That horn you heard last night? It was a foghorn, of course, but it may or may not have been the breakwater lighthouse foghorn that used to lull so many of us to sleep.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On a foggy spring morning, ships and lighthouses blast their horns across the Upper New York Harbor. Some musicians say the Staten Island Ferry also kicks up a commotion with an ...

After decades of silence, a foghorn from the SS Andrea Doria was sounded for the first time since the ship sank off the coast of Nantucket 65 years ago. It was the highlight of an event that was held ...