New York seeks ban on boats dumping untreated sewage in canals

New York officials want the Environmental Protection Agency to help them keep boat sewage out of the state’s 524-mile canal system.

River pageant will overflow with sights and sounds

For 15 years Felicia Young, founder and director of Earth Celebrations, organized the Rites of Spring and Rites of Winter pageants. Part parade, part performance art, the pageants highlighted the need to save the gardens of the East Village and Lower East Side and community gardens throughout New York. The Hudson River Pageant is her new project that also addresses environmental issues through the arts.

Gowanus Canal clean up tab for city?

The city could be on the hook to help pay for a federal Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal, officials said.

Visions of a Circus at Coney Island

No, this is not the artistic rendering of a future Renaissance Faire at City Hall Plaza or some Bryant Park fashion-week event. It is the advance view, to be unveiled on Thursday, of the new tented circus that Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus will bring to Coney Island on June 18.

Greatest Show on Earth, Animal Abuse Come to Coney Island

Tickets for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus’ “Coney Island Boom a Ring,” scheduled for Coney Island this summer, go on sale today.

Staten Island: 1 borough, 4 distinct shorelines

A view of Staten Island from the sea presents a borough that is unmanicured at the edges; a borough that was organized around church spires, now empty factories and the green balloons of inland trees; a borough that no longer functions, much, as an island.