Renovation of Lundy’s Stirs Dispute in Brooklyn

For decades, there have been efforts to preserve parts of Sheepshead Bay as a quaint fishing village in Brooklyn, with plans to make Emmons Avenue the kind of waterfront promenade that would draw visitors to seafood restaurants and a boardwalk on the bay.

Pelham Bay

Most New Yorkers are familiar with the unpredictable housing market and the neighborhood gentrification raging across the city. But as tumultuous as those changes have gotten, a small area in the Northeast Bronx has managed to weather the worst of it so far.

Crab attack

FISHERMEN NEAR THE MOUTH of the Hudson River found the first Chinese mitten crabs in the Hudson in 2007.

Long Island Sound Water Quality Upgrades Funded

Grants for improving water quality in Long Island Sound were announced Friday at a gathering of federal and state environmental officials in Westchester County near the shore.

The Dutch Are Returning to Celebrate With the City

What do bowling, the Bowery, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Harlem, Stuyvesant Town, the Yankees, the Roosevelts and coleslaw have in common?

NYC museum ship Intrepid coming home shipshape

Almost two years after being pried ignominiously from the mud by a phalanx of huffing tugboats and towed off to a shipyard for a major overhaul, the historic aircraft carrier Intrepid is returning home to resume its latter-day career as a floating museum.

QE2 anchors off Staten Island

Guests on the Queen Elizabeth 2 today were getting a long look at the Stapleton waterfront because the huge ocean liner dropped anchor off Staten Island, delaying its departure from New York because of rough seas in the North Atlantic.

A vision for reviving the Island

Twelve urban planners presented a blueprint for change last night that would revitalize Staten Island’s shores, beautify its streetscapes and preserve its character.

Cleanup’s for the birds South Brother Island sanctuary sparkles anew

Kayakers from the Long Island City Community Boathouse paddle on way to yearly cleanup of South Brother Island.

Champlain’s Shores

THE weather was blustery but hardly forbidding when I set off by canoe from just below Rouses Point, N.Y., near the border with Quebec, to begin retracing Samuel de Champlain’s journey of discovery — 400 years ago next summer — on what is now Lake Champlain.

What Do Pirates Want From Us?

Somali pirates captured a Ukrainian ship Thursday carrying about 30 T-72 battle tanks. Pirate attacks have been particularly common this year, the New York Times reports, with 50 ships attacked, 25 hijacked, and 14 currently being held.

To the Brooklyn Docks and Back

I’ve been to Red Hook three times, and each time, I’ve used a different route.

Coastal Waterways: An Untapped Security Resource

New report outlines the homeland security case for re-investing in America’s “blue highways”.

Sea Bass Limits

BLACK sea bass took a big hit for the com ing season at a recent Fishery Management Council meeting, but there was some good news for summer flounder anglers.

Jane tries another go-round with carousel

Jane Walentas — wife of DUMBO megadeveloper David Walentas — is ramping up an effort to get her pet project, a 1920s-era carousel, included in the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park development site.

Hookers to get BJ’s in a Mall

The BJ’s Wholesale Club destined for the Red Hook waterfront might be part of a six-level shopping plaza with several other stores and even some residential units,

Plans for Long-Stalled F.D.R. Memorial Move Forward

Don’t doubt the power of documentary films.

Does Seeing Green Lead to Seeing Greenbacks?

It takes a park to raise property values.

Peeking at the Peopling of America

Watching a dozen new citizens take their oath of allegiance in the majestic Registry Room at the Ellis Island National Monument on Tuesday — a moment to stir even an old reporter’s heart

CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION TAKES BOATU.S. FOUNDATION AWARD

The BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water honored Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, NY with its 2007 Clean Water Grant Excellence Award as it announced over $50,000 in new grants to 19 groups across the country for its 2008 Clean Water Grant program.