NEW YORK-UNS: On Monday, June 12, 2023, Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla will join Governor Phil Murphy, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, other elected officials and community members to cut the ribbon on the 5-acre ResilienCity Park at 12th and Madison Streets in Hoboken, NJ.
The park, the new centerpiece of Hoboken’s efforts to mitigate the effects of heavy flooding events exacerbated by climate change, will become the State’s largest resiliency park and one of the largest resiliency parks in the country. It will be able to detain up to 2 million gallons of stormwater during heavy rain events to mitigate flooding in Northwest Hoboken, and will also include Hoboken’s third flood pumping station.
The park will also provide the public with a new multi purpose athletic field, basketball court that doubles as a stormwater detention basin, playground, open lawn space, water spray area, and other open space amenities.
ResilienCity Park was funded in part by a $10 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Building Resilient Infrastructure in Communities (BRIC) program, low-interest financing through the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund, as well as $1 million in grants from the Hudson County Open Space Trust Fund.
