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Sports for Hoboken Toddlers

Kathy Zucker wants her urban toddlers to grow up playing sports to get in the habit of being healthy and fit

Raising a child in an urban environment to be an athlete is a challenge. Especially when your town lacks amenities like a soccer field. However, there are plenty of sports available in Hoboken. You just have to look for them. I have already written about my passion for unusual sports like fencing and how Hoboken is the ideal place to raise a child fencer. Athletics are extremely important to me and my husband, for both physical and mental conditioning, and we want to pass those benefits on to our two children. Hoboken has a strong softball tradition—It's the birthplace of baseball, remember—so I am looking forward to enrolling my kids in tee-ball when they turn seven. In the meantime, I am enrolling them in swim classes at Sky Club Fitness…

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Kathy Zucker

9:23 pm on Saturday, May 15, 2010

Great WSJ article on how toddler golf programs are exploding in popularity, but then has a huge dropoff once the kids become teenagers b/c of lack of access to nearby, affordable short golf courses. http://bit.ly/9ACnVq   more ›

Hoboken Gets a Little Sweeter

The Candy Shoppe is Hoboken's boutique confectionery that's certain to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Meg Rankin remembers growing up in the small town of Mountain Lakes, where there was only one local market that sold sweets, unless you wanted to venture into a big chain store. It was that problem that led her to open The Candy Shoppe, a boutique confection store on Fourth Street in Hoboken. "Why would you go to CVS to buy candy?" asked Rankin, now a longtime Hoboken resident. "I just thought, why isn't there somewhere cute and sweet where you could go?" A little over a year ago, Rankin's dream became a reality when her store opened for business. "I've been really lucky, and business has been good. Candy is pretty recession-proof." Although she sells traditional sweets like licorice and gummy bears in big glass jars, it's the more unique …

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