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.
Recent Articles
The Hudson River waterfront and the planning process: public or private?
Photo 1: The newly built Ellipse, a luxury residential 44-story tower, on a pier at Jersey City's Newport waterfront. Photo 2: Bird-eye view of Hoboken's South Waterfront with a waterfront park [...]
Latest Lincoln Harbor project, approved by Weehawken Planning Board, disregards good planning principles
Planner testifying before Planning Board cites the part of Weehawken built 100 years ago as a model for creating walkable, close-knit neighborhoods and a basis for good planning today. FBW | June 19, 2020 [...]
10,000 people take to the streets and waterfront parks of Hoboken in historic protest
Friday's historic protest march in Hoboken ended at Pier A Park. Photo by Ron Bautista. FBW | June 10, 2020 On Friday, June 6, 2020, ten thousand people took to the streets of [...]
With demise of Google’s plan, Toronto has opportunity to create a truly public lakefront
Sidewalk Labs' former plan for the Toronto lakefront, aimed to make Toronto the global hub for urban innovation but failed to delineate public space at the water's edge from upland private development. By [...]
Shipyard developers have sought to privatize an otherwise public waterfront that has benefited them immensely
The Monarch Towers proposed for this pier over the Hudson River at the Weehawken Cove would have privatized what should be an additional portion of a public waterfront. Nine years of costly [...]
The case for keeping parks & public spaces open – Part II
Liberty State Park, 600 acres of much needed public open space in Jersey City, New Jersey, will reopen on May 2 Subscribe to City of Hoboken Nixle Alerts to get daily updates on [...]
Hudson Gives, A Day of Online Giving, Is A Lifeline To Local Nonprofits
On Thursday, May 14th, FBW will join dozens of other local non-profit organizations registered for #HudsonGives, an online day of giving. For the second year in a row, the Hudson County Chamber Foundation has hosted [...]
An Earth Day remembrance of Rachel Carson who gave birth to the modern environmental movement
FBW | April 22, 2020 For Earth Day 2020, the year of the coronavirus pandemic, there will be no marches or rallies. Instead, we suggest you read a Rachel Carson book. Her writing is [...]
The case for keeping parks & public spaces open
Central Park in New York City. Subscribe to City of Hoboken Nixle Alerts to get daily updates on the coronavirus FBW | April 16, 2020 Across the country and around the world, [...]
Court ruling could help save historic Hoboken Land Building
FBW | April 8, 2020 In 1838, the last year of Colonel John Stevens' life, his family founded the Hoboken Land & Improvement Company to manage and sell his real estate holdings that originally [...]
In Hoboken and across the nation, parks close as the coronavirus takes its toll
Church Square Park in Hoboken, New Jersey. Photo by Paul Schoenberger. But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them [...]
Oldest building at historic Hoboken Train and Ferry Terminal could face the wrecking ball
April 2, 2020 - Yesterday, the Federal Transit Administration and New Jersey Transit extended the comment period beyond the March 31 deadline. Please provide your feedback via this brief City of Hoboken survey. A virtual [...]