Events

FBW's Connect the Waterfront Honorary Chair Mark Stehli chatting with guests. FBW's Chair Kate Valenta addressing the crowd. Lynne Shapiro accepted the FBW Riparian Award for her late husband Aaron Lewit. Janine Berger, Heather Gibbons, Kate Valenta & Melissa Shepard Otis Train, Jennie Pu, [...]

Aaron Lewit helped to spearhead FBW’s work with developers in creating Maxwell Place Park; Jeffrey Train has led efforts to preserve Hoboken’s colony of terns at the north waterfront   At this year’s Connect the Waterfront event on November 14, the Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW) will bestow two Riparian Awards, one to [...]

Join Honorary Chair Mark Stehli and FBW for this year’s Connect the Waterfront event on Thursday, November 14th, 2024, from 7-9 PM at the Hoboken Elks Club We’re featuring an open bar (beer & wine), live music and fantastic hors d’oeuvres. We’ll present two FBW Riparian Awards, one in memoriam to Aaron [...]

Did you vote in the July 1990 referendum that defeated the 3.2 million sq. ft. development - including a 33-story office tower - proposed by the Port Authority of NY/NJ and the City of Hoboken for what is today Pier A Park? We want you! As part of our annual fundraising party on November [...]

The Hudson River Fishermen began the day at Castle Point Fishing Pier supplying rods, reels and bait along with angling lessons. The River Trip led by the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse returned to the cove around 10 a.m. The team from Fund for a Better Waterfront talked to [...]

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 17th year, this event serves to champion a climate-resilient New York and New Jersey Harbor. In Hoboken, the Fund for a Better Waterfront, [...]

This family of Canada Geese were the first visitors to our booth on Discover Your Waterfront day. Nature was competing with the many people flocking to Hoboken's waterfront park on this beautiful spring day. Co-sponsor Resilence Adventures set up shop on the Hoboken Cove beach. Noelle Thurlow spent the morning teaching families [...]

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Hoboken Public Library 500 Park Avenue, Hoboken The New York/New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program (HEP), funded by the Clean Water Act, is seeking public input and engagement for its 2025-2035 Action Agenda. FBW is partnering with HEP to convene this [...]

  Our free summer programming begins with #DiscoverYourWaterfront!  We’re back on the waterfront with Resilience Adventures and the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse for a morning of free fun for all ages on the beach at the Hoboken Cove.  We’ll start the morning at 9 AM with a service learning beach clean up (we don’t [...]

The May 10 ceremony at Ramapo College recognized a diverse array of community changemakers FBW | May 13, 2024 Since 1997, the Russell Berrie Foundation has recognized 430 New Jersey residents for making a positive impact in their communities. On May 10, twelve people were honored with the 28th annual Russ [...]

Jane's Walk took place in over 400 communities around the world the weekend of May 3 through May 5, including this tour in Hoboken sponsored by the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Fund for a Better Waterfront Jane's Walk Hoboken began at Little City Books on First & Bloomfield where there was a [...]

The Fund for a Better Waterfront depends on the funds we raise at our one big annual fundraising party - CONNECT THE WATERFRONT - each year. Sponsoring the event is a great way to support our work, promote your company, and show your customers your strong commitment to the community. The [...]

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Due to popular demand, we have scheduled a 2nd Jane's Walk. The Saturday tour was fully booked. In her seminal book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs writes about her West Village neighborhood in Manhattan. But she [...]

Community Church of Hoboken at 600 Garden Street Join FBW and Resilience Adventures as we celebrate Earth Day with the free screening of two remarkable environmental films, A Living River and Chasing Coral. A Living River is a short film by award-winning National Geographic filmmaker Jon Bowermaster that chronicles how the Hudson River – after [...]

Ron Hine  |  February 23, 2024 My presentation on February 22, “Urban Planning & the Hoboken Waterfront” was an opportunity to relate FBW’s successful advocacy for a public waterfront and the planning principles that made it possible. I was also able to highlight what is needed in the coming [...]

Thursday, February 22, 2024 | 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Hoboken Public Library, 500 Park Avenue A slide lecture by Ron Hine, the Executive Director of the Fund for a Better Waterfront, on the time-tested urban design principles that have made Hoboken’s waterfront so successful, guided by a plan and vision laid out more than 30 [...]

FBW's annual fundraising party was a great success. Thank you to our sponsors and everyone who came and gave so generously. FBW Board member Carrow Thibault talking with Rose Perry and Jim Perry, Honorary Chair of the event. Erin Stehli, Elizabeth Rakela (Bronze Sponsor) with Melissa Shepard and friends. FBW Chair [...]

This is an opportunity to support a local nonprofit whose 1990 Plan for the Hoboken Waterfront is being realized, including a continuous, public park along Hoboken’s Hudson River shoreline Connect the Waterfront 2023 - Take me to the River Honorary Chair James Perry Thursday, November 9th from 7-9 p.m. Hoboken Elks Lodge, [...]