Port Authority tables proposal to end overnight PATH service

Port Authority tables proposal to end overnight PATH service

Michael Russo Hoboken

Port Authority Chairman John Degnan has agreed to table a bi-state reform panel’s proposal to eliminate overnight PATH service, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto announced on Wednesday.

What’s taking so long?

What’s taking so long? 

Some of the emergency generators from 2013 will go into housing projects in spring

Michael Russo Hoboken

After a year and a half of waiting, the Hoboken Housing Authority has approved funding to install some of the backup power generators it purchased after Superstorm Sandy. Fourteen of the mammoth metal machines have been sitting in a parking lot in the federally funded projects since the summer of 2013, through changes in HHA leadership and several storms.

Hudson officials and commuters slam proposed halt to PATH overnight service

Michael Russo Hoboken

Hudson officials and commuters slam proposed halt to PATH overnight service

Public officials and straphangers alike have spoken out against a bi-state panel’s recommendation that PATH service be suspended between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.

The proposed changes were included in a report released Dec. 27 by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie after they vetoed a Port Authority reform bill passed unanimously by their respective state legislatures.

The ‘Power List’

Power List

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While many of Hudson County’s most influential people remain relevant year to year, their impact waxes and wanes. Influence can mean different things, not only political power. Artists, activists, and not-for-profits influence the lives of the public over the course of the year, sometimes more significantly than it would appear on the surface.

Weighting game

HOLA

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A new front has opened in the simmering legal battle between the Hoboken Board of Education and the Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa) over HoLa’s state-approved expansion to seventh and eighth grades.