Staff/Board

Executive Director Ron Hine is a founding member of FBW and was a leader in the 1990 and 1992 referendum campaigns that defeated the massive City of Hoboken/Port Authority development schemes at the south waterfront.  He has been instrumental in forming a number of other nonprofit organizations including People for Open Government in Hoboken, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability in the Upper Delaware River Valley (Pennsylvania and New York), and NYH2O in New York City.  He has served as an officer and trustee for all of these organizations since they were formed. During the 1980s, he developed a neighborhood arson prevention project for the Flatbush Development Corporation in Brooklyn, NY, funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation. This became a national model for a computerized, community-based system for identifying arson-prone properties and developing intervention strategies. He began his working career as a community organizer in the Hudson County, NJ area and then as a tenant organizer in public housing in Jersey City, NJ.

Last October, the Hudson River Waterfront Conservancy granted its “Design Award” to Ron Hine and FBW in recognition of their work on Pier A Park and the riverfront promenade from Newark to Fourth Streets in Hoboken. In October 2009, Hine made a presentation at the Hoboken Historical Museum entitled “On the Waterfront: 1989 to 2009 – Paving the Way for a Public Park” as part of the Museum’s series, Up & Down the River, the History of the Hudson, 1609 to 2009.

Intern Jennifer Ostroth graduated last year from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and social welfare. She recently returned from Hanoi, Vietnam where she worked for the Research Center for Management and Sustainable Development. She has worked for a number of other nonprofit organizations including the Innocence Project in New York City and the Student Health and Wellfare Centres Organization in Cape Town, South Africa.

She is assisting FBW in a variety of tasks including research, grant writing, social networking and outreach.

Intern Aaron Moskowitz, born and raised in Hoboken, just finished his junior year at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, majoring in economics and political science. Aaron has engaged in a number of interesting projects as a member of the Microfinance Club and working with Engineers without Borders.

For FBW, Aaron has conducted title searches on waterfront properties, evaluated developer proposals and researched engineering reports regarding collapsing portions of Hoboken’s waterfront.