Back in 2006, the city requested proposals for ideas for Governors Island and, in the process, Mayor Bloomberg presented a design by acclaimed architect Santiago Caltrava for a tramway linking Governors Island to Battery Park and Brooklyn. The plan for the fanciful- (and cool-) looking system never got off the ground, but it still has fans in high places. more ›

Two women are suing the Wildlife Conservation Society because they spent five hours stranded on the Bronx Zoo's Skyfari one evening in July 2008. After a strong gust of wind knocked a cable car's wheel off track, stopping all cable car movement, some 37 zoo visitors were left with nothing to do but sit 100 feet above the ground (and lions and gazelles) alone with their thoughts—or, worse, other people. Robin Dean, 26, and her 27-year-old friend, Migdalia Arinegas, both teachers, have filed a lawsuit in Bronx Supreme Court seeking unspecified damages. more ›