The Hoboken Cafe 

aelroy and I used to go to Stevens' library to work on our stuff because there are fewer distractors there than at home and it's closeby, haven't gone there in a while - any recommendations for good spots and guest student policy [I don't need to use reference materials and have i.d. from another University, though online access is nice for e-mail access though I guess I could hold off on that - my #1 distractor anyway]

Daphna,

The Weehawken Public Library is pretty nice. There are a lot of little nooks to study in and it is pretty quiet.

http://www.bccls.org/members/weeh.shtml

hey, good idea, I actually used to live in Weehawken before Jersey City heights, and never went to that library, though I saw the building from the highway a bunch of times and always like it