WƵďůŝĐĂƟŽŶŽĨƚŚĞ Natural Resources PƌŽƚĞĐƟǀ ĞAƐƐŽĐŝĂƟŽŶ ŽĂůŝƟŽŶŐĂŝŶƐƚt ĂƚĞƌŝƐƉŽƐĂůŽĨŽŶƚĂŵŝŶĂƚĞĚ^ĞĚŝŵĞŶƚƐ Post Office Box 050328  , NY 10305  718-873-4291 In Memory of Edward “Kerry” Sullivan Fall 2014 Executive Director Ida Sanoff Bring Ecotourism to NYC! Birding alone can be a huge moneymaker CAWD By Ida Sanoff for local economies. Periodically, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issues a report Recording Secretary There is always talk about stimulating local called “Birding in the United Sates: A Daniel Ingellis economies. But that frequently brings NRPA Demographic and Economic Analysis”. The congestion, air pollution or other undesirable latest report, from 2011 is an eye opener. In Treasurer consequences to communities. But what if the United States alone, there are 47 million Membership there was an industry that could bring year birders. The Report says that, “Trip-related Newsletter round, skilled and unskilled jobs, would not Richard Chan and equipment-related expenditures NRPA require new construction and would associated with birding generated nearly encourage the preservation and protection $107 billion in total industry output, 666,000 East Shore Coordinator: of natural areas? Such a dream does exist jobs, and $13 billion in local, state, and Dominic Cenatiempo and it is called ecotourism. NRPA federal tax revenue. This impact was distributed across local, state and national Trustees It’s hard to believe that is economies.” ignoring this amazing opportunity. Executive Trustee Ecotourism appeals not only to nature Jim Scarcella So what can that mean for NYC? Just think NRPA lovers but to anyone who is looking for a of all of the jobs that ecotourism can create, Friends of Clearwater travel experience that is more than just starting from the people who do the touring local museums and historic sites. advertising and marketing and going all the John Malizia Millions of people fly in and out of New S. I. Yacht Club, way down to local tour guides. Along the S. I. Tuna Club, FCA York’s three major airports every day and way are stays in local hotel rooms, meals in they could easily add an Eco tour to their local restaurants and stores that would Cindy Zipf itinerary. Even if you only have a short provide binoculars, field guides, hats, Clean Ocean Action layover between flights at JFK Airport, you sunscreen and dozens of other items. Charles Perry could take advantage of a quick trip to the Scientists and naturalists could assay the Protectors of Pine Oak Wildlife Preserve. best features of each area and come up Woods with ways to maximize ecological diversity. But NYCgo.com, which is “NYC’s official Tony Rose Photographers, artists and writers would be Staten Island Sport Divers marketing, tourism and partnership needed to compile brochures and souvenir organization” doesn’t even mention Jamaica books. Bike, canoe and kayak rentals Andrew Willner Bay! And if you want to find the Staten would zoom as would jobs for people to staff NY/NJ Baykeeper Island Green Belt, you have to know enough (Ret) the rental sites. Imagine getting on a fishing to look for a link to “All Staten Island or party boat in early spring to watch the Dr. John T. Tancredi Neighborhoods”, where the Green Belt is harbor seals and cormorants congregating Molloy College described primarily as a hiking trail, with just at the base of harbor lights or Hoffman and a few sentences about birds. Coney Island Dr. Martin Schreibman Swinburne Islands. Imagine going to Floyd College AREAC is mentioned as a place to go to for the Bennett Field, or , or the rides, but there is no mention that on the new Penn and Fountain Parks in Brooklyn bay side of Coney Island, there is some of for spectacular views of marshes and the best birding around. wildflowers. /ŶƚŚŝƐĚŝƟŽŶ Page 1 Bring Ecotourism to NYC! Page 6 The Port Ambrose LNG Terminal Page 2 Ghost Voices The Forgotten Fleet of Arthur Kill Page 6 Page 2 Nature in Great Kills Harbor Page 3 Heritage Park Page 4 Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup Page 5 Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss It: The Little Park Join or renew your NRPA That Never Was membership today Page 5 Fox Beach Walk See page 6 Page 2 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Fall 2014 Just beyond the canopy of trees transfer station; organizing refuse Those of us who live in the outer sheltering the view from the road, from city neighborhoods to be pack- boroughs know that there is far more past the thorns and poison ivy to NYC than tall buildings and lay a tugboat; its profile sharply Broadway shows. Ecotourism would contrasted against the bright encourage the preservation of blue sky brushed with a wispy natural areas because they would overlay of high clouds. Just generate revenue and taxes. All that beyond the tug lay the Bayou is needed is for someone to put the Plaquemine. Named after a pieces together and make it happen! parish in Louisiana, this was apparently an oil barge. Every ship had a life. Every one had a story. Two structures fifty yards apart represented the same craft. A bow jutted out of the water to- wards the sky while far away a boxy aged into containers to be shipped to structure rose out of the water like a lined landfills in Pennsylvania or Vir- giant fist. This turned out to be the ginia. bridge of a freighter linked to the bow by a long submerged structure. A Beyond the barges, the creeks of By Anthony Rose ferry with the rusted “New York State Fresh Kills beckon with vistas of Bridge Authority” logo crusted along heron and egret-filled twists and The sunlight filtered into the Blazing its side called to them. Water cov- turns. Barn swallows live beneath Star cemetery on a gorgeous Octo- ered the car deck while directly be- the Travis Avenue bridge as well as ber Sunday. Jim Scarcella and Tony hind it another ferry resembled the under the crossings of access roads Rose took advantage of one of the carcass of a whale washed up on the in the nascent park. Red-Tailed last summer-like days of fall to inves- shore and picked clean by scaven- hawks circle overhead while cormo- tigate the status of the abandoned rants skim the water’s surface. fleet off Staten Island’s west shore. Fish leap out of the water and strike Seventy years after being left to the side of your boat; probably try- fester in the shallow waters of New ing to avoid being the lunch of York harbor, were there any rem- some larger fish moving in and out nants left of these noble craft that of the estuary. The pulse of eat or pulled America out of the Depres- be eaten underlies the quiet pasto- sion and saved the western de- ral beauty of the area which gives mocracies from the Axis powers in no indication of being directly in the World War II? center of one of the county’s most densely populated urban areas. There were stories that ships had been eliminated by developers or Moving back toward the entry point, had simply dissolved back into our travelers view wide expanses of their primary elements after being goldenrod with hopes that they will pummeled by surf and wind and be visited by endangered monarch butterflies. Water at the shorefront is time. gers. clean and clear with perhaps six feet There are mysterious oval-shaped Moving north, the South Mound of of visibility. islands beneath the Outerbridge Fresh Kills Park transitions from Zigging and zagging between arti- Crossing. Wooden ships filled with landfill to recreation area. Seagulls facts of America’s maritime past, our silt as their hulls slowly returned to guard the fences that kept debris travelers take pictures to share a nature. Plants began to grow in the from blowing into the Kill while the glorious morning with fellow commu- newly deposited soil while the bulk- channel buoy is festooned with wide- nity members in the future. New heads that sheltered them continued ly varying materials snatched up by York tourism officials have adver- to dissolve. Now all that remains of an opportunistic osprey. Its nest is tised the ghost fleet on web sites the forgotten vessel is a grassy out- decorated with nylon rope as well as aimed at British amateur photogra- line fringed with spartina grass and Styrofoam from dilapidated booms phers. Eco-tourism may bring atten- mussels. and is knit together with vines and tion to efforts aimed at saving these panty hose. So Tony and Jim dragged a taxi-cab interfaces where industry and nature yellow kayak across the grassy The former landfill is still visited by meet. coastal plain in Rossville in search of garbage barges but no trash remains history. And then, there they were. at Fresh Kills. The site serves as a Join NRPA today Fall 2014 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Page 3 Nature in Great Kills Harbor By Lisa DE Francesco

Along with some spectacular sun- sets in Great Kills harbor that make it a great place to visit, nature worth watching also abounds here. I've had the good fortune to be able to spend a lot of time boating in the harbor and find that being privy to the spectacular nature is just as en- joyable as having a boat in the har- bor! If you are lucky enough to also be there in the fall you may see Os- preys hunting and carrying away menhaden (at one point this fall I counted 13 Osprey at one time work- ing the harbor), or young Ospreys perched on top of sailboat masts crying for food from their parents.

One other thrilling thing you may observe is Cormorants hunting per- haps in unison swimming under- some decide to spend their winter million. He planned to retire to Flori- neath schools of peanut bunker, here, changing their plumage to da. scaring them in all directions. Large match our winter snow. birds called Royal terns (as big as The Parks Department has a long- gulls and similar looking but active The birds that decide to make Great standing policy of not spending mon- hunters) may also be seen diving for Kills Harbor their home for at least ey to acquire parkland. They will fish. part of the year makes the area a accept land, plan and develop a site, great place to observe all times of but feel they have no funds to ac- A fun bird to keep an eye out for in the year! When you come to watch quire property. the Harbor from the spring through the sunset grab a pair of binoculars the fall is the Boat-tailed Grackle. and see what birds are making their Councilman Mike McMahon and the This large iridescent colored male home there! Borough President’s office each set (whose tail can be half its body aside a quarter of a million dollars, length) is hard to miss. They are but additional money was hard to gregarious and noisy as they defend Heritage Park raise. their harems of dark brown females. By Anthony Rose This was the keystone in a long bat- On the North Shore, badly tle begun by Linda Eskinaz, a local needed park space was added activist who had long battled for a when Heritage Park formally North Shore Waterfront Greenway. opened on Monday, October Citing the space as an access point 23rd. This space, at Richmond for long-gone Lenape Indians, she Terrace near Van Street has hoped this would spur development been a work in progress for al- of an emerald necklace of parkland most twelve years. along the Kill Van Kull. Once the Blissenback Marina came on to the The owner, Walter Blissenback, market, Ellen Pratt of the Protectors ran Marine Power and Light as of the Pine Oak Woods joined the well as a marina with space for fight. She was supported by many 400 boats. It had not been used to organizations and individuals like As winter approaches, in other parts its rated capacity for a long period of Beryl Thurman of the North Shore of you may see time. Waterfront Conservancy and Kerry Snowy Owls on the beach. Sullivan of the NRPA. Mr. Blissenback had the enlightened Small birds called snow buntings idea of selling the space that he and An unexpected white knight rode on may also be seen among the dunes. his brother had created with bulk- to the scene. The Port Authority of They are a small songbird, about 6" heads and landfill for use as a water- NY and NJ, often a combatant in length who breed in the arctic and front park. His asking price was $5 against local communities and envi- Page 4 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Fall 2014 Port Authority came to the res- removed millions of pounds of trash cue. Tired of waiting for their from our oceans, beaches and wa- donation to be realized as a terways every fall. We not only pick community resource, the PA up trash we count every item as well. donated an additional one mil- The resulting item by item, location lion dollars to clean the site. by location Ocean Trash Index pro- vides the only global snapshot of the Opening ceremonies were ocean trash littering the world's announced in the spring of coasts and waterways. 2014. When that didn’t hap- pen, they were re-scheduled This year 26 volunteers picked up for the summer and cancelled 436 pounds of trash including seven again. Meanwhile, the park wooden pallets, a 55 gallon plastic gates were open, but posts in drum, 779 plastic bottle caps, 350 ronmental groups had established a the roadway prevented visitors from tampons and three 6-pack holders. $60 million fund to protect endan- driving into the park to use the 20 In the past the 6-pack holders were gered natural areas in the harbor. spaces. Street parking near the park major problem for marine turtles and The first disbursement went to pur- is extremely limited. Although ac- marine animals that used to get chase the Blissenback Marina, or cess to the park was severely re- caught up in them. According to in- Van Street property as it was also stricted, the city used the described. In 2004 a deal engi- shiny new space to announce neered by the Trust for Public Land other programs with a visit by and the PA purchased 9.7 acres and the governor. donated to the New York City Parks Department for $5 million. However, in late October, politicians and activists came And then it sat. together to mark the opening of the new Heritage Park. Somehow, in the planning and budg- Native American representa- eting for the acquisition, no one tives joined the event to per- thought about the fact that this had form a drum ceremony and been a working industrial maritime bless the site. site. The soil was filled with oils, petroleum distillates and red lead Like other city parks, it is open from ternet research done by Don Reck- from years of sand blasting the hulls dawn to dusk. There is a small sign les of Protectors...since 2010 these of ships private and commercial. at the Richmond Terrace entrance plastic rings have to be made from The top few feet of topsoil needed to and up to this point it is largely de- material that photo-degrades in less be scraped away and replaced by serted. than 90 days. Now if we can only clean fill. get rid the-coast-clear/pledge.html We hope for the best for this newest and of the plastic bottle caps and So, it sat. Much like Mariner’s addition to the Parks Department tampons the same way. Marsh, the Brookfield landfill as well as dumps at Fountain Avenue and If 10,000 people chose to reduce Pennsylvania Avenue areas waited Ocean Conservancy's Internation- their trash for one month, we could to be reclaimed and returned to the al Coastal Cleanup reduce the trash on earth by more community. By Chuck Perry than one million pounds. Take the This past September, NRPA teamed pledge to keep the Coast Clear at up with the Protectors of Pine Oak Again, to everyone’s surprise, the www.oceanconservancy.org/keep- Woods to clean up about a the-coast-clear/pledge.html and help mile of beach front at Sharrotts stop trash at its source. Rd. and the Dorothy Fitzpat- rick Fishing Pier. Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss It: The focus of NRPA is our The Little Park That Never Was beaches and waterways, every By Anthony Rose month - and often several In early spring of this year, the Natu- times a month we're out some- ral Resources Protective Association where doing a cleanup along got a grant from the Citizen’s Com- the shore. mittee for New York (“New York is my neighborhood”) intended to be Ocean Conservancy's Interna- directed towards creation of a mini- tional Coastal Cleanup has park at the site of the NY State pas- Fall 2014 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Page 5 anyone, decided to yell at us. abandoned or demolished. Security for those homesteaders remaining is The Citizens Committee had provided by a company using black issued a grant of $600 for and gold Mustang coupes. benches and planters. In late August, NRPA staff purchased There was a car parked at the turna- and assembled a pair of garden round for the Sanitation trucks at the benches and secured them with north portion of Fox beach. chain and fourteen inch galva- nized steel spike to the site. I made a right turn and traveled Planters and shrubbery were south towards Gateway Great kills added. park.

Strollers were soon seen at the The phragmites are overgrown, the sive use area, Ocean Breeze Park. site and some cigarette butts testi- wind was whipping it around, looked This former industrial area has fied to neighbors’ usage of the a little like a prairie. The road had grown over and been reclaimed by space. several near crater size potholes and nature, including the famous Ocean the access gate was not operable. Breeze turkeys. It had been intend- Some people, in fact, like it too ed to be used by the state Dormitory much. This area is supposed to be man- Authority as the future home of the aged jointly by NYC Dept. of Envi- College of Staten Island. Then, with Within 10 days of installing the ronmental Protection and NYC Dept. de-institutionalization, the site of the benches, the chains were clipped of Parks , but mostly it is neglected. former Willowbrook State School and the benches were gone. The became available. With its pre- planters walked a few days later. After another 1,500 feet, I parked existing buildings and infrastructure, We didn’t bother calling the authori- the more central location won out ties because, technically, we were We are always looking for over the seaside site. The Dormitory trespassing in the first place. It is Authority turned over the site for use very sad, but like planting a garden, people to come to the as a natural area. monthly meetings and bring us ideas and It was the intent of the NRPA to place a tiny oasis into a paved suggestions for future portion of the site near Staten activity. All are welcome! Island University Hospital. Just behind a traffic barrier at the end of Mason Avenue, a small MEETING SCHEDULE area about the size of a basket- ON THE 1st TUESDAY ball court had been paved as a bus turnaround and then used OF THE MONTH as a temporary construction Meetings held at the depot during infrastructure ac- tivities at the hospital. Nature Center at Blue Heron Park Determining ownership of the area you have to plant extra in allowing proved to be the first hurdle. Each for varmints, because that is a risk December 2, 2014 query was followed by days or you take in undertaking any venture. weeks of waiting for replies or mak- January 6, 2015 ing nudging follow-up calls. NYC So, the Little Park That Never Was February 3, 2015 Parks stated the site belonged to the turned out to be a learning experi- city Department of Transportation. ence. We remain upbeat, but will March 3, 2015 The DOT replied the area was lick our wounds, measure our losses April 7, 2015 owned by SI University Hospital. and consider our options before at- May 5, 2015 The hospital’s architect replied that tempting this one again. the institution received a permit for June 2, 2015 temporary use during construction, July 7, 2015 but ownership returned to the city Fox Beach Walk (State?). By Jim Scarcella August 4, 2015 In early November , I had the oppor- September 1, 2015 tunity to visit Fox Beach in Oakwood. Eventually we decided to find out It was quite eerie traveling down October 6, 2015 who owned the spot by installing Tarlton Street, many houses were fixtures and waiting to see who, if November 3, 2015 Page 6 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Fall 2014 the car at the teardrop shaped dirt do we need specialized ports to im- er buoys that float on the surface to open area . There is a large storm port even more? Lately, there are indicate where the spigots are. water detention pond, apparently lots indications that the real reason why When a ship approaches, the spigots of illegal dumping and litter and a bit these specialized terminals are being are brought up out of the water, con- of a 'lovers lane'. built is to actually turn them into ex- nected to the tanker ship and the gas port facilities. In most of Europe and is then pumped out. Since natural I climbed up the newly refreshed Asia, little natural gas is produced gas is highly flammable and explo- sand dune to the storm water out fall and the demand for it is enormous. sive, security is a major concern. As and battered sea wall. So logically, it makes more sense to a result, no boat traffic is permitted export U.S. produced natural gas for miles around these plants, se- The concrete vehicle barriers are where there is greater demand and verely limiting fishing and boating thrown about haphazardly. higher prices. Many people are activities. Important habitat on the sea floor is damaged by construction The wind out of the east was very of miles of pipelines. In addition, steady at twenty to thirty miles per these plants don’t exactly have a hour making visibility difficult but perfect safety record, there is a his- there were some distinguishing fea- tory of explosions and fires. And you tures of Fox Beach. would think that after Hurricane Sandy devastated our coastline, The newly constructed berm is about someone would realize that putting elevation 13 feet and it stretches all what is essentially a potential floating the way up past Kissam Ave. to Ce- bomb near our shoreline would not dar Grove Park. be a good idea.

The beach used to have an old re- It’s hard to believe, but Port Am- sort hotel and there is nothing left of brose, one of these horrific facilities, it now. has been proposed for a location about 19 miles off Long Beach, Long The wind and littoral forces have thinking that if the export scenario Island. Over 300 species of fish, gathered the exoskeleton molts of becomes reality, U.S. consumers will many species of sea birds, seals, the horseshoe crabs and brought actually pay more for natural gas whales and dolphins are found in this them to the south corner of the when more of these terminals are area and they will be impacted by beach, adjacent to the jetty. When built, because there will be less of a the construction and operation of you step on them they are very supply available for the domestic Port Ambrose. NRPA has joined crunchy and quite brittle. market. Clean Ocean Action and over a hun- dred other organizations to oppose There were beverage containers To make matters worse, one of this plant. More information can be strewn around and a half-filled gar- these LNG terminals, called Port found on the Clean Ocean Action bage bag that was about to be swept Ambrose, has been proposed for the website: www.cleanoceanaction.org. by the wind and deposited in the New York coastline! bay. Natural gas can be super cooled, all o the way down to minus 260 F. This North, East, South and West I grabbed the bag, added some more shrinks the volume of the gas 600 By Jim Scarcella items to it and took it to the afore- times, substantially reducing the This autumn, natural resources pro- mentioned Sanitation turnaround. amount of space it would normally tective association decided to try a occupy and making it easier to series of events that symbolize our Fox Beach is a good fishing spot and transport it. The liquefied gas is efforts to be an island- wide environ- despite neglect, its a beautiful place moved on huge, specialized tanker mental organization. We performed for meditation and reflection. ships to a designated terminal. But events in each of the quadrants of this isn’t your standard port where Staten Island as follows: The Port Ambrose LNG Terminal cranes unload containers. For safety By Ida Sanoff reasons, the terminals are offshore, North Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) termi- where the cooled liquid is warmed up On October 11, in a steady rain, a nals continues to be highly contro- so that it becomes a gas again. A few NRPA members, led by Keith versial projects. These terminals are series of pipelines on the sea floor Jacobson, worked at the Community supposedly designed solely to import then carries the gas to its final desti- Wellness Garden at 25 Broad Street natural gas to the United States. nation on land. The terminals them- in Stapleton. The team removed This is based on claims that our ap- selves can be large, artificially con- trash and litter that was thrown petite for natural gas is so insatiable structed islands that bury vast acres against the fence, tore down invasive that we have to start importing it. of productive habitat on the sea floor weeds, removed the large canine But the U.S. already produces more or massive floating terminals with barriers and presented squash and natural gas when we need, so why submerged spigots. There are mark- other gourds for the community to Fall 2014 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Page 7 take home and cook. During the East Rossville Ave. to visit and clean up garden clean up, a large garter Under the leadership of Laura Piil Blazing Star Marsh and cemetery on snake was discovered dormant. We Crequa, NRPA members cleaned November 8th. It was a cold but sun- took it to the bodega to show it to the Crescent Beach south at Groton Av- ny day. The marsh is beautiful and families shopping there. The kids enue in Eltingville on October 25th. leads to the graveyard of abandoned were astonished as the garter snake We had help from Assemblywoman ships. We had cleaned this area in continuously flicked its tongue. Nicole MalliotakIs, State Senator May 2014. Please see the article by Andrew Lanza and people from N. Y. Anthony Rose. South Cares. It was a nice, sunny day and On October 18, NRPA members there was lots of debris, especial- cleaned a half mile portion of Confer- ly at Littlefield Street and near ence House Beach at Page Avenue the Armstrong Avenue storm wa- ter outfall jetty. There was 30 ft. of extended snow fence from previous beach restoration that we couldn't get off the rip rap stone wall, it was too dangerous. But 22 volunteers did remove over 600 lbs. of debris including plastic bags, cigarette butts and beverage containers. We also trimmed back the As an addendum to West, I visited weeds that were overtaking the Clay Pit Pond on November 11th. guardrail and emptied the exist- White tail deer bounded through a ing trash containers of dog ex- trail. The deer have completely crement and fishing bait packag- wiped out any chance of successive in Tottenville. This was part of Its ing. vegetation, this is a disgrace. In fifty My Park Day of NYC Dept. of Parks years, Clay Pit may be a barren ar- and Recreation. The parking lot ea. A mini clean up removed 30 holds about a dozen vehicles, it lbs. of debris including roof flash- was larger than I remembered. ing, sealer compound buckets and uncovered a beautiful red-backed Stefanie Gutierrez and Vinnie salamander. Iaiconne of Parks assisted us with supplies. The beach was only a At Mill Creek the tide was up and little soiled. There were several just outgoing. A felled tree had large driftwood timbers. ensnared a snapper popper rig. The mini-clean up here removed a We were pleasantly surprised to propane tank and packaging de- view several osprey with menha- bris. den fish in their talons. I hope you've enjoyed the stories of Also, we pulled a medium size the Quadrants clean ups. If you washed-out tree off the beach to have any questions or comments the debris pile. We had a chance to West or would like to schedule a clean up visit the shoreline meditation areas About twelve members of Protectors of your shoreline, send an email to constructed by Doug Schwartz and of Pine Oak Woods, FCA and NRPA [email protected]. his team of volunteers. It was an gathered at Arthur Kill Road and outdoor temple constructed from stones, driftwood and decorated Taking part in an plastic beverage containers. A annual beach cleanup beautiful place for solitude and reflection. The clean up stretched is one way to keep the from Surf Ave. to Butler Manor. A hundred- year old coffee creamer oceans healthy for ceramic cup from an old hotel was generations to come. recovered from the surf. All told we removed 300 lbs. of trash and recycled 20 lbs. of glass and met- Join us at our next al. beach cleanup! Page 8 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Fall 2014 Upcoming Events:

 Tuesday, December 2, 2014 (first Tuesday of December) our NRPA Holiday Gathering. Details To be an- nounced.  Thursday, January 1, 2015 from 12 PM to 2 PM 25th Annual New Years Day Beach walk at Great Kills Park, Gateway NRA. Join us, Protectors of Pine Oak Woods and SI Green Charter School for this amazing invig- ŽƌĂƟŶŐǁ ĂLJƚŽƐƚĂƌƚƚŚĞE Ğǁ zĞĂƌ͘ ^ŚĂƌĞƐƚŽƌŝĞƐ͕ ƐŶĂĐŬƐĂŶĚƌĞĨƌĞƐŚŵĞŶƚƐĂƚƌŽŽŬĞƐWŽŝŶƚ͘  Tuesday, January 6, 2014 E ZWŵŽŶƚŚůLJŵĞĞƟŶŐĂƚƚŚĞE ĂƚƵƌĞĞŶƚĞƌ͕ ůƵĞ, ĞƌŽŶWĂƌŬ  Tuesday, February 3, 2014 E ZWŵŽŶƚŚůLJŵĞĞƟŶŐĂƚƚŚĞE ĂƚƵƌĞĞŶƚĞƌ͕ ůƵĞ, ĞƌŽŶWĂƌŬ  February (date to be determined) Bluebelt cleanup with NYC DEP at New Creek in Midland Beach on Hunter Ave. between Nugent Ave. and Kiswick St. Gloves, bags and refreshments provided, Community ƐĞƌǀ ŝĐĞŚŽƵƌƐĐĞƌƟĮ ĞĚ͘ /ŶĨŽ- Jim Scarcella 718-873-4291  Tuesday, March 3, 2014 E ZWŵŽŶƚŚůLJŵĞĞƟŶŐĂƚƚŚĞE ĂƚƵƌĞĞŶƚĞƌ͕ ůƵĞ, ĞƌŽŶWĂƌŬ  March ;ĚĂƚĞƚŽďĞĚĞƚĞƌŵŝŶĞĚͿ/ƚƐD LJWĂƌŬĂLJ^ƉƌŝŶŐĞůĞďƌĂƟŽŶĂƚE Ğǁ ŽƌƉĞĂĐŚƐƉŽŶƐŽƌĞĚďLJ E ZWĂŶĚWĂƌƚŶĞƌƐŚŝƉĨŽƌWĂƌŬƐ͘ ' ůŽǀ ĞƐ͕ ďĂŐƐĂŶĚƌĞĨƌĞƐŚŵĞŶƚƐƉƌŽǀ ŝĚĞĚ͘ D ĞĞƚĂƚƚŚĞďŽƩ ŽŵŽĨE Ğǁ  Dorp Lane. Info - Jim Scarcella 718-873-4291

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