‘We were all hoping for one more season’ (more…)
October 30, 2006
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. (more…)
October 30, 2006
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. (more…)
October 30, 2006
An eight-story boutique hotel with breathtaking views of the Gowanus Canal (more…)
October 27, 2006
Ruined Navy Yard homes set to be razed for market (more…)
October 25, 2006
George Washington Bridge marks decades as vital city link (more…)
October 25, 2006
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. (more…)
October 25, 2006
THE beach action from Montauk Point to Breezy Point has been a surfcasters dream with bass and blues blitzing the shore areas. (more…)
October 23, 2006

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. (more…)
October 23, 2006
Gioia wants state to examine soil on Queens side of Newtown Creek (more…)
October 23, 2006
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. (more…)
October 20, 2006
A “floating pool” carved into a commercial barge will dock in Brooklyn in two weeks, Parks Department officials said. (more…)
October 20, 2006
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. (more…)
October 20, 2006

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. (more…)
October 20, 2006

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. (more…)
October 19, 2006
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. (more…)
October 17, 2006