Here’s what’s happening, what’s going to happen and wow there’s so much good stuff so here goes…
Hooray for Hollyboken! (Hobowood?)
As reported in the last Gazette, Little City Books’ transformation into the historic Music Inn for the Bob Dylan biopic was such a badly-kept secret it was — sing it with me — like a complete known.
Writing for Hoboken Patch, Caren Lissner has all the details of the filming and according to them, the filming will wrap in a few days.
To get our own scoop, the Weehawken Gazette visited the real Music Inn this week…
Music Inn, pictured above, is located in NYC’s Greenwich Village and opened in 1958. We talked to the current owner of Music Inn, Jeff Slatnik, pictured. He knew the real Bob Dylan, he has worked there since 1966, and he has owned the store for the past 30 years. We wanted to know if he knew about the movie being filmed in Hoboken. He knew about it, but he didn’t know where it was filming or when. He said the movie production people had been in and they “bought a few instruments and rented a few.” He said it wasn’t much, but to be clear, he wasn’t complaining.
We asked if he’d seen the Music Inn they’d created over in Hoboken for the film. No he had not, so we showed him a picture from social media. He smiled.
He recommended a recent documentary short made about the store that’s on YouTube. It’s good, and shows / tells his story far better than we could. It came out 2 months ago and has almost half a million views. Check out: Jeff and his historic music store: Music Inn World Instruments
Another scoop is that a few Weehawken neighbors and many Hoboken friends have gotten work with and for the movie shoot. They wish to remain anon, but we are psyched for the movie and all the Hollywood dollars that have flowed into NoHu pockets.
Sunday, 6/16: Weehawken’s 1st Community Run Promises Bagels, Bananas & Good Vibes 🥯🏃
This Sunday at 9A there’s a free “party pace” 5k run on the Weehawken waterfront. It starts at the 9/11 memorial, and Bagels on Park, our favorite good community vibes local business, is sponsoring the free bagels. There will also be water and bananas.
We spoke to the organizer, Weehawken’s own Dalbert Cruzado, who confirmed: it’s not a race. Billed as “conversational pace,” the fastest runners will be doing 8-10 minute miles, and the sub-10 min per mile folks will be welcomed and cheered on by the organizer himself. Dalbert has lived in Weehawken most of his life and told us that running has helped his physical and mental health — and he wanted to share this benefit with people who often get overlooked in a race environment.
The run is free, but you should register here: https://lu.ma/therunclubusa
In conclusion: HOW AWESOME IS THIS? SO AWESOME. 🥯🤟
JZT Dance: Feel the Feels. Register for Fall. 🕺🪩
Crank the sound and then click or tap to watch the sweet season wrap video from JZT dance, above. The JZT website says registration for fall is now open. You can also check out facebook.com/jztdanceandyoga for more info. JZT is a massive benefit to the community and also? Many belated thanks to them for letting others (like me!) post on their community bulletin board. Speaking of community boards…
Mysterious Board Mystifies
WHAT IN SAM HILL IS THIS BOARD?
Knowing that we are obsessed with getting a community board in Tower Plaza, a nice neighbor/reader named Jim pointed out this board to us — it’s right as you exit the Lidl, in Weehawken. We’d never noticed it, but now that we’ve noticed it we are going bug nutty.
Why had we never noticed it?
Why is it blank?
Is it a chalk board?
And if it is, are we all expected to walk around with our own chalk?
Together with the Weehawken wall of nothingness, the Tower Plaza seems to excel at… nothing.
Related: The great community bulletin board idea.
In Brief
Rachel Bernstein, the daughter of Weehawken’s much-loved but now retired teacher and principal Anna Tripodi Rudowsky, has just opened a dance studio in Tenafly with her friend Emma Bednarski. Be among the first to follow them at instagram.com/revolutiondancenj to learn more.
Many Weehawken students have been excelling at sports with records broken and news being made at county, state, and national championships. The news is all over X (formerly Twitter) but we can’t find one link with all the stories, but many can be found at WHSAthletics53.
Cancelled: Weehawken’s first dog-friendly happy hour scheduled for June 20th at the Elks lodge has been cancelled. A spokesperson for the event says “Yappy Hour” will be rescheduled.
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Tah for now nice nabes!
Susie