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The show's production office is atop an aging seven-story building housing such other enterprises as the Hoboken Health Club, Choices in Cardiology and Cogent Information Systems, Inc. Welcome to headquarters for the makers of NBC's "Dream Street," a coming dramatic series about the lives of young blue-collar men and women in this venerable, hard-nosed waterfront town of 42,500, right across the Hudson River from Manhattan.

Big Day Coming Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock Jesse Jarnow Gotham Books: 362 pp., $18 This is as scintillating as it gets: The opening and closing anecdotes of "Big Day Coming" revolve around typos. Shockingly, promoters and newspapers have had a chronic habit of misspelling the name of Yo La Tengo, the 26-year-old Hoboken, N.J., band whose members are the book's reluctant antiheroes. "Yo La Tango," "Wo La Tengo," "Yo Lo Tengo" - Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and their multiple bassists have suffered through an endless stream of typos by writers who apparently don't speak Spanish.

A New Jersey Transit train crowded with morning rush-hour commuters failed to brake and crashed into a concrete abutment at the Hoboken train station today, injuring more than 30 people. Hoboken Police Chief George Crimmins said there were no reports of serious injuries although several people suffered broken bones and cuts. The force of the crash buckled the pavement in the busy terminal, across the Hudson River from New York.

The show's production office is atop an aging seven-story building housing such other enterprises as the Hoboken Health Club, Choices in Cardiology and Cogent Information Systems, Inc. Welcome to headquarters for the makers of NBC's "Dream Street," a coming dramatic series about the lives of young blue-collar men and women in this venerable, hard-nosed waterfront town of 42,500, right across the Hudson River from Manhattan.

Mayor Thomas Vezzetti, the bootlegger's son who took to the streets with a bullhorn to win elections and fight the gentrification of this Hudson River city, died early Wednesday. He was 59. Vezzetti, a lifelong bachelor, was said to have been angered by the outcome of a special election Tuesday in the 5th Ward. A councilman who frequently criticized Vezzetti's policies won a special election over a candidate Vezzetti had supported.

Big Day Coming Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock Jesse Jarnow Gotham Books: 362 pp., $18 This is as scintillating as it gets: The opening and closing anecdotes of "Big Day Coming" revolve around typos. Shockingly, promoters and newspapers have had a chronic habit of misspelling the name of Yo La Tengo, the 26-year-old Hoboken, N.J., band whose members are the book's reluctant antiheroes. "Yo La Tango," "Wo La Tengo," "Yo Lo Tengo" - Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and their multiple bassists have suffered through an endless stream of typos by writers who apparently don't speak Spanish.

President Reagan said Tuesday he will nominate Kenneth C. Rogers, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

* Kent Glenn, 61, a jazz pianist and composer who led a 10-piece ensemble in the Los Angeles area through much of the 1980s, died Saturday of heart failure in Hoboken, N.J.

A new stamp honoring Frank Sinatra goes on sale next week. First-day-of-sale ceremonies for the 42-cent stamp will be held Tuesday at three locations familiar to the famed singer and actor -- New York City, Las Vegas and Hoboken, N.J. (The price of a first-class stamp goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday.)

Two persons, including a pregnant woman, were hospitalized and 52 others suffered minor injuries when a rush-hour commuter train rammed a concrete abutment in the Hoboken, N.J. station, authorities said. "People went flying everywhere," said Clare Sylvestri, a rider who suffered a slight nose injury. "People were all over the place."

Mayor Thomas Vezzetti, the bootlegger's son who took to the streets with a bullhorn to win elections and fight the gentrification of this Hudson River city, died early Wednesday. He was 59. Vezzetti, a lifelong bachelor, was said to have been angered by the outcome of a special election Tuesday in the 5th Ward. A councilman who frequently criticized Vezzetti's policies won a special election over a candidate Vezzetti had supported.

A New Jersey Transit train crowded with morning rush-hour commuters failed to brake and crashed into a concrete abutment at the Hoboken train station today, injuring more than 30 people. Hoboken Police Chief George Crimmins said there were no reports of serious injuries although several people suffered broken bones and cuts. The force of the crash buckled the pavement in the busy terminal, across the Hudson River from New York.

Police in Hoboken, N.J., say a man posing as a waiter collected $186 in cash from diners at two restaurants and walked out with the money. The man, said to be in his 20s and wearing a dark button-down shirt, yellow tie and khaki pants, reportedly asked two women if they needed anything else before paying. They said no and handed him $90. About two hours later he approached three women dining at another restaurant, took $96 and never returned with the change.

An ecstatic James R. Lloyd landed his fragile "Vin Fizz II" airplane at Long Beach Airport today to the cheers of about 500 spectators, ending an eight-week recreation of the first transcontinental flight, a 1911 odyssey by barnstormer Calbraith Perry Rodgers. Lloyd, 38, of Fishkill, N.Y., started the flight Sept. 17 in Hoboken, N.J., 75 years after Rodgers took off from Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. Rodgers completed his trip after 49 days, 76 stops and 20 crashes.