Hoboken has a continuous tradition of periodic singings from the Sacred Harp that has continued for over 150 years.

In addition, Ramsey has two New Jersey Transit train stations which provide mass transit access to Manhattan via Hoboken Terminal or Secaucus Junction.

Midtown Direct, initiated in 1996, offers service directly into Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, and has since caused a surge in real estate prices as the commute time to midtown dropped from about 50 minutes to 30, as the service eliminated the need for passengers to transfer to PATH trains at Hoboken.

Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted Hoboken into the, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Hoboken has the highest public transportation use of any city in the United States.

The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail has three stations in Hoboken.

Hoboken has no airports.

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.

Hoboken has many annual events 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 campus newspaper at Stevens Institute of Technology, The Stute, has also covered Hoboken news.

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.

Locations in which artists reside or have put on tours or shows include the Yardley Building, a former Yardley of London soap factory on Palisade Avenue that overlooks Hoboken, and the old R. H. Simon Silk Mill on 39th Street, which has been dubbed the " Union Hill Arts Building ".

It has been rumored for years that there is an effort to re-establish rail passenger service via New Jersey Transit between Scranton and Hoboken, New Jersey by way of the Lackawanna Cut-Off, with connecting service into Manhattan.

Teredo has recently caused several minor collapses along the Hudson River waterfront in Hoboken, New Jersey, due to damage to underwater pilings.

Metro-North equipment has been used on other New Jersey Transit lines on the Hoboken division.

The proposed rehabilitation west of Andover, which has not yet been funded, would provide commuter rail service between Scranton, Pennsylvania and Hoboken Terminal, with connecting service to New York's Penn Station ), serving the growing exurban communities in Monroe County in the Poconos, and in upper Warren County and lower Sussex County.

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.

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Some foundation masonry was laid on the Hoboken side in 1895, but the PRR was unsuccessful in getting other companies to share in the expenses, and the bridge project was abandoned.

The city is protected by the professional firefighters of the Hoboken Fire Department, which operates out of four fire stations located throughout the city.

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.

Trains leaving Hoboken had to run out over the new connection ( 1956 ) to the former Erie Main Line, and then back up about two miles on the former route to the Erie terminal, and then proceed forward again into the Northern Branch.

The protectors intervene, attempting to banish her to Hoboken, New Jersey, but are knocked out.

He had admitted himself to a Hoboken hospital after getting kicked out of Columbia University.

In 1985, at the age of nineteen, Dave joined the Hoboken, New Jersey based psych rock band Tiny Lights, his first professional band out of high school.

The location near Eatontown, with rail sidings out of Hoboken and proximity to the port of Little Silver was ideal.

The bonds were to be delivered within two weeks to the Hudson Trust Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, in trust to Robert A. Franks, Carnegie's business secretary.

Writing the rules didn't help the Knickerbockers in the first known competitive game between two clubs under the new rules, played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19, 1846.

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* Stevens Cooperative School-A progressive elementary school and parent cooperative with two campuses in Hoboken and Jersey City, New Jersey, founded in 1949.

Born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalie Della ( Garaventa ) and Antonino Martino Sinatra, and was raised Roman Catholic.

Sinatra's father, often referred to as Marty, served with the Hoboken Fire Department as a Captain.

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* 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1.

He sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey on 15 August 1914 on the Holland-America ship The Potsdam, bound for Rotterdam.

* Herman Tavani, “ Informational Privacy: Concepts, Theories, and Controversies ,” in Kenneth Himma and Herman Tavani, eds., The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics ( Hoboken: Wiley, 2008 ), pp. 131-164.

One of the places that saw many memorials and candlelight vigils was Pier A in Hoboken, New Jersey, where many people saw the events of September 11 ( Pier A had a good view of the World Trade Center.

A permanent September 11 memorial for Hoboken, called Hoboken Island, was chosen in September 2004.

Just months before his death in 1931, the Lackawanna Railroad implemented electric trains in suburban service from Hoboken to Gladstone, Montclair and Dover in New Jersey.

To the surprise of many, he was at the throttle of the very first MU ( Multiple-Unit ) train to depart Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, driving the train all the way to Dover.

A special plaque commemorating the joint achievement of both the railway and Edison can be seen today in the waiting room of Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, presently operated by New Jersey Transit.

In the case of Murray's Lessee v. Hoboken Land & Improvement Co., the Supreme Court ruled that cases involving " a suit at the common law, or in equity, or admiralty " inherently involve judicial determination and must come before Article III courts.

** Three high school friends in Hoboken, N. J., open the first BLIMPIE on Washington Street.