Post Summer Sprint for Hoboken mayor

 The day after Labor Day is typically the reset, the shift where people reorient to their fall schedule and internal post-vacation clocks. Put your calendar on speed dial.

A Washington St. bench protest is scheduled for late Wednesday before the City Council meeting at Hoboken City Hall, led by Hoboken resident Kurt Gardiner. The effort first reported here last month continues as some benches have been quietly returned downtown after a slew silently disappeared from Hoboken's main drag. 

Hoboken's lame duck mayor, Ravi Bhalla, has remained utterly silent about all of it. Can you hear us now? 


This makes for an odd summer clincher; the first organic street protest in the Mile Square City since Peter J. Cammarano was arrested for corruption back in 2009.

With this shift, a late summer poll among the top mayoral candidates took place, and two City Council candidates are pegged as the top contenders heading to an early December runoff. 

Hoboken Election 2025 will have details on this mayoral candidate poll, along with an analysis of the detailed treatises announced by Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher's campaign. For the moment, it has made political operatives of other campaigns hopping mad. 

We identified one actual resident who wants to see a future Hoboken mayor attend City Council meetings. Some see such executive attendance as less about access and more about interjecting on legislative proceedings with a future Hoboken mayor present to interfere, not listen. 

Some will harken back to a revival of the crown king of corruption, Pa (Anthony) Russo's haranguing appearances, a dual spectacle of attacks on council members and the public who raised any dissenting voice. An invitation for "engagement" or a return to disarray? 

The idea, should it come to fruition, is unlikely to endear Hoboken's 2026 council members. 

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