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Hoboken has a continuous tradition of periodic singings from the Sacred Harp that has continued for over 150 years.
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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.
Hoboken has 48 streets laid out in a grid.
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.
Hoboken and from
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He sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey on 15 August 1914 on the Holland-America ship The Potsdam, bound for Rotterdam.
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.
* Scranton ( NJT station ), the proposed terminus for New Jersey Transit passenger rail service from New York City and Hoboken to Scranton, Pennsylvania
Midtown New York from Hoboken
The Pascack Valley Line is a single-track line with passing sidings providing service to and from Hoboken Terminal with connections via the Secaucus Junction transfer station to New Jersey Transit one-stop service to New York Penn Station and to other NJ Transit rail service.
This line runs north-south to Hoboken Terminal with connections to the PATH train from the Hoboken PATH station and New Jersey Transit service to New York Penn Station via the Secaucus Junction transfer station.
Daily service is available to Hoboken from the Montvale, Park Ridge, Woodcliff Lake, Hillsdale, and Westwood stations.
Mayor Robert Romano initially ordered a custom cake from Buddy Valastro of Carlo's Bake Shop in Hoboken, the business featured in the TLC reality television series Cake Boss.
Commuters can also take trains from the Glen Ridge ( formerly named Ridgewood Avenue station ), where NJ Transit provides service to Penn Station in New York and to Hoboken Terminal via the Montclair-Boonton Line.
As of 1869, the M & E became part of the main line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad which ran from Hoboken to Buffalo with through trains to Chicago.
* Old Main Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Historic District ( ID # 3525 ), Morris and Essex Railroad Right-of-Way ( NJ Transit Morristown Line ), from Hudson, Hoboken City to Warren, Washington Township, and then along Warren Railroad to the Delaware River.
The Hudson River during the 1880s, offshore from Hoboken and Jersey City, New Jersey | Jersey City.
Hoboken was originally formed as a township on April 9, 1849, from portions of North Bergen Township.
On March 15, 1859, the Township of Weehawken was created from portions of Hoboken and North Bergen Township.
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.
The 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 Mayor of Hoboken is Dawn Zimmer, previously the City Council President, who took office on July 31, 2009, after her predecessor, Peter Cammarano, was arrested on allegations of corruption stemming from a decade-long FBI operation.
PATH is 24-hour subway system that operates from Hoboken Terminal to 33rd Street Manhattan, World Trade Center, Journal Square and Newark Penn Station.
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.
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.
Hoboken and Sacred
* Sommers, Laurie Kay ( 2010 ) " Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing " Southern Spaces ISSN: 1551-2754
* Sacred Harp in Hoboken: radio programs, video documentary
Hoboken and continued
As expansion of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad continued westward from Hoboken, the railroad company saw the need to build a new bridge over the Delaware River.
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A permanent September 11 memorial for Hoboken, called Hoboken Island, was chosen in September 2004.
Protagonist Terry Malloy's ( Brando's ) fight against corruption was in part modeled after whistle-blowing longshoreman Anthony DiVincenzo, who testified before a real-life Waterfront Commission on the facts of life on the Hoboken Docks and had suffered a degree of ostracism for his deed.
The church used for the exterior scenes in the film was the historic Our Lady of Grace in Hoboken, built in 1874, while the interiors were shot at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, also in Hoboken, at 400 Hudson Street.
There is an eastbound exit and westbound entrance for Park Avenue, which provides access to Weehawken and Hoboken, where Route 495 becomes a freeway maintained by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
At the end of Wallington, Paterson Avenue is the border between Carlstadt and East Rutherford for a short distance but then the road dips into East Rutherford to avoid a hill ( the bypass, which goes over the hill, is called Hoboken Road ).
The first is for all trains headed south toward Hoboken Terminal.
NJTransit trains on both the Bergen and the Main Lines go to Hoboken, stopping at Secaucus Junction, for transfers to trains to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and other destinations served by the station.
The city is part of the New York metropolitan area and contains Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub for the region.
Three Lenape sold the land that was to become 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.
Their hope for an early return led to General Pershing's slogan, " Heaven, Hell or Hoboken ... by Christmas.
While most of the dry-dock and production facilities were razed to make way for mid-rise apartment houses, 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 House, home of the Hoboken Historic Museum ).
Hoboken High School for grades 9-12 ( 530 students ) and
Hoboken is home to the Macy's Parade Studio, which houses many of the floats for the famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Hoboken is located within the New York media market, most of it daily papers available for sale or delivery.
The production company for the 2009 film Assassination of a High School President is based in Hoboken.
Danza played a former Hoboken detective, and Loughlin played a crime reporter for the fictional newspaper The Hoboken Gazette.
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