From Trash to Trophies: A New Golf Course Grows in the Bronx

As part of last fall’s PGA Tour FedEx Playoffs, the Barclays Classic was contested at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey amid great fanfare. Television coverage kept panning to the spectacular views of the New York skyline and also covered the conversion of the former industrial waste site to tournament golf venue.

River’s Meaning to Indians, Before and After Hudson

Although our awareness of the voyages of Henry Hudson, Robert Fulton and Samuel Champlain may have vastly increased over the past year — courtesy of exhibitions, performances and publications celebrating 400 years of European settlement in the Hudson River Valley — most of us are still fairly ignorant when it comes to the native people who once inhabited the region.

Council floats ferry plan to service 8 boro sites, including Yankee Stadium

Anchors aweigh. Bronxites could someday soon be doing their commuting by boat.

A Small Village Within a Vast City

To cross the City Island Bridge — “Welcome to City Island, Seaport of the Bronx” — is to enter an anomaly: a small town that lives within the borders of a great metropolis, an active fishing village with a 718 area code.

The Green Power Broker

MAJORA CARTER, one of the city’s best-known advocates for environmental justice, was sitting on a picnic table in Barretto Point Park in the South Bronx under the intense lights of an NBC film crew.

City puts marina in drydock

The borough’s oldest marina has been ordered closed for safety reasons, leading members of the boat club harbored there to fear the club will be gone forever.

WATER PLANT’S RI$ING TIDE

Rising construction prices, design changes and a dearth of bidders have more than doubled the cost of a gigantic water-filtration plant being built 10 stories beneath a Bronx driving range, budget experts have found.

Yankees took $11 million in improper rent deductions

The Yankees improperly deducted more than $11million from their annual rent bill for Yankee Stadium over a four-year period, city Controller William Thompson has found.

Fordham Students Find Environmental Inspiration

For every student who ever complained, “It’s so nice today; why can’t we just have class outside?” Colin Cathcart has the answer: “Sustainable New York.”

On City Island, a Place for Telling Fish Stories

Late August was bluefish time in the waters of Long Island Sound around City Island in the Bronx. But the talk among the men hanging out at Jack’s Bait and Tackle, on City Island Avenue, kept coming back to stripers.

Something seems fishy at Bronx park

Why does the city want to elevate a new riverfront park by five feet?

The Bronx’s Secret Shore

Where can New Yorkers enjoy a private, shorefront club, bayside swimming, a pebble beach and a restaurant with a beautiful view of the water?

New York promotes the Bronx’s parks and gardens

Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is blooming!

Talks Focus on Bronx Golf Course

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.

Green Thievery in the South Bronx

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

City’s Land Mass Shrinks, New Survey Says

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.

Bronx beaches are mostly private

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.

$43 mil site for sale Sprawling waterfront property located in desirable Port Morris

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.

Breadbasket of U.S. – Hunts Pt.? City has big plans for vacant 25 acres

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

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.