FBW's Connect the Waterfront Honorary Chair Mark Stehli chatting with guests. FBW's Chair Kate Valenta addressing the crowd. Lynne Shapiro accepted the FBW Riparian Award for her late husband Aaron Lewit. Janine Berger, Heather Gibbons, Kate Valenta & Melissa Shepard Otis Train, Jennie Pu, [...]
The cafe can no longer be a destination restaurant and must serve park users The patio enclosure remains, obstructing a portion of the state-mandated Hudson River Waterfront Walkway The Sinatra Park Cafe prior to the addition of the enclosed patio. FBW | November 20, 2024 The City of Hoboken [...]
Aaron Lewit helped to spearhead FBW’s work with developers in creating Maxwell Place Park; Jeffrey Train has led efforts to preserve Hoboken’s colony of terns at the north waterfront At this year’s Connect the Waterfront event on November 14, the Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW) will bestow two Riparian Awards, one to [...]
Expanding a city’s tree canopy coverage is an essential strategy to combat climate change. The last significant addition to Hoboken tree canopy coverage was at Hoboken's South Waterfront in the 1990s. FBW | October 16, 2024 The Urban & Community Forestry Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [...]
More than 1 ticket? Let us know who else will be attending on November 14. There are no paper tickets. Your name and others attending with you will be on a check-in list at the door. If someone other than yourself will be attending the event, please include on the form below. [...]
Opposition from FBW, artists and local residents has preserved the iconic views from Hoboken’s beloved waterfront park FBW | September 30, 2024 The City of Hoboken made no public announcement but quietly withdrew its proposed controversial $500,000 sculpture for Pier C Park as part of its Public Arts Program. The artwork [...]
It is time for the City to rescind this draconian ordinance adopted during a troubled time over 50 years ago Hoboken's Pier A Park after dark. FBW | September 24, 2024 On September 18, 2024, in a rare event, the Hoboken City Council failed to pass an amended ordinance on first [...]
Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner takes credit for restricting the size of the new facility and lobbying for cleaner electric ferries Port Imperial Marina, NY Waterway’s current maintenance facility at Weehawken’s waterfront FBW | September 20, 2024 On September 17, the Jersey Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Transportation Passenger Ferry [...]
An opportunity to expand the beach area at Maxwell Place Park has been overlooked FBW | September 11, 2024 You can provide input through an online skatepark survey until September 30. There will also be an on-site meet-up on Tuesday, September 17 at 5 p.m. at the current Castle [...]
Published in the Hudson County View September 3, 2024 Dear Editor, In the 1980s, as maritime industries abandoned the Hudson River coastline, the State of New Jersey adopted Coastal Zone Management regulations that required a 30-foot public easement at the water’s edge — the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway — running 18 [...]
Infill development combines the old with the new, preserving and renewing Hoboken’s urban village ambiance FBW | August 28, 2024 What developer would consider building on a narrow 25-foot wide lot that is only 100 feet deep, sandwiched between several [...]
Join Honorary Chair Mark Stehli and FBW for this year’s Connect the Waterfront event on Thursday, November 14th, 2024, from 7-9 PM at the Hoboken Elks Club We’re featuring an open bar (beer & wine), live music and fantastic hors d’oeuvres. We’ll present two FBW Riparian Awards, one in memoriam to Aaron [...]
The City’s lease of the Sinatra Park Cafe raises serious questions about the nature of our public parks FBW | August 1, 2024 This past March, the City of Hoboken put out a request for proposals to lease the Sinatra Park Cafe. Since 2015, this structure has been occupied by [...]
Did you vote in the July 1990 referendum that defeated the 3.2 million sq. ft. development - including a 33-story office tower - proposed by the Port Authority of NY/NJ and the City of Hoboken for what is today Pier A Park? We want you! As part of our annual fundraising party on November [...]
More than a century ago, North German Lloyd Lines built a massive stone bulkhead at Hoboken's South Waterfront that still stands today, despite the relentless currents and tides of the Hudson River. Other portions of Hoboken's waterfront have not fared so well. In 2009, a portion of Sinatra Park collapsed, closing off [...]
The Hudson River Fishermen began the day at Castle Point Fishing Pier supplying rods, reels and bait along with angling lessons. The River Trip led by the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse returned to the cove around 10 a.m. The team from Fund for a Better Waterfront talked to [...]
FBW’s Ron Hine will lead a tour explaining the transformation of Hoboken’s waterfront over the past 34 years -- based on FBW's 1990 Plan for the Hoboken Waterfront -- and provide updates on Union Dry Dock/Maritime Park, the Sinatra Drive Project and the new park under construction at the Weehawken Cove Saturday, July 13, [...]
City of Water Day is a region-wide day of free, family-friendly events on or near the water sponsored by the Waterfront Alliance and NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program. Now in its 17th year, this event serves to champion a climate-resilient New York and New Jersey Harbor. In Hoboken, the Fund for a Better Waterfront, [...]
FBW presses for safeguards to ensure that NY Waterway exits at the end of its lease FBW | June 28, 2024 Safeguarding Maritime Park for its ultimate use as public open space The Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW) has worked with its legal team to put various protections for [...]
This family of Canada Geese were the first visitors to our booth on Discover Your Waterfront day. Nature was competing with the many people flocking to Hoboken's waterfront park on this beautiful spring day. Co-sponsor Resilence Adventures set up shop on the Hoboken Cove beach. Noelle Thurlow spent the morning teaching families [...]
