FBW has filed a complaint with the NJDEP against the City of Hoboken for violating state requirement for 24 hour public access The City of Hoboken has allowed Prime Cycle the exclusive use of the pavilion at end of Pier A Park. FBW | April 30, 2021 Since Pier [...]
Ron Hine | FBW | April 20, 2021 By far, the best portion of Hoboken’s riverfront park, with its canopy of London Plane trees and generous swaths of open space, is located at the South Waterfront between Newark and Fourth Street. None of this would have been possible without the [...]
Image 1: The Hudson River Palisades in Alpine, New Jersey. Image 2: Highrise towers built atop the Palisades Cliffs in Fort Lee and Cliffside Park, New Jersey. Image 3: The Hoboken Heights project under construction in Union City, New Jersey. FBW | March 25, 2021 The Palisades Cliffs, facing [...]
Hoboken City Council will cast final vote on North End Plan on Wed. night March 3 at 7 pm. Image 1: Hoboken's turn-of-the-century five-story walkups on Washington St. south of Newark St. Image 2: The North End Redevelopment Plan: rendering of buildings along 15th Street looking east. Image [...]
Would be another victory in 30-year battle to preserve Hoboken’s waterfront for a public park 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. FBW | February 5, 2021 [...]
An amended North End Plan will go back to a first reading/vote by the Hoboken City Council on Wed. night February 17 at 7 pm. Image 1: North End Redevelopment Plan: massing illustration. Image 2: North End Redevelopment Plan: rendering of building along 15th Street looking east. Image [...]
FBW’s November 12, 2020 Connect the Waterfront virtual event. This is the full 1-hour show featuring music, 30 year history of Hoboken waterfront, Mayor Bhalla's waterfront update, a plan for the central waterfront, and dramatic aerial waterfront footage by Dronegenuity.com. More videos
30 Years of Advocacy on the Hoboken Waterfront – Since 1990, FBW’s Plan for the Hoboken Waterfront has shaped its development. Includes interviews with FBW founder Augusta Przygoda, former Hoboken Mayor David Roberts and architect Craig Whitaker. This video was part of the hour long video presented in FBW’s 2020 Connect the Waterfront event. [...]
Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla provides a waterfront update at FBW's Connect the Waterfront 2020 event. This excerpt is focused on his comments regarding negotiations to acquire Union Dry Dock. More videos
FBW Chair James Vance takes you along on a ride to Hoboken's award-winning Pier A Park. More videos
As part of its 2020 Connect the Waterfront event, Senator Cory Booker delivered a message to attendees and the Hoboken community. More videos
As part of its 2020 Connect the Waterfront event, FBW presented its Annual Riparian Award to the Billion Oyster Project. Founded in 2014, the Billion Oyster Project was the brainchild of Murray Fisher and Pete Malinowski. Both shared a vision for restoring New York Harbor’s degraded ecosystem and teaching future generations to share in [...]
The award-winning public park at Hoboken's South Waterfront built in the 1990s. by Ron Hine | FBW | January 2, 2021 Frederick Law Olmsted was among the first to undertake a study showing that parks increase property values. In 1856, a year before construction began, Olmsted estimated that the three [...]
Humpback whale spouting in Hudson River . From video by @AndresJavierNYC. FBW | December 15, 2020 Last week, a humpback whale was sighted breaching as it cruised up the Hudson River near Weehawken, New Jersey. For a number of years, these creatures have ventured into parts of the New York Harbor, [...]
Biodiversity at the Weehawken Cove and Hoboken north waterfront have been documented. FBW | November 29, 2020 Over past thirty years, similar projects have been developed throughout the New York-New Jersey Estuary following a restoration master plan Although much of the lower Hudson River has a man-made bulkhead--a hard edge--protecting [...]
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, 2020 In August, the Fund for a Better Waterfront and two other plaintiffs filed suit challenging the Weehawken [...]
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 up a plate of oysters at a New York City oyster bar, there is a good chance your discarded shells [...]
BUY TICKETS October 29, 2020 Media Advisory FBW’s Connect the Waterfront - 30 Years of Advocacy, annual fundraising party will be held virtually on November 12 at 7 p.m. The event will include an online auction beginning Nov. 5 and a video that features the Billion Oyster Project, Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla, musician James Calleo and FBW’s [...]
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 the United States as a tropical storm. Its hurricane-force wind gusts uprooted London Plane trees at Maxwell Place Park, a [...]
