After hearing testimony from TCR's environmental expert (ending at 12:15 AM), the Board carried the hearing to a special meeting, which is solely for this application and which will be held on:
 

 
You can view TCR's plans or any of their reports and submissions, on any business day, 9am to 4pm, at the Planning and Zoning Office on the 3rd Floor of City Hall.
 
A word about Monday night's testimony. TCR took the unusual move of beginning with their environmental expert, rather than someone who would describe the proposed project to the Board, for dramatic purposes. TCR wants to immediately impress the Board that Neumann is a ticking time bomb, an environmental horror, which will spread to and poison Hoboken unless the Board approves TCR's project so TCR can jump in and save the city.  
 
The expert followed the script by producing charts with "blobs" of contamination seeping out, and long lists of evil-sounding substances, from arsenic on, which are found on the property. We should stress, though, that he was forced to admit that no imminent danger exists and that there is no evidence that the environment in the building is harmful to the people working there. Our Lawyer, (and others who are not connected with NLTA) will be cross-examining TCR's witness at the next hearing.
 
From our perspective, the important point to make is that the property is not a hazard so as to scare the Board into ignoring the zoning for the property, but a typical industrial property in a usable condition consistent with the Industrial zoning district it is located in.

Please download a Sept. 24th flyer (36kb pdf) and distribute freely!