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.