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New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Hoboken

Plain Sight is in Bologna

And that's no baloney...

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Sinatra's Apple View

From Ol' Blue Eyes Drive in Hoboken

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Making Waves

Seasick at the front lawn...

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Gustatory Ghost

Only the sign remains of one of Hoboken's great eateries, where etiquette demanded that you throw your clamshells on the tile floor...

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More Salon Reality, Jersey-Style

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your TV, along comes another New Jersey-based reality show. The Style Network’s new “Glam Fairy” has all the déclassé elements that have come to define reality TV, and for many, New Jersey.

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Sidewalk Splendor

Trash cans and riotous vegetation cozy up in harmonious colors...

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Oom-Pah! Oktoberfest!

Raising a stein at Hudson County’s atmospheric biergartens. more

Real (Handy) Men

Two brothers turn a successful home renovation business into a reality show on the DIY Network. more

U2 Crew (Me, Too) Love These Fries

Fresh Pommes Frites in Hoboken offers Belgian fries that famous Irish bands devour with (metaphorical) relish. more

Top 25 Restaurants 2011

Long gone are the days when New Jersey, sandwiched between two imposing cities, could only look outward for its best food. Now the top restaurants in the state stand shoulder to shoulder with the finest in the region. more

Jersey-Grown System Tracks Underwater Threats

Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed and built a system that tracks underwater threats to public safety. more

Is It Paris? No, Hoboken

Not too many people, we suspect, have mistaken Hoboken for Paris, but with a fashionable assortment of romantic locations scattered about town, The Mile-Square City might resemble the City of Lights more than you think. more

Hudson County Hardball

How informant Solomon Dwek brought down rising Hoboken political star Peter Cammarano. more

More Icing On The Cake

Hoboken's Cake Boss Buddy Valastro looks to expand his empire. A new show, and a new location in Jersey City are in the offing. more

Village Pourhouse

25 Best Restaurants 2010

For the best Jersey chefs, fresh, local, sustainable, and farm-to-table are not just buzzwords but delicious keys to creativity, style, and value. more

Harvest Cuisine

Speak Quickly, And Carry a Big Spoon

Whether cooking at her Hoboken restaurants (or at the White House), hunting edible lizards in Peru or hairy chayotes in Weehawken, Maricel Presilla is an ebullient culinary force. more

The High Life

Luxurious river-view urban living in New Jersey? Check out these ultra-stylish homes. more

Zylo

When Zylo opened in March in the new W Hotel in Hoboken (the first W in New Jersey), it was hobbled by amateurish service and no clear identity beyond its slick “Tuscan steakhouse” label. Half a year later, it has emerged from its growing pains as an appealing and even cocky young restaurant. more

Hoboken's Tastebud Tour

The Hoboken Food Tour offers can't-miss culinary delights fit for the most discriminating palates. more

Happy Harvests

In October, the Garden State’s food and wine festivals invite you to put your month where your mouth is. more

Art Lovers

2009 Seeds of Hope honorees Leonard and Arlene Lieberman. more

Passion Fruit Guarapita

Maricel Presilla, chef/owner of Cucharamama in Hoboken—one of NJM’s Top 25 Restaurants—contributes four phenomenal recipes for all occasions. more

Cucharamama

Maricel Presilla’s Cucharamama (“Mother Spoon”) celebrates traditional South American cooking as lovingly passed down by women at the family hearth. more

25 Best Restaurants 2009

Our experts scoured the state to find elite dining establishments old and new. How did they fare? Read our Top 25 Restaurants list to find out. Feel free to comment on their findings. more

Charrito's Restaurant

A Baking Bunch on Reality TV

"Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro talks (bake) shop. more

Chic Convert

The top floor of a former Catholic school becomes home for a Hoboken family of four. (Photos by Jeffrey Totaro) more

Turning Point

Best of NJ: Retail

Super shopping and better bargains await at these top NJ retails establishments. more

Best of NJ: Food and Drink

NJ Monthly offers a roundup of the best places to find ice cream, coffee, cocktails, crumb cake, cupcakes and plenty of other delicious food items that don't start with a "C." more

Gold Rush

Development on Jersey’s Hudson River shoreline has been a bumpy ride, but the results are often impressive. more

A Visit to Santaland

Nothing quite brings a smile to your face during the holidays like the line "I'm going to have you killed."

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Going to Pot

A black lab named Maggie scurries through a Hoboken townhouse, climbing over couches and crawling under beds, circling in and out of closets, and sticking her nose into shoes and scattered clothes. Suddenly, Maggie stops her search and sits—a sign that confirms what many parents fear most. more

Day Trip: Hoboken

Hoboken is one of New Jersey's hot spots for singles and offers an array of bars and five-star dining. more

Big Family, Broad Smiles, Small Space

Seven Minutes to Kill

Oy to the World

Will the Real Larry David Please stand up?

How Jersey Are You

Lua

Are You My Type

Copeland

Best of Jersey: Bragging Rights

Best of Jersey: At Your Service

Best of Jersey: Good Eating

Freewheelin'

His Name is Earl

The Quays

It Was a Very Good Year

Off Taste

The Dining Room at Anthony David's

Puncher's Chance

Best Dining Towns - Hoboken

The Glass-Blower Next Door

The Dining Room at Anthony David's

You Can Always Get What You Want

Holiday Drinks

First Blood

Cheap Eats

Best of Jersey

We in the Garden State need to start demanding more. Here are a bunch who deliver. more

Best Downtowns

Gold Rush

The Stuff of Dreams

An award-winning writer shows how food, family, culture, and aspiration are all wrapped up in ravioli. more

Nonesuch

For Eternity

Frank Sinatra more

These Magic Moments

New Jersey didn’t invent sex, but this selection of daring and dubious highlights brings our first sex issue to a climax. Just one question: Was it good for you? more

Steamed Up

John Stevens more

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