Who The Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW) will be there. Please visit our booth. We want to meet you and talk about the latest issues facing our waterfront. This annual festival is sponsored by the City of Hoboken. What Come see FBW's 1990 Plan for the Hoboken Waterfront that will be [...]
Crabs, Shrimp, and Eels, Oh my! By Jennifer Mynard | September 4, 2025 On a blustery August day, two counselors from Resilience Paddle Sports, a gaggle of grade schoolers, and I, made our way from Shipyard Park to the southeast corner of Weehawken Cove. We were there to get [...]
Township failed to comply with basic requirements of New Jersey’s Municipal Land Use Law Hoboken Point at the Weehawken Cove nearing completion in the spring of 2024. FBW | August 29, 2025 THE BACKGROUND Since the 1980s, Hartz Mountain Industries has been developing the 50-acre Lincoln Harbor site situated on [...]
An oversized project is scaled back, with a plan for more electric ferries, to address community concerns Port Imperial Marina, NY Waterway’s current maintenance facility at Weehawken’s waterfront FBW | August 20, 2025 In 1981, Arthur Imperatore, Sr., who died four years ago, acquired 370 acres of land at the Weehawken/West [...]
The jugglers, clowns, musicians and acrobats offer up a blend of circus artistry and environmental storytelling for riverfront communities The Flotsam River Circus, a zany troupe of puppeteers, acrobats, musicians and clowns, have enchanted waterfront communities across the country. After traveling the 363-mile length of the Erie Canal and [...]
Renderings show the prospect of a festival marketplace at the Hoboken Terminal but also a bleak, treeless plaza devoid of the historic cobblestones The public has been denied access to Warrington Plaza at the Hoboken Terminal for more than 24 years. NJ Transit, the owner of the 40 acres [...]
Come join Honorary Chair Elvi Guzman, Founder-President of Winning Events Group, and FBW on Thursday, November 13, from 7-9 PM at the Elks Lodge on Washington Street. This is FBW’s only fundraising party of the year – please plan to attend! Your support helps us fulfill our mission to achieve a fully-connected public [...]
The State of New Jersey requires a transparent, open process when it comes to bidding on public contracts. The City is looking to designate a developer who contributed $19,200 to campaign coffers of the mayor, an assemblyman and two council members. FBW | July 21, 2025 New Jersey has enacted laws to [...]
Now in its 18th year, City of Water Day is a region-wide celebration organized by the Waterfront Alliance and the NY–NJ Harbor & Estuary Program. By Lila Jung | July 17, 2025 On Saturday July 12, four men sat casually in fold-out chairs, fishing lines cast into the Hudson, [...]
Kate Valenta on Garden Street, Hoboken, NJ. (Photo credit: Lila Jung) by Lila Jung In 2014, Kate Valenta was perusing the Hoboken Reporter when she came across an article about Ron Hine’s work with FBW. This makes complete sense, she thought, sitting in her apartment — so she contacted Ron to ask [...]
The Hudson River Fishermen Association offered a fishing clinic at the North Pier at Maxwell Place Park providing rods, reels & bait. (Photo credit: Lila Jung) Our Tern's Jeffrey Train provided a spotting scope for people to view the return of the terns and their hatchlings on Pier 11. The [...]
July 7, 2025 Free, family-friendly activities throughout the day including fishing, bird (tern) watching, kayaking, outrigger canoeing, stand-up paddle boarding and citizen science WHO: The Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW), the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse, Ke Aloha Outrigger, Resilience Adventures, the Hudson River Fishermen’s Association, Our Tern and the [...]
30,000 tourist flights annually leave from NYC heliport and 7,933 nonessential flights from Kearny so far this year By Jennifer Mynard | July 7, 2025 Although New Jersey residents and New York residents have many feuds ranging from who has better pizza (New Jersey) to who has worse drivers (New York), [...]
Heather Gibbons proudly presenting a handcrafted Tern beside Martin Andersen, kicking off the parade for migratory birds and fish that inhabit the Lower Hudson River Estuary. Parade goers gather at the Weehawken Cove to end the parade. Christina Andersen holds a carved wooden tern beside other participant adorned with a [...]
FBW and Our Tern take a Hackensack Riverkeeper eco-cruise as Hoboken's colony of Terns make a comeback By Lila Jung | June 19, 2025 | Photo credit: Lila Jung Most Hoboken residents have no idea that a colony of Common Terns—gray-and-white migratory seabirds with black caps—has quietly made a home [...]
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 18th 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 [...]
