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Hoboken recovers from Tropical Storm Elsa ×
According to the city, Hoboken received 3.74 inches of rain in less than 24 hours, with the most rain falling Thursday night. It was the fifth most intense rainstorm since 2016, reaching 2.92 inches per hour.
Flooding occurred in a few areas, mostly in Southwest Hoboken, from Third to Fifth streets on Jackson Street, and from Eighth to Ninth streets on Madison Street.
By 10 a.m. almost all the flooding had receded, and city crews began cleaning highly impacted areas.
Despite flooding, the city said both H1 and H5 pumps were operational, each capable of pumping up to 50 million gallons per day, as were the city’s two resiliency parks which together store nearly 700,000 gallons of water.
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Hoboken Police Chief Ken Ferrante to retire July 1
Updated May 18, 2021;
Posted May 18, 2021
Retiring Hoboken Police Chief Ken Ferrante during a ceremony at City Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal
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Hoboken Police Chief Ken Ferrante will retire July 1 after more than six years at the helm of the department and a cumulative 28 years in policing, he announced Tuesday.
The chief, 48, said he has “loved every second of” his time in the department and feels there is nothing left to accomplish in the position.
“For the past nine years, I have not disconnected from work, not one day and my command staff knows that is not an exaggeration,” Ferrante said. “Over 3,000 days straight where every single day I spoke to my command staff and answered emails and calls.”
COVID-19 outbreak at Hoboken Community Center yields 1 death, 20 positive cases
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“Since the start of the pandemic, the Hoboken Community Center’s (HCC) affordable housing program has been proactive in taking a variety of measures to provide for the health and safety of its residents and staff,” HCC board member Juan Melli said in a statement.
“As a congregate living setting, the HCC implemented new and continuing measures to address the risk of infection including installing plexiglass partitions at the front desk, hand sanitation machines, distribution of PPE to residents and staff, signage requiring masks and social distancing, limiting elevator rides to 2 people maximum, distributing meals and groceries to residents to encourage isolation, third-party cleaning including frequent cleaning of high-touch surfaces, and other measures.”