For the first time since the 2017 exhibition of Michael Flanagan’s photographs, “Hoboken People & Places, 1976-1994,” the Hoboken Museum is pleased to screen filmmaker Nora Jacobson’s award-winning documentary, “Delivered Vacant,” Saturday, February 1, at 7 pm. 

The 1992 film chronicles eight years of housing wars in Hoboken, NJ, in the throes of its conversion from mostly affordable blue-collar city to a sought-after bedroom community for white-collar New Yorkers. It features a real life cast of long time residents, newly arrived yuppies, tenant organizers, real estate developers, immigrants from around the world and the wackiest mayor in America.

In late 1980s, a battle raged between longtime residents of Hoboken’s and the developers who sought to convert their inexpensive housing into high-priced rental and condominium units. Jacobson spent nearly a decade investigating the issue for her critically acclaimed documentary, “Delivered Vacant,” focusing her lens on the city’s pro-affordable housing mayor, Tom Vezzetti, and a cast of locals ranging from elderly and immigrant residents being forced from their homes to aspiring artists who rely on the area’s cheap rents. Click here for more information on the film. 

Admission is $10; $5 for Museum members and students.