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==Media== [[File:1.20.10Carlo'sBakeShopByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|[[Carlo's Bake Shop]], which is the setting for the reality television show ''[[Cake Boss]]'', is a local tourist attraction.]] Hoboken is located within the [[Media in New York City|New York media market]]; most of its daily papers available for sale or delivery. Local, [[Hudson County|county]], and regional news is covered by ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', a daily newspaper long based in nearby Jersey City and now based in [[Secaucus, New Jersey|Secaucus.]] The ''Journal'', along with other sister newspapers, operates [[NJ.com]], which includes the blog Hoboken Now.<ref>[http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/ "Hoboken Now"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231161204/http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/ |date=December 31, 2007 }}. [[NJ.com]]. Accessed March 30, 2014.</ref> ''[[The Hoboken Reporter]]'' was the first local weekly published by ''[[The Hudson Reporter]]'' group of papers,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.hudsonreporter.com/2004/02/06/hudson-reporter-chain-expands-newspaper-company-purchases-bayonne-community-news-2/|title=Hudson Reporter chain expands Newspaper company purchases Bayonne Community News|newspaper=[[The Hudson Reporter]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=February 6, 2004|access-date=October 10, 2023|archive-date=October 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231010142825/https://archive.hudsonreporter.com/2004/02/06/hudson-reporter-chain-expands-newspaper-company-purchases-bayonne-community-news-2/}}</ref> which was based in Hoboken from 1983 - 2016. It then moved its headquarters to Bayonne,<ref>{{cite web|author=Pasquariello, Rory|url=https://archive.hudsonreporter.com/2016/06/12/hudson-reporter-offices-move/|title=Hudson Reporter offices move: Newspaper chain relocates to new building in Bayonne|newspaper=[[The Hudson Reporter]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=June 12, 2016|access-date=October 10, 2023|archive-date=October 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231010142526/https://archive.hudsonreporter.com/2016/06/12/hudson-reporter-offices-move/}}</ref> before closing in January 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Zeitlinger|first=Ron |date=January 20, 2023|title=Hudson Reporter newspaper chain closes down|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2023/01/hudson-reporter-newspaper-chain-closes-down.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121003543/https://www.nj.com/hudson/2023/01/hudson-reporter-newspaper-chain-closes-down.html|archive-date=January 21, 2023|access-date=January 20, 2023|language=en-US|via=[[NJ.com]]|newspaper=[[The Jersey Journal]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/danisraelnj/status/1616524492406128640|author=Israel, Daniel|title=Untitled|publisher=Daniel Israel|via=[[Twitter]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=January 20, 2023|access-date=January 21, 2023|archive-date=January 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121163002/https://twitter.com/danisraelnj/status/1616524492406128640}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://hudsoncountyview.com/hudson-reporter-abruptly-closing-after-40-years-of-local-news-reporting/|author=Heinis, John|title=Hudson Reporter abruptly closing after 40 years of local news reporting|publisher=Hudson County View|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=January 20, 2023|access-date=January 21, 2023|archive-date=January 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120205411/https://hudsoncountyview.com/hudson-reporter-abruptly-closing-after-40-years-of-local-news-reporting/}}</ref> Other weeklies, the ''[[River View Observer]]'' and the Spanish-language ''[[El Especialito]]'',<ref>[http://www.elespecial.com/ "Legando a lost Hispanos en Estadaos Unidos"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131061524/http://www.elespecial.com/ |date=January 31, 2010 }}. El Especial. Accessed March 30, 2014.</ref> also cover local news, as does ''The Stute'', the campus newspaper at Stevens Institute of Technology. Magazines that cover Hoboken include the lifestyle magazine hMAG,{{anchor|hMag}} which launched in 2009,<ref>[http://www.hmag.com/ "hMAG, Hoboken Lifestyle Magazine"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115113337/http://www.hmag.com/ |date=January 15, 2013 }}. Accessed March 30, 2013.</ref> and ''The Digest'', which covers local restaurants and events.<ref>[http://www.thedigestonline.com "The Digest New Jersey Magazine"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604151604/https://thedigestonline.com/ |date=June 4, 2022 }}. Accessed March 30, 2014.</ref> The city has been the location of several film productions. [[Elia Kazan]]'s Academy Award-winning 1954 film ''[[On the Waterfront]]'', was shot in Hoboken.<ref>[http://www.thirteen.org/hoboken/history_post.html History of Hoboken] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605015551/http://www.thirteen.org/hoboken/history_post.html |date=June 5, 2011 }}, [[WNET]]. Accessed December 30, 2014. "Filmed almost entirely on location in Hoboken, Elia Kazan's ''On The Waterfront'' used actual longshoremen as extras."</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pryor|first=Thomas M.|title='Waterfront,' Brando, Grace Kelly Win 'Oscars'|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/specials/oscars/flashback-1954.html|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=March 31, 1955|access-date=October 10, 2023|archive-date=October 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231010143732/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/specials/oscars/flashback-1954.html}}</ref> A wedding scene in the 1997 [[Jennifer Aniston]] film ''[[Picture Perfect (1997 film)|Picture Perfect]]'' was filmed at the Elks Club at 1005 Washington Street.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://onthesetofnewyork.com/pictureperfect.html|title=Picture Perfect (1997)|publisher=OTSO New York|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=August 2023|access-date=October 10, 2023|archive-date=October 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231010144020/https://onthesetofnewyork.com/pictureperfect.html}}</ref> The 1998 [[Adrien Brody]] film ''[[Restaurant (1998 film)|Restaurant]]'' is set in Hoboken.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/2000/03/03/restaurant/|title=Restaurant|author=Fretts, Bruce|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=March 3, 2000|access-date=October 10, 2023|archive-date=October 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231010150226/https://ew.com/movies/the-menu-movie-appreciation-nominated-for-nothing-oscars/}}</ref> The production company for the 2009 film ''[[Assassination of a High School President]]'' was based in Hoboken.<ref>Sullivan, Al. [http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2413610/article-Movie-stars-seen-around-Hudson-County-Bruce-Willis--Mischa-Barton-filming-locally?instance=more_page "Movie stars seen around Hudson County Bruce Willis, Mischa Barton filming locally"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231075051/http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2413610/article-Movie-stars-seen-around-Hudson-County-Bruce-Willis--Mischa-Barton-filming-locally?instance=more_page |date=December 31, 2014 }}. ''[[The Hudson Reporter]]'', September 23, 2007. Accessed December 30, 2014. "He is playing the role of a disliked principal in a new film that has the working titles of ''The Assassination of a High School Principal'' and ''The Sophomore.''... The production company, named after the working title ''The Sophomore'', is based in Hoboken."</ref> The children's book [[The Hoboken Chicken Emergency]] takes place in the city.<ref>{{cite web|last=Alexander|first=Sue|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/27/archives/the-hoboken-chicken-emergency.html|title=The Hoboken Chicken Emergency|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|language=en-US|date=March 27, 1977|access-date=May 16, 2024}}</ref> The city is home to [[Carlo's Bake Shop]], which was featured from 2009 to 2020 in the [[TLC (TV channel)|TLC]] reality show ''[[Cake Boss]]''. The popularity of the show resulted in increased business for Carlo's Bake Shop, and increased tourism to the Hoboken area,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2009/07/cake_boss_reality_show_fame_ha.html|title='Cake Boss' reality show fame has Hoboken bakery hopping with tourists|newspaper=[[The Jersey Journal]]|via=[[NJ.com]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=July 6, 2009|access-date=October 10, 2023|archive-date=October 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231010145441/https://www.nj.com/hudson/2009/07/cake_boss_reality_show_fame_ha.html}}</ref> although the long lines drove away some of the shop's local customers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/hoboken-cake-boss-buddy-valastro-working-to-alleviate-long-lines/|title=LOCAL NEWS: Hoboken 'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro Working To Alleviate Long Lines|publisher=[[CBS News]]|author=Adams, Sean|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=August 23, 2011|access-date=October 10, 2023|archive-date=October 10, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20231010145712/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/hoboken-cake-boss-buddy-valastro-working-to-alleviate-long-lines/}}</ref> The fourth season of [[A&E Network|A&E]]'s ''[[Parking Wars]]'', which documents the lives and duties of parking enforcement personnel, was filmed in Hoboken, in addition to its usual venues of Detroit and Philadelphia.<ref>Tavani, Andrew. [http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2010/01/tv_reality_show_parking_wars_l.html "TV reality show 'Parking Wars' looks to base series in Hoboken"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604235556/http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2010/01/tv_reality_show_parking_wars_l.html |date=June 4, 2011 }}, ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', January 16, 2010. Accessed October 6, 2015.</ref> The ABC Primetime magazine ''[[What Would You Do? (2008 TV program)|Primetime: What Would You Do?]]'' has filmed multiple episodes of their social experiments in Hoboken's shops and restaurants.<ref>Baldwin, Carly. [http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2009/02/abcs_what_would_you_do_at_hobo.html "ABC's ''What Would You Do?'' at Hoboken store"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802173118/http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2009/02/abcs_what_would_you_do_at_hobo.html |date=August 2, 2014 }}, [[NJ.com]], February 24, 2009. Accessed September 1, 2015.</ref><ref>Henault, Bob. [https://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/construction-workers-harass-woman/story?id=12508548#.Txh3dIFKWAg/ "Construction Workers Harass Woman: What Would You Do?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802003712/https://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/construction-workers-harass-woman/story?id=12508548#.Txh3dIFKWAg/ |date=August 2, 2020 }}, [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]], January 13, 2011. Accessed September 1, 2015. "In light of these startling numbers, ABC News' ''What Would You Do?'' rigged hidden cameras on a busy Hoboken, N.J., street corner and hired three male actors to portray construction workers on a coffee break and an actress playing the victim."</ref> The 1989 television series ''[[Dream Street (U.S. TV series)|Dream Street]]'' was set and shot in Hoboken.<ref>Sharbutt, Jay. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-02-ca-315-story.html "Dream Street (U.S. TV series)"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', March 2, 1989. Accessed June 9, 2014. "Welcome to headquarters for the makers of NBC's ''Dream Street'', a coming dramatic series about the lives of young blue-collar men and women in this venerable, hard-nosed waterfront town of 42,500, right across the Hudson River from Manhattan.... Their association with ''Street'' has caused some speculation that the new one-hour series, which is being filmed entirely in Hoboken, is but the working-class edition of ABC's venture."</ref> Bands from Hoboken include alternative rock pioneers [[The Bongos]]<ref>Testa, Jim. [http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2013/10/hobokens_bongos_ride_the_phant.html "Hoboken's Bongos ride the Phantom Train back to the future"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', October 3, 2013. Accessed October 7, 2017. "The Bongos β the first Hoboken band to garner national attention from the nascent Maxwell's scene back in the early Eighties - started working on ''Phantom Train'' back in 1986, as the follow-up to their RCA Records full-length ''Beat Hotel''."</ref> and the art-rock band [[Yo La Tengo]].<ref>Testa, Jim. [http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2012/06/yo_la_tengo_biography_delves_d.html "Yo La Tengo biography delves deeply into the history of Hoboken"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', June 8, 2012. Accessed February 6, 2013. "Since the story of Yo La Tengo is inextricably intertwined with the city of Hoboken, Jarnow begins the book by looking back at the city's past, including the fascinating story of how professional baseball was born on Elysian Field, which today is the corner of Washington and Eleventh Streets and the home of Maxwell's."</ref>
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