FBW | May 29, 2018 Noelle Thurlow suited up for kayaking at the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse. She conducted a 3-year study identifying over 72 species of wildlife at Hoboken's north waterfront including a number of endangered and threatened species. Opposition to NY Waterway’s proposal to locate a ferry maintenance, [...]
FBW | May 29, 2018 Angel Martinez and his friends can often be found at the public fishing pier in the Hoboken Cove a few hundred feet from the Union Dry Dock property. For them, this is a special place, removed from the hubbub of urban life, out over the mighty Hudson River with [...]
FBW | May 15, 2018 NJ Transit has repeatedly sought to acquire the prime real estate at Hoboken’s north waterfront -- the Union Dry Dock site -- for a ferry maintenance facility. This state agency first attempted this in 2012 but backed down after fierce opposition from the community [...]
The April 4 NJ Transit Board meeting scheduled for 2 pm has been cancelled after an agreement was struck between Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla and Governor Murphy. The City of Hoboken will rescind its eminent domain ordinance on April 3 as part of the deal. State and City of Hoboken will work to identify alternate [...]
FBW | February 26, 2018 Arthur E. Imperatore, Sr. founder of NY Waterway was born in West New York, New Jersey in 1925. He rose from poverty to the Forbes list of wealthiest Americans through his highly successful trucking firm, A-P-A Transport. Last June, the NJ Transit [...]
FBW | January 25, 2018 What’s your druthers? A public park or a ferry depot at the former Union Dry Dock site? Please take a moment to fill out the short survey sponsored by the City of Hoboken. The deadline is tomorrow, Friday January 26 at 5 pm, and Mayor Bhalla is seeking your [...]
Agenda #1801-06: Union Dry Dock - Property Acquisition NJ Transit Board of Directors Monday, January 15 at 9:00 a.m. (Martin Luther King Day) Board Room, One Penn Plaza East, Newark, New Jersey By Ron Hine | FBW | January 14, 2018 To the shock of all, NJ Transit has scheduled a vote on a [...]
Please attend; sign-up to speak re: ITEM 1801-06: Union Dry Dock - Property Acquisition NJ Transit Board of Directors Meeting Wednesday, January 10 at 9 a.m. Board Room, One Penn Plaza East, Newark, New Jersey By Ron Hine | FBW | December 7, 2017 On November 9, 2017, NY Waterway stunned Hoboken with the [...]
By Heather Gibbons | FBW | July 31, 2017 “This park is so beautiful!” marveled the young woman I met strolling along Hoboken’s northern waterfront with her family. They were visiting New York City from Alabama, and had taken the ferry over from New York to visit a friend. “We walked all the way [...]
