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Hoboken, New Jersey

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Location

The Resume

    (April 9, 1849- )
    Population: 52,677 (2019)
    Area: 1.28 square miles
    Part of the New York metropolitan area
    Located on the Hudson Waterfront
    'Birthplace of baseball'
    Site of Hoboken Terminal
    Hometown to Frank Sinatra
    Nicknamed 'The Mile Square City'

Why Hoboken, New Jersey might be annoying:

    It went from a blue-collar center of industrial activity to a trendy arthouse hotbed with high-rise condos.
    Hoboken Batman is really a thing there.
    It is densely populated despite barely covering a two-mile radius.
    The average resident really could care less about either baseball or Sinatra.
    Traffic there is hell - and parking worse - even by Jersey standards (did we mention its almost impossible to get an Uber there too?)
    One of its tourist destinations is Sybil's Cave of Edgar Allan Poe fame, despite the fact that the real cave was filled in with concrete decades ago (the site itself is just a big park).
    Mayor Peter Cammarano was forced to resign one month into taking office in 2009, after being caught in an FBI sting accepting a bribe in a cereal box.
    Snooki and J-Woww had plans to film a Jersey Shore spin-off in the city but locals were so against the idea that MTV had to relocate to Jersey City instead (which might belong in the 'Why Not' section but meh).

Why Hoboken, New Jersey might not be annoying:

    It ranked 2nd in Niche's '2019 Best Places to Live in Hudson County' list.
    Elia Kazan's 'On the Waterfront' with Marlon Brando was filmed there.
    Maxwell House Coffee, Lipton tea, Hostess Cupcakes and Wonder Bread all based their operations there.
    Eli Manning lives there.
    It has more bars per capita than in all of NYC.
    Its home to Maxwell's Club - making it a mecca for high-profile music artists.
    The first-ever Blimpie was opened in Hoboken in 1964.
    Alexander Cartwright - inventor of modern-day baseball - and his New York Knickerbockers held court on the city’s Elysian Fields.
    Frank Sinatra grew up there, met his first wife there, and got his first singing gig there.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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