May 26, 2022 To: Director Ryan Sharp, City Engineer Olga Garcia From: Ron Hine Re: Sinatra Drive Project - Response to May 11 presentation We have reviewed the Kimley-Horn/City of Hoboken presentation on the Sinatra Drive Project from May 11 and have recommendations focused on street trees and parking as well as [...]
A birds-eye view of Church Square Park, one of the original Hoboken parks, established in the late 1800s. by Ron Hine | May 5, 2022 National Arbor Day was observed this past Friday, April 29. For a group of Hoboken residents, it was an opportunity to take a tree tour of this [...]
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 | April 25, 2022 For the past several months, Hartz Mountain has been driving piles for a pair of high-rise towers [...]
The City of Hoboken should require NJ Transit and the Hoboken Yard developer to restore Warrington Plaza and open it up to the public without delay. Its restoration should not be contingent on future plans for the Hoboken Yard Redevelopment Project. The desecration of Warrington Plaza at the historic site of the Hoboken [...]
FBW | March 17, 2022 This spring, the Federal Transit Administration will announce $250 million in additional grants for the Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Program contained in the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. An additional $250 million in this program has been authorized, subject to appropriation, over a five year period. [...]
The Public Trust Doctrine provides the legal grounds for a public waterfront Gap sites in the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway include Admiral's Walk in Edgewater (slide 1), the Weehawken Park just to the north of Lincoln Harbor in Weehawken (slide 2), Union Dry Dock in Hoboken (slide 3) [...]
The stellar qualities of Hoboken’s South Waterfront should be extended north from 4th to 11th FBW | February 17, 2022 The City of Hoboken has received two grants totalling $1.2 million to reconstruct Sinatra Drive and add a protected bicycle pathway from 4th to 11th Streets. In December [...]
Send a letter to County officials to restore the protected bike lane design to Boulevard East sponsored by Bike Hudson County and member groups Bike Hoboken, BikeJC, Bike Weehawken, Bike North Bergen and Bici UC. Emmanuelle Morgen | February 21, 2022 In March, Hudson County engineers will submit plans for a $19 million [...]
Image 1: North End Redevelopment Area Existing Conditions Image 2: FBW Park Proposed for North End Image 3: FBW Park Proposed for North End including tree-lined 15th Street Image 4: Ill-conceived "Linear Park" in North End Redevelopment Plan (#3) FBW | February 2, 2022 This report was [...]
Shade trees also play a vital role in combating climate change Hoboken’s first parks -- Church Square, Columbus, Stevens and Elysian -- dating from the late 1880s to 1912, all contain London plane trees. What remarkable foresight the city leaders of that era had, as their investment has lasted [...]
2021 was a breakthrough year for Hoboken's waterfront. Union Dry Dock and the Monarch Pier have been secured to become critical additions to the continuous, public waterfront park, first proposed by FBW 30 years ago. FBW ended the year with a highly successful, celebratory event honoring long-time chair Jim Vance. Throughout the year, FBW [...]
2021 was a breakthrough year for Hoboken's waterfront. Union Dry Dock and the Monarch Pier have been secured to become critical additions to the continuous, public waterfront park, first proposed by FBW 30 years ago. FBW ended the year with a highly successful, celebratory event honoring long-time chair Jim Vance. Throughout the year, [...]
FBW's November 11, 2021 annual fundraising party was the most successful ever held by our organization. Everyone enjoyed coming together in person after being apart for so long. The event was sold out ten days ahead of time. So many generous and supportive individuals and sponsors! Nicole Teitler, Heather Gibbons and Maja Gilberg checking in [...]
The November 11 Connect the Waterfront gala will be a tribute to our long-time FBW advocate FBW | October 26, 2021 Many adjectives have been ascribed to Jim Vance: energetic, enthusiastic, zealous, gregarious, magnanimous, loquacious. Oh, and sometimes abrasive, confrontational and loud -- truly a Hoboken character, Jim has always been civic-minded, especially concerned [...]
Top row are Sheila Brennan, Cheryl Fallick and Paul Presinzano of the Independently Together slate and Jim Doyle, Emily Jabbour and Joe Quintero of the Team Bhalla slate. Bottome row are Ian Rintel, Manuel Rivera, Patricia Waiters and Cindy Wiegand. FBW | October 21, 2021 The Hoboken City [...]
FBW | October 15, 2021 In her influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities published in 1961, Jane Jacobs relates the important lessons of her Greenwich Village neighborhood. The mix of residential and retail, closely-spaced and hugging the sidewalk and the street, results in [...]
SOLD OUT! Thank you everyone who has bought tickets. Your tickets will not be mailed to you. Your name will be on a list at the door. If you were not able to buy a ticket, please make a donation by clicking on this text. This year’s theme, [...]
All of Hoboken’s investments in flood mitigation, however helpful, cannot eliminate future flooding FBW | September 30, 2021 In the nine years since Superstorm Sandy, the City of Hoboken and the North Hudson Sewerage Authority (NHSA) have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to reduce flood risk. The City’s efforts have been guided largely [...]
The torrential rains from Ida cause the worst flooding since Superstorm Sandy nine years ago The morning after Ida, a flooded intersection at Third Street and Clinton in Hoboken. Are you in the new flood zone? Use the FEMA address lookup tool for Region II to find out: Address Lookup FBW [...]
The 2020 U.S. Census provides up-to-date numbers for our region. Hoboken, West New York, Guttenberg and Union City are the top-ranked cities in the nation when in comes to population density. FBW | September 7, 2021 For most of the last century, Hoboken’s population steadily declined from a high of 70,324 [...]
