Crushed Glass To Be Spread On Florida Beaches
Picture a beautiful beach spanning miles of coastline, gently lapped by aqua-colored water — and sprinkled with glass.
New York Is Floating Higher in a Ranking of Cruise Ports
Thanks largely to the new Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, New York has risen to the no. 6 cruise port in the country, a report being published today says.
The Heist, the Getaway and the Sawed-Off Leg
BERNARD McMAHON, a k a Bennie the Bum, a former bootlegger and onetime crony of the dapper gangster Legs Diamond, bent down to untangle a rope from a sawed-off shotgun. His speedboat, laden with stolen loot, was racing across Gravesend Bay. Suddenly, a blast punctuated the motor’s hum. The shotgun had accidentally gone off, leaving McMahon’s left knee a bloody mess.
Counting on a River to Entice
THE East River is still polluted, from sewage runoff and a long-ago oil spill, according to the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, so it is probably not quite fit yet for doing the backstroke.
Two Years Later, a Street Still Waits for Its Promised Gentrification
Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
Columbia Street looking south toward Red Hook. Continuing construction, a sense of geographic isolation and waning buzz have dissipated the burst of growth that shop owners and inhabitants were anticipating.Eminent domain in Coney Island?
As city officials play hardball with a developer over the future of Coney Island's amusement zone, rumblings of a land takeover by the Bloomberg administration through eminent domain have surfaced in published reports.
State, Keyspan ink toxic pact for Gowanus
Keyspan has agreed to clean the contaminated muck below Thomas Greene Park, thanks to a new agreement between state environmental conservation officials and the Brooklyn-born energy company.
New Web site provides underwater tour of Long Island Sound
Seen from the shore, Long Island Sound is a greenish, foamy brew that washes various life forms and occasional debris onto the sand. From the bottom looking up, the Sound is a strange and busy world of many colors.
Birdwatching hobby takes flight
im Rapp has one hand on the wheel and the other holding a pair of binoculars as he drives his truck slowly down a gravel drive on the banks of a Chesapeake Bay marsh.