Travis Noyes: Whatever floats the boats

A choppy tourist market means water-taxi exec must target the locals and craft new route

Rentals for a Pioneering Spirit

HERE on a peninsula jutting into the Hudson River, with a landscape so stark it served ably as a set for the 2005 remake of “War of the Worlds,” the outpost of a new civilization is being created. The economy permitting, it will take the form of rental apartments.

Don’t sink island’s season, demonstrators plead

Activists wearing life preservers flooded City Hall steps last Friday afternoon to keep Governors Island afloat.

FAA Dismisses Bird Hazard At Trash Site

Just weeks after geese caused U.S. Air Flight 1549 to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River,

General Growth Said to Get Mall Bids of $400 Million

General Growth Properties Inc., the mall owner at risk of bankruptcy, received offers of almost $400 million for properties including Boston’s Faneuil Hall and New York’s South Street Seaport, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Statue of Liberty Chills With Plastic Cooling Towers

She has put on a nice face for more than 100 years, welcoming seafarers to these shores with dignity and grace. But deep down, the Statue of Liberty was hurting.

Cordish may buy General Growth

Baltimore developer David Cordish, the surprise front-runner in Maryland’s recent slot-machine bidding, is also the logical favorite to buy Harborplace

Historians hunt for Civil War-era passage that could have run from Fort Totten to Bronx

The visitors have heard the urban legend about an escape passage built between Fort Totten in Queens, to Fort Schuyler in the Bronx, where the Long Island Sound and the East River meet.

Construction begins on Staten Island waterfront cement terminal

Operators and politicians tout Elm Park facility as boon 

Waterfront Park in Williamsburg To Remain Shuttered For Now

A waterfront park in Williamsburg has been shuttered – and is being kept that way – by red tape,