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Day in the Life of the Hudson and Harbor 2018 Site List Day in the Life of the Hudson & Harbor 10/22/19 Borough or County River Site School Partner Time at Site Organization Staten Island Fort Wadsworth St. Clare School National Park 9:30 AM -1 PM Service/DEP/Coast Guard Staten Island Great Kills Park Curtis High 9:30 AM – 12:30 School PM Staten Island Pier 1 Staten Island Ferry Curtis High 10 AM – 2 PM School Brooklyn Kaiser Park, Coney Island Rachel Carsen IS City Parks 10 AM – 1 PM 237 Foundation Brooklyn Salt Marsh Nature PS 130K 10:30 AM -12:45 Center at Ave U PM Gerritsen Creek Brooklyn Valentino Pier, Red The Brooklyn 9:45 AM – 1:30 Hook New School/PS PM 146 Brooklyn Coney Island Pier IS 240 10 AM – 1 PM Brooklyn Canarsie Pier Pathways to 10 AM – 1 PM Graduation, International High School at Lafayette Brooklyn Brooklyn Bridge Park MS915 Brooklyn Bridge Park 8:30 AM – 1:30 Conservancy PM Brooklyn Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn Friends, Billion Oyster Project 9 – 11 AM Pier 5 Sunset Park High Brooklyn Bridge Park 11 AM – 3 PM School Conservancy Queens Francis Lewis Park International NYC Parks Urban 10 AM – 1 PM High School for Rangers Health Sciences Queens Fort Totten Park John Bowne High NYC Parks Urban 10:30 AM – 1 PM School Rangers Queens Gantry Plaza State P.S./I.S. 78Q NY State Parks 9 – 11 AM Park, Pier 1 Day in the Life of the Hudson & Harbor 10/22/19 Borough or County River Site School Partner Time at Site Organization Queens Gantry Plaza State Park, Hunter’s Point DEP 9 AM – 2 PM Pier 4 Community Middle School, Vanguard High School Bronx Hunts Point The School at Rocking the Boat 10 AM – 2 PM Columbia University Bronx Concrete Plant Park Bronx Center for Bronx River 10 AM – 12 PM Science & Alliance Mathematics Bronx Concrete Plant Park Pelham 10 AM - 12:45 Preparatory PM Academy New Jersey Colgate Clock on Hudson 9 AM – 12 PM Exchange Place Montessori School New Jersey Englewood Boat Basin Paterson Meadowlands 9:30 AM -12 PM Academy for the Environment Gifted and Center Talented New Jersey Alpine Boat Basin Alpine School, Palisades Interstate 8:30 AM-12 PM Pascack Hills High Park Commission School Manhattan Governors Island The Urban Billion Oyster Project 10 AM – 2:30 PM Pier 101 Assembly NY Harbor School Manhattan Randall’s Island The Dwight Randall’s Island 9:30 AM-2:15 PM School Park Alliance Manhattan Brooklyn Bridge West Leman Prep BioBoat 9 AM – 2:30 PM Side East River Manhattan Manhattan Brooklyn Bridge Beach Manhattan Lower East Side 10:45 AM International Ecology Center Manhattan Pier 40 NYC Museum The River Project, 9:30 AM -12:30 School Hudson River Park PM Manhattan Pier 45 Ellis Preparatory NYU Wallerstein 11 AM-12:00 PM Academy Collaborative Day in the Life of the Hudson & Harbor 10/22/19 Borough or County River Site School Partner Time at Site Organization Manhattan Pier 45 NYC Lab High 1-2:30 PM School Manhattan Pier 62 PS 340 10 – 11:45 AM Manhattan Pier 84 DLMS-MS247 Hudson River Park 10 AM – 2 PM HS for Trust Environmental Science Manhattan Pier 96 Mott Hall Charter 10 AM – 1 PM School Manhattan Pier 96 High School for Student 3:30 PM Environmental Conservation Studies Association Manhattan Pier 1 Speyer Legacy 9:30 AM – 2:30 School PM Manhattan West Harlem Pier – High School of Baylander Ship 10 AM – 12:30 PM 125th Street Baylander Language and Innovation Manhattan 125th Street Pier Columbia 1:15-2:10 PM Secondary School Manhattan Fort Washington Park Marymount 8:30 AM – 1:30 School of NY PM Manhattan Inwood at the Hudson Comprehensive NYC Urban Park 10 AM – 1 PM River Model School Rangers Project Rockland Piermont Pier Tappan Zee HS, Lamont Doherty 8:30 AM – 1:30 Pearl River HS, Earth Observatory PM Spring Valley HS, Clarkston North and South HS Rockland Memorial Park, Nyack Nyack High 9 AM – 1 PM School Rockland Memorial Park, Nyack Liberty Outdoor Science 9 AM – 3 PM Elementary Alliance, and School Rockland County Upper Nyack Division of Elementary Environmental School Resources Day in the Life of the Hudson & Harbor 10/22/19 Borough or County River Site School Partner Time at Site Organization Rockland Lower Hook Mtn. Blue Rock School Strawtown Studio 9:45 AM – 2:30 Nyack Beach PM Rockland Haverstraw Bay County North Rockland 8:30 AM- 1:30 Park, West Haverstraw High School PM Westchester Habirshaw Park, Yonkers High School for Center for the 10:30 AM – 12:30 Environmental Urban River at PM Studies Beczak Westchester Kinnally Cove, Hastings Hastings High 8:45-10:45 AM on Hudson School 12:20-2:20 PM Westchester Dobbs Ferry EF International 9 AM- 3 PM Boarding School Westchester Matthiessen Park, Irvington Middle 9 AM- 1 PM Irvington and High School Westchester Riverwalk Center, Ossining HS Teatown 9:30 – 11:45 AM Tarrytown Westchester Ossining Beach, Louis Ossining HS 9 AM – 2PM Engel Park Westchester Croton Point Park, Croton-Harmon 10 AM – 2 PM Croton-on-Hudson High School, Fox Meadow Elementary School Westchester Steamboat Mahopac High 9:30 AM – 1PM Dock, Verplanck School Westchester River Front Green, Walter Panas 8 AM-1:30 PM Peekskill High School Orange Cornwall Landing, Willow Avenue Trailside Museum 9:30 AM-2 PM Cornwall Elementary & Zoo, NYSDEC Putnam Garrison Landing, Garrison School 9 AM – 1 PM Garrison Orange West Point – South West Point 8 AM – 5 PM Dock Sc hool & Girl Scouts of America Day in the Life of the Hudson & Harbor 10/22/19 Borough or County River Site School Partner Time at Site Organization Orange Plum Point, Kowawese Vails Gate STEAM Black Rock 9:30 AM – 1:30 Academy Consortium, Orange PM County Water Authority Orange People's Waterfront & Newburgh Free Scenic Hudson 9 AM – 1:45 PM Boat Launch, Academy- P-Tech Newburgh Dutchess Dennings Point, Beacon Oakwood Friends Beacon Institute 9:15-11:15 AM School Dutchess Beacon-Newburgh Ferry Circleville Sloop Clearwater 9 AM- 4 PM Landing, Beacon Elementary School Dutchess Long Dock Park, Beacon Newburgh Free Scenic Hudson 9 AM- 1:45 PM Academy- P-Tech Dutchess Beacon Riverfront Park, Valley Central 9:00 AM-1:30 PM Beacon Middle School Dutchess Chelsea Yacht Club, New Wappingers 8:15 AM-1:30 PM Hamburg Junior High School Dutchess Quiet Cove, G.W. Krieger Cornell 9 AM -1:15 PM Poughkeespie Elementary Cooperative School Extension and Hudson River Dutchess Norrie Point, Staatsburg Poughkeepsie Hudson Ri ver 9 AM - 2:30 PM High School, National Estuarine Millbrook School Research Reserve Dutchess Tivoli Bay South, Bard Red Hook High Bard College 9 AM -1:30 PM College School Ulster Freer Park, Port Ewen High Meadow NYSDEC 10:30 AM– 1:30 School PM Ulster Esopus Meadows Point, Robert Graves Sloop Clearwater 9:30 AM-1:30 PM Ulster Park Elementary Day in the Life of the Hudson & Harbor 10/22/19 Borough or County River Site School Partner Time at Site Organization Ulster Kingston Point Park, Robert Graves Kingston Parks and 9:45 AM-1:45 PM Kingston Elementary Recreation Ulster Kingston Point Park, Kingston YMCA Kingston Parks and 2: 45 AM-5:15 Kingston Farm Project Recreation PM Ulster Ulster Landing Park, Mi ll Road 8:45 AM – 1:45 Kingston Elementary PM School, Kingston High School Ulster Falling Waters, Glasco Saugerties High 8:00-9:00 AM School Greene Coxsackie Boat Launch, Coxsackie 9:30-11:30 AM Coxsackie Elementary Columbia Lasher Park, Hudson High Columbia Land 8:30 AM-12:30 Germantown School Conservancy PM Columbia Hudson Waterfront Chatham High Cary Institute of 8:45 AM - 2:15 Park, Hudson School, Taconic Ecosystem Studies PM Hills High School, Montgomery C. Smith Elementary School Columbia Nutten Hook, Stuyvesant Averill Park HS 8 AM – 1:30 PM Rensselaer Schodack Island, Berkshire 9:30 AM -1:00 Schodack Landing Waldorf High PM Rensselaer Papscanee Preserve, Robert C. Parker 9:30 AM – 12:30 Castleton-on-Hudson School PM Rensselaer Renssel aer Boat Launch, Tech Valley High Children’s Museum 8:45 – 11:45 AM Rensselaer School of Science and Technology Albany Hannacroix Creek Ravena- NYSDEC 9:30 - 11:30 AM Preserve, New Baltimore Coeymans-Selkirk Middle School, Pieter B. Coeymans Elementary Albany Henry Hudson Park, Albany College of Saint 9:00 AM-1:00 PM Bethlehem Academies Rose Albany Corning Preserve, Albany Magnet NYSDEC 9 AM – 1:30 PM Albany Montessori Albany Hudson Shores Park, North Colonie 9 AM - 1 PM Watervliet CSD Learning Enrichment Albany Green Island RPI 1-3 PM Day in the Life of the Hudson & Harbor 10/22/19 Borough or County River Site School Partner Time at Site Organization Albany Peebles Island, Cohoes HS 8:30-10:30 AM Waterford Schoharie Schoharie Creek, Middleburgh 8 -10 AM Middleburgh Bridge Central School Schenectady Lock 7 Park, Mohawk RiverRun 9 AM - 12 PM River, Niskayuna Community Montessori Saratoga Hudson Crossing Park, Schuylerville 10 AM – 2:00 PM Schuylerville Elementary School Rensselaer Hoosick Falls Hoosick Falls 8:45 - 10:30 AM High School .
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