Reshaping the City: Who’s Being Heard — and Why?

Like clockwork, about every five minutes a black garbage truck rumbled down Washington Square South flashing a banner that bashed the Bloomberg administration. (more…)

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Socrates Sculpture Park Announces The Bohemians

On Thursday, September 11, 2008, at 6:30pm, the little OPERA THEATRE of NY (LOTNY) will present a concert entitled The Bohemians as part of its annual concert for 9/11, hosted by Socrates Sculpture Park. (more…)

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State, local waters plagued by potentially harmful bacteria

At the edges of two small ponds in a Greece subdivision are two pairs of small signs nailed to posts.
“WARNING,” two of the signs read. “Avoid contact with water. Do not allow pets to drink from pond.” “NO FISHING,” state the other signs. (more…)

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GREAT NORTH RIVER TUGBOAT RACE AND COMPETITION

The powerful little helpers that coax giant oceangoing vessels into and out of their berths and haul barges of fuel oil and other necessities around New York Harbor get a moment in the spotlight. (more…)

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Floating exhibit shows alternative

Last summer, Caryl Kientz was a corporate advertising executive in San Francisco.

This summer, she’s captain of the Alice, a fanciful vessel made of junk, one of seven eclectic scrap yard ships now voyaging down the Hudson River. (more…)

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The dredge report

A 110-acre river sludge-processing and transportation center, including almost seven miles of new railroad tracks, will be ready in May for the start of Hudson River PCB dredging, (more…)

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Sanibel snowbird brings expertise to different destinations

Sanibel snowbird Karl Rodman spends about nine months of the year relaxing in a lovely pocket of tropical paradise on Tahiti Drive. (more…)

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Hudson River - Striped Bass Fishing

The stripped bass is an ocean going fish that comes into coastal rivers to spawn. Each spring, large schools of this hard fighting game fish head up the Hudson River in New York turning that river into one of the most exciting game fisheries in the United States. (more…)

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The Hudsons

(Photo: Lincoln Karim)

High in the air, swirling above the grand riv-vu buildings of the Upper West Side, they were birds of prey: part of nature but not part of us. Closer to the ground, they might as well have been human. (more…)

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Gottlieb Estate Hews to Its Property Philosophy

William Gottlieb was famous for his strict philosophy of buying up dilapidated buildings and never getting rid of them, and the late billionaire would likely be pleased with the result of an auction of a five-story apartment building in the meatpacking district that has been the subject of much dispute. (more…)

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Rockaway is Surf City

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Hedwig Aerts walks from the beach carying a surf board in Rockaway, Queens. (Tadej Znidarcic)

A row of surfers bobs like bath toys offshore, the noses of their boards pointing toward the horizon, sniffing for the perfect wave. (more…)

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Senator Clinton Pushes for Federal Cleanup of Newtown Creek

The federal government should conduct testing at four hotspots along the Newtown Creek to determine whether a federal cleanup effort should move forward, (more…)

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Navigating Nautical Antiques

Who am I?” may be the modern existential dilemma, but for many centuries, “Where am I?” was a more urgent practical problem. (more…)

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Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation’s photostream

Development Corporation’s photostream  presents historic photos on Flickr

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The ‘Roadshow’ docks at Seaport to honor treasure of maritime art

If you were to show up one of these days at a taping of “Antiques Roadshow,” clutching an authentic oil painting by maritime artist James E. Buttersworth under your arm, (more…)

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Man-made chemicals tied to sick lobsters

A Woods Hole scientist believes he may have found a key culprit behind a mysterious disease linked to a dramatic drop in lobster populations from Buzzards Bay to Long Island. (more…)

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The Schooner Argia

Why you should know it: The Argia - named for the goddess of the sea - circles out of the Mystic River into the Long Island Sound for a luxurious time on the water. (more…)

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A Futuristic Energy Plan, 100 Years in the Making

In the century to come, The New York World imagined 100 years ago, gyroscopic trains might travel at fantastic speed, there could be wireless phones in every pocket, and the world “may have aeroplanes winging the once inconquerable air.” (more…)

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Cape Liberty: Cruise Gateway to Manhattan

New Jersey’s Cape Liberty Cruise Port, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, is increasingly popular for those embarking on year-round Royal Caribbean cruises (more…)

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Tapping Hudson no substitute for planning

Responsible planning must be based on real information, not propaganda provided by interested parties. Unfortunately, United Water, working closely with the Rockland Business Association, is doing its best to mislead the citizens of Rockland. (more…)

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