Category: People from Hoboken, New Jersey

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

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

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

Like Weehawken, its neighbor to the north, Communipaw and Harsimus to the south, Hoboken had many variations in the folks-tongue.

Hoboken attracted 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 aesthetics of Hoboken's residential, civic and commercial architecture, its sense of community, and relatively ( compared to Lower Manhattan ) cheaper rents, and quick, train hop away.

Hoboken felt the impact of the destruction of the World Trade Center intensely, many of its newer residents having worked there.

* 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.

At its southeastern corner is Weehawken Cove which, along with the rail tracks farther inland, defines Weehawken's border with Hoboken.

Commuter rail service is provided by New Jersey Transit at the Mount Olive Station along its Morristown Line and Montclair-Boonton Line to Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, NJ, with transfers possible to reach New York City at New York Penn Station.

Blawnox had previously been called Hoboken, but postal regulations required that the municipality change its name since Hoboken, New Jersey had a prior claim to the name.

When Hoboken was required to change its name due to Hoboken, New Jersey's prior claim to the name, the management of the Blaw-Knox Steel Construction Co. asked the people of the town to change the name to Blawnox, and they did.

By 2000 the label had added Apocalypse Hoboken, Antifreeze, and Useless ID to its roster, and released a solo album by Vandals drummer and renowned studio musician Josh Freese.

From 1882 to 1963 Avoca and Wallace were also served by the New York ( Hoboken ) to Buffalo Main Line of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad ( and its Erie Lackawanna successor ).

In order to obtain the right-of-way for the line north from Hoboken, NJT paid to upgrade the Northern Running Track, allowing Conrail to shift its operations.

Between 1956 and 1957, the Erie shifted its passenger trains from its former Jersey City terminal to the DL & W's newer one in Hoboken.

Initially the team played its games in Brooklyn and in Hoboken, New Jersey as the other New York area clubs did at the time.

The DL & W had previously carried much traffic to and from ocean ships, having its own port facilities at Hoboken Terminal on the Hudson River.

The greatest fame attained by anyone appearing on the show was that achieved by Frank Sinatra, who appeared on the show during its radio days with " The Hoboken Four ".

* The Lackawanna Railroad opens its Beaux Arts station in Hoboken, NJ, which is still in use today.

The Mutual club initially played its home games at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, with the New York Knickerbockers and many other Manhattan clubs, but moved to the enclosed Union Grounds in Brooklyn in 1868.

* August 2: The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad ( PATH ) opens its connection from Exchange Place north towards Hoboken Terminal.

1 ) Amplify Hoboken ’ s sense of community, encompassing its social diversity