The problem is that it isn't feasible. You try to approach the Shannon or Black Bear and they will say why doesn't Amanda's or Cafe Elysian have to pay? Why don't the bodgeas have to pay or any place that "just sells food" which will have more business on a LepreCon day. And the city would simply get another lawsuit on their hands.

The mayor didn't cancel the parade. The Parade Committee canceled their parade in a "I'm taking my ball and going home" manner when the Mayor said the parade could not be held the first Saturday of March due to the destruction. Your lack of truth is disturbing.

The mayor essentially gerrymandered the parade into extinction. A Wednesday afternoon parade? Are you serious? Who is around to watch a Wednesday afternoon parade? We are Irish, we work.

Business will be heard during the next election. Don't upset the Irish, we vote early and often.

I have the owner of speak easy's blood in my veins. I can get drunk.

The first time I talked to my parents about drinking, when I was 18 (still under the drinking age) we talked about responsible drinking. So I started drinking at 18. I got drunk. I never destroyed anyone else's personal property. I never pee outside like a dog.

Your right to get drunk ends at my property line. I think a super soaker filled with water dyed green might be in order to protect my property.

Unless you have a yard or own a building and have a small fenced in area of sidewalk, your property line doesn't start until someone crosses the threshold of your door. Hallways, lobbies & courtyards are property of the condo association so bring it up w/ the association if residents or their guests get out of control.

"Our" mayor?

" I don't have a child enrolled in the school, never would and am actually moving out of Hoboken in 4 days."

PeoplePlease, 1-9-2013.

http://hoboken.patch.com/articles/new-hoboken-school-board-members-sworn-in-gold-appointed-president#comment_5995773

If there is no party in my building, I don't need drunk strangers on my stoop. I don't need pee on my stoop.

We changed our minds. wrote a song about it. like to hear it? here it goes.

Oh, we were going to move but landed good jobs and we decided to keep our low rent apartment and enjoy all that is good about Hoboken.....woooooo hoooooooo.

Thank you very much!

By the way the Mayor cancelled the parade and I plan on voting Dawn right out of office very soon.

And the fact that non-bar stores pretty much bar their doors shut doesn't help. Bringing people who's entire concept of Hoboken is a place to get drunk once a year doesn't improve life for anyone, and I don't think those are the people most of the residents want to have in town.

Of course, one could argue that the city recoups some of it's cost by jacking up the prices for criminal offenses on this day, but I fail to see the point of encouraging criminal behavior so that you can ticket to pay for it's enforcement. If the parade committee doesn't want to have the parade on a saturday morning to support there bacchanalia, let them keep up with the Leper Con facade until people start to realize that we aren't a great place to make drinking a sport. Then we can focus on real plans to support our community 365 days a year, instead of wasting our money protecting the bars for one drunken day.

The city loses money on St. Patrick's day. It is effectively structured as a giveback from the city who handles extra police and everything else to the bars in town. They (and a host of house parties who are yet to realize that their frat party days are behind them) then serve patrons who use the town as a public bathroom. In other words, we pay to have our city trashed. I'm all for productive social activities that improve town, but this is not one of them.

I am a fan of the bars and restaurants. I am not a fan of the drunken 20-somethings (and 30, 40 or 50 somethings who think they're 20) running around one day a year wreaking havoc.

I am not a fan of my doorway being kicked in, peed on or smeared with human feces. I do not like having to leave town or worse still, stay and guard my property. I lived downtown just off of Washington Street for several years. I had to guard my property every year. I didn't like it or cleaning up the sidewalk out front the day after.

They only spend it in the bars.

This does not help the clothing stores. It does not help the Tux shop that closed it doors. How does it help anything other than a bar?

If the city does indeed lose money then the city should just produce an analysis of how much it loses on average a year. To this day the city has never proven it loses money. They divulge how much they spend in OT but never disclose how much revenue they generate. Profits and losses equal revenues minus costs. You get a negative number from that equation, you have losses. If it is a positive number, you have profits.

And if we do have loses then the people who want the parade using those numbers need to show how they can make the city at least break even on their anticipated costs before proposing reinstating the parade. My suggestion would be massive fines, tickets issued like mad and an immediate hearing before a judge on the day you get your ticket with your fine payable that day if you want a discount off that $1,000 fine the cops slapped you with.

ojo, I fail to see encouraging more bad behavior so that we can make money on the fines as a good solution when curbing bad behavior is an option.

Well we certainly don't want to punish those who can't go out and get hammered during the day because of family reponsibilities.

deer? there are not deers in Hoboken.

I'm sorry I didn't take picture in past years of the drunks peeing in any convenient doorway.

Why people would live in a city other than to have easy access to bars.

1. A short commute and and getting to spend more time with the family instead of sitting on bus, train or in traffic.

2. Being able to walk to everything. The market, pharmacy, doctor, dentist, school, restaurants, parks, and a bunch of things I'm forgetting.

I grew up in the 'burbs. You needed a car to do most of that. The only thing I could walk to was my elementary school. Movies, a 30 minutes drive. Allergist, 45 minutes. Good asian food, forget about it. Good Indian food, are you joking? You needed a car to get to the library. Why is the stereotypical image of suburban mom look like a frazzled SUV chauffeur? Because you need wheels in the burbs.

I live in Hoboken so that I can spend more time with my family and less time sitting in a some form of transportation.

I'm sure I'm not the only one. I have worked with people with 3-4 hour commutes, to live in the burbs. No thank you.

Maybe Journey should move to Weehawken

Weehawken is not as walking friendly. The commute would be longer.

I want the short commute and the 'walk to all' benefits of Hoboken.

I liked the parade. I took my daughter. I did not enjoy trying to navigate through the throngs of drunk fools. You know someone is very drunk when they flirt with a toddler. I would go to the parade on a non Saturday.

The parade organizers didn't want to have a parade unless it was on the first Saturday of March.

I don't have a problem with people drinking, as long as they do so responsibly. I've been drinking responsibly since I was 18. When I told my parents I had gone to my first party with booze, they didn't scold me for underaged drinking. They talked about drinking responsibly and told me their worst college drinking stories. In my family we like to learn from our mistakes, and better yet, learn from the mistakes of others.

My great grand parents had a speak easy in the basement of their North Chicago grocery. He was the son of Polish immigrant, is wife the grand daughter of an Irish immigrant. My mom makes jokes about her granny's bathtub gin. I like drinking. I have never puked on the sidewalk.

Irish culture is not just getting drunk on green beer. If the bar hoppers would show some self respect and self control, there would be no problem with the parade, bar crawl, and party. The bad drunks ruined it for everyone. Don't blame anyone one else.