The City Council will vote on ordinances related to the Embankment litigation settlement. This is a critical moment for the future of the Embankment.

We need community members to attend and speak before the vote. Your voice matters in preserving this historic resource and creating the green corridor our city needs.

The potential settlement includes a residential tower, city right-of-way easement, park on Block 2, and other public benefits. Come learn more and make your voice heard.

Ongoing negotiations between the Embankment Coalition and Jersey City regarding eight Embankment parcels are progressing. The potential settlement includes:

• A residential tower on one parcel
• City right-of-way easement for public access
• Public park development on Block 2
• Additional community benefits

This represents years of advocacy work to preserve this historic resource while meeting the city's development needs. Stay tuned for updates at our upcoming Annual Meeting on October 12.

Embankment Coalition board member and educator Jessica Costantine led a walk along the Embankment for children ages 5-12 to identify plants and animals that live there. The event included learning about the unique urban ecology of the Embankment.

Five mayoral candidates—Mussab Ali, Flash Gordon, Jim McGreevey, Bill O'Dea, and James Solomon—participated in a forum focused on historic preservation and environmental issues. Margaret Schmidt, former editor of The Jersey Journal, moderated the question-and-answer session.

Co-sponsored by the Embankment Preservation Coalition and Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy.

The Embankment Coalition joined other environmental organizations at the Hudson County Improvement Authority's annual Earth Day event. This year's theme was "Protecting Wildlife Through Eco-Friendly Living." The outdoor event took place in the Fountain Lawn Area at Lincoln Park.

Community members joined the Embankment Coalition for our annual spring cleanup at the corner of 6th Street & Jersey Avenue. Neighbors and friends celebrated Spring while caring for this historic and ecological resource.

Location: New Jersey City University Lemmerman and Visual Arts Galleries (map)

The Embankment On My Mind exhibits original art inspired by the grassroots preservation initiative that holds the promise of transforming Jersey City's treatment of open space and an emerging trail system. Sixteen artists depicting local flora and fauna join twenty-seven artists with wide-ranging responses to the Harsimus Branch Embankment, the massive stone rail structure in Downtown Jersey City that the Embankment Coalition has been working to preserve.

• Reception: November 5, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm (both galleries)
• Panel Discussion: November 22, 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm (202 Gothic Lounge, Hepburn Hall and virtual), “The Embankment on My Mind: Bridging Science and Art”
• JC Fridays extended hours: December 2, 11 am – 7 pm
• Closing Reception: December 16, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (both galleries)

Support the Embankment Coalition's "light touch" vision for treatment of the Harsimus BranchEmbankment at an upcoming Jersey City Planning Department meeting,Wednesday, Sept. 7, 6:30-8:30 pm. Register here.

City Planners will be rolling out an Embankment Redevelopment Plan focused on the open space of Blocks 2-8 of the Embankment property from the west side of Manila Avenue to beyond Newark Avenue near the Turnpike Extension. Help ensure that the future for the Embankment is historic preservation, conservation of what has become an ecological corridor, and connectivity of neighborhoods to a regional carbon-free transportation network.

Join the EPC & other civic orgs for Climate Change 2021: Challenges and Solutions. Dr. D. James Baker will explain the challenges 4/29, 7pm and then solutions & what we can do 5/13, 7pm.

Watch the recordings: part 1, part 2.

The EPC joins nine other recipients of a 2021 Rails-to-Trails Conservancy grant to advance trails throughout the country. The Harsimus Branch & Embankment will eventually connect with the Essex-Hudson Greenway, which also garnered a grant for its advocates, the NJ Bike&Walk Coalition.

Click here to read more.

In a meeting hosted by the Embankment Coalition and numerous environmental organizations, Deb Kagan of the NJ Bike & Walk Coalition described the proposed Essex-Hudson Greenway.

Click here to watch recording of the event, then sign on to a support letter.

The Embankment Coalition and Mayor Fulop gave an update on the Vision and an overview of the terms and status of the possible Settlement

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The Embankment Coalition organized the Harsimus Cove Neighborhood Cleanup in partnership with Ward E Councilman James Solomon and the nonprofits CleanGreenJersey City and Adopt-a-Block.

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is moving ahead with environmental and historic preservation reviews that are part of its federally mandated process when considering a potential permit to abandon a railroad.

The STB will meet (virtually) in October with previously designated consulting parties, including the Coalition, to discuss potential adverse effects on historic assets if an abandonment permit for the Harsimus Branch is granted. This is a step in a process mandated by the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). To fulfill obligations under the National Environmental Protection, the STB also issued a Supplementary Environmental Assessment (EA), to which the Coalition will be responding.

A petition asking the Surface Transportation Board to carry out its preservation obligations received 2,588 signatures before the Embankment Preservation Coalition closed it.

A federal judge last week ruled that the Sixth Street Embankment in Jersey City is indeed a rail line, a decision that city officials believe could lead to the city someday owning the disputed property.

On Friday, the East Coast Greenway Alliance held a grand opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at Lincoln Park in Jersey City to celebrate the bridging of the greenway gap between Jersey City and Newark.