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FBW appeals approvals for high-rise development at Weehawken Cove
The Weehawken Cove connects Hoboken's north waterfront to Weehawken and will be the site of a new 4-acre park on the Hoboken side abutting the proposed high-rise site. FBW | November 18, [...]
The Billion Oyster Project harnesses the oyster’s unique ability to restore the New York Harbor’s ecosystem
At our November 12th event, the Fund for a Better Waterfront will bestow its annual Riparian Award to the Billion Oyster Project FBW | November 5, 2020 If you recently ordered [...]
Hoboken’s London Plane trees & how they can survive waterfront storms
Trees at South Waterfront have survived Sandy and Isaias but not at Maxwell Place Park FBW | September 8, 2020 On August 5, Hurricane Isaias reached the Northeast Coast of [...]
Liberty Harbor North at Jersey City waterfront based on the tenets of new urbanism
More photos: Liberty Harbor North in Jersey City, New Jersey – July 2020 Photo 1: New urbanist development in Jersey City at Liberty Harbor North. Photo 2: The street layout for [...]
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 [...]