Putting the Hudson River to the Test
Hudson River users are testing the waters for contaminants in the wake of July's sewage treatment plant fire in Harlem.
Hudson River users are testing the waters for contaminants in the wake of July's sewage treatment plant fire in Harlem.
New York's cachet as the home of shows from "Seinfeld" to "Gossip Girls" helped drive a record 48 million visitors to the city last year.
Materials for the Arts – the city's largest non-profit municipal reuse program – offers artists thousands of items that otherwise would have been headed for the trash.
Brooklyn's Twenty Sided Store sells board games, but dedicates much of its space to tables for gaming events.
An NYU student is applying for grant to put machines into dog parks that would turn animal waste into energy to power lamps.
Parks in a swath of Brooklyn that includes Canarsie and Flatlands have earned the city's lowest cleanliness marks for the last three years, records show.
Officials blame banned supplements popular with South Asian immigrants for two recent non-fatal lead poisoning cases. But experts fear the problem could be more widespread.
John's Boxing Gym – once more famously known as Jerome's Gym – is on the ropes, facing eviction after three decades.