STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After proposed changes to the NYC Ferry system were announced earlier this month, re-establishing a ...

As New York City celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding, National Geographic looks back on more than a century of ...

The Prince’s Bay Lighthouse is one of New York City’s oldest surviving lighthouse complexes. Historically known as the Red ...

U.S. Army Garrison Fort Hamilton, located adjacent to the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, was designed by Simon Bernard, a former French military officer who ...

The risks and opportunities of turning 122 industrial acres over to developers.

Imagine flying home to New York City and landing on a floating airport right in New York Harbor, or catching the Metro-North not underneath the Beaux Arts Grand Central Terminal, but an hourglass ...

New York Harbor is a dating hot spot for migratory birds. About 40 islands dot the waters around New York City, but only a handful become a hotbed for bird breeding from the end of April to mid-July.

On October 28, 1886, the day Lady Liberty was dedicated, a million people came out in the rain. New York held its first-ever ticker tape parade to celebrate her.

The first New York female harbor pilot was hired in 1998, and there are now four women working the harbor. “When I was growing up there were no female pilots,” Blake said.

When the harbor froze in 1780, the British were in a fever of anxiety, recalled the New York Times. Fearing General Washington's Army could just march into Manhattan, cannons were mounted on sleighs.