Hudson River Improvement Fund Past Grants 2015 Grants Organization Project Amount America Rows and Swims For continued funding of the Student Ambassador $12,500 Newburgh Program, including their Hudson River Cleanup, Learn to Swim, Learn to Row, and Boatbuilding Programs, Newburgh Battery Park City Parks To purchase field equipment, signage and storage to $5,000 Conservatory enhance the marine education program at Battery Park City Park, Manhattan Beacon Sloop Club Toward restoration of the "Woody Guthrie," Beacon $30,000 Brooklyn Bridge Park To create a storage system for the Conservancy's new $3,500 Conservancy environmental education center, Brooklyn Hudson River Sloop To replace the below the waterline hull of the Sloop $25,000 Clearwater Clearwater, Beacon Columbia Land Conservancy To make improvements to the Access for All Trail, $5,000 create interpretive signage, and add pollinator habitat along the trail, Hudson Cornell Cooperative For materials and educator expenses in connection $5,000 Extension with a high school student assessment of the effectiveness of the stormwater wetland treatment system in Wappingers Falls Germantown To purchase and install an ADA accessible kayak dock $2,500 and launch system at Lasher Memorial Park, Town of Germantown Groundwork Hudson Valley To purchase new rechargeable batteries for the Science $5,000 Barge in Yonkers Highland Landing Park To build a handicap accessible entrance to the $5,000 Association education center building at Bob Shepherd Highland Landing Park, Town of Lloyd Hudson River Historic Boat For deck repair and installation of a new deck covering $10,000 Restoration and Sailing for 1903 Historic River Sloop, "Eleanor," Hudson Society Hudson Opera House To fund the Hudson Opera House's Hudson River $5,000 Discoveries program, a series of free educational workshops and events in the City of Hudson Hudson River Community To purchase equipment to outfit HR Community $5,000 Sailing Sailing's new floating classroom at Dyckman Marina in upper Manhattan Hudson Valley Arts and To conduct a water quality monitoring program in the $5,000 Science Sing Sing Kill with students from the Ossining school district, Ossining Media Alliance For construction materials and supplies to construct a $5,000 community-based citizen science lab in the City of Troy Milton Train Station To rehabilitate the Milton Train Station for use as a $5,000 Foundation community center, Milton National Museum of the To research cultural aspects of Native Hudson River $7,500 American Indian People as part of overall research for the Native New York exhibit at the Smithsonian Mus of the Am Indian, Manhattan Natural Areas Conservancy To improve public access and trail conditions in $3,500 Riverdale Park in the Bronx New York City Audubon Conservation of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) in $6,000 Society NYC New York/New Jersey To purchase a winter cover and new gangway for the $4,000 Baykeeper NY/NJ Baykeeper's patrol boat, Keyport, NJ Onrust Project To fund an Education Program Coordinator, one $12,500 docent, and purchase two tents and a vinyl cover, for the vessel, "Onrust," Glenmont Ossining To install a universally accessible public kayak & canoe $5,000 launch at the Bryan Johnson Boat Ramp, Town of Ossining Palisades Interstate Park For seed, plantings, and storm drain repair, for $5,000 Commission Palisades Interstate Park Commission's restoration of the Bloomer's Beach Picnic Area, Englewood Cliffs, NJ Riverkeeper To purchase equipment to outfit a new lab at the $7,500 Rondout Riverport, Kingston River Project For design and manufacture of interpretive signage for $7,500 The River Project's Wetlab at Pier 40, Manhattan Riverside Park Conservancy For materials to restore a degraded section of shoreline $7,000 in Riverside Park in upper Manhattan Rocking the Boat To purchase a floating dock for Rocking the Boat's new $10,000 location in Clason Point in the Bronx SS Columbia Project For repair, cleaning, and painting of the main deck of $7,000 the steamboat "SS Columbia," Buffalo Teatown Lake Reservation To cover costs of repair to the Teatown Lake Dam, and $8,000 to purchase new laboratory equipment at Teatown Lake Reservation, Ossining Thomas Cole National For landscaping surrounding the newly reconstructed $3,000 Historic Site New Studio, and for supplies and staff to continue the "Kids Paint Out!" program at the Thomas Cole Historic Site, Catskill Trolley Museum of New York To replace the retaining wall at the entrance of the $5,000 Trolley Museum, Kingston Waterfront Alliance For implementation of current programs and planning $10,000 future development of Community Eco Docks, New York City 2014 Grants Organization Project Amount America Rows and Swims To continue and expand projects in connection with $10,000 Newburgh the Student Ambassador Program founded by the Newburgh Rowing Club in Newburgh Arm-of-the-Sea To purchase equipment for a new Arm-of-the-Sea $2,000 Productions production dealing with fish advisories for the Hudson River Battery Conservancy To create a moveable waterfront classroom and to $10,000 develop a HR/NY Harbor ecology themed curriculum for students visiting Battery Park, Manhattan Brooklyn Bridge Park To fabricate, construct, and install the Discovery $7,000 Conservancy Station in the Conservancy's Environmental Education Center in Brooklyn City Parks Foundation To improve and maintain park trails along the Hudson $5,000 River in Inwood Hill Park and Riverdale Park in NYC, and to educate the general public on forests and natural areas Hudson River Sloop To replace the mainsail and jib on the sloop $15,000 Clearwater "Clearwater" Columbia Land Conservancy To support a second year partnership with Greenagers, $10,000 a youth service program, to make trail improvements at the Greenport Conservation Area in Hudson Highlands To design the NE part of Phase I in the restoration of $5,000 Scenic Hudson Mine Dock Park in the Town of Highlands Highland Landing Park For landscaping and amenities for Bob Shepard $7,500 Association Highland Landing Park in the Town of Lloyd Hudson River Historic Boat To rehabilitate the keelson and restore the garboard $5,000 Restoration and Sailing strakes and floors of the Hudson River Sloop "Eleanor" Society Hudson River Maritime To support the creation of a boat building program at $10,000 Museum the Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston Hudson River Greenway To develop design plans for the Hudson River $10,000 Greenway Link, a walking and biking trail along the waterfront to connect the HR Greenway and the Old Croton Aqueduct trail Hudsonia Limited To continue Hudsonia's program of biodiversity $13,898 workshops and to produce education brochures Hudson Opera House To support free art-and-the-environment workshops $4,500 for children to be held in the City of Hudson area Hudson Valley Arts and To perform ecological and baseline pollution $5,000 Science assessments and create interpretive signage for the Pocantico River stream system Lyndhurst National Trust for To restore access to an elevated viewing platform, $7,500 Historic Preservation provide benches, and install signage at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown NY/NJ Trail Conference To improve amenities and the trail system at Seeger $18,000 Riverfront Park in Beacon Onrust Project For upgrades and education material for the vessel $7,500 "Onrust" Peekskill To purchase boat building materials for the City of $6,272 Peekskill Youth Bureau's "Build A Boat" program Portside New York Funding to add public access infrastructure to the $5,000 historic tanker "Mary A. Whalen," Brooklyn Riverkeeper Funding to replank the Riverkeeper's patrol boat $15,000 Rocking the Boat To replace tents used by Rocking the Boat during $7,540 events and training programs in the Bronx Rondout Rowing Club To purchase a rowing shell (8 person) for the Rondout $12,000 Rowing Club in Kingston Scenic Hudson To construct a footbridge connecting Esopus Meadows $5,000 Preserve and Lighthouse Park, and to install interpretive panels dealing with sea level rise, Ulster Park Thomas Cole National To install an elevator to improve access for the $5,000 Historic Site disabled in the Thomas Cole House in Catskill Trolley Museum of New York For tables, benches, and shading to increase visitor $4,500 comfort while waiting for the trolley in Kingston Village Community To construct a floating dock at Pier 40 $10,000 Boathouse Wappingers Falls To clear and restore a waterfront piece of property $10,000 along Wappinger Creek to create a waterfront park in the Village of Wappingers Waterfront Museum Toward a USCG mandated out-of-the-water $10,000 inspection necessary to maintain the Museum's attraction vessel status, Brooklyn Wave Hill To continue restoration of HR views from the grounds $3,000 of Wave Hill, and for maintenance equipment, Bronx Yonkers Paddling & Rowing To purchase equipment to be used in the Club's free $5,000 Club public kayaking programs in Yonkers 2013A Grants Organization Project Amount Albany Rowing Center To conduct a feasibility study for a new boat house $10,000 facility along the Albany waterfront for the Albany Rowing Center Arm-of-the-Sea To construct a raised storage area to decrease the $5,400 Productions impact of future flooding on their operations in Saugerties Bannerman Castle Trust To replace engines on Bannerman Castle's vessel, "The $10,000 Estuary Steward" Brooklyn Bridge Park To construct the Brooklyn Bridge Park Discovery $10,000 Conservancy Station in Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s soon to open Main Street