Hoboken Parking Authority

Really not that bad. The people in the office are merely enforcing easily accessible rules set in place by the city. Street cleaning is posted online so you don’t even have to go look when you decide to take a sick day, they will call you if they put up a no parking sign (for 2 – 3 days later) where you are already parked, all required documents are clearly laid out on the website so you can be prepared when visiting. If you can’t read and understand rules beforehand, do not get angry at the people working here for enforcing the policy.
I’m a resident who has parked on street for 4+ years and the rules are the rules. People who complain generally don’t have the correct paperwork in order to get a parking spot, then get upset when they get tickets for parking illegally. All streets and clearly signed. There are meters for visitors or your resident friend can get you a pass. Hoboken would become a massive park and ride for everyone in Manhattan if not for strict rules and enforcement. I’m actually disappointed they laxed the boot rules in 2014. Nothing made me happier than seeing an illegally parked non-​resident car booted while I remembered the 10, 15 minutes circling the blocks around my apartment looking for a spot the night before. I live here, pay rent here, and have to drive to work on a daily basis. I shouldn’t be robbed of my spots because visitors want more parking options.
Stop complaining, follow the rules, not everything is catered to you — it is beneficial to the greater good of the community to be strict in granting permits and enforcing regulations.
One point for the parking utility — update your policy to reflect the change in the NJ MVC where they do not issue address change stickers anymore.

I will gladly add to the 1 star ratings here. I have lived in Hoboken for 5 years, and dreaded every time I had to deal with the Hoboken parking authority. I cannot say all, but most who work there, cannot be bothered to help you or answer your questions. In fact, dealing with residents is most certainly a burden to them. If you absolutely MUST deal with the Hoboken parking authority, brace yourself to muster all your patience that is humanely possible.
The last straw for me was when I moved out of Hoboken about 2 weeks ago. I went early in advance to the Hoboken parking authority to reserve parking spaces for my U-​Haul. After paying $ 60 for these signs, I confirmed before I left that they would put the signs up for me the Wednesday before I moved out (I moved out on a Saturday). Come Friday, I noticed the signs were still not put up. I called early afternoon to let them know I was moving out the next day, and had paid the $ 60 to reserve no parking signs for the weekend. I reminded them that the signs were supposed to be put up on Wednesday, to give whoever was parked in front of my apartment enough notice to move their cars. After I called, they admitted it was their mistake, and told me the signs would immediately be put up that afternoon.
Come 9pm, they still were not up. I called again, and was told by someone else that they had received a call earlier that day that the signs had been ripped down. I corrected who I was speaking to, and let him know that he was actually speaking to the person who had called earlier that day, and I can absolutely confirm the signs were NEVER put up. Nice lie though, buddy. He then changed his story to say that they were simply too busy that evening, and did not get to putting up the signs yet. Extremely frustrated at this point, I had my boyfriend call back to help get to the bottom of what was really going on. Upon further investigation, they realized they had put the signs up the wrong weekend, and so it was never their intention to put them up the correct weekend.
So, the next day when I moved, cars were parked where my Uhaul should have been, because of their mistake. $ 60 down the drain. Guess I donated one last final present in addition to all the other unnecessary, overpriced tickets I received while living there. (I once received a ticket for parking within 15 feet of a crosswalk. Who else knew about that rule?) I was given a contact number to get in touch with someone who could apparently issue me a refund, but after 3 voicemails, I still have not received a call back. But that is to be expected.
UPDATE: I finally got in touch with Michelle Ippolito regarding my refund after going to the parking authority in person, and she was very friendly and helpful regarding the situation.

Hoboken parking authority staff are very rude & obnoxious! All they care about is money & money. They never let people know or list the Holiday schedule, so people still pay for the meter, even when they don’t have to. You can call & all you get is attitude after attitude. They are so unprofessional, rude, obnoxious & mean I have nothing nice to say about the employess or the parking authority itself.

just had to add my rant to the others, and mention that i wish my ticket was $ 43! this one is my second ticket for sixty eight dollars because i didn’t walk ten car lengths up third street to see that it was residential permit parking only. i’m glad, i tell you glad that hoboken’s water pipes have burst, because that means my gypsy curse is working! i curse the corrupt, fraudulent, evil parking authorities of the town of Hoboken!!!

Hell on Earth!!! The lowest of the low of government workers and government. Not sure if it’s possible to find a group of slower more incompetent workers.

F Hoboken Parking Minions.
Have been a Hoboken resident for 10 years. Was shopping with my 3-​year old at ShopRite when I came out after shopping to see a boot and ticket on my car. My residential parking sticker expired apparently. THANKS FOR THE EXTRA KICK IN THE BALLS HOBOKEN! A ticket would have sufficed. Upon researching my vehicle, the dumbfuk PU officer should have seen I was a resident, Im sure, but nooooooo BOOTED and TICKETED. F Hoboken and I live here.

These people are the absolutely atrocious. I am a resident of hoboken and recently parked my car, put the flashers on and walked to a bank at the corner.
Parking Officer Romano was sitting across the street. He watched me, got out of his car, wrote me a 45 $ ticket, and tried to walk away.
I walked up to him to confront him about it. His response? «I don’t care if you’ve lived here for 30 years, a**hole. Pay the meter whether it’s for 5 seconds or 2 hours».
This guy is totally incompetent, but even worse, he’s a total a-​hole. I feel bad for him, really, but ultimately he goes out of his way to be a d*ck to people.
What’s worse? This is just one example of the people that work for this joke of an establishment. They’re constantly screwing over people that live here — residents of their town — and others that come from other places get screwed even worse.
You WILL get booted if you’re here for more than 4 hours and park in a temporary parking spot. These people are money hungry, they’re rude, and they don’t care what you have to say.
The bottom line? If you’re visiting and yes, even if you’re a resident of the city, just don’t bring your car. These money hungry morons will be out waiting for the exact second you don’t give them their .25 cents.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

A rant is required. I had the audacity to park more than 4 hours. Ticket, boot, yada yada yada. You’ve heard that sob story more times than you can count, I’m sure.
Annoyed but accountable, I call, pay the boot fee. They give me a code to release the boot and have the privilege of returning it myself. The boot malfunctioned and wouldn’t release.
Another phone call. Someone will come retrieve it within 4 hours. 5 hours pass. Still booted. Call again. Another 4 hours is the response. Now my patience has clear run out. The woman is accusing me of not cooperating because I refuse to take the boot off. Excuse me. EXCUSE ME! I did not ask for a boot. I paid the fine without complaint. Your property malfunctioned. I waited patiently for five hours. This is no longer my problem. Well, she can’t control where those folks on golf carts go and in what order.
Um… This is where I really lost it. Hoboken is ONE SQUARE MILE. I can walk to ANY location in town in 20 minutes. It is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE to wait any longer than 20 minutes. As far as I’m concerned, you have effectively stolen my car. In fact, if you don’t have someone here in the next 20 minutes, I will be invoicing YOU for my rental car and my hourly rate for lost wages. Expect a letter from my attorney. You are on the clock.
10 minutes later a woman pulled up on a golf cart sweet as punch and released my car. Why does it have to be so difficult? Why does this town hate it’s residents? Why Hoboken? WHY?!

The City of Hoboken has some SCAM running. I was given a $ 30 Parking ticket for overtime parking, when I indeed paid the meter and placed the Ticket on the Curbside of my dash. When I showed up to show the stub I was told that I would need to set a court date to dispute the ticket, even with Parking Paid Stub in hand. I ended up just paying the $ 30, but if I did go to court and won I would still be required to pay a $ 20 court fee, basically they win no matter what. This is Corruption at its best, they should be ashamed taking advantage of people this way.

Can you give 0 stars? They are thieves.
I unknowingly got a ticket for parking in a spot that was set up for Street Cleaning. I probably deserved the ticket, however, it was never placed on my car, or if it was, somebody removed it before I got to it.
I got a notice in the mail saying that I owed the money for the ticket on top of another $ 10 for the late fee. I wrote a letter stating that I knew nothing about the ticket so my check was for $ 45 instead of $ 55. They sent me another notice demanding the remaining $ 10. How can you be late for something you didn’t know about.
I called the Parking Authority to have them drop the fee and they told me I had to go to court to have the judge drop it. How is anybody that has a job supposed to take off for 10 measly dollars. I have to send the check and it’s really pissing me off.
How many people do they do this to? What is $ 10 for me and you is probably 10’s of thousands of dollars for this stupid town. They know that it’s not enough money to take off of work for so they swindle you into paying.
Hoboken is a horribly corrupt town.

I was wrongfully given a boot in hoboken for ridiculous 4 hour parking rule. I took the Parking Authority to court and won my case resulting in the not guilty verdict. I have been dealing with Anthony Ricardi in the HPU office now for 5 months regarding my boot fine refund. So far he has lost the first 3 pages of paperwork regarding this issue and has since returned any calls or notified me of any conclusion to this matter. HPU is horrible, lazy and incompetent.

Scam artists. A. Romano (The man who probably wrote your ticket) should be jailed and farted on by the public seeking revenge.