WATCHUNG – Property at 18 Drift Road, which formerly housed the Brook Hill Swim & Tennis Club, has been designated as a non-condemnation area in need of redevelopment.
the city of hoboken. he s also putting his reputation on the line. he s putting his law license on the line if he s caught in a lie. then the federal grand jury is going to look at this, assuming that he does indeed testify to them and say, okay, who should we believe here. what about the piece of it, chairman, about the potentially complying with any subpoenas from your committee. is joe mar zeaty, is anything to do with hoboken anything you want to pursue at all? is he somebody you would want the hear from at all? i think what the committee is going to be looking at is the port authority. we have to go back to where this committee started, looking at how the port authority operates and how dysfunctional it is. we ve seen a connection with the port authority with this in that the port authority funded the redevelopment study that impacted on the development that the mayor said she talked to kim
there is more new material on yesterday s shocking revelation of the george washington lane closures. we are going to be joined by the ft. lee mayor to get his reaction. we have more on the story that dawn zimmer charged that members linked her sandy aid to her approval of a development project represented by one of the governor s closest political confident. the project in question is owned by the rockefeller group that would like to build a large commercial real estate project in the north end of hoboken. it has been represented by wolf and sampson and the founding partner is david sampson, who also happens to be chris christie s hand-picked chairman of the port authority. it is wa the port authority that paid for a redevelopment study on the land in hoboken that the rockefeller owns. it was a study that declared the area in need of a redevelopment
that s what dawn zimmer charged on our show, that the christie administration wanted the rockefeller project approved and was using sandy funding to get its way. it s an allegation that the christie administration has vehemently denied. this brings us to the new e-mails. from april 24g9, th, 2013. this is after the redevelopment study but before they have decided what to do with it. it is addressed to steven marks, the assistant city business manager. the invitation to go to trenton at the request of the governor s office and the commissioner of the department of environmental protection. in the e-mail he makes it sound like it is simply a meeting about hoboken s flooding issues. the rockefeller property isn t mentioned. supposedly lorie griffa is supposed to attend, which leaves marks, the hoboken city
they are very troubling allegations. we have seen the lieutenant governor acknowledged she had a conversation with the mayor. but the mayor s perception of the conversation is wrong and offensive. that s where we need to get to the bottom of it. there is a dispute as to who said what. someone is lying. the mayor is making serious allegations. they are very difficult in the light of the redevelopment, the port authority money used for a redevelopment study and the facts those are linked together with the redevelopment and the words that the lieutenant governor is said to have used linking it to the governor. there are a lot of facts we