Hoboken Student's Art Featured On PATH Trains This Summer

HOBOKEN, NJ — When Hoboken residents take a PATH train this summer and see a poster with a set of palm trees, they can smile with a bit of hometown pride.

Naomi Cooke, a seventh-grader at Hoboken Middle School, recently nabbed the grand prize in the Port Authority’s Hoboken Summer Poster Contest. Her artwork – which is captioned “Have A Great Summer, From PATH” – will be displayed in stations and on rail cars throughout the summer.

The contest is held in partnership with the Hoboken Board of Education and aims to show off the talents of the city’s up-and-coming artists, the Port Authority stated.

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Under the guidance of their art teachers, participating students created summer-themed posters. About 100 were submitted to a panel of PATH and other Port Authority judges, and winners were chosen in three categories: Winners were selected from three grade categories: Grades K-2, 3-5 and 6-8.

Prior to the unveiling of the winning poster, the event featured performances by the Hoboken Middle School All Star Choral Ensemble at the main entrance of the NJTRANSIT Hoboken Station, followed by remarks by PATH Director/General Manager Clarelle DeGraffe, Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla and Principal Charles Bartlett from the Hoboken Public School District.

The winner in the 3-5 category is fifth-grader Icez Cruz of Thomas G. Connors Elementary School, and second-grader Emma Henderson of Wallace Elementary School was selected as winner from the grade K-2 group.

See all the winners’ entries, courtesy of the Port Authority.

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