NYC gets $2.3M in state development funds

The Empire State Development Corp. awarded more than $2.3 million to New York City to help build a new park on the waterfront near Yankee Stadium and to convert a public school in the South Bronx to mixed use housing.

Coney developers forcing out rides, games, shops

‘We were all hoping for one more season’

‘BUILDING’ TENSION ON EAST SIDE

Demolition is underway on the site of Manhattan’s largest ongoing real-estate project after Ground Zero, with the builder and neighbors squaring off over the height, size and use of buildings in the 9.8-acre development.

A Greening, of Sorts, Begins for the Brooklyn Navy Yard

After losing its anchor tenant in the mid-1980s, the Brooklyn Navy Yard struggled to be a viable center for manufacturing and industrial jobs. The number of tenants dwindled, and the physical plant declined. In the late 1990s, after years of neglect, one of the piers collapsed into the East River, a rare loss of waterfront property in a city where space is typically added, not subtracted.

New Boutique Hotel Checking In On Fourth Ave.

An eight-story boutique hotel with breathtaking views of the Gowanus Canal

Admirals Row sunk

Ruined Navy Yard homes set to be razed for market

Spanning the ages: 75 years!

George Washington Bridge marks decades as vital city link

City Seeks Designers for Park on Governors Island

The city is moving to select a design team for a 40-acre public park, a two-mile waterfront promenade, and open space on Governors Island.

Deep Sea Creatures Surface In a Big Way At Revamped Brooklyn Aquarium

 

	Part of West 8 with Weisz & Yoes Architecture’s proposal includes a massive jellyfish-like structure.

And a massive magenta jellyfish shall lead them—to the New York Aquarium?

BASS AND BLUES FILL SHORE AREAS

THE beach action from Montauk Point to Breezy Point has been a surfcasters dream with bass and blues blitzing the shore areas.

North and South Don’t Share the Same View on Conditions at One Manhattan Park

John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times

Two sections of Riverside Park in Manhattan. At left, a bridge leads to an isolated portion to the north, near economically uneven neighborhoods. The portion at right is near the affluent Upper West Side.

Drilling for oil-spill tests

Gioia wants state to examine soil on Queens side of Newtown Creek

Housing with a view

City to pay $100M to build affordable housing apartments at Queens site that was part of Olympics bid

FLOATING POOL WILL BARGE IN

On a hot summer day next year, city kids could be swimming underwater while floating atop it – aboard a barge outfitted with a 25-meter, seven-lane swimming pool.

Swimming pool soon may float near you

A “floating pool” carved into a commercial barge will dock in Brooklyn in two weeks, Parks Department officials said.

Mayor Announces ‘Landmark’ City Plan for Middle-Income Housing

The city is transforming a 24-acre parcel of land on the Queens waterfront into a village of housing for middle-income families in what is said to be the largest project of its kind since Starrett City was built in 1974 in Brooklyn.

Manhattan: Money to Buy Land for Tunnel

The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey voted yesterday to begin work to identify land that must be bought to build a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River,

City Plans Middle-Income Project on Queens Waterfront

Uli Seit for The New York Times

Land along the East River in Queens would be the site of up to 5,000 rental apartments for the middle class, under plans announced Thursday.

A Ship of Freethinkers, Hemmed in by Landlords

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

Skippers of the Empty Vessel — from left, Paula Zaslavsky, Tianna Kennedy and Dylan Gauthier.

The boat is called the Empty Vessel.

C.B. 1 backs cobblestones, green space for Peck Slip

In a heated debate Wednesday night over the future of Peck Slip, compromise won out. Community Board 1’s Seaport Committee resolved to split the difference between the two most popular concepts for the space — piazza and parkland.