Talk:Hoboken, New Jersey
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Not much night life in Hoboken?? It's about the only NJ town that does have some. Visit Washington St. around 2nd, 3rd and 4th streets and River St. near the Path at midnight on any weekend night. You'll be hard-pressed to name a single Manhattan neighborhood that's as jumping... This article needs to be corrected on this point and should include a paragraph on the astonishing turnaround in Hoboken from the 1970s-- it went from down-at-the-heels laughingstock to a surprising vibrancy. It might also be mentioned that the number of beautiful girls/women per acre is higher than anywhere outside perhaps certain sections of Manhattan, Paris & Buenos Aires. JDG 14:10, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Nice job with the history section. I was trying to find a place in the WWI paragraph to put "hell, heaven, or Hoboken," but really couldn't, so I used "h, h, or h" as a heading. Dinopup
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[edit] History glitches
JDG, others, I'm sorry about whatever went wrong with my edit yesterday. I was tracking the contributions of User:67.81.177.1, who appeared to be overwriting information on a couple of different articles. (I think now that s/he may also have been an innocent in whatever problem WP was having yesterday.) This user no longer appears in Hoboken's edit history, but this is the diff I was attempting to correct, and this, I believe, is my edit to fix it, although it's attributed here to Xezbeth. The diff on my edit from both the Hoboken history and my Contributions list shows something radically different, so I can understand your ire, but I was doing routine followup on an anon who had caused problems on another article on my watchlist, not trying to get involved in this article. I have no connection or interest with Hoboken or its mayoral race. Check in at the Village Pump; I believe there's been a rash of problems with edit histories -- edits recorded at the wrong UTC time (and thus sorting out of order), edits attributed to the wrong editor, section edits mixed up half a dozen different ways.... In any case, I'm sorry for the confusion, I hope I've explained it clearly, and I hope we can get it sorted out soon. — Catherine\talk 20:21, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] West Hoboken?
Anyone know what happened to West Hoboken? Britannica 1911 seems to think it was a separate city [1]. If it has been incorporated into Hoboken, let me know and I'll redirect West Hoboken here. This is all for Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopedia topics. Thanks - Taxman Talk 20:31, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Noteworthy vs. Born in vs. Active in
There are three categories listing people of significance: Noteworthy residents, Born in Hoboken and Active in Hoboken. I'll grant that the Born in category helps distinguish between people who merely happened to be born in Hoboken, but played no significant role while they were a Hoboken resident. But how can we distinguish between the two other categories, and don't they just add to the confusion by being in separate places in the article? Alansohn 07:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Origin of name.
I think the Lenape origin of the town's name needs a citation. My understanding is that it is one of two competeing theories for the origin, the other being the town in Belgium by the same name. Personally, I would find it to be a rather remarkable coincidence if a Dutch-speaking town, close to the Dutch border, was not the origin of the name of a town, spelled the same way, in a former Dutch colony. But I don't have any citation for that, so I'm not making any changes. Anyone else no more?209.125.18.111 20:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- The fallen-sandwich story is just a boy's story. I've added the real ethymology, and thought it better to make a separate section for it. 62.233.4.3 10:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Trivia
Are there references for the Guiness Book "most bars" claim & the Springsteen "Glory Days" shoot? The layout of the bar in "Glory Days" looks absolutely nothing like Maxwells.
[edit] Greetings from Hoboken!
And yup, it's the Hoboken from Belgium that I'm typing this from. Small world I'd say. Oh and by the way, with regards to the "Origin of Name" part up there - we don't quite speak Dutch down here, but Flemish. Granted, the difference between the two is pretty much of the same relation as with British English and American English, but still. --81.240.50.86 13:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- Dutch is de official language of Flanders... 62.233.4.3 10:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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- No it isn't. Flemish is. 89.213.8.132 12:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Character
While what is described in this section may be true, it's very POV and doesn't belong in an encyclopedia.--Rotten 04:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
