Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Now that the Snow has Mostly Melted - Clean up Hoboken!

This simple statement and headline "Now that the Snow has Mostly Melted - Clean up Hoboken!" applies to both the City of Hoboken as well as merchants along streets in the business districts with the most noticeable being Washington Street. Today might be a bit cold but the next two days are forcasted to be very warm and should melt most of the rest of the snow. We have had an unprecedented winter which has hampered cleaning efforts but now that the snow has mostly melted it is time to clean up. For a city to be so affluent and have garbage strewn about the streets is for lack of any other word, embarrassing. I call on the Administration as well as Hoboken businesses and citizens alike to pitch in and do their part.

Here is just one corner in Hoboken that needs help. There are many others.

Garbage near 8th and Washington St. in Hoboken on the morning of 2-15-2011

More garbage near 8th and Washington St. in Hoboken on the morning of 2-15-2011

Note: A City Official sent me an email stating that since Monday morning, extra crews have been out to "beef up" the cleaning efforts. ◦
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Posted by Hoboken Resistance at 12:10 PM

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p1ywood 98p · 738 weeks ago

Even though the ice is receding, this leaves me cold. I've often wondered what this garbage is that people believe about not picking up after themselves because there is snow on the ground. They don't seem to give a crap about cleaning up after their dogs either. It burns me up that yesterday's cigarette is now the butt of litter jokes. When your tree drops foliage, don't just leave it! As far as take-out menus are concerned, please, no Chinese junk on steps either! And don't even toss down that orange skin, we don't need to curb a peel, and apples are also at the core of the problem. Here's the news concerning those weekly papers: while the news delivery in the articles my be fine, after a few days throw them away! Maybe the town should maintain a slush fund for this maintenance.
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jscirish27 37p · 738 weeks ago

Hoboken's motto should be "The City Without Pride." We let residents and outsiders take a big dump on our city each weekend; garbage and empty bottles are strewn all over town after most weekends and the entire city looks like a landfill after St. Patrick's Day. Pet owners leave feces everywhere, and more will be discovered as the snow continues to melt. Merchants and restauranteurs don't attend to their garbage in responsible fashion. And the lack of available trash receptacles outside of Washington Street frustrates those who actually want to responsibly dispose or refuse. I live in Hoboken out of necessity, but I am immensely saddened by how the town is and allows itself to be treated.
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ss1959 · 738 weeks ago

Clean up the garbage, then the council in May.
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Reformerus_Gianticus · 738 weeks ago

I am not blaming the Administration per se,
but there are a lot of papers blowing astray,
This winter's sizable storms,
are most certainly not the norm.
But I contend cleanup should start by all today!
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Reformerus_Gianticus · 738 weeks ago

Will Mike Novak get off his duff and stop tweeting,
if not his leadership could be perceived to be fleeting,
He must get the merchants to realize,
it is time to to cleanup and organize,
Or he will take one heck of a political beating.
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ss1959 · 738 weeks ago

The shopkeepers and homes are responsible up to the curb. Now with the snow melting away street cleaning should resume.
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Reformerus_Gianticus · 738 weeks ago

Mike Novak tweeted fail at first snow fall,
on blaming Dawn Zimmer he was having a ball,
Yet shops on the main retail strip,
Proved equally slow and ill equiped,
To deal with snow removal at all.
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Reformerus_Gianticus · 738 weeks ago

The city has endured some real crappy weather,
Which is why I say it is time to all come together,
Merchants and the city workers must clean up the trash,
or this city will still look like a garbage mash,
and Hoboken's reputation next to others will nether.
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rushessay · 435 weeks ago

We should be keeping the area clean where we have been living from the day of our birth. You have really got a good point there and I am sure that we should be paying some attention to these types of things.

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