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HOBOKEN, New Jersey – Say it with your jerry Seinfeld voice: Who are those other people driving around Hoboken in three-wheeled cars and motorcycles in formation since the start of the coronavirus pandemic?
While some citizens have fun with Slingshot cars, other flashy cars play their music too loud.
Residents of Hoboken’s Facebook teams noted that some nights, three-wheeled car crews or Slingshots drive around the city, a rare spectacle before the pandemic. Motorcycles were also seen on teams of five or more people.
Does Hoboken have a square kilometer, more horny for hot rodders now that there’s less traffic? Or are those drivers there to entertain other people with a quarantined car display?
“I’ve won social media court cases about full-volume car music, noisy motorcycle silencers and those open-top three-wheeled cars that run their engines and gaming music,” police chief Ken Ferrante said Friday. “We ask our officials to address these quality-of-life issues whenever possible. Agents respond from three hundred to 400 service calls a day, and we treat them in order of priority.
He said the priorities were “apprehension, detection and prevention of violent and property crimes, medical consultations, counter-terrorism operations, reckless and reckless vehicle operations and quality of life problems.”
He ed: “We are also in a pandemic where motor vehicles are stopped for device violations are misperviewed for creating exposure and contact with agentArray … by pieces that are precedent or harmful actions.
Ferrante said he thought there were more of those cars because “other people don’t have places to go inland, so our waterfront has a destination.” He noted: “I think the court cases we get from Washington Street [are] because the [traffic] lighting devices are synchronized to be the other and every two blocks. Therefore, traffic moves more slowly, making it safer from a pedestrian point of view and for mitigating accidents, but unfortunately this also means that traffic is not as fluid and that more people listen to music or silencers for longer.
Ferrante said he had no knowledge of any organization that met in Hoboken with his vehicles.
Last month, one of the motorcycles aroused the suspicions of the police.
Approximately 11:23 p.m. on July 8, Sheriff Marco Grossmann was on patrol when he saw approximately five motorcycles on a closed street. Operators allegedly overlooked a barricade, blocking eastbound traffic at the intersection of Second and River streets, police said.
Grossmann tried to prevent a motor vehicle. Operators ignored Officer Grossmann’s signals to prevent and left in other directions, police announced in July.
Grossmann followed the motorcycle he was following until he saw the driving force walking towards the sidewalk, police said. His lieutenant ordered him not to pursue the vehicle, but the police stood firm.
Carlos Nerivera, Elizabeth, 23, arrested at 94 Washington Street and charged with evasion, marijuana property with the intention of distributing marijuana with the intention of distributing within 1,000 feet of a school, marijuana property with the intention of distributing 500 feet of a park inside, marijuana property, property of drug accessories and seven subpoenas of motor vehicles.
The car citations were: closed road driving, reckless driving, fictitious plates, suspended driving, possession of a harmful controlled substance in a motor vehicle, unlicensed driving force and overdue license. Nerivera released with a hearing date.
Ferrante said most of those arrested for quality-of-life violations came from outside Hudson County, as arrests similar to bar problems.
In similar news:
Those who need to walk down Washington Street will see their travels limited some nights due to a “Summer Streets” initiative that closes a component of the streets for dinner. Find out more here.
The city of Hoboken adjusted its total number of coronavirus deaths to 31 on Thursday and announced over the weekend that testing would be presented at two sites on Monday and Tuesday. Find out more here.
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This article was originally published in the Hoboken patch.