John A. Patterson

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.

[Tiffanie Fisher, Councilwoman @Tiffanie_Fisher]

We do. But we also have a land constraint problems. We can’t triple our population because we don’t have space for the additional services we need. Your theory presupposes that housing rent is the only measure and we should build to the sky whenever possible. If housing affordability was the ONLY goal, and our population was ok walking distances to get places, not having cars, hanging be impossible to get in and out of Hoboken includinglinglines on all transit options and schools that were over crowded, we could build a lot more. And no one wants this so we need to find other ways.

[Hudson County View @HudsonCoView]

Op-Ed: The resilience that never arrived: #Hoboken’s flooding reality https://t.co/P9KACw1Hjf

[Paul Presinzano 1st Ward City Councilman @presinzano4hob1]

Hoboken Day637: City rolled out Cash Cams on Washington St, focusing only on cars, not the economic hit to local shops & why wasn’t elected officials briefed?
Why not enforce the road rules for everyone? Meanwhile, e-delivery chaos goes unchecked. Priorities are only headlines.

[melina white @melinabuzz]

Not only are electric scooters and bikes an impediment to sidewalk users, they results in frequent and severe injuries particularly to those under 18 years of age. #hoboken can we please protect the entire population from this growing problem? @cityofhoboken @HobokenPSOA2

[Cre8tive M0j0 @20SomethinDesis]

The Real Problem: #Hoboken is Overdeveloped — And No Councilmember Wants to Admit It

Hoboken loves to brand itself as a “mile-square city,” but the truth is we’re already bursting at the seams. With just 1.25 square miles of land, Hoboken’s density has skyrocketed:
•In 2010, we were at ~39,000 people per square mile.
•By 2020, that number jumped to ~48,000 per square mile — a 23% increase in a single decade, one of the steepest climbs in the nation!!!

That kind of growth would strain any city. But in Hoboken, it collides with fragile infrastructure, a combined sewer system, floodplain geography, and finite transit capacity. Yet despite all this, development approvals keep rolling through — and not one councilmember is willing to stand up and call it what it is: overdevelopment.

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The Costs of Overdevelopment
1.Pipes that break, streets that flood. Hoboken has replaced just 5 miles of water mains since 2016 — promising only 20% of the system by 2030. That means 80% of our cast-iron pipes will still be aging a decade from now. We all know what that looks like: water main breaks, boil advisories, and flooded basements.
2.A city built on a floodplain. The $470 million Rebuild by Design project isn’t a shiny urban park — it’s a federally funded flood wall meant to keep the Hudson River out of our living rooms. That’s the price of cramming more units into a flood zone without first investing in resilience.
3.Transit with no slack. PATH carries ~20,000 daily riders from Hoboken. When the station shut down earlier this year, there was no backup plan. More residents without new rail, bus, or ferry capacity means more crush-load commutes and more spillover congestion.
4.Schools and services squeezed. Rapid growth isn’t just about pipes and trains. It’s about classrooms, emergency response times, and safe streets during school drop-offs. Anyone who has sat in traffic around Hoboken at 8:30 AM knows the system is already at its limits.

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Lessons from Our Neighbors

We don’t have to look far for cautionary tales.
•Long Island City added over 21,000 units since 2010 and is planning another 15,000+. Only now — after the fact — is the city scrambling for schools, open space, and transit upgrades.
•Jersey City and Weehawken share our combined-sewer reality. More towers mean more runoff, more overflow events, and more taxpayer-funded catch-up projects.

The playbook is always the same: approve first, retrofit later, and send the bill to residents.

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What Real Leadership Would Sound Like

Overdevelopment isn’t about being anti-housing — it’s about sequencing. You build infrastructure first, density second. That means:
•No approvals without verified capacity for water, sewer, flood control, and transit.
•Concurrency rules: no occupancy until the promised upgrades are in place and working.
•Regional accountability: demand that Weehawken and Jersey City share the burden when their projects impact Hoboken traffic and flooding.
•Transparent math: publish the 30-year costs of each project so taxpayers know who’s really paying.

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The Bottom Line

Hoboken is already one of the most densely populated cities in the country. Pretending that our infrastructure can absorb unlimited growth is politics, not planning. Until elected officials are willing to call this problem by its name — overdevelopment — residents will keep footing the bill in the form of higher taxes, flooded basements, broken mains, packed trains, and eroded quality of life.

It’s time for honesty: Hoboken doesn’t need more towers. It needs capacity, resilience, and leadership that puts people before developers.

[John A. Patterson @_patterson1]

@RaviBhalla 600 foot restrictions from what?
Schools!!??
Humph!!

[John Heinis @HeinisHardNews]

Thanks to the @NJPCSA for having me moderate a #Hoboken mayoral candidate forum last night.

“These developers have figured out how to buy influence: If they are the ones who put you there, who are you negotiating on behalf of?”

Story by @THE_Dan_Ulloa.
https://t.co/4wpOhwTNlZ

[Councilman Mike DeFusco ('16-'23) @mike_defusco]

We’re <50 days from #Hoboken Election Day, and no candidate has said it: a vote for Emily is 8 more yrs of the same—broken water mains, unsafe parks, and politics that don’t serve our mile-square city. We can do better. Why isn’t anyone saying that?
https://t.co/eYVjdfS54A

[Bad Scooterists Hoboken @BadHoboken]

Just got an update from someone who attended an event tonight for Charter School parents in @CityofHoboken to meet the candidates for Hoboken mayor.

I was told that @diniforhoboken was super impressive and in a league of her own tonight. No nonsense and well prepared.

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

JD Vance goes to Munich and the United Kingdom to lecture Europeans on free speech and then addresses Americans asking them to inform on each other. The hypocrisy is the point.

[John A. Patterson @_patterson1]

@HobokenTroll2 Hoboken continues to be a Developers Paradise and Citizens’ Hell.

[#liveEvents #broadcast #ChatBarryG @barryjgrossman]

Let's build, baby build #Hoboken 🙉

[John A. Patterson @_patterson1]

@VeoliaWaterNJ @CityofHoboken @HobokenOEM Can we just put a moratorium on all future construction projects until we get some adults in the room?!

[Indiecom @Indiecom2]

yeah, ok - let's do some more development....NOT

[John A. Patterson @_patterson1]

@HeinisHardNews @CityofHoboken Ravi’s Hoboken is coming apart at the seams!
There is no infrastructure in place to safely manage the voracious greed of the developers who have him in their pockets!

[John A. Patterson @_patterson1]

@RaviBhalla First your citizens need safe drinking water and safe streets, which your administration cannot seem to supply!

[John A. Patterson @_patterson1]

@tonysoares Do you know something we don’t know about Nuemann Leathers?!?!

[John A. Patterson @_patterson1]

@HeinisHardNews This is further proof of the Resiliancy Parks failure, but at least some of Ravi’s rats will drown. (At a cost of $ 500,000 dollars per rat)

[Bad Scooterists Hoboken @BadHoboken]

@HeinisHardNews @HobokenEmily 😂 Emily helped bring crime down?

Quite the opposite. Quality of life and safety have plummeted under Emily and Bhalla.

She also refused to say a word about the recklessness of the @limebike pilot in Hoboken (I assume because Ravi instructed her to stay quiet).