Going Coastal

Manhattan is a blinding, bright star on the family vacation sky. But look or, better yet, travel by subway or taxi to the borough to the southeast and explore the rich offerings of Brooklyn, (more…)

Just over 20 years ago, my partner Tom Potter and I founded the Brooklyn Brewery. We toiled long and hard, developing the beer and the brand, selling the beer, delivering the beer, promoting the beer. (more…)

On the roof of Gregory & Paul’s hotdog and beer stand is a statue of a paunchy man giving the thumbs-up. He’s holding a hamburger so faded one suspects it was fresh off the grill 30 years ago. (more…)

The Fourth of July weekend has always been one of the most exciting times of the year for Coney Island: (more…)

The supersonic passenger jet known as Alpha Delta retired unscathed in 2003 after nearly 30 years of speeding back and forth over the Atlantic Ocean. But in less than two years in Brooklyn, it already has had its pointy nose knocked off. (more…)

Bronx $400 million

Manhattan $354 million

Brooklyn $273 million

Queens $198 million

Staten Island $119 million

Total $1.344 billion

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For the first time ever, the Nathan’s competition came down to a dog-off. (more…)

The Fourth of July weekend has always been one of the most exciting times of the year for Coney Island: Crowds line the boardwalk to watch the hot-dog eating contest, visitors take terrifying roller coaster rides, and beachgoers frolic in the sand and surf. (more…)

A Brooklyn judge on Wednesday ordered the removal of an 18-foot-tall, 200-foot-long metal fence that separates the Red Hook Recreation Area from the Henry Street Basin. (more…)

Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has long been known as a stinky body of liquid contaminants, but a landscape architecture design firm and community advocates are aiming to transform its shores into a “sponge” park between the Third Street and Carroll Street bridges. (more…)

As the Public Place development moves forward on the shores of the Gowanus Canal, representatives of Community Board 6 and the Gowanus and Carroll Gardens neighborhoods continue to exert influence over the mega-project, (more…)

Members of NY ACORN are calling on the Bloomberg administration to revise its plans for Coney Island to include more affordable housing. (more…)

Decades of planning will finally culminate in a small, but usable, Brooklyn Bridge Park by the end of 2009 — but state planners admitted on Monday that they don’t know when the rest of the 85-acre open space and condo development will be complete, (more…)

Legend has it that the hot dog contest has been held annually at Nathan’s Famous on the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues in Coney Island since 1916. (more…)

Amusement rides on property owned by the developer planning to turn Coney Island into America’s biggest fairground are so dangerous, they should be closed down, an inspector told The Post. (more…)

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