Poll: Sinatra Park Soccer Field
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November
11/17/2009:
Sinatra Park closed off for how long?
Many folks shake their head in disgust when they have to tell their friends about the “crumbling mile square” city of Hoboken. Whether it’s a million potholes around town, to disintegrating piers, long-over due “kidney parks,” or our very own waterfront “gem” called Sinatra Park which got sucked into the Hudson River recently – we’re definitely not the poster child for proper urban development.
So how long do you think it’ll take to finish the repairs on Sinatra Park?
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November 17th 2009 - 11:36:24 |
Honestly, until the field is made more open, so groups/people outside of the HASL or ingrained organizations, who cares? It’s a beautiful park that no one can freely use.
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November 17th 2009 - 13:57:55 |
What do you mean? All kinds of school kids in soccer leagues used it all the time and God only knows how many runners ran around it. It is a shame that the park is closed.
Of course, now that the city’s budget is overstretched, plus the city owes 50m for the hospital, not including any union liabilities, I don’t see how anyone can fix the field without raising taxes.
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November 17th 2009 - 17:42:49 |
The appropriate repairs (replacing or cladding all the individual piers) will cost uber millions, and as such may have to wait a few years for the city to re-capitalize. BTW are the architect and builder off the hook? Why are we paying for it? Aw shucks, it’s Hoboken, and it’s the holidays. Throw some crappy band-aid repairs on a credit card. The important thing is the grand re-opening will look great on an election postcard, of if it’s not repaired, the collapsed portions will look great on an attack election postcard.
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November 18th 2009 - 04:01:57 |
This is a “pity” for our city.
I’d like to hear from the Engineer who must measure
the rest of our waterfront to see how much of our
wood is in process of disintigrating because of the
Toredo worms, and how much MORE of our wooden protected
shoreline will disappear and “cave” in.
Philippino fishermen have made a resin out of trees that are
common in China and Asian countries that is poisonous to the
“worms” but no one has taken up the idea to mass produce this
product, mixed with shellac it can be painted on the base of boats, pilings, (which now are cement, since this worm thing came up). Copper sheeting with bolts around the piers is the only solution offered so far, and that would work til the bolts rust and fall off under the water, and have to be redone.
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November 18th 2009 - 04:08:27 |
I am really worried that our council has okayed four buildings to go up (12 stories each) on Frank Sinatra Drive with the old
wooden piers right in front of them. A “deal” must be made to do
the wooden piers FIRST or those buildings will TILT right into the river with the shoreline. Ditto for downtown! It would be foolhardy to build anything shorewise and those Toredo’s might have saved Hoboken’s future. The worms wont eat the shellac sap from those trees (see the Philippine fishermen on the web) who use it by painting it on their boats with their hands. No damage done. Some company in OUR COUNTRY might get rich making this product. It is being thrown out with the sludge from trees that have been cut down and is practically free….
Check it out, I did…
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November 18th 2009 - 04:12:39 |
Stevens might get into this and get rich and famous, like they did with the “bubble wrap” in the sixties. We have our own ENGINEERS and this town is full of smart people. GO HOBOKEN!
The toredo’s have now learned how to eat into FIBERGLASS and have evolved into three times their size. Lot’s of good wood left for them to chew holes in. Wait til they get to the boats in the MARINA, people will riot, those things are too expensive to lose, just like our HOBOKEN shoreline…
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November 18th 2009 - 04:28:24 |
Look up Alibaba.com and see the countries where KERUING TIMBER OIL is used. IT is practically FREE and thrown away when the trees are cut for other usage. Some enterprising Americans (since I did the research and put it on the net) have now learned to mix the oil with paint and the Toredo’s won’t eat their boat bottoms. GOD BLESS AMERICA! Even FIBERGLASS is safe now. LOOK ON THE NET. IT only took me two hours to find the “CURE”
I love research. Somebody should hire me, before the rest of the world gets wealthy. Steven’s should make a “shellack” out of Keruing Oil sludge, and boat paint and the boats of AMERICA would have safe bottoms. I sent them a letter which has been ignored. GOD BLESS AMERICA….
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November 18th 2009 - 09:16:23 |
And maybe if you had done that research 100 years ago when those pilings were sunk into the river we would be in good shape right now. But you are 100 years too late to coat them w/ some oil or paint.
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November 18th 2009 - 09:52:34 |
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November 18th 2009 - 10:45:54 |
Oh boy, someone discovered “the Google”.
In response to Margaret who said:
I love research. Somebody should hire me, before the rest of the world gets wealthy. Steven’s should make a “shellack” out of Keruing Oil sludge, and boat paint and the boats of AMERICA would have safe bottoms. I sent them a letter which has been ignored. GOD BLESS AMERICA….
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November 22nd 2009 - 21:13:22 |
Here’s a novel idea, just keep using the field since it’s not going to be repaired anyway. What’s dropped into the Hudson, less than 1% of the pier’s surface area? There’s no immediate emergency of the vast majority of this thing collapsing.
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November 22nd 2009 - 21:26:28 |
When the port authority ran the piers they used something called sacrfical anodes. I sure they were some type of zinc rods that ran next to the pilings. And I think they also ran some kind of low voltage current to these anodes. I’m not to sure how or if they worked but it might be a avenue to explore. And those piles were wood.
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