It’s been more than a decade since this former Coast Guard facility—a 172-acre hunk of land off the coast of Manhattan—re-opened as a public park. But it continues to evolve. In 2016 it ...

Governor's Island, just off the southern tip of Manhattan and its financial district has sat abandoned since 1996 when the former federal run military and then Coast Guard base was closed.

Duke experts tour the future home of the New York Climate Exchange, a public/private partnership for climate research and teaching Rising heat and rising sea levels are just two of the challenges ...

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