Celebrate NYC’s Beautiful Waterfront on City of Water Day this Summer
Get to, on and in the waters of NYC this summer with The Waterfront Alliance’s City of Water Day, a festival of activities celebrating the city’s waterfront!
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Join the Annual Waterfront Alliance Conference on a Boat
Attend the 2019 Waterfront Conference to discuss the issues facing NYC’s waterfront while sailing around New York Harbor!
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Free Tour of Domino Park in Williamsburg
New Domino Park with Domino Refinery in behind. Photo by Daniel Levin
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:
Visit Grand Ferry Park and learn about the ferries that once connected Brooklyn to Manhattan before the construction of the Williamsburg Bridge
Stroll along Domino Park’s elevated walkway
Learn the history of the Domino Sugar Factory building and the sugar refining process
See leftover …
10 Under the Radar NYC Waterfront Parks Across the 5 Boroughs
Profiles of six hidden or little known waterfront parks across all of NYC’s boroughs, including Hunts Point Landing, Grand Ferry Park, FDR Four Freedoms Park
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Waterfront Museum to Host Pirate Ball in Red Hook on Lehigh Valley No. 79 Barge
Red Hook’s Waterfront Museum to host Pirate Ball to begin kickoff of Barge No. 79’s 100th birthday.
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North Brooklyn Boating Club Circumnavigates Manhattan Overnight
Members of North Brooklyn Boat Club successfully circumnavigated around the entire island of Manhattan on an overnight trip
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13 of NYC’s Most Important Architectural Sites on the Hudson River
An architectural cruise up the Hudson River with Openhousenewyork highlights thirteen of the city’s most important architectural sites on the Hudson.
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On Brooklyn Waterfront Mayor Bloomberg Plans Resiliency
New York is the ultimate city of water. With its 578 miles of shoreline, its tidal rivers and straits, bays, harbors, and ocean frontage, New York became fabulously wealthy over the centuries by ruthlessly exploiting the surrounding waters for shipping, commerce, and energy. For 300 years it has expanded its territory into the sea, building …
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The (Pending) Revival of the Abandoned Miami Marine Stadium
The stadium features over 6,500 seats looking onto the water. Photo via Flickr, EL Gringo
For over two decades, local artists have been fervently and fantastically vandalizing a massive abandoned waterfront structure that lies on a small piece of land, carved in between Miami’s urban north and natural south bays. This partially-floating concrete giant—the …
MoreBehind the Scenes at Domino Sugar Factory Construction with Two Trees
Inside the Domino Sugar Factory for the real scoop on construction and design with Two Trees.
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History of NYC Streets: The Secrets of the Slips in Lower Manhattan
We explore the LES slips, the former hubs of NYC’s 200 year-old shipping enterprise, and discover one of George Washington’s revolutionary war hideouts and a neighborhood that once hosted a colony of pop artists in the 1950s.
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The Waterfront, Boston’s Hottest New Neighborhood
Though it has been neglected in past years, Boston’s waterfront is developing into the hottest new neighborhood for food, art and nightlife.
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