Year: 2015

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Five Flood Resilency plans up for drop-in review

City of Hoboken announces:

=&0=& Last night at a public meeting at the Wallace School, the State introduced five proposed concepts for the Rebuild by Design Hudson River: Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge project. The $230 million in funding awarded through the project will be implemented through one of the five introduced concepts to help protect the Hoboken region from flooding due to severe storms. The five proposed concepts and project materials can be found on the project website at www.rbd-hudsonriver.nj.gov.  Residents are also invited to attend one of the three drop-in sessions to ask questions and provide feedback on the concepts. The details of the drop-in sessions are below. 1) Drop-in session #1: Monday, December 14, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm: Hoboken Historical Museum (1301 Hudson Street) 2) Drop-in session #2: Tuesday, December 15, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm: St. Lawrence Church (22 Hackensack Avenue, Weehawken) 3) Drop-in session #3: Thursday, December 17, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm: Hoboken Housing Authority (221 Jackson Street) Based on screening criteria and feedback from the community, the five proposed concepts will be reduced to three for further evaluation. An additional meeting will be scheduled in January to go over the three concepts. Any resident who would like to provide feedback can also email comments to rbd-hudsonriver@dep.nj.gov.
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Carmelo Garcia urinates on NJ election laws

The Hoboken council candidate who promised to be available to constitutents all day, every day is transparently invisible when it comes to following New Jersey election law.

NJ ELEC, the statewide watchdog which collects and publishes candidate election reports has seen not a plumb nickel of where Carmelo Garcia obtained and spent a rumored six figures in his failed City Council campaign.

The whispers about the campaign bonzanza blow-up which saw Hoboken’s sixth ward easily re-elect Councilwoman Jen Giattino suggest Garcia will probably face serious fines for blatantly breaking the law. Read More...

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Justice delayed is justice….

Delayed. That’s the word from Jersey City Municipal Court as the Court itself begged off on this Friday’s Beth Mason criminal trial.

Can you blame them?

Reprieve? The Beth Mason criminal trial with her allegations of being
assaulted and “alarmed” by a no. 10 envelope from MSV will have to
wait until the New Year. The Jersey City court announced
the criminal trial would have to be delayed, another in a series
of postponned trial dates since the first set last May.

Talking Ed Note: Attorney Alex Booth was rarin-to-go, witnesses ready to take the stand and legal documents in the Bajardi v Pincus case conflicting with victimization testimony about to be entered into exhibit evidence before the trial judge.

It’ll have to wait until early next year. (The public will be properly noticed and invited to attend.) Read More...

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Hard drug squeeze by HPD in the housing authority

Hoboken Patch reports another six month drug investigation in the Hoboken Housing Authority produced an arrest for heroin and various weapon charges.

The arrest on lower Jackson Street and investigation follows another where well over a dozen suspects were rounded up and charged with a variety of drug related crimes working in tandem with law enforcment agencies outside Hoboken.

The Hoboken Patch story details:

Police gained access to the apartment building without incident, seizing “numerous” bags of packaged heroin, “various types of handgun ammunition” and $5,000 in cash believed to be drug proceeds, according to authorities. Read More...

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Reminder: COMMUNITY INVITED TO REBUILD BY DESIGN CONCEPT PRESENTATION PUBLIC MEETING

City of Hoboken announces:

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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will hold a public meeting to solicit input on the proposed concepts for the Rebuild by Design Hudson River: Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge Project. The meeting is open to all members of the public and will take place on Thursday, December 10, 2015 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm at the Wallace Elementary School gymnasium, located at 1100 Willow Avenue in Hoboken. Read More...

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Truth on trial this Friday in Beth Mason’s allegations

The war against the First Amendment in Hoboken is not over. A remnant of the years long court determined frivolous SLAPP-suit will take place in a criminal allegation by Councilwoman Beth Mason against this MSV editor Friday morning.

Jersey City Municipal Court will conduct a trial on her allegation of assault with harassing intent, an envelope containing a piece of paper causing “alarm:” a witness subpoena in Bajardi v Pincus.

The trial originally set for May is finally reaching a culmination as a tool to leverage in the SLAPP-suit which didn’t go as planned against a dozen Hoboken residents. Read More...

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Judge staves off release of most Carmelo Garcia “ethnic cleansing” emails

A judge taking a one-time action on motions in the Carmelo Garcia “ethnic cleansing” case staved off release of most of the emails over the Hoboken Housing Authority server between Carmelo Garcia and Louis Zayas on Friday afternoon.

While leaving open emails including other parties, the ruling means Carmelo Garcia may have avoided a bullet with the embarassment of truths revealed in the emails versus his “ethnic cleansing” narrative.  A certification by Garcia to the court claimed he had previously obtained legal advice from former HHA counsel Charles Daglian such correspondence through the HHA servers was privileged. No email between Garcia and Daglian was produced leading some to wonder if the Garcia certification was completely manufactured. John Heinis of Hudson County View attended the court hearing in Hudson Superior Court and filed this exclusive report:

For the complete Hudson County View story see:

http://hudsoncountyview.com/judge-rules-against-releasing-1000s-of-emails-between-garcia-zayas-in-hha-case/

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1,000 emails up for release in Carmelo Garcia “ethnic cleansing” lawsuit

As previously reported on Grafix Avenger, a dispute over the release of 1,000 emails between Carmelo Garcia the former Executive Director of the Hoboken Housing Authority and his attorney, Louis Zayas is up for a hearing today in Hudson Superior Court.

The emails under review are those exchanged while Garcia worked at the agency up to August 2014.

The hearing, set for 1:45 will determine if the emails in question are privileged or available to the HHA which like the City of Hoboken is fighting Garcia’s revamped ethnic cleansing lawsuit originally filed in the summer of 2013 before the Hoboken mayoral election. Read More...