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 [...]
A two-block stretch of Hoboken’s waterfront park is undergoing a massive infrastructure upgrade to stabilize the shoreline, further postponing long-awaited waterfront improvements FBW | June 6, 2025 | Photos by Lila Jung The linear park at Hoboken's waterfront is a popular route for runners, walkers and cyclists. For many [...]
Help shipping return to Hoboken, sustainably! FBW | May 7, 2025 The Schooner Apollonia, a restored 1946 merchant sailing vessel utilizing winds and the tides, ensures zero-emission deliveries of a variety of shelf-stable goods. Since its maiden voyage in May of 2020, the Apollonia has kept a full manifest through [...]
Discover Your Waterfront - Sunday, June 15, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Fund for a Better Waterfront, Resilience Adventures, the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse and OurTern.com invite you to DISCOVER YOUR WATERFRONT with activities for all ages on the Hoboken Cove beach, including kayaking, paddle boarding, way-finding games and hands-on environmental science [...]
We are grateful to those donors who have made a commitment to the future of Hoboken’s waterfront by including FBW in their estate plans. There are a variety of creative ways to achieve both your personal and charitable goals, while supporting a continued legacy of sound planning. Listed below are some deferred giving options [...]
Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Kindly RSVP below. 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 [...]
A guided tour and discussion about Hoboken’s shoreline Hoboken’s waterfront holds deep meaning for residents—a scenic backdrop, a gathering place, a connection to nature, and a space shaped by community action. How has the waterfront changed over time? Who is it for? How can we ensure it remains accessible to everyone? Join Fund [...]
Carrow Thibault and wife, Diane (right), with Susan Murcko and Michael Hill at FBW's annual Connect the Waterfront Event. Carrow Thibault has served on FBW’s Board of Directors for the past nine years and currently is the Board Secretary. Carrow is a registered architect in New Jersey and New York, accredited in [...]
City has posted “Request for Conceptual Development Proposals” from real estate developers that are due by May 5th FBW | March 26, 2025 Hoboken residents overwhelmingly spoke in opposition to the City’s Redevelopment Plan for Garage B at the March 19th City Council meeting. Clearly, the potential behemoth that could result from [...]
Noelle Thurlow and Jeffrey Train tell the remarkable comeback story of the Common Tern and efforts underway to secure its home on Hoboken's waterfront Thursday, April 17 from 5 to 7 pm - A free slide show and discussion Hoboken Public Library 500 Park Avenue, Hoboken Celebrate Earth [...]
Let your elected officials know how you feel: send an email or text today or speak on the 19th Planning Board determines that redevelopment plan is out of scale with surrounding neighborhood and thus conflicts with Hoboken's Master Plan FBW’s public opinion survey shows strong preference for low to mid-rise development and opposition to [...]
Four City Council members are running campaigns to be Hoboken’s next mayor. On Wednesday night, will developer money influence their votes on the Garage B Redevelopment ordinance? FBW | March 13, 2025 For the past several decades, Hoboken has been spared the insidious practice of real estate developers and firms [...]
Stories told by disparate voices about Hoboken and water to be distilled into a performance this spring at the Mile Square Theater FBW | March 1, 2025 On Chicago’s South Side and West Side, the Inheritance Theater Project (ITP) is bringing together artists, activists and local leaders, sparking a dialogue [...]
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Rose Ginsburg and Namibia Donadio from the Inheritance Theater Project lead the conversation about Hoboken + Water at the Hoboken Public Library, hosted by the Fund for a Better Waterfront. Attendees provided their word or phrase in response to "Hoboken" including historic, evolving, street life, human scale, enclosed, community, walkable, neighborly etc. [...]
“The Hoboken Meadows” is now on display at the Hoboken Historical Museum FBW | February 20, 2025 In the 1700s, Hoboken was an island. This is documented in the new exhibition, “The Hoboken Meadows,” at the Hoboken Historical Museum. The island, the elevated area around Castle Point, comprised about 25 [...]
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Neumann Leathers Building - 300 Observer Highway, Hoboken We would love to meet you and talk about our current projects as well as our 1990 plan that has guided our advocacy and shaped the development of Hoboken's waterfront. Getting to our office is [...]
Sarah Colker at FBW's Connect the Waterfront event last November. After graduation in 1981 from Princeton University in Structural Engineering, Sarah worked at Steinman, Boynton, Gronquist and Birdsall Engineering in New York City and Philadelphia, designing, rehabilitating and inspecting long span bridges including the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1988, Sarah and her husband Joe Moskowitz [...]
The developer released a rendering showing the lower 1/3 of a 28-story residential tower at 201 Observer Highway where they recently broke ground. FBW | February 6, 2025 In years past, the development of Hoboken has been guided by its zoning ordinance. Most of Hoboken falls within three residential zoning districts: R-1, [...]
