Public Input Wanted for Design of 1600 Park
The public is invited to a meeting on Jan. 23.
The city is inviting the public to chime in at a discussion of the final conceptual design of 1600 Park and the Hoboken Cove at City Hall Monday night at 6 p.m.
Completion of the park—which was originally scheduled to open three months ago—has been delayed because of the placement of a traffic light.
Mayor Dawn Zimmer initially delayed the opening of the park after she said a traffic signal was needed there. Later on, when the city council didn't pass a bond to pay for that traffic light, the opening date was further delayed.
The meeting will take place in the basement of City Hall and will be followed by a Meet and Greet event with Zoning Board candidates.
Hoboken Answer
7:16 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Congratulations to Tim Occhipinti refusing to provide a required 6th vote to bond to have a light erected so the park could open.
A big shout out to Beth Mason who also refused to vote yes. The park is in her second ward, but hey hatred of the people (and the mayor) getting the park up is what matters.
A special shout out to Terry Castellano and Michael Russo for making sure that park couldn't open and supporting their allies Occhipinti and Mason by voting no and making sure no bond would be allowed for the park.
peterbelfiore
9:34 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
How is something not yet designed delayed by a traffic light? 10 years of planning and we just discovered this. Please ! If a traffic study is a predecessor the administration can get that done and put the light out to bid in the same construction package as the park. Get it done already.
Perry
FAP
9:42 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Perry you should go to the meeting, you might actually learn something.
p1ywood
9:55 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Jeesh. Mr Belfiore, for the hundredth time. There was a design. It was completed. The bond for the light was voted down by the minority on the city council. Now we have to wait for the county to fund it. Which will probably add at least a year to the timeline. The town is using the additional delay in time to improve and tweak the design. Please stop doing this same specious anti-administration misdirect every single time the park is broached. Thank you.
FAP
10:39 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
P1y he knows that. Perry is a one trick haircut.
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Step 1) Perry makes an accusatory statement
Step 2) Perry gets corrected by one or several people
Step 3) Perry disappears for a week or three
Step 4) Repeat Step 1, lather and rinse as needed.
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Perry is due to remark on the hospital in a week or so. Anyone want to make a bet he claims it was in the black and the Evil Zimmer caused it to go bankrupt?
p1ywood
12:07 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
Well gee, I suppose you're right again, FAP.
But that big, wacky, lovable lug, well let's hope he doesn't mean any harm.
So for old times sake, what would be better for the three of us Hobokenites, than to capture this moment with Ol' Blue Eyes, as we reminisce about that repetition-
Mr Belfiore, because of your tenacity with that consarn post,
and because we love 'ya, and we know you'll post that nonsense again
this one goes out to you to celebrate all our time together here online-
and what could be better than our own Frankie crooning his heart out to the tune of
"These Foolish Things, They Remind Me of You"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfdEECXwCBA&feature=related
Eric sandler
11:57 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
From what I understand the traffic light has not delayed things (as of yet) but it was very unnecessary what ms. Mason did to vote against the traffic light. clearly she has been hearing the criticism so hopefully she will start doing the right thing or her political career is doa (and it might already be...)
Redrider765
8:27 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
She really doesn't care. If she cared what people thought, she never would have funded Timmay's campaign and allowed the man to buy his CC seat.
Hoboken Questioner
12:32 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
The HQ hopes this park is a success. But some thoughts. First, I don't want a soccer field up there. If a soccer ball is kicked into on coming traffic then there is going to be a huge car bang up and people will die. Second, I don't want a traffic light at all! Instead design it so that pedestrians have to access it by going around and under the bridge. This is because a traffic light has the potential of creating big time traffic delays especially during rush hour. And third the HQ loves dogs but I'm kind of tired of them popping and pissing inside of every park that we have ...so please no dogs or at least have a dog run to the side. Thanks.
Hoboken Questioner
12:36 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
Don't want my comment on the traffic light to create any confusion. The HQ is very concerned about pedestrian safety. But adding a traffic light in that spot just does not seem like a bright idea - pardon the pun. Instead the public should be encouraged to access the park by heading under either of the bridges that will border it. I have seen traffic in that spot during rush hour; especially when it is time to come home. Some of those drivers are insane. And if a child thinks it is safe to cross just because a traffic light is green then we are in for trouble. Lets just make everyone walk around and under the bridges.
ThisMeansWar
6:29 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
In the interest of full disclosure you might have mentioned that you live all the way at the south end of Park Ave, and that soccer field will be quite a long walk. But why start being honest now.
Also they've invented this new technology to keep balls off the road. It's called "a fence." I think it's french.
If you and curiouskim ever decide to spend 1/10 as much time being parents as you do spreading lies and dumbass theories on the internet you'd discover that kids cross where they want to cross and don't walk to soccer games holding mommy and daddy's hand. If you don't put a light there you're inviting tragedy, plain and simple. Saying "everyone was encouraged to walk under the bridge" won't be much of a comfort at a child's funeral.
But I guess you have more pressing matters than making intelligent remarks about safety matters because....Lane Bajardi has NEVER appeared in an ELEC report for Beth Mason or Tim Occhipinti. He appears in this midnight video for Occhipinti's campaign leaders. http://www.hobokenhorse.com/2010/10/grist-for-mill-midnight-monday-meeting.html
Is he credited in Beth Mason's IRS filings? Does he credit her in his tax forms?
http://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/inside-the-fbis-internet-tip-line
Redrider765
8:26 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
Having no traffic light there creates backups and is a hazard. Have you ever seen how bad traffic is on that street when traffic is bad? Ever see people try to take a left when traffic is flying north & southbound on Park and how they just stick their cars into the stream of traffic and force everyone to stop just so they can make a left? A light would prevent people from pulling these semi-suicidal stunts. Past time they put a light there.
Khoboken
8:46 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
HQ
“As a psychiatrist, I have had to evaluate and treat people who talk in the third person. They are most often extremely narcissistic, with a desperate need to think of themselves as celebrities or a very important person, who merit the awe that speaking of them in the third person is meant to engender. 'The Donald' is a well known example. In a smaller number of cases, these people are psychotic, out of touch with reality, and think of themselves as being separate from the important person who they refer to in the third person.”
HobokenOwl
10:01 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
ROFL Khoboken!
Grafix Avenger
7:39 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012
Bingo, khoboken. I'm waiting to hear him call himself 'The Lane' on 1010WINS.
When is his station manager going to catch on?
peterbelfiore
6:33 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
HQ,
The concept of accesing the park from under the viaduct was the original intent so it should be part of the design. Forde, usually you are a master of misinformation, but as a member of the Administration, are you confessing that a design for the park exists and the call for help in design is a canard. Access and traffic control are design issues. Creating access to the park via under the viaducts and installation of traffic lights should be placed and bid in the construction package.
Perry
FAP
7:48 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
Yawn. Hey Perry.
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"p1ywood wrote:
9:55 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012
Jeesh. Mr Belfiore, for the hundredth time. There was a design. It was completed. The bond for the light was voted down by the minority on the city council. Now we have to wait for the county to fund it. Which will probably add at least a year to the timeline. The town is using the additional delay in time to improve and tweak the design. Please stop doing this same specious anti-administration misdirect every single time the park is broached. Thank you."
Sally Cannon
8:35 am on Friday, January 13, 2012
What about the park at 123 Jefferson where it sits waiting for children from the Boys and Girls Club and the HoLa school. Tim?? Why don't you help our children?
Grafix Avenger
7:51 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012
You mean photo-op Tim?
That guy who went to a bachelor party in Boston when Hurricane Irene slammed Hoboken? The same guy who was chugging beer with Ruben Ramos at the Biergarten when the southwest flooded weeks earlier? Thank goodness for Dave Mello, who was helping folks in the 4th Ward that night.
Bring a camera to 123 Jefferson and he'll appear like magic.
PeoplePlease
9:30 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012
How many "Public Input" meetings does one park need?
p1ywood
9:14 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012
Is the issue now that the administration is being "too considered" and "too democratic" about probably the most multipurpose and geographically largest park that will yet be built in Hoboken during our lifetime, not to mention with the most spectacular Manhattan views?
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Priceless observation.
PeoplePlease
9:40 am on Monday, January 16, 2012
I just find it interesting that there are 15 public input meetings over the placement of a tennis court and none on the future of parades or just 1 on rules and regulations surrounding food trucks.
Why non revenue producing projects get more attention is confusing to me.
ThisMeansWar
10:02 am on Monday, January 16, 2012
There is a bit more to be said about a park than that it is "non revenue producing." It will be here when we're all gone.