Brooklyn Longshoremen Make Waves About City’s Plan For Red Hook Port

Some Brooklyn longshoreman made waves

Staten Island waterfront news…

Assault on wetlands

No NASCAR

Port Authority interested in buying planned raceway site

Big Top Coney: Circus Coming to Town

The Big Apple Circus is looking at the Astroland site in Coney Island for possible performances, according to sources close to the issue.

Civic Group Rips Gateway Over Shoddy Pier Repairs

Neal Duncan, president of the United Canarsie South Civic Association, told attendees at last week’s meeting held at the Hebrew Educational Society, repairs made thus far to the Canarsie Pier are inadequate.

Reclaiming Roberto Clemente State Park

Hugging the Harlem River

Oo-ooh, that smell to linger for 3 years

Bay Ridgites won’t get full relief from the stench of the Owls Head sewage treatment plant for nearly three years, city officials said at a raucous town hall meeting last week.

Gowanus toxic plume targeting Park Slopers

An underground cloud of toxins that has already invaded the future home of the Whole Foods supermarket, is moving from the industrial neighborhood along the Gowanus Canal toward Park Slope, an engineer told state officials this month.

Rivers revive, Bombers stay, parks go away

Revival at the river

Shoreline Protection Bill Brings Money for Sound

SINCE 1987, when the federal government named Long Island Sound an estuary of national significance, talk about protecting its shoreline has been constant but never backed by more than a trickle of federal money.

Perched NYC Hawk Sees Bald Eagle Soar By

Pale Male, the famed red-tailed hawk of Central Park, was perched on the 22nd floor of the swank Beresford apartment building on Wednesday when the national emblem of the United States soared past, carrying a large fish in its talons.

On the Block, a Dream by the Sea

THE day Starrett City opened, Oct. 13, 1974, was cold and, to read contemporary news accounts, somewhat inauspicious. The sprawling 46-building middle-income project on the south shore of Brooklyn

Temporary Roadway for Cars May Be Transformed Into Permanent Refuge From Them

Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times

Looking south near the F. D. R. Drive at the outboard detour. It may be used for pedestrian and bicycle paths.

CONCORDE TAKES FLOAT

A Concorde jet, once capable of supersonic speed, takes a sluggish trip from its home on Manhattan’s Pier 86 to Brooklyn early yesterday.

Hazardous Inlet Makes Fuel Oil Delivery Perilous

THE East Rockaway Inlet is the churning, dog-legged entry point from the Atlantic to Reynolds Channel, which hooks up with another channel to a fuel-oil terminal in Oceanside, N.Y.

Eco-tourism: A sustainable trade?

Can eco-tourism do more harm than good? In the Green Room this week, James Mair argues that it can, and that development of tourism needs to be made sustainable.

Brooklyn: Trash Station Plan Is Criticized

A plan by the City Sanitation Department to build a trash-transfer station at the site of a former incinerator on the Bensonhurst waterfront

Spring Creep

Sebastian DeJesus has lived in New Lots, next to Spring Creek Park, for more than three decades. “When I bought this home it was like the countryside,” says DeJesus, who is originally from Puerto Rico and is now in his late fifties. “We used to see rabbits. We went to the park to play baseball. We went to the water.”

Spring Creek Park, Brooklyn NY. October 6, 2006. A worker empties human waste load into a hole in the ground in a DEPdump site. © Geoffrey Croft/NYC Park Advocates. AllRights reserved.

Rowing

It’s taken decades, but New York is slowly reclaiming and making use of one of its most valuable resources: its rivers. Earlier this year world-class yacht, sailboat and tugboat races brought crowds to the riverside. A new park is slowly taking shape along the Hudson.

Coney landmark to reopen

Coney Island’s “rendezvous of the elite” is on its way back.

Spitzer May Have To Referee Battle Over South Brooklyn Waterfront

Another development conflict facing Governor-elect Spitzer is shaping up regarding the competing visions for the future of the south Brooklyn waterfront.