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
activism
Members of the 25 strong cat colony on Plumb Beach (Photo by Lisanne Anderson/Flickr)You didn’t actually think we’d get through this story without a headline pun did you? The National Park Service (NPS) has agreed to give more time to cat enthusiasts to remove a sizable
ecology
I wonder if there’s a policy about taking trees on the subway… (Source: NYRP/Flickr)The New York Restoration Project [http://www.nyrp.org/], a non-profit dedicated to building greenspaces and the lead partner of the MillionTreesNYC [http://milliontreesnyc.org/html/home/home.shtml] initiative, is going all out
ecology
(Source: Wikimedia Commons)Rockaway Beach Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder announced last week that a project to restore and maintain Jamaica Bay’s wildlife reserve, a sprawling 18,000-acre wetland estuary, has won a $400,000 from the Regional Economic Development Council for habitat restoration. The project, Jamaica Bay Habitat Restoration 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
con edison small business
Source: niznoz/FlickrWe received this from Micah Rome, an energy efficiency consultant with Con Edison’s Small Business Team, who has been doing outreach in Sheepshead Bay to save our business owners some cash. Here’s what he had to say: > ConEdison’s Small Business Energy Program offers FREE
bert bunyan
The incineration plant and landfill dump at Gravesend Bay in 1973, now the site at the center of a major Bensonhurst environmental debate. (Source: Source: Arthur Tress via DailyDOCUMERICA)The ruling of a State Supreme Court justice set back the efforts of those opposed to the building of a new
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,
air monitors
Source: Nigel Chadwick via Wikimedia CommonsCity and state environmental agencies are adding three new air monitors in regions most affected by Superstorm Sandy. The air monitor stations will measure fine particle matter in order to collect data on what, if any, air contamination resulted from Sandy’s impact. Air monitors
Boating
Source: Geoffrey Croft via awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.comWhen we first broke the story about the Paerdegat Basin oil spill [/oil-spill-brooklyn-national-grid/], in which an estimated 800 to 1,400 gallons of natural gas condensate, compressor oil and turbine oil poured into the waters near Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, info was scarce. Representatives
andrew cuomo
Source: Environmental Protection Agency via Wikimedia CommonsLast Thursday marks the adoption of a bill that would force plant operators to tell the public if and when municipal sewage is spilled into New York’s bodies of water. This is great news for Sheepshead Bay and the surrounding areas as this
Opinion
The NYC watershed and a state forest and park are located within the Marcellus Shale, where drillers want to hydrofrack for natural gas. (Source: NYC DEP) BETWEEN THE LINES: As drivers in Brooklyn feel the pinch of gas prices that have rapidly increased since the year began, there’s another