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November has arrived and Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away, which means it’s time to start preparing for dinner plans. For those who prefer to dine out on the holiday, Hudson County has plenty of options. From fine dining establishments that will prepare a pre-fixe Thanksgiving menu to cozy spots that will serve customer favorites, The Hoboken Girl has compiled a list of restaurants open on Thanksgiving day locally. Read on to learn more about the Hoboken + Jersey City restaurants open on Thanksgiving Day 2024.

Hoboken

Hours: 12PM-4PM

Special Menu: This restaurant will provide a separate Thanksgiving menu starting the week before the holiday. Details have not been announced yet, but The Ainsworth encourages customers to visit the website on Thursday, November 21st for details.

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Hours: 5PM-9PM

Special Menu: For the month of November, Byrd will serve a Thanksgiving menu that includes roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, Brussels sprouts, cranberry sauce, and potato rolls. The whole turkey is priced at $350 and feeds six to eight people. Customers can choose to dine in or order for takeout.

Hours: 12PM-9PM

Special Menu: The details have yet to be posted on Del Frisco’s website, but guests can expect Thanksgiving specials and a pre-fixe menu, including a three-course turkey dinner. The menu will be announced here, so check back for updates.

Hours: 1PM-7:30PM

Special Menu: This restaurant will serve a four-course meal on Thanksgiving. Appetizer options include a locally-sourced beet salad, butternut squash soup, scallop carpaccio, or turkey confit fritters. For the main course, customers have various options to choose from, including the Local Heritage Turkey Breast, the Fall Mushroom Agnolotti, and more. There will also be special options for family-style sides, wine, and dessert. The dinner is priced at $79 a person, with children 12 and under priced at $35.

Hours: 11:30AM-10:30PM

Hours: 11AM-9:30PM

Hours: Begins at 11AM

Special Menu: Mario’s Classic Pizza has served a free traditional Thanksgiving dinner for 25+ years. This year, locals can expect a similar meal, including turkey, stuffing, vegetables, and a variety of pies. Customers are encouraged to come early, as the food supply runs out quickly.

Jersey City

Hours: 1PM-8PM

Special Menu: Bistro La Source will serve a variety of dishes on Thanksgiving. From fall favorites like the goat cheese croquette and autumn fruit salad or the farmhouse vegetable soup to turkey + country ham trimmings sourced from Goffle Farms in Wyckoff, there are plenty of options for everyone.

Hours: 11AM-2PM

Hours: 11:30AM-10PM

Special Menu: This spot will serve limited Thanksgiving specials in addition to the restaurant’s à la carte menu. The details have not been announced yet, but Fire + Oak has confirmed that a classic turkey should be expected.

Hours: 5PM-9PM

Special Menu: This restaurant will prepare a three-course Thanksgiving special for $75 a person. The first course will include a rum-spiced butternut squash soup or an arugula salad. The second course will be a roasted turkey with rosemary gravy, au gratin, stuffing + duck confit, and more. Customers can expect a pistachio and pumpkin tiramisu for dessert.

Hours: 4PM-9PM

Bonus

Hours: 1PM-9PM

Special Menu: This restaurant will have a pre-fixe menu on Thanksgiving. For $69 a person, customers can choose from a large selection of options, including a free-range turkey, house-made pasta, a 16-ounce Prime Delmonico steak, and more. There will also be various dessert options, such as carrot cake, pumpkin pie, flourless s’mores cake, and spiced panna cotta. See here for the full menu.

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Hours: 11AM-9PM

Special Menu: This waterfront restaurant will serve a classic Thanksgiving dinner for dine-in or take-out. The first course includes options like lobster bisque, chopped salad, New England clam chowder, and more. The second course consists of three entre options, one being a traditional holiday dinner with a butter + sage roasted turkey, cornbread stuffing, cranberry relish, and more. Customers can choose from pecan or pumpkin pie, cheesecake, or Chef’s Dessert for dessert. See the full menu here.

It’s essential to be informed about all aspects of the voting process, including how and where to cast your vote and what to bring. On Tuesday, November 5th, multiple locations across Jersey City will open from 6AM to 8PM for residents to vote in person in the 2024 Election for President, as well as local polling questions and races. Read on for a guide to voting locations on Election Day in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Jersey City residents can cast their vote on Tuesday, November 5th, from 6AM to 8PM.

Read More: Where to Vote in Hoboken 2024: Your Guide to Polling Locations

The Hudson County Clerk has provided sample ballots for the 2024 Election. Voters should see forms six and seven for a glimpse of what tomorrow’s ballots will look like. See here for the 2024 Election sample ballots. The Hudson County Clerk has also provided guides on using voting machines. See here for the detailed instructions.

For those who have already cast their vote via the mail-in option, you can track your mail-in ballot here or call E. Junior Maldonado, County Clerk, at 201-369-3470; John Brzozowski, Deputy Superintendent of Elections and Commissioner of Registration, at 201-369-7740; or Michael Harper, Board of Elections, at 201-369-3435.

Those who have voted in previous elections will not be required to show their ID for in-person voting. (However, it is still important to bring it in case!) Those who are voting for the first time in Hudson County registered to vote by mail or didn’t provide an ID number or copy of ID when they registered are encouraged to attach a copy of their ID to the ballot or bring one of the following tomorrow:

Polling locations in Jersey City are divided by Wards A to E.

In 2022, The Hudson County Clerk provided maps of each Jersey City ward for residents’ convenience. Please note that this is the most up-to-date version online.

Jersey City residents can only visit their assigned polling location on Election Day. Enter your address in the official polling place search database to find your polling location.

Contact the County Clerk’s Office with any questions or concerns regarding your voting location.

For Hoboken residents, see our guide to polling locations here. Montclair residents can also find their polling locations at this link.

See More: In-Person Voting Locations in Montclair

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After opening its first New Jersey outpost in Jersey City in 2020, it looks like the popular salad chain Sweetgreen will be making its way to the Mile Square. An application on an upcoming Hoboken Historic Preservation Committee meeting agenda points to Sweetgreen coming to 218 Washington Street in Hoboken. Read on for what we know so far about Sweetgreen’s arrival in Hoboken, New Jersey.

The Monday, November 4th Hoboken Historic Preservation Committee meeting agenda revealed an application for Sweetgreen at 218 Washington Street. Some of the items included in the application are changes to signage, general repairs/restoration, and other architectural plans. The space at 218 Washington Street was formerly home to DryBar, a national blow-dry studio chain. Hoboken’s DryBar location closed in early 2024.

As of this writing, no opening date has been set. We’ve reached out to Sweetgreen and will update this post with any additional comments.

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In August 2020, Sweetgreen opened its first New Jersey store in Jersey City. Just a few months later in October 2020, Sweetgreen hosted a pop-up ‘outpost’ on wheels at 5th and Hudson in Hoboken — but this is the first we’re hearing about a permanent brick-and-mortar location. The Hoboken outpost will mark its second in Hudson County.

Sweetgreen will join several other salad spots on Hoboken’s Washington Street. Alfalfa is located at 1110 Washington. Just Salad is just down the road at 114 Washington, as is Honeygrow at 120 Washington. Quality Greens Kitchen is right near the forthcoming Sweetgreen location at 227 Washington. GTK is located at 1014 Washington. Alfalfa is located at 1110 Washington. While not salad, Shaka Kitchen at 110 Washington is a great choice for healthy eats.

Sweetgreen opened up its first location in Washington, D.C. in 2007, and has since expanded to over 200 locations across the United States, with stores in 23 states. There are currently seven in New Jersey. The NJ storefronts are located in Hackensack, Jersey City, Marlton, Montclair, Montvale, Morristown, and Shrewsbury.

This popular salad chain serves up a variety of salads and bowls and is described as fresh, plant-forward, earth-friendly food.

Some of the highlights on the menu include a chicken pesto parm bowl with roasted chicken, spicy broccoli, tomatoes, shaved parmesan, za’atar breadcrumbs, warm quinoa, baby spinach, Sweetgreen hot sauce, and pesto vinaigrette; a guacamole greens salad with roasted chicken, avocado, tomatoes, red onions, shredded cabbage, tortilla chips, spring mix, chopped romaine, lime squeeze, and lime cilantro jalapeño vinaigrette; and a garden cobb salad with avocado, hard-boiled egg, roasted sweet potatoes, tomatoes, red onions, blue cheese, roasted almonds, spring mix, chopped romaine, and balsamic vinaigrette. Sweetgreen also sells a variety of local items, sides, drinks, and more. You can browse the full menu here.

See More: Where to Get the Best Salads in the Montclair Area

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The marquee displayed on the historic Loew‘s Jersey theater up until a few weeks ago may not have been the original, but it was the theater‘s most longstanding ― an enduring, iconic symbol of a time when Journal Square was the center of Jersey City’s universe.

For 75 years, it was the signage that greeted everyone who passed through Jersey City’s Journal Square since the 1950s. Now, the historic sign is history.

Construction crews working on a $105 million project to convert the theater into an A-list entertainment venue sliced it into pieces over the past few weeks as they began its removal.

The plan to take down the large, rectangular sign wasn’t new. The theater ― which hosted everything from performances from huge stars to community holiday parties since it opened nearly 100 years ago ― will feature a new digital marquee will replicate the original 1929 sign.

The entertainment venue is one part of the massive Journal Square makeover that includes neck-straining skyscrapers and the controversial Pompidou modern art museum project. This isn‘t your grandfather’s, or even your father’s, Journal Square any longer.

Surprised. Depressed. Stunned. Local preservationistssay they’ve gone through every emotion.

They say the decision to destroy, rather than salvage, the marquee ― which featured a letterboard sandwiched between “Jersey Loew’s” in neon cursive neon letters ― is an alarming step in the renovation and a potential warning sign that the building’s history isn’t being adequately considered.

“When you see construction workers smashing the Loew’s name into bits … even if you’re not from Jersey City or if you’re not a preservationist, you’ve got to stop and wonder what’s wrong here,” said John Gomez, a board member of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy and a columnist for The Jersey Journal. “If you have a preservation heart you’ll stop and say, ‘What kind of city is this that’s allowing this to happen?’”

The city indicated that it never intended to salvage the marquee, saying that it wasn’t historic because it wasn’t the very original marquee.

It insisted that the proper care is being taken with the theater’s interior renovations, which are far less visible to both the public traversing the square and local preservationists.

“That is the purpose of this project — to restore and preserve every possible aspect of theater’s interior and exterior that is salvageable,” said city spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione. “This includes countless small, but important details such as the decorative filagree in the bathrooms.”

But to the preservationist community, the marquee is a part of Jersey City history that deserved to be saved, regardless of whether it was the very first marquee when the theater opened in 1929.

The renovations of the Loew’s will return the historic theater to regular public use, now as a live music venue operated by Devils Arena Entertainment, the same company that runs White Eagle Hall and Prudential Center. The deal was struck in 2021, with the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency contributing $7.5 million of the projected $72 million price tag, both numbers that have increased by the millions since then.

In recent years, the marquee’s white letterboard, bordered by light bulbs that illuminated from below, often displayed community messages. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Friends of the Loew’s put up an “in memoriam” for “Councilman Michael Yun and everyone else we have lost.”

It celebrated graduations when they could not be held in person. When it was still showing movies, the titles were available front and center for anyone passing on Kennedy Boulevard to read.

The theater is beloved for its history and elegance. At the time of its opening, movie palaces like the Loew’s — cavernous with chandeliers and stages — drew live entertainers like Duke Ellington in addition to screening new films. The Loew’s was one of five of its era that the Loew’s Corporation built in the tri-state area.

It had its final film screening in 1986 and was headed toward demolition before the non-profit Friends of the Loew’s saved it and proceeded to lease it from the city for decades, hosting occasional events and screenings.

The group, which performed painstaking preservation work and held programming at the theater since the 1990s, was given the opportunity to work with the redeveloper to save parts of the building, per a 2020 request for proposals when the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency was soliciting a redeveloper.

The city said Friends of the Loew’s had told the city exactly what it wanted preserved and that the city is preserving all of those items for the group, implying that the marquee was not included.

Friends of the Loew’s actually provided the city with two lists: one of loose items to be preserved before any construction work and another of pieces of the building itself that should be archived once they’re removed during construction, said Friends of the Loew’s Executive Director Colin Egan.

He declined to share whether the marquee was on the second list, but said he couldn’t say it lacks historic importance.

“That marquee has been the face of the Loew’s and an iconic presence in Journal Square for 75 years,” Egan said. “Everyone who knows the Loew’s and the Square knows it. So even though it’s not original to the theater, it has become historically important in its own way.”

The original marquee was arched over the doorways, with “Loew’s Jersey” at the center top and letterboards below. It stayed there, albeit with a slight alteration, for just 20 years before the second version was installed in 1949.

“That was typical for theaters in the post-war era,” Egan said. “They were often updating, modernizing.”

That marquee remained for the next 75 years, with the Friends of the Loew’s renovating it after some damage. The new marquee will be a digital reimaging of the original marquee.

Gomez said that though the preservationist community is angered by how the marquee’s removal was handled, he hopes that it can open a dialogue with the city about best practices moving forward.

“They have to make meaningful movements now like, ‘Hey, we’re going to reassure you that this was a one-off incident, it was a mistake, we take responsibility for the mistake, it won’t happen again and in fact we want you involved with us,’” Gomez said. “Now that’s a wish list I know, but the ball’s in their court. Now they need to show us that it won’t happen again.”

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JERSEY CITY, NJ- Jersey City celebrated Halloween with a number of events, plenty of candy given out, and a variety of fun and spooky costumes worn across the City on Thursday.

TAPinto Jersey City stopped by the 7th Annual Ward A Trunk or Treat at Columbia Park to witness the family-friendly Halloween festivities hosted by Ward A Councilwoman Denise Ridley as well as the annual Spook-Tacular Halloween Trunk or Treat hosted by Council President Joyce Watterman on Dwight Street between Bergen Avenue and MLK Drive.

“It’s important for people to come in their own community and embrace what they have,” Watterman told TAPinto Jersey City. “So this is a great day. You see the parents out here with their children and you see how happy they are. They should have a right to celebrate any holiday they choose to in their own community. So we’re excited about it.”

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This is the second year we did this up here and the parents really appreciate it," Watterman said, promising that more community events like this were on the way. "the community is changing- it’s shifting. And what is happening is that people are taking back their own community.”

“Today is Halloween and It’s amazing to be able to be able to come out in the community and have something for the children giving them treats, music, and just an opportunity for them to just play and be kids,” Senator Angela McKnight told TAPinto Jersey City. “I’m so happy that I’m here and I just want to thank Council President Joyce Watterman for putting this event on.”

TAPinto Jersey City's haunted tour included one final stop at the Halloween Family Bash on the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Mall which, as the hosts at HDSID promised, was "a ghoulishly good time in historic downtown Jersey City on Halloween."

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