By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg ? Jun 14th, 2010 ?

Despite the threat of thunderstorms, the rain held off all day and hundreds of people flocked to the newly renovated and reopened Hamilton Park in Downtown Jersey City on Saturday for the annual Hamilton Park Festival. Festival-goers were greeted by representatives from many local nonprofit and community groups, live music from a number of bands and plenty of area residents trying to find new homes for their unwanted stuff.

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http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/ ... 0-hamilton-park-festival/

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Yes, it was a beautiful day in a wonderfully restored park and many excellent musicians and dancers, especially the group, Raw Elementz from Dickinson High School!

Congrats to all those at HPNA involved in the hard work over the past years and especially today.

This was a great event! And a special thanks to the kids who break danced. You guys were great!

thanks to everyone organizing, volunteering, and participating ... it was a great event and we have tons of fun.

Today, Saturday 12th June Hamilton Park festival!

Live bands all day, dance performances, huge flea market, facepainting, BBQ grill, kids sprinklers will be on.

Come out to the park!

Robin.

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Yes, Dan is right, without the HPNA guiding the process and providing constant feedback, a plethora of mtgs., surveys, etc., this renovation never would have happened.

I suggest we all go up to the HPNA table on Sat, June 12th from 11 until 6PM, during the 25th Annual Hamilton Park Festival and personally thank them, sign their mailing list and contribute to the group who brought this renovation.

Just got back from the reopened Hamilton Park. Looks good! Just a little concerned that my daughter won't want to go to van vorst park now that she's seen the options in the much larger HP playground!

As for the basketball court, it looked fine. More litter was in the kids playground.

The opening of the park has inspired me to officially join the JC List community after a year of lurking.

What a beautiful "addition" to the neighborhood. It's already made my walk to work much more enjoyable, and I'm looking forward to making the most out it. It's amazing how much a lively Hamilton Park brightens up the area.

And thank you to those of you here that were involved in making this park what it is - you deserve a HUGE pat on the back. It was well worth the wait.

Lollibomb Beauty will be there with the Jersey City Craft Mafia!

See ya'll there!

-Luca

I love the park. I love it, I love it, I love it. It looks great, and seeing so many people in there enjoying it today made me really happy. So glad it's open again!

Sassy Sweet Treats is excited to return to Hamilton Park for the 25th Anniversary Festival! See you there!

Cocoa Bakery will be there

made with love artisan bakery and cafe will be there to help celebrate this wonderful day! we love our hamilton park neighbors!
love, peace and cookies!

The bands are lined up for the Hamilton Park festival on Saturday 12th June, live music in the park all day long.

Robin.

Sell your things at the HPNA park festival on Saturday 12th June 2010.

The park will finally be open!

Robin.

25th ANNIVERSARY HAMILTON PARK FESTIVAL
& Park Re-opening Ceremony

Sign-up form:
http://www.hamiltonpark.org/PDFS/hpna.parkfest.June.12.2010.pdf

Saturday, June 12, 2010 (10:00 am to 6:00 pm)
Rain date: Sunday, June 13th
Set-up time: 7:00 am to 10:00 am Clean-up: 6:00 p m ? 8:00 pm

REGISTRATION FORM
COST: $10 current HPNA member; $20 non-member; $25 Day of Festival

MAIL form and check made out to:
Hamilton Park Neighborhood Assoc.
PMB #166,
344 Grove Street,
Jersey City, NJ. 07302

Advance Registration Deadline: Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Morning of the Park Festival - $25 -- CASH ONLY

Food Vendors: $75.00 -- Food vendors must pre-register
Commercial Businesses: $75.00 (includes Real Estate agencies) Please contact us if you?d like to be
a sponsor and donate prizes for the raffle.

Non-Profit/Community Service Groups are invited to exhibit at no charge, but registration is
required.

SPACES: 8 ft. wide by 4 ft. deep. BRING YOUR OWN TABLES. Tables are not provided. Space
filled on first-come, first served basis the morning of the Festival. No motor vehicles are allowed in the
Park. Please park in authorized parking spaces. JCPD will ticket any illegally parked vehicles.
HPNA membership is open to local residents. Annual fee is $10.00 per household, per calendar (Jan-
Dec) year. Members enjoy a discount off their table space. You may include the membership fee with
the table space reservation. Please fill out a membership form at the HPNA table the day of the
Festival.