tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12052907412900352542024-02-07T05:53:12.681-05:00nyc edgesny edgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12668105041248173352noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205290741290035254.post-23808224746451171652012-01-07T14:31:00.009-05:002012-01-13T19:23:46.677-05:00The Lost Colonies of Staten Island pt2; The Spanish Camp<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The Spanish Colony was established in the 1920s on the shores of Raritan Bay by members of the Spanish Naturopath Society many of whom had fled fascism and were looking for a place to follow their principles of fresh air, vegetarian diet and exercise as a healthy alternative to modern medicine. Eventually, the camp evolved into an informal community of Spanish emigrants who were not SNS members but who paid the society rent for their campsites.<br />
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The seaside summer retreat included canvas tents on raised wooden platforms with open-air kitchens, common showers and a barn-like Salon at the center of the camp for musical performances and the annual Labor Day festival. <br />
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By the 1940s the tents were transformed into small summer bungalows; later many were winterized and became year-round residence.<br />
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In 1997, against the will of most residents, descendants of the SNS founders sold the property for $7 million to developer John DiScala, including the three cottages owned by the Catholic Worker. Residents owned their homes, but the land was the property of the Naturopath Association. The residents were evicted, but the development was blocked by legal actions from preservation groups and former residents, and by refusal of the City Planning Department to issue permits for construction. The developer had promised to preserve the home Dorothy Day lived in, and a few sample cottages. However, her home and almost all the cottages were leveled by a bulldozer as the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was about to declare it a historic landmark. An expediter who illegally pulled the demolition permit was later indicted for forgery. <br />
In 2006 DiScala's firm declared bankruptcy after only a handful of the planned 80 "Central Park East" mega-houses were built -- he is trying to sell the remaining vacant land to other developers.<br />
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The remaining cottages that escaped the bulldozers<br />
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The lake and the beach strewn with construction debris<br />
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archival photos courtesy of: Jim O'Grady, The Municipal Arts Society, Staten Island Museum, jchiarella@pbase.com and the Staten Island Historian<br />
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</div>ny edgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12668105041248173352noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205290741290035254.post-6580044078187843102011-11-05T23:23:00.019-04:002011-12-21T22:03:40.122-05:00Autumn in New York<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0beNMVnNT_NQjfErzVWArvx8nsEHW85rhUhwOtTRNJrobd07tKAKUBOxxx8pGVdbhrZoIdmRuBhdt0d5ZXEEXq3payc1sta-61rm5FU60x9OjgcmzmyQmF-GKDHhK1WtPPT6j25LIBZA/s1600/DSCF6113x.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0beNMVnNT_NQjfErzVWArvx8nsEHW85rhUhwOtTRNJrobd07tKAKUBOxxx8pGVdbhrZoIdmRuBhdt0d5ZXEEXq3payc1sta-61rm5FU60x9OjgcmzmyQmF-GKDHhK1WtPPT6j25LIBZA/s320/DSCF6113x.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> A cruise from the Rockaway Inlet through NY Bay and up the Hudson River a day after a freakish (or maybe the new normal) snowstorm hit the area and left millions of people without power, the sun was shining, the sky was blue and the Fall foliage was in full bloom.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> a fireboat puts on a display in front of Battery Park City</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjU4z2dA7nMlgVDC8IGALSiD4SGbOqa2dkTMFKVsCew5TUwkgLxjIBfwi3EkHa6PaJYdjJg8xlyTNiWOIMYJ7tLJ7V8Zqgtx8qI75mQlrb9uKP-3c54-0EZDxkPgmaE83qq50BKkvFZvA/s1600/DSCF6238x.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjU4z2dA7nMlgVDC8IGALSiD4SGbOqa2dkTMFKVsCew5TUwkgLxjIBfwi3EkHa6PaJYdjJg8xlyTNiWOIMYJ7tLJ7V8Zqgtx8qI75mQlrb9uKP-3c54-0EZDxkPgmaE83qq50BKkvFZvA/s320/DSCF6238x.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> midtown and the west side piers </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">approaching the George Washington Bridge with the Little Red Lighthouse at it's feet</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANH8Z1K9dBtymEBXZcV9fytjrAKfwiSG4bYbDSGP1m6VH6MR3dM99kpSGxZ8ZWaYHI9QRDq_tCWD7ZOSTerurYSt2c0C6Gl2BN0EjrWTz03BfHoI9i89vPXSdl7iAHXT45vIwoy6ToSQ/s1600/DSCF6180x.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANH8Z1K9dBtymEBXZcV9fytjrAKfwiSG4bYbDSGP1m6VH6MR3dM99kpSGxZ8ZWaYHI9QRDq_tCWD7ZOSTerurYSt2c0C6Gl2BN0EjrWTz03BfHoI9i89vPXSdl7iAHXT45vIwoy6ToSQ/s320/DSCF6180x.JPG" width="285" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Cloisters at the northern end of Manhattan </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and of course, a bit of history: The Palisades appear on one of the first European maps of the New World in 1541, based on the description of the explorer Giovanni de Verrazano. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Before the creation of the <span lang="en-us">park</span>, all of the Palisades had been in private hands, the lower portion consisting mostly of riverfront villages and the upper section of large estates. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkvkrsd17zBpZwvfV7ksENhIJpRdonBJJaTcwTh60t8v8NnNLwPsrdU4PbZDsYSIL6pkdqeWh9x5PZqlEG-Fm1ODx55WBfCWdalmFQEkPvDntRONxM-SjmYSgLaMv4wyHEaXG39v7mS4/s1600/1865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEkvkrsd17zBpZwvfV7ksENhIJpRdonBJJaTcwTh60t8v8NnNLwPsrdU4PbZDsYSIL6pkdqeWh9x5PZqlEG-Fm1ODx55WBfCWdalmFQEkPvDntRONxM-SjmYSgLaMv4wyHEaXG39v7mS4/s320/1865.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">stereoscopic views from 1865, 1875 and 1880</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">In</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the 19th century the cliffs were also widely quarried for railroad ballast, leading to the efforts to preserve them.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJBRTbrhgTNXDxqRQ5HCt47vN4Qe16r5Fvyno1JqWa3wBjXv7Ssj0dKxcyypc5shWl_qjj73mlF0qKOhyc2PGCtAdr5Rk1hRXPhGI-Yz9vBCp3eOupo1P2gGn-0prQQhaA7bB2L79IL88/s1600/quarry+97.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJBRTbrhgTNXDxqRQ5HCt47vN4Qe16r5Fvyno1JqWa3wBjXv7Ssj0dKxcyypc5shWl_qjj73mlF0qKOhyc2PGCtAdr5Rk1hRXPhGI-Yz9vBCp3eOupo1P2gGn-0prQQhaA7bB2L79IL88/s320/quarry+97.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Due to the work of the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the Palisades Park Commission was founded in 1900, which was authorized to acquire land for a 13-mile stretch between Fort Lee, NJ and Piermont, NY. Mary Averell Harriman, widow of the Union Pacific Railroad president, offered the state another 10,000 acres and one million dollars toward the creation of a state park. George W. Perkins, head of the commission, raised another $1.5 million from a dozen wealthy contributors including John D. Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Morgan. Rockefeller also bought up and donated land to the park to ensure no development would spoil the view from the Cloisters.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Kearney's moved into the house in the early 1800's and expanded it to include a tavern, the park commission bought it and used it as a park police station in the early 20th century.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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The Richmond County Poor Farm was established in 1829 as a place where the indigent could receive room and board in exchange for work. When Staten Island became a borough of New York City in 1898, the city assumed responsibility for the property and renamed it the New York City Farm Colony, the residents planted and harvested crops and raised livestock. By the 1900s, there were 824 residents supervised by 150 employees and 63 acres of the 104 acre site were under cultivation. The food they produced exceeded their needs and the excess was sold to other institutions.<br />
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Things began to change in 1924 when jurisdiction over the site was transferred to the city's Homes for Dependents agency which lifted the requirement that all residents of the colony had to work. By 1936 more buildings were added as the Farm Colony’s population grew to 1,428, most of them elderly or disabled.<br />
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Since its closure the site has been the focus of debate over land use. In 1980 the city attempted to sell the property to developers, but environmentalists and local residents resisted the sale. The City transferred 25 acres to the Parks Department which annexed the section to the Greenbelt -- the remaining acres, along with the Sea View complex, were officially designated a city landmark in 1985. None of the plans for the site have come to fruition and it has been left abandoned.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">the Parks Dept. Greenbelt Recreation Center, the only restored building</span><br />
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<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></div><span style="font-size: large;">Fort Wadsworth can lay claim to being the oldest continuously manned military installation in the U.S.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Strategically located on the banks of the Verrazano Narrows, the entrance to New York Harbor, it began as a Dutch built blockhouse in the 1660's. Known as Flagstaff Fort during the American Revolution, it was occupied and expanded by the British until their final retreat in 1783, fortified by New York State in 1806 and reverted to Federal control during the War of 1812.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The old fort is only open to visitors during Park Ranger tours, the newer structures on the south side are still in use by the Coast Guard, DoD (Homeland Security)...and by the mounted police unit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">the beach at the turn of the century...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> from the 1970s when it was off limits due to water pollution...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> ....and today</span><br />
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A panoramic view of the Lower Bay and Verrazano Narrows from the Alice Austen House Museum.</div>
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The original Dutch farmhouse on this site dates back to the 1690's. The property was bought in 1844 by Alice Austen's grandfather who expanded the house and named it "Clear Comfort". Alice was born nearby in 1866, after her father abandoned them she and her mother moved into her grandparents' home. She continued to live in the house until 1945 when financial problems and illness forced her to move. In her absence the house fell into disrepair, but was saved from demolition in the 1960's. It was dedicated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and was restored in the mid 1980's.<br />
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Austen was one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Starting at age 10, she learned how to use a dry-plate camera brought from abroad by her uncle. Her first subjects were the people and places closest to her -- her family and friends, her house and garden -- she also made many early self-portraits using a long cable release to trip the shutter.<br />
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Though she is best known for her photography work, she was also a landscape designer, master tennis player, bicycle enthusiast, and the first woman on Staten Island to own a car. She never married, but spent over fifty years with Gertrude (Trude) Tate. Living the "larky life" as she called it; she broke away from her Victorian environment and created her own independent existence.<br />
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Alice and Trude on the left and below in a Life Magazine feature from 1951 after Austen and her photographs were saved from obscurity.<br />
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</div>ny edgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12668105041248173352noreply@blogger.com11Shore Acres, NY 10305, USA40.614914807127235 -74.06349931945840.608225807127234 -74.07402231945801 40.621603807127237 -74.052976319458tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205290741290035254.post-35630491560768360662011-06-26T02:25:00.000-04:002011-07-30T02:32:43.368-04:00Breezy Point and Ft. Tilden revisited part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Not much has changed on the Ft. Tilden grounds since my last <a href="http://nycedges.blogspot.com/2010/10/ft-tilden-breezy-point-and-riis-park.html"><i><b>visit</b></i></a><b>,</b> nor for that matter since it was decommissioned in 1974, but what has changed radically is the scene on the beach.<br />
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The unregulated beach used to be a sanctuary for folks who didn't care about the lack of amenities in exchange for a spot where you could fish, let your dog off the leash and, if so inclined, sunbathe au natural.<br />
The dunes were the only areas that was restricted in order to protect the nests of the endangered piping plover.<br />
Apparently the dunes are no longer protected, the shore birds were no match against the invasion of the new, non-native species.<br />
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The warning signs to stay off the dunes are gone along with the birds and their nests<br />
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</div>The new species like to build nests too, not to protect their delicate hatchlings, but maybe to protect their delicate skin.<br />
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Surf fishers aren't endangered.....yet.<br />
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Ft. Tilden Grounds:<br />
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Battery Harris West; the gun batteries were camouflaged to avoid detection<br />
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Battery Harris East; NPS added an observation deck on top to enjoy the views<br />
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Atlantic Ocean to the south<br />
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Marine Parkway Bridge and Manhattan skyline to the north<br />
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Although many of the buildings have been left to decay, the community gardens, Rockaway Theater company and Rockaway Artist Alliance are injecting new life into the old fort<br />
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The fort began as a coastal defense station during the War of 1812, expanded into a full military base at the beginning of WWI, fortified for WWII and used as a Nike missile site during the Cold War.<br />
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aerial view from 1916<br />
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site of the first Transatlantic flight in 1919 (Lindbergh would beat this eight years later by making the first non-stop flight)<br />
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the big guns & battery<br />
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the Nike missiles from 1959<br />
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</div>ny edgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12668105041248173352noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205290741290035254.post-38618213224444264562011-06-05T16:00:00.001-04:002011-11-24T15:32:55.631-05:00Breezy Point and Ft. Tilden Revisited; part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Breezy Point:<br />
The last time I photographed these areas was in the Fall when, except for a few fishermen and local wanderers, it was deserted (<a href="http://nycedges.blogspot.com/2010/10/ft-tilden-breezy-point-and-riis-park.html">click</a>). On Memorial Day weekend it was a different story.<br />
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Unlike the eastern end of the Rockaway peninsula which had been a beach resort since the early 19th century, Breezy Point (which includes Rockaway Point & Roxbury) didn't become a summer retreat until the early 20th century.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Had you planned a visit to Breezy Point before the Civil War you would have been in for a surprise. It did not exist! All the land west of the vicinity of Jacob Riis Park has formed within a little more than a century. This is largely because of the construction of a groin field to protect the beaches at Fort Tilden, and the placement of the Breezy Point jetty to prevent the filling of Rockaway Inlet. The sand has been contributed naturally by the westward longshore drift along the south shore of Long Island, particularly the Rockaway barrier island and sources offshore. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Rockaway Shore areas have been heavily utilized since colonial time. Fort Tilden began as an outer harbor defense post during the War of 1812. The site was expanded into a large defense network with ever expanding fire power beginning at the turn of the century following the Spanish American War."</i> USGS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the turn-of-the-century entrepreneur Andrew VanDeventer formed the West Rockaway Land Company and the development of Breezy Point began with a tent city, bungalows and a few hotels. Since lumber was scarce it was brought over by barges from Brooklyn, some of it from the grand hotels that were being torn down in Coney Island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Access is restricted to owners, renters and guests, the entrance to the cooperative is guarded by a security checkpoint and its privately owned streets are blocked to unauthorized traffic by electronically locked gates controlled by magnetic key cards.<br />
The community is also known as the "whitest neighborhood in New York City" where 99% of the residents are white and 60+% are Irish American -- the 2nd highest concentration in the U.S. -- no wonder it's been called the Irish Riviera for almost a century.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On the beach blocks the streets narrow into sidewalks and paths, so the preferred mode of transportation is bicycle.</span><br />
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<span closure_uid_2a5fc7="214" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1972 the National Park Service bought the 200 acres surrounding the Co-op, and after the jetty was built, the newly formed Breezy Point Tip. The area is a bird sanctuary and the dunes are roped off to protect the nests of skimmers, terns, oystercatchers and the endangered piping plover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The locals refer to the western end as Birdland and the birds do rule the beach here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">black skimmers take over their spot</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">common terns have theirs</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">American Oystercatcher pairs shun the crowds and stay close to their nests </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Before the Park Service bought the land between Ft.Tilden and Breezy Point </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the area had become a dumping ground. Construction was halted on a hi-rise building complex, the official reason was to create the nature preserve, although the rumors were because it was too close the Nike Missile system (part of which can be seen behind the unfinished buildings).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">....and few feet away another one. I found out these are a type of shark known as Smooth Dogfish. Since they were still "fresh" I suspect they were thrown back into the water by people fishing from boats in the area even though they are edible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Around the bend to Rockaway Point and the Lighthouse, which isn't a lighthouse at all, but a spotting station for Ft.Tilden which I will cover in part 2</span><br />
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Archival photo from Library of Congress<br />
All other photos copyright nycedges 2011<br />
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</div>ny edgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12668105041248173352noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205290741290035254.post-55034697747551653102011-05-14T12:17:00.002-04:002012-01-08T10:47:33.034-05:00Bayswater; Far Far Rockaway<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Bayswater is a peninsula on a peninsula, a quiet leafy enclave that has escaped the sad fate of so many neighborhoods in Far Rockaway thanks in part to zoning laws that prohibit <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<i>o</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>ut-of-character multifamily and attached developments </i>". Bayswater started as a <span style="font-family: inherit;">planned community laid out by developer William Trist Bailey in 1878. The property was purchased from descendants of Richard Cornell, the area's first European settler who bought the land in 1687. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1898 Rockaway became part of the consolidated Greater New York and was designated as the Fifth Ward, Borough of Queens.</span><br />
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The Rockaways had become the summer playground of New York's wealthy elite by the mid -19th century, the Hamptons of it's day, with huge elaborate mansions quaintly called "cottages". By the turn of the century, with the advent of ferry and train service, the southern beachfront was lined with grand hotels and resorts catering to a more middle class clientele.<br />
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Bayswater resisted commercial development and remained primarily a residential neighborhood of large Victorian homes with manicured lawns, private sports clubs, and of course, a yacht club.<br />
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On the tip of Bayswater peninsula was the grandest palace of them all, Breezy Point.<br />
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</div><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1907 Wall Street banker Louis Heinsheimer bought the property and demolished the existing mansion to build his 175 foot long summer home. He died a few years later, leaving it to his younger brother Alfred, a trustee of the New York Foundation charity, who in turn donated the property in 1925 to the Hospital for Joint Diseases and the Maimonides Institute for Children. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The mansion was damaged by fire and demolished in 1987. The land was purchased by the Trust for Public Land and became Bayswater Point State Park.</span><br />
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Historic Postcards courtesy of the <a href="http://leimanlibrary.com/"><i>Leiman Library</i></a><br />
Historic photos from the Library of Congress<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Originally known as Remsen's Landing (after Jeromus Remsen a Revolutionary War officer) Ramblersville was the name adopted for the area after a New York Herald article related the story of a stranger's visit in the 1890's in which he exclaimed, "This is the greatest place for a ramble that I ever struck!" The name seemed appropriate for the sleepy fishing village on stilts.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although fishing shacks had been here since colonial times, Hawtree Creek and the shores of Jamaica Bay were becoming popular in the late 19th century for fishing, clamming, boating, swimming and for relief from the summer heat in the city. By the turn of the century the areas had also become known as "Little Venice". What began as a weekend and summer bungalow colony slowly evolved into the community of Ramblersville. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">[Ironically, the Health Department banned swimming and shell fishing in Jamaica Bay in 1916 because of pollution being spewed into the bay by local factories.]</span><br />
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</tbody></table>The New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad (later the Long Island Railroad ) added a stop at Ramblersville. There was no station, the train simply stopped and the passengers disembarked. If the tide was high they stepped from the train into a foot of sea water. A short walk led them to the main boardwalk called Broadway where they could connect to any area in town.<br />
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</div><span style="font-family: inherit;">There's still only one street leading in and out of Ramblersville, and a few paved roads that dead end at the canals.</span><br />
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</div>This bridge leads south from Ramblersville to the neighborhood of West Hamilton Beach which boasts nine crossroads and their own volunteer fire company.<br />
( There was an East Hamilton Beach which was razed and filled in for the expansion of Idlewild Airport, now known as JFK)<br />
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Almost everyone who lived along the creek and the canals had a boat....<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Construction began on the fort in 1862 on land purchased in 1857 from the Willets family who had a farm here. The original purpose was to protect the East River approach to New York Harbor along with Fort Schuyler in the Bronx on the opposite side of the river. Ironically, two famous Confederate generals were instrumental in building the fort. Robert E. Lee, then an officer in the Army Engineers, was responsible for some of the preliminary design four years before his state seceded from the Union and Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War, made the presentation before Congress requesting approval for its construction. Originally named Willets Point, it was renamed in 1898 after Joseph Gilbert Totten, chief engineer of the US Army.<br />
The fort was never completed due to advances in artillery, the fort’s granite walls were deemed too vulnerable to bombardment. Construction ceased in 1864 as the Civil War drew to a close.<br />
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Bachelor quarters and the landmarked officers club, aka The Castle, now home to the Bayside Historical Society<br />
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Officer housing with beautiful views of Little Neck Bay to the east and the coast of Great Neck, Long Island in the distance<br />
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Although some of the buildings are intact and in use by the Parks Dept, and the FDNY & NYPD for training, most are in various stages of decay<br />
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The Fort<br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">photos copyright nycedges 2011</div><div class="separator" style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: medium; clear: both; text-align: center;">postcards; Bayside Historic Society </div></div>ny edgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12668105041248173352noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205290741290035254.post-37614857014760183032011-01-27T21:36:00.002-05:002012-01-05T21:58:14.513-05:00The Islands of Jamaica Bay : Broad Channel and the Wildlife Refuge (Part 2)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge:<br />
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The beach and marshes on the western shore, and the rangers station <br />
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The paths fanning out from the Visitors Center and circling the west pond<br />
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by Sharon Seitz & Stuart Miller </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; text-align: center;"><span class="postbody">"<span class="postbody">The city issued permits to anyone who wanted to live in, or develop, the bay area. Broad Channel, unlike the patchwork communities on The Raunt or Goose Creek, grew into a thriving community. By 1908, there were stores, a church, a volunteer fire department with 185 firemen, and four hundred houses, each paying an average of twenty-five dollars rent to the city's dock department.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; text-align: center;"><br />
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Despite the demise of the long-established fishing industry and the collapse of plans for the harbor, Broad Channel flourished, albeit illegally. During Prohibition, the island, too remote for police raids, proved the perfect venue for rum-running. This sleepy island getaway suddenly became a notorious nightspot. Yacht clubs, speakeasies, and lodgings like the Enterprise Hotel sprang up on what became known as Little Cuba, a </span></span></span><span class="postbody"><span class="postbody"><span class="postbody">homegrown Havana tucked away in New York City. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="postbody"><span class="postbody"><span class="postbody"></span> </span></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; text-align: center;"><br />
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views of Broad Channel from the turn of the century<br />
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</div>And Broad Channel today....there are still a number of houses and structures built on stilts<br />
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The Iroquois Yacht Club founded in 1894<br />
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A small houseboat decorated and owned by the Rockaway Artists Alliance <a href="http://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/">(http://www.rockawayartistsalliance.org/</a> )<br />
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more waterfront homes<br />
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</div>did this one start out as a summer cottage?<br />
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some interesting decorations........<br />
Jesus, Mary and a wide mouth bass<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">archival photos from Library of Congress collection</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">all other photos copyright nycedges 2011</div></div>ny edgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12668105041248173352noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205290741290035254.post-21835316854824292432011-01-17T17:18:00.006-05:002012-01-14T09:24:59.853-05:00The Islands of Jamaica Bay; Broad Channel, The Raunt and Goose Creek (part 1)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
"New York has a picturesque Venice all her own..."<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Excerpts</span></i><span class="postbody"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i> from "The Other Islands of New York City" by Sharon Seitz & Stuart Miller</i> <br />
"The bay's fishing tradition prospered after the Civil War, when ferries carried vacationers from Canarsie, Brooklyn to beaches on the nearby Rockaway Peninsula. </span></span><br />
<span class="postbody"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The bay islands remained sparsely populated until 1880, when the New York, Woodhaven, and Rockaway Railroad erected a 4.8-mile-long wooden trestle across Jamaica Bay. The line, which connected mainland Queens to Rockaway, made four stops— Goose Creek, The Raunt, Broad Channel, and Beach Channel—and accommodated far more passengers than the ferries. <br />
Within four years, as many as eighty-seven crowded trains chugged through the Jamaica Bay islands each summer day. The route was sold in 1887 to the Long Island Railroad, and by 1895, the trains carried a million and a half passengers. In 1902, three and a half million fun-seekers rode the line. <br />
Transportation put Jamaica Bay on the map. Tiny fishing shacks, boathouses, fishing clubs, and small hotels-many built on stilts-rose near the railroad trestle. </span></span><br />
<span class="postbody"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In 1906, an estimated four hundred fifty thousand tons of oysters and clams, valued at $2 million, were harvested from the bay. <br />
The Jamaica Bay islands were a homesteader's paradise during the late nineteenth century. The town of Jamaica had jurisdiction, but did not exercise title or collect taxes, encouraging squatters to settle there." </span></span><br />
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</tbody></table> Broad Channel is the largest island in the bay and the only one that remains inhabited. In the 1950's NY Parks commissioner Robert Moses razed the settlements on The Raunt and Goose Creek to create the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Moses struck a deal with the NYC Transit Authority to replace the old wooden trestle that had been plagued by fires for decades with a new subway trestle and bridge. The dredging and landfill required to build the new track also created a single island with two fresh water ponds for the newly designated refuge.<br />
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Goose Creek train stop and homes<br />
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The Raunt at the turn of the century and the area today, a few pilings visible at low tide in the east pond are remnants of the docks and houses that once stood there. <br />
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Lots of abandoned boats and curious debris along the shore<br />
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A few of the other islands in the bay;<br />
Ruffle Bar Island had a community of oyster and clam fishers at the turn of the century; it's been uninhabited since the 1940's and is now a protected bird sanctuary<br />
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Current map of Jamaica Bay compared with 1923, and 1938 after Cross Bay Blvd. and Bridge were built <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> From<a href="http://www.miv-mountloretto.org/home.html"> MIV Mt.Loretto</a>: <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">" </span></span><span class="text" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">In June 1882, six months after establishing the MIV in downtown Manhattan, he purchased the </span></span><span class="text" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">400-acre country place</span></span><span class="text" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> and a large beach area off Raritan Bay </span></span><span class="text" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">on the Southern tip of Staten Island, called Mount Loretto.</span></span><span class="text" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> The mission was able to care for more than 2,000 homeless and destitute children annually. In the period from 1871 to 1885, the mission had cared for 15,730 children.</span></span><span class="text" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">The kids made their own clothes and shoes, grew their own food, and raised livestock and poultry. The home was completely free of debt.<br />
Mount Loretto was cultivated into the most productive farm on SI, the largest in the state and the 3rd largest in the country. At peak production, 1,000 quarts of milk were produced daily. The barn, reputed to be the largest in the country, housed 300 head of cattle and 50 horses, the pen kept 600 pigs. The dairy farm, the 3rd largest in NYS, was closed and the herd was sold in 1961.</span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="text" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Mount Loretto has the last undeveloped shoreline in the state, encompassing one mile of seashore. The property is an ecologically rich area of meadows, woodlands, wetlands, coastal bluffs, and shoreline. The "Mount" property, which has been fallow for 4 decades, is valued at more than $40 million."</span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A shrine overlooking Princes Bay: according to the plaque it was erected in 1935 by Katherine and Helen Tracy as a memorial to their brothers, apparently it's become a memorial to the more recently departed as well.</div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lemon Creek Park</span>:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The park is just east of Mt.Loretto.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lemon Creek is fed from a watershed that begins two and a half miles from the creek. The water travels over and under ground which carries it down to Princes Bay. A freshwater pond, only 100 feet from Raritan Bay, is adjacent to the marina and to the only purple martin colony in New York City.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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all other photos copyright nycedges 2010</div></div></div></div>ny edgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12668105041248173352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205290741290035254.post-74559688787639311272010-11-14T11:49:00.003-05:002011-11-20T01:00:39.822-05:00Ridgewood Reservoir<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park on the Brooklyn-Queens border: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Following decommissioning and abandonment, the reservoir naturally became a small birch forest (one of the few on Long Island) with a grassy marsh in the center basin. The creation of this virtual nature sanctuary attracted a wide variety of fauna, including some rare species of birds. The bicycling trail around the reservoir perimeter became part of the 40-mile (64 km) Brooklyn-Queens Greenway.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">In 2004, the reservoir was officially turned over to the Department of Parks for more extensive integration into Highland Park. In October 2007, the Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe quietly unveiled a contract to breach one of the reservoir basins and clear 20 acres (81,000 m2) for new ball fields. However, on June 26, 2008, NYC City Controller William C. Thompson, Jr. rejected that contract for the new development, citing concerns about the environmental impact" </div><br />
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So far community activists have been able to block attempts to fill in and develop the reservoir -- for more information on their efforts: <a href="http://ridgewoodreservoir.blogspot.com/">http://ridgewoodreservoir.blogspot.com/</a> <br />
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<div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"Coney Island Creek is the sole remaining creek in the area. In the 17th and 18th centuries many other creeks cut through Brooklyn, but all others were filled in as Brooklyn developed. The Creek has undergone many topographical and name changes throughout its history. </div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">In the 17th century, the creek did not extend so far eastward, ending instead around what is now Cropsey Avenue. A small portion of land in the now narrow section of the creek connected to the mainland, forming a peninsula. This peninsula was known as Coney Hook. In order to facilitate sea travel, Thomas Stillwell and his associates dug a canal from the eastern front of the creek, around Cropsey Avenue, eastward until they hit “the Cove,” now known as Sheepshead Bay. The developers hoped the canal, referred to as Gravesend Ship Canal, would transform the area into a thriving seaport. The canal was later filled with earth to what is now Shell Road, significantly shortening the creek. </div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Gravesend Bay, into which Coney Island Creek flows, was the site of famed Central and Prospect Park landscape architect, Calvert Vaux’s (1824-1895) death. On a foggy November morning in 1895, while visiting his son who lived nearby, Vaux went for a walk. He never returned, however, and his body was later found floating in the bay. There has never been a definitive cause of death, as some say he committed suicide because his work was under-appreciated and others say the fog and his unfamiliarity with the setting lead him to accidentally fall into the bay. </div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This park, bounded by Sea Gate and Bayview Avenues and Gravesend Bay, was assigned to Parks in 1984. The area is mostly comprised of many types of grass, shrubs, and trees. A small garden is located in the area with a multitude of flowers and a small stone and brick path. A large sand dune was placed on the property in 2001 in order to stop erosion of the nearby Coney Island Beach"</div>from NYC Parks Dept. <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/B379/highlights/11734">http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/B379/highlights/11734</a><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; text-align: left;">From a Parks Dept. web site </div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"Established in 1917, Fort Tilden is named for Samuel Tilden, who served as Governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee for President in 1876.... the fort was decommissioned as a military installation in 1974. It was then transferred to the control of the National Park Service.</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Today the national park at Fort Tilden offers a mixture of past military structures and reclaimed natural areas. A walk through the fort includes many great spots to see wildlife in the successional maritime forest, along the Atlantic shore, and near the fort's freshwater pond. The observatory deck on top of Battery Harris East, a historic gun site, offers dramatic views of Jamaica Bay and New York Harbor, and is a great vantage point to spot migrating birds."</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"Breezy Point Tip is an isolated peninsula beach fronting Jamaica Bay. This wild westernmost tip of Rockaway Peninsula, transferred to the National Park Service in 1972, features over two hundred acres of ocean-front beach, bay shoreline, sand dunes, marshes and coastal grasslands all within New York City." </div><br />
all photos copyright nycedges 2010</div></div>ny edgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12668105041248173352noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205290741290035254.post-68832834815827934672010-10-29T20:40:00.003-04:002012-02-20T08:26:31.498-05:00Salt Marsh Nature Center (Brooklyn)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The main entrance building :<br />
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The Gerritsen Creek entrance:<br />
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From parks dept. web site<br />
<div style="color: black;">"The salt marsh is a birdwatcher's paradise. Ducks, geese, cormorants, sandpipers, herons, egrets, red-winged blackbirds, and marsh hawks are just a few of the birds that can be seen here...The role of our salt marsh is even more crucial because more than 75 percent of the original salt marsh in Jamaica Bay has been destroyed, much of it between 1950 and the mid-1970s. Most of that destruction was due to filling of marshes to create more land area for homes and industry. Marine Park's salt marsh, formerly a wasteland filled with trash and abandoned cars, has been restored to its natural condition -- proof that a rare and fragile ecosystem can safely exist even when it borders a heavily urban area like Brooklyn."<br />
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