USNS Comfort Deployed To New York Harbor…Eventually
Hospital Ship Deployment
The USNS Comfort will be making its way to New York Harbor in order to help control the influx of crowded hospitals...
New York Signs On To The Two Z’s of Giovanni da Verrazzano
This week, the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York (MTA) changed the first of nineteen old traffic signs. The replacement signs will include one...
Join the Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Years Day Plunge!
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Countdown to the New Years Day Coney Island Polar Bear Swim
The countdown begins to the start of 2020; with that comes the annual New...
49TH RUNNING OF THE NYC MARATHON SET FOR NOVEMBER 3RD, 2019
The 49th Annual NYC Marathon
The traditional morning of the first Sunday in November will once again have thousands of running shoes pounding the roadways...
Retrospective: A Close to the Year of Walt Whitman’s Birthday Bicentennial
A Thank You to Walt Whitman
Before 2019 comes to its close, we thought admirers of Walt Whitman would like to listen to the speakers...
VETERAN’S DAY AND THE DPAA 2019
Every year, on the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year, fallen U.S. soldiers are remembered during Veteran's Day.
PETITION TO RETURN THE ECO-DOCK TO THE BAY RIDGE PIER
It has only been two to three years since the Eco-Dock was a small but darling little appendage to the Bay Ridge Pier. Supervised...
NYHC GEARS UP FOR SPRINGTIME SERIES OF GATHERINGS AT THE 69TH STREET PIER IN...
This Spring will offer a variety of marine-related events hosted by New York Harbor Channel at the 69th Street Pier in Bay Ridge Brooklyn.
Dates...
Harbor National Parks Remain Open Despite Federal Gov’t Shutdown.
Governor Andrew Cuomo has provided New York State funds to ensure park employees are paid to keep Ellis Island and Liberty Island...
VETERANS DAY AND THE DPAA
As New York City gears up for the annual Veteran's Day Parade down 5th Avenue, venues around the world are honoring the U.S. Veterans...
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Whale deaths and offshore wind farms; a connection?
Our position:
We’re not yet sure there’s a link. Correlation does not have to = causation.
We're aware of these towers going up in near...
Shark Research in the New York Bight with Dr. Craig O’Connell
Dr. Craig O’Connell is the co-founder and executive director of O’Seas Conservation Foundation, Inc based in Montauk. Dr. O’Connell's nonprofit foundation focus's on researching different species of sharks through camera studies, bycatch reduction technologies, and underwater video surveillance.
‘Sing The Bay Fantastic’ Janie Meneely Songbook Now Available
Janie Meneely, a songwriter, wrote a poem some years back on Grandma Polly, a true story from the Radcliffe clan, and Senator from Maryland describing their feisty relative. Apparently, Grandma Polly was upset when she found out the British commandeered the family merchant vessel and took her husband with it.