Flood walls, gates, berms, and other barriers are increasingly integrated into existing and new waterfront parks and promenades, yet yawning gaps remain and future funding is in question Financial District and Seaport Coastal Resilience Plan (proposed). Ron Hine | June 16, 2026 Superstorm Sandy hit Hoboken especially hard. Seventy-five percent of [...]
Significant progress for Hoboken’s continuous, public waterfront park, first proposed by FBW in 1990, will be made in 2024-2025 FBW | January 31, 2024 Construction of a 2.5-acre waterfront park at the north end of Hoboken at the Weehawken Cove has started. This will be the first major [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Are you in the new flood zone? Use the FEMA address lookup tool for Region II to find out: Address Lookup By Ron Hine | FBW | May 11, 2017 The flash flooding that occurred on May 6, 2017 surrounding the Hoboken ShopRite at 900 Madison Street was reminiscent of Superstorm Sandy. [...]
FBW | December 8, 2016 Early in the next century, more than half of Hoboken will be under water. By then, sea levels in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region will have risen six feet, permanently flooding over 600,000 residents in coastal communities. As early as 2080, sea levels could be three feet higher filling [...]
Are you in the new flood zone? Use the FEMA address lookup tool for Region II to find out: Address Lookup FBW | December 6, 2016 Joan Golizio, age 81, lives at 625 Garden Street in Hoboken. She has lived on that block since 1957, nearly 60 years. She says the neighborhood has never [...]
FBW | September 8, 2016 Since 1970, I have lived and/or worked in a low-lying neighborhood in Hoboken, New Jersey. The property I bought in 1979 faced Newark Street between Park and Willow Avenues. During a storm, especially at high tide, the street and sidewalk would fill with stormwater and sometimes sewerage as well. [...]
FBW | July 28, 2016 After Superstorm Sandy, the federal government initiated the Rebuild by Design (RBD) competition aiming to create model, innovative programs for making communities flood-resilient. The Hoboken area became the beneficiary of this program, being one of just ten sites selected in the northeast United States. The mostly Dutch-based OMA Team [...]
FBW | February 27, 2016 A generation ago, Hoboken’s waterfront was a gritty, industrial maritime port, inaccessible to the public. Today, the city’s public waterfront park along the Hudson River is enjoyed and treasured by all. On the upland blocks, people have invested in some of the most valuable real estate in the region, [...]
FBW | January 30, 2013 The National Flood Insurance Program collects annually about $3.5 billion in premiums. Four times in the past eight years, however, claims paid out have exceeded premiums collected. In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, claims totaled $17.7 billion. The claims paid for superstorm Sandy are expected to reach $7 billion. In [...]
FBW | January 30, 2013 The newly released Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood maps place 79% of Hoboken in a flood zone and the city's entire Hudson River coastline within FEMA’s “coastal high hazard” zone. Although data from super-storm Sandy was not factored into FEMA's new maps, they appear to conform closely to [...]
