Oil Tanker Turned Cultural Venue Celebrates 70th Birthday
Oddly enough, it’s easy to forget that New York City is a series of islands with the third largest commercial port in the nation. The city has so many other competing identities. Wall Street, Broadway, baseball teams and fashion shows seem to rule the imagination when we think about the Big Apple – a decidedly non-nautical nickname.
For Reinvention, Red Hook Follows Its Roots
The Red Hook piers, one of the last working waterfronts in New York, have seemed destined for the kind of high-gloss gentrification that was enveloping much of the city.
As Bush Terminal Reinvents Itself, Firm’s Lease Is Renewed
A plastic bag recycling company’s application to keep its space in a city-owned Bush Terminal space is being recycled itself with Community Board Seven’s community vote of approval, while the board’s ambitious waterfront revitalization plan is now under city review.
Working Harbor Day – 18 May 2008
Working Harbor Day is coming up on Sunday 18 May from 10 AM to 6 PM at the South Street Seaport Museum’s Pier 16.
WATERFRONT ACCESS BILL NEEDS CONGRESSIONAL CO-SPONSORS
Increasingly, recreational boat marinas and launch ramps, repair yards, commercial fish docks, bait shops and other water-dependent businesses are being pushed off the waterfront as a result of residential development pressures, skyrocketing tax burdens and shortsighted planning. But a bill now in Congress, H.R. 3223, would provide federal funding to coastal and Great Lakes states to help preserve and expand water access and protect working waterfronts.
City Living: Columbia St. Waterfront, Brooklyn
The Dutch dubbed it Red Mills, old timers call it Red Hook, real estate brokers describe it as "Carroll Gardens West," and newcomers have given it the clunky designation, "Columbia Street Waterfront District." Whatever you call it, this little (literal) slice of South Brooklyn can't quite be thrown in with its neighbors to the south or east.
New York Harbor Light Tower Damaged by Tanker
Somehow, a tanker managed to strike the Ambrose Light navigation aid early Sunday morning. The Ambrose Light is a 76-foot structure that sits 12 miles southeast of Staten Island and, according to the Coast Guard, "watches over the main shipping lanes to New York Harbor."
Bayonne authority voids Port Authority deal for waterfront land
The board of the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority voted in the past week to void a deal with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to purchase waterfront property for a "roll-on/roll-off" car port.
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.
Brooklyn To Get Historical Center
Mayor Bloomberg and the speaker of the City Council, Christine Quinn, are expected to announce today the creation of a historical center on Flushing Avenue in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that will focus on the history of the navy yard and Northern Brooklyn.