Going Coastal

The promise of free bike hire every Friday on New York’s car-free Governors Island has proved extremely popular. (more…)

As seen in this photo from last week, at right, the fireboat stationhouse on the finger pier at Gansevoort Peninsula’s northwest corner is being demolished (more…)

The Pier 40 Working Group got its first glimpse of the new proposal for Pier 40 last Wednesday morning. (more…)

What if “eating local” in Shanghai or New York meant getting your fresh produce from five blocks away? (more…)

Hudson River Park Trust has issued a request for proposals for its Pier 57, one of only two sites that are available for private commercial development on Manhattan’s Westside waterfront south of 59th Street. (more…)

Thanks to the Jane Hotel, travelers can get bargain deals with rooms starting at $99 a night. (more…)

Compelling proposals to change the face of lower Manhattan will be on display at the Center for Architecture in New York. “South Street Seaport: Re-envisioning the Urban Edge”, is an exhibition (more…)

The entity overseeing the design and construction of the 5-mile Hudson River Park in New York City is seeking design proposals for one of the last piers still available for development. (more…)

Objects from ocean liners are seldom found in art museums. Furniture and fittings from passenger ships are more often seen decorating hotels and restaurants, or on show in maritime museums. (more…)

MANHATTAN ISLAND sure looks different if you’re doing six knots through New York Harbor on a Colgate 26 racing sloop on a breezy summer Sunday. (more…)

RCN a leading provider of digital television, data, and voice services to residential and small - medium business customers, was the presenting sponsor of the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, the longest swim event during the Manhattan Island Foundation’s 2008 NY Swim Series. (more…)

A two-acre city property that stretches from East 18th to East 23rd Streets along the East River has serious structural damage, (more…)

Twelfth Night, the fourth annual open-air Harlem Summer Shakespeare production in Riverbank State Park in Manhattan, will play Aug. 7-24. (more…)

Gloria Weiss was living in a small SoHo apartment in the 1980s when one of her young students told her that he lived on a boat. (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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Ikea isn’t the only new “big-box” store in New York City that may have a significant impact on the neighborhood around it. (more…)

With New Yorkers and visitors flocking to the East River this summer to see the waterfalls by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, the time has come to consider using the waterfront more prominently for another branch of the arts: performance. (more…)

Ruby Washington/The New York Times

The South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan; many New Yorkers have never adopted the location as a destination of choice. (more…)

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