LAST week's sun did little to console Joseph Romeo, owner of Joey's by the Shore, a waterfront restaurant at Compo Beach in Westport.
On the North Shore of Nassau, however, waterfront is at such a premium that buyers have been asking real estate agents to solicit beachfront homeowners in the hopes that the right price might tempt someone to sell.
A monstrosity, the freeway successfully blocked the city from its own bay shore, and made the waterfront itself into an industrial slum worthy of many parts of present-day Detroit.
Yet "on the South Shore, when you buy a waterfront home," Ms. Westcott said, "you give up privacy," because lots are smaller and closer together.
Ever eco-minded, the Burlington Winter Festival offers free shuttle buses running between venues, from the Church Street Marketplace to the Waterfront, on the shores of stunning Lake Champlain.
Heading south on the western side of the island, I was again on the waterfront, waves lapping the shore.
The realignment would open up 3 acre of waterfront land along the shore of Irondequoit Bay that had previously been occupied by the expressway.
New markets out West began to stimulate commercial development of the waterfront on Manhattan's western shore.
My father was a successful artist and had a beautiful waterfront house on the windward shore of Oahu.
With its expansive views of Lower Manhattan and the harbor, the waterfront, known as the North Shore Greenway, is dotted with patches of flowers and birch trees.
Another offers 69 acres of waterfront land on the west shore of Staten Island, complete with a two-story gymnasium, a baseball diamond and an open-air pavilion.
