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Description – Bus charter service garage
Address – 1500 Clinton St, Hoboken, New Jersey ( NJ ) 07030-3402
Telephone – (201) 714-9400

Bus tours & services

Description – “Academy offers the most modern fleet of buses available for charter in the New York Metro area and is committed to quality and professional customer service. Charters are available for all types of trips, including weddings, parties, familiy reunions, group tours, corporate transportation, etc. Academy also offers a large fleet of luxury buses. ”
Services – Bus services – commuter, group tours, casinos
Website – www.academybus.com
Address – 111 Paterson Ave, Hoboken, New Jersey ( NJ ) 07030-6012
Telephone – (201) 420-7000

storage – Unless you've stored something there, bet you've never walked down this street!

Description – Storage facility
Services – Storage, Moving supplies
Website – www.extraspace.com
Address – 1610 Clinton St, Hoboken, New Jersey ( NJ ) 07030-3404
Telephone – (201) 217-1300

Rights International Group was established in 1996 by licensing professional Robert Hazaga in order to provide manufacturers in the United States, Canada, Japan, the European Union and other countries with the finest in art and design.

Robert Hazaga brought to his new company years of experience in the print, design, and home decor industries, fluency in Japanese, broad international travel and experience, and an extensive knowledge of art and design. His desire was to enable companies to use his expertise to locate quickly and easily the art, design and licensed properties they need to create beautiful new products that will sell well in their own and in the American marketplace.

*** Note: No longer located in Hoboken. Moved to Union City ***

Description – Art and design for manufacturers around the world.
Website – www.rightsinternational.com
Address – 500 Paterson Plank Road, Union City, NJ 07087
Telephone – 201-863-4500

1/31/2008 Menu Update:

Not sure if anyone noticed, but they’ve added additional options to the menu, and guess what? Even lowered prices on some items! Hooray!

Get Anthony David’s new menu here.

1/13/2008 Update:

They’re supposedly set to re-open TODAY.

Here’s what I found out was done:

• New floors throughout (including new kitchen tiles)
• Some new fixtures
• Complete cleanup of basement, including over 100lbs of concrete to seal sewer pipe area (helps prevent “critters”)

1/10/2008:

Here’s a little update from a reader, who noticed the sudden “closed for renovations” over at Anthony David’s.

“Anthony David’s closed suddenly last week for renovations and something is clearly underway. They claim they’d be reopened within a week but considering the wait for inspections it already looks unlikely. Also heard a rumor that the owner was trying to condo the building. Maybe they had to do some improvements to allow the condo deal to go through?”

Here’s a few pictures taken last night.

Get all the restaurant details, plus see a review from over a year ago as well, after the jump.

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1/31/2008:

By T.G. Heins-

1/31/2008:

With two weeks left until Valentine’s Day 2008, I figured I’d bump up this article from last year. I still feel the same way.

1/19/2007:
I’ll probably catch some flack for this, but hey, I’ll admit it. I’m not too keen on “forced” holidays. I believe that if you really care about someone, you’ll show it in your own way, and on your own schedule. If you’re a real friend, lover, relative or sibling, you’ll be true all year round, and that is what I feel is more important than anything, not just a few days a year. You don’t have to give the best, most expensive, and elaborate gift to show someone you care. All that does is show that you’re a good gift-giver!

Now that time of the year is coming around that is somewhat stressful for many people. Valentine’s Day. Three and a half weeks from now some people get engaged, others break up because they didn’t get a fancy (fill in the blank: arrangement, dinner, romantic trip, jewelry). Many people in the workplace compare notes and brag to one another. Some kind of Olympic event of “who got the best/biggest/nicest”. Like a brain-washed “Synchronized gift-giving” event that validates your existence on earth. What is unique about doing the same thing everyone else is doing? Why do most people feel pressure and others don’t? I’ve seen instances where relationships get challenged due to some disappointing turn of events. People question their love for each other because of “failure to give the proper gift”. Crap, I say.

I can totally understand the social aspect of “fitting in” and just “doing it because” or “easier to get it over with, than catch shit from the S.O.”, but a true relationship should never be challenged by such instances. If it is, then I would presume it just wasn’t meant to be, and one should be happy it surfaced sooner rather than later. But the blatant commercialism of this “holiday” has reached epic proportions. Companies spend millions upon millions of dollars hiring the best ad execs to produce the most mild-melding commercials and print-ads that practically hypnotize most people into believing it is absolutely necessary. “You better get your girlfriend this (jewelry, car, trip) or else she’ll be riding away nude on a horse into the sunset with Brad Pitt”.

It’s a losing cause, though, because I’m sure most people will disagree with me, and that’s all fine and dandy. I would ask you: Is receiving a gift on a commercial holiday proof that someone cares about you? How do you know it’s sincere and not forced? Would you feel bad if you didn’t get anything? If so, why? Do some people just “want” so that they can “have”?

Regardless, I found some pertinent Valentines Day articles on associatedcontent.com, written by Jack Oceano. Both are related to Hoboken.

- This one is about Top Hoboken Florists, and
- This one is about Top Romantic Hoboken restaurants.

Whoever you are, and whatever you do, I hope those links can help!

Am I off-base with my viewpoint?

1/31/2008 Update:

Little did I know by publishing a status update of the La Scala fire that it would bring angry ex-tenants out of the woodwork to tell their stories of financial ruin.

Here’s what one owner of a 2BR/2Ba unit of that building had to say. A sucky story if you ask me!:

“First off the building insurance paid about $160K for $800K worth of damage so we have been assessed the difference which one owner (the original developer Moshe Hopstein) who owns 3-4 units (I think he gave 1 to a partner Asher Parness) 40% of the building hasn’t paid.

We did not receive the 160K until March 2007 nearly 9 months later. We have a court case against our insurance company Seneca and our lawyer is moving very slowly. The lawyer takes 33% plus expenses and the management company Realty Express LaBarbera hired North Jersey Public Adjusters without consulting us first will take 10% of any recovered amount (and of the 160K).

We hired an Architect James Mcneight to draw plans which he has already since he was the original architect when the building went condo and he took over 6 months to get us a permit after giving us lies that he brought plans to the building department when he did not. The contractor Harry Seymour seems ready to work but after getting a hard time from the architect and the town to get permits has not received any guidance from Hopstein/Parness who’s unit has the majority of damage. Also none of the owners and Realty Express seem to care about what is happening and try to push things along (except me) RELB continues to collect there monthly management fee. It has taken more than a month just to deiced on a paint color for the building and it hasn’t been picked yet. Meanwhile I paid the highest price in the building lost my roommate who was paying me rent (and after the assessment) will be lucky to break even while I continue to make my mortgage payments and had to move in with my girlfriend because I can’t afford another place to live.

Due to the many lies that things were going to be finished faster I did not walk away and give the place up in foreclosure (I wish I did). This entire incident has ruined and continues to ruin me financially.“

What a crappy story indeed!

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