You are always so negative. It is saddening to see that you can never add or see anything positive. Your agenda is clear and therefore your thoughts are diluted and without merit on most topics.

@ HobokenTownie. Nope not being negative, it was satire and historically factual.

I am guessing you have no kids!

I think that the best possible athletic space (in that location) would be enclosed at least during part of the year under a 'bubble'. Or a field house would be an even more useful project for a broader and larger segment of Hoboken's citizens. Think of what an all-weather, all-season facility would be like, and maybe partnership with the private sector to make it financially feasible in these times. $1.7MM for an outdoor soccer field seems very high for what we are getting.

It was capped, that is it. Since folks now want the field to be closer to street level, they can't just build a wall, fill in the area w/ more dirt on top of the cap and put the field on top of that. They need to remove the cap, remove the contaminated soil & then build on top of that.

@KenOn10: you said "....a bit over-engineered for my taste - plenty of things that will break when not properly maintained and not enough passive open space". I for one think proportionally their is enough passive open space, but this town could always use more. But that is a matter of "to each one's own".
I am curious about the rest of the sentance -could you site examples of "over-engineered" and "plenty of things that will break when not properly maintained"? Honest question geared toward working toward a better park.

Ken your response is spot on. @p1ywood - this is similar to the debacle of pier C. My kids love the park, but seriously the wood is already splintering, stainless steel slide (blisters in the summer), fencing that does not go all the way down to the sidewalk (i guess debris blowing into the river or rolling into river is okay), staircase up to slide is a deathtrap and sandpit is just nasty)

"Your always so negative It's always saddening to see you can't add anything positive." LOL ;-)

Ask Dave Roberts.

The cove might be the perfect place for something like this (cost around $4mm): http://www.floatingpool.org/index1.html

The floating pool is a great idea--- always thought so

go back to Beth Mason's house and write another one you troll

This isn't about you or me-- this is about the constant delays and excuses we hear from Dawn and her administration on anything that takes coordination, planning and effort to get done. And now these ridiculous "town meetings" for input. Maybe it works in New Hampshire....

okay then let's have a meeting about the baseball stadium that Mason was all on talking about creating on the west side. whoops, went nowhere, topic dropped. Let's talk about Mason voting down the bond for the traffic light so this Parrk ave project could be further along. whoops, that dosn't work for you either. town hall meetings are better than silly presss releases every two weeks that say nothing

yeah-- let's have a meeting. Sounds like a good idea....
We had a @20,000,000 surplus but Dawn wanted to bond for a traffic light and hold up the project for another year or two. If she was a leader she would have gotten it done instead of looking at who to blame for her and her administration's inability to deliver on anything that takes planning, coordination, and follow through.

now it's with the obtuse and untrue budget nonsense. just admit you are trying to tear down the administration for Mason

After many years under past Hoboken Administrations of nothing being done on this site a great plan and a money to execute it are now in place under the Zimmer Administration.

When ligitimate shareholdersof the park had ligitimate concerns they were addressed . That is they way things should be done and because of it Hoboken will be better.

The messure twice cut once constuction rule is always wise to follow. :-)

Curiouslyobtusegal rears her obtuse little head. If you wanted a park built ASAP, you should have told your boss to approve the light. Don't know why you care all that much though b/c you live so far from the park that I doubt you even have ever walked past it.

It seems to me that Mason is pretty inept at handling even the simplest of issues in her own ward. If it weren't for Joe Barry's applied housing vote, that woman's goose would be cooked. I am guessing she wont be able to stop the huge Barry construction project in her ward, either. I am sure she'll make up some excuse for her constitiuents as to why, once again she couldnt help them (ya know-like the prior Maxwell issues). What does that woman stand for?
She's for develop or die, but is going up against the barry project (yeah- right)
She's for supporting elected officials like Cammarano, Timmay, Russo and the like and paying thugs like callichio, but wants responsible govt. (yeah-right)
She's for saving the hospital, but votes and rallys against helping to save it
She's for lowering costs but cant point to anything to cut, in a 100mm budget, except a one time 40k cost.
She's for lowering the legal bills but then causes multiple delays and issues when dealing with contract negotiations, causing legal costs to skyrocket
She's against the high costs of legal dept but supports ex-exployees filing lawsuits and has filed many of her own.
She's for transparency but refused to release a public video of her at a DCA meeting.
She's for fiscal responsibility but won't approve of a refinancing deal that would net the city 50k vs costing the city 4.5mm.

Mason better hope the Tea Building people never get their act together and come out in force to vote. She'd be toast.

blah blah blah blah--- at the end of the day, Dawn can't seem to get anything done that requires planning, foresight, follow through and creativity. A good leader gets things done, rather than makes excuses. Sitting on a $20,000,000 surplus and getting a light put in so people could enjoy 1 or 2 additional years of park use doesn't occur to her. Why? Because if the light was put in, it would expose the lack of planning that completion of the 1600 park would require. Better to have an excuse than a park I guess---
Come on Dawn--- get something done already!

Curious Beth Mason operative just perpetuates lies, as all trolls do - not about sense at all. if Mason hadnn't played games with the hospital sale trying to sink the deal, we might have some money in the kittie. but we don't -thanks beth and your misguided sabotage of the city, also through these bloggers like curiousbethmasonoperative