The city’s 600 miles of coastline and centuries of underground infrastructure are a lot to police for the murky problems of illicit sewage connections and illegal dumping. Here’s how New…
As the decades-long work to clean up the city’s rivers and creeks, canals and bays rolls on, it’s unclear just how big a problem unauthorized sewage connections and illegal industrial…
Hundreds of organizations face the threat of high processing fees if the city sells to private entities the right to collect tax and water debts that might not actually exist.
When most New Yorkers hear about cuts to the National Parks Service, they think about Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, not the wetlands around Cross Bay Boulevard on the way…
Last week, the Delaware River Basin Commission—whose footprint includes the city’s largest watershed—issued a drought watch. But the agency in charge of New York City’s billion-gallon-a-day water system says…
This week, City Limits has examined how New York City’s water renaissance is working out in two places that represent our waterfront past and present: Newtown Creek and Jamaica Bay.…
It is one of the most polluted waterways in the country. It’s at the crux of efforts to restore health and improve access to New York’s waterways. And from the…
The bay is considered the crown jewel of the city’s green spaces, home to hundreds of species of birds, fishes and marine life. It’s a ecosystem unique within the entire…