Named in honor of Michael Hughes, an Irish immigrant and first-generation founder of the company in 1852, Michael represents ...

The dilapidated condition of many of the East River docks has become a matter of general comment. For several years the piers about the City have attracted the attention of our shipping merchants ...

The “Great East River Bridge” was the largest bridge ... In unexpected and wonderful ways, the Brooklyn Bridge captured the imagination of all Americans, and in the process became a symbol ...

Buzzy O’Keeffe’s glamorous eatery and party space on a barge moored off East 30th Street in the ... its cabin and that of ...

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Photo courtesy of DutchTreat/Wikimedia Commons [/caption] When Hurricane Sandy hit Brooklyn in October 2012, the Navy Yard — a 300-acre campus on the edge of the East River — was flooded with ...

but it was he who envisioned this 57-acre park along the East River. Granted, Moses’s considerably less peaceful FDR Drive forms the park’s western border, but nevertheless, it has been the ...

They’re evading the Congestion Zone. Dolphins have been spotted gallivanting in the East River over the last two days in a rare city wildlife delight. Keen-eyed ocean fauna fanatics spotted the ...