Amphibian Ark to Protect Funky Frogs at Bronx Zoo

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

Island Hopping Without Leaving the City

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.

Fire at Hunts Point Meat Market Is Mostly Confined to One Building

Every day, thousands of trucks come and go from Hunts Point, a bulge of land on the Bronx waterfront that serves as a supermarket for the New York region.

Legos for the Grown-Ups

THE social event of the season in Locust Point, a quiet enclave of tidy family homes along the East Bronx waterfront, took place just over a week ago when a crane lifted two 18-ton halves of a prefabricated house off flatbed trailers and stacked them like Legos on an empty lot.

New leader hopes to build on Wave Hill’s success

Wave Hill has made no plans to use its planting beds to grow popcorn, even though the the public garden and cultural center has selected Claudia Bonn, executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, to succeed its own longtime executive director Kate French starting in April.

Rare, uninhabited Bronx island donated to New York City Parks Department

On November 20th The Trust for Public Land donated South Brother Island , one of New York City ’s last wild places, to the New York City Parks Department. The Trust for Public Land purchased the property from a private landowner using $2 million in federal grants secured by Congressman Jose E. Serrano.

Located a half a mile off the shoreline of the Bronx, the seven-acre, uninhabited island in New York’s East River is a key nesting colony for several types of shore birds, including the Great Egret, Double-crested Cormorant, Snowy Egret, and Black-crowned Night Heron. The Parks Department intends to keep the isolated island protected in order to study the wildlife and to develop a plan to best preserve and use the island.

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Many Mulligans Later, City Is to Start Anew, and Alone, on Bronx Golf Course

It was supposed to be a world-class golf course, designed by Jack Nicklaus, and best of all, it would cost the city next to nothing. Developers would pay for it all and recoup the cost of the city-owned course from greens fees.

Is a ferry feasible?

Board members passed a resolution supporting a “feasibility study” for ferry service in Riverdale

Beaver lodges by Bronx River

There’s a new waterfront home turning heads in the Bronx - even though it’s small and made out of mud and sticks.

Last Private NYC Island To Be Preserved

The last privately held island in New York was transferred today to the city Parks Department for preservation and protection.

Fish market is the catch of the day

The fishmongers of the old Fulton Fish Market on the downtown Manhattan ­waterfront were somewhat leery of the move to a brand-spanking new, fully enclosed market way up in the Bronx. But after settling in, they’ve gotten hooked on their new location.

Termination of Contract Means City Paying More to Golf Course Builder

The Bloomberg administration said yesterday that its termination of its contract with the developer hired to build a championship golf course in the east Bronx had prompted an additional $7 million payment even though the developer had made little progress building the course.

Stray Sailboats, and Worries Ashore

Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times

What is anchored does not always stay put.

SUNY Maritime College featured in Princeton Review

The State University of New York Maritime College was featured in Princeton Review’s 2008 Best Northeastern Colleges

In Search of a Suitor

Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times

Stepping Stones Lighthouse, which sits near the Throgs Neck Bridge, has not had a full-time attendant since the 1960s

Nature Getaway Is Close as the Bronx

For New Yorkers without a weekend home, or even a car to make a day trip possible, one nature excursion is no farther away than the end of the nos. 2 and 5 lines: canoeing on the Bronx River.

Sharilyn Neidhardt

AG flush with victory vs. cities dumping into river

A group of upstream cities notorious for dumping raw sewage into the Bronx River have finally agreed to pump some hard cash into the waterway’s cleanup.

TOXIC LANDFILL LAWSUIT CLEARED FOR TRIAL

A long-delayed lawsuit linking the Pelham Bay Landfill to cancer-related deaths and illnesses in the east Bronx can now go to trial, the state’s highest court ruled on Wednesday, June 27.

Reeling In a Living on the East River

FREEMAN WONG starts his day just after midnight, when he heads over to the New Fulton Fish Market in the Bronx to pack his truck with whatever’s fresh and attractively priced: skate, salmon, sole, shark, swordfish.

It shore is paradise - yet so close to home

New Yorkers can still capture that salty New England rush of fresh sea air and fresh lobster without having to slog up Interstate 95.

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