No Tattoo Shops Are Left In Hoboken, But That May Change With A Vote
No Tattoo Shops Are Left In Hoboken, But That May Change With A Vote Now that Hoboken Body Art has closed, the City Council may strike down a 25-ye...
No Tattoo Shops Are Left In Hoboken, But That May Change With A Vote Now that Hoboken Body Art has closed, the City Council may strike down a 25-year-old ordinance prohibiting new tattoo shops. Reply Hoboken Body Art, the only tattoo shop in the mile-square city of Hoboken, has closed. (Caren Lissner/Patch) Hoboken Body Art, the only tattoo shop in the mile-square city of Hoboken, closed earlier this year. They were grandfathered in when the city banned body art businesses in 1998. Should new tattoo parlors get to open? (Caren Lissner/Patch) HOBOKEN, NJ — After a local police officer opened a tattoo shop on Tenth Street in the late 1990s, Mayor Anthony Russo's administration decided they didn't want any more, and passed a law prohibiting that type of business from opening in the city again.