Cedar Grove beach bungalows to give way to public park

In what is likely a death blow to the private Cedar Grove Beach Club, the city Parks Department said yesterday it plans to remake a large, privately leased stretch of New Dorp Beach and open it to the public.

Seeking Revival, City to Buy Land in Coney Island

After a year of ultimatums, threats and stop-and-go talks, the Bloomberg administration has agreed to pay $95.6 million to a developer for seven acres in the heart of Coney Island,

BK’s National Park

Nationally, parks mean Old Faithful, Yosemite and delightful black bears hungry for picnic baskets. Here in Brooklyn it’s swings, a seesaw – maybe a ball field or two.

New group’s not in the swing of the park plan

A group of Battery Park City residents is making a last-ditch effort to save a shady, wooden playground from demolition.

The Gowanus is “Sponge” worthy!

The proposed Sponge Park along the banks of the fetid Gowanus Canal is finally living up to its name in one way: it’s soaking up federal money.

Dutch replica ship heading to NYC for river event

 A replica of the first Dutch ship built in America is headed to New York City

The Good Life?

A survey of leisure activities on the New York waterfront leaves a lot to be desired—in particular, something to drink.

Pier 40 plan sinks again; Trust seeks longer lease

For the second time in five years, the Hudson River Park Trust’s efforts to find a private developer to renovate and operate Pier 40 have gone down to a watery grave.

On the Waterfront: Brooklyn Bridge Park

No one should fear that Brooklyn Bridge Park will be an empty place. The public desire to be on this extraordinary waterfront is overwhelming.

Port Authority Sets Its Sights on Robust List of Projects

For decades, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was a bastion of patronage and a hulking bureaucracy living on its past success in building much of the region’s transportation network.

Group wants to own historic Long Island lighthouse

A fledgling Philadelphia preservation group is the only applicant to seek ownership of the historic Execution Rocks Lighthouse in Long Island Sound.

CHEEP LIVING apt for the Birds Floats in E. River

This floating condo with a bird’s-eye view of the Manhattan skyline is ready for occupancy – by swallows, wrens and their feathered pals.
The avian apartments are inside a 24-foot high aluminum tree standing on an aluminum-skinned “island” that floats on two pontoons.

In Search of Governors Island

Plans to redevelop Governors Island bring to mind the changing relationship of the city to its harbor over the several centuries of its rapid growth.

Spitzer Introduces Plan To Place Price Tag On Pollution

Governor Eliot Spitzer unveiled a plan Wednesday to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions from regional power plants.

Bridge Park people ready to listen

Leaders of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy want you to help decide what kind of recreational activities should be available when the project’s promised public spaces are built.

A Floating Tree for Anable Basin

A Tree for Anable Basin investigates and celebrates the enigmatic, rapidly changing waterfront environment of Long Island City. Launched as a site-specific installation in response to Long Island City in Context, an unorthodox urban guidebook published by Place in History, this public sculpture also coincides with the exhibition of Chico MacMurtrie’s work at the Andrew Edlin Gallery in Chelsea. It is conceived as a temporary installation. It encapsulates in a single gesture the dynamism and split personality of a landscape undergoing tumultuous redevelopment.

MAXIMIZING MANHATTAN

Buy land, the old saw goes, they’re not making any more of it. But what if they were? What if they added new acres to lower Manhattan?Charles Urstadt, the engineer who headed the landfilling for Battery Park City, proposes to dump sediment from Lower New York Bay into the Hudson along the lower Manhattan shoreline, creating 40 to 50 acres of space for residential and office buildings and parks.

Nothing stinks about this nature walk

Turns out, that new “nature walk” along side the Newtown Creek sewage treatment plant on Provost Street doesn’t smell like the Port Authority men’s room.

Walrus dad still a self-lover

The eyes of the world — well, at least the walrus-loving world — were on the New York Aquarium last week, where the new baby walrus made his debut.

But my eyes were on Ayveq, the Coney Island institution’s famously self-satisfying sea beast.

Rockland Ferry Struggles for Riders

A new commuter ferry has drawn an average of only nine riders a day in its first month. Still, the management says it’s pleased.