On March 4, 1954, a stockpile of 14,470 live rounds landed in the Narrows and Gravesend Bay, and they weren't seen again until last week. According to the NY Post, that's when a group of Brooklyn commercial divers found the shells, which 50 years ago were making headlines after they were lost. The paper joined the divers off the former Fort Lafayette, an island near Bay Ridge that was destroyed in 1960 for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. more ›

Disagreements over building a waste transfer station along the waterfront of Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn raised the possibility of dredging up more than just your standard pollution because possibly hundreds of tons of high explosives may be lurking underneath! more ›