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| January 28, 2015 |
City of Hoboken
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Community: Public Invited to Hoboken State of the City Address
Dear Horsey & MSV readers,
Mayor Dawn Zimmer invites all members of the community to attend her fifth State of the City address. The event will take place on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 7:00 pm at the DeBaun Auditorium in Edwin A. Stevens Hall on the campus of Stevens Institute of Technology. Seating is open to the public and tickets are not needed to attend.
The main entrance is on 5th Street directly across from the Stevens Park. The wheelchair entrance is located in the rear entrance of the building on River Street with handicapped parking located behind the two buildings (McLean & Babbio) located directly across the street from the ramp. For additional information, visit: http://ugstudentlife.stevens.edu/org/debauncenter/DeBaun_Auditorium_Directions. |
Well not quite, but the shades of differences among the varied corners of Hudson County are uniting for the re-election of County Executive Tom Deguise.
Deguise is the executive over a budget of more than $500 million dollars and his interface with government above and below is critical to the smooth operation of government on both ends.
Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced her support for what appears to be an unopposed bid for re-election. The mayor’s nod to the inevitable comes after almost every single Hudson County mayor endorsed Deguise in an early strategic bid to retain the role. Mayor Steve Fulop is the sole Hudson County mayor who has not come in from the cold.
The video of the announcement comes courtesy of John Heinis of the Hudson County View.
Talking Ed Note: Hudson County is already conquered as far as the re-election bid for County Executive but MSV does not agree with it nor Mayor Zimmer.
Until Hudson County begins to make the professional reforms seen here in Hoboken and based on 21st century governance standards, no backing for existing leadership is warranted. Hoboken is vacuumed annually tens of millions of dollars, the effectiveness being very much in doubt. Read More...
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| Tuesday January 27, 2015, 7:48 AM |
City of Hoboken
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Advisory: Travel Ban Lifted; No Parking on Snow Emergency Routes
Dear Horsey & MSV readers,
The travel ban in Hoboken and the State of New Jersey has been lifted. If driving, please exercise caution. Crews continue to spread salt, but roads may remain icy due to low temperatures.
Parking remains prohibited on snow emergency routes until further notice. Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended today. All other parking rules remain in effect. |
City of Hoboken announces:
HOBOKEN TRAVEL BAN IN EFFECT AS OF 9:00 PM
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For the third year in a row, the winner of Mutz Fest is:
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Mr. Biancamano and family with the trophy for best mutz in Hoboken.
Let it snow mutz! Ma, the mutz! |
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Office of the Mayor announces:
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After more than five years of dedicated service to the City of Hoboken, Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s Chief of Staff, Daniel Bryan, has decided to pursue a new career opportunity. He is joining Beckerman Public Relations in Hackensack, where he will be a senior member of the public affairs team.
“Dan has been a key member of my team from the beginning and has played an important role in all that we have achieved,” said Mayor Zimmer. “I am confident that he will be as much of an asset in his new position as he has been to the City of Hoboken. Dan has played a critical role both in the day to day business of the City and in helping to manage the many crises our City has faced. He has become a good friend both to me and to his colleagues in City Hall. We wish him the very best in his new career.” Read More...
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The City Council overwhelmingly voted Tiffanie Fisher back to the Hoboken Zoning Board in a convincing 7-2 vote Wednesday night. A vote for Fisher came up short at the previous council meeting.
The vote total comes amidst the backdrop of much politicking and varied political agendas on the critical board tainted with corruption in recent years.
Fisher via email offered a statement writing, “I was really proud to be part of the Zoning Board last year and mainly because I felt like each decision was made by a group of people who asked all the right questions, exercised discipline in a difficult environment and always acted in the best interest of Hoboken residents.” Read More...
Paul J. Somerville, a Hoboken resident born in St. Mary’s hospital, (now HUMC) was honored for his outstanding service and dedication to the City of Hoboken by Mayor Zimmer at the City Council meeting last night. He kindly submitted these remarks appearing here.
Although not without its
challenges and triumphs, battles lost and won, it has been my sincere honor and
pleasure to have served as a Historic Preservation Commissioner in Hoboken for
fourteen years. In that time, part of
which was spent as the Chairman, many of the initiatives I was involved with
have begun to bear fruit, including adherence to the U.S. Secretary of the
Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties; the expansion of
the historic districts and; the revamping of the Historic Preservation
Ordinance component of the City of Hoboken’s Zoning Code. The Preservation Commission is now populated
with professionals in the fields of architecture, engineering, construction,
archiving, archaeology and historic preservation, ensuring that the application
process is smooth and objective. This
makeup of the Commission also enables Hoboken to attain Certified Local
Government Status and in so doing, access heretofore unavailable state funding
for Hoboken for a variety of programs.
“It has been said that, at its best, preservation
engages the past in a conversation with the present over a mutual concern for
the future.” – William Murtagh, first keeper of the National Register
of Historic Places
While I’m stepping away from my
seat on the Hoboken Historic Preservation Commission, I am committed to
preservation efforts in our City, region and nation and will always remain
involved in those endeavors that help define who we are and who we wish to
become. By understanding our past, our
present is greatly enriched and through preservation, our future has a context
that we can shape in the most life-affirming ways. That is the goal of preservation; not merely
to enhance the dining and shopping experiences of a privileged few through a
murky lens of a misleading nostalgia, but to work to ensure that we, as
stewards of our cultural resources, protect them for the future, and through
this work, foster the crucial understanding that these efforts are relevant and
that the “eyewitness objects”, structures and places of our shared history
matter.
Many who have moved to Hoboken as
adults, and those who have been here their whole lives, speak about Hoboken’s
scale, its walk-ability, safety and charm.
They will describe the friendly feel, the pleasant interactions with
independent shopkeepers and impromptu meetings with neighbors. The settings for these encounters are the
streets, stoops, parks, farmers’ markets and other gathering places in our
tiny, diverse, urban village. Whether
they realize it or not, they are describing the positive outcomes of historic
preservation. The continuation of these
elements that serve to attract and retain many of our residents and businesses
cannot be taken for granted and deserve our utmost vigilance and the
implementation of excellent and thoughtful zoning ordinances.
Much of the work and focus of the
Hoboken Historic Preservation Commission is transactionally driven through the
application process and largely concerns the built environment of the more
conventionally beautiful structures. However, Hoboken’s rich industrial past,
its unique geological formations, its view sheds and view corridors are also
historic and worthy of protection. A pro-active
emphasis for these elements can and should be at the core of preservation
initiatives as much has already been lost and what remains has never been more
threatened. When and if new structures
are to be built, archaeology, which has been largely ignored in the
preservation process, must play an expanding role.
Although it’s difficult to step
away from this work in the city I love, where my father’s maternal ancestors
settled five generations ago, I am confident that my fellow commissioners will
continue to improve the functioning of the historic preservation commission and
its important role in shaping our City’s future by preserving its past.
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