NEW PARK IS OPENED ON HUDSON RIVER

With three weeks to go until he leaves office, Gov. Pataki opened another $16 million section of Hudson River Park yesterday and then promised to remain a “haunting” presence until the entire 550-acre strip of greenway is completed in coming years.

PIERS TO SINK CONDOS

SHIP SHAPE: City plans to redevelop Brooklyn waterfront include brews and cruise, but condos are out.

Fishy business

Bust of captain hauling 900 lbs. of bass just tip of city’s black market for seafood

It’s meltdown for vacant sugar plant

The demolition of a long-vacant Red Hook sugar refinery was begun over the weekend by a developer sweet on building upscale housing on the once-hardscrabble waterfront.

Sunset Park port shift will cost jobs

A container port slated for Sunset Park’s waterfront would provide only a quarter of the jobs at the endangered Red Hook terminal, officials predicted yesterday.

On deck: Clemente overhaul

Roberto Clemente State Park is getting a $20 million makeover.

Submarine Joins Intrepid in Bayonne

The junior member of the Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum’s nautical fleet left town yesterday without putting up a fight.

Port Authority Approves Budget Plan

The Port Authority on Thursday approved a $5.7 billion budget for 2007 and a $21.1 billion 10-year capital plan that includes spending to redevelop the World Trade Center site and build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

New Jersey: Broadening Beach Access

This is not an entirely new story. The state of New Jersey once again has announced regulations assuring the public of convenient access to the state’s hundreds of miles of ocean, river and bayfront property.

Shipping Containers Explain Everything

If you look around your office, your kitchen or your closet, you will probably find a great many items that were made outside the United States.

Letter from NIMBY-land

A new waterfront development has our laissez-faire columnist gasping in horror.

Fearing the End of ‘The People’s Playground’

Residents accustomed to corralling the kids, hustling them onto the subway and riding down to Coney Island for a day of affordable family fun still have at least one more summer left to enjoy the shore.

Deno’s Makes Pitch to Keep the ‘Wonder’ In Coney

While Thor Equities offers art renderings of a huge year-round amusement and entertainment center for Coney Island, its amusement park neighbor has similar visions.

Waterfront projects get graded

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SUBWAY EYED FOR BRIDGE PK.

The planned Brooklyn Bridge Park could wind up with its own subway station.

SOUR ENDING FOR B’KLYN SWEET SPOT

The iconic Revere Sugar Refinery - whose domed rooftop has defined Brooklyn’s Red Hook waterfront for a century - could be demolished as early as today by a developer hoping to bring luxury housing to the gritty waterfront area, The Post has learned.

Cops net famous fisher

An enduring survivor of the city’s dying commercial fishing community was hooked by state police for allegedly trawling in contaminated waters.

Spitzer seals deal to halt river dumping

Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer will have to wait another month to clean up Albany, but he’s already succeeded in helping to clean up the Bronx River, sealing a deal to end sewage dumping by upstream towns.

HUDSON RIVER ART

A 30-foot stainless steel water wheel powered by the Hudson River is one of two public art projects being unveiled in the new Hudson River Park on Monday.

On a Sliver of the Bronx, a Waterfront Respite

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Part of the 600-foot-long Riverdale Waterfront Promenade and Fishing Access Site in the Riverdale section of the Bronx on Thursday afternoon.