New York Waterway recently introduced an iPhone app that allows riders to use their smartphones as their tickets.

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App City: A Smartphone Can Be a Ticket to Ride

In the beginning, the Anacostia was with the people, and the people were with the Anacostia. The people were the Nacotchtank Indians. They or their ancestors lived alongside the waterway for 10,000 years. By the early 17th century, there were perhaps 500 Nacotchtanks across the Anacostia watershed. They farmed squash, corn, sunflowers. They did not have horses or the wheel. They moved on the river and its dozen or so tributaries — clear and abundant with shad, pike, bass and oysters — on small canoes. Read full article > >

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Anacostia River: From then till now