A baby minke whale surfaces while swimming in the Gowanus Bay on April 18, 2007 in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. (Michael Heiman via Getty Images) It is also not uncommon to see dead ...

Whales in New York City area spark fascination 03:32 NEW YORK - Whales have returned to our area in abundance, and they're staying longer . A recent study shows some remain here as late as November.

The New York City skyline is still visible about 10 miles off the coast of Brooklyn. The city noise, however, is long gone. In its place, the Atlantic Ocean splashes against the hull of a boat ...

A humpback whale spyhops off Rockaway Peninsula with the Empire State Building in the background, Sept. 23, 2013, New York City.

NEW YORK– A whale was caught on video in an unusual location Monday. The whale was spotted swimming in the East River between New York City and Brooklyn, beneath the Williamsburg Bridge.

New York City’s waterways are running red as fatal boat strikes become a growing threat to the booming marine life population — a sick reality that killed a celebrity whale and dolphin so far ...

But in 2023, a swimmer at Rockaway was bitten by a shark and badly injured. New York City officials responded by expanding ...

NEW YORK — A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 44-foot dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said. The whale, identified as an endangered sei whale, ...

A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port on Saturday with a 44-foot endangered whale lying dead across its bow. A spokesperson for MSC Cruises said the whale was on the MSC Meraviglia, which ...

The New York Post reported that while the whale was young, likely between 3 and 5 years old, it was already 30 feet long. Sperm whales, an endangered species, can reach 52 feet in length and can ...

Not long afterward, a minke whale, swept in on the morning tide, landed on the Rockaway Peninsula in New York City. And that was in just a single week this month.