Next Hearing on Embankment Demolition Slated for April 1

By • Mar 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog, News

The Historic Preservation Commission has scheduled its second special meeting to hear testimony on whether or not the 6th Street Embankment can legally be torn down by owner Steve Hyman. The meeting will be at 6:30 pm in the City Council chambers at City Hall. Get up to speed by reading our report on the previous meeting.

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  • economic growth

    Rip the eye sore down. Create jobs during demo and more jobs during the re-building process. Unite both sides, add the light rail to increase local property values and most of all stop wasting tax payer money fighting to keep a passage way for an old defunct railroad

    Wake up neighbors (added by Mobile using Mippin)

  • Alb

    The Embankment is beautiful and historic, but expecting it all to be a park is probably economically unrealistic.

    Figure out a way to let half of the chunks be parks (or urban nature preserves), and figure out some way to put tall buildings on the other half.

    Also: I walk around that area all of the time. I love accidental urban nature preserves, but most of that area on the north side of downtown Jersey City is truly wasteland. It’s not even good urban nature preserve, let alone an area most people would find presentable.

    It’s pretty obvious that giant buildings would fit in fine between Jersey City and Hoboken. There should probably be a convention center there, tall apartment buildings, a new school, some kind of new community center, parking garages, etc.

    Everything ugly and car-oriented that would cause problems if it were on Grand in Jersey City should go in that wasteland on the north side of the city.

    Maybe some people here who hardly ever walk around there would object, but, seriously: that’s not some kind of quaint little Ye Olde Village kind of area, or even (except for a very small part), a low-income housing kind of neighborhood. It’s truly a hideous, barely walkable wasteland. It’s absurd for so much land so close to Manhattan to be that empty.

  • Jon Whiten

    Alb-

    The “wasteland” you’re referring to — you mean the area north of the Holland Tunnel entrance and exit ramps, correct? There is a pretty large project in the works up there that just got additional $$ from the federal spending bill:
    http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2009/03/24/development-project-along-hoboken-border-gets-boost-from-federal-spending-bill/

  • http://www.trismccall.net tris mccall

    call it a wasteland if you like, but it’s a great place to ride your bicycle.

  • Jon Whiten

    indeed, tris. gotta love the hoboken avenue hill.