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Lane Closures Planned This Week at George Washington Bridge, Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel and Goethals Bridge

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AirTrain Newark Suspended Saturday Night to Sunday Morning for Routine Maintenance

Reminder: Face Coverings Continue to Be Required in All Port Authority Facilities, Including Airports, Midtown Bus Terminal and on AirTrain 

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Hoboken NJ, For the week of August 27 to September 2, 2021, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey encourages all travelers who use the agency’s facilities to plan ahead and consider additional travel time due to the following:

LANE CLOSURES IN EFFECT

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NJ Transit Moves Forward With Critical Infrastructure Projects and Fleet Modernization

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Ridgewood NJ, The NJ TRANSIT Board of Directors today adopted the 2021 update to A Five-Year Capital Plan along with the Fiscal Year 2022 authorization to secure funding. A Five-Year Capital Plan is an unconstrained vision of projects to demonstrate opportunities for safety, service, reliability, resiliency, sustainability and other improvements critical to NJ TRANSIT.

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New Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The “Commute is Dead”

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Ridgewood NJ, The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ recently released results from the American Time Use Survey new data verified what many have already experienced, the “commute is dead” and “remote work is hear to stay”.

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Hudson Garage Elevator Out of Service Again

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Ridgewood NJ, several Village employees were met by hostile commentators  this week ,because once again commuters and central business district patrons were greeted by out of service elevators at the Hudson Garage .

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Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll: A Quarter of NJ Workers Never Going Back to the Office

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Ridgewood NJ, Half of New Jersey workers started working from home during the pandemic, and many of them don’t think that they’ll ever be going back to their workplace full time, according to the latest results from the FDU Poll’s survey of New Jersey voters. Even though most New Jersey adults are now vaccinated against COVID-19, only 27 percent of workers who started working from home say that they’ve started going back to the office full time, and 26 percent of those now working from home don’t think that they’ll ever be back in their workplace. This represents an enormous shift in work habits, and one that has ramifications for mass transit, and the economies of the states surrounding New Jersey. Republicans and Democrats also have very different experiences of the pandemic, and Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to want to go back to the pre-pandemic workplace experience.

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Hudson Garage Elevator Flooded

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Ridgewood NJ, the Hudson garage’s new elevator is flooded and not working  ,making the parking facility non ADA compliant.  It has also come to our attention the the roof top was not plowed after the recent snow and there are some concerns over the quality of the construction of the facility .

Once again we “circle back” ,to wonder how the Village is planning on paying for this thing ,given the global pandemic , the raise of “remote work” and limited hours and capacities of Village retail and restaurants?

To matters worse it is going to be in the 50’s today melting even more snow.

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New Jersey Challenges New York State Law that Directly Taxes the Income of Out-of-State Residents Working from Home

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Ridgewood NJ, Acting to protect its residents from unfair and costly “double taxation,” New Jersey today filed a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in a case challenging the right of states to levy an income tax directly on non-residents for income they earned while working from home in their states of residence.

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Body Discovered Along NJ Transit Main Line Tracks in Clifton

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Clifton NJ, a NJ Transit crew on a train Port Jervis bound train , discovered a dead body along the Main Line tracks between Clifton and Paterson on Tuesday night.

The incident is currently under investigation by NJ Transit  and  there was no confirm on whether the person was hit by a train.

Trains running on the Main-Bergen Line were subject to 30-minute delays because of the investigation and that at least one train scheduled to depart Hoboken at 8:46 p.m. was canceled. By 10 p.m., that evening  NJ Transit  also reported that a Hoboken-bound train was running an hour behind schedule.

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COACH USA LAUNCHES CUSTOM COMMUTE : ALTERNATIVE COMMUTING SOLUTION

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Ridgewood  NJ, Coach USA, one of the largest passenger transportation companies in North America, announced a new alternative commuting solution, Custom Commute. In the wake of COVID-19, employers are developing plans to return their employees to the workplace while protecting their health and wellness, especially within transit-dependent urban centers like New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta where social distancing on public transportation may be a challenge.

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New Jersey Transit Police Officers Make Multiply Arrests for aggravated assault against train conductors

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Newark NJ,Earlier this week, New Jersey Transit Police Officers effected arrests for aggravated assault against NJ TRANSIT train conductors during separate incidences and at different locations. Both incidences resulted in quick responses by NJTPD officers followed by the arrests of the actors responsible. Please remember:⁣

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COVID-19 Accelerates Rise of Digital Economy

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Ridgewood NJ, The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to adapt to new rules, forcing many of us to experience a shift in our daily routines and to carry out our work online. With this in mind, we here at STORAGECafé wanted to take a closer look into which states in the US are best prepared for a digital economy future.

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The Time is Now for Post-Pandemic Planning in Ridgewood

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Ridgewood NJ, Tony Loving made some interesting comments in the It takes a Ridgewood Village Facebook group, “During an April 22nd Village Council discussion about allocating spaces in the new Hudson Street parking garage, not a single Council member mentioned the potential long term impact COVID-19 may have on the demand for parking spaces throughout the Village’s Central Business District and at the train station. Whether we like to admit it or not, demand for parking spaces in Ridgewood may never be anything like it was pre-pandemic. Many Village residents may be working from home permanently, or commuting to their NYC offices very infrequently. Demand for parking by shoppers and diners, particularly diners, may never reach pre-pandemic levels. Village Council members need to immediately revisit their plan for the allocation of parking spaces, and make revisions based upon current events. Allocation proposals developed in the garage’s pre-construction phase should be thrown out of the window at this point in time. Unfortunately, when the dust settles, there may be an excess number of parking spaces. If that’s the case, consideration should be given to re-purposing one or more surface parking lots.”

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New Antibody study suggests far lower COVID 19 mortality rate than previous thought 

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New York NY, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in Thursdays coronavirus press briefing that tests show 21% of all New York city residents and 14% of all New York State residents have COVID 19 anti bodies

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Ridgewood New Master Plan Time Table

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Ridgewood NJ ,from  the  website “Our Village Our Future”  the  new master plan time line in detail:

Tuesday, March 3: Planning Board Meeting. Highlights of the Preliminary Draft will be presented by the consultant, followed by a discussion with the Planning Board about the Preliminary Draft.

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