A message from FBW Chair James Vance
FBW Chair James Vance takes you along on a ride to Hoboken's award-winning Pier A Park. More videos
A Message from Senator Cory Booker
As part of its 2020 Connect the Waterfront event, Senator Cory Booker delivered a message to attendees and the Hoboken community. More videos
Presentation of 2020 Riparian Award to Billion Oyster Project
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 Central Park effect: value added from public parks
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 swims up a cleaner, more hospitable Hudson River
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, [...]
The Weehawken and Hoboken Coves provide opportunities for ecosystem restoration and greater waterfront access
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 [...]
FBW appeals approvals for high-rise development at Weehawken Cove
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 [...]
The Billion Oyster Project harnesses the oyster’s unique ability to restore the New York Harbor’s ecosystem
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 [...]
FBW’s virtual fundraiser: Connect the Waterfront – 30 Years of Advocacy
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 [...]
Hoboken’s London Plane trees & how they can survive waterfront storms
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 [...]
Liberty Harbor North at Jersey City waterfront based on the tenets of new urbanism
More photos: Liberty Harbor North in Jersey City, New Jersey – July 2020 Photo 1: New urbanist development in Jersey City at Liberty Harbor North. Photo 2: The street layout for Liberty Harbor North. Photo 3: Additional townhouse development at Liberty Harbor North. FBW | July 28, 2020 Some of [...]
Liberty Harbor North in Jersey City, New Jersey – July 2020
Read the story: Liberty Harbor North at Jersey City waterfront based on the tenets of new urbanism Townhouse development at Liberty Harbor North is based on scale and character of surrounding historic Downtown Jersey City neighborhoods. Liberty Harbor North original street plan adopted by City of Jersey City in 2001 creating [...]
Celebrating 30 years: FBW Milestones
Celebrating 30 years: FBW Milestones 2017-2020 FBW works with the City of Hoboken and local groups to secure Union Dry Dock for an additional three acres of the riverfront park, fighting off attempts to make it a ferry refueling/repair depot. 2011-2020 FBW, the City of Hoboken and neighborhood residents [...]
The Hudson River waterfront and the planning process: public or private?
Photo 1: The newly built Ellipse, a luxury residential 44-story tower, on a pier at Jersey City's Newport waterfront. Photo 2: Bird-eye view of Hoboken's South Waterfront with a waterfront park clearly delineated from upland blocks of private development by last north-south street. Photo 3: Private gated community at North Bergen's [...]
Latest Lincoln Harbor project, approved by Weehawken Planning Board, disregards good planning principles
Planner testifying before Planning Board cites the part of Weehawken built 100 years ago as a model for creating walkable, close-knit neighborhoods and a basis for good planning today. FBW | June 19, 2020 Weehawken is divided into two distinctly different communities. Most of its long-established residential area was built atop the [...]
10,000 people take to the streets and waterfront parks of Hoboken in historic protest
Friday's historic protest march in Hoboken ended at Pier A Park. Photo by Ron Bautista. FBW | June 10, 2020 On Friday, June 6, 2020, ten thousand people took to the streets of Hoboken, beginning at Maxwell Place Park, marching along Sinatra Drive to Pier A Park, pausing in front of City Hall, [...]
With demise of Google’s plan, Toronto has opportunity to create a truly public lakefront
Sidewalk Labs' former plan for the Toronto lakefront, aimed to make Toronto the global hub for urban innovation but failed to delineate public space at the water's edge from upland private development. By Craig Whitaker | Craig Whitaker Architects | May 27, 2020 The recent announcement that Sidewalks Lab was abandoning its [...]
Shipyard developers have sought to privatize an otherwise public waterfront that has benefited them immensely
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. Nine years of costly litigation comes to an end providing yet another windfall gain for Shipyard Associates by Ron Hine | May [...]