Ferry Will Speed To Coney Island From the Battery

Most New Yorkers know Battery Park as the shabby launching point for ferries to the Statue of Liberty and Staten Island, or confuse it with the well-manicured Battery Park City waterfront.

No Safe Harbor

Manhattan’s once bustling waterfront is about to lose one of its few remaining working piers to a convention center. A longshoreman’s lament: Where will the cruise ships go now?

New York Tries to Think Outside the Sandbox

Kinnaresh Mistry and the Rockwell Group

Riverside Park: Uninviting or Idyllic? A Redesign Airs Old Disputes

For admirers of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument at 89th Street and Riverside Drive, the grand old days seem to be coming back.

Public hearing on new park – New governor is tight-lipped on developing designs

While opinions on several new aspects of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park are swirling in the air,

Foes Trash Waste Plan – Groups fear damage to Bay wildlife

If the city gets its way, Gravesend Bay could one day be known as Graveyard Bay,

City:Marina should drop anchor here – EDC tries to lure developers

If Red Hook’s waterfront is to one day become a postcard-perfect, maritime-themed destination area, it might be nice if a marina actually sets up shop there.

Tide comes in for Gowanus development – City starts to take hard look at rezoning areas around the canal

City planners will soon set their sights along the redolent shores of the Gowanus Canal,

Eager developers grab land on far West Side

Two years after the city rezoned Hudson Yards, the 45-block former industrial wasteland is on the brink of a transformation.

City: No hotel on Red Hook shore

City officials dashed several developer’s hopes this week by declaring part of the Red Hook waterfront a hotel-free zone.

The bitter story of a sugar plant

To be inside a factory on the verge of demolition is like visiting a place of worship emptied by earthquake.

It’s still not a damn park!

 

We’ve been saying it for more than half a decade, but this week, state planners once again admitted that their luxury residential, commercial and open space development along the DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights waterfront is not a park.

Meet our industrial neighbors from New Jersey

The petrochemical industry dominates the waterfront across from Staten Island

‘People’s Pier’ vs. Performing Arts Center pitched for Pier 40

A rendering of Pier 40 – The People’s Pier, a proposal featuring sports and educational uses and a summer day camp.

To Cross the Bridge, Job No. 1 Is to Get on It

You can see them everywhere in the blocks near Cadman Plaza: lost tourists, brows furrowed over guidebooks, looking for that most elusive of landmarks, the Brooklyn Bridge.

LIC Has A Great View

Living in Long Island City is reaching new levels as luxury residential buildings continue to make their mark on the burgeoning neighborhood.

‘Green’ Building Slow In Coming To Queens

Hop onto the northbound N or W train and take it to Queens Plaza. Walk off the subway, across the overpass and down the stairs to the street’s north side. There, on the sidewalk, is an object some say embodies the future of urban planning.

Test Held Locally For U.S. Lifeguard Jobs

Strong female and male swimmers are being encouraged to take advantage of the pre employment test opportunities

At Clove Lakes Park, the enemy has a shell

Transported here on the bottom of birds’ feet, tiny clams are sucking nutrients from the pond

Seaport children’s slip is coming in

Renderings of city-Rockwell Group plan to build a new playground at Burlling Slip