Hoboken Coffee Shop, Indie Bookstore Open New Site Monday

HOBOKEN, NJ — A popular Hoboken coffee shop called Bwe Kafe and an independent bookstore called Little City Books will host a ribbon-cutting for their uptown location adjacent to each other on Wednesday, Jan. 15. The new site is located 1401 Adams St., near the 14th Street Viaduct between Hoboken and Jersey City Heights.

Little City Tweeted on Sunday that the public can actually come by two days earlier, Monday, Jan. 13. They showed photos of the shop. Similarly, Bwe Kafe posted on their website that their "North End" Hoboken location will be open on Monday.

Bwe Kafe opened its first location at 1002 Washington St. in 2013. It's known for its South American blends and for donating funds to educate Haitian youths. It has another location in the Newport section of Jersey City.

Little City Books opened its first location five blocks from the Hoboken Train terminal on May 2, 2015, Independent Bookstore Day. It was founded by Donna Garban and Kate Jacobs. Garban said last month, about the expansion, "A town has to want a bookstore in order to have a bookstore. Lots of our customers are from uptown, and they're excited about the new store." Thus, to paraphrase Mark Twain, the death of print is greatly exaggerated.

At the new location, customers will head into Bwe at the corner of 14th and Adams streets. They can walk back through an archway to reach Little City Books.

Garban said the uptown bookstore will be 350 square feet, and will hold 3,000 books. It will have a mezzanine in back. While there will be no seating in the store, customers can sit in the coffee shop in front.

The formerly industrial northwest section of Hoboken has been redeveloped over the past 15 years, with the Hoboken Biergarten restaurant and several other eateries and luxury apartment buildings rising. The taller buildings have views of the Manhattan skyline.

The area is alongside the 14th Street Viaduct, an elevated county road that carries passengers from northern Hoboken up the Palisade hills to both Jersey City Heights and Union City.

The ribbon cutting on Wednesday will take place at 10 a.m.

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