Telescope Takes a Long View, to London

Before sunrise on Tuesday morning, a strange sight began to appear on Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn: a six-foot-tall metal drill bit seemed to emerge from the wooden pier, covered in genuine East River mud and revolving slowly beneath the glow of the Manhattan skyline.

Regina Kellerman, 84, Locator of New York’s First City Hall, Dies

Regina Kellerman, an architectural historian whose research led to the literal unearthing of New York City’s first City Hall, died on May 13 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was 84 and lived in Greenwich Village, the neighborhood in Manhattan where much of her work was focused and about whose buildings she may have known more than anyone else.

Controversy Swirls Around Snug Harbor Arts Scene

Joyce Malerba-Goldstein has been an artist at Snug Harbor since it became a cultural center in the 1970s. She says what used to be an institution where artists could flourish is now deteriorating. She says a prime example is the bathroom.

Brooklyn Residents Argue For Gowanus Canal’s Potential

The sight of adults and children canoeing down the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn’s infamously polluted body of water, has become more common since the water pump that flushes out the canal was re-activated back in 1999.

Councilman Calls On Con Ed To Sell Queens Property, Not Hike Rates

A Queens City Councilman called on Con Edison Sunday to sell what he says is an expensive piece of waterfront property, instead of having customers foot the bill for rising costs.

Eight-Ton Sculpture Installed In Brooklyn Waterfront

Some waterfront property in Brooklyn just got its first piece of art Thursday.

An eight-ton, crescent-shaped sculpture was installed on a new pier off North Fifth Street in Williamsburg. The piece will also serve as a bench.

Waterfront view is a chick magnet

There’s a live Web site showing naked underage chicks Downtown, but it’s not likely to be blocked by parental filters.

$43 mil site for sale Sprawling waterfront property located in desirable Port Morris

A large waterfront space that could be a positive harbinger for the Bronx is up for sale in Port Morris, with the asking price: a cool $43.5 million.

Crony Island!

Residents and fans of Brooklyn’s beloved “People’s Playground” have a new name for their seaside amusement zone — Crony Island.

Minerva can still see Liberty

She conquered the Carthaginians.

She massacred the Macedonians.

But Minerva — the Roman goddess of war — still needed three year’s worth of help from her Greenwood Heights neighbors to finally cut a developer down to size.

Helicopters help police waterways from the air

The helicopter speeds past the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building, hovering instead above patches of green sludge near a Brooklyn canal and pools of shiny oil at a toxic creek.

Flushing River wetlands project may be soaked

Tidal marshland along the heavily polluted Flushing River is being reborn, but the painstaking project is not the work of eager environmentalists.

Zones of death are spreading in oceans due to global warming

Marine dead zones, where fish and other sea life can suffocate from lack of oxygen, are spreading across the world’s tropical oceans, a study has warned.

Our Oceans Backyard: marine science in school curriculum

About 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is ocean: a source of oxygen, habitat and food. Our ancestors navigated it to build our civilization, and it supports today’s economy.

Sea Cliff ship lover’s collection up at auction

At age 7, Frank O. Braynard wrote the name of a famous ship “Leviathan” on the class blackboard, spelling it correctly.

Historic Brooklyn Navy Yard gets modern makeover

When the Pentagon closed the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1966, it became an obsolete facility awash in history but torpedoed by time.

With five ships, Fleet Week 2008 is smallest ever

The annual U.S. Navy invasion known as Fleet Week opens here on Wednesday with a flotilla of five American warships and three Canadian entries to add an international flavor to the 21st annual observance.

Related Cos. wins Hudson Yards deal

A partnership between The Related Cos. and Goldman Sachs has struck a tentative, $1 billion deal with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to develop the Hudson Rail Yards, the agency announced Monday.

CONEY RALLY ‘FREAK’-OUT

 If Mayor Bloomberg thinks he’s got community support for his revised plans to rebuild Coney Island, he’s in for one rough roller-coaster ride.

LAST STOP: ‘ATLANTIC AVE.’

The subway’s gone submarine . . . again.