Kearny council approves Green Acres grant application to expand Riverbank Park boathouse

At its regular meeting the Town of Kearny Mayor and Town Council voted to submit a Green Acres grant application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection seeking $1,400,000 for improvements at Riverbank Park, including an addition to the Kearny crew house and a new Hartung Recreation storage building.

The application, filed under Resolution 2025-67, would fund a second-floor addition to the existing single-story masonry boathouse at 925–927 Passaic Avenue to create training spaces, offices, locker rooms and toilets, make the building ADA-accessible with stairs and an elevator, reorganize three garage bays for storage and demolish a small south-side garage that cannot be reused in place because of flood-elevation rules, architect Jeff Schlicht said.

The project matters to the community because the existing boathouse is shared by several…