On the Waterfront - Lecture at Hoboken Historical Museum Sunday October 11, 4PM

Here is an upcoming event at the Hoboken Historical Museum:

ON THE WATERFRONT: 1989 TO 2009 - PAVING THE WAY FOR A PUBLIC PARK

A lecture by Ron Hine, the Executive Director of the Fund for a Better Waterfront

Sunday, October 11, 2009 4 p.m.

Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson Street, Hoboken, NJ

In the first half of the 19th century Hoboken was popular with New Yorkers for its recreational waterfront which included such attractions as a River Walk, Elysian Fields and Sybil’s Cave. But by the late 1800s, Hoboken’s waterfront was transformed into a bustling maritime port, serving passenger ships and, later, cargo vessels, which dominated the water’s edge for most of the 20th century. By 1989, these waterfront industries had virtually disappeared, creating a once-in-a-century opportunity to reclaim the Hudson River waterfront for public recreation.

In a referendum in July 1990, the voters of Hoboken rejected a massive development proposal for Hoboken’s south waterfront, opening the way for the Fund for a Better Waterfront (FBW) to propose a new vision, which called for a continuous public park from the Hoboken Train Terminal to the Weehawken Cove, clearly delineated from the upland private development on new, Hoboken-sized blocks. Today, much of this plan has been realized after many successful legal battles to preserve the water’s edge for the public. Come hear Ron Hine, Executive Director of FBW, relate this history and the opportunity to finish the missing links.

Below is the the link to the organization Fund for a Better Waterfront:
www.betterwaterfront.org ◦

On the Waterfront - Lecture at Hoboken Historical Museum Sunday October 11, 4PM