We believe that successful waterfronts begin with sound planning, time-tested urban design and an understanding that the water’s edge belongs to the public.
Earth Day Movie Night on Thursday, April 18th at 6 p.m. at the Community Church of Hoboken
Join FBW and Resilience Adventures as we celebrate Earth Day with the free screening of two remarkable environmental films, A Living River and Chasing Coral. A Living River is a short film by award-winning National Geographic filmmaker Jon Bowermaster that chronicles how the Hudson River – after suffering years of overfishing and pollution – is once again teeming with life. Chasing Coral follows a group of photographers and scientists on a “visually staggering and suspenseful” global trek to document how climate change is causing the rapid collapse of coral reefs around the world.
Jane’s Walk: Seeing Hoboken through Jane Jacobs’ Eyes
Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
A one-and-a-quarter mile walking tour led by FBW’s Executive Director Ron Hine
RSVP for details & starting location
Sponsored by the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Fund for a Better Waterfront
In her seminal book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs writes about her West Village neighborhood in Manhattan. But she could have been describing densely populated Hoboken, with its rows of walk-up residential buildings built more than 100 years ago, interspersed with ground-floor shops, cafes, bars and restaurants. Hoboken’s traditional urban street grid, with 200-foot wide blocks and small lots, makes for walkable, lively streets. Jane Jacobs was also a vocal critic of the sterile housing developments that replaced these diverse, vital neighborhoods. Hoboken also has examples of these failed 1960s-era projects. The tour will cover the good and the bad as Jane Jacobs would have seen it. The tour begins at the south end of town and will end at the Hoboken Historical Museum at 1300 Hudson Street.
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