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Teens from the Student Conservation Association. (Source: thesca.org via nydailynews.com)Teenagers, banded together in the Student Conservation Association (SCA), picked up shovels and handcarts and began cleaning up Jamaica Bay and other parts of the Gateway National Recreational Area. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.
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“Bullet Points” is our format for Community Board 15 meeting coverage, providing takeaways we think are important. Information in Bullet Points is meant only to be a quick summary, and some issues may be more deeply explored in future articles. Councilman Fidler Lays Out Green Vision For Coastal Protection: If
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Fort Tilden, before and after Sandy. Click to enlarge. (Source: NPS)Six weeks after Superstorm Sandy struck the Gateway Recreational Area, a majority of the space remains closed, according to a New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/nyregion/gateway-national-recreation-area-still-rebuilding-after-hurricane-sandy.html] report. The National Parks Service, which
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar signed a deal yesterday establishing a management agreement between the city and the National Parks Service [/tag/national-parks-service/] for 10,000 acres of parkland in and around Jamaica Bay [/tag/jamaica-bay/]. The deal, announced nine months after the
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The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Source: Flickr / Howard N2GOT (Howard Brier) There is an old parable about the Holocaust. With a little tweaking, it translates quite well to the situation we face at Jamaica Bay today: > First they came for the starlings, and I didn’t speak out because
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Plumb Beach yesterday afternoon, before additional sandbags were placed.We’ve just received word that the city has placed additional sandbags on Plumb Beach in an effort to prevent further erosion and flooding on the Belt Parkway Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson informed Councilman Lew Fidler late today that the city