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 FULLY BOOKED! PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST. FULLY BOOKED! Across the country in the 18th and 19th centuries, city founders adopted official maps, early [...]
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, [...]
The Apollonia crew will receive FBW’s Riparian Award at Connect the Waterfront 2023 at the Hoboken Elks Club on November 9 FBW | October 18, 2023 Based in Germantown, New York, Hudson Valley Malt produces malt using traditional, old-school methods, utilizing locally grown barley, wheat and rye. On June 14, [...]
Honorary Chair James Perry and the Fund for a Better Waterfront cordially invite you to FBW's annual fundraising party Thursday, November 9th from 7-9 p.m. Elks Lodge, 1005 Washington Street, Hoboken Open Bar (beer and wine) | Hors d'oeuvres by Abbey Bell Catering Jazz & R&B trio JimboRo and Sylvester “Sly” Scott with a [...]
