Archive for May, 2009
Trawling For Clues About The Health Of The Sound
Fish surveys create data used by researchers, policymakers (more…)
Add comment May 31, 2009
A Small Village Within a Vast City
To cross the City Island Bridge — “Welcome to City Island, Seaport of the Bronx” — is to enter an anomaly: a small town that lives within the borders of a great metropolis, an active fishing village with a 718 area code. (more…)
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Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC
When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list. (more…)
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AN ART-COVERED ISLAND
Governors Island, that 172-acre expanse in the middle of New York Harbor, will become a playground for an international group of 20 artists this summer. (more…)
1 comment May 30, 2009
Five peregrine falcon chicks hatch atop three city bridges
A trio of peregrine chicks were discovered at the top of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. A baby peregrine falcon nests in Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge. (more…)
Add comment May 29, 2009
EPA Launches Annual Efforts to Protect Area Beaches, Coastal Waters and New York/New Jersey Harbor
With the beginning of the beach season, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is again undertaking a beach and harbor protection program, (more…)
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Staten Island’s Toxic Stew
This spring, residents of Staten Island’s North Shore received news of a triple toxic whammy. (more…)
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Join Discover Boating on the Water for Hudson River Day!
New York’s 400th Anniversary on the Hudson River! (more…)
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A decision is being made at the Port Authority tomorrow in regard to the future of the Atlantic Basin and Pier 11 on the Red Hook Waterfront. (more…)
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Where’s my Park?
Four years after Williamsburg and Greenpoint were rezoned to allow luxury waterfront condo towers, residents charged none of the parks they were promised have opened. (more…)
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Call of the Island
IF New York is a city that never sleeps, where does one go for much needed quiet or rest? (more…)
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“Fireworks by Grucci New York”
Sunday, May 31 at 9:15PM
Where: from the tip of Roosevelt Island.
Viewable from the FDR Drive Promenade and Pavilion Park in Manhattan; Roosevelt Island, in Queens at Gantry Park, and Water Taxi Park and the Greenpoint and Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn.
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Add comment May 26, 2009
Gowanus Bay anglers persist even when fish deemed unsafe by experts
These Red Hook fishermen have been hooked on this spot for years – and don’t care if the feds think it’s dangerous to eat what they catch. (more…)
Add comment May 26, 2009
Fishes’ eye view of Manhattan
Most New Yorkers think you’d have to be nuts to jump into the Hudson River, (more…)
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Hudson River Fishing
The Hudson River Park Trust is encouraging New Yorkers to drop a line into the river and see what comes up. (more…)
Add comment May 26, 2009
Ask About Rockaway, Queens
This week, Lawrence Kaplan and Carol P. Kaplan, the authors of “Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York,” answered questions about the history of this once popular seaside resort in southern Queens. (more…)
Add comment May 26, 2009
A Pause in the Resurgence of St. George, Staten Island
In the brightest moments of the building boom, St. George was set to cast aside its reputation as a forlorn neighborhood of government buildings and shops clustered around the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. (more…)
Add comment May 26, 2009
Zoning without Planning
Amanda Burden, chairperson of the New York City Planning Commission, boasts that since 2002, the city has completed a record 94 rezonings, creating the most sweeping revision of land use regulations throughout the city’s five boroughs since the Zoning Resolution was rewritten in 1961. (more…)
Add comment May 26, 2009
Seeing the Hudson River Through 700 Windows
It was the sight of 700 mullioned windows covered with greasy plastic sheeting that inspired the Brooklyn artist Spencer Finch to create the first temporary public art commission for the High Line, that $170 million park being built on the elevated freight rail structure that stretches 22 blocks, from Gansevoort Street to 34th Street, near the Hudson River. (more…)
Add comment May 23, 2009
With rules galore, fluke is worth plenty
As we launch the unofficial start of summer, metro anglers practically need a calendar, tape measure and scorecard to prepare for saltwater fishing. It’s difficult keeping track of regulations for all the varieties of fish. (more…)
Add comment May 23, 2009