Everyone is invited to come see the classic family film “The Lion King” for free at the North Bergen Free Public Library’s Kennedy Branch at 2123 Kennedy Blvd on Saturday, March 14 at 12:45 p.m.

Applications open for Jersey City Youth Works Initiative

The online application process for summer youth employment opportunities, under the Jersey City Youth Works initiative, has opened.

Positions are available for residents, ages 15 – 24, in areas such as junior/senior camp counselors, recreation aides, lifeguards, locker room attendants, security guards, as well as other job positions.

Residents can submit applications for City Youth Jobs through the Jersey City Youth Works website.

The application process to City Youth Jobs begins with the online application open through March 31, 2020.  Representatives of participating organizations will then interview individuals who are selected.  For more information, visit www.jerseycityyouthworks.org

Guttenberg’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Party is March 14

Mayor Wayne Zitt and the Guttenberg Town Council invite everyone to “Go Green” at the town’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade and party on Saturday, March 14.

The fun begins with the parade, kicking off at 1 p.m. at 68th Street and Madison Street and circling through town, winding up at the Wild Rover Pub, 7103 Park Ave., where there will be a bandstand and live music from the bands Finish

T-Ball Registration open now

T-Ball registration is now available for boys and girls ages four through six from North Bergen and Guttenberg residents only. Parents can register Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. until Apr. 1 at the North Bergen Recreation Center, 6300 Meadowview Ave.

Registrants are required to provide proof of residency and a birth certificate or passport. There is a non-refundable $35 fee. All forms of payment are accepted.

 

 

Cool Customers

Kate Rounds, Editor
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Cool Customers

There’s a lot going on in Hoboken. Just ask our Hoboken Reporter staff writer, Marilyn Baer, who writes ongoing stories on hot-button issues such as the budget, Union Dry Dock, scooter rules, green space, you name it.

In Hoboken 07030, we cover cool-button issues: cool people to know, cool things to look at, and cool stuff to do in the beautiful spring and summer season.

Speaking of seasonal fun, in this issue, Marilyn takes a look at Resilience Adventures.  This great organization combines fun paddle sports with environmental awareness. On the Hudson River, right off the boat house, folks can learn to use paddle boards and kayaks, and search for sea life along the shoreline.

Pat Bonner gets down and dirty with some cheese. In our “On the Job With” segment, Pat heads down to Fiore’s to find out just how they make their famous mutz. Don’t try this at home!

We welcome Diana Schwaeble back to the Hudson Reporter family. Diana talks suits and pocket squares with Joseph Genuardi, tailor to the stars. Tucked away in the Neumann Leathers Building, he custom-makes suits for the likes of Barack Obama, and, yes, that other guy who currently occupies the White House.

Diana also gets the lowdown on Hoboken’s Rocket Club.

Tara Ryazansky hits the stacks to get the full story on Hoboken Public Library Director Lina Podles.

Meanwhile, I had a blast talking journalism with kids at the Mustard Seed School.

I was poking around in the dictionary the other day and discovered that the word “magazine” is derived from the word “storehouse.”

In each issue we strive to offer you a storehouse of information. Email me at krounds@hudsonreporter.com and let me know what you would like to see in our storehouse.

Saturday Night Live

Kate Rounds, Editor
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Saturday Night Live

The Neumann Leather building is a real hot spot on the first Saturday of each month. That’s when Issa Sow’s first-floor Issyra Gallery on Observer Highway hosts ONE ART—HOBOKEN, a monthly music, poetry, and art series that features Hudson County performers.

“Each event aims to bring together vibrant multigenerational, multicultural, multi-genre performing artists to audiences from Hoboken and neighboring towns,” according to cofounder Danny Shot.

Performers have included the bands Barbiana Complex, Tulula, Gene& D. Plumbers , Emily & the Ideals, Café Touba, Jaliyakafo, and Sewelsonics; poets Andy Clausen, Pamrla Twining, Jim Cohn, Poonam Srivastava, and John T. Trigonis; and fashion designer Mike Sylla.

In our Winter 2016 issue of Hoboken 07030 we profiled Issa Sow.  He and his gallery are a force to be reckoned with. It’s a gorgeous, artsy space, jam-packed with all kinds of artworks and artifacts.

Issa was already hosting weekend events with bands, musicians, poetry readings, and art exhibits. When he partnered with Danny, a retired high school English teacher, in the fall of 2017, these causal events became ONE ART—HOBOKEN.

Depending on the weather, the event attracts anywhere from 40 to 100 people who come from Jersey City, Weehawken, and even New York City when the PATH cooperates. It’s BYOB, but no food unless someone happens to bring something.

“Our mission is to have a place where the arts can flourish in post, hyper-gentrified Hoboken,” Danny says. “In accordance with that, we get acts that don’t always fit together. We’ll bring in a young band with an older, established one.”

Issa is a guy who welcomes one and all into his space because he “likes to make people happy.”

Sounds like Issa and Danny are doing just that—Kate Rounds

The 500-Foot Bar Rule, Redux

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The 500-Foot Bar Rule, Redux

Dear Editor:

This letter is concerned with the effort to create exceptions to the longstanding city rule that plenary retail consumption license holders may not open within 500 feet of one another. According to the article in the Hoboken Reporter, June 25, 2017, the proposed areas of exception include a very large part of Hoboken; the Southern Redevelopment Area, the Central Business District, the Neumann Leathers Redevelopment Area, the Western Edge Redevelopment Area, the Southwest Redevelopment Area, the 3rd Ward, the 1st Ward, and any area designated as a theater exception.
This would also entail an increase in the number of liquor licenses. Although this proposal is stated to be “in the best interest of the city”, that is certainly not true. Our city is already seriously fouled by the existing bars and this would only get worse if exceptions to the 500-feet rule are relaxed in any way, for any reason whatever. There is already excessive noise from bars on the lower Washington Street strip, a plethora of loud and often violent drunks on the streets late at night, lots of litter, and really ugly traffic congestion due to uncontrollable double parking, as one can readily verify by a visit to lower Washington Street on a weekend night. These conditions persist all night until about 3 am. While the police report that they try to control the traffic and double parking, they also say that after ticketing, more double parked cars spontaneously appear.
The result is chaotic. Because of the double parking, cars in transit are forced to move to the center of the street and even into the opposing lane, creating a dangerous situation. Drunks wander out into the street against the traffic lights, crossing any place along the blocks (very often not at corners) creating dangerous situations for themselves and for drivers. Furthermore, wandering drunks also foul the streets, using our streets as toilets and engaging in sex in alleys. We really do not need more of this. A particularly noxious proposed exception to the 500 foot rule is that of “extraordinary circumstances like claiming an extreme hardship”, which can obviously be severely abused.
For example, a newly opened restaurant subject to the exceptionally high rents in the city (or an equivalently high mortgage/loan) could rapidly find itself in extraordinary financial difficulty and make a plea of extreme hardship to get a liquor license and therewith increase its income for survival. However, such a scenario of bad business planning is a vivid picture of irresponsibility if not deliberate scheming to create another bar. The quality of life in our city should not be subject to such abuse of a “back-door” to yet another liquor license and bar extending the miserable circumstances of the Lower Washington Street strip to other parts of the city.

Sincerely,
Norman Horing

Did you miss these stories over the weekend?

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Did you miss these stories over the weekend?

The Hoboken City Council voted Wednesday to amend a longstanding ordinance prohibiting liquor license holders from opening within 500 feet of each other. The new amendment allows plenary retail consumption license holders to open closer together in certain parts of the city. Also at the council meeting, the council approved contracts to place free WiFi kiosks in town, and petitioners asked the city to try to buy the Union Dry Dock property on the northern waterfront (see sidebar). For around 50 years, the city has had a rule that liquor license holders cannot open within 500 feet of each other, although previously existing businesses were grandfathered in. Hoboken currently has more than 130 liquor licenses in a square mile. Areas that will be exempt include the Southern Redevelopment Area, the Central Business District, the Neumann Leathers Redevelopment Area, the Western Edge Redevelopment Area, the Southwest Redevelopment Area, the 3rd Ward (central west part of town), the area of the 1st Ward not included in the Central Business District or Southern Redevelopment Area, plus any area designated as a theater exception. A “theater exception” allows alcohol sales during intermission at certain theater performances hosted by non-profit groups. Click here for more.

In what local officials are calling an historic moment, the New Jersey Board of Education voted unanimously on July 5 to begin the process that could restore complete control over the Jersey City school district to local authorities. This is the final phase of an action started in October 2015. The state assumed management of the school system in 1989, citing a 75-page report that accused the district of “academic bankruptcy.” In 1989, the New York Times reported that Jersey City schools were “crippled by political patronage and nepotism, weak administration and management, fiscal irregularities, [and] indifference.” On July 5, the state Board of Education voted to adopt Commissioner Kimberley Harrington’s proposal to initiate the state’s withdrawal “from partial intervention” in Jersey City’s public schools and to allow the district “to develop a full transition plan” that would reestablish the control by the local school board. Click here for more.

A diverse and eclectic program of Wednesday evening summer concerts returns to the Lincoln Harbor area as the Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center, Inc. (HRPAC) presents Summer Concerts on the Hudson 2017. This series of free waterfront concerts started on Wednesday, June 28 and will feature top artists from many different musical genres, including Motown, Latin, Jazz, Bluegrass, and Flamenco. It’s co sponsored by the Hudson Reporter. This is not to be confused with another free concert series the township is running this summer, that one at Hamilton Park and Pershing Park. Click here for more.

Recycled into art

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Recycled into art

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. This old adage couldn’t be truer for local artist Issa Sow who, in his latest exhibit, recycled old pieces of wood into canvasses for his colorful works of art.

The exhibit, “Hoboken, from Old to New” in the upper gallery of the Hoboken Historical Museum, features over two dozen paintings by Sow painted on cabinet doors, shutters, and unused pieces of wood found in town.

The exhibit

“Everything is art in my mind,” said Sow. “When I saw it, I just got inspired by it.”

Sow said his goal was to make the wood more beautiful.

“My first thought was someone did a lot of work on it to make that material what it is,” said Sow speaking of the shutters and wood he used. “I see something beautiful and I thought, ‘what can I do to make it even more beautiful?’”

Sow said he is constantly inspired by the world around him and that every moment of the day is full of creation, whether it’s getting up to make breakfast in the morning for him and his family, or sitting in the studio.

He said he  wanted to show that many things can be repurposed and recycled.

“Everybody has to do something to help the world,” said Sow. “If we leave them there will just be more and more trash. We have to figure out a plan and do what we can. If everyone just did one thing the world would be cleaner faster.”

Sow said it took him only 15 days to create the pieces in the exhibit. The works of art, created with brightly hued oil pens, express a lot of different imagery including shapes, faces, and animals.

He said the faces show how all living things are connected.

“We are all the same. We are like the birds, the dogs, the cats, the mice and all human beings,” said Sow. “We all have two eyes and nose. It’s very important for me when you see birds and so many animals and don’t know what they are saying or where they are from, but yet we all live together.”

Artistic rebirth

Sow moved to Hoboken roughly eight years ago and opened his own gallery in the Neumann Leather Building at 300 Observer Hwy. nearly six years ago.

Sow, who is originally from Senegal, said one of the reasons he opened the Issyra Gallery was to learn English.

“I came here and I didn’t speak English,” said Sow, who had tried taking classes in the city before deciding to immerse himself in the language through everyday life at the gallery. “I didn’t have one teacher, I had 20 a day and this made me so happy. Everyone became my teachers. I made so many great friends.”

Sow said he had never done art formerly before he came to Hoboken but moving here he was “born again.”

“I was born again here to start a new life here. It’s a new book,” said Sow. “I am so happy to be here and to understand myself on another level. To understand myself in a different way through art and culture.”

“Everybody has to do something to help the world” — Issa Sow.

Issyra Gallery represents work from local and international artists from Africa as well as his own pieces.

It also hosts events which feature a variety of musicians, artists, and poets once a month in ONE ART-Hoboken.

“Hoboken, from Old to New” is on display in the Upper Gallery of the Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St. until March 10.

Museum hours are from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday; and 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $5.

For updates on this and other stories keep checking www.hudsonreporter.com and follow us on Twitter @hudson_reporter. Marilyn Baer can be reached at Marilynb@hudsonreporter.com.

 

 

 

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