Since Miss Possible and I moved here a little over a year ago, we’ve often struggled to find a decent site about the goings on in The ‘Boken. There was always Hobokeni.com but that was just a site used for reviews, for the most part. Some of which were fairly out of date.
On my way down Washington Street this morning, I happened to spot a sticker that promoting Hoboken411.com. After getting settled into work, I decided to go check it out, and I must say I’m pretty impressed.
First off, the site is extremely well designed. Very Web2.0ish with a Yahoo Maps mash-up of crime in the town. A lot of great reviews, plus the ability to rate and review specific posts. Considering that the site is probably maintained by one (or a few) people, it has quite a lot of news updates throughout the day, which I found very impressive. I’ve already added it to the list of RSS feeds that I subscribe to, in hopes of being the first to know about the disorderly conduct that might occur at First and Hudson.
Personally, I think my favorite feature is the Doomed business listings. There’s a number of recently-closed businesses and Hoboken411 covers them all. Considering it’s such a small town, everyone pretty much knows everything that goes on here.. and this site does a great job of covering it.
In other Hoboken-related news, the town has recently made national attention with the dispute surrounding the robotic employees of a parking structure located at “midtown.” It was recently covered by Wired magazine, and I recommend the read. This is the most action we get around these parts..
