Continuing to Hate Mikey
One of the downsides of moving to Jersey, I thought, was that I would no longer be able to stoke the flames of my fire of hatred for Mikey. After all, he won't be my problem any more, right? But it turns out, he will! Thanks to Mikey's smoking ban, people who used to party in New York City are now heading across the river to Hoboken to party. And I'm moving to Hoboken.
Having previously lived in Hoboken 12 years ago, I can assure you that even without the influx of additional partiers, Hoboken was always a party town with tons of people flocking there Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, generally making finding parking more of a nightmare and making a lot of noise. Now it will be even worse, and I can blame Mikey for it! At least until Jim McGreevey decides to implement the same type of ban throughout New Jersey. But then, at least, I will have my very first reason to hate Jim McGreevey - taking away my reason to continue to hate Mikey. Ain't politics grand?
Comments
When I last saw Hoboken, it was a visit to Stevens College over a decade ago. I thought that Hoboken was the result of Manhattan being so crowded that it didn't have room for the worst of its slums. I guess things have changed for the better since then.
Posted by: Laurence Simon | June 3, 2003 11:14 AM
They'll be plenty of reasons to hate McGreevey, trust me. Slime.
Posted by: Jay Caruso | June 3, 2003 03:41 PM
Hoboken is now known as Manhattan West, so it sure is better. Starving artists moved in when they could no longer afford SoHo, and when they improved it enough it gentrified.
Now they can't afford Hoboken either, so they're in the worst slums of Brooklyn, which are ripe for gentrification and a great opportunity for real estate investors.
Posted by: Mom | June 3, 2003 08:58 PM
Looks like foolish over-regulation of New York extends to the state house.
The Economist has an article about the counter productive rent controls.
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1826620
I had a classmate who had a rent controlled apartment in NYC which she illegaly subleased at a tidy profit, enough of a profit to pay her rent and her tuition and housing here and have a little bit left over for Blue Mondays down at The Garden Lounge.
Posted by: Justin | June 6, 2003 02:45 PM
Hoboken's great!
12 years ago, I was working at Stevens, and living north of there in Weehawken (better views, but not as much fun)
Hoboken has gotten even better, with the old rotting docks replaced by a new promenade. It's also a literary hub, being the HQ of Long Shot Magazine (http://www.longshot.org/) and Fantasy & Science Fiction (http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/index.htm)
Posted by: Rick Heller | June 9, 2003 08:22 PM
Here is another little gem in the progression of the NYC nanny.
Two barbeers stepped outside their shop to have a smoke (illegal to smoke inside) and were promptly ticketed for loitering!
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/91160p-82835c.html
Posted by: Justin | June 13, 2003 04:40 PM
I moved to hoboken a year ago, and I had to move three times in a year because of noise in one building, mold contamination in the second building, and being smoked out of third bulding. I never had to move ever before because of health concerns before coming to hoboken. Hoboken is great for those who can only think of chain smoking and getting drunk as the only source of entertainment. Beyond that, there is not much to hoboken.
Posted by: not here | July 6, 2003 10:06 PM
the only good things about hoboken are the PATH trains, Scotland Yard (only when there is live blues), and Maxwell's. Other than that, it's mainly a bunch of losers pretending to be rich.
Posted by: johnny envelope | July 15, 2003 10:46 PM