Going Coastal

The aircraft carrier Intrepid — in the midst of an 18-month makeover — returns to its mission as a floating military museum in fall 2008. But the legendary World War II ship is also available as an emergency operations center in the event of another terrorist attack. (more…)

Hornblower Yachts, as expected, signed a 10-year contract with the National Park Service Thursday to provide ferry service to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. (more…)

The Municipal Art Society said Thursday that its long-time president, Kent Barwick, will step down in early 2008. (more…)

Twenty-seven billion gallons of water is enough to cover the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island a foot deep, sufficient to flood a 10-foot wide tunnel from Times Square to Burma, and more water than you’d use for a 20,000-year-long shower. It’s also how much untreated wastewater New York City spills into bays, creeks, rivers, canals and the harbor in a typical year. (more…)

The line loops past the man wearing the Lady Liberty gown, stretches around the ice cream stand, skirts a pretzel cart and passes a man playing the trumpet before snaking through metal security gates. (more…)

Connecticut has joined Rhode Island and New Hampshire as the third state in the U.S. to ban boaters from discharging sewage in its coastal waters, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Thursday. (more…)

The paved-over waterfront stretching from the Williamsburg Bridge to Grand Street in north Brooklyn has been gated and locked since the Domino sugar factory opened its doors in 1857. (more…)

PIER PLAN HARKS BACK TO GLORY DAYS OF 1911 (more…)

Paper or plastic? It is a question that has long dogged grocery shoppers. But the debate may soon be settled for this maritime city, where a bill aimed at protecting marine life would ban plastic bags from all retail stores. (more…)

The Hudson Yards represent Manhattan’s most tantalizing development site. Between 30th and 34th streets, and Tenth and Twelfth avenues, stretch former yards of the New York Central Rail Road, now used by the Long Island Railroad. (more…)

After a several uninterrupted years of stratospheric growth, the city could move toward restricting future development in the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO. (more…)

For New Yorkers without a weekend home, or even a car to make a day trip possible, one nature excursion is no farther away than the end of the nos. 2 and 5 lines: canoeing on the Bronx River.

Sharilyn Neidhardt

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The role of condos is provoking dissent over the coming redevelopment of Coney Island. (more…)

Powerful boats fill vital role in protecting city’s vast coastline (more…)

A giant waterwheel installed at the end of Pier 66 near 25th Street was inaugurated at a ceremony in Hudson River Park yesterday. (more…)

A City Council member is expected to introduce a resolution today calling on the city to drop plans to close the last container port in Brooklyn. (more…)

Saying he is seeking to emphasize “what’s best about New York City, the president of Community Preservation Corporation Resources, Michael Lappin, yesterday laid out a proposal to build 2,200 housing units on the 11.2-acre site of the Domino Sugar factory on the Williamsburg waterfront. (more…)

A group of upstream cities notorious for dumping raw sewage into the Bronx River have finally agreed to pump some hard cash into the waterway’s cleanup. (more…)

No other port in the country has an agency like the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.

That’s not exactly an achievement. No other port in the country had so much corruption and organized crime that it needed an agency like the waterfront commission. (more…)

Boaters in New York City now have available to them free maps of the more than 25 boat pumpout stations located throughout New York Harbor. (more…)