Archive for October, 2009
Charting a new course
ABOARD THE JOHN J. HARVEY IN NEW YORK HARBOR – Up on deck, a group of inner-city kids – most have never before been on the Hudson River – squeal in delight, getting drenched by water. (more…)
Add comment October 22, 2009
A Battery Park Bargain
AS two of the officials who helped carry out Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s 1967 mandate to build a Lower Manhattan community on landfill in the Hudson River, and considering the unquestionable success of what he proposed evident in today’s vibrant Battery Park City, (more…)
Add comment October 22, 2009
Future Dangers for a Maritime City
From its description Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront, a six-month research program being inaugurated early next month at the Museum of Modern Art, sounds like the kind of dry, somnolent workshop someone would dream up for a convention of civil engineers. Conceived to address the potential effects of rising water levels and apocalyptic storms on the city, the program is modeled on the principles of “soft infrastructure,” which proposes flexible ecological systems as an alternative to “hard” solutions like concrete dams and storm barriers. (more…)
Add comment October 22, 2009
Historic ship in Oyster Bay sold to Boston group
After deteriorating for more than six years at the Waterfront Center in Oyster Bay, the historic Nantucket Lightship has been sold for $1 by the National Lighthouse Museum to a new nonprofit group in Boston that plans to move it there next month and restore it as a museum. (more…)
Add comment October 22, 2009
Ilya the Manatee Still Missing Off of New Jersey
Ilya the manatee, who traveled to Cape Cod this summer via New York Harbor, finally turned up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Friday — several hundred miles north of where he should be this time of year. (more…)
Add comment October 20, 2009
Fish Regs Fight Goes Federal
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) asked the U.S. Department of Commerce and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on Monday to set up a free, permanent registration process for Long Island’s saltwater anglers so they only have to register once in their lifetime. (more…)
Add comment October 20, 2009
Mobbed Up Dockworkers
The New York Shipping Association is trying to regain control of port labor in a move critics claim would open workers to the same kind of mob exploitation that inspired the film “On the Waterfront.” (more…)
Add comment October 20, 2009
Construction can move forward at former Spanish Camp
City OKs construction on all land except for that owned by builder who started process (more…)
Add comment October 20, 2009
Faber’s 425 acres of blue (pool) and green (park)
A bucolic oasis exists amid Richmond Terrace’s industrialized waterfront: The Faber Park and Pool. (more…)
Add comment October 20, 2009
RH Tugs: Hillary ate here; Madonna sang here
Just down the road from the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Livingston is the only full-service restaurant on Staten Island’s North Shore waterfront: R.H. Tugs. (more…)
Add comment October 20, 2009
Dock holiday as Bay Ridge gets new ferry launch
Bay Ridge’s 69th Street pier is on its way to becoming a boating destination and transit hub, thanks to a $300,000 plan to outfit the fishing wharf with a dock. (more…)
Add comment October 20, 2009
Vision of a Riverfront Lined With Ferry Docks
The Hudson River may no longer be the major economic and transportation artery it once was, but it is a big river — beautiful in parts — that is home to commercial boats like ferries and barges as well as pleasure craft like sailboats and jet skis. (more…)
Add comment October 17, 2009
A curious manatee from Key West is lost in New York
Call him a bohemian behemoth.
There he was, a warm-water loving South Florida manatee, some, 1,300 miles from home, in the New York Harbor. (more…)
Add comment October 17, 2009
Shipping to be part of Howland Hook waterfront for next half-century
The Port Authority has signed a 35-year lease extension with the city for the 202-acre Howland Hook Marine Terminal in Mariners Harbor. The agency also extended its lease for the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal by 20 years, with the option of further lengthening it to 2058. (more…)
Add comment October 17, 2009
Before They’re Gone Pamela Talese Captures Industrial Relics From Another Era
For Pamela Talese, painting the corroding landscapes of Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront is a race to capture what’s left before it’s gone. (more…)
Add comment October 15, 2009
Eric Sanderson pictures New York — before the City
400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta’s fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife (more…)
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From Bones of Immigrants, Stories of Pain
A few weeks ago, a hearse left Tom Amorosi’s brownstone in Park Slope with the remains of 36 people who died in the 1840s and 1850s. (more…)
Add comment October 15, 2009
Biologists fight erosion in Jamaica Bay
The whipping winds of Jamaica Bay sway the chest-high grasses of Elder’s Point East, a salt marsh island full of marine life. (more…)
1 comment October 13, 2009
$150 Million Price Tag Put on Gowanus Effort
A new $150 million project to substantially improve water quality in the Gowanus Canal and reduce its odor impacts was officially announced on Friday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. (more…)
Add comment October 13, 2009
Titanic Memorial Cruise
Exactly 100 years since the world’s most famous maritime disaster, a cruise ship is to recreate the fateful voyage of the Titanic, complete with dinners and dancing from the era. (more…)
1 comment October 13, 2009