The cutting down of the trees has begun. We are no longer asking for help. We are now demanding a stop to this insanity! In this age of cl...

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  NY Curbed In the frigid February of 2009, Mickey Cohen was on the road to the 50-acre Ridgewood Reservoir on the border of Brookl...

From the Times Ledger : Hundreds of Long Island City residents and business owners rallied with community leaders and elected officials Sa...

From Crains : The de Blasio administration is adding a new type of neighborhood to its zoning arsenal: ghost town. The City Planning Co...

From the Queens Tribune : Nearly 100 College Point residents gathered in MacNeil Park on Saturday to protest the Department of Environmen...

From AP : Just a few years ago, the tributary, known as Paerdegat Basin, was a fetid mess. The water was murky green, teeming with 1.8 bil...

From the Queens Courier : The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) appears to be moving away from possible wetland status ...

From Curbed : Idlewild, Snake Road, Meyer Harbor, Meadowmere. Over the past century, Hook Creek has wandered through these obscure landmar...

From the Times Ledger : The city is set to restore 12 acres of wetlands surrounding Flushing Airport as part of a plan to extend 132nd Str...

From CBS New York : A brush fire broke out and destroyed about an acre of tall grass Tuesday afternoon in College Point, Queens. The fi...

From Bayside Patch : A Douglaston civic organization is calling on the city to purchase five parcels of Udalls Cove to protect it from pos...

"This newly created parking lot was once all parkland at Four Sparrow Marsh . It wouldn’t surprise me if they continued selling this o...

I'm sure some of you are going to blame the owners of the house, and they do share responsibility for this, as "buyer beware"...

From SI Live : Despite being approved by the state and city, a handful of local organizations have come together to try and prevent a Mans...

From SI Live : While neighbors plead with the government to buy and raze their flooded homes, one developer has plans to build 20 new se...

From WNYC : Weeks after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed buying out homeowners in flood-prone areas, the Bloomberg administration ...

From the NY Times : Once home to colonial estates and a Cuban sugar importer, then a public beach, a railroad float yard, a city landfill ...

From the Times Ledger : Developers looking to build a six-story condo complex on the shores of College Point are mulling over an agreemen...

"The attached photo was taken yesterday. This is in Staten Island in an "A" evacauation zone, and a 9.5 acre tidal wetland. ...