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The Greatest Hits of the Brooklyn Bridge
On March 13, a construction crane loaded on a barge struck the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge as a tugboat towed it along the East River. It tore about 20 feet of scaffolding from the bottom the structure, and caused heavy traffic delays.
The Brooklyn Bridge, connecting Brooklyn with Lower Manhattan, opened in 1883. Since its 19th century construction, the bridge has become a landmark of the city. The recent crane incident seems a good excuse to look back on some of the greatest hits of the Brooklyn Bridge Continue reading
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When stand up paddleboarding (SUP) hit waterways across the mainland a few years ago, New Yorkers were left high and dry for a place to try out the Hawaiian hybrid of surfing and kayaking. Continue reading
A lot has changed since the Seamen’s Church Institute came into being in 1834. A product of the temperance movement, it began as an Episcopal missionary society dedicated to distributing Bibles to sailors in the port in Lower Manhattan. Continue reading
LAST MONDAY morning at 9:30 AM, while millions of New Yorkers elbowed into crowded below-ground subway cars, Williamsburg resident Alanna Lacono basked in the sunshine on an East River pier while commuting to her mid-town job. Since the East River Ferry began operations in June of 2011, Lacono has found few reasons to go back underground. Continue reading
AT THE NORTHERN end of Caddell Dry Dock on Staten Island, a narrow dirt road dissolves into a vacant lot, cluttered with skeletal scrap metal and discarded building material. Through tall, dried weeds, over stacked logs a foot and a half in diameter, the land falls away steeply to where the water meets the shore. Continue reading
SINCE THEIR installation in 2006, six underwater turbines off the coast of Roosevelt Island have powered a parking garage and a Gristedes, broken a few propellers, and killed no fish. Continue reading
THE MAIDEN voyage of the newest ship in the Greenpeace fleet will take it to Earth’s far corners, from the shipyards of Bremin, Germany, to coal-burning power stations in North Carolina, to pristine jungle along the Amazon, and, recently, to West 18th Street in Manhattan. Continue reading
“RIGHT NOW, I’m fishing for the fresh air,” the man said with a shrug and a smile, squinting up into the unseasonably warm sun one winter afternoon. Hunched on the edge of a bench, he rustled through plastic bags in his bate cooler, two fishing rods propped on the railing of Battery Park. In the summer, he might catch perch from the southern tip of Manhattan, but the fish have gone to find warmth in deeper waters for the winter. Continue reading
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