Creek clean up in coney – New hope for foul waterway

Local residents may have noticed construction equipment and workers on the shores of the Coney Island Creek recently.

Carbon-Neutral Is Hip, but Is It Green?

THE rush to go on a carbon diet, even if by proxy, is in overdrive.

Battle of Pier 40 Heats Up Over Big Developments

A showdown on the future of a West Side pier is set for next week, as community residents are pledging to turn out in force for a public hearing regarding two development proposals.

Manhattan Beach: A Street Named Trouble

On a November day in 1776, a 25-year-old woman named Margaret Corbin joined her husband, John, in defending Fort Washington, in Upper Manhattan, from an attack by the British.

Plastic goods for your compost heap

Biotech firm Metabolix and agriculture giant Archer Daniels Midland plan to sell a plastic that could benefit everyone from backyard composters to marine animals.

IBM to crunch numbers for river conservation

IBM is participating in a Nature Conservancy project to improve information gathered to monitor the health of large river ecosystems.

Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons

What is happening to the bees?

1000 Days at Sea

Going Coastal will be following the 1000 Days at Sea journey. The website is back up after being swamped with well wishers over the weekend.

Coming to the Old Brig Site in Wallabout

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There are not a lot of chances to use the words Brig, Wallabout and real estate development in the same sentence, but this is one of them. The city has picked a developer for the site of the old Naval Prison across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Sustainable New York City

PlanNYC

Protecting New York’s Wetlands

New York City arose in a marshy landscape amid a great tidal estuary.

N.Y. DUCK GROUPS ARE QUACK UNITS

DUCKS Unlimited members from New York have reason to be proud today.

MAYOR’S VISION OF GREEN APPLE

Looking to catapult New York to the environmental forefront in one dramatic bound,

A MUSSEL-BOUND CITY

For the first time in decades, the city will be flexing its mussels in an attempt to improve water quality.

Bloomberg Draws a Blueprint for a Greener City

In a quarter-century plan to create what he called “the first environmentally sustainable 21st-century city,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposed a sweeping and politically contentious vision yesterday of 127 projects, regulations and innovations for New York and the region.

Yellow Submarine To Raise Andrea Doria (Part I & II)

(Published 8/2006)This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Andrea Doria.

Letter confirms Teachers’ US$57 million commitment for long-term investment, growth in Port of New York and New Jersey

Port Authority failure to grant consent would reduce jobs, economic development

BP and councilman disagree on hotel at former home port

Two Staten Island leaders disagreed yesterday on whether the city should include a 150-room hotel at the former Stapleton home port.

After Four-Day Delay, Wind Returns and the Louis Vuitton Cup Begins

The America’s Cup lifted itself out of the doldrums Friday as some of the world’s fastest yachts finally began racing after four days of delays because of a lack of wind.

Big storm snags anglers

Just as reports of decent flounder catches and keeper-sized bass showing off the Keansburg Pier started to trickle in, the worst Nor’easter in years roared through to shut down fishing for a few days as hundreds of thousands of gallons of discolored freshwater from flooded rivers poured into Raritan Bay.