Stray Sailboats, and Worries Ashore

Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times

What is anchored does not always stay put.

Gowanus Canal Clean Up Coming…Eventually

Mark down 2012 and 2013, give or take, a potentially very significant years for the Gowanus Canal.

Trust says it will consider alternative Pier 40 plan

Opening the door to an alternative, community-based plan for redeveloping Pier 40, the Hudson River Park Trust is allowing a local group of very well-financed parents to come up with a specific proposal — and concrete funding commitments — and has given them two months to do it.

City plan is ferry good in Williamsburg

The city is sifting through several proposals from ferry operators to shuttle commuters between Manhattan and at least three stops in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, an effort that the city hopes will reduce congestion on the roads and also on the overloaded G and L trains.

NEW WALKWAY ATOP HUDSON

Cyclists and riverfront strollers got a $13.3 million gift from the city yesterday when Mayor Bloomberg announced plans to construct an over-water path from West 83rd to West 91st streets along the Hudson River.

Toms shoe steps into People’s Design Award win

The floating barge pool has been beaten by a shoe.

Bargemusic: a waterfront music venue that’s a cultural icon

Last year, they staged 250 concerts, more than any other classical music venue in the world.

Take Rowing Machine. Add Water.

ABOUT six years ago, Heidi McGee, 41, had just given birth to her second child and was determined to start exercising again. She had always been active — running, skiing, sailing — but now she was expending most of her energy carrying an infant or chasing a toddler.

Man’s Vision to Carve Prime Real Estate From Hudson River Proves a Tough Sell

Developers have long argued that you cannot go wrong buying waterfront land because no more is being created. But Charles J. Urstadt’s dream is to extend Lower Manhattan a little bit farther into the Hudson River.

Architects to offer ideas on how to use Island waterfront

Chamber of Commerce commissions study to be conducted next year on 30 miles of coastline

Wanted: Home port developers

City looking for proposals for hotel, restaurant, sports complex and housing at former Navy base

Six-Step Plan May Help Save The Bay

The Department of Environmental Protection released a two-volume final report this week that outlines a comprehensive set of strategies to restore and maintain the water quality and ecological integrity of Jamaica Bay.

“The Jamaica Bay Watershed Protection Plan” took nearly 18 months to produce and is the culmination of an exhaustive study conducted by the DEP that profiles the Jamaica Bay Watershed, provides a plan for future management of Jamaica Bay and builds on the mayor’s PlaNYC for a greener, more eco-friendly City by recommending a series of Best Management Practices for storm water management.

IT PAYS TO WORK AT PORT AUTHORITY

In an era when many employers are slashing employees’ health benefits, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is bucking the trend: The interstate transportation agency is actually requiring employers who hold service contracts with the Authority to provide health insurance to their employees and families — at no cost to the employees.

Architects brainstorm ways to add park space

The future of Manhattan’s West Side lies in an area some still can’t find on a map, and it contains some of the most developable land on the island, though many might have trouble recognizing the neighborhood’s name.

Parents group means business on Pier 40’s future

When the Pier 40 Working Group recently proposed that public funds — instead of monies generated by large-scale private development on Pier 40 — be used to maintain Hudson River Park, Henry Stern, a member of the Hudson River Park Trust’s board of trustees, blasted the idea as “socialist.”

Nothing stinks about this nature walk

Turns out, that new “nature walk” along side the Newtown Creek sewage treatment plant on Provost Street doesn’t smell like the Port Authority men’s room.

Walrus dad still a self-lover

The eyes of the world — well, at least the walrus-loving world — were on the New York Aquarium last week, where the new baby walrus made his debut.

But my eyes were on Ayveq, the Coney Island institution’s famously self-satisfying sea beast.

Huntington Lighthouse foghorn sounds again

Waterfront residents in Huntington awoke recently to a heavy mist and a sound they had not heard for three years - the bellowing of the foghorn at the Huntington Lighthouse.

SHIPMENTS SHELLFISHY

Federal authorities indicted a seafood company on charges that it shipped thousands of pounds of potentially dangerous shellfish to fish dealers in Philadelphia and New York who sold it to restaurants. Kip’s Seafood Company and its owner, Karl Crute Sr., were indicted Wednesday on two felony counts of conspiring to transport and sell interstate commerce shellfish as well as shipping and selling it.

AP

BEAT ‘SNOT’ OUT OF KILLER ALGAE

AN INVASIVE algae is threatening some of New York’s finest trout streams and, if left unchecked, could spread throughout the Catskills.