Hoboken Health Clubs, Gyms and Personal Trainers.

HEALTH CLUBS
Club H Fitness
Club KO (2)
CrossFit Hoboken (new!)
Curves
Empire Fitness Clubs
Hoboken Swimming Pool
Hudson Athletic Club
LA Boxing (new!)
New York Sports Club
Sky Club Fitness and Spa
Stevens’ Aquatics
Supreme Fitness
YMCA

PILATES
Gala Pilates
Harmony Pilates, LLC
Renaissance Pilates

TRAINERS
Annatomy Lab Personal Training, LLC
Hoboken Family Fitness
Hoboken Fitness
Lelia Marcus
Master Personal Training Network, LLC
Personal Trainer – Mara Kimowitz
Personal Trainer and Nutrition Specialist
Women’s Personal Training

Windows Vista is keeping me from my work. Here’s something to digest in the meantime. From NJ.com.

Man beaten in anti-gay bias attack in Hoboken

Two thugs beat up a man after leaving the PATH station in Hoboken in what police are calling an anti-gay bias attack.

Charles Hack

More randomly selected comments from the past 7 days. And as an FYI, updates are slow today because I’m transitioning to a dopey Window Vista system, and it’s a painful process. I should have stuck with XP or bought a Mac.

So, what were people saying in the last week?

• Reader Mail: Hoboken’s Finest
  SarahC says: “If we paid people what they’re “worth”, school teachers (good ones, anyway) would be making $300K and Paris Hilton would be panhandling outside CVS.”

and….
NickAdams says: “The Hoboken of a few years in the future is going to be one huge parking lot, (but in a Twilight Zone like way, there will be no actual parking).”

• Hoboken in the 1970’s
  Red Haven says: “The people who live in Marineview did not design the ugly building. You can blame Mayor DiPascale and his “Urban Renewal” bandits for that.”
  
• Turning Point – Breakfast, Brunch & Lunch
  chrisjur says: “Can’t wait for it to come to Hoboken….”
  
• Garden of Eden issues
  BloomRes says: “Just goes to show you what a little community action can achieve.”
• Bagels On The Hudson
  ahobokenguy says: “THIS PLACE IS THE PITS. They offer delivery and it took over 2 hours for our sandwiches to show up!”
• Four L’s
  homeworld says: “I liked Dippers. No more cheese fries at Mikie Sqrd..”
• SW Re-development Plan
  DARN says: “I plan on voting them out, I wish I had more than one vote though.”

Help the kids!

From the Liberty Board of Realtors:

The LBR (Liberty Board of REALTORS®) is pleased to offer tickets to its first-ever family and friends “Bowling for the Kids” fund raiser on Saturday, March 17, 2007 at the North Arlington Bowl-O-Drome. Bring the “Luck of the Irish” with you this Saint Patrick’s Day for a fun-filled night of “Candlelight” bowling for the Pediatrics Department of Hoboken University Medical Center (formerly St. Mary Hospital).

Questions? Contact Carolyn Cavallaro, 201-851-3012, or Margaret Watson, 201-970-4593.

CLICK HERE to download the ticket order form if you’re interested. Up to six people per lane. Sounds like this event is probably tax-deductible too.

Here’s a letter about a topic that seems to come up year after year. The responsibility of property owners in Hoboken, and how well they care for the sidewalks thousands of pedestrians traverse each time it snows. I for one, pay much more attention to the various sidewalk material and how it’s shoveled. Surfaces such as slate get extremely slippery and have taken a few spills here in town during the last decade.

He writes:

Dear Hoboken411,

After last week’s snow fall, I found the conversation with other Hoboken residents the same as every year…

Does Hoboken have a city ordinance on snow removal and if so, who enforces it? Who’s responsibility is it to clear sidewalks and other pedestrian locations, i.e.
bus stops and crosswalks at intersections?

Walking to the PATH train everyday and back home in the evenings, I found myself and others walking in ridiculous patterns to avoid slipping on the unremoved snow that had remained on the sidewalk since the morning walk to work. Jumping over mounds of snow that had frozen at crosswalks was nothing new either.

Hopefully someone will know the answers to these problems the residents of Hoboken face every time in snows.

Thanks,
Tony

Bonus question: Where is that picture?

So, City Hall has apparently begun blocking access to Hoboken411. I guess that’s another sign that you’ve “made it” in Hoboken. What about at your job? Are they cutting back on what you can and cannot see online? Not a problem!

From RSS readers, text messages, anonymous surfing sites, and others, there’s a way around almost anything! Don’t let anyone censor what you can and cannot see! It’s a free country, damnit!

Here are many different ways to keep you in the loop regarding the buzz in Hoboken. Don’t say I never offered any help!

Hey tech-gurus out there, anything else you can recommend?

RSS readers

On the left side of the screen here, towards the bottom, you’ll see a few links for RSS readers. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and allows for the articles and comments to be “delivered” many different ways.

Those buttons are just suggestions, however, you can pick whatever “reader” sites you wish. I personally use Bloglines, but I’ve heard that Google Reader is really taking the lion’s share these days.

Hoboken411 uses Feedburner to manage it’s feeds. Regardless of which site you use, here are the links for for both the new articles and comments:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/hoboken411.com/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForHoboken411/

ZapTXT

This is a very interesting and powerful feature of Hoboken411. I’ve written a general description about this already on the site.

http://hoboken411.com/archives/5420

Basically, ZapTXT lets you pick what you want to see, and how it gets delivered. You can even have comments sent to your phone via text message! Also, comments or articles can be sent to you via email or even instant messenger. If you’re blocked at work, just sign up for these services from your home PC, and stay in touch all day!

I think this is a great service for business owners especially. You can sign up to monitor what people are saying about your store, bar or restaurant. Like having the “suggestion box” delivered right to your doorstep!

Email Subscription

I’ve never really publicized this feature, but it’s available. I was testing out FeedBlitz a few months ago, and it seems to work pretty well. There are two subscription options to choose from. Pick one or both, and once a day, a “summary” of all articles and/or comments made on Hoboken411 are delivered right to your inbox.

I’ve put a subscription sign up box for both articles and comments below. If you choose to use both, many times the comments and new articles are sent in the same email.

Sign up for Articles:

Sign up for Comments:

Anonymous Surfing

There are many sites out there that allow you to access restricted sites anonymously. Some work better than others. Often times, they can mess up the formatting of the site, making it unreadable.

However, I’ve recently tried “Mister Privacy“, and it seemed to keep the site’s formatting intact. Make sure you use the following settings when surfing:

There are other methods, such as using Google Translate (you translate from Spanish to English), but that doesn’t seem to work too well, and it messes up the formatting pretty badly.

Share with the other readers what types of technology you use to stay connected to the information you want!

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A message from the Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which responds to over 5000 emergency 911 calls a year in Hoboken without ever charging a patient or getting personal compensation:

Can you please tell Hobokenites with clean empty water gallon jugs or coffee cans to bring them this week to HVAC headquarters on Tuesday instead of putting them out for recycling? The best time will be about 7pm when the shift changes, because they are most likely to have a crew in the building then, rather than out on a call.

We will be making up donation jugs to leave in the bars before the parade and will pick them up after the parade. If anyone can help drop off the jugs at the bars on Thursday or Friday, that would also be a big help.

Thank you!

Elaine Lippman
Fundraising Committee & Active Member EMT Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps

I missed this from NJ.com. Thanks Frank, for sending it in.

Hoboken cop assaulted in late-night pizza joint scuffle

HOBOKEN — A police officer was assaulted after trying to break up a rowdy argument in a pizza restaurant early yesterday morning, according to police reports.

Higgs continued to yell obsenities at the officers at the station, police said. The arresting officer was treated at the headquarters by staff from the Jersey City Medical Center for pain in his right hand, reports said.