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• East River Currents Too Strong For Highly-Touted Energy Project

  Published: August 19, 2007, 9:33 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront, Dive In

  The powerful waves [...]

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• Flotilla with a message: Boaters protest waste-transfer station

  Published: August 19, 2007, 9:03 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront, Dive In, Brooklyn

  Almost 232 years to the day after the British crossed The Narrows and began the Battle of Brooklyn, another flotilla albeit smaller declared war on a proposed waste-transfer station in Gravesend.

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• Crushed Glass To Be Spread On Florida Beaches

  Published: August 29, 2007, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront, Dive In

  Picture a beautiful beach spanning miles of coastline, gently lapped by aqua-colored water and sprinkled with glass.

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• NYPD’s fast boat is latest weapon in the war on terror

  Published: September 6, 2007, 5:01 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront, Dive In

  A fast boat sliced through the waters of upper New York Bay and pulled within 100 feet of an empty fuel tanker flying a foreign flag.

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• Meet New York City’s Official Green Thumb

  Published: September 6, 2007, 7:22 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront, Dive In

  They were standing beside the Van Cortlandt swimming pool in the Bronx at the beginning of summer, but only one city employee had brought his bathing suit and jumped right in.

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• ‘LIFE’ SPANS: BRIDGES GET SUICIDE HOT LINES

  Published: September 6, 2007, 5:19 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront

  Nearly a quarter of New Yorkers who commit suicide do it by jumping from high places, a gruesome statistic that has led state officials to install suicide-prevention telephones on a handful of bridges.

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• Great Lakes Waters Are Overdue For Cleanup

  Published: September 14, 2007, 7:31 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront, Dive In

  A panting border collie patrols a steamy Chicago beach, chasing away sea gulls before they can foul the sand. A sign asks beach goers to toss their trash in a bin and change their children’s dirty diapers.

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• Winds of Change

  Published: September 15, 2007, 10:21 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront, Staten Island

  The answer to a greener New York City is blowing in the wind on Staten Island.

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• Love a Lighthouse? Consider Adopting It

  Published: September 18, 2007, 7:41 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront, Region

  Mary DiBiase Blaich for The New York Times Holly Campbell and Joe Wilmot near Execution Rocks.

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• Rising Seas Likely to Flood U.S. History

  Published: September 24, 2007, 1:38 pm

  Tags: Dive In, Public Waterfront

  Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting.

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• PAPER WASTERS

  Published: September 24, 2007, 1:27 pm

  Tags: Dive In, Public Waterfront

  THE environmentalists at Riverkeeper have major egg on their faces. The watchdog group, which keeps an eye on Hudson River polluters, tried to fax a one-page press release to news outlets the other week, but a “technical glitch” had them sending 150 pages of unread able gobbledygook, which wasted reams of paper. “As an

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• Wright-Designed Boathouse Opens in N.Y.

  Published: September 30, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: Public Waterfront, Region

  A boathouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opened to the public Friday on the city’s waterfront, more than 100 years after it was conceived and nearly 50 years after the architect’s death.

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• THE ADVENTURES OF HENRY HUDSON

  Published: September 30, 2007, 12:58 pm

  Tags: Dive In, Public Waterfront

  Just what does one have to do to get a river named after him? Henry Hudson knew. Read on to see how this famous navigator earned the honor.

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• Irish Toast a Summer Paradise Lost in the Rockaways

  Published: September 30, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Go Coastal, Public Waterfront, Queens

  On Sunday, a little more than 200 people gathered in the Knights of Columbus hall on Beach 90th Street in the Rockaways to dance, have a drink and travel back in time to Irish Town, a cluster of bars and bungalows that served as a summer refuge for Irish New Yorkers until it was razed [...]

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• Floating Garden

  Published: September 30, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Dive In, Public Waterfront

  Inhabitat, a sustainable design blog, chose to bring our attention yesterday to the Science Barge. Currently floating off of Pier 84 in Hell's Kitchen,

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