A $150,000 grant will pay for a recreation area in Larchmont and $40,000 will be used by Dobbs Ferry for waterfront development.
I return to the old city by ferry, passing waterfront Ottoman Era palaces either repurposed as luxury hotels, or left to lie empty and sink into gradual decay.
The park's planners hope that the park will eventually be linked by ferry to other waterfront destinations, like Battery Park and Governors Island.
Stevenson's daughter Caroline, who has worked as a photographer and teacher, now lives in Bristol where she pilots a ferry on the Waterfront.
In 2013, as part of a broad coalition of organizations, the San Francisco Sierra Club backed an effort to block a proposed 134-unit, 136-foot-tall condo project at 8 Washington, a parking lot steps away from the city's waterfront Ferry Building.
From a historic perspective, the deterioration around the plaza reflects a broader failing in the Burnham-era vision, namely the idea that the Market Street corridor running northeast from the Civic Center to the Ferry Building at the waterfront would develop into San Francisco's pre-eminent commercial address, the equivalent of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
There are at least three ways that ferries operating in New York Harbor could improve their operations, minimizing damage to the surrounding vessels and waterfront infrastructure ("Ferries Crowd the Hudson These Days, and There's No Speed Limit," news article, Aug. 12).
In a happy coincidence, New York Waterway, the company that runs the ferries from the New Jersey waterfront to New York, is doubling its service from Hoboken to Lower Manhattan starting Monday and is running the ferries from Hoboken free all week long to promote it.
The Department of City Planning is interested in how ferries could revitalize the waterfront.
The plan includes stadiums and housing, a flotilla of ferries, a revived East River waterfront.
