The mission of the Hudson Access Project is to create a comprehensive water access database and interactive map to empower individuals to connect with the Hudson and Harbor Estuary. In its second year the project has successfully created a foundational database, a beta-version interactive website, and has established a summer data collection fellowship for long term maintenance. The project provides insights into accessibility, amenities, facilities, and regulations, allowing the public to make informed decisions regarding their waterfront experiences. The project's collaborative approach ensures that it meets community needs, delivering tangible benefits to the public through accessible water access information, while providing reliable data to advocate for increased equity in water access. The Hudson Access Project has collaborated with the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program (HEP), and their Public Access Working Group to identify ways to improve the database and map, to make it sustainable, and to define critical use-cases for advocacy. The Hudson Access Project is hosted by the RAMP program at Pratt. It was created in collaboration with the New York - New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program (HEP) and their Public Access Working Group (PAWG) through a grant from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and additional funding from a Taconic Fellowship at Pratt Institute.

Collaborators: Sara Hodges, Alyssa Bement, Nicholas Conklin, Shahadat Hossain