A Houseboat Skipper’s Battle in Queens
Inside his gently bobbing houseboat in the World’s Fair Marina in Queens, George Anton builds other boats: an array of historical ships that includes a 15th-century Spanish galleon, a 12th-century Chinese war junk, and various clipper ships, racing ships and viking ships.
When Home Is More Like a Cruise Ship
Lyle Pinder and Rachel Hoskins took their first tentative salsa steps not far from their apartment on the windswept, once-industrial riverbank of Long Island City, Queens.
Fourth and Last in piano-making family
Henry Z. Steinway, the last Steinway to run the piano-making company his family started in 1853, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.
Beach-to-Beach Bike Ride
When Frances Scarantino decided she wanted to raise funds for a good cause, she knew it had to be something creative, unique, appealing and, at the same time, fun for families.
Group Tours Little Neck Bay
Daniel Egers, president, and Vince Tabone, counsel to Friends Of Oakland Lake and Ravine, Inc. ("FOLR") joined with members of the North Eastern Queens Community Action Network ("NEQ-CAN") to organize a tour of the coastline of Little Neck Bay on August 23,
Rockaway homeowners to become landowners
The owners of 17 bungalows on a Jamaica Bay pier in the Rockaways will finally be given the chance to buy the property on which the homes sit.
Rockaway rezone set for city OK
The first comprehensive rezoning of much of the Rockaway peninsula is set to be approved by the City Council in the next two days, officials said Tuesday.
Murder at the Regatta
THE shoreline of Little Neck Bay, off northeast Queens, offers some of the most idyllic scenery in the city, particularly on weekend afternoons during summer when the breeze billows through an endless savannah of sails.
City cultivates plan to make Cornell farm in Douglaston a city park
The Cornell farm - a gentle hillside in Douglaston surrounded by suburbia and crowned by a whitewashed 1820s farmhouse - could one day be preserved as a city park.
Catching Waves in the Rockaways
Ever since the city opened a section of Rockaway Beach in 2005, near Beach 90th Street as the city’s first official surfing beach, the waves have become more crowded.