The National Park Service said yesterday that it planned to have another company replace the Circle Line, which has provided ferry service to the Statue of Liberty for more than half a century. (more…)

The southern tip of what was once known as Welfare Island could one day be a memorial to the president it is now named for, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (more…)

Come July 4th, the city’s hottest new destination could also be the coolest - a floating swimming pool off the Brooklyn Heights waterfront, complete with gorgeous harbor views and a manmade beach. (more…)

Speeding at five miles per hour, Robert Fulton made his famous steamboat voyage up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in 32 hours. (more…)

ESKIMO hunters killed a bowhead whale off the coast of Alaska last month and began to chainsaw their way into its blubber.

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A rendering of a proposal for the 40-acre park area on Governors Island by the design team of Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Rogers Marvel Architects, West 8, Quennell Rothschild & Partners and SMWM. (more…)

As harbor master Sal Gugliara cleans up the environmental practices at the New Rochelle city marina, (more…)

This falls into the now-you-know category: The artist who has been intriguing bikers and joggers with driftwood sculptures along the Hudson River in Manhattan has been identified as Tom Loback. (more…)

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, long a cloistered and opaque agency, took a big step yesterday toward opening itself to greater public scrutiny (more…)

To the Editor:

As the developer of the Domino Sugar site on the Brooklyn waterfront, we agree with Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, about the need to integrate historic sites into development plans. (more…)

In 2003, when state lawmakers ended years of deadlock and approved legislation giving financial incentives for developers to clean up and build on hundreds of acres of polluted industrial wastelands, (more…)

A day after the unexpected news that Coney Island’s Astroland would survive until next summer, negotiations for an extension appear to have bogged down (more…)

A cash crunch in the development of Pier 40 is in limbo, with no one at the helm. (more…)

In the skyline of one of the most populated, urban areas of the world adjacent to one of the nation’s busiest airports, Elders Point Island in Jamaica Bay Gateway National Park, King’s County, N.Y., is the focus of an impressive marsh island restoration project. (more…)

You can forget about oceanfront views from high-rise balconies and takeout from Nathan’s Famous. (more…)

The city’s plan to build a park on the property of the upscale apartment building One Sutton Place South just hit a snag. (more…)

Last week, the Audubon Society released a new report describing the sharp and startling population decline of some of the most familiar and common birds (more…)

The last big piece of privately owned timberland in the Adirondacks (more…)

Joseph Sitt, the developer who bought the land in and around Coney Island’s famed Astroland, has a new plan for this legendary patch of real estate. (more…)

In a bid to ensure that the city’s beaches are accessible to the disabled community, city officials have installed specially designed boardwalk-to-ocean beach mats for wheelchair access. (more…)