City Receives $900,000 Grant To Fix Waterfront Parks

The City of Hoboken received $900,000 to repair Sinatra Field and Castle Point Park, according to a release on Monday afternoon.

Sinatra Field and Castle Point Park partially collapsed into the Hudson River in September 2009. Since then, the soccer field at Sinatra Park has been closed, leaving Hoboken's soccer players—and other sportive types—scrambling for a place to play.

"I have worked to move forward with repairs while seeking as much outside funding as possible to offset this immense cost," Mayor Dawn Zimmer said in Monday's release about the Green Acres Matching Grant Award.

But a timeline of when the park will re-open and the repairs will be done is still unclear.

"The plans for rebuilding the parks were submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection and require their approval," City Spokesman Juan Melli said in an email. There will be a bid process for the construction of the park.

Melli added that the city has been going "back and forth with the DEP for about the last four months," and that no approvals of the plans had been issued yet. "This stage can take quite a while," Melli added.

The mayor announced in the release that she will provide an update later this week. Late last year—after a part of the uptown portion of Frank Sinatra Drive collapsed—.