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.
Help save the oldest building at the Hoboken Train & Ferry Terminal from the wrecking ball
The Record Building, a unique, historic structure sitting parallel to the train tracks and fronting Observer Highway between Washington and Hudson Streets, is at risk. The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs has declared it an “unsafe structure.” The State Historic Preservation Office has required New Jersey Transit to conduct an analysis of alternatives on the proposal to demolish the structure. Please submit your comments to NJ Transit & participate in an April 16 online public meeting.
Close Sinatra Drive to cars to create space for exercise and #socialdistancing
Hoboken suffers from an open space deficit and narrow sidewalks. As people require fresh air and exercise each day, they have flocked to the waterfront. To adhere to social distance protocols, we need more space. For now, closing Sinatra Drive to car traffic and opening it up for walking, jogging, cycling, etc. is a simple measure the City can take to keep people safe & healthy. [We have put this petition on hold for the time being as the City of Hoboken has closed public parks due to the failure of some people to observe social distancing.]
Recent Articles
City to make offer to buy Union Dry Dock; opposition to refueling facility has deterred state takeover — so far
Aerial view of 901 Sinatra Drive, the property formerly owned by Union Dry Dock and Repair Co. looking east at Hoboken's Hudson River waterfront. FBW | September 30, 2019 Hoboken to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rebuild by Design floodwalls would have had no impact on Friday’s flash flooding
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Final legal dispute over Monarch Towers reaches the New Jersey Supreme Court
FBW | January 22, 2020 Standing from left to right: Justice Lee A. Solomon, Justice Anne M. Patterson, Justice Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina and Justice Walter F. Timpone. Sitting from left to [...]
A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man by Emily Badger (New York Times 9-5-2019)
Burning Man's Black Rock City in the Nevada desert Amid the desert orgies, Paul Romer investigates a provocative question: Is this bacchanal a model of urban planning? When FBW began its Plan [...]
The amended redevelopment plan would allow for more buildings like this one – 800 Harbor Blvd. — to the south at the Weehawken Cove.