Historic lifesaving station in E. Hampton is returned to beach, from where Nazi spies were foiled in WWII. (more…)

THE New York State Department of Environmental Con servation is reopening the ap plication period for proposals for grants that will fund projects aimed at improving fish and wildlife habitat and public access for hunting, fishing, trapping and other fish- and wildlife-related recreation. (more…)

Rockaway Beach - with its infamous riptide - is New York City’s deadliest beach. (more…)

Coney Island’s gritty amusement district will get a shot of much-needed adrenaline this summer with the arrival of a famous circus and the world’s largest inflatable water slide, (more…)

n the post-September 11 era, the officers in the New York Police Department’s scuba unit have gotten used to working double time during Fleet Week, (more…)

Dominique Görlitz, 40, with a model of a craft being built almost entirely of reed at a marina in Jersey City. (more…)

A series of murky Supreme Court decisions have left the agencies responsible for enforcing the Clean Water Act in a state of confused paralysis, (more…)

For decades, New Jersey developers have been recycling worn-out warehouses near the Hudson River into chic condos and fashionable retail centers. (more…)

ON warm summer weekends along the Brooklyn waterfront, at the end of Columbia Street, the baseball and soccer fields of Red Hook Park are lined with Latin American food vendors and families spread out on blankets to watch players in crisp whites and vivid primary colors. But looming behind the fields is a spectral counterpoint to that lively scene: a monolithic, ash-colored grain elevator, 429 feet long with silos nine stories high, that has sat vacant since 1965. (more…)

The Hudson that you see from the skiff of a commercial shad fisherman is not the river so familiar from the window of the Metro-North train, the waterfront condominium balcony, or even the shiny deck of a sportfishing boat. (more…)

For years, a small, secretive group of people, most of them men, spent their off hours paddling just above the surface of the city’s dirty rivers in kayaks. They rowed to their own music, often alone, and few paid much attention. (more…)

Light relief from America to Arklow
Light vessels, it appears, bear some similarity to buses. You do not see one for ages and then three come along together. LV112 Nantucket, the largest lightship ever built, is being offered for sale by the National Light House Museum for the princely sum of $1. Conditions are attached, however, because the 71-year-old vessel will only be sold to a non-profit organisation willing to keep her open to the public. Estimates of approximately $150,000 to drydock and repaint the vessel, plus around $25,000 per year to maintain her, are likely to limit the offers. Ships Monthly

Lightship on the Block for $1. (more…)

Gateway National Recreation Area can’t escape its past, and that’s the problem. (more…)

DUMBO remains a divided neighborhood, but at least they’re getting a pedestrian plaza. (more…)

f only Norwegian explorer Leif Ericson were alive to see this. (more…)

Now here’s a perfect spot for a museum! (more…)

Memorial Day weekend kicks off the major-event season for Long Island’s outdoorsmen. (more…)

The Department of City Planning just released its 2007 New York City Bicycle Survey. (more…)

Charles Urstadt, vice chairman of Battery Park City and chairman of Urstadt Biddle Properties, spoke at the Associated Builders and Owners luncheon on Thursday and called for the creation of Battery Park City North. (more…)

A deadly, fast-spreading aquatic virus is reaching epidemic proportions in New York’s two Great Lakes (more…)