If you’ve ever been to Brooklyn Heights, you would love Hoboken, NJ — a city on the Hudson river just across Manhattan. It’s serene and cultured in its own way, with a myriad of fabulous historic doors and windows, British-eccentric color palette and lots of narrow charming streets to walk around.
The signs on Willow Pharmacy, an authentic old-school drugstoreBwè Kafe is one of the most delightful places to crash for a few hours (plus the shop donates a portion of its proceeds to Haiti relief efforts)Hoboken Historical Museum is a small museum that celebrates the city and New Jersey — with quirky exhibitions and just $5 admissionThe exhibition that just opened showcases around 700 historic postcards from all 12 cities and towns of New Jersey’s Hudson County. Most of the postcards date from the Golden Age of postcards, the 1900s – 1920s, showing parks, street scenes, scenic views and important municipal buildings, churches, schools and factories, when they were brand new and the pride of Hudson County.A special iPad tool allows to see the scenes form the postcards in the modern daySymposia bookstore is the only used bookstore in HobokenA handy pre-entry mini-table
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