Going Coastal

Bronx $400 million

Manhattan $354 million

Brooklyn $273 million

Queens $198 million

Staten Island $119 million

Total $1.344 billion

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is blooming! (more…)

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the South Bronx Initiative, a comprehensive plan to sustain and strengthen the ongoing revitalization of the South Bronx. (more…)

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. announced on Monday that the city had started talking with Sanford Golf Design to design and build a championship-caliber golf course over a former garbage dump at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx, potentially giving new life to a project that has been dogged by years of delay and problems. (more…)

Many promises were made two years ago when the New York Yankees grabbed prime parkland in the South Bronx to build a new stadium. (more…)

There was a time, some four decades ago, when dishes like bouillabaisse, snails in casserole and lobster ravioli were, at least on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, on the cutting-edge of cuisine. Those days are long gone; such menu items can be seen as practically standard fare. (more…)

On Tuesday, as the temperature flirted with 100, parks police lectured 14 teenagers on the dangers that lurked in the river. The kids were dog-faced and damp from already having spent the afternoon diving off a pier on the Bronx River, doing back flips into the murky water. Once the police left, they went right back at it. (more…)

Community Board 7 takes pride in the fact that it is the largest of all 59 community boards in New York City. But as a result of a recent finding by the Department of City Planning, Community Board 7 and New York City are smaller than had been believed. (more…)

The Floating Pool Lady barge is now in the Barreto Point Park in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. The seven-lane, 82-foot pool, which was docked in Brooklyn Heights last summer, will open to the public on June 27. (more…)

It may not be Miami, San Diego, or even the Rockaways, but the Bronx - yes, the Bronx - has 10 beaches where visitors can enjoy a summer swim. (more…)

The cost of replacing two popular parks where the new Yankee Stadium is being built has nearly doubled. At the same time, several of the eight new parks, which were supposed to be completed before the new stadium opens next spring, have been delayed by as much as two years, according to city documents. (more…)

A large waterfront space that could be a positive harbinger for the Bronx is up for sale in Port Morris, with the asking price: a cool $43.5 million. (more…)

Hunts Point could see a northern version of the South Street Seaport under city plans to develop vacant land there. (more…)

Spotted salamanders, poison dart frogs and other color-splashed amphibians will leap aboard a Noah’s Ark of sorts this week. (more…)

Uli Seit for The New York Times

Broad Channel, an island in Queens with canals, some houses on stilts and part of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. (more…)

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