Hoboken, New Jersey Hoboken, New Jersey City of Hoboken Location of Hoboken inside Hudson County and the state of New Jersey Location of Hoboken inside Hudson County and the state of New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Hoboken, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Hoboken, New Jersey State New Jersey Hoboken (/ ho bo k n/ ho-bo-ken; Unami: Hupokan) is a town/city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's populace was 50,005, having grown by 11,428 (+29.6%) from 38,577 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 5,180 (+15.5%) from the 33,397 in the 1990 Census. Hoboken is part of the New York urbane region and is the site of Hoboken Terminal, a primary transportation core for the region.
Hoboken was first settled as part of the Pavonia, New Netherland colony in the 17th century.
Hoboken is the locale of the first recorded game of baseball (although this is disputed) and of the Stevens Institute of Technology, one of the earliest technological universities in the United States.
Located on the Hudson Waterfront, the town/city was an integral part of the Port of New York and New Jersey and home to primary industries for most of the 20th century.
On October 29, 2012, Hoboken was devastated by the storm surge and high winds associated with Hurricane Sandy, leaving 1,700 homes flooded and causing $100 million in damage after the storm "filled up Hoboken like a bathtub".
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 transit framework to help the low-lying riverfront town/city protect itself from ordinary flooding and build a network of features to help Hoboken survive storms that arrive once every 500 years.[dubious discuss] The name "Hoboken" was chosen by Colonel John Stevens when he bought land, on a part of which the town/city still sits.
Hoebuck, old Dutch for high bluff and likely referring to Castle Point, was used amid the colonial era and later spelled as Hobuck, Hobock, Hobuk and Hoboocken. The origin of Hoboken's name was not related to the Hoboken precinct of Antwerp.
Today, Hoboken's unofficial nickname is the "Mile Square City", but it actually covers about 1.25 square miles (3.2 km2) of territory and an region of 2 square miles (5.2 km2) when including the under-water parts in the Hudson River. During the late 19th/early 20th century the populace 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. The Hudson River amid the 1880s, offshore from Hoboken and Jersey City Hoboken was originally an island, surrounded by the Hudson River on the east and tidal lands at the foot of the New Jersey Palisades on the west.
Three Lenape sold the territory that was to turn into 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. These transactions, variously dated as July 12, 1630 and November 22, 1630, represent the earliest known conveyance for the area.
In 1674 75 the region 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.
Eventually, the territory 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 town/city and encircling areas, including the west bank of the retitled Hudson River, were occupied by the British.
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. In 1841, the cave became a legend, when Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Mystery of Marie Roget" about an event that took place there. 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. Before his death in 1838, Stevens established the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, which laid out a regular fitness of streets, blocks and lots, constructed housing, and advanced manufacturing sites.
As the town interval in populace and employment, many of Hoboken's inhabitants saw a need to incorporate as a full-fledged city, and in a popular vote held on March 29, 1855, ratified an Act of the New Jersey Legislature signed the previous day, and the City of Hoboken was born. In the subsequent election, Cornelius V.
Stevens, Stevens Institute of Technology was established at Castle Point in 1870 site of the Stevens family's former estate as the nation's first mechanical engineering college. 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) advanced a barns terminal at the waterfront, with the present NJ Transit terminal designed by architect Kenneth Murchison constructed in 1907. It was also amid this time that German immigrants, who had been settling in town amid most of the century, became the dominant populace group in the city, at least partially due to its being a primary destination port of the Hamburg America Line, though anti-German sentiment amid World War I led to a rapid diminish in the German community. In addition to the major industry of ship assembly, Hoboken became home to Keuffel and Esser's three-story factory and in 1884, to Tietjen and Lang Drydock (later Todd Shipyards).
The first officially recorded game of baseball took place in Hoboken in 1846 between Knickerbocker Club and New York Nine at Elysian Fields. In 1845, the Knickerbocker Club, which had been established by Alexander Cartwright, began using Elysian Fields to play baseball due to the lack of suitable grounds on Manhattan. Team members encompassed 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".
In 1859, George Parr's All England Eleven of experienced cricketers played the United States XXII at Hoboken, easily defeating the small-town competition.
In 1880, the framers of the New York Metropolitans and New York Giants finally succeeded in siting a ballpark in Manhattan that became known as the Polo Grounds.
Entered World War I, the Hamburg-American Line piers in Hoboken (and New Orleans) were taken under eminent domain. Federal control of the port and anti-German sentiment led to part of the town/city being placed under martial law, and many German immigrants were forcibly moved to Ellis Island or left the town/city of their own accord. Hoboken became the primary point of embarkation and more than three million soldiers, known as "doughboys", passed through the city. Their hope for an early return led to General Pershing's slogan, "Heaven, Hell or Hoboken...
Following the war, Italians, mostly stemming from the Adriatic port town/city of Molfetta, became the city's primary ethnic group, with the Irish also having a strong presence. While the town/city experienced the Great Depression, jobs in the ships yards and factories were still available, and the apartements were full.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which was established on April 30, 1921, oversaw the evolution 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.
The war facilitated economic expansion in Hoboken, as the many industries positioned in the town/city were crucial to the war accomplishment.
Hoboken sank from its earlier incarnation as a lively port town into a rundown condition and was often encompassed in lists with other New Jersey metros/cities experiencing the same phenomenon, such as Paterson, Elizabeth, Camden, and neighboring Jersey City. Heaps of long uncollected garbage and roving packs of semi-wild dogs were not uncommon sights. Although the town/city had seen better days, Hoboken was never abandoned.
In the 1980s, the waterfront dominated Hoboken politics, with various civic groups and the town/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 people, and private developers to build commercial and residentiary buildings and "open spaces" (mostly along the bulkhead and on the foundation of un-utilized Pier A). While most of the dry-dock and manufacturing facilities were razed to make way for mid-rise apartment homes, many sold as investment "condos", some buildings were renovated for adaptive re-use (notably the Tea Building, formerly home to Lipton Tea, and the Machine Shop, home of the Hoboken Historic Museum). Zoning requires that new assembly follow the street grid and limits the height of new assembly to retain the architectural character of the town/city and open sight-lines to the river.
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 furnish adjoining unhindered access to the water's edge and to problematic an urban linear park offering expansive views of the Hudson with the spectacular backdrop of the New York skyline.
Hoboken thriving artists, musicians, upwardly mobile commuters (known as yuppies), and "bohemian types" interested in the socioeconomic possibilities and challenges of a bankrupt New York and who valued the beautifuls of Hoboken's residentiary, civic and commercial architecture, its sense of community, and mostly (compared to Lower Manhattan) cheaper rents, and quick, train hop away.
Re-zoning encouraged new assembly on former industrialized sites on the waterfront and the traditionally more impoverished low-lying west side of the town/city where, in concert with Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and New Jersey State land-use policy, transit villages are now being promoted.
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused widespread flooding in Hoboken, with half the town/city flooded. 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, 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 town/city in order to pressure her to approve a Christie ally's developmental project, a charge that the Christie administration denied. Image of Hoboken taken by NASA (red line shows where Hoboken is) 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. Directly athwart the Hudson River are the Manhattan, New York City neighborhoods of West Village and Chelsea.
Many north-south streets were titled for United States presidents (Washington, Adams, Madison, Monroe), though Clinton Street likely honors 19th century politician De - Witt Clinton. The numbered streets running east-west start two blocks north of Observer Highway with First Street, with the grid ending close to the town/city line with 16th near Weehawken Cove and the city. Neighborhoods in Hoboken often have vague definitions making Downtown, Midtown, and Uptown subjective.
Castle Point, The Projects, Hoboken Terminal, and Hudson Tea are distinct enclaves at the city's periphery.
The populace density was 30,239.2 inhabitants per square mile (11,636.5/km2), fourth highest in the country after neighboring communities of Guttenberg, Union City and West New York. There are 19,915 housing units at an average density of 15,610.7 per square mile (6,007.2/km2).
The town/city is a bedroom improve of New York City, where most of its working residents work.
Based on the 2000 Enumeration Worker Flow Files, about 53% of the working residents of Hoboken (13,475 out of 25,306) work in one of the five boroughs of New York City, as opposed to about 15% working inside Hoboken. The first centrally air-conditioned enhance space in the United States was demonstrated at Hoboken Terminal. The first Blimpie restaurant opened in 1964 at the corner of Seventh and Washington Streets. Today, Hoboken is home to one of the command posts of publisher John Wiley & Sons, which moved from Manhattan in 2002. 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. And a 2016 study by Fundera ranked Hoboken as the 2nd best town/city in New Jersey for entrepreneurs. Main article: Landmarks of Hoboken, New Jersey The four parks were originally laid out inside town/city street grid in the 19th century were Church Square Park, Columbus Park, Elysian Park and Stevens Park.
To date, instead of 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.
The Hoboken Parks Initiative is a municipal plan to problematic more enhance open spaces in the town/city using a range of financing schemes including contributions from and zoning trade-offs with private developers, New Jersey State Green Acres funds, and other government grants.
The parks that are prepared to be assembled are Hoboken Island, Pier C, 1600 Park Avenue, Hoboken Cove, 16th Street Pier, Green Belt Walkway and Upper West Side Park. Hoboken has many annual affairs such as the Frank Sinatra Idol Contest, Hoboken Comedy Festival, Hoboken House Tour, Hoboken International Film Festival, Hoboken Studio Tour, Hoboken Arts and Music Festival, Hoboken (Secret) Garden Tour and Movies Under the Stars. The Hoboken Farmer's Market occurs every Tuesday, June through October. There are also various celebrations such as the Saint Patrick's Day Parade, Feast of Saint Anthony's, Saint Ann's Feast and the Hoboken Italian Festival. Hoboken City Hall, on Washington Street between First Street and Newark Street The City of Hoboken is governed inside the Faulkner Act (formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law) under the mayor-council (Plan D) fitness of municipal government, implemented based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission as of January 1, 1953. The governing body consists of a mayor and a nine-member town/city council.
The town/city council consists of three members propel at-large from the town/city as a whole, and six members who each represent one of the city's six wards. All of the members of the town/city council are propel to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections on a staggered basis, with the six ward seats up for election together and the three at-large and mayoral seats up for vote two years later. As of 2016, the Mayor of Hoboken is Dawn Zimmer, whose term of office ends December 31, 2017. Zimmer had been the town/city council president and first took office as mayor on July 31, 2009, after her predecessor, Peter Cammarano, was arrested on allegations of corruption stemming from a decade-long FBI operation. 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.
Hoboken is positioned in the 8th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 33rd state legislative district. 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. New Jersey's Eighth Congressional District is represented by Albio Sires (D, West New York). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Stack (D, Union City) and in the General Assembly by Raj Mukherji (D, Jersey City) and Annette Chaparro (D, Hoboken). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). De - Gise. Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders District 5 comprises Hoboken and parts of the Heights in Jersey City and is represented by Anthony Romano. 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 other 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%. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 71.0% of the vote here (17,051 cast), ahead of Republican John Mc - Cain 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%. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 65.0% of the vote here (13,436 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W.
The town/city is protected by the 132 paid firefighters of the town/city of Hoboken Fire Department (HFD).
Established in 1891, the HFD presently operates under the command of a Department Chief, to whom two Deputy Chiefs report. The department reported to 3,352 emergency calls in 2010, arriving in an average of 2.6 minutes from the time the initial call was received. The HFD has been a Class 1 rated fire department since 1996 as determined by the Insurance Services Office, the only one of its kind in New Jersey and one of only 24 in the United States. HFD's firehouses, including its fire exhibition, are on the National Register of Historic Places. EMS in the town/city of Hoboken is provided primarily by the members of the Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps (HVAC), which was established in 1971.
Hoboken has the highest enhance transit use of any town/city in the United States, with 56% of working inhabitants using enhance transit for commuting purposes each day. Hoboken Terminal, positioned at the city's southeastern corner, is a nationwide historic landmark originally assembled in 1907 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
Partly due to car sharing services, the number of inhabitants parking on Hoboken streets decreased from 2010 to 2015. Hudson Bike Share, a bicycle sharing fitness directed by nextbike, opened in 2016. 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. The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail has three stations in Hoboken.
The three stations are Hoboken Terminal, 2nd Street and 9th Street-Congress Street.
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. New Jersey Transit buses 22, 22 - X, 23, 64, 68, 85, 87, 89, and 126 terminate at Hudson Place/Hoboken Terminal. Taxi service is available for a flat fare inside town/city limits and negotiated fare for other destinations.
The 14th Street and Wing Viaducts connect Hoboken, Jersey City Heights and North Hudson.
The 14th Street Viaduct joins Hoboken to Paterson Plank Road in Jersey City Heights.
Two highway tunnels that connect New Jersey to New York are positioned close to Hoboken.
The Holland Tunnel is south of the town/city in downtown Jersey City.
Airports which serve Hoboken are directed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Hoboken's enhance schools are directed by Hoboken Public Schools, and serve students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
The precinct is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide, 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 oversight of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Connors Elementary School (222; K-6) Wallace Elementary School (602; K-6) and Hoboken Middle School / Hoboken High School (658; 7-12). Hoboken High School was the 187th-ranked enhance 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. In addition, Hoboken has three charter schools, which are schools that receive enhance funds yet operate autonomously 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 (Ho - La) in grades K-6 (K-8 by 2016). Private schools in Hoboken include All Saint's Episcopal Day School, The Hudson School, Mustard Seed School, Stevens Cooperative School and Hoboken Catholic Academy, a K-8 school directed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. Hoboken is positioned inside the New York media market, most of its daily papers available for sale or bringy.
The Journal also operates the website NJ.com, which includes the blog Hoboken Now. The Hoboken Reporter is part of the The Hudson Reporter group of small-town weeklies.
The short-lived 1995 ABC sitcom Hudson Street, starring Tony Danza and Lori Loughlin, was set in Hoboken.
Danza played a former Hoboken detective, and Loughlin played a crime reporter for the fictional journal The Hoboken Gazette. Hoboken appears as the town/city of residence of the chief character in the 2012 video game Max Payne 3. In "The Mighty Casey", the June 17, 1960, episode of The Twilight Zone, the baseball team the Hoboken Zephyrs, are revealed to be from the town of Hoboken, New Jersey, in the opening monologue by Rod Serling. Main article: List of citizens from Hoboken, New Jersey "Is Hoboken officially the 'Mile Square City'? "The same way New Yorkers call their town/city The Big Apple, many citizens refer to Hoboken as the 'Mile-Square City' or 'Mile Square City'.
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"NEW JERSEY DAILY BRIEFING; Hudson Street Goes to Hollywood", The New York Times, June 27, 1995.
"Hoboken, a mile-square town/city of brownstones and bakeries, rarely gets nationwide attention, although it did serve as the locale for the 1954 film On the Waterfront.
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 version of ABC's venture." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hoboken, New Jersey.
Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article about Hoboken, New Jersey.
City of Hoboken Official Website Hoboken, New Jersey travel guide from Wikivoyage Municipalities and communities of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States State of New Jersey
Categories: Hoboken, New Jersey - 1849 establishments in New Jersey - Cities in Hudson County, New Jersey - Faulkner Act (mayor council)Populated places on the Hudson River - Populated places established in 1849
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