MEATPACKING, Manhattan (WABC) -- Manhattan's first public beachfront opened Monday at Gansevoort Peninsula -- a project 25 years in the making. Gansevoort Peninsula will serve as a new water access ...

Parkgoers at Gansevoort Peninsula, home to the first public beach in Manhattan, which opened last month on an old landfill site along the Hudson River. (Deb Cohn-Orbach / Getty Images) Dede Freeman ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GANSEVOORT PENINSULA, Manhattan (PIX11) — A ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MANHATTAN (PIX11) — New York Gov. Kathy ...

It's hard to imagine a place as compact and busy as Manhattan having a public beach — New Yorkers typically escape the city hustle by enjoying the serene beauty of its hidden islands. Yet, right in ...

“I’m at the beach!” a shirtless man barks into the phone. And he is. There are blue beach chairs and umbrellas, pristine, soft sand, and a few sunbathers taking advantage of the October heatwave. New ...

Way back in another century (colloquially known as 1998), Governor George E. Pataki maligned the state of Manhattan's western waterfront and signed legislation establishing a park running between ...

Dede Freeman and her daughter lounged in two blue Adirondack chairs on the beach under an umbrella as a copy of Nancy Allen’s “Renegade” blew open in the wind on the boardwalk nearby. Waves crashed ...