Does anyone know how many extra police and how many porto potties have been ordered for this 2nd annual drunk fest?

The city has done nothing to promote business in this town for as long as I have lived here and over the course of the last 3 years, the city has done much to come down on the hospitality industry - the backbone of the towns economic well being. Sad.

You can best bet that the same organization and effort that has been put into this event, will be put into ousting Mayor Zimmer from City Hall.

It's an absolute shame that our city traded in a wonderful parade and drunken bacchanal for the drunken bacchanal alone.

Isn't that your area of expertise?

Yup, here we go again. Drunks everywhere and a pseudo Irish Fest later on in the month. This Mayor loves to waste our tax dollars while doing everything in her power to crush Hoboken traditions.

Oh jeez just shut up. The bars are always packed. I'm so glad Hoboken isn't used like a toilet by every meathead in the tri-state area anymore. Thank you Mayor Zimmer!

ojo you seem to like to jump on anything related to me, which is very strange.
Let's put some facts out there, the peeing in the streets is one of the biggest complaints that people have. Why? because the bars can not handle the amount of people, bathrooms are packed as are the bars. When people leave the bars without going to the bathroom, this results in peeing on the streets. Which is disgusting at best. The best thing that the city can do (which the bars and restaurants should be paying for, but do not) is porto potties. The more porto potties the better!

Lastly I sold my business EatDrink and have never profited from a St. Pats day event or Lepre-Con. So push back on someone else.

Well, folks. This has been a great conversation. I for one am going to go out tomorrow...watch the Syracuse game...have some drinks with friends and prob play Galway Races on the juke box 7 or 8 times. It's a great Irish song about everyone getting along and having fun.

Those of you who are a bunch of haters need not worry. It's hard to step in puke and piss when high atop your high horses.

The Mayor over-reacted two years ago and refused to allow the parade to go ahead on its usual day, the first Saturday in March. Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I always saw the good in the parade. It brought families together for a fun, free event. Scouts and vets got a chance to put on their uniforms and march down the main drag. Groups such as the museum and school play and dog walkers got the opportunity to promote themselves. Politicians of all stripes mingled together without the rancor of meeting nights and maybe some kids got to take their photos with the governor or senator. And who doesn't get a thrill when the bagpipes passed by playing the Garyowen or the high school band drummers gave it their all?.

Yet the Mayor's sycophants would have us believe that it was wall-to-wall vomit and urine, and orgies at every intersection. At one in the afternoon?

It's a shame that the city so easily gave up on this classic Hoboken event (in prime time down the main street). I applaud Tim Occhipinti for spearheading the effort to bring it back.

See my Patch blog.

http://hoboken.patch.com/blog_posts/making-lepre-con-pay-off

I seriously doubt anyone is calling you a cockeyed optimist though if your asking people to call you things I'm sure many will oblige with more appropriate descriptions.

A) Good riddance to the parade, go to NYC St Paddy's parade if you're so desparate to go to a parade.
B) Forbid bars frm opening before 6pm on Leprecon day...let the bar owners cry/complain...what are they gonna do ?...move ??!!...good luck w/that...they make $$ hand over fist in this town...they aint hurtin for $$, believe me.
C) Arrest anybody hosting a house party that exceeds apt/condo occupancy limits....Problem Solved

Hoboken is an awful, corrupt hole of a place anyway.