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.

The men, police say, taunted the victim, a 21-year-old Bayonne resident, for wearing pink pants, and then followed him out of the train just after 4:30 a.m. Friday and pummeled him. He needed 12 stitches to his face, reports said.

Police arrested Hoboken High School student Andy Rivera, 19, of Marshal Drive at 2 p.m. yesterday in Hoboken and charged him with bias intimidation and aggravated assault. They have a warrant out for the arrest of the other man, police said.

Rivera and the other man followed him up the stairs and attacked him near a candy store on the concourse in Hoboken Terminal, police said.

The the victim was punched two or three times in the face and one of the blows lacerated his cheek while another left him with a black eye, reports said.

The victim was taken to Jersey City Medical Center, where he was treated for his injuries and given 12 stitches on his face, police said. Police were able to identify Rivera from surveillance cameras in the area, reports said.

Charles Hack

Hoboken, gay, bias attack

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.”

Hoboken, Water Cooler, Best Comments

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).

The cost is $60 per person which includes Steve’s hot buffet (from 8:30-9:30 p.m.), three games of bowling and your shoe rental. For those who do not bowl but understand the importance of championing this great cause, there is a $30 per person hot buffet only contribution. In addition, there will be a cash bar, pool table and video games.

As you know, when it comes to caring for children, Hoboken University Medical Center is second to none. From its fast-track pediatric emergency room program to their soothing inpatient unit, they set the standard in children’s medicine. You can help them exceed those standards.

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.

Hoboken, Bowling for kids, Libery board of Realtors, Hoboken University Medical Center, Charity

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?

Hoboken, Winter, Snow

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:

Enter your Email

Sign up for Comments:

Enter your Email

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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Hoboken, Hoboken411 Tech Tips

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

Hoboken, EMS, St. Patricks Day

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.

Rory William Higgs, 23, of Nassau in the Bahamas, who gave a temporary address on Coles Street in Jersey City, was charged with disorderly conduct, aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, police said.

The police officer was in Imposto Restaurant & Pizza on Washington Street Sunday at 1:05 a.m. when he saw Higgs and a female companion arguing with another woman near a restroom, reports said.

After Higgs began yelling at the woman, the uniformed officer tried to separate the pair but Higgs pushed the cop in the chest, cursing him out, reports said.

The suspect then began to punch and kick the officer, police sources said. Higgs was finally arrested with the help of customers and police officers who arrived at the scene, reports said.

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.

Hoboken, Crime

I’m testing out a new MP3 player for the site. Check out this awesome 44 minute workout mashup from iPunx -”Destroying Dancefloors”! Download it and get moving.. great for those with ADD, and those that ate bacon and pizza for the last year and need to (eh hem) workout immediately.

http://www.divshare.com/download/165360-cc1 - I replaced that mp3 player because it automatically downloaded the entire 60mb file even for those that didn’t want to play it. Sorry about that!

See track listing after the picture. Fun stuff, if you have the patience to wait through the minute or two of parts that you may not necessarily like.

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Hoboken, Hoboken411, Mashup, iPod, Workout, myspace

Too many to report individually, however, there have been multiple incidents involving juveniles recklessly throwing snowballs in Hoboken. At windows, moving cars, PEOPLE. One guy got hit in the face last night, people complaining about their windows are getting hit, and right now, there’s a group of about 10 kids by the High School pegging passing cars.

Hey, when I was a kid, I just aimed at distant trees or something to test my pitching arm for accuracy, or we had organized snowball fights amongst groups of friends. These kids, however, seem to be testing the criminal skills for future use.

Here’s more fun you can have with snow!

Hoboken, incidents

Continuing the ongoing series, here are some highlights from the 2/25/2007 edition of our local paper, The Hoboken Reporter.

So what were some key articles included this week?

• The Pay-to-Play issue that was discussed at last weeks Council meeting. Good summary, however, Mr. Mullins was selective with his quotes and left out some of the more puzzling comments made by certain Council members. Another thing I forgot to mention in the recap, was how Campos spun his words a bit saying “My fear, having grown up in the Housing Authority in Hoboken…” making it sound like he was a long-time Hoboken resident, when he in fact left the City when he was a young child. And came back around the time he was put in the Council.
• The NJ Transit rate hikes. Good to note that there is a single Hudson County meeting in Hoboken this week. It will take place Wednesday, February 28th at 5:30pm at City Hall.
• The Garden of Eden issues. Note that since then, the manager has issued a public letter of apology to the Hoboken residents.
• Talk about the uptown highrise that is planned on Park Avenue. I really wonder if I can believe the fact that the developers say there will be no impact on traffic in the area. I’ll believe it when I see it.
• No mention of the Hoboken Train Terminal centennial celebration, despite the comprehensive preview last week. I guess they forgot about it or it was past the publishing deadline. I didn’t recognize any Reporter staff there. So I included some Mayor Roberts “good news” myself.
• Big front-page story about the School Superintendent search process. Here’s the upcoming notable dates:
  

  • Tuesday February 27th
    Superintendent Finalist Forum
    Hoboken High School Auditorium
    (bet. 8th /9th on Clinton)
    7:00 pm 1st Candidate
    8:00pm 2nd Candidate
    Come prepared with questions
  • Wednesday February 28
    6:00pm Special Session
    1115 Clinton St
    Basement meeting room
    APPOINTMENT OF A SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
    APPOINTMENT OF AN ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
  • Thursday, March 1
    6:00 pm Special Session
    1115 Clinton St
    Basement meeting room
    INTRODUCTION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS TO THE PUBLIC

• Mayor seen again in the “good news” section. Welcome back!

Anything else worth noting?

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Hoboken, Reporter Roundup