Bee hives inside the garden Angel Chevrestt Nearly every country in the world is represented in the 200-square-foot green space nestled between the Secretariat Building and the East River.

In March, 2022, construction began on the Hospital for Special Surgery's Kellen tower. A locked gate blocks access to the esplanade from 70th-78th Streets for the fourth summer straight, interrupting ...

On Manhattan's East Side one day last week, a 2,000-lb. steel ball swung from a towering caterpillar crane, smashed into the base of a brick wall. Bricks and girders came thundering to earth in ...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Tuesday called for the U.S. to rid itself of the United Nations, after the U.N. voted to censure Israel for settlement-building. “I think we ought to ...

New York City officials are finally moving ahead with a decade-old plan to fill a gap on the East River greenway near the United Nations as the latest step in a larger project to create a 32-mile ...

But current controversies dog the old industrial waterfront of the East River, pitting preservationists against developers, who don’t see the point. Some 1,000 waterfront acres have been rezoned on ...

Section of East River Park reopens after being lifted to fight floods By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our ...

One such exception is the Lower East Side. The Lower East Side used to have spectacular access to the East River, thanks to the East River Park, built by master planner Robert Moses in 1939, and ...

With their gleaming glass facades rising hundreds of feet above the river, the Douglaston projects are an embodiment not only of Williamsburg’s transformation into a destination for high-end living, ...

The East River is the cleanest its been in a century—and swimming in the once-heavily-polluted waterway isn’t such a wild idea.

The city is advancing long-discussed plans to build a 12-block extension of the East River pedestrian path, but without the expected support of the United Nations. The U.N. quietly abandoned its ...