New York City's Manhattan Island is sinking under the weight of skyscrapers, and some geologists are predicting water levels could rise 30 inches by 2050. New York City's skyline is one of its most ...

An article in the NY Times from 1912 boldly announced: "Plans to change map of the harbor... Governors Island to be annexed, and Staten Island and New Navy Island to be connected." The plan was to ...

Have you had a chance to visit Spuyten Duyvil? What about Shorakapok Rock? If you haven't, this approximately 38-mile cycling trip will take you there on a ride around the perimeter of Manhattan ...

NEW YORK — The Hudson River has always seemed like a trench filled with water, its bottom a Stygian tangle of sunken boats and discarded equipment, its water an over-steeped tea somehow brewed from ...

Say the word “Manhattan” to me, and I see the skyline I love coming home to. Iconic buildings reaching to new heights, man-made mountains of apartments and commerce pulsing and engulfing an entire ...