Bronx River

Watch Justine, Rescued East River Beaver, Wade Back into her Bronx River Home

Wait, the East River has beavers? Well, not ones that are supposed to be there. Regardless, the East River is where park rangers found Justine, a sick, starving beaver carried downstream by the current. Justine was then brought to local wild animal rescue organization, Wildlife In Need of Rescue and ... More >>

Guy Jumps Into a Bronx Zoo Tiger Pit And Lives To Tell the Tale

We all love the Bronx Zoo. Who doesn't? The mini-jungle of Morris County provides fun for all age groups and houses a few animals that you wouldn't ever think of seeing in the Big City. One of which is a tiger (actually, that's not always true) and, sometimes, people get a little too excited about g ... More >>

Class Action Listings

Contempo Boat Artists Float Their Ideas

Water on the brain

For The Birds: New York City Summer Birdwatching

A recent post on the Environmental Protection Agency's Greening the Apple blog about seasonal birdwatching in Sandy Hook, New Jersey got us thinking: Do you have to go all the way to a neighboring state to check out the summer's cool birds? So we hit up two area birders -- Dr. Robert "Birding Bob" ... More >>

Floating Art Project Accidentally Shipwrecks at Rikers

NYC.gov​A floating dome made of umbrella spokes and empty soda bottles, bound on canoes from the South Bronx to Inwood, where it would have stayed in a monthlong exhibit, was shipwrecked on Rikers Island this week, causing a commotion among corrections officers, who immediately confirmed that ... More >>

5 More New York City Parks Will Get Free Wireless Internet This Week

​Earlier this year the city announced a five-year plan with AT&T to bring free Wi-Fi to 26 spots in 20 New York City parks throughout the boroughs. This Thursday, Astoria Park in Queens, Herbert Von King Park and McCarren Park Field House in Brooklyn, Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan, and Clo ... More >>

JOY RIDE

Go trailblazing in the Bronx

NYC Traffic: The Worst in the Country

​New Yorkers, it's time to rejoice in our misery and impatience! All of those long tedious hours stuck in standstill traffic are finally paying off. New York City was unfortunate to have two honors bestowed upon it: the worst single roadway in the country and the worst bottleneck in the countr ... More >>

Police Seek Emily Vasquez, Missing 14-Year-Old Bronx Girl

​The NYPD is asking for the public's help locating Emily Vazquez, 14, of 1602 Bronx River Parkway, the Bronx. Emily, pictured, is 5'5" and 110 pounds, with black eyes and brown hair. She was last seen leaving her house on Friday, November 19, at approximately 6:30 p.m. If you have any informat ... More >>

Westway, the Highway That Tried to Eat New York, Defeated 25 Years Ago This Week

​The Saw Mill, the Bronx River, and parts of the FDR were closed due to flooding this morning thanks to the monsoon that kicked in before dawn. But the West Side Highway, a.k.a. the Joe DiMaggio? Traffic is flowing fine there, thanks in large part because we never built Westway, the crazed mul ... More >>

Police Seek Missing 12-Year-Old Bronx Boy

​The NYPD is asking for the public's assistance in locating Sequin Moore, 12, of 1250 Bronx River Parkway, Bronx, New York. He was last seen on May 17 wearing a black and white jacket, black jeans, and black sneakers. Moore, pictured, is five feet and 120 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. ... More >>

The other kind of New York wildlife

​Following up the Times' recent Manhattan Skunk invasion story, the News has a shortlist of New York's wild animals, including deer, coyotes, bats, turkeys, and a celebrity beaver, and where to go see them. Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, who was interviewed for the piece, lists places in ... More >>

After 20 Years, a Bronx Cold Case Is Solved

—and a family's grief rekindled.

NYC Places #1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9 in America's Worst Intersections

Forbes has released a list of the nation's 100 worst traffic intersections, and boosters be pleased to learn that New York crossroads occupy six of the top ten spots, including the #1 position. Top honors go to Exit 4B, which connects the Cross Bronx Expressway to the Bronx River Parkway, and where, ... More >>

FLOAT ON

Swimming in the Bronx River? Say what?

The City Is Their Laboratory

Pratt students invent the next New York—for real.

Slick Trouble

The government's determination to deport old-school rapper Slick Rick knows no bounds

Weeping With the Enemy

Phyllis Rodriguez lost her son at the World Trade Center. And then she found the mother of Zacarias Moussaoui.

New Yorkers to Bush: Listen Up!

You're talking to the president. What would you tell him?

Perfect Picnics

Grab some eats, spread a tablecloth, and get lost in the landscape

Close-Up on Woodlawn

Close-up on Hunts Point

Holy Waters

Spiritual Life Returns to New York Harbor

And 20 Things to Eat

10 Summer Food Destinations

Holiday Happenings

Deflowering the Bronx

Parks Department Paves Green Spaces Saved by Volunteers

Homo Thugz Blow Up the Spot

A Gay Hip-Hop Scene Rises in The Bronx

Alternating Currents