Hoboken

New Jersey’s city of Hoboken officially reduced its citywide speed limit to 20 mph on Thursday, a major step in its sweeping plan to eradicate all traffic-related deaths and injuries within its borders by 2030, the mayor’s office announced. The speed resolution, which was unanimously passed by the Hoboken City Council and signed into law by Mayor Ravi Bhalla, is…

News 4’s Brain Thompson is live in Hoboken as the city council prepares to vote on whether to lower the speed limit to twenty miles per hour.

The town of Weehawken has a brand new outdoor pool, but it’s only open residents. Yet New Jersey state has said that nearby towns must be allowed to use the pool. News 4’s Brian Thompson has the latest on this pool fight.

A 35-year-old man has been charged with multiple counts of robbery and various weapons and theft offenses in connection to a string of robberies that took place in northern New Jersey throughout last week, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday. Joel Krecz, of Hackensack, was arrested Tuesday in Jersey City, while in possession of a handgun, following a...

October will mark 10 years since Sandy changed lives forever, but the ghosts of the storm’s past have continued to haunt the Hoboken waterfront. That’s all changing this week when crews start work to remove over a dozen abandoned and sunken boats left sinking further into Weehawken Cove for nearly a decade. Noelle Thurlow has been maneuvering around some...

Sunken and battered vessels dotting prime waterfront real estate that over the years has mysteriously turned into a boat graveyard, remnants of Super Storm Sandy. Nearly a decade later, the area is getting a makeover. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

A pandemic hiatus kept mac and cheese lovers away from Hoboken’s festival for two years, until last weekend.

The long-awaited Hoboken Mac & Cheese Festival made its return this past weekend, opening the gates to a carb-filled heaven.  After a two-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, locals and out-of-towners were finally able to participate in the cheesiest event in Mile Square City. The event was hosted by Hoboken Happy Hours, a Facebook group dedicated to “Hoboken...

When police search the home the doctor shared with a man, a shocking amount of cocaine, ecstasy and more drug paraphernalia were discovered, with $15,000 in drugs allegedly found. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

A 38-year-old emergency room doctor in Hoboken and the man she lived with are facing a litany of drug charges, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. Serge Corporan, 31, of Hoboken, and Elizabeth Johnson, a doctor at Hoboken University Medical Center, were arrested and charged with various drug-related crimes. According to the investigation, Corporan sold cocaine in excess of…

hoboken lifted its mask mandate for businesses and public places, but there are some exceptions. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

The New Jersey city is preparing for the annual bar crawl tradition amid rising cases of the novel coronavirus. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

COVID vaccinations will be required for those looking to participate in the annual pub crawl, the Hoboken mayor announced Friday amid a surge in cases statewide. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

Frank Sinatra’s hometown in New Jersey honored the music icon with a life-size statue on his birthday. The six-foot-tall bronze statue of Sinatra was unveiled at the Sinatra Park Amphitheater in Hoboken Saturday afternoon. Comedian Joe Piscipo, who often impersonated the late singer on “Saturday Night Live,” emceed the ceremony. Sinatra died in 1998. Saturday would have been his 106th…

Dr. Lynn Fiellin of Yale Medical School and LX News host Tabitha Lipkin talk about reducing the stigma of addiction using a video game. Fiellin helped develop PlaySmart, a point-and-click game catered to older teens that simulates life choices around opioid use.

A deal has been reached on a coveted piece of real estate on the Hudson River that had been the source of a court battle between the city of Hoboken and ferry company NY Waterway.

More than $8 million has been paid to settle five lawsuits stemming from the deadly crash of a New Jersey Transit train in 2016, including one filed by the family of a woman who was killed

Authorities say the death of a woman whose body was found in a New Jersey parking garage is being treated as suspicious. The Hudson County prosecutor’s office said Monday that the body was reported just after 6 a.m. Sunday in the Hoboken garage. Prosecutors say 34-year-old Jazzlynn Teron of Elizabeth was pronounced dead about a half-hour later. The regional...

Police activity in Hoboken briefly suspended NJ Transit rail service in and out of the city’s terminal and delayed buses Thursday morning. Rail service was halted just after 7 a.m. after a bomb squad was requested to Grove Street between Newark and 18th streets and the roads were blocked off as law enforcement officials investigated. No other details on...

A bomb squad has been requested to the scene.