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Premiere of Nora Jacobson's Hoboken Waterfront Referendum

Premiere of Nora Jacobson's Hoboken Waterfront Referendum along with Delivered Vacant to be presented by Hoboken Fair Housing Association.

Nora Jacobson's Delivered Vacant, the movie about the gentrification of Hoboken The New York Times called "a story of greed, hope, political action, bewilderment, free enterprise, idealism and rampant opportunism" will be shown at the
  Community Church, 606 Garden Street on Saturday, October 29 at 7pm.   Also screening will be the WORLD PREMIERE of the unreleased 35-minute Jacobson documentary on the first waterfront referendum when Hoboken voters rejected the Port Authority's massive development in favor of a what is now Pier A park by twelve votes. Both films are being shown as a fundraiser for Hoboken Fair Housing Association, a citizen-activist group dedicated to protecting rent control. Admission to both films, $15. For more information please go to http://hobokenfairhousing.com 

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