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The tentatively selected "Alternative 3B" has a range of mitigation measures on Staten Island.

The City Council voted to approve legislation amending the city charter to create a marine debris disposal and vessel surrendering office, making it easier to clear the city’s shores of derelict boats in places like Jamaica Bay.

A towing vessel engineer admitted to negligently discharging fuel in Bayonne's Kill Van Kull 6 years ago, U.S. Attorney Sellinger announced.

The Corps is working on a report for how best to use barriers to prevent storm surge flooding.

Bayonne has adopted a redevelopment plan for 140 acres of industrial area in Constable Hook, including the former Exxon site off New Hook Road, clearing the

The Bayonne Planning Board has approved a major motion picture studio at the southern tip of the city. The movie studio, 1888, named after the year the motion

Hudson Reporter ‘Marco Polo’ passes under Bayonne Bridge Its the largest ship to ever call on an East Coast port × A Behemoth of the Seas. Photo via PANYNJ. The biggest cargo vessel to ever dock on the East Coast passed under the Bayonne Bridge on May 20. The CMA CGM Marco Polo sailed through the Kill Van Kull on its way to Port Elizabeth, the ship’s first port of call in the U.S. The vessel shattered the record set by The CMA CGM Brazil when it passed under the Bayonne Bri...

Hudson Reporter × Last week, Shawn LaTourette, New Jersey’s Acting Commissioner of Environmental Protection, toured Bayonne on Monday, April 19.  We welcomed Acting Commissioner LaTourette and staff colleagues from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). During a meeting in my office, Acting Commissioner LaTourette viewed plans for the reconstruction of Fitzpatrick Park at the corner of 26th Street and Avenue C.  City officials and the NJDEP representativ...

Hudson Reporter Acting DEP Commissioner tours Bayonne The Commissioner and Mayor discussed projects, needs, and concerns i × From left to right: Acting NJDEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette, Mayor James Davis, NJDEP Director of Local Government Assistance Kerry Kirk Pflugh, and NJDEP Manager of the Community Collaborative Initiative Alan Miller. New Jersey’s Acting Commissioner of Environmental Protection, Shawn LaTourette, toured Bayonne on April 19. Mayor Davis welcomed LaTouret...

Every NYC borough has a Main Street and a Broadway. In Manhattan, Broadway runs north from Bowling Green and, under a variety of names, runs north in NY State almost all the way to the Canadian border. Other than a few other aboriginal roads such as the Bowery and St. Nicholas Ave., it’s one of the few roads that predated the colonial era that’s still in use on Manhattan Island; it was used by the Lenape Indians before the Dutch arrived, and was probably in use by the buffalo before the Nat...