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HOBOKEN NEEDS MORE KIDS ACTIVITIES

The choices and availability of children’s activities must be improved.

I have a six year old and the mad dash of signing her up for the few activity options that the city sponsors is unacceptable. How many Hoboken children are turned away because their parents missed signing them up right away?

We have no pool: our children don’t have an easy way to learn to swim.

Most of our parks are too crowded to throw or kick a ball, fly a kite or have a relay race, so without structured activities coordinated with precious ‘field space’, children, especially older children have less to do than their suburban counterparts.

This photo was taken by Kurt Gardiner who lives in the fifth ward and sells his photography near BWE (10th & Washington) and on his Etsy shop (https://www.etsy.com/shop/HobokenPrints). Due to an issue where the city took away a bunch of our very important benches: he's committed to being outside 7th and Washington for at least the first half of August.

Pier C Park is one of Sela's favorites because the playground features a spider climb to reach a tower that has a long tunnel slide. When she was three years old she managed to get up to the top but was then afraid to slide down. I managed to find Xander, a six year old child of my neighbors Tony and Christine: and I asked him to coax Sela to take the slide down. He was not able to convince her.

Seven Valleys, while technically in the fifth ward, is fantastic. My family's favorite is the medley for two, which feeds three. I suggest choosing at least one cherry rice.

Stevens Athletics has teams in numerous sports. Sometimes I take my daughter to watch soccer or lacrosse. We always root for the Ducks of course.

Church Square Park is the center of town. On Tuesdays, come Spring and until the Fall there is a farmers market where we'll often get some produce and a pickle on a stick. Prior to moving to my current house: I lived at 527 Garden Street, right near Church Square Park.

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