Hoboken Election 2025

Last night was the first one of two City Council candidate forums. The Hudson County View publisher/editor John Heinis fired off the questions and they were focused and significant. Some candidates and candidate slates provided good answers or odd answers and some provided sunlight that they have little to no understanding on the issues and what answers are viable.  One observer posted a number of observations on X and has no affiliation or connection to this website.  The topic of Michael Russo's aquatic pier park featuring a diesel submarine was discussed. Former councilman Dave Mellow sunk both pointing out the costs is simply prohibitive for such an ambitious offering.  It's unclear in any serious vein how such an aquatic water park re, pier pool on the Hudson would be paid for with no price tag even remotely referenced. That is Michael Russo's appeal to the low information voter.  Some will claim that there's no submarine with this aquatic park on the Hudson? ...

The heat of the Hoboken mayoral campaign is officially torrid. Councilman Paul Presinzano decided it's time to point out a fact check on his council colleague and mayoral candidate Emily Jabbour.  It's getting hot in here. Day636: As your Councilman, my job is to keep you informed. For 8 yrs, #Hoboken has been treated as 2nd place, with politics put before people. Team Emily/Bhalla has had no real accountability. That’s why I’m speaking up. It’s time for FACT CHECKS. pic.twitter.com/a4k8XOVAbb — Paul Presinzano 1st Ward City Councilman (@presinzano4hob1) September 29, 2025

Councilman Mike Russo, the poster boy for Hoboken's culture of corruption and a living legend for same among the Russo Crime Syndicate needs a 911. There's a two-alarm fire at Church Towers with the flames towering over Church Square Park, courtesy of Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher.  Both are rivals in the crowded mayoral campaign but no one has laid a glove on Russo and his lengthy history of corruption, past and present. Despite his questionable past and long list of problems, he's magically walked away a free man in Hoboken.  When others get indicted, convicted and "go away" as they say in Hoboken parlance, often to "West Hoboken" the federal prison in Lewisburg, PA, Russo skates. The Solomon Dwek FBI video came to light with release to the public based on efforts by this editor back in 2011. That should have ended his time in office but even after telling the FBI informant make out the check to "Russo for Hoboken," he never was arrested. Th...

 A New Jersey poll is sending shockwaves across the Garden State showing the governor's race is a dead heat.  The Hudson County View shared the details highlighting the national attention with comments by President Trump. Trump weighs in on the Emerson poll that has Jack Ciattarelli and Mikie Sherrill in a dead heat. https://t.co/YsBRex4zco pic.twitter.com/fcOYMNBYms — John Heinis (@HeinisHardNews) September 25, 2025

 Election season brings out some of the strangest pitches in Hoboken. This has always been the case and City Council meetings are the prime time place for such offerings. No love for Neuralink nor any "bionic brain" adjustments to human biology other than aid for human injury and a poor human condition but this is a charge above and beyond the usual, even by Hoboken standards. With no further comment, you have to wonder what the people who "liked" this are actually thinking?  Don't do drugs, kids.  View this post on Instagram  

  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ruben Ramos Jr. (@ramos4hoboken) The issue is real and is compounded with Hoboken City Hall approving a growing list of mammoth developments, often against the common sense of infrastructure requirements underground - not only above ground. It's not only the roads in crisis.  Councilman Michael Russo, highlighted as the biggest recipient of $100,000 in Big Development money from the biggest landowner in town notes City Hall can "manage" the process better. Which means he plans to see a lot more towers going up all over town to reward his Big Development friends as he's banked hundreds of thousands from these special interests. Forget about any small town feel of Hoboken. That's disappearing with every big construction underway and more slated to begin. Adding to the existing pileup isn't going to be "managed." It's going to manage you and your family as traffic slows, more a...

Here's a link to the Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher community newsletter. She's currently a candidate for Hoboken mayor but here the broad issues cited from development, backroom dealing and Team Bhalla's action against resident parking around City Hall and excessive Washington Street enforcement without sufficient business and community input.  Or as Councilwoman Emily Jabbour urges, 'shorter runways.' Government is the center of life, the people must abide, obey and pay homage to the government.  These citations are made available based on the substance highlighted in these and related issues; a complete counter to the politics first approach by Ravi Bhalla and the Ravibot team featuring Emily Jabbour and Joe Quintero. https://mailchi.mp/tiffanieforhoboken/a-big-newsletter-big-projects-big-politics?e=48e642e98b   Excerpt : PROPOSED HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT PLAN Although it didn’t make the agenda due to lack of City Council sponsorship (other than Mike Russo), Mayor B...