Announcements
Photo via Kristine Paulus, Flicker Creative Commons.BARREN ISLAND – Want to celebrate Mother’s Day a day early? Like a clean beach? Help clean up Floyd Bennett Field [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Floyd+Bennett+Field/@40.5928423,-73.8984197,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x31e3536e533a6d2a!8m2!3d40.5910174!
News
Photo via 6th Communications Battalion. [http://www.marforres.marines.mil/Major-Subordinate-Commands/Force-Headquarters-Group/6th-Communication-Battalion/] Senator Kristen Gillibrand announced this week that she secured $15.1 million funding for the two New York State Marine Corps Reserve facilities, one of which is the 6th Communications Battalion at Floyd Bennett Field. The Battalion,
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File photoA badly decomposed body was found floating in a Marine Park marina on Sunday morning and was pulled ashore near Floyd Bennett Field. A fisherman found the fully-clothed man floating face up at Gateway Marina (3260 Flatbush Avenue) at 8:47am, according to authorities. First responders pulled the body
Floyd Bennett Field
Map of the coverage area for this NY Rising committee. Source: NY Rising Neighbors in Mill Basin, Mill Island, Marine Park, Bergen Beach, and Georgetown are invited to a public meeting tonight, Wednesday, November 12, to hear the latest from the state-sponsored NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program and provide input
ecology
The Ryan Center at Floyd Bennett FieldA new institute established to bolster the social and ecological research of Jamaica Bay and the communities around it has won millions of dollars in grant money to make the critical resource more resilient, and are turning to locals for their input. The Science
Arts & Culture
More than 300 antique automobiles rumbled over the asphalt of Floyd Bennett Field and took up their positions in front of the appropriately retro Ryan Visitor Center [/photos-historic-william-fitts-ryan-visitor-center-reopens-at-floyd-bennett-field/] on Sunday, June 8, for the Antique Automobile Association of Brooklyn’s annual spring show. Reader Vladimir Korostyshevskiy, who has sent us
airplanes
A Ranger educates the public at the Ryan Visitor Center. Photo by Ned BerkeTwo exciting, historical presentations will be taking place this Sunday, December 15 at Floyd Bennett Field’s Ryan Visitor Center. * Famous First Flights: Jamaica Bay has had its fair share of famous first flights taking off and
dan mundy
Source: WilliamsThe controversial natural gas pipeline, proposed to run underneath the Rockaways, through Jamaica Bay, and into Floyd Bennett Field National Park, has been plodding along the approval process for several months, with the latest news being the issuance of an apparently favorable draft statement by the federal government. (Read
Floyd Bennett Field
Thousands flocked to this year’s Red Hawk Native American Art Council Pow Wow at Floyd Bennett Field this year, a weekend event where descendants of Native Americans take back a chunk of the parkland where their ancestors once lived and fished. Reader Vladimir K. attended the annual event and
carp
Source: WilliamsWe’ve extensively covered the evolution of the proposed Jamaica Bay Pipeline [/proposed-rockaways-pipeline-project-takes-another-step-forward/], a project which would run a natural gas line through the Jamaica Bay wetlands, underneath Jacob Riis Park and ending at Floyd Bennett Field, where a meter and regulating station will be placed in a hangar,
dan mundy
Source: WilliamsAs we recently reported [/president-obama-approves-rockaways-pipeline-project/], the proposed construction of the Rockaways Pipeline Project crossed another hurdle towards reality when President Obama recently signed H.R. 2606, approving the measure that would connect a 3.17-mile natural gas line from the Atlantic Ocean underneath Jamaica Bay to a meter and
Airports
CARP members collecting petitions at Riis Park.We reported on Monday about the United States Senate giving the green light [/pipeline-bill-passes-pipeline-will-be-constructed-in-jamaica-bay/] to H.R. 2606 [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:H.R.2606:], clearing one of the last major hurdles to the installation of a natural gas
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Skipper, The Professor, Gilligan, and Thurson Howell III. Source: FanpopI always thought that, if the S.S. Minnow’s shipwrecked crew had a ham radio during their three hour tour [http://youtu.be/JkceLtmyhso], instead of a dinky transistor [http://youtu.be/ZCjGgQnYXzs], maybe Maynard G. Krebs [http://en.wikipedia.
activism
The approximate location of the proposed natural gas pipeline.After the House of Representatives passed a bill last week approving the construction of a three-mile gas pipeline, running underneath Jamaica Bay through Brooklyn and Queens, environmentalists and local leaders are outraged, claiming they were kept in the dark about it.
Belt Parkway
Source: Department of Transportation newsletterA new Belt Parkway exit ramp will open tomorrow serving drivers at Rockaway Parkway (Exit 13). It’s the first stage of the new, permanent exit ramp. Upon full completion, the exit ramp will provide a wider lane, better riding surface and a safety shoulder for