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.

Broad Channel Marina site development sought

Despite recent reports that the old Schmitt’s Marina at West 19th Road in Broad Channel “will one day become a waterfront park,” the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation has issued a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) for the improvement of the parcel.

According to the Parks Department, “This RFEI is intended to solicit ideas for the revitalization of this currently dormant and underused asset from members of the local community, area non-profits and local entrepreneurs, experts in the fields of ecology, outdoor recreation, or sustainable development.”

(Queens Courier)

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.

With the Mill River restoration, wildlife set to return to the heart of downtown Stamford

On an early afternoon in August, freelance photographer Sue Sweeney got a call that something unusual had turned up along the Mill River’s western bank in downtown Stamford.

Brooklyn Bridge Park Makes Good Use of Recyclables

Out with the old and in with the new” is one of the more flippant cliches we keep hearing, especially at the New Year. (The precise quote, from Tennyson, is “Ring out the old, ring in the new.”)

New York City’s Waterfront in Photographs on View at Museum of the City of New York

The dramatic transformation of the New York City waterfront from a hub of industry and commerce to a vestigial space reclaimed for recreation and public use will be documented in historic photographs by Berenice Abbott, Andreas Feininger, and David Robbins,

OFFICIALS BREAK GROUND ON EAST RIVER WATERFRONT ESPLANADE IN LOWER MANHATTAN

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Governor David A. Paterson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today broke ground on the $148 million first phase of the East River Waterfront Esplanade and Piers Project in Lower Manhattan.

Mayor Bloomberg Announces Programs to Expand the Reactivation of Brooklyn’s Working Waterfront

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Monday announced a series of programs to expand the ongoing reactivation of Brooklyn’s working waterfront.

New York’s Island Haven, Secret No More

MARTIN HANAN of Manhattan is tough to please. This is a man who just returned from a Hawaiian vacation with nothing but complaints.Undeterred, he decided to try another island, so on a recent afternoon he boarded a boat for Governors Island.

City Breaks Ground on Waterfront Park in Williamsburg

Mayor Bloomberg broke ground today on the first of three waterfront parks in Greenpoint-Williamsburg that were first promised when the city rezoned the Brooklyn neighborhood four years ago.

Down by the River (and New York Harbor)

Jelly’s Pool Parties will run through Aug. 30 in East River State Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

New York Fourth of July fireworks

After debuting on the Hudson River in 1958, the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks celebration will finally venture back to its birth spot this year, briefly abandoning its East River digs.

Red Hook concrete plant

Just when it looked like Red Hook had shed its image as a gritty manufacturing hub, residents now are bracing for a return to the waterfront neighborhood’s industrial past.

Watch history float by this summer

Summer is a time to explore the city and maybe learn some history, too. Fortunately for New Yorkers, the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy makes checking out the city’s historic sites and parklands fun, easy and cheap.

Affordable apartments on Brooklyn waterfront still far on horizon

 Four years after agreeing to let private developers build luxury condos on the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront, the city has yet to deliver promised affordable housing there.

Waterfront job referral spurs mob ties probe

Investigators are probing whether a top Waterfront Commission official recommended the manager of a mobbed-up Staten Island strip club for a job as a harbor cop, the Daily News has learned.

City has lot of explaining to do

It’s the parking lot with the best view in the city, but now open-space starved North Brooklynites are demanding that the city make good on its promise to turn the lot into a parkland paradise.

More Use of Waterways Urged for Fun and Travel

 For a long time, the waterways of Brooklyn and the city were the region’s highways for commerce, travel and recreation.

Soon to Be Brooklyn Parkland

Standing at the corner of Brooklyn’s Pier 1, where red double-decker tourist buses make a left turn from Old Fulton Street down Furman Street and ease their way along the Brooklyn waterfront, it is hard to believe that a large section of the sprawling Brooklyn Bridge Park, planned for the mostly deserted site from Pier 1 to Pier 6, will be completed there within a year.

The construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park is supposed to begin today

After years of delays, legal battles and false starts, park builders say they will start building permanent recreational space on Pier 1, which is just south of the Brooklyn Bridge, work that officials say will be completed by the end of 2009.