Hoboken police urge drivers: Please don’t make it easy for car thieves

Hoboken police are urging drivers to resist the temptation of leaving motor vehicles running unattended, and they have science on their side.Years of studies and empirical data show that empty vehicles left unlocked with the engine running are easier to steal.Lt. Danilo Cabrera, commander of the Hoboken police Investigation Bureau said that of the five cars reported stolen so far this year, two of were left unattended with the engine running and one had the keys stored inside.In 2019, nine of 32 vehicles reported stolen were left running and unattended, while four more were instances in which ...

Which college degrees earn grads more than $1 million? Maybe not ones from fancy liberal arts colleges and large state universities

La Salle University wasted no time jumping on higher education’s hottest new metric: earnings after graduation.Around Philadelphia, La Salle’s billboards plaster local highways, advertising that its grads rank in the top 4% for 10-year mid-career earnings.“We beat out research-intensive universities (and) elite Ivy League liberal arts schools,” LaSalle president Colleen Hanycz said last week. “And we did that without a school of engineering, medicine or law” boosting income after graduation.La Salle’s marketing of ROI — or return on investment, based on a new Georgetown University study — illu...

‘The best is yet to come’ as Hoboken eyes major redevelopment, infrastructure upgrades: mayor

Mile-square Hoboken will soon feel like a bigger place, Mayor Ravi Bhalla suggested Monday at his annual State of the City address.The city’s northwestern section, underused for years because of aging industrial buildings, will soon be the subject of a redevelopment plan and host to a five-acre park that will “become the attraction in Hoboken,” the mayor said.Prospects for that corner of the city were the highlight of quality-of-life efforts the mayor emphasized at Mile Square Theatre Monday for the city he’s governed for two years.Across Hoboken, infrastructure projects are upgrading water ma...

Authorities investigating death of an infant in Jersey City

THE LATEST: Jersey City home where newborn was found dead was cited last year for multiple health code violationsAuthorities in Hudson County are investigating the death of an infant in Jersey City, officials said.The homicide unit of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, as well as the city’s police department, are looking into the death on Suburbia Court, officials said.There are few other details immediately available.The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office’s Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department are investigating an infant death at 31 Suburbia Court in Jersey City. More inform...

Five teens, including two 15-year-olds, charged in Hoboken robbery: police

Five people, including two 15-year-olds and two 17-year-olds, were arrested Thursday after police say they robbed a 16-year-old boy outside a Hoboken Housing Authority building.The incident occurred in the area of 400 Marshall Drive at 5:10 p.m. Wednesday, the victim told police.The boy said the five assailants, which included 18-year-old Jaden Crandell, snatched his backpack and cell phone, Hoboken Lt. Danilo Cabrera said. The backpack contained an Xbox gaming console and a wireless speaker.Hoboken Sgt. Josue Velez, along with members of the Investigations Bureau, Police Officers David DiMart...

Another light rail stop coming to Hoboken? Mayor, NJ Transit meet to discuss possibility

Developing neighborhoods are often built around existing mass transit.Northwest Hoboken has managed to draw new businesses and residents despite not having an immediate transit hub. But as major redevelopment for the area takes shape, a light rail stop could come with it.Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla met with representatives of NJ Transit earlier this month to discuss a potential new light rail stop in the northwest corner of the city, an initiative he campaigned on more than two years ago.Vijay Chaudhuri, a spokesman for Bhalla, said NJ Transit estimated that adding the stop on the Hudson-Bergen ...

Hoboken redevelopment plan to be reintroduced Wednesday without residential units

HOBOKEN — A redevelopment plan that calls for the construction of new high-rises near Hoboken’s transit hub no longer includes a residential component.The buildings envisioned in the Hoboken Yard Redevelopment Plan are now slated to be entirely commercial, and one site previously planned to be 300-feet tall may shrink to 200 feet.The Hoboken City Council plans to reintroduce the amended plan during a special meeting Wednesday and then vote on it at its regular meeting two weeks later, Council President Jen Giattino said.This is the plan’s first reappearance since a vote was postponed late last...

Woman sexually assaulted in Hoboken parking garage: prosecutor

A 23-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in the elevator of a Hoboken parking garage early Monday morning, and two days later an arrest was made, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said.Police responded the area of the Midtown Garage at 371 Fourth St. at 3:15 a.m. on reports of a possible robbery and a woman in distress and encountered the victim on Second Street, Suarez said.The woman, of Hoboken, told police she was sexually assaulted while in the Midtown Garage elevator.An investigation by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and the Hoboken Police Department led...

Hoboken PATH station to be closed Jan. 18-19

The Hoboken PATH station will be closed this weekend for signal maintenance, Port Authority officials said.Because of the closure, the World Trade Center PATH station, scheduled to be closed on weekends through most of 2020 for Superstorm Sandy-related work, will be open this weekend.Starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, the PATH station in Hoboken will be closed until 5 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 20. in order to complete “essential” signal maintenance at the station and in the adjoining tunnels.The Journal Square-33rd Street line will operate on its normal weekend schedule, but there will be no...

Good music for good causes on the bill at FM

Bring some canned veggies and come party with Crazy & The Brains, as the xylophone-fueled ska punk combo holds its fourth annual Party 4 Peace at FM Bar in Downtown Jersey City on Saturday, Jan. 18.The event will benefit the Jersey City Anti-Violence Coalition Movement, which seeks to reduce violence and address socioeconomic disparity in Jersey City neighborhoods with youth outreach programs, self-empowerment seminars, vocational training and other programs. The inclusive, 18+ event will include performances by Crazy & The Brains and the all-female Latin ska band Ratas En Zelo from the Bronx,...