Dear Neighbors,
What a great day for Hoboken and the 5th Ward!
I was honored to participate at ResilienCity Park’s Grand Opening today. You can watch the entire program here (my remarks are at 26:30). Governor Phil Murphy, Senator Bob Menendez, Mayor Ravi Bhalla and Hoboken’s indispensable state, county, and regional partners participated with two students — Zoe Magaletta and Harrison Green — representing Hoboken Public Schools and delivering inspiring speeches, as ResilienCity Park opened to the public.
ResilienCity Park is the largest resiliency park in New Jersey — including a basketball court, a splash pad, play areas, passive green spaces, multi-purpose fields for soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse, and kickball — and most important — a new flood pump and above- and below-ground infrastructure to retain, and discharge, up to 2 million gallons of rainwater. ResilienCity Park is a national model Resiliency Park for communities threatened by stronger, wetter storms on the front lines of climate change.
 As Councilman for the park’s neighborhood, I worked closely with Mayor Bhalla’s Administration on this effort for the past 3 and ½ years, especially with Assistant Business Administrator Caleb Stratton and Environmental Services Director Jennifer Gonzalez — addressing construction schedules, answering community questions and updating the neighborhood on the ongoing status of the park’s multi-year construction effort. I want to thank the park’s neighbors for their patience during the multi-year construction effort, for their confidence in me as their representative, and for their confidence in the City, to get the job done.
ResilienCity Park’s completion is a testament to the progress we made together — fulfilling the promise I made to many of you to help provide the support and resources necessary to make our vision a reality. Head over to 12th and Adams to play, explore, rest, enjoy and check out this sparkling jewel of the 5th Ward and all of Hoboken.
With today’s opening of ResilienCity Park, we make Hoboken — already one of the great and historic cities in America — an even better place to visit, work, live or raise a family, and I couldn’t be prouder.
Best Regards,
Phil Cohen
Hoboken City Councilman
Hoboken, New Jersey
HobokenPhil@gmail.com
(862) 234-9053
P.S. You can learn more about me and my ideas for Hoboken (as well as read this newsletter and prior newsletters) on my website philcohen.org.
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