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Hoboken, New Jersey

April 26, 2023

"Hoboken" redirects here. For the city district in Belgium, see Hoboken, Antwerp. For other places named "Hoboken", see Hoboken (disambiguation).

Hoboken (/ˈhoʊboʊkən/ HOH-boh-kən;[21] Unami: Hupokàn[22]) is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Hoboken is part of the New York metropolitan area and is the site of Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub for the tri-state region. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 60,419,[11][12] an increase of 10,414 (+20.8%) from the 2010 census count of 50,005,[23] which in turn reflected an increase of 11,428 (+29.6%) from the 38,577 counted in the 2000 census.[24] The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,690 in 2021,[11] ranking the city as the 668th-most-populous in the country.[13] With more than 42,400 inhabitants per square mile (16,400/km2) in data from the 2010 census, Hoboken was ranked as the third-most densely populated municipality in the United States among cities with a population above 50,000.[25] In the 2020 census, the city's population density climbed to more than 48,300 inhabitants per square mile (18,600/km2) of land, ranked fourth in the county behind Guttenberg, Union City and West New York.[11][26]

Hoboken, New Jersey
City
City of Hoboken
An aerial view of Hoboken from above the Hudson River
Flag
Seal
Logo
Nickname: 
The Mile Square City[1]
Location of Hoboken within Hudson County and the state of New Jersey
Census Bureau map of Hoboken, New Jersey
Interactive map of Hoboken, New Jersey
Hoboken
Location in Hudson County
Hoboken
Location in New Jersey
Hoboken
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 40°44′42″N 74°01′57″W / 40.74500°N 74.03250°W / 40.74500; -74.03250Coordinates: 40°44′42″N 74°01′57″W / 40.74500°N 74.03250°W / 40.74500; -74.03250[2][3]
Country United States
State New Jersey
CountyHudson
IncorporatedApril 9, 1849
Government
[8]
 • TypeFaulkner Act (mayor–council)
 • BodyCity Council
 • MayorRavinder Bhalla (term ends December 31, 2025)[4][5]
 • AdministratorJason Freeman[6]
 • Municipal clerkJames J. Farina[7]
Area
[9]
 • Total1.97 sq mi (5.10 km2)
 • Land1.25 sq mi (3.24 km2)
 • Water0.72 sq mi (1.87 km2)  37.50%
 • Rank413th of 565 in state
6th of 12 in county[2]
Elevation
[10]
23 ft (7 m)
Population
 (2020)[11][12]
 • Total60,419
 • Estimate 
(2021)[11][13][14]
58,690
 • Rank668th in country (as of 2021)[13]
27th of 565 in state
5th of 12 in county[15]
 • Density48,335.2/sq mi (18,662.3/km2)
  • Rank4th of 565 in state
4th of 12 in county[15]
Time zoneUTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT))
ZIP Code
07030[16]
Area code201[17]
FIPS code3401732250[2][18][19]
GNIS feature ID0885257[2][20]
Websitehobokennj.gov

Hoboken was first settled by Europeans as part of the Pavonia, New Netherland colony in the 17th century. During the early 19th century, the city was developed by Colonel John Stevens, first as a resort and later as a residential neighborhood. Originally part of Bergen Township and later North Bergen Township, it became a separate township in 1849 and was incorporated as a city in 1855. Hoboken is the location of the first recorded game of baseball and of the Stevens Institute of Technology, one of the oldest technological universities in the United States. It is also known as the birthplace and hometown of Frank Sinatra; various streets and parks in the city have been named after him.

Located on the Hudson Waterfront, the city was an integral part of the Port of New York and New Jersey and was home to major industries for most of the 20th century. The character of the city has changed from an artsy industrial vibe from the days when Maxwell House coffee, Lipton tea, Hostess Cupcakes, and Wonder Bread called Hoboken home, to one of trendy shops and expensive condominiums.[27] It was ranked 2nd in Niche's "2019 Best Places to Live in Hudson County" list.[28] and in 2022, it was ranked 1st on that list.[29]

History

Etymology

The name Hoboken was chosen by Colonel John Stevens when he bought land, on a part of which the city still sits. The Lenape, later called Delaware Indian tribe of Native Americans, referred to the area as the "land of the tobacco pipe", most likely to refer to the soapstone collected there to carve tobacco pipes, and used a phrase that became "Hopoghan Hackingh".[30][31][32] Like Weehawken, its neighbor to the north, Communipaw and Harsimus to the south, Hoboken had many variations in the folks-tongue. Hoebuck, old Dutch for high bluff and likely referring to Castle Point, the district of the city highest above sea level, was used during the colonial era and later spelled as Hobuck,[33] Hobock,[34] Hobuk[35] and Hoboocken.[36] However, in the nineteenth century, the name was changed to Hoboken, influenced by Flemish Dutch immigrants and a folk etymology had emerged linking the town of Hoboken to the similarly-named Hoboken district of Antwerp.[37]

Hoboken has been nicknamed the Mile Square City,[1] but it actually occupies about 1.25 sq mi (3.2 km2) of land.[2] During the late 19th/early 20th century the population and culture of Hoboken was dominated by German language speakers who sometimes called it "Little Bremen", many of whom are buried in Hoboken Cemetery, North Bergen.[38][39]

Early-European arrival and colonial period

 
The Hudson River during the 1880s offshore from Hoboken and Jersey City

Hoboken was originally an island which was surrounded by the Hudson River on the east and tidal lands at the foot of the New Jersey Palisades on the west. It was a seasonal campsite in the territory of the Hackensack, a phratry of the Lenni Lenape, who used the serpentine rock found there to carve pipes.

The first recorded European to lay claim to the area was Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who anchored his ship the Halve Maen (Half Moon) at Weehawken Cove on October 2, 1609.[40] Soon after it became part of the province of New Netherland.

In 1630, Michael Reyniersz Pauw, a burgemeester (mayor) of Amsterdam and a director of the Dutch West India Company, received a land grant as patroon on the condition that he would plant a colony of not fewer than fifty persons within four years on the west bank of what had been named the North River. Three Lenape sold the land that became Hoboken and part of Jersey City for 80 fathoms (146 m) of wampum, 20 fathoms (37 m) of cloth, 12 kettles, six guns, two blankets, one double kettle, and half a barrel of beer.[40] These transactions, variously dated as July 12, 1630 and November 22, 1630, represent the earliest known conveyance for the area. Pauw, whose Latinized name is Pavonia, failed to settle the land, and he was obliged to sell his holdings back to the company in 1633.

It was later acquired by Hendrick Van Vorst, who leased part of the land to Aert Van Putten, a farmer. In 1643, north of what would be later known as Castle Point, Van Putten built a house and a brewery, North America's first. In series of Indian and Dutch raids and reprisals, Van Putten was killed and his buildings destroyed, and all residents of Pavonia, as the colony was then known, were ordered back to New Amsterdam. Deteriorating relations with the Lenape, its isolation as an island, or relatively long distance from New Amsterdam may have discouraged more settlement.[citation needed]

In 1664, the English took possession of New Amsterdam with little to no resistance, and in 1668 they confirmed a previous land patent by Nicolas Verlett. In 1674–1675, the area became part of East Jersey, and the province was divided into four administrative districts, Hoboken becoming part of Bergen County, where it remained until the creation of Hudson County on February 22, 1840. English-speaking settlers (some relocating from New England) interspersed with the Dutch, but it remained sparsely populated and agrarian.[citation needed]

Eventually, the land came into the possession of William Bayard, who originally supported the revolutionary cause, but became a Loyalist Tory after the fall of New York in 1776 when the city and surrounding areas, including the west bank of the renamed Hudson River, were occupied by the British. At the end of the Revolutionary War, Bayard's property was confiscated by the Revolutionary Government of New Jersey. In 1784, the land described as "William Bayard's farm at Hoebuck" was bought at auction by Colonel John Stevens for £18,360 (then $90,000).[40]

19th century

 
Hoboken in 1854
 
Hoboken in 1860
 
A stereoscopic image of ferries at Hoboken, 1865

In the early 19th century, Colonel John Stevens developed the waterfront as a resort for Manhattanites.[41] On October 11, 1811, Stevens' ship the Juliana, began to operate as a ferry between Manhattan and Hoboken, making it the world's first commercial steam ferry.[42] In 1825, he designed and built a steam locomotive capable of hauling several passenger cars at his estate.[43] Sybil's Cave, a cave with a natural spring, was opened in 1832 and visitors came to pay a penny for a glass of water from the cave which was said to have medicinal powers.[44] In 1841, the cave became a legend, when Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Mystery of Marie Roget" about an event that took place there.[45] The cave was closed in the late 1880s after the water was found to be contaminated, and it was shut and in the 1930s and filled with concrete, before it was reopened in 2008.[46] Before his death in 1838, Stevens founded the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, which laid out a regular system of streets, blocks and lots, constructed housing, and developed manufacturing sites. In general, the housing consisted of masonry row houses of three to five stories, some of which survive to the present day, as does the street grid.[47]

Hoboken was originally formed as a township on April 9, 1849, from portions of North Bergen Township. As the town grew in population and employment, many of Hoboken's residents saw a need to incorporate as a full-fledged city, and in a referendum held on March 29, 1855, ratified an Act of the New Jersey Legislature signed the previous day, and the City of Hoboken was born.[48] In the subsequent election, Cornelius V. Clickener became Hoboken's first mayor. On March 15, 1859, the Township of Weehawken was created from portions of Hoboken and North Bergen Township.[48]

Based on a bequest from Edwin A. Stevens, Stevens Institute of Technology was founded at Castle Point in 1870, at the site of the Stevens family's former estate, as the nation's first mechanical engineering college.[49] By the late 19th century, shipping lines were using Hoboken as a terminal port, and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (later the Erie Lackawanna Railroad) developed a railroad terminal at the waterfront, with the present NJ Transit terminal designed by architect Kenneth Murchison constructed in 1907.[50] It was also during this time that German immigrants, who had been settling in town during most of the century, became the predominant population group in the city, at least partially due to its being a major destination port of the Hamburg America Line, though anti-German sentiment during World War I led to a rapid decline in the German community.[51] In addition to the primary industry of shipbuilding, Hoboken became home to Keuffel and Esser's three-story factory and in 1884, to Tietjen and Lang Drydock (later Todd Shipyards). Well-known companies that developed a major presence in Hoboken after the turn-of the-century included Maxwell House, Lipton Tea, and Hostess.[52]

Birthplace of baseball

 
Early baseball game played at Elysian Fields
 
A historic marker stands at the intersection of 11th and Washington Streets, former site of Elysian Fields

The first officially recorded game of baseball took place in Hoboken in 1846 between Knickerbocker Club and New York Nine at Elysian Fields.[53] In 1845, the Knickerbocker Club, which had been founded by Alexander Cartwright, began using Elysian Fields to play baseball due to the lack of suitable grounds on Manhattan.[54] Team members included players of the St George's Cricket Club, the brothers Harry and George Wright, and Henry Chadwick, the English-born journalist who coined the term "America's Pastime".

By the 1850s, several Manhattan-based members of the National Association of Base Ball Players were using the grounds as their home field while St. George's continued to organize international matches between Canada, England and the United States at the same venue. In 1859, George Parr's All England Eleven of professional cricketers played the United States XXII at Hoboken, easily defeating the local competition. Sam Wright and his sons Harry and George Wright played on the defeated United States team, a loss which inadvertently encouraged local players to take up baseball. Henry Chadwick believed that baseball and not cricket should become the national pastime after the game drawing the conclusion that amateur American players did not have the leisure time required to develop cricket skills to the high technical level required of professional players. Harry Wright and George Wright then became two of the first professional baseball players in the United States when Aaron Champion raised funds to found the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869.

In 1865, the grounds hosted a championship match between the Mutual Club of New York City and the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn that was attended by an estimated 20,000 fans and captured in the Currier & Ives lithograph "The American National Game of Base Ball".[55]

With the construction of two significant baseball parks enclosed by fences in Brooklyn, enabling promoters there to charge admission to games, the prominence of Elysian Fields diminished. In 1868 the leading Manhattan club, Mutual, shifted its home games to the Union Grounds in Brooklyn. In 1880, the founders of the New York Metropolitans and New York Giants finally succeeded in siting a ballpark in Manhattan that became known as the Polo Grounds.

20th century

 
Upper Bloomfield Street between 9th and 10th, 1900
 
Hoboken Terminal shortly after it opened in 1907
 
Great Ocean Liners at the Docks in just prior to the U.S. entry in World War I in 1915

Few nonwhites had settled in Hoboken by 1901. The Brooklyn Eagle claimed that an unwritten sundown town policy prevented African Americans from residing or working there.[56]

World War I

Further information: Hoboken Port of Embarkation

When the U.S. entered World War I, the Hamburg-American Line piers in Hoboken and New Orleans were taken under eminent domain.[57] Federal control of the port and anti-German sentiment led to part of the city being placed under martial law, and many German immigrants were forcibly moved to Ellis Island or left the city of their own accord.[58] Hoboken became the major point of embarkation and more than three million soldiers, known as "doughboys", passed through the city.[59] Their hope for an early return led to General Pershing's slogan, "Heaven, Hell or Hoboken... by Christmas."[60]

Following the war, Italians, mostly stemming from the Adriatic port city of Molfetta, became the city's major ethnic group, with the Irish also having a strong presence.[61] While the city experienced the Great Depression, jobs in the ships yards and factories were still available, and the tenements were bustling. Middle-European Jews, mostly German-speaking, also made their way to the city and established small businesses. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which was established on April 30, 1921, oversaw the development of the Holland Tunnel (completed in 1927) and the Lincoln Tunnel (in 1937), allowing for easier vehicular travel between New Jersey and New York City, bypassing the waterfront.

Post-World War II

 
The Keuffel and Esser Manufacturing Complex was converted into residential apartments in 1975.[62]

The war facilitated economic growth in Hoboken, as the many industries located in the city were crucial to the war effort. As men went off to battle, more women were hired in the factories, some (most notably, Todd Shipyards), offering classes and other incentives to them. Though some returning service men took advantage of GI housing bills, many with strong ethnic and familial ties chose to stay in town. During the 1950s, the economy was still driven by Todd Shipyards, Maxwell House,[63] Lipton Tea, Hostess and Bethlehem Steel and companies with big plants were still not inclined to invest in major infrastructure elsewhere.

In the 1960s, working pay and conditions began to deteriorate: turn-of-the century housing started to look shabby and feel crowded, shipbuilding was cheaper overseas, and single-story plants surrounded by parking lots made manufacturing and distribution more economical than old brick buildings on congested urban streets. The city appeared to be in the throes of inexorable decline as industries sought (what had been) greener pastures, port operations shifted to larger facilities on Newark Bay, and the car, truck and plane displaced the railroad and ship as the transportation modes of choice in the United States. Many Hobokenites headed to the suburbs, often the close by ones in Bergen and Passaic Counties, and real-estate values declined. Hoboken sank from its earlier incarnation as a lively port town into a rundown condition and was often included in lists with other New Jersey cities experiencing the same phenomenon, such as Paterson, Elizabeth, Camden, and neighboring Jersey City.[64]

The old economic underpinnings were gone and nothing new seemed to be on the horizon. Attempts were made to stabilize the population by demolishing the so-called slums along River Street and build subsidized middle-income housing at Marineview Plaza, and in midtown, at Church Towers. Heaps of long uncollected garbage and roving packs of semi-wild dogs were not uncommon sights.[65] Though the city had seen better days, Hoboken was never abandoned. New infusions of immigrants, most notably Puerto Ricans, kept the storefronts open with small businesses and housing stock from being abandoned, but there wasn't much work to be had. Washington Street, commonly called "the avenue", was never boarded up, and the tight-knit neighborhoods remained home to many who were still proud of their city. Stevens remained a premier technology school, Maxwell House kept chugging away, and Bethlehem Steel still housed sailors who were dry-docked on its piers. Italian-Americans and other came back to the "old neighborhood" to shop for delicatessen.[citation needed]

In 1975, the western part of the Keuffel and Esser Manufacturing Complex (known as "Clock Towers") was converted into residential apartments, after having been an architectural, engineering and drafting facility from 1907 to 1968;[62] the eastern part portion became residential apartments in 1984 (now called the Grand Adams).[62]

Waterfront

 
Aerial view of Hoboken Terminal, 2004

The Hudson Waterfront defined Hoboken as an archetypal port town and powered its economy from the mid-19th to mid-20th century, by which time it had become essentially industrial (and mostly inaccessible to the general public). The large production plants of Lipton Tea and Maxwell House, and the drydocks of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation and Todd Shipbuilding dominated the northern portion for many years. On June 30, 1900, a large fire at the Norddeutscher Lloyd piers killed numerous people and caused almost $10 million in damage.[66][67] The southern portion (which had been a U.S. base of the Hamburg-American Line) was seized by the federal government under eminent domain at the outbreak of World War I, after which it became (with the rest of the Hudson County) a major East Coast cargo-shipping port.

With the development of the Interstate Highway System and containerization shipping facilities (particularly at Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal), the docks became obsolete, and by the 1970s were more or less abandoned.[40] A large swath of River Street, known as the Barbary Coast for its taverns and boarding houses (which had been home for many dockworkers, sailors, merchant mariners, and other seamen) was leveled as part of an urban renewal project. Though control of the confiscated area had been returned to the city in the 1950s, complex lease agreements with the Port Authority gave it little influence on its management. In the 1980s, the waterfront dominated Hoboken politics, with various civic groups and the city government engaging in sometimes nasty, sometimes absurd politics and court cases. By the 1990s, agreements were made with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, various levels of government, Hoboken citizens, and private developers to build commercial and residential buildings and "open spaces" (mostly along the bulkhead and on the foundation of un-utilized Pier A).[68]

The northern portion, which had remained in private hands, has also been re-developed. While most of the dry-dock and production facilities[69][70] were razed to make way for mid-rise apartment houses, many sold as investment condominiums, some buildings were renovated for adaptive re-use (notably the Tea Building, formerly home to Lipton Tea,[71] and the Machine Shop, home of the Hoboken Historic Museum).[72] Zoning requires that new construction follow the street grid and limits the height of new construction to retain the architectural character of the city and open sight-lines to the river. Downtown, Frank Sinatra Park and Sinatra Drive honor the man most consider to be Hoboken's most famous son, while uptown the name Maxwell recalls the factory with its smell of roasting coffee wafting over town and its huge neon "Good to the Last Drop" sign, so long a part of the landscape. The midtown section is dominated by the serpentine rock outcropping atop of which sits Stevens Institute of Technology (which also owns some, as yet, undeveloped land on the river). At the foot of the cliff is Sybil's Cave (where 19th century day-trippers once came to "take the waters" from a natural spring), long sealed shut, though plans for its restoration are in place. The promenade along the river bank is part of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, a state-mandated master plan to connect the municipalities from the Bayonne Bridge to George Washington Bridge and provide contiguous unhindered access to the water's edge and to create an urban linear park offering expansive views of the Hudson with the spectacular backdrop of the New York skyline. As of 2017, the city was considering using eminent domain to take over the last operating maritime industry in the city, the Union Dry Dock.[73][74]

 
The Hudson River and Manhattan skyline on a foggy morning
 
Panorama of Manhattan from Pier A

1970s–present

During the late 1970s and 1980s, the city witnessed a speculation spree, fueled by transplanted New Yorkers and others who bought many turn-of-the-20th-century brownstones in neighborhoods that the still solid middle and working class population had kept intact and by local and out-of-town real-estate investors who bought up late 19th century apartment houses often considered to be tenements. Hoboken experienced a wave of fires, some of which were arson.[75][76][77] Applied Housing, a real-estate investment firm, used federal government incentives to renovate "sub-standard" housing and receive subsidized rental payments (commonly known as Section 8), which enabled some low-income, displaced, and disabled residents to move within town. Hoboken attracted artists, musicians, upwardly mobile commuters, and "bohemian types" interested in the socioeconomic possibilities and challenges of a bankrupt New York and who valued the aesthetics of Hoboken's residential, civic and commercial architecture, its sense of community, and relatively (compared to Lower Manhattan) less expensive rents, all a quick, train hop away. Maxwell's (a live music venue and restaurant) opened and Hoboken became a popular place to live.

These trends in development resembled similar growth and change patterns in Brooklyn and downtown Jersey City and Manhattan's East Village—and to a lesser degree, SoHo and TriBeCa—which previously had not been residential. Empty lots were built on, tenements were transformed into luxury condominiums. Hoboken felt the impact of the destruction of the World Trade Center intensely, many of its newer residents having worked there. Re-zoning encouraged new construction on former industrial sites on the waterfront and the traditionally more impoverished low-lying west side of the city where, in concert with Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and New Jersey State land-use policy, transit villages are now being promoted.[78] Once a blue collar town characterized by live poultry shops and drab taverns, it has since been transformed into a town filled with gourmet shops and luxury condominiums.[76]

In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused widespread flooding in Hoboken, leaving 1,700 homes flooded and causing $100 million in damage after the storm "filled up Hoboken like a bathtub".[79] Workers in Hoboken had the highest rate of public transportation use in the nation, with 56% commuting daily via mass transit.[80] Hurricane Sandy caused seawater to flood half the city, crippling the PATH station at Hoboken Terminal when more than 10 million gallons of water dumped into the system. In December 2013 Mayor Dawn Zimmer testified before a U.S. Senate Committee on the impact the storm had on Hoboken's businesses and residents,[81][82] and in January 2014 she stated that Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno and Richard Constable, a member of governor Chris Christie's cabinet, deliberately held back Hurricane Sandy relief funds from the city in order to pressure her to approve a Christie ally's developmental project,[83][84] a charge that the Christie administration denied.[85][86][87] In June 2014, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated $230 million to Hoboken as part of its Rebuild by Design initiative, adding levees, parks, green roofs, retention basins and other infrastructure to help the low-lying riverfront city protect itself from ordinary flooding and build a network of features to help Hoboken future-proof itself against subsequent storms.[88]

Geography

 
Image of Hoboken taken by NASA with Hoboken outlined in red

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2 square miles (5.2 square kilometres), including 1.25 sq mi (3.2 km2) of land and 0.75 sq mi (1.9 km2) of water (37.50%).[89]

Hoboken lies on the west bank of the Hudson River between Weehawken and Union City to the north and Jersey City (the county seat) to the south and west.[90][91][92] Directly across the Hudson River are the Manhattan, New York City neighborhoods of the West Village and Chelsea.

Hoboken is laid out in a grid. North–south streets are named (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Harrison, and Clinton, for example). The numbered streets running east–west start two blocks north of Observer Highway with First Street, with the grid ending close to 16th near Weehawken Cove and the city line.[92] Neighborhoods in Hoboken often have vague definitions making Downtown, Midtown and Uptown subjective. Castle Point (or Stevens Point[93]), The Projects, Hoboken Terminal, and Hudson Tea are distinct enclaves at the city's periphery. As it transforms from its previous industrial use to a residential district, the "Northwest" is a name being used for that part of the city.[94][95]

Hoboken's ZIP Code is 07030[16] and its area code is 201.[96]

Climate

Hoboken's temperatures hover around an average in winter, rising and falling, rather than a consistent pattern with a clear coldest time of year, with minimums occurring in late December and early-mid February, rising and falling repeatedly throughout January.[97] Just like neighboring New York City, the climate is humid subtropical(Cfa).

Climate data for Hoboken
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 72
(22) 		75
(24) 		86
(30) 		96
(36) 		99
(37) 		101
(38) 		106
(41) 		104
(40) 		102
(39) 		94
(34) 		84
(29) 		75
(24) 		106
(41)
Average high °F (°C) 38
(3) 		42
(6) 		50
(10) 		61
(16) 		71
(22) 		79
(26) 		84
(29) 		83
(28) 		75
(24) 		64
(18) 		54
(12) 		43
(6) 		62
(17)
Average low °F (°C) 27
(−3) 		29
(−2) 		35
(2) 		45
(7) 		54
(12) 		64
(18) 		69
(21) 		68
(20) 		61
(16) 		50
(10) 		42
(6) 		32
(0) 		48
(9)
Record low °F (°C) −6
(−21) 		−15
(−26) 		3
(−16) 		12
(−11) 		28
(−2) 		44
(7) 		52
(11) 		50
(10) 		39
(4) 		28
(−2) 		7
(−14) 		−13
(−25) 		−15
(−26)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 3.65
(93) 		3.21
(82) 		4.36
(111) 		4.50
(114) 		4.19
(106) 		4.41
(112) 		4.60
(117) 		4.44
(113) 		4.28
(109) 		4.40
(112) 		4.02
(102) 		4.00
(102) 		50.06
(1,273)
Average snowfall inches (cm) 7.5
(19) 		6.8
(17) 		3.0
(7.6) 		0.5
(1.3) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.4
(1.0) 		3.9
(9.9) 		22.1
(55.8)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) 6.0 5.6 6.8 7.3 7.3 7.1 7.1 6.4 6.2 5.5 6.0 6.3 77.6
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) 8.0 6.5 2.3 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 3.0 20.4
Source: [98]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
18502,668—
18609,662262.1%
187020,297110.1%
188030,99952.7%
189043,64840.8%
190059,36436.0%
191070,32418.5%
192068,166−3.1%
193059,261−13.1%
194050,115−15.4%
195050,6761.1%
196048,441−4.4%
197045,380−6.3%
198042,460−6.4%
199033,397−21.3%
200038,57715.5%
201050,00529.6%
202060,41920.8%
2021 (est.)58,690[11][13][14]−2.9%
Population sources: 1850–1920[99]
1860–1930[21] 1850–1870[100]
1850[101] 1870[102] 1880–1890[103]
1890–1910[104] 1910–1930[105]
1930–1990[106] 2000[107] 2010[23] 2020[11][12]

2010 census

The 2010 United States census counted 50,005 people, 25,041 households, and 9,465 families in the city. The population density was 39,212.0 per square mile (15,139.8/km2). There were 26,855 housing units at an average density of 21,058.7 per square mile (8,130.8/km2). The racial makeup was 82.24% (41,124) White, 3.53% (1,767) Black or African American, 0.15% (73) Native American, 7.12% (3,558) Asian, 0.03% (15) Pacific Islander, 4.29% (2,144) from other races, and 2.65% (1,324) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 15.20% (7,602) of the population.[23]

Of the 25,041 households, 15.5% had children under the age of 18; 28.8% were married couples living together; 6.9% had a female householder with no husband present and 62.2% were non-families. Of all households, 39.7% were made up of individuals and 5.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.93 and the average family size was 2.68.[23]

12.2% of the population were under the age of 18, 12.1% from 18 to 24, 55.9% from 25 to 44, 13.5% from 45 to 64, and 6.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31.2 years. For every 100 females, the population had 101.8 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 100.7 males.[23]

The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $101,782 (with a margin of error of +/− $3,219) and the median family income was $121,614 (+/− $18,466). Males had a median income of $90,878 (+/− $6,412) versus $67,331 (+/− $3,710) for females. The per capita income for the city was $69,085 (+/− $3,335). About 9.6% of families and 11.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.7% of those under age 18 and 24.4% of those age 65 or over.[108]

2000 census

As of the 2000 census, there were 38,577 people, 19,418 households, and 6,835 families residing in the city. The population density was 30,239.2 inhabitants per square mile (11,636.5/km2), fourth highest in the nation after neighboring communities of Guttenberg, Union City and West New York.[109] There were 19,915 housing units at an average density of 15,610.7 per square mile (6,007.2/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 80.82% White, 4.26% African American, 0.16% Native American, 4.31% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 7.63% from other races, and 2.78% from two or more races. Furthermore, 20.18% of the total residents also consider themselves to be Hispanic or Latino.[107][110]

There were 19,418 households, out of which 11.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 23.8% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 64.8% were non-families. 41.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.92 and the average family size was 2.73.[107][110]

In the city the age distribution of the population showed 10.5% under the age of 18, 15.3% from 18 to 24, 51.7% from 25 to 44, 13.5% from 45 to 64, and 9.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, age 18 and over, there were 103.9 males.[107][110]

The median income for a household in the city as of the 2000 census was $62,550, while the median income for a family was $67,500. Males had a median income of $54,870 versus $46,826 for females. The per capita income for the city was $43,195. 11.0% of the population and 10.0% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 23.6% of those under the age of 18 and 20.7% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.[107][110]

The city is a bedroom community of New York City, where most of its employed residents work. Based on the 2000 Census Worker Flow Files, about 53% of the employed residents of Hoboken (13,475 out of 25,306) worked in one of the five boroughs of New York City, as opposed to about 15% working within Hoboken.[111]

Economy

The first centrally air-conditioned public space in the United States was demonstrated at Hoboken Terminal.[112] The first Blimpie restaurant opened in 1964 at the corner of Seventh and Washington Streets.[113][114] Hoboken is home to one of the headquarters of publisher John Wiley & Sons, which moved from Manhattan in 2002.[115]

According to the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Hoboken's unemployment rate as of 2014 was 3.3%, compared to a 6.5% in Hudson County as a whole.[116] In 2018, Hoboken had an unemployment rate of 2.1%, vs. 3.9% countywide.[117]

A 2014 study showed that Stevens Institute of Technology contributed $117 million to Hoboken's economy in 2014, reflecting the university's nearly $100 million payroll for salaries and wages, as well as other goods and services acquired, construction and off-campus spending by students and visitors. The university is responsible for 1,285 full-time jobs.[118]

Parks and recreation

Main article: Landmarks of Hoboken, New Jersey
 
Lower Frank Sinatra Drive
 
Clock at Eleventh Street

The four parks were originally laid out within city street grid in the 19th century were Church Square Park, Columbus Park, Elysian Park and Stevens Park. Four other parks that were developed later but fit into the street pattern are Gateway Park, Jackson Street Park, Legion Park and Madison Park.[119]

More recently built parks throughout the city include Pier C,[120] a reconstructed pier accessed by a curving walkway along lower Sinatra Drive. A multi-use sports field called 1600 Park opened in 2013,[121] while the one-acre Southwest Park was completed along Jackson Street and Paterson Avenue in 2017.[122] As of 2019, the city was considering expanding the park to a property across the street.[123]

A two-acre park and public plaza called 7th and Jackson Resiliency Park opened in 2019. It includes a playground, an acre of open lawn space, a new indoor gymnasium, play sculptures, and infrastructure to capture over 450,000 gallons of rainwater to reduce flooding.[124]

Construction of the 5.4-acre Northwest Resiliency Park broke ground in 2019 and will include a great lawn, a stage, a central fountain that can be converted into a seasonal ice skating rink, a pavilion, playgrounds, and a multi-purpose field and basketball basin. The $90 million park features many environmentally friendly features and includes an underground stormwater detention system that can store roughly one million gallons of water to help mitigate flooding. The project is expected to be completed sometime in 2022.[125]

A 2014 renovation to the 14th Street Viaduct near the city's northwest edge saw the creation of several recreational areas underneath the structure that include a dog park, passive recreation areas, and street hockey and basketball courts amid a new cobblestone streetscape.[126]

The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is a state-mandated master plan to connect the municipalities from the Bayonne Bridge to the George Washington Bridge creating an 18 mi (29 km)-long urban linear park and provide contiguous unhindered access to the water's edge. By law, any development on the waterfront must provide a public promenade with a minimum width of 30 ft (9.1 m). To date, completed segments in Hoboken and the new parks and renovated piers that abut them are at Hoboken Terminal, Pier A, the promenade and bike path from Newark to 5th Streets, Frank Sinatra Park, Castle Point Park, Sinatra Drive to 12th to 14th Streets, New York Waterway Pier, 14th Street Pier, and 14th Street north to southern side of Weehawken Cove. Other segments of river-front held privately are not required to build a walkway until the land is re-developed.[127]

Arts and culture

Since 1992, the Hudson Shakespeare Company has been the resident Shakespeare Festival of Hudson County performing a free Shakespeare production for each month of the summer. Since 1998, the group has performed "Shakespeare Mondays" at Frank Sinatra Park (410 Frank Sinatra Drive) as part of their annual Shakespeare in the Park tour.[128] Hoboken is also home to cultural attractions such as Barsky Gallery[129] and creative institutions such as the Hoboken Historical Museum[130] and the Monroe Center.[131]

Annual cultural events

Hoboken has many annual events such as the Frank Sinatra Idol Contest,[132] Hoboken Comedy Festival,[133] Hoboken House Tour,[134] Hoboken International Film Festival,[135] Hoboken Studio Tour,[136] Hoboken Arts and Music Festival, Hoboken (Secret) Garden Tour[137] and Movies Under the Stars.[138] The Hoboken Farmer's Market occurs every Tuesday, June through October.[139] There are also numerous festivals such as the Saint Patrick's Day Parade,[140] Feast of Saint Anthony's,[141] Saint Ann's Feast[142] and the Hoboken Italian Festival.[143]

From the 1960s until 2011, Hoboken was home to the Macy's Parade Studio, which houses many of the floats for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.[144][145][146] Many Stevens students, alumni, and staff members volunteer in the preparation and piloting of the parade floats.[147] The studio was moved out of Hoboken and into a converted former Tootsie Roll Factory in Moonachie, New Jersey 2011.[144]

Government and public service

Local government

 
Hoboken City Hall on Washington Street between First Street and Newark Street

The City of Hoboken is governed within the Faulkner Act (formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law) under the mayor-council (Plan D) system of municipal government, implemented based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission as of January 1, 1953.[148] The city is one of 71 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form of government.[149] The governing body is comprised of the Mayor and the nine-member City Council. The city council is comprised of three members elected at-large from the city as a whole, and six members who each represent one of the city's six wards.[150] All of the members of the city council are elected to four-year terms of office in non-partisan elections on a staggered basis in odd-numbered years, with the six ward seats up for election together and the three at-large and mayoral seats up for vote two years later.[8]

In July 2011, the city council voted to move municipal elections from May to November. The first shifted election were held in November 2013, with all officials elected in 2009 and 2011 having their terms extended by six months.[151]

As of 2022, the mayor of Hoboken is Ravinder Bhalla, whose term of office ends December 31, 2025.[4] Members of the city council are Council President Michael Russo (2023; 3rd Ward), Council Vice President Emily Jabbour (2025; at-large), Phil Cohen (2023; 5th Ward), Michael DeFusco (2023; 1st Ward), James J. Doyle (2025; at-large), Tiffanie Fisher (2023; 2nd Ward), Jennifer Giattino (2023; 6th Ward), Joe Quintero (2025; at-large) and Ruben J. Ramos Jr. (2023; 4th Ward).[152][153][154][155][156]

In the 2017 general election, Ravinder Bhalla was elected to succeed Dawn Zimmer becoming the state's first Sikh mayor; Zimmer had chosen not to run for re-election to a third term and had endorsed Bhalla for the post. Bhalla's running mates, incumbents James Doyle and Emily Jabbour, won two of the at-large seats, while the third seat was won Vanessa Falco who had been aligned with the slate of mayoral candidate Michael DeFusco.[157][158] Zimmer had been the city council president and first took office as mayor on July 31, 2009, after her predecessor, Peter Cammarano,[159] was arrested on allegations of corruption stemming from a decade-long FBI operation.[160] Zimmer, who lost a June 9, 2009, runoff election to Cammarano by 161 votes, served as acting mayor until winning a special election to fill the remainder of the term on November 3, 2009. She was sworn in as mayor on November 6 as is the first female mayor of Hoboken.[161] Zimmer won re-election in November 2013 to a second term of office and began her second term in January 2014.[162]

Federal, state, and county representation

 
Hoboken Post Office

Hoboken is located in the 8th Congressional District[163] and is part of New Jersey's 33rd state legislative district.[164][165][166] Prior to the 2010 Census, Hoboken had been part of the 13th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.[167]

For the 118th United States Congress, New Jersey's Eighth Congressional District is represented by Rob Menendez (D, Jersey City).[168][169] New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker (Newark, term ends 2027)[170] and Bob Menendez (Harrison, term ends 2025).[171][172]

For the 2022–2023 session, the 33rd Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Brian P. Stack (D, Union City) and in the General Assembly by Annette Chaparro (D, Hoboken) and Raj Mukherji (D, Jersey City).[173]

The Hudson County Executive, elected at-large, is Thomas A. DeGise.[174][175] Hudson County Board of County Commissioner District 5 comprises Hoboken and parts of the Heights in Jersey City[176] and is represented by Anthony Romano.[177][178]

Politics

As of March 2011, there were a total of 35,532 registered voters in Hoboken, of which 14,385 (40.5%) were registered as Democrats, 3,881 (10.9%) were registered as Republicans and 17,218 (48.5%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 48 voters registered to other parties.[179]

In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 66.1% of the vote (14,443 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 32.4% (7,078 votes), and Libertarian and Green candidates with 1.5% (325 votes), among the 22,018 ballots cast by the city's 40,209 registered voters (172 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 54.8%.[180][181] In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 71.0% of the vote here (17,051 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain with 27.5% (6,590 votes) and other candidates with 0.9% (225 votes), among the 24,007 ballots cast by the city's 38,970 registered voters, for a turnout of 61.6%.[182] In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 65.0% of the vote here (13,436 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush with 33.4% (6,898 votes) and other candidates with 0.5% (161 votes), among the 20,668 ballots cast by the city's 31,221 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 66.2.[183]

In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 53.0% of the vote (6,562 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 45.0% (5,565 votes), and other candidates with 2.0% (243 votes), among the 16,331 ballots cast by the city's 41,094 registered voters (3,961 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 39.7%.[184][185] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 62.3% of the vote here (9,095 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 29.5% (4,307 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 4.6% (673 votes) and other candidates with 0.9% (138 votes), among the 14,593 ballots cast by the city's 34,844 registered voters, yielding a 41.9% turnout.[186]

On November 7, 2017, City Councilmember Ravinder Bhalla was elected as mayor, making him the first Sikh mayor in the state's history.[187]

Fire department

Main article: Hoboken Fire Department
Hoboken Fire Department (HFD)
Agency overview
Established1891
Annual calls~3,500
Employees132
StaffingCareer
Fire chiefBrian Crimmins
EMS levelFirst Responder BLS
Facilities and equipment
Battalions1
Stations4
Engines4
Trucks2
Rescues1
HAZMAT1
USAR1
Fireboats1
 
Fire Station #1 on Washington Street

The city is protected by the 132 paid firefighters of the city of Hoboken Fire Department (HFD). Established in 1891, the HFD currently operates under the command of a Department Chief, to whom two Deputy Chiefs report.[188] The department reported to 3,352 emergency calls in 2010, arriving in an average of 2.6 minutes from the time the original call was received.[189] The HFD has been a Class 1 rated fire department since 1996 as determined by the Insurance Services Office, one of only three in New Jersey, joining Hackensack and Cherry Hill.[190][191] HFD's firehouses, including its fire museum, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[192]

The department is part of the Metro USAR Strike Team, which consists of nine North Jersey fire departments and other emergency services divisions working to address major emergency rescue situations.[193]

Fire station locations and apparatus

Fire station and company locations in Hoboken are:[194][195][196]

Engine company Ladder company Special unit Chief unit Address Neighborhood
Engine 1 Ladder 1 Fire Boat 1 (docked in Shipyard Marina), Spare Ladder 3 1313 Washington Street Uptown
Engine 2 Ladder 2 Spare Engine 5 43 Madison Street Downtown
Engine 3 Rescue 1 (which is also part of the Metro USAR Collapse Rescue Strike Team)[193] 801 Clinton Street Uptown
Engine 4 Haz-Mat 1,Spare Rescue 2,Spare Engine 6 Car 155 (Deputy Chief/Tour Commander) 201 Jefferson Street Midtown

The Fire Museum is located at 213 Bloomfield Street.[196][197]

Emergency medical services

Main article: Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps

EMS in the city of Hoboken is provided primarily by the members of the Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps (HVAC), which was established in 1971. HVAC is the county's only all-volunteer EMS organization and does not charge for the services it provides. HVAC has seven emergency vehicles, in addition to six bicycles that can be used to provide coverage at outdoor events.[198]

Hoboken University Medical Center, founded in 1863 as St. Mary's Hospital, is a historic hospital and the oldest in continuous operation in the state.[199] It is a community hospital and part of the CarePoint Health System.[200]

Social services

HOPES Community Action Partnership, Incorporated (HOPES CAP, Inc. / HOPES) was established in 1964 under President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration signing the Economic Opportunity Act.[201] The majority of HOPES program participants have incomes below the federal poverty threshold. Services include those for youth enrichment, adults, senior assistance, and early childhood development.[202]

Homelessness in the city is addressed by the Hoboken Homeless Shelter, one of the three homeless shelters in the county.[203] In December 2018, the city of Hoboken installed eight parking meters in high foot-traffic areas, painted orange, to collect donations to benefit homelessness initiatives.[204]

Transportation

 
Hudson Bike Share
 
The trackage of Hoboken Terminal

Hoboken has the highest public transportation use of any city in the United States, with 56% of working residents using public transportation for commuting purposes each day.[205] Hoboken Terminal, located at the city's southeastern corner, is a national historic landmark originally built in 1907 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.[206] The terminal is the origination/destination point for several modes of transportation and an important hub within the NY/NJ metropolitan region's public transit system.[citation needed]

The number of residents parking on Hoboken streets decreased from 2010 to 2015.[207] Hudson Bike Share, a bicycle sharing system operated by nextbike, opened[208] in October 2015.[209] Amid conflicts with Jersey City, which used Citi Bike,[210] Hoboken ceased using Hudson Bike Share in May 2021, and adopted Citi Bike itself, thus connecting the town's bicycle sharing network with the ones already operating in Jersey City and New York City.[211]

Rail

NJ Transit's Main Line, Bergen County Line, Pascack Valley Line, Montclair-Boonton Line, Morris and Essex Lines and Meadowlands Rail Line terminate at the Hoboken Terminal.[212]

The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, another NJ Transit subsidiary, has three stations in Hoboken–Hoboken Terminal, 2nd Street and 9th Street-Congress Street.[213]

PATH, a 24-hour subway system operated by the Port Authority, operates from Hoboken Terminal to 33rd Street Manhattan, World Trade Center, and Journal Square.[214]

Water

NY Waterway ferry service makes Hudson River crossings from Hoboken Terminal and 14th Street to Battery Park City Ferry Terminal, Wall Street-Pier 11 and the West Midtown Ferry Terminal in Manhattan.[215]

Surface

New Jersey Transit buses 22, 22X, 23, 64, 68, 85, 87, 89, and 126 terminate at Hudson Place/Hoboken Terminal.[216][217][218]

Academy Bus Lines has a garage in Hoboken, operating most of their NYC services from there.

Taxi service is available for a flat fare within city limits and negotiated fare for other destinations. Zipcar is located downtown at the Center Parking Garage on Park Avenue, between Newark Street and Observer Highway.[219]

Roads and highways

 
View east along the 14th Street Viaduct entering Hoboken

As of May 2010, the city had a total of 31.79 mi (51.16 km) of roadways, of which 26.71 mi (42.99 km) were maintained by the municipality and 5.08 mi (8.18 km) by Hudson County.[220]

The 14th Street Viaduct connects Hoboken to Paterson Plank Road in Jersey City Heights. Two highway tunnels that connect New Jersey to New York are located close to Hoboken. The Lincoln Tunnel is north of the city in Weehawken. The Holland Tunnel is south of the city in downtown Jersey City.[221]

Air

Hoboken has no airports. Airports which serve Hoboken are operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. These airports are Newark Liberty International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy Airport.

Education

Hoboken has a highly educated population. Based on data from the American Community Survey, it was ranked in 2019 as one of the top 15 most-educated municipalities in New Jersey with a population of at least 10,000, placing first on the list, with 50.2% of residents having bachelor's degree or higher, more than double the 23.4% of residents in New Jersey and 19.1% nationwide who have reached that educational level.[222]

Public schools

Hoboken Public Schools is a school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.[223] The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide that were established pursuant to the decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Abbott v. Burke[224] which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.[225][226]

As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of five schools, had an enrollment of 3,138 students and 229.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.7:1.[227] Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[228]) are Joseph F. Brandt Elementary School[229] with 529 students in grades K–5, Thomas G. Connors Elementary School[230] with 292 students in grades K–5, Wallace Elementary School[231] with 594 students in grades K–5, Hoboken Middle School[232] with 387 students in grades 6–8 and Hoboken High School[233] with 428 students in grades 9–12.[234][235][236] Hoboken High School was the 187th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 139th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[237]

In addition, Hoboken has three charter schools, which are schools that receive public funds yet operate independently of the Hoboken Public Schools under charters granted by the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education. Elysian Charter School serves students in grades K–8, Hoboken Charter School in grades K–12 and Hoboken Dual Language Charter School in grades K–8.[238] In 2018 the New Jersey Department of Education named the Dual Language charter as having one of six "Model Programs" in New Jersey.[239]

Private schools

 
The Castle Gatehouse at Stevens Institute of Technology

Private schools in Hoboken include The Hudson School, All Saint's Episcopal Day School, Mustard Seed School and Stevens Cooperative School. Hoboken Catholic Academy, a K-8 Catholic school operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark,[240] was one of eight private schools recognized in 2017 as an Exemplary High Performing School by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program of the United States Department of Education.[241]

Higher education

Stevens Institute of Technology, which was founded in 1870, is located in the Castle Point section of Hoboken.[49] The university is composed of three schools and one college; the Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science, School of Business, School of Systems and Enterprises and the College of Arts and Letters.[242] Total enrollment is more than 6,900 undergraduate and graduate students across all schools.[243] Stevens is home to three national research centers of excellence and joint research programs focusing on healthcare, energy, finance, defense, STEM education and coastal stability. Stevens also owns most of Castle Point, which is the highest point in Hoboken.[244]

Media

 
Carlo's Bake Shop, which is the setting for the reality television show Cake Boss, is a local tourist attraction.

Hoboken is located within the New York media market; most of its daily papers available for sale or delivery. Local, county, and regional news is covered by The Jersey Journal, a daily newspaper long based in nearby Jersey City and now based in Secaucus. The Journal, along with other sister newspapers, operates NJ.com, which includes the blog Hoboken Now.[245] The Hoboken Reporter is part of The Hudson Reporter group of local weeklies. Other weeklies, the River View Observer and the Spanish-language El Especialito[246] also cover local news, as does The Stute, the campus newspaper at Stevens Institute of Technology. Magazines that cover Hoboken include the lifestyle magazine hMAG, which launched in 2009.[247] and The Digest, which covers local restaurants and events.[248]

The production company for the 2009 film Assassination of a High School President was based in Hoboken.[249]

The city has been the home of several filming locations. Elia Kazan's 1954 film On the Waterfront was shot in Hoboken.[250] A wedding scene from the 1997 film Picture Perfect, starring Jennifer Aniston, was filmed at the Elks Club at 1005 Washington Street.[251] The 1998 film Restaurant, starring Adrien Brody was shot there as well. Hoboken is home to Carlo's Bake Shop, which is featured in the TLC reality show Cake Boss. The popularity of the show has resulted in increased business for Carlo's Bake Shop, and increased tourism to the Hoboken area, resulting in both positive and negative reaction from local residents and businesses.[252]

The fourth season of A&E's Parking Wars, which documents the lives and duties of parking enforcement personnel, was filmed in Hoboken, in addition to its usual venues of Detroit and Philadelphia.[253] The ABC Primetime magazine Primetime: What Would You Do? has filmed multiple episodes of their social experiments in Hoboken's shops and restaurants.[254][255]

The 1989 television series Dream Street was set and shot in Hoboken.[256]

Bands from Hoboken include alternative rock pioneers The Bongos and[257] art-rock band Yo La Tengo.[258]

Notable people

Main article: List of people from Hoboken, New Jersey

See also

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Further reading

  • Brooks, Steve B. (September 2019). "Built to Serve: Damaged by Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey post opens new facility with six apartments for homeless veterans". The American Legion Magazine. Vol. 187, no. 3. Indianapolis, Ind.: The American Legion. pp. 46–48. ISSN 0886-1234.
  • Ziegler-McPherson, Christina A. (2011). Immigrants in Hoboken, One-Way Ticket, 1845–1985. Charleston: History Press. ISBN 978-1-60949-163-5.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hoboken, New Jersey.
 
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Hoboken, New Jersey.
 
Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article about Hoboken, New Jersey.
  • City of Hoboken Official Website
  • Historic photos of Hoboken and Hamburg America Line ports
  • "Hoboken" . The American Cyclopædia. 1879.

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Hoboken redirects here For the city district in Belgium see Hoboken Antwerp For other places named Hoboken see Hoboken disambiguation Hoboken ˈ h oʊ b oʊ k en HOH boh ken 21 Unami Hupokan 22 is a city in Hudson County in the U S state of New Jersey Hoboken is part of the New York metropolitan area and is the site of Hoboken Terminal a major transportation hub for the tri state region As of the 2020 United States census the city s population was 60 419 11 12 an increase of 10 414 20 8 from the 2010 census count of 50 005 23 which in turn reflected an increase of 11 428 29 6 from the 38 577 counted in the 2000 census 24 The Census Bureau s Population Estimates Program calculated that the city s population was 58 690 in 2021 11 ranking the city as the 668th most populous in the country 13 With more than 42 400 inhabitants per square mile 16 400 km2 in data from the 2010 census Hoboken was ranked as the third most densely populated municipality in the United States among cities with a population above 50 000 25 In the 2020 census the city s population density climbed to more than 48 300 inhabitants per square mile 18 600 km2 of land ranked fourth in the county behind Guttenberg Union City and West New York 11 26 Hoboken New JerseyCityCity of HobokenAn aerial view of Hoboken from above the Hudson RiverFlagSealLogoNickname The Mile Square City 1 Location of Hoboken within Hudson County and the state of New JerseyCensus Bureau map of Hoboken New Jersey Interactive map of Hoboken New JerseyHobokenLocation in Hudson CountyShow map of Hudson County New JerseyHobokenLocation in New JerseyShow map of New JerseyHobokenLocation in the United StatesShow map of the United StatesCoordinates 40 44 42 N 74 01 57 W 40 74500 N 74 03250 W 40 74500 74 03250 Coordinates 40 44 42 N 74 01 57 W 40 74500 N 74 03250 W 40 74500 74 03250 2 3 Country United StatesState New JerseyCountyHudsonIncorporatedApril 9 1849Government 8 TypeFaulkner Act mayor council BodyCity Council MayorRavinder Bhalla term ends December 31 2025 4 5 AdministratorJason Freeman 6 Municipal clerkJames J Farina 7 Area 9 Total1 97 sq mi 5 10 km2 Land1 25 sq mi 3 24 km2 Water0 72 sq mi 1 87 km2 37 50 Rank413th of 565 in state6th of 12 in county 2 Elevation 10 23 ft 7 m Population 2020 11 12 Total60 419 Estimate 2021 11 13 14 58 690 Rank668th in country as of 2021 13 27th of 565 in state5th of 12 in county 15 Density48 335 2 sq mi 18 662 3 km2 Rank4th of 565 in state4th of 12 in county 15 Time zoneUTC 05 00 Eastern EST Summer DST UTC 04 00 Eastern EDT ZIP Code07030 16 Area code201 17 FIPS code3401732250 2 18 19 GNIS feature ID0885257 2 20 Websitehobokennj wbr govHoboken was first settled by Europeans as part of the Pavonia New Netherland colony in the 17th century During the early 19th century the city was developed by Colonel John Stevens first as a resort and later as a residential neighborhood Originally part of Bergen Township and later North Bergen Township it became a separate township in 1849 and was incorporated as a city in 1855 Hoboken is the location of the first recorded game of baseball and of the Stevens Institute of Technology one of the oldest technological universities in the United States It is also known as the birthplace and hometown of Frank Sinatra various streets and parks in the city have been named after him Located on the Hudson Waterfront the city was an integral part of the Port of New York and New Jersey and was home to major industries for most of the 20th century The character of the city has changed from an artsy industrial vibe from the days when Maxwell House coffee Lipton tea Hostess Cupcakes and Wonder Bread called Hoboken home to one of trendy shops and expensive condominiums 27 It was ranked 2nd in Niche s 2019 Best Places to Live in Hudson County list 28 and in 2022 it was ranked 1st on that list 29 Contents 1 History 1 1 Etymology 1 2 Early European arrival and colonial period 1 3 19th century 1 3 1 Birthplace of baseball 1 4 20th century 1 4 1 World War I 1 4 2 Post World War II 1 4 3 Waterfront 1 4 4 1970s present 2 Geography 3 Climate 4 Demographics 4 1 2010 census 4 2 2000 census 5 Economy 6 Parks and recreation 7 Arts and culture 7 1 Annual cultural events 8 Government and public service 8 1 Local government 8 2 Federal state and county representation 8 3 Politics 8 4 Fire department 8 4 1 Fire station locations and apparatus 8 5 Emergency medical services 9 Social services 10 Transportation 10 1 Rail 10 2 Water 10 3 Surface 10 4 Roads and highways 10 5 Air 11 Education 11 1 Public schools 11 2 Private schools 11 3 Higher education 12 Media 13 Notable people 14 See also 15 References 16 Further reading 17 External linksHistory EditEtymology Edit The name Hoboken was chosen by Colonel John Stevens when he bought land on a part of which the city still sits The Lenape later called Delaware Indian tribe of Native Americans referred to the area as the land of the tobacco pipe most likely to refer to the soapstone collected there to carve tobacco pipes and used a phrase that became Hopoghan Hackingh 30 31 32 Like Weehawken its neighbor to the north Communipaw and Harsimus to the south Hoboken had many variations in the folks tongue Hoebuck old Dutch for high bluff and likely referring to Castle Point the district of the city highest above sea level was used during the colonial era and later spelled as Hobuck 33 Hobock 34 Hobuk 35 and Hoboocken 36 However in the nineteenth century the name was changed to Hoboken influenced by Flemish Dutch immigrants and a folk etymology had emerged linking the town of Hoboken to the similarly named Hoboken district of Antwerp 37 Hoboken has been nicknamed the Mile Square City 1 but it actually occupies about 1 25 sq mi 3 2 km2 of land 2 During the late 19th early 20th century the population and culture of Hoboken was dominated by German language speakers who sometimes called it Little Bremen many of whom are buried in Hoboken Cemetery North Bergen 38 39 Early European arrival and colonial period Edit The Hudson River during the 1880s offshore from Hoboken and Jersey City Hoboken was originally an island which was surrounded by the Hudson River on the east and tidal lands at the foot of the New Jersey Palisades on the west It was a seasonal campsite in the territory of the Hackensack a phratry of the Lenni Lenape who used the serpentine rock found there to carve pipes The first recorded European to lay claim to the area was Henry Hudson an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company who anchored his ship the Halve Maen Half Moon at Weehawken Cove on October 2 1609 40 Soon after it became part of the province of New Netherland In 1630 Michael Reyniersz Pauw a burgemeester mayor of Amsterdam and a director of the Dutch West India Company received a land grant as patroon on the condition that he would plant a colony of not fewer than fifty persons within four years on the west bank of what had been named the North River Three Lenape sold the land that became Hoboken and part of Jersey City for 80 fathoms 146 m of wampum 20 fathoms 37 m of cloth 12 kettles six guns two blankets one double kettle and half a barrel of beer 40 These transactions variously dated as July 12 1630 and November 22 1630 represent the earliest known conveyance for the area Pauw whose Latinized name is Pavonia failed to settle the land and he was obliged to sell his holdings back to the company in 1633 It was later acquired by Hendrick Van Vorst who leased part of the land to Aert Van Putten a farmer In 1643 north of what would be later known as Castle Point Van Putten built a house and a brewery North America s first In series of Indian and Dutch raids and reprisals Van Putten was killed and his buildings destroyed and all residents of Pavonia as the colony was then known were ordered back to New Amsterdam Deteriorating relations with the Lenape its isolation as an island or relatively long distance from New Amsterdam may have discouraged more settlement citation needed In 1664 the English took possession of New Amsterdam with little to no resistance and in 1668 they confirmed a previous land patent by Nicolas Verlett In 1674 1675 the area became part of East Jersey and the province was divided into four administrative districts Hoboken becoming part of Bergen County where it remained until the creation of Hudson County on February 22 1840 English speaking settlers some relocating from New England interspersed with the Dutch but it remained sparsely populated and agrarian citation needed Eventually the land came into the possession of William Bayard who originally supported the revolutionary cause but became a Loyalist Tory after the fall of New York in 1776 when the city and surrounding areas including the west bank of the renamed Hudson River were occupied by the British At the end of the Revolutionary War Bayard s property was confiscated by the Revolutionary Government of New Jersey In 1784 the land described as William Bayard s farm at Hoebuck was bought at auction by Colonel John Stevens for 18 360 then 90 000 40 19th century Edit Hoboken in 1854 Hoboken in 1860 A stereoscopic image of ferries at Hoboken 1865 In the early 19th century Colonel John Stevens developed the waterfront as a resort for Manhattanites 41 On October 11 1811 Stevens ship the Juliana began to operate as a ferry between Manhattan and Hoboken making it the world s first commercial steam ferry 42 In 1825 he designed and built a steam locomotive capable of hauling several passenger cars at his estate 43 Sybil s Cave a cave with a natural spring was opened in 1832 and visitors came to pay a penny for a glass of water from the cave which was said to have medicinal powers 44 In 1841 the cave became a legend when Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Mystery of Marie Roget about an event that took place there 45 The cave was closed in the late 1880s after the water was found to be contaminated and it was shut and in the 1930s and filled with concrete before it was reopened in 2008 46 Before his death in 1838 Stevens founded the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company which laid out a regular system of streets blocks and lots constructed housing and developed manufacturing sites In general the housing consisted of masonry row houses of three to five stories some of which survive to the present day as does the street grid 47 Hoboken was originally formed as a township on April 9 1849 from portions of North Bergen Township As the town grew in population and employment many of Hoboken s residents saw a need to incorporate as a full fledged city and in a referendum held on March 29 1855 ratified an Act of the New Jersey Legislature signed the previous day and the City of Hoboken was born 48 In the subsequent election Cornelius V Clickener became Hoboken s first mayor On March 15 1859 the Township of Weehawken was created from portions of Hoboken and North Bergen Township 48 Based on a bequest from Edwin A Stevens Stevens Institute of Technology was founded at Castle Point in 1870 at the site of the Stevens family s former estate as the nation s first mechanical engineering college 49 By the late 19th century shipping lines were using Hoboken as a terminal port and the Delaware Lackawanna amp Western Railroad later the Erie Lackawanna Railroad developed a railroad terminal at the waterfront with the present NJ Transit terminal designed by architect Kenneth Murchison constructed in 1907 50 It was also during this time that German immigrants who had been settling in town during most of the century became the predominant population group in the city at least partially due to its being a major destination port of the Hamburg America Line though anti German sentiment during World War I led to a rapid decline in the German community 51 In addition to the primary industry of shipbuilding Hoboken became home to Keuffel and Esser s three story factory and in 1884 to Tietjen and Lang Drydock later Todd Shipyards Well known companies that developed a major presence in Hoboken after the turn of the century included Maxwell House Lipton Tea and Hostess 52 Birthplace of baseball Edit Early baseball game played at Elysian Fields A historic marker stands at the intersection of 11th and Washington Streets former site of Elysian Fields The first officially recorded game of baseball took place in Hoboken in 1846 between Knickerbocker Club and New York Nine at Elysian Fields 53 In 1845 the Knickerbocker Club which had been founded by Alexander Cartwright began using Elysian Fields to play baseball due to the lack of suitable grounds on Manhattan 54 Team members included players of the St George s Cricket Club the brothers Harry and George Wright and Henry Chadwick the English born journalist who coined the term America s Pastime By the 1850s several Manhattan based members of the National Association of Base Ball Players were using the grounds as their home field while St George s continued to organize international matches between Canada England and the United States at the same venue In 1859 George Parr s All England Eleven of professional cricketers played the United States XXII at Hoboken easily defeating the local competition Sam Wright and his sons Harry and George Wright played on the defeated United States team a loss which inadvertently encouraged local players to take up baseball Henry Chadwick believed that baseball and not cricket should become the national pastime after the game drawing the conclusion that amateur American players did not have the leisure time required to develop cricket skills to the high technical level required of professional players Harry Wright and George Wright then became two of the first professional baseball players in the United States when Aaron Champion raised funds to found the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869 In 1865 the grounds hosted a championship match between the Mutual Club of New York City and the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn that was attended by an estimated 20 000 fans and captured in the Currier amp Ives lithograph The American National Game of Base Ball 55 With the construction of two significant baseball parks enclosed by fences in Brooklyn enabling promoters there to charge admission to games the prominence of Elysian Fields diminished In 1868 the leading Manhattan club Mutual shifted its home games to the Union Grounds in Brooklyn In 1880 the founders of the New York Metropolitans and New York Giants finally succeeded in siting a ballpark in Manhattan that became known as the Polo Grounds 20th century Edit Upper Bloomfield Street between 9th and 10th 1900 Hoboken Terminal shortly after it opened in 1907 Great Ocean Liners at the Docks in just prior to the U S entry in World War I in 1915 Few nonwhites had settled in Hoboken by 1901 The Brooklyn Eagle claimed that an unwritten sundown town policy prevented African Americans from residing or working there 56 World War I Edit Further information Hoboken Port of Embarkation When the U S entered World War I the Hamburg American Line piers in Hoboken and New Orleans were taken under eminent domain 57 Federal control of the port and anti German sentiment led to part of the city being placed under martial law and many German immigrants were forcibly moved to Ellis Island or left the city of their own accord 58 Hoboken became the major point of embarkation and more than three million soldiers known as doughboys passed through the city 59 Their hope for an early return led to General Pershing s slogan Heaven Hell or Hoboken by Christmas 60 Following the war Italians mostly stemming from the Adriatic port city of Molfetta became the city s major ethnic group with the Irish also having a strong presence 61 While the city experienced the Great Depression jobs in the ships yards and factories were still available and the tenements were bustling Middle European Jews mostly German speaking also made their way to the city and established small businesses The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which was established on April 30 1921 oversaw the development of the Holland Tunnel completed in 1927 and the Lincoln Tunnel in 1937 allowing for easier vehicular travel between New Jersey and New York City bypassing the waterfront Post World War II Edit The Keuffel and Esser Manufacturing Complex was converted into residential apartments in 1975 62 The war facilitated economic growth in Hoboken as the many industries located in the city were crucial to the war effort As men went off to battle more women were hired in the factories some most notably Todd Shipyards offering classes and other incentives to them Though some returning service men took advantage of GI housing bills many with strong ethnic and familial ties chose to stay in town During the 1950s the economy was still driven by Todd Shipyards Maxwell House 63 Lipton Tea Hostess and Bethlehem Steel and companies with big plants were still not inclined to invest in major infrastructure elsewhere In the 1960s working pay and conditions began to deteriorate turn of the century housing started to look shabby and feel crowded shipbuilding was cheaper overseas and single story plants surrounded by parking lots made manufacturing and distribution more economical than old brick buildings on congested urban streets The city appeared to be in the throes of inexorable decline as industries sought what had been greener pastures port operations shifted to larger facilities on Newark Bay and the car truck and plane displaced the railroad and ship as the transportation modes of choice in the United States Many Hobokenites headed to the suburbs often the close by ones in Bergen and Passaic Counties and real estate values declined Hoboken sank from its earlier incarnation as a lively port town into a rundown condition and was often included in lists with other New Jersey cities experiencing the same phenomenon such as Paterson Elizabeth Camden and neighboring Jersey City 64 The old economic underpinnings were gone and nothing new seemed to be on the horizon Attempts were made to stabilize the population by demolishing the so called slums along River Street and build subsidized middle income housing at Marineview Plaza and in midtown at Church Towers Heaps of long uncollected garbage and roving packs of semi wild dogs were not uncommon sights 65 Though the city had seen better days Hoboken was never abandoned New infusions of immigrants most notably Puerto Ricans kept the storefronts open with small businesses and housing stock from being abandoned but there wasn t much work to be had Washington Street commonly called the avenue was never boarded up and the tight knit neighborhoods remained home to many who were still proud of their city Stevens remained a premier technology school Maxwell House kept chugging away and Bethlehem Steel still housed sailors who were dry docked on its piers Italian Americans and other came back to the old neighborhood to shop for delicatessen citation needed In 1975 the western part of the Keuffel and Esser Manufacturing Complex known as Clock Towers was converted into residential apartments after having been an architectural engineering and drafting facility from 1907 to 1968 62 the eastern part portion became residential apartments in 1984 now called the Grand Adams 62 Waterfront Edit Aerial view of Hoboken Terminal 2004 The Hudson Waterfront defined Hoboken as an archetypal port town and powered its economy from the mid 19th to mid 20th century by which time it had become essentially industrial and mostly inaccessible to the general public The large production plants of Lipton Tea and Maxwell House and the drydocks of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation and Todd Shipbuilding dominated the northern portion for many years On June 30 1900 a large fire at the Norddeutscher Lloyd piers killed numerous people and caused almost 10 million in damage 66 67 The southern portion which had been a U S base of the Hamburg American Line was seized by the federal government under eminent domain at the outbreak of World War I after which it became with the rest of the Hudson County a major East Coast cargo shipping port With the development of the Interstate Highway System and containerization shipping facilities particularly at Port Newark Elizabeth Marine Terminal the docks became obsolete and by the 1970s were more or less abandoned 40 A large swath of River Street known as the Barbary Coast for its taverns and boarding houses which had been home for many dockworkers sailors merchant mariners and other seamen was leveled as part of an urban renewal project Though control of the confiscated area had been returned to the city in the 1950s complex lease agreements with the Port Authority gave it little influence on its management In the 1980s the waterfront dominated Hoboken politics with various civic groups and the city government engaging in sometimes nasty sometimes absurd politics and court cases By the 1990s agreements were made with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey various levels of government Hoboken citizens and private developers to build commercial and residential buildings and open spaces mostly along the bulkhead and on the foundation of un utilized Pier A 68 The northern portion which had remained in private hands has also been re developed While most of the dry dock and production facilities 69 70 were razed to make way for mid rise apartment houses many sold as investment condominiums some buildings were renovated for adaptive re use notably the Tea Building formerly home to Lipton Tea 71 and the Machine Shop home of the Hoboken Historic Museum 72 Zoning requires that new construction follow the street grid and limits the height of new construction to retain the architectural character of the city and open sight lines to the river Downtown Frank Sinatra Park and Sinatra Drive honor the man most consider to be Hoboken s most famous son while uptown the name Maxwell recalls the factory with its smell of roasting coffee wafting over town and its huge neon Good to the Last Drop sign so long a part of the landscape The midtown section is dominated by the serpentine rock outcropping atop of which sits Stevens Institute of Technology which also owns some as yet undeveloped land on the river At the foot of the cliff is Sybil s Cave where 19th century day trippers once came to take the waters from a natural spring long sealed shut though plans for its restoration are in place The promenade along the river bank is part of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway a state mandated master plan to connect the municipalities from the Bayonne Bridge to George Washington Bridge and provide contiguous unhindered access to the water s edge and to create an urban linear park offering expansive views of the Hudson with the spectacular backdrop of the New York skyline As of 2017 the city was considering using eminent domain to take over the last operating maritime industry in the city the Union Dry Dock 73 74 The Hudson River and Manhattan skyline on a foggy morning Panorama of Manhattan from Pier A 1970s present Edit During the late 1970s and 1980s the city witnessed a speculation spree fueled by transplanted New Yorkers and others who bought many turn of the 20th century brownstones in neighborhoods that the still solid middle and working class population had kept intact and by local and out of town real estate investors who bought up late 19th century apartment houses often considered to be tenements Hoboken experienced a wave of fires some of which were arson 75 76 77 Applied Housing a real estate investment firm used federal government incentives to renovate sub standard housing and receive subsidized rental payments commonly known as Section 8 which enabled some low income displaced and disabled residents to move within town Hoboken attracted artists musicians upwardly mobile commuters and bohemian types interested in the socioeconomic possibilities and challenges of a bankrupt New York and who valued the aesthetics of Hoboken s residential civic and commercial architecture its sense of community and relatively compared to Lower Manhattan less expensive rents all a quick train hop away Maxwell s a live music venue and restaurant opened and Hoboken became a popular place to live These trends in development resembled similar growth and change patterns in Brooklyn and downtown Jersey City and Manhattan s East Village and to a lesser degree SoHo and TriBeCa which previously had not been residential Empty lots were built on tenements were transformed into luxury condominiums Hoboken felt the impact of the destruction of the World Trade Center intensely many of its newer residents having worked there Re zoning encouraged new construction on former industrial sites on the waterfront and the traditionally more impoverished low lying west side of the city where in concert with Hudson Bergen Light Rail and New Jersey State land use policy transit villages are now being promoted 78 Once a blue collar town characterized by live poultry shops and drab taverns it has since been transformed into a town filled with gourmet shops and luxury condominiums 76 In October 2012 Hurricane Sandy caused widespread flooding in Hoboken leaving 1 700 homes flooded and causing 100 million in damage after the storm filled up Hoboken like a bathtub 79 Workers in Hoboken had the highest rate of public transportation use in the nation with 56 commuting daily via mass transit 80 Hurricane Sandy caused seawater to flood half the city crippling the PATH station at Hoboken Terminal when more than 10 million gallons of water dumped into the system In December 2013 Mayor Dawn Zimmer testified before a U S Senate Committee on the impact the storm had on Hoboken s businesses and residents 81 82 and in January 2014 she stated that Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno and Richard Constable a member of governor Chris Christie s cabinet deliberately held back Hurricane Sandy relief funds from the city in order to pressure her to approve a Christie ally s developmental project 83 84 a charge that the Christie administration denied 85 86 87 In June 2014 the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated 230 million to Hoboken as part of its Rebuild by Design initiative adding levees parks green roofs retention basins and other infrastructure to help the low lying riverfront city protect itself from ordinary flooding and build a network of features to help Hoboken future proof itself against subsequent storms 88 Geography Edit Image of Hoboken taken by NASA with Hoboken outlined in red According to the United States Census Bureau the city has a total area of 2 square miles 5 2 square kilometres including 1 25 sq mi 3 2 km2 of land and 0 75 sq mi 1 9 km2 of water 37 50 89 Hoboken lies on the west bank of the Hudson River between Weehawken and Union City to the north and Jersey City the county seat to the south and west 90 91 92 Directly across the Hudson River are the Manhattan New York City neighborhoods of the West Village and Chelsea Hoboken is laid out in a grid North south streets are named Washington Adams Jefferson Madison Monroe Jackson Harrison and Clinton for example The numbered streets running east west start two blocks north of Observer Highway with First Street with the grid ending close to 16th near Weehawken Cove and the city line 92 Neighborhoods in Hoboken often have vague definitions making Downtown Midtown and Uptown subjective Castle Point or Stevens Point 93 The Projects Hoboken Terminal and Hudson Tea are distinct enclaves at the city s periphery As it transforms from its previous industrial use to a residential district the Northwest is a name being used for that part of the city 94 95 Hoboken s ZIP Code is 07030 16 and its area code is 201 96 Climate EditHoboken s temperatures hover around an average in winter rising and falling rather than a consistent pattern with a clear coldest time of year with minimums occurring in late December and early mid February rising and falling repeatedly throughout January 97 Just like neighboring New York City the climate is humid subtropical Cfa Climate data for HobokenMonth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high F C 72 22 75 24 86 30 96 36 99 37 101 38 106 41 104 40 102 39 94 34 84 29 75 24 106 41 Average high F C 38 3 42 6 50 10 61 16 71 22 79 26 84 29 83 28 75 24 64 18 54 12 43 6 62 17 Average low F C 27 3 29 2 35 2 45 7 54 12 64 18 69 21 68 20 61 16 50 10 42 6 32 0 48 9 Record low F C 6 21 15 26 3 16 12 11 28 2 44 7 52 11 50 10 39 4 28 2 7 14 13 25 15 26 Average precipitation inches mm 3 65 93 3 21 82 4 36 111 4 50 114 4 19 106 4 41 112 4 60 117 4 44 113 4 28 109 4 40 112 4 02 102 4 00 102 50 06 1 273 Average snowfall inches cm 7 5 19 6 8 17 3 0 7 6 0 5 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 3 9 9 9 22 1 55 8 Average precipitation days 0 01 in 6 0 5 6 6 8 7 3 7 3 7 1 7 1 6 4 6 2 5 5 6 0 6 3 77 6Average snowy days 0 1 in 8 0 6 5 2 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 20 4Source 98 Demographics EditHistorical population CensusPop Note 18502 668 18609 662262 1 187020 297110 1 188030 99952 7 189043 64840 8 190059 36436 0 191070 32418 5 192068 166 3 1 193059 261 13 1 194050 115 15 4 195050 6761 1 196048 441 4 4 197045 380 6 3 198042 460 6 4 199033 397 21 3 200038 57715 5 201050 00529 6 202060 41920 8 2021 est 58 690 11 13 14 2 9 Population sources 1850 1920 99 1860 1930 21 1850 1870 100 1850 101 1870 102 1880 1890 103 1890 1910 104 1910 1930 105 1930 1990 106 2000 107 2010 23 2020 11 12 2010 census Edit The 2010 United States census counted 50 005 people 25 041 households and 9 465 families in the city The population density was 39 212 0 per square mile 15 139 8 km2 There were 26 855 housing units at an average density of 21 058 7 per square mile 8 130 8 km2 The racial makeup was 82 24 41 124 White 3 53 1 767 Black or African American 0 15 73 Native American 7 12 3 558 Asian 0 03 15 Pacific Islander 4 29 2 144 from other races and 2 65 1 324 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 15 20 7 602 of the population 23 Of the 25 041 households 15 5 had children under the age of 18 28 8 were married couples living together 6 9 had a female householder with no husband present and 62 2 were non families Of all households 39 7 were made up of individuals and 5 8 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 1 93 and the average family size was 2 68 23 12 2 of the population were under the age of 18 12 1 from 18 to 24 55 9 from 25 to 44 13 5 from 45 to 64 and 6 3 who were 65 years of age or older The median age was 31 2 years For every 100 females the population had 101 8 males For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 100 7 males 23 The Census Bureau s 2006 2010 American Community Survey showed that in 2010 inflation adjusted dollars median household income was 101 782 with a margin of error of 3 219 and the median family income was 121 614 18 466 Males had a median income of 90 878 6 412 versus 67 331 3 710 for females The per capita income for the city was 69 085 3 335 About 9 6 of families and 11 0 of the population were below the poverty line including 20 7 of those under age 18 and 24 4 of those age 65 or over 108 2000 census Edit As of the 2000 census there were 38 577 people 19 418 households and 6 835 families residing in the city The population density was 30 239 2 inhabitants per square mile 11 636 5 km2 fourth highest in the nation after neighboring communities of Guttenberg Union City and West New York 109 There were 19 915 housing units at an average density of 15 610 7 per square mile 6 007 2 km2 The racial makeup of the city was 80 82 White 4 26 African American 0 16 Native American 4 31 Asian 0 05 Pacific Islander 7 63 from other races and 2 78 from two or more races Furthermore 20 18 of the total residents also consider themselves to be Hispanic or Latino 107 110 There were 19 418 households out of which 11 4 had children under the age of 18 living with them 23 8 were married couples living together 9 0 had a female householder with no husband present and 64 8 were non families 41 8 of all households were made up of individuals and 8 0 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 1 92 and the average family size was 2 73 107 110 In the city the age distribution of the population showed 10 5 under the age of 18 15 3 from 18 to 24 51 7 from 25 to 44 13 5 from 45 to 64 and 9 0 who were 65 years of age or older The median age was 30 years For every 100 females age 18 and over there were 103 9 males 107 110 The median income for a household in the city as of the 2000 census was 62 550 while the median income for a family was 67 500 Males had a median income of 54 870 versus 46 826 for females The per capita income for the city was 43 195 11 0 of the population and 10 0 of families were below the poverty line Out of the total population 23 6 of those under the age of 18 and 20 7 of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line 107 110 The city is a bedroom community of New York City where most of its employed residents work Based on the 2000 Census Worker Flow Files about 53 of the employed residents of Hoboken 13 475 out of 25 306 worked in one of the five boroughs of New York City as opposed to about 15 working within Hoboken 111 Economy EditThe first centrally air conditioned public space in the United States was demonstrated at Hoboken Terminal 112 The first Blimpie restaurant opened in 1964 at the corner of Seventh and Washington Streets 113 114 Hoboken is home to one of the headquarters of publisher John Wiley amp Sons which moved from Manhattan in 2002 115 According to the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Hoboken s unemployment rate as of 2014 was 3 3 compared to a 6 5 in Hudson County as a whole 116 In 2018 Hoboken had an unemployment rate of 2 1 vs 3 9 countywide 117 A 2014 study showed that Stevens Institute of Technology contributed 117 million to Hoboken s economy in 2014 reflecting the university s nearly 100 million payroll for salaries and wages as well as other goods and services acquired construction and off campus spending by students and visitors The university is responsible for 1 285 full time jobs 118 Parks and recreation EditMain article Landmarks of Hoboken New Jersey Lower Frank Sinatra Drive Clock at Eleventh Street The four parks were originally laid out within city street grid in the 19th century were Church Square Park Columbus Park Elysian Park and Stevens Park Four other parks that were developed later but fit into the street pattern are Gateway Park Jackson Street Park Legion Park and Madison Park 119 More recently built parks throughout the city include Pier C 120 a reconstructed pier accessed by a curving walkway along lower Sinatra Drive A multi use sports field called 1600 Park opened in 2013 121 while the one acre Southwest Park was completed along Jackson Street and Paterson Avenue in 2017 122 As of 2019 the city was considering expanding the park to a property across the street 123 A two acre park and public plaza called 7th and Jackson Resiliency Park opened in 2019 It includes a playground an acre of open lawn space a new indoor gymnasium play sculptures and infrastructure to capture over 450 000 gallons of rainwater to reduce flooding 124 Construction of the 5 4 acre Northwest Resiliency Park broke ground in 2019 and will include a great lawn a stage a central fountain that can be converted into a seasonal ice skating rink a pavilion playgrounds and a multi purpose field and basketball basin The 90 million park features many environmentally friendly features and includes an underground stormwater detention system that can store roughly one million gallons of water to help mitigate flooding The project is expected to be completed sometime in 2022 125 A 2014 renovation to the 14th Street Viaduct near the city s northwest edge saw the creation of several recreational areas underneath the structure that include a dog park passive recreation areas and street hockey and basketball courts amid a new cobblestone streetscape 126 The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is a state mandated master plan to connect the municipalities from the Bayonne Bridge to the George Washington Bridge creating an 18 mi 29 km long urban linear park and provide contiguous unhindered access to the water s edge By law any development on the waterfront must provide a public promenade with a minimum width of 30 ft 9 1 m To date completed segments in Hoboken and the new parks and renovated piers that abut them are at Hoboken Terminal Pier A the promenade and bike path from Newark to 5th Streets Frank Sinatra Park Castle Point Park Sinatra Drive to 12th to 14th Streets New York Waterway Pier 14th Street Pier and 14th Street north to southern side of Weehawken Cove Other segments of river front held privately are not required to build a walkway until the land is re developed 127 Arts and culture EditSince 1992 the Hudson Shakespeare Company has been the resident Shakespeare Festival of Hudson County performing a free Shakespeare production for each month of the summer Since 1998 the group has performed Shakespeare Mondays at Frank Sinatra Park 410 Frank Sinatra Drive as part of their annual Shakespeare in the Park tour 128 Hoboken is also home to cultural attractions such as Barsky Gallery 129 and creative institutions such as the Hoboken Historical Museum 130 and the Monroe Center 131 Annual cultural events Edit Hoboken has many annual events such as the Frank Sinatra Idol Contest 132 Hoboken Comedy Festival 133 Hoboken House Tour 134 Hoboken International Film Festival 135 Hoboken Studio Tour 136 Hoboken Arts and Music Festival Hoboken Secret Garden Tour 137 and Movies Under the Stars 138 The Hoboken Farmer s Market occurs every Tuesday June through October 139 There are also numerous festivals such as the Saint Patrick s Day Parade 140 Feast of Saint Anthony s 141 Saint Ann s Feast 142 and the Hoboken Italian Festival 143 From the 1960s until 2011 Hoboken was home to the Macy s Parade Studio which houses many of the floats for the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade 144 145 146 Many Stevens students alumni and staff members volunteer in the preparation and piloting of the parade floats 147 The studio was moved out of Hoboken and into a converted former Tootsie Roll Factory in Moonachie New Jersey 2011 144 Government and public service EditLocal government Edit Hoboken City Hall on Washington Street between First Street and Newark Street The City of Hoboken is governed within the Faulkner Act formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law under the mayor council Plan D system of municipal government implemented based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission as of January 1 1953 148 The city is one of 71 municipalities of the 564 statewide that use this form of government 149 The governing body is comprised of the Mayor and the nine member City Council The city council is comprised of three members elected at large from the city as a whole and six members who each represent one of the city s six wards 150 All of the members of the city council are elected to four year terms of office in non partisan elections on a staggered basis in odd numbered years with the six ward seats up for election together and the three at large and mayoral seats up for vote two years later 8 In July 2011 the city council voted to move municipal elections from May to November The first shifted election were held in November 2013 with all officials elected in 2009 and 2011 having their terms extended by six months 151 As of 2022 update the mayor of Hoboken is Ravinder Bhalla whose term of office ends December 31 2025 4 Members of the city council are Council President Michael Russo 2023 3rd Ward Council Vice President Emily Jabbour 2025 at large Phil Cohen 2023 5th Ward Michael DeFusco 2023 1st Ward James J Doyle 2025 at large Tiffanie Fisher 2023 2nd Ward Jennifer Giattino 2023 6th Ward Joe Quintero 2025 at large and Ruben J Ramos Jr 2023 4th Ward 152 153 154 155 156 In the 2017 general election Ravinder Bhalla was elected to succeed Dawn Zimmer becoming the state s first Sikh mayor Zimmer had chosen not to run for re election to a third term and had endorsed Bhalla for the post Bhalla s running mates incumbents James Doyle and Emily Jabbour won two of the at large seats while the third seat was won Vanessa Falco who had been aligned with the slate of mayoral candidate Michael DeFusco 157 158 Zimmer had been the city council president and first took office as mayor on July 31 2009 after her predecessor Peter Cammarano 159 was arrested on allegations of corruption stemming from a decade long FBI operation 160 Zimmer who lost a June 9 2009 runoff election to Cammarano by 161 votes served as acting mayor until winning a special election to fill the remainder of the term on November 3 2009 She was sworn in as mayor on November 6 as is the first female mayor of Hoboken 161 Zimmer won re election in November 2013 to a second term of office and began her second term in January 2014 162 Federal state and county representation Edit Hoboken Post Office Hoboken is located in the 8th Congressional District 163 and is part of New Jersey s 33rd state legislative district 164 165 166 Prior to the 2010 Census Hoboken had been part of the 13th Congressional District a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013 based on the results of the November 2012 general elections 167 For the 118th United States Congress New Jersey s Eighth Congressional District is represented by Rob Menendez D Jersey City 168 169 New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker Newark term ends 2027 170 and Bob Menendez Harrison term ends 2025 171 172 For the 2022 2023 session the 33rd Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Brian P Stack D Union City and in the General Assembly by Annette Chaparro D Hoboken and Raj Mukherji D Jersey City 173 The Hudson County Executive elected at large is Thomas A DeGise 174 175 Hudson County Board of County Commissioner District 5 comprises Hoboken and parts of the Heights in Jersey City 176 and is represented by Anthony Romano 177 178 Politics Edit As of March 2011 there were a total of 35 532 registered voters in Hoboken of which 14 385 40 5 were registered as Democrats 3 881 10 9 were registered as Republicans and 17 218 48 5 were registered as Unaffiliated There were 48 voters registered to other parties 179 In the 2012 presidential election Democrat Barack Obama received 66 1 of the vote 14 443 cast ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 32 4 7 078 votes and Libertarian and Green candidates with 1 5 325 votes among the 22 018 ballots cast by the city s 40 209 registered voters 172 ballots were spoiled for a turnout of 54 8 180 181 In the 2008 presidential election Democrat Barack Obama received 71 0 of the vote here 17 051 cast ahead of Republican John McCain with 27 5 6 590 votes and other candidates with 0 9 225 votes among the 24 007 ballots cast by the city s 38 970 registered voters for a turnout of 61 6 182 In the 2004 presidential election Democrat John Kerry received 65 0 of the vote here 13 436 ballots cast outpolling Republican George W Bush with 33 4 6 898 votes and other candidates with 0 5 161 votes among the 20 668 ballots cast by the city s 31 221 registered voters for a turnout percentage of 66 2 183 In the 2013 gubernatorial election Republican Chris Christie received 53 0 of the vote 6 562 cast ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 45 0 5 565 votes and other candidates with 2 0 243 votes among the 16 331 ballots cast by the city s 41 094 registered voters 3 961 ballots were spoiled for a turnout of 39 7 184 185 In the 2009 gubernatorial election Democrat Jon Corzine received 62 3 of the vote here 9 095 ballots cast ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 29 5 4 307 votes Independent Chris Daggett with 4 6 673 votes and other candidates with 0 9 138 votes among the 14 593 ballots cast by the city s 34 844 registered voters yielding a 41 9 turnout 186 On November 7 2017 City Councilmember Ravinder Bhalla was elected as mayor making him the first Sikh mayor in the state s history 187 Fire department Edit Main article Hoboken Fire Department Hoboken Fire Department HFD Agency overviewEstablished1891Annual calls 3 500Employees132StaffingCareerFire chiefBrian CrimminsEMS levelFirst Responder BLSFacilities and equipmentBattalions1Stations4Engines4Trucks2Rescues1HAZMAT1USAR1Fireboats1 Fire Station 1 on Washington Street The city is protected by the 132 paid firefighters of the city of Hoboken Fire Department HFD Established in 1891 the HFD currently operates under the command of a Department Chief to whom two Deputy Chiefs report 188 The department reported to 3 352 emergency calls in 2010 arriving in an average of 2 6 minutes from the time the original call was received 189 The HFD has been a Class 1 rated fire department since 1996 as determined by the Insurance Services Office one of only three in New Jersey joining Hackensack and Cherry Hill 190 191 HFD s firehouses including its fire museum are listed on the National Register of Historic Places 192 The department is part of the Metro USAR Strike Team which consists of nine North Jersey fire departments and other emergency services divisions working to address major emergency rescue situations 193 Fire station locations and apparatus Edit Fire station and company locations in Hoboken are 194 195 196 Engine company Ladder company Special unit Chief unit Address NeighborhoodEngine 1 Ladder 1 Fire Boat 1 docked in Shipyard Marina Spare Ladder 3 1313 Washington Street UptownEngine 2 Ladder 2 Spare Engine 5 43 Madison Street DowntownEngine 3 Rescue 1 which is also part of the Metro USAR Collapse Rescue Strike Team 193 801 Clinton Street UptownEngine 4 Haz Mat 1 Spare Rescue 2 Spare Engine 6 Car 155 Deputy Chief Tour Commander 201 Jefferson Street MidtownThe Fire Museum is located at 213 Bloomfield Street 196 197 Emergency medical services Edit Main article Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps EMS in the city of Hoboken is provided primarily by the members of the Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps HVAC which was established in 1971 HVAC is the county s only all volunteer EMS organization and does not charge for the services it provides HVAC has seven emergency vehicles in addition to six bicycles that can be used to provide coverage at outdoor events 198 Hoboken University Medical Center founded in 1863 as St Mary s Hospital is a historic hospital and the oldest in continuous operation in the state 199 It is a community hospital and part of the CarePoint Health System 200 Social services EditHOPES Community Action Partnership Incorporated HOPES CAP Inc HOPES was established in 1964 under President Lyndon B Johnson s administration signing the Economic Opportunity Act 201 The majority of HOPES program participants have incomes below the federal poverty threshold Services include those for youth enrichment adults senior assistance and early childhood development 202 Homelessness in the city is addressed by the Hoboken Homeless Shelter one of the three homeless shelters in the county 203 In December 2018 the city of Hoboken installed eight parking meters in high foot traffic areas painted orange to collect donations to benefit homelessness initiatives 204 Transportation Edit Hudson Bike Share The trackage of Hoboken Terminal Hoboken has the highest public transportation use of any city in the United States with 56 of working residents using public transportation for commuting purposes each day 205 Hoboken Terminal located at the city s southeastern corner is a national historic landmark originally built in 1907 by the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad 206 The terminal is the origination destination point for several modes of transportation and an important hub within the NY NJ metropolitan region s public transit system citation needed The number of residents parking on Hoboken streets decreased from 2010 to 2015 207 Hudson Bike Share a bicycle sharing system operated by nextbike opened 208 in October 2015 209 Amid conflicts with Jersey City which used Citi Bike 210 Hoboken ceased using Hudson Bike Share in May 2021 and adopted Citi Bike itself thus connecting the town s bicycle sharing network with the ones already operating in Jersey City and New York City 211 Rail Edit NJ Transit s Main Line Bergen County Line Pascack Valley Line Montclair Boonton Line Morris and Essex Lines and Meadowlands Rail Line terminate at the Hoboken Terminal 212 The Hudson Bergen Light Rail another NJ Transit subsidiary has three stations in Hoboken Hoboken Terminal 2nd Street and 9th Street Congress Street 213 PATH a 24 hour subway system operated by the Port Authority operates from Hoboken Terminal to 33rd Street Manhattan World Trade Center and Journal Square 214 Water Edit NY Waterway ferry service makes Hudson River crossings from Hoboken Terminal and 14th Street to Battery Park City Ferry Terminal Wall Street Pier 11 and the West Midtown Ferry Terminal in Manhattan 215 Surface Edit The 14th Street and Wing Viaducts connect Hoboken Jersey City Heights and North Hudson New Jersey Transit buses 22 22X 23 64 68 85 87 89 and 126 terminate at Hudson Place Hoboken Terminal 216 217 218 Academy Bus Lines has a garage in Hoboken operating most of their NYC services from there Taxi service is available for a flat fare within city limits and negotiated fare for other destinations Zipcar is located downtown at the Center Parking Garage on Park Avenue between Newark Street and Observer Highway 219 Roads and highways Edit View east along the 14th Street Viaduct entering Hoboken As of May 2010 update the city had a total of 31 79 mi 51 16 km of roadways of which 26 71 mi 42 99 km were maintained by the municipality and 5 08 mi 8 18 km by Hudson County 220 The 14th Street Viaduct connects Hoboken to Paterson Plank Road in Jersey City Heights Two highway tunnels that connect New Jersey to New York are located close to Hoboken The Lincoln Tunnel is north of the city in Weehawken The Holland Tunnel is south of the city in downtown Jersey City 221 Air Edit Hoboken has no airports Airports which serve Hoboken are operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey These airports are Newark Liberty International Airport LaGuardia Airport and John F Kennedy Airport Education EditHoboken has a highly educated population Based on data from the American Community Survey it was ranked in 2019 as one of the top 15 most educated municipalities in New Jersey with a population of at least 10 000 placing first on the list with 50 2 of residents having bachelor s degree or higher more than double the 23 4 of residents in New Jersey and 19 1 nationwide who have reached that educational level 222 Public schools Edit Hoboken High School Hoboken Public Schools is a school district that serves students in pre kindergarten through twelfth grade 223 The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide that were established pursuant to the decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Abbott v Burke 224 which are now referred to as SDA Districts based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority 225 226 As of the 2020 21 school year the district comprised of five schools had an enrollment of 3 138 students and 229 0 classroom teachers on an FTE basis for a student teacher ratio of 13 7 1 227 Schools in the district with 2020 21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics 228 are Joseph F Brandt Elementary School 229 with 529 students in grades K 5 Thomas G Connors Elementary School 230 with 292 students in grades K 5 Wallace Elementary School 231 with 594 students in grades K 5 Hoboken Middle School 232 with 387 students in grades 6 8 and Hoboken High School 233 with 428 students in grades 9 12 234 235 236 Hoboken High School was the 187th ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine s September 2010 cover story on the state s Top Public High Schools after being ranked 139th in 2008 out of 316 schools 237 In addition Hoboken has three charter schools which are schools that receive public funds yet operate independently of the Hoboken Public Schools under charters granted by the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education Elysian Charter School serves students in grades K 8 Hoboken Charter School in grades K 12 and Hoboken Dual Language Charter School in grades K 8 238 In 2018 the New Jersey Department of Education named the Dual Language charter as having one of six Model Programs in New Jersey 239 Private schools Edit The Castle Gatehouse at Stevens Institute of Technology Private schools in Hoboken include The Hudson School All Saint s Episcopal Day School Mustard Seed School and Stevens Cooperative School Hoboken Catholic Academy a K 8 Catholic school operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark 240 was one of eight private schools recognized in 2017 as an Exemplary High Performing School by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program of the United States Department of Education 241 Higher education Edit Stevens Institute of Technology which was founded in 1870 is located in the Castle Point section of Hoboken 49 The university is composed of three schools and one college the Charles V Schaefer Jr School of Engineering and Science School of Business School of Systems and Enterprises and the College of Arts and Letters 242 Total enrollment is more than 6 900 undergraduate and graduate students across all schools 243 Stevens is home to three national research centers of excellence and joint research programs focusing on healthcare energy finance defense STEM education and coastal stability Stevens also owns most of Castle Point which is the highest point in Hoboken 244 Media Edit Carlo s Bake Shop which is the setting for the reality television show Cake Boss is a local tourist attraction Hoboken is located within the New York media market most of its daily papers available for sale or delivery Local county and regional news is covered by The Jersey Journal a daily newspaper long based in nearby Jersey City and now based in Secaucus The Journal along with other sister newspapers operates NJ com which includes the blog Hoboken Now 245 The Hoboken Reporter is part of The Hudson Reporter group of local weeklies Other weeklies the River View Observer and the Spanish language El Especialito 246 also cover local news as does The Stute the campus newspaper at Stevens Institute of Technology Magazines that cover Hoboken include the lifestyle magazine hMAG which launched in 2009 247 and The Digest which covers local restaurants and events 248 The production company for the 2009 film Assassination of a High School President was based in Hoboken 249 The city has been the home of several filming locations Elia Kazan s 1954 film On the Waterfront was shot in Hoboken 250 A wedding scene from the 1997 film Picture Perfect starring Jennifer Aniston was filmed at the Elks Club at 1005 Washington Street 251 The 1998 film Restaurant starring Adrien Brody was shot there as well Hoboken is home to Carlo s Bake Shop which is featured in the TLC reality show Cake Boss The popularity of the show has resulted in increased business for Carlo s Bake Shop and increased tourism to the Hoboken area resulting in both positive and negative reaction from local residents and businesses 252 The fourth season of A amp E s Parking Wars which documents the lives and duties of parking enforcement personnel was filmed in Hoboken in addition to its usual venues of Detroit and Philadelphia 253 The ABC Primetime magazine Primetime What Would You Do has filmed multiple episodes of their social experiments in Hoboken s shops and restaurants 254 255 The 1989 television series Dream Street was set and shot in Hoboken 256 Bands from Hoboken include alternative rock pioneers The Bongos and 257 art rock band Yo La Tengo 258 Notable people EditMain article List of people from Hoboken New JerseySee also Edit New Jersey portalBergen New Netherland Gateway Region Hudson StreetReferences Edit a b Rodas Steven Is Hoboken officially the Mile Square City Delving into the longstanding nickname Archived November 7 2017 at the Wayback Machine The Hudson Reporter January 17 2016 Accessed June 2 2016 The same way New Yorkers call their city The Big Apple many people refer to Hoboken as the Mile Square City or Mile Square City Despite the fact that the city covers 1 27 square miles on land close to 2 if you count the water the nickname has stuck through the years and made it into the appellations of local businesses a bar and a theater company a b c d e 2019 Census Gazetteer Files New Jersey Places Archived March 21 2021 at the Wayback Machine United States Census Bureau Accessed July 1 2020 US Gazetteer files 2010 2000 and 1990 Archived August 24 2019 at the Wayback Machine United States Census Bureau Accessed April 23 2011 a b Meet the Mayor Archived July 15 2019 at the Wayback Machine City of Hoboken Accessed April 16 2022 2023 New Jersey Mayors Directory New Jersey Department of Community Affairs updated February 8 2023 Accessed February 10 2023 Department of Administration Archived July 15 2019 at the Wayback Machine City of Hoboken Accessed February 28 2022 City Clerk Archived July 15 2019 at the Wayback Machine City of Hoboken Accessed February 28 2022 a b 2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book Rutgers University Edward J Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy March 2013 p 145 ArcGIS REST Services Directory United States Census Bureau Retrieved October 11 2022 City of Hoboken Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey United States Department of the Interior Retrieved March 5 2013 a b c d e f g QuickFacts Hoboken city New Jersey United States Census Bureau Accessed December 13 2022 a b c Total Population Census 2010 Census 2020 New Jersey Municipalities New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Accessed December 1 2022 a b c d Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places of 50 000 or More Ranked by July 1 2021 Population April 1 2020 to July 1 2021 United States Census Bureau May 2022 Accessed December 1 2022 a b Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Minor Civil Divisions in New Jersey April 1 2020 to July 1 2021 United States Census Bureau Accessed December 1 2022 a b Population Density by County and Municipality New Jersey 2020 and 2021 New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Accessed March 1 2023 a b Look Up a ZIP Code Archived May 16 2021 at the Wayback Machine United States Postal Service Accessed November 27 2011 Area Code Lookup NPA NXX for Hoboken NJ Archived May 16 2021 at the Wayback Machine Area Codes com Accessed December 30 2014 U S Census website Archived December 27 1996 at the Wayback Machine United States Census Bureau Accessed January 31 2008 Geographic Codes Lookup for New Jersey Missouri Census Data Center Accessed April 1 2022 Board on Geographic Names United States Geological Survey January 31 2008 a b Heilprin Angelo Heilprin Louis 1916 Lippincott s new gazetteer a complete pronouncing gazetteer or geographical dictionary of the world containing the most recent and authentic information respecting the countries cities towns resorts islands rivers mountains seas lakes etc in every portion of the globe Part 1 Philadelphia J B Lippincott amp Co p 833 Retrieved November 27 2011 Hoboken Archived June 16 2016 at the Wayback Machine Lenape Talking Dictionary Accessed June 2 2016 a b c d e DP 1 Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics 2010 for Hoboken city Hudson County New Jersey Archived February 12 2020 at archive today United States Census Bureau Accessed February 1 2012 Table 7 Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey 1990 2000 and 2010 New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development February 2011 Accessed August 14 2012 Maciag Mike Population Density for U S Cities Statistics Archived December 2 2020 at the Wayback Machine Governing November 29 2017 Accessed December 4 2020 The following are the most densely populated cities with populations exceeding 50 000 3rd Hoboken N J 42 484 persons sq mile Diversity density and change in Hoboken and other Hudson County municipalities Fund for a Better Waterfront September 7 2021 Accessed January 18 2023 Hudson is the most densely populated county in New Jersey which is the most densely populated state in the country Hudson County also contains the four most densely populated cities in the nation Guttenberg Union City West New York and Hoboken According to the 2020 U S Census Hoboken has 47 202 people per square mile in fourth place behind the three other Hudson municipalities Martin Antoinette Less Luster on the Gold Coast Archived October 8 2017 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times October 29 2010 Accessed September 24 2012 In Hoboken the inventory was just over nine months In Jersey City it had swelled to 17 6 months 2019 Best Places to Live in Hudson County Niche 2019 Archived from the original on May 27 2019 Retrieved January 1 2023 2022 Best Places to Live in Hudson County Niche 2022 Archived from the original on January 18 2022 Retrieved January 1 2023 HM hist The Abridged History of Hoboken Archived May 1 2015 at the Wayback Machine Hoboken Museum Accessed February 24 2015 Hutchinson Viola L The Origin of New Jersey Place Names Archived November 15 2015 at the Wayback Machine New Jersey Public Library Commission May 1945 Accessed September 1 2015 Gannett Henry The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States p 138 United States Government Printing Office 1905 Accessed September 1 2015 Hoboken Reporter January 16 2005 Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York 1675 1776 Volume 8 Archived January 12 2016 at the Wayback Machine p 428 Archived at Google Books Accessed June 9 2014 History of Hoboken Archived July 14 2014 at the Wayback Machine WNET Accessed September 1 2015 The following description of Hobuk as it was then known comes from a letter written in 1685 by a George Scott of Edinburg New Jersey Colonial Records East Jersey Records Part 1 Volume 21 Calendar of Records 1664 1703 Archived February 10 2009 at the Wayback Machine USGenWeb Archives Accessed November 27 2011 Van Der Sijs Nicoline Cookies Coleslaw and Stoops The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages Archived August 3 2020 at the Wayback Machine p 109 Amsterdam University Press 2009 ISBN 978 9089641243 Accessed June 2 2016 Hoboken Historical Museum Hosts Publication Party for Oral History Chapbook A Nice Tavern Archived July 19 2011 at the Wayback Machine Hoboken Historical Museum Accessed November 17 2010 Applebome Peter Our Towns Jitters About Who s in Charge on the Waterfront in 1917 and Today Archived September 13 2018 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times March 5 2006 Accessed September 13 2018 And Hoboken where as early as the 1850s more than 1 500 of the 7 000 inhabitants were of German origin was known as Little Bremen and had an elaborate network of German beer gardens and restaurants social clubs newspapers theaters and schools a b c d Short History of Hoboken Archived May 1 2015 at the Wayback Machine Hoboken Historical Museum Accessed September 1 2015 Gordon Thomas Francis 1834 A Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey Comprehending a General View of Its Physical and Moral Condition Together with a Topographical and Statistical Account of Its Counties Towns Villages Canals Rail Roads amp c Accompanied by a Map Archived from the original on May 17 2021 Retrieved October 2 2020 History Steamboats Archived June 16 2012 at the Wayback Machine Stevens Institute of Technology Accessed April 16 2012 Thus in 1811 the Colonel purchased a commercial ferry license in New York state and operated a horse powered ferry while building a steam ferry the Juliana When the Juliana was put into service from Hoboken to New York the Stevenses inaugurated what is reputed to be the first regular commercially operated steam ferry in the world Burks Edward C Hoboken to Pay Tribute To 5 Wheel Locomotive Archived October 8 2021 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times May 13 1976 Accessed August 19 2020 Jennemann Tom Excavation of Sybil s Cave to begin Tuesday Site was location of natural spring inspiration for Poe murder mystery Archived April 26 2013 at the Wayback Machine The Hudson Reporter January 25 2005 Accessed April 16 2012 Roberts said that the benches they will add will hark back to a time when the city s waterfront was a retreat for wealthy New Yorkers Sybil s Cave was first opened as a day trippers attraction in 1832 according to an Aug 9 1934 story in the Hoboken Dispatch Fahim Kareem Open Sesame Just Won t Do Hoboken Tries to Unlock Its Cave Archived June 19 2022 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times June 26 2007 Accessed April 16 2012 In 1841 the bloodied body of Mary Cecilia Rogers drifted to shore near the mouth of Sybil s Cave and into legend the subject of a thriller by Edgar Allan Poe Baldwin Carly Sybil s Cave reopened amid controversy Archived August 1 2020 at the Wayback Machine The Jersey Journal NJ com October 21 2008 updated April 2 2019 Accessed November 13 2019 Hoboken Mayor Dave Roberts celebrated the re opening of the historic Sybil s Cave this morning But as Hoboken wrestles with a state takeover and residents face a 47 percent tax hike some say Sybil s Cave is just another example of what they call the mayor s spendthrift ways Colrick Patricia Florio Hoboken Archived August 3 2020 at the Wayback Machine p 6 Arcadia Publishing 1999 ISBN 0 7385 3730 6 Accessed April 16 2012 Hoboken was laid out in a grid pattern in 1804 on the Loss Map by the inventor and the owner of much of the land Colonel John Stevens a b Snyder John P The Story of New Jersey s Civil Boundaries 1606 1968 Archived June 5 2012 at the Wayback Machine Bureau of Geology and Topography Trenton New Jersey 1969 p 148 Accessed January 31 2012 a b Leading Innovation A Brief History of Stevens Archived November 7 2017 at the Wayback Machine Stevens Institute of Technology Accessed November 5 2017 When inventor Edwin A Stevens died in 1868 his will provided for the establishment of the university that now bears his family s name Two years later in 1870 Stevens Institute of Technology opened offering a rigorous engineering curriculum leading to the degree of Mechanical Engineer following a course of study firmly grounded both in scientific principles and the humanities Hughes C J Reviving the Glory of Hoboken Terminal Archived October 5 2013 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times December 21 2005 Accessed April 16 2012 The Hoboken Terminal built in 1907 is a two story Beaux Arts structure designed by Kenneth Murchison an architect with the firm of McKim Mead amp White which designed the original Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan Skontra Alan A History of Hoboken s Immigrants Dr Christina Ziegler McPherson presented her new book at the museum Archived June 19 2022 at the Wayback Machine HobokenPatch July 18 2011 Accessed April 16 2012 Hoboken s population started to grow when shipping companies built docks and warehouses along the waterfront notably the Hamburg America line in 1863 With this development came jobs which attracted immigrants The city s population jumped from 2 200 in 1850 to 20 000 in 1870 and 43 000 in 1890 Ziegler McPherson said she learned just how much the city was a German enclave at the turn of the 20th century A quarter of the city s residents had German roots earning Hoboken the nickname of Little Bremen Factories And Family Favorites In Hoboken Hoboken NJ Patch November 12 2020 Archived from the original on January 4 2021 Retrieved November 25 2020 Sullivan Dean A Early Innings A Documentary History of Baseball 1825 1908 Archived January 12 2016 at the Wayback Machine University of Nebraska Press 1997 ISBN 9780803292444 Accessed September 1 2015 Nieves Evelyn Our Towns In Hoboken Dreams of Eclipsing the Cooperstown Baseball Legend Archived November 11 2017 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times April 3 1996 Accessed February 1 2012 The American national game of base ball Grand match for the championship at the Elysian Fields Hoboken N J Archived March 31 2016 at the Wayback Machine Library of Congress Accessed September 1 2015 Colored Folk Shun Hoboken Archived June 19 2022 at the Wayback Machine Brooklyn Daily Eagle September 29 1901 via Newspapers com Accessed November 13 2019 Hoboken that unique suburb of New York which has been maligned by many and spoken of derisively from Maine to California has one claim to distinction It has only one negro family within its borders This is all the more remarkable because its neighbor Jersey City is full of colored people and outlying sections also have a large quota Of the hundred and one reasons given for the diminutive size of the negro population of Hoboken probably the correct one is that there is no way for negroes to earn a livelihood in the city There seems to be a sort of unwritten law in the town that negroes are to be barred out This feeling permeates of everything The Hobokenese are proud of the distinction conferred on their town by the absence of negroes Staff Army put in charge of piers in Hoboken Waterfront Used by Teuton Lines to be a Government Shipping Base Mayor Reassures Germans May Live in the District So Long as They Are Orderly Strict Rules for Saloons Army put in charge of piers in Hoboken would use German Ships Marine Experts Want Them to Carry Food to the Allies Archived July 28 2018 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times April 20 1917 Accessed September 13 2018 About a quarter of a mile of Hoboken s writer front is technically under martial law today Military authority superseded civil authority early yesterday morning along that part of the shore line occupied by the big North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Line piers and armed sentries kept persons on the opposite side of the street from the pier yards History of Hoboken Post Industrial Archived June 5 2011 at the Wayback Machine WNET Accessed April 16 2012 Yet when the United States entered World War I on the side of Britain and France this all changed The U S government seized control of Hoboken s piers and the German ships docked there Martial law was declared in sections of the city and many Germans were sent to Ellis Island Thousands of Germans left Hoboken and soon the city became known for its large Italian population Doughboys DoughboysOfNYC com Archived from the original on July 10 2011 Retrieved October 19 2017 Heaven Hell or Hoboken Exhibit Lecture Series Bring Hoboken s World War I Experience to Life Archived January 29 2012 at the Wayback Machine Hoboken Historical Museum amp Cultural Center August 27 2008 Accessed November 27 2011 The designation meant national fame for Hoboken General John J Pershing s promise to the troops that they d be in Heaven Hell or Hoboken by Christmas of 1917 became a national rallying cry for a swift end to the war which actually dragged on for another year Baldwin Carly 2009 Hoboken Italian Festival begins tomorrow Archived August 2 2014 at the Wayback Machine NJ com September 9 2009 Accessed September 1 2015 To bless their local industry fishermen and sailors of Molfetta would carry the Madonna through the streets of town Later generations would later emigrate from Molfetta and the surrounding region to Hoboken where the centuries old tradition continues a b c Surveying the World Keuffel amp Esser Hoboken 1875 1968 Hoboken Historical Museum backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 30 2017 Accessed November 13 2019 Talk of the Town Good to the Last Drop The New Yorker November 20 1989 Archived from the original on July 14 2011 Retrieved February 14 2011 DePalma Anthony In New Jersey Private Construction Returns to Hoboken Archived August 28 2020 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times March 18 1984 Accessed November 13 2019 Martin Antoinette In the Region New Jersey Residences Flower in a Once Seedy Hoboken Area Archived July 1 2016 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times August 10 2003 Accessed February 1 2012 The area back from the Hudson River along streets named for presidents Adams Jackson Jefferson Madison Monroe was sketchy Mr Geibel said and marked by old warehouses boarded up windows raw sewage coming out of pipes and packs of wild dogs running in the streets Beitler Stu Hoboken NJ Dock Fire Jul 1900 Archived April 7 2022 at the Wayback Machine GenDisasters com Accessed September 1 2015 A History of the Great Hoboken Pier Fire of 1900 Archived July 27 2011 at the Wayback Machine Pier 3 Accessed December 29 2010 The South Waterfront at Hoboken Archived July 29 2010 at the Wayback Machine Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Accessed September 1 2015 Brenzel Kathryn Super Bowl 2014 sculpture arrives at Hoboken waterfront as game day nears Archived March 31 2014 at the Wayback Machine NJ com January 27 2014 Accessed September 1 2015 Ferry repair fueling station and bus parking for Union Dry Dock site Archived March 31 2014 at the Wayback Machine Fund for a Better Waterfront Accessed March 31 2014 Pace Gina No paying through the roof for cabanas at 1100 Maxwell Place the newest Toll Brothers City Living development on Hoboken s waterfront Archived March 31 2014 at the Wayback Machine Daily News August 16 2013 Accessed September 1 2015 Points of Interest Hoboken Historical Museum backed up by the Internet Archive as of October 8 2014 Accessed November 13 2019 The Machine Shop was in use around the clock employing as many as 11 000 workers The shop closed in 1984 The building was recently incorporated into the Shipyard development and now houses luxury apartments retail shops and the Hoboken Historical Museum Mayor Zimmer Seeks to Acquire Union Dry Dock Property for Waterfront Park City of Hoboken September 28 2017 backed up by the Internet Archive as of October 5 2017 Accessed November 13 2019 Based on discussions and written communications with Union Dry Dock Mayor Dawn Zimmer has determined that it is important to expeditiously move ahead with the tools necessary to acquire the Union Dry Dock property for open space As a result the City Council will be asked to authorize the use of eminent domain for the acquisition of Union Dry Dock at next week s City Council meeting The authorization simply provides the City with the tools necessary to facilitate negotiations and does not mean that eminent domain will be implemented Strunsky Steve Hoboken a step closer to seizing waterfront property using eminent domain Archived August 1 2020 at the Wayback Machine NJ Advance Media for NJ com October 5 2017 updated January 16 2019 Accessed November 13 2019 The City Council moved forward Wednesday with plans to seize through eminent domain a waterfront property occupied by Hoboken s last working shipyard Union Dry Dock Mayor Dawn Zimmer who is not seeking re election has tried unsuccessfully to negotiate the purchase of the Union Dry Dock property on Sinatra Drive for use as a park and the final stretch of the city s Hudson River waterfront walkway History Archived July 26 2011 at the Wayback Machine Hoboken Fire Department Accessed September 1 2015 a b Good Philip Recalling the Glory Days of The 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Department of Transportation May 2010 Accessed July 18 2014 Hudson County Highway Map New Jersey Department of Transportation Accessed February 28 2023 Raychaudhuri Disha The 15 most educated towns in New Jersey ranked Archived January 12 2020 at the Wayback Machine NJ Advance Media for NJ com July 17 2019 Accessed January 12 2020 A note about the data Ranking based on educational attainment of population age 25 years and above according to the latest American Community Survey by the Census Bureau The ranking only includes towns with populations above 10 000 as lower population areas tend to skew rates and have high margins of error Towns where the margin of error was higher than 10 percent were also excluded 1 Hoboken Hudson County Percent with bachelor s degree and above 50 2 Hoboken Board of Education District Policy 0110 Identification Archived March 29 2022 at the Wayback Machine Hoboken Public Schools Accessed March 28 2022 Purpose The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre Kindergarten through twelve in the Hoboken School District Composition The Hoboken School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Hoboken What We Do History Archived March 25 2022 at the Wayback Machine New Jersey Schools Development Authority Accessed March 1 2022 In 1998 the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in the Abbott v Burke case that the State must provide 100 percent funding for all school renovation and construction projects in special needs school districts According to the Court aging unsafe and overcrowded buildings prevented children from receiving the thorough and efficient education required under the New Jersey Constitution Full funding for approved projects was authorized for the 31 special needs districts known as Abbott Districts What We Do Archived March 25 2022 at the Wayback Machine New Jersey Schools Development Authority Accessed March 1 2022 SDA 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Language Charter School a Model Dual Language Program the only one of its kind in the state and one of only six Model Programs in the state Hudson County Elementary Schools Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark Accessed March 1 2023 Pries Allison 17 New Jersey schools earn National Blue Ribbon Award Archived October 19 2017 at the Wayback Machine NJ Advance Media for NJ com September 29 2017 Accessed October 18 2017 Stevens Institute of Technology The Innovation University Archived December 10 2013 at the Wayback Machine Stevens Institute of Technology Accessed May 31 2015 Facts and Statistics Archived March 22 2020 at the Wayback Machine Stevens Institute of Technology Accessed November 13 2019 Fry Chris Castle Point Terrace History Shines Through On The Yellow Brick Road Archived August 2 2020 at the Wayback Machine Jersey Digs April 13 2017 Accessed April 11 2021 Hoboken Now Archived December 31 2007 at the Wayback Machine NJ com Accessed March 30 2014 Legando a lost Hispanos en 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Archived April 10 2022 at the Wayback Machine IMDb Accessed May 23 2016 Staab Amanda The Cake Boss effect Has popular Hoboken reality show boosted business tourism permanent dead link The Hudson Reporter July 4 2010 Accessed October 6 2015 Tavani Andrew TV reality show Parking Wars looks to base series in Hoboken Archived June 4 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Jersey Journal January 16 2010 Accessed October 6 2015 Baldwin Carly ABC s What Would You Do at Hoboken store Archived August 2 2014 at the Wayback Machine NJ com February 24 2009 Accessed September 1 2015 Henault Bob Construction Workers Harass Woman What Would You Do Archived August 2 2020 at the Wayback Machine ABC News January 13 2011 Accessed September 1 2015 In light of these startling numbers ABC News What Would You Do rigged hidden cameras on a busy Hoboken N J street corner and hired three male actors to portray construction workers on a coffee break and an actress playing the victim Sharbutt Jay Dream Street U S TV series Archived July 15 2014 at the Wayback Machine Los Angeles Times March 2 1989 Accessed June 9 2014 Welcome to headquarters for the makers of NBC s Dream Street a coming dramatic series about the lives of young blue collar men and women in this venerable hard nosed waterfront town of 42 500 right across the Hudson River from Manhattan Their association with Street has caused some speculation that the new one hour series which is being filmed entirely in Hoboken is but the working class edition of ABC s venture Testa Jim Hoboken s Bongos ride the Phantom Train back to the future The Jersey Journal October 3 2013 Accessed October 7 2017 The Bongos the first Hoboken band to garner national attention from the nascent Maxwell s scene back in the early Eighties started working on Phantom Train back in 1986 as the follow up to their RCA Records full length Beat Hotel Testa Jim Yo La Tengo biography delves deeply into the history of Hoboken The Jersey Journal June 8 2012 Accessed February 6 2013 Since the story of Yo La Tengo is inextricably intertwined with the city of Hoboken Jarnow begins the book by looking back at the city s past including the fascinating story of how professional baseball was born on Elysian Field which today is the corner of Washington and Eleventh Streets and the home of Maxwell s Further reading EditBrooks Steve B September 2019 Built to Serve Damaged by Superstorm Sandy New Jersey post opens new facility with six apartments for homeless veterans The American Legion Magazine Vol 187 no 3 Indianapolis Ind The American Legion pp 46 48 ISSN 0886 1234 Ziegler McPherson Christina A 2011 Immigrants in Hoboken One Way Ticket 1845 1985 Charleston History Press ISBN 978 1 60949 163 5 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hoboken New Jersey Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Hoboken New Jersey Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article about Hoboken New Jersey City of Hoboken Official Website Historic photos of 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