Carter Craft

Meet Carter Craft

Candidate for Hoboken City Council At-Large

Carter Craft is long-time Hoboken resident, where he has raised his three amazing children with his wonderful wife, Stephanie. They have all been active in church, school, and community activities for many years. 

Professionally, Carter is an urban planner with more than twenty-five years of experience on and in the waterfronts and waterways of NYC and metro New Jersey. Over his career, Carter has functioned as a catalyst, leader, team-builder, director, and project manager for a wide range of public and private organizations. As an outdoor enthusiast and water expert he brings a deep understanding of the complexity in planning and stewarding ecological and political systems entangled in the waterways of the northeast.

Since co-founding the project that grew into the Waterfront Alliance beginning in 1998, Carter has been instrumental in the establishment and growth of some of the leading organizations working on/ along New York Harbor. These include the Billion Oyster Project, Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, New York Harbor School, Newtown Creek Alliance, the River Project, Working Harbor Committee, and many others. He served the New York Harbor School and Harbor Foundation in a variety of roles, one of which was as the chief strategist behind the School’s successful effort to secure an additional building on the island including $25 million in Capital funds for its renovation.

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Carter worked with the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York to bring Dutch know-how in developing rebuilding strategies for coastal, urban and other aquatic environments in New Jersey, New York State, and New York City. Out of these discussions, the “Rebuild By Design” collaboration came to life. The long-term goal for this project was to help create sustainable frameworks for future collaboration between multiple stakeholders from academic, business, community and government groups in the Netherlands and in Greater New York. Twelve years later, Rebuild By Design is still making positive change across many vulnerable and impacted communities. 

Additionally, Carter has been extensively involved in a number of programs educating the public in planning for, and using, the waterfront. He created the Waterfront and Wetlands Planning mini-course for the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute (now in its 14th year), as well as leading courses at Fordham University. Mr. Craft graduated from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service with a Masters of Urban Planning in 1998, and from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1993 with a B.A. in Economics. Carter currently works as a Senior Economic Policy Officer at the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York under their Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this role, he is responsible for sharing best practices and cultivating relationships in the areas of water, energy, and the built environment.

Visit https://www.craftforhoboken.com/ for more about Carter.