Join the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse and Ke Aloha Outrigger for a free family festival featuring outrigger canoe, stand-up paddleboard and sea kayak races, as well as Hawaiian music, hula dancing, food and arts/crafts celebrating Polynesian Culture Saturday, July 27, 12-4pm The Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse and [...]
FBW | July 18, 2019 One of two alternate landscape plans for the Rebuild by Design park at the Weehawken Cove that ends abruptly at the Weehawken municipal boundary where the Hartz 18-story towers have been proposed. Update: At the October 29 meeting, in a dramatic turn of events, the Weehawken [...]
Who: The Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse and Ke Aloha Outrigger Canoe Club present the Hudson River Cup and Polynesian Ohana Festival, Saturday, July 27th. The Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse and its outrigger partner, Ke Aloha Outrigger Canoe Club, provide free paddling to more than 6,000 people along Hoboken’s [...]
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Another opportunity to celebrate all the recreation that flourishes at our very own Hoboken Cove. This spot is so unique! But Noelle Thurlow, founder of Resilience Paddle Sports says it best... More videos
FBW's 1990 Plan for the Hoboken Waterfront FBW | July 8, 2019 On Wednesday, July 10, the Hoboken City Council will cast a final vote on two amendments to the Municipal Open Space Trust Fund (OSTF) that would be subject to a referendum vote in November. Assuming the Council and then Hoboken’s [...]
Pier 40 on the west side of Manhattan Craig Whitaker | June 25, 2019 Building an 880,000 square-foot office building atop Pier 40 in the Hudson River is a terrible idea. An even worse idea is Councilwoman Deborah Glick’s hope that a compromise reducing the size to 700,000 square feet should be [...]
CITY OF WATER DAY AT HOBOKEN COVE SCHEDULE HUDSON RIVER FISHERMEN’S ASSOCIATION 10am - 2pm: Free fishing with HRFA The Hudson River Fishermen’s Association - an organization that has been steadfastly defending the health of the Hudson River for more than 50 years - will be fishing from Castle Point Pier (just south [...]
The Monarch Towers are proposed for this pier over the Hudson River at the Weehawken Cove making the project and its residents vulnerable to future storms. FBW | June 5, 2019 For the past eight years, the City of Hoboken, along with the Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW) and the Hudson [...]
Grand Marshal Jim Vance leading the 121st Hoboken Memorial Day Parade. FBW | May 20, 2019 Anyone who has spent time with Jim Vance, especially over drinks at a local watering hole, is likely to be familiar with his war stories told with great excitement, all these many years later. In 1963, Jim graduated [...]
Aerial photograph of Hoboken waterfront prior to any new development taking place FBW | May 12, 2019 Among NY Waterway’s bogus talking points is that a park at Union Dry Dock would be a burden on Hoboken taxpayers and that Hoboken doesn’t need any more parks. The concept of a linear [...]
Who The Fund for a Better Waterfront will be there. Visit our booth to learn what you can do to Save Your Waterfront. What Sign the petition to Gov. Murphy asking him to put the ferry terminal elsewhere, not in the middle of our waterfront park, adjacent to the only natural [...]
The Port Imperial Marina property owned by Arthur E. Imperatore, Sr. through Romulus Development Corp. FBW | April 24, 2019 In 1981, Arthur E. Imperatore, Sr., through Romulus Development Corp. acquired 342 vacant acres at the Weehawken and West New York waterfronts from the Penn Central Railroad. In 1984, Romulus purchased another [...]
Sylvia Schwartz, after the March on March 9 to Save Your Waterfront, explains why Union Dry Dock is the wrong place for a diesel ferry depot. More videos
Take the Global Wildlife Observation Challenge! Join Resilience Paddle Sports, the City of Hoboken, and Fund for a Better Waterfront as we compete with hundreds of other cities worldwide to observe, document and share images of wildlife - plants, insects and wild animals - right here in Hoboken. Want to learn more? Check [...]
March on March 9 to Save Your Waterfront attended by nearly 500 people sponsored by FBW, Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse & Resiliency Paddle Sports. Photo Credit: Peregrine Lane-Thurlow. But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest [...]
Thursday, March 21 City Bistro 56 14th Street, Hoboken 6 to 8 pm Send a message to Gov. Phil Murphy that you want Union Dry Dock to be part of Hoboken's public, waterfront park, not a ferry diesel depot. Meet us at City Bistro on the 21st. We have postcards addressed to the [...]
Neumann Leathers Building, 5th floor 300 Observer Highway, Hoboken, NJ Live music, mimosas, chocolate! Your waterfront needs some LOVE and it needs it NOW. NJ Transit and NY Waterway have planned to build a ferry diesel depot at Union Dry Dock, a move that would not only defy the will of [...]
The Monarch Towers are proposed for this pier over the Hudson River at the Weehawken Cove making the project and its residents vulnerable to future storms. FBW | January 31, 2019 FBW and City appeal decision to New Jersey Supreme Court In a January 7, 2019 decision, a New Jersey Appellate Court panel [...]
Free kayaking adjacent to Union Dry Dock sponsored by the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse, an all volunteer non-profit organization. FBW | January 28, 2019 1) Who owns Union Dry Dock? In 2017, without consulting with Hoboken’s elected officials or residents, NJ Transit (NJT) and NY Waterway (NYWW) hatched plans to acquire Union [...]
