Working to complete a contiguous public park along the Hudson River and promote development that meets the highest standards of urban design.
UNION DRY DOCK
Call to action: Pack the Sept. 4 City Council meeting to #SaveYourWaterfront
Support the Hoboken City Council in its vote to approve the acquisition of the Union Dry Dock property. The final vote on this ordinance will take place on Wednesday, September 4 at 7 pm. The owner of NY Waterway has been pulling out all the stops in an advertising/PR campaign to use this property as an industrial facility for diesel refueling, repairing and pumping sanitary waste for its ferry fleet. This would forever destroy Hoboken’s opportunity to complete this critical link in its public waterfront park that has been 30 years in the making. This industrial use is incompatible with the kayaking, fishing, skateboarding, outrigger canoeing, children’s playgrounds and other recreational uses at the Hoboken Cove. Your presence/your voice is critical to #SaveYourWaterfront.
Last week Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order 80 that requires NJ Transit to provide greater transparency and accountability to New Jersey commuters. On the issue of siting a ferry maintenance facility, however, NJ Transit has demonstrated a total lack of transparency and accountability to the Hoboken community and its elected officials. NJ Transit’s Final Report – Ferry Maintenance Facility Evaluation – Hoboken Terminal South Site omits critical facts and is devoid of any objective analysis. Instead, the report presents a one-sided view to favor NY Waterway’s contention that it must locate its ferry refueling/maintenance facility at Hoboken’s Union Dry Dock site. NJ Transit, a public agency, kept local public officials in the dark as it drafted this report while receiving input on a regular basis from NY Waterway and its lobbyists.
August 4, 2004: Jersey City waterfront critiqued in The New Yorker
The new Goldman Sachs tower on the Jersey City waterfront designed by Cesar Pelli caught the attention of architecture critic Paul Goldberger. In a July 30, 2004 The New Yorker article, Goldberger writes that this building, “is New Jersey’s tallest skyscraper, and, with its graceful profile and elegant glass facade, the most beautiful.” But in reviewing the mile-long stretch of new development north of the Goldman Sachs building, Goldberger offers a stinging critique of what he calls the “dreary assemblage” of residential and office towers and big box stores. Goldberger comments that the “pleasing, small-scale urbanity” of downtown Jersey City with its charming mix of brownstones, restaurants and retail stores has not made its way to the newly developed waterfront.
We believe that successful waterfronts begin with sound planning, time-tested urban design and an understanding that the water's edge belongs to the public.
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