FBW Board Member Profile: Nicholas Borg

Nick Borg has been on FBW’s Board of Directors since 2012 and currently serves as its treasurer. He brings to FBW a wealth of experience as a high-level administrator with detailed knowledge of commercial real estate and public policy issues. Nick’s family moved to Hoboken in 1953 where his father, Dr. Sidney Borg, taught for 35 years at Stevens Institute of Technology and was the head of the Department of Civil Engineering. Along with his mother Audrey, brothers Andy, Ken and sister Jill, he grew up on the Stevens’ campus overlooking the Hoboken waterfront. 

Nick attended elementary school at Joseph F. Brandt School and then high school at Stevens Academy. He attended the University of Copenhagen in Denmark from 1965 to 1967 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rutgers University in 1969. He received his master’s degree from the Department of Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research in 1973.

After graduating Rutgers, Nick became a caseworker at the Essex County Welfare Board. After graduate school he held a number of high-level positions at various New York City municipal agencies from 1973 to 1985 including, the Director of Management Services at the New York City Fire Department, where he organized New York’s first multi-agency Arson Strike Force. He later became an Assistant Commissioner at the Department of General Social Services and from there was in charge of the Bureau of Pupil Transportation and the Division of School Buildings at the New York Board of Education. From 1985 to 2003, Nick served as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Julien J. Studley, Inc. an international commercial real estate brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. From 2003 until 2011 Nick was a principal at Pelham Partners, LLC. Nick is currently a founder and partner at Cooper Lake Road, a non-profit specializing in organizing, leading and creating original content for workshops and study groups in the area of addiction services.

Nick and his wife Lise rented apartments in Hoboken before buying a brownstone on the 1200 block of Garden Street in the 1970s where they raised their daughter Kristina who attended the Hudson School. They currently own a unit at the Shipyard Project and have a second home in Woodstock, New York.