New study will examine creek’s impact on health

There has been no shortage of studies relating to the pollution in Newtown Creek, which divides parts of Brooklyn from Queens.   But those studies primarily talked about toxic chemicals and heavy metals — cadmium, chromium, copper, lead and mercury. 

HAILIN’ THE SAILIN’ OF HISTORIC HENRY

FORGET the transit-fare increase, forget the taxi surcharge, forget whatever name they’re calling the Freedom Tower, forget you shouldn’t eat pista chios, forget that a dinner in one of our still-open restaurants still costs a couple hundred bucks, forget any higher tolls on the Triborough, which is now the Robert F. Kennedy, which someday could be the Al Sharpton, forget that Plaxico has to watch his Bur-ass, important is that today marks the dawn of history. Yesterday, April 4, in the year 1609, was when Henry Hudson Himself steered his Half Moon sailing ship into what’s now New York City.

It’s Alive! Step Right Up and See for Yourself!

Coney Island was looking pretty good for being dead. A new gear had been put on the Wonder Wheel. The sun licked at the windows of the Freak Bar. There was the smell of fresh-laid paint.

For Sale: Harbor View, Needs Work

THE West Bank Lighthouse stands about three miles east of New Dorp Beach on Staten Island. From there, in the view to the north, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge seems delicately placed on the horizon.

Lead contaminates site of former plant on Staten Island

Federal Environmental Protection Agency officials confirmed yesterday what residents have feared for decades about a former industrial site on the waterfront near Port Richmond Avenue: There is a dangerously high level of lead in the soil.

City has lot of explaining to do

It’s the parking lot with the best view in the city, but now open-space starved North Brooklynites are demanding that the city make good on its promise to turn the lot into a parkland paradise.

State trout and salmon fishing seasons open

With New York’s trout and salmon fishing seasons opening today,

Sailing Round Manhattan on the Sludge Boat

Eight million New Yorkers generate a whole lot of sewage, and on any given day some of that sewage – more than two million gallons – is being shipped around on the city’s waterways. WNYC’s Arun Venugopal was treated to a ride on the city’s fancy new sludge boat, dubbed the Red Hook.

EPA head announces new port emissions proposal

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency wants to limit emissions along the nation’s coastline and within its seaports,

More Use of Waterways Urged for Fun and Travel

 For a long time, the waterways of Brooklyn and the city were the region’s highways for commerce, travel and recreation.

Conceptual Design for Storm Surge Barrier to Protect the New York Metropolitan Area

ARCADIS (Euronext: ARCAD) , the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, today announced that it has provided an idea of what a storm surge barrier aimed at protecting the New York and New Jersey Metropolitan Region from severe coastal flooding might look like.

Reprieve for Governors Island: $7 million from NY

A tiny island park off the tip of Manhattan will be open this summer under a deal made as part of the state’s 2009 budget.

One More Time

Come the weekend you’ll be able to ride the Cyclone – and soon even “Shoot the Freak” – just like you did last summer as Coney Island bounces back for at least one more season before a massive overhaul.

Historically Speaking:Carl Looff and Coney’s Ghosts

As Coney Island slowly sinks in the south along with the sunset, images of past remain as phantasmagory.

City makes new offer for Coney Island property that would pave way for revamp

The city is ready to write a $105 million check for property that would pave the way for a Coney Island makeover.

NY Water Taxi service to be trimmed

New York Water Taxi says it will suspend Hudson River service between Rockland County and Lower Manhattan on May 1.

Boat owners are abandoning ship

Gary Santos, a Mount Pleasant, S.C., councilman, checks a state notice on a forsaken sailboat. They often sandpaper over the names and file off the registry numbers, doing their best to render the boats, and themselves, untraceable. Then they casually ditch the vessels in the middle of busy harbors, beach them at low tide on the banks of creeks or occasionally scuttle them outright.