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Photo Essay: Agaton Strom Fancies Pigeons

Training homing pigeons is demanding and time-consuming
By Photo Editor

His Ship’s Come In: Hedgie Michael Novogratz Named Chairman of Friends of Hudson River Park

The Friends of Hudson River Park have traded a real estate big for a Wall Street one. Today, the West
By Matt Chaban
Let's take this plan for a spin. (Dattner Architects)

Douglas Durst Floats Plan for Tech Offices and Galleries to Save Pier 40

Last month, Douglas Durst walked away from the Friends of Hudson River Park advocacy group over a disagreement with the
By Matt Chaban

Parks and Wreck: The Fight for Pier 40 and the Myth of Public Parks

By Matt Chaban
Waterfront wonder. (Bing Maps)

Dumbo Apartments Set Sail: Brooklyn Bridge Park Seeking Developers for Latest Controversial Project

By Matt Chaban
Battered and broken. (Mayor's Office/Flickr)

Zone A Zoning: Independent Budget Office Critical of Bloomberg’s Two-Faced Waterfront Developments

By Matt Chaban
Judging by the lights, lots of people are still home. (Matt Chaban)

Luxury Living in Zone A: Williamsburg High Rises Ignore Evacuation Even as Landlords Lock Down Towers

By Matt Chaban
I'm FDR and I approve of this message. (Diane Bondareff)

Pols Can’t Resist Talking Politics at Ribbon Cutting for FDR Four Freedoms Park

By Matt Chaban
Part of a new mega development at the northern tip of Greenpoint is about to get underway.

Greenpoint Giant! Park Tower Group Building Two of First Ten Rental Towers By Next Year

By Matt Chaban

Dipping Into the Future: Can +POOL Show the Way to the Future of Funding Architecture?

By Kit Dillon

Rumble On the Docks: Contract Pits Pinstriped Pinheads Against Roughneck Roustabouts

By Patrick Clark

EDC and Congressman Serrano Open Hunts Point Landing Park, Go Kayaking

By Kit Dillon
Guess what else is swimming in the water? (Moonman82, flickr)

Befouled Waters Stymie Would-Be Swimmers

By Sarah Grothjan
Jed Walentas is ready to set up his Domino. (Getty)

Two Trees Takes Root in Williamsburg: $160 M. Deal for Domino Complex Closes

By Matt Chaban

Anchormen: A New Hotel and Other Developments as Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1 Approved

By Matt Chaban
Toll and Starwood—can their architects share the site? (BBP)

Brooklyn Bridge Mash-up: Toll and Starwood Could Team Up for Pier 1 Development

By Matt Chaban
All aboard.

Fair-y Ferry! Not Just for Frieze, Randall’s Island Ferry Here for the Summer

By Matt Chaban
Congressman Grimm (Photo: Getty)

Democrats Bring Michael Grimm’s Scandals On Board The Staten Island Ferry

By Hunter Walker

Vacancies at Brooklyn Bridge Park: Hotel Requirement Sinks Developers

By Matt Chaban
A two-fer (ERF)

East River Ferry Runs Aground: Ridership Way Down

By Matt Chaban
Workin' it. (DNAinfo)

Pier A Sinks Without $1 Million for New Foundation

By Krista Carter
P.U.! (Crain's)

This Stinks! City Looking to Build UES Waste Transfer Station

By Matt Chaban

Hope Floats! Municipal Art Society Revives Plans for East River Waterfront [Update]

By Matt Chaban

Brooklyn Bridge Park Gets Its Starchitecture

By Matt Chaban
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