Hoboken Arts and Music Festival
The Hoboken Arts and Music Festival is held each Spring and Fall on Washington St, in Hoboken New Jersey. I was fortunate enough to attend during my first ever trip to New York in 2007. Random traveller luck would have me meet a Hoboken Native whilst travelling in Prague who offered me her couch when I was travelling to NY later that year. Seeing as the cost of accommodation in Manhattan was out of my poor measly backpacker budget I accepted her offer and found myself busing from JFK to the Port Authority Bus Terminal on a Saturday night then getting the bus out to her apartment, on Washington St. We caught the ‘path train’ under the Hudson river to party in the East Village all night (felt like a real New Yorker saying that!) and then woke up Sunday morning to climb onto the fire escape (again, so New York) to find the Arts and Music festival happening at her door step.
What a great festival, full of interesting art, artists and stalls, amazing food and performances. Hoboken is a great little city right across from Manhattan, with lots of cool bars and restaurants, including one of my all time faves, Johnny Rockets! The festival was a great start to my week in NYC!