A New Name for Our Premier Waterway

With the Triborough Bridge now known as the R.F.K. Bridge, New York City is evidently in a re-naming mood. May I suggest that we finally lend a proper name to the East River? (Gotham Gazette)

First Prosecution in Washington for Dumping of Plastics and Garbage from Marine Cargo Vessel

HAE WAN YANG, 54, of South Korea, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to two months of home confinement in the United States and two years of supervised release for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships by knowingly failing to maintain an accurate Garbage Record Book.

Coney Island Planning Moves Forward a Step

The city’s Coney Island Comprehensive Rezoning Plan will soon be heading for its public review process and may be looking at an end-of-summer completion date, according to Lynn Kelly, president of the Coney Island Development Corp.

City Drastically Revises Red Hook Waterfront Plans

Beer Distributor Tapped To Take Over Entire Pier

Fishing Port Targeted for Redevelopment

Redevelopment is de rigueur in land-strapped New Jersey, and the latest project to surface is a proposed makeover of 15 acres of waterfront property in this Monmouth County township’s Belford section.

Derecktor still sailing despite bankruptcy

BRIDGEPORT — Although its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing has grown a little more complicated, Derecktor Shipyards Connecticut has added more than 100 workers since it filed the action more than six months ago.

Lower Hudson Valley leaders aim to save Greenway agency from state budget cuts

An agency best known for promoting regional cooperation on projects in the Hudson River Valley would be eliminated under Gov. David Paterson’s proposed 2009-10 state budget.

Hudson River Museum Announces Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley

The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, will mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage to the New World with the exhibition Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, June 9, 2009 through January 10, 2010.

ALL TOGETHER NOW: TOWARD A BETTER LAND USE PROCESS

New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, by Tom Angotti, MIT Press, $24.95.

City scolded on im-port-ant plan

Brooklynites last night panned a nearly finalized city plan to bring a beer distribution trucking facility to a pier in Red Hook instead of an earlier city vision that called for more recreational and maritime use of the waterfront.

CONEY BOSS EYES MORE LAND

Mayor Bloomberg’s plans for revitalizing Coney Island are in jeopardy as a controversial developer who owns most of the amusement district is now planning to expand his vast portfolio of boardwalk land rather than sell it to the city, The Post has learned.

1909 Hudson commemoration will be a tough act to follow

Ready or not, the big 400th celebration is on us, honoring Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain and their discoveries in New York.Admittedly, these are challenging times in which to throw a really spectacular birthday party, so don’t expect anything too glitzy. We won’t see a shadow of the spectacle thrown in 1909 to celebrate the 300th.

Jane Hotel on the Hudson

The rooms are shipshape and even though you share a bathroom with strangers, you can’t beat the price of $99 a night.

For a Buried Mill, a Brief Stint in the Sun

THE ground just inside a fence near the Fulton Ferry Landing on the Brooklyn waterfront was bare last week, only pavement and packed dirt, but that state of affairs, like the rest of the site’s history, was only temporary. Within a year, planners say, a grassy field will slope up to a hill overlooking New York Harbor to form the centerpiece of the long-planned Brooklyn Bridge Park.

New York Yacht Club backs Oracle in dispute with Alinghi

The prestigious New York Yacht Club, which held the America’s Cup for 132 years, has backed US team Oracle in its legal dispute with Swiss champion Alinghi over the rules for the next edition of the event.

Coney Island’s Human Polar Bear

Since 1903, the Coney Island Polar Bear Club has staged a New Year’s Day plunge into the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. This year, nearly 700 men, women and children are expected to enjoy a chilly dip with as many as 3,000 less courageous souls watching from the shore. (The club’s more dedicated members meet each Sunday during the winter to enjoy a cold swim.) TIME spoke with the club’s president, Dennis Thomas, about how the group got its start, the psychology behind cold-water swimming and why 65° weather in January sucks.

Soon to Be Brooklyn Parkland

Standing at the corner of Brooklyn’s Pier 1, where red double-decker tourist buses make a left turn from Old Fulton Street down Furman Street and ease their way along the Brooklyn waterfront, it is hard to believe that a large section of the sprawling Brooklyn Bridge Park, planned for the mostly deserted site from Pier 1 to Pier 6, will be completed there within a year.

Shipping’s Breathtaking Shift

The stereotypical harbor drayage truck, an end-of-the-line vehicle that is too old and too dirty for over-the-road work, is fading fast at U.S. seaports.

New Year’s Day marks start of 400th anniversary

The new year brings big anniversary celebrations to New York state, which is planning a yearlong series of events to commemorate 400 years of history on the Hudson River, New York Harbor and Lake Champlain.

Rare and Enticing Maritime Collectibles at Christie’s New York on January 15

A large model of a British ship-of-the-line carved from bone and ebony, a 1916 New York Yacht Club trophy, and a scrimshaw whale’s tooth depicting the female pirate Fanny Campbell are some of the rare and enticing collectibles included in Christie’s Maritime Decorative Arts sale on January 15, 2009.