750Gs to beautify Ocean Breeze

City Councilman James Oddo has secured $750,000 for a project to beautify the medians along Seaview Avenue in Ocean Breeze.

NASCAR site back in limbo as deal dies

Sale to warehouse giant fails, renewing worry over fate of 676 acres

State stalled on Bridge Park; new leader may spur building $150M waterfront

State officials are set to unveil a new leader for controversial Brooklyn Bridge Park Monday- eight months after Gov. Spitzer canned the previous president, the Daily News has learned.

If bill passes, Greenpoint-Williamsburg waterfront park will come

A planned 28-acre park on the Greenpoint-Williamsburg waterfront will finally be built if a state Assembly bill to be introduced Thursday is passed.

The Blight and Plight of Condoburg

I visited Phil DePaolo to talk about development. Part of me wondered if Phil didn’t feel like a broken record. He’s been involved in virtually every development fight in North Brooklyn from the People’s Firehouse to the waterfront re-zoning.

CITY EYES FLA.-BUILT FIREBOATS

The city has chosen a Florida company to build a $54 million pair of state-of-the-art fireboats to patrol New York Harbor.

NY SINKS E. RIVER ARTWORK

A Brooklyn artist’s floating “condo” for birds has been left high and dry by the state Department of Conservation.

Dispiriting Plans for West Side

 Few New Yorkers make it over to the Hudson Yards on the Far West Side of Manhattan, and there is no reason that they should. Only a few blocks from Midtown, the Hudson Yards are the stale butt end of Manhattan Island, the exposed tracks over which the trains pass from New Jersey into Penn Station. There is, at present, no charm in these 26 acres that stretch from 30th Street to 33rd Street and from Tenth Avenue to Twelfth Avenue — not even that charm of abjection that attaches to such rusted wrecks of the industrial age as the High Line, which, in a much-anticipated urban reclamation project, will soon become a park.

An Architect’s Flotilla of West Side Buildings

THE New Orleans architect Albert C. Ledner’s three offbeat creations for the National Maritime Union came ashore in New York in the 1960s, their porthole facades impudent in the face of doctrinaire modernism. The union sold off all three buildings within two decades. One of the pair on Ninth Avenue and West 17th Street is now the Maritime Hotel; the other, too, may soon morph into a hotel.

World Must Fix Climate In Less Than 10 Years: U.N.

Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale human and economic setbacks and irreversible ecological catastrophes, a U.N. report said on Tuesday.

Pier D Stands Out in the West Side’s Industrial Past

A new pier in the Riverside Park South project offers a vantage of the ruined Pier D.

Discontent on a Tip of the Island at the Center of the World

ON a cold morning last week, bundled-up tourists strolled south along the East River from the South Street Seaport, past the pier where they could buy helicopter rides and the ornate Battery Maritime Building, where opaque green waves lapped against steel foundations.

From Sewage, Added Water for Drinking

It used to be so final: flush the toilet, and waste be gone.

Drilling for Energy, But Not Oil

From a room underneath the sidewalk in New York City, stark, white pipes plunge more than 1200 feet into the depths of the earth. There they whisk water to the surface where it regulates the temperature inside a futuristic brick-and-glass building occupied by the Center for Architecture in lower Manhattan.

“Our heating energy is not from Con Edison. It’s coming from beneath the earth’s surface,” says Rick Bell, executive director of the 15,000-square-foot center, which is the home of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Tainted Lavender

Apathy and dreams along the Gowanus Canal.

Divers Who Jump in to Take the Mystery Out of City Waterways

Having frequently pedaled his bike over the Gowanus Canal’s bridges in Brooklyn, Ludger K. Balan was familiar with its sickly green tint, oil-slicked surface and rotten-egg smell. Then, one day about eight years ago, he looked into the canal and saw a school of striped bass chasing minnows.

35 years later, a push for an FDR memorial in NYC

George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street, Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the Hudson. But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York native son Franklin Delano Roosevelt has no official memorial in this city.

Field of vision

Veteran flyboys salute aviation history—one piece at a time.

Coast of Dystopia

Thankfully, the delirious New York of the Hudson Yards proposals won’t get built.

Last Private NYC Island To Be Preserved

The last privately held island in New York was transferred today to the city Parks Department for preservation and protection.