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The City: The path’s been cleared for a huge burial — and rebuilding — of Manhattan’s East River Park. New York Supreme Court Judge Melissa Crane on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the East Side Coastal Resiliency project, a multi-year effort to overhaul a stretch of the Lower East Side’s shore to protect the area from future flooding and

The Village Sun: Residents fighting to save East River Park from being razed and rebuilt for a coastal-resiliency project suffered a painful blow Thursday as a judge ruled for the city. State Supreme Court Justice Melissa Crane denied the plaintiffs’ request for a restraining order to halt the scheme, clearing the way for work to

Climate Insider: Arlene Phipps’ string of bad luck started the night Hurricane Sandy crashed into New York’s coast. Fierce winds pelted Phipps’ two-story home on New York City’s Rockaway Peninsula that day in 2012, and sea water flooded the first floor, where she ran her daycare center. The damage was so extensive, the city condemned the

Times Union:  THE ISSUE: While governments and society are focused on other issues, the planet continues to warm dangerously. THE STAKES: The window for averting the most dire consequences grows ever narrower. There’s a poignant symbolism in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision this past week to pull the $3 billion Restore Mother Nature Bond Act from

Places Journal: In 1839, if you wanted to take a boat from coastal Matagorda, Texas, to the inland town of Wharton, you would have had a problem. A massive tangle of trunks, roots, and branches, colonized by silt and new live trees, jammed the river for miles. Such log rafts were common on rivers that crossed