A circus might find its home in Coney Island

Brooklynites living in Coney Island will have to wait a bit longer before seeing elephants, clowns and trapeze acts.

Stop Marty!

A  showdown is looming over Borough President Marty Markowitz’s pet project to build a huge $64 million concert arena in a quiet Coney Island park.

THE CYCLONE JUMPSTARTS THE 2009 CONEY ISLAND SEASON ON APRIL 5th

The world famous Coney Island Cyclone roars into action on Sunday, April 5th, starting at Noon. With a bottle of authentic Brooklyn egg cream in hand, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will join Miss Cyclone, the Hungry March Band, and hundreds of expected guests in launching the 2009 season.

Celebrating 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson’s Historic Voyage

Looking for something to celebrate? How about the commemoration of New York’s 400th birthday beginning next Saturday?

Brooklyn pool concert series to shift to new spot

The summer concerts that turned a fallow Brooklyn swimming pool into a rock hotspot have found a new home.

A Waterside Village With a Big-City Backdrop

IT’S not often that you get to watch gulls skirmish over mussel beds from a street that dead ends at the water. Or spot gaggles of Canada geese, ducks and scaups flying over schools of bluefish.

A Divorce for Governors Island

Governors Island, that enticing 172-acre piece of real estate just off Manhattan’s shore, has been tantalizing urban planners for decades.

NY’s Environmental Protection Fund “in deep trouble”

The New York State Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) was enacted during the recession of the early 1990s, at a time when medical waste was washing up on our shorelines, state and municipal parks where being closed or reducing operating hours and farmland was being lost to poorly planned development.

Wrong Ways and 400th Birthdays

Remember Wrong Way Corrigan?

In 1938, the legendary aviator was preparing to fly to Europe, but the federal government refused to grant him permission because his plane seemed too flimsy.

Mayor Bloomberg threatens to yank funding for Brooklyn Bridge Park

Mayor Bloomberg ratcheted up the heat in his bid to take over Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday, threatening to halt city funding unless state officials hand over full control.

Harbor Seals in New York

The New York Aquarium released the results of its third annual seal count today and the news is good. There are 20 harbor seals swimming around the greater New York area now.

Tax Money to Get the Park Built

State Sen. Daniel Squadron unveiled a radical new proposal for the underfunded Brooklyn Bridge Park development that would eliminate hundreds of planned condos from the park and, instead, use property taxes

Culture has docked in Red Hook

The homeless, floating symbol of Red Hook’s once-thriving maritime past, the tanker Mary Whalen, will get a permanent home

NY Coast Guard monitoring oil spill in NY Harbor

The U.S. Coast Guard is monitoring the cleanup of an estimated 300 gallons of oil that spilled into the waters off New York Harbor on Monday.

Big Green Apple

We generally think of ecotourism as travel that takes us out of the urban and into the rural. Trekking through Costa Rican rainforests, feasting with villagers in the Andes, or biking through the Outback. But New York City?

His Hudson River

UNTOLD numbers of books, articles, love letters, goodbye notes, lists of dog-sitting instructions and poems have been composed in Riverside Park, and I’m hereby adding one more item to the count.

Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson To Open

 Launching the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of New York harbor and the river that bears his name, Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson—the first major exhibition to mark this occasion and the first exhibition of its kind—will open at the Museum of the City of New York

Silver puts mayor’s Governors Isle idea on hold

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told Downtown Express last week he is against the mayor’s plan to take over Governors Island now, but Silver is open to the idea for next year.

Javits Rejiggered

Once hailed as the most important job-generating project in New York, a dramatically scaled down plan to expand the Javits Convention Center was approved yesterday

Like a Phoenix, Red Hook Piers To Rise From Ashes

The city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) has added some meat and flesh to the bones provided in January for the reuse of the Atlantic Basin and most of the land and facilities around it in Red Hook.