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Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Resilience Institute and Conservancy Formed for Restoration of Jamaica Bay, Queens

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Jamaica Bay Today Mayor Bloomberg and US Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewel, announced the creation of a Jamaica Bay Science and Resilience Institute led by the City University of New York, and the formation of a public-private Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy. New York City and the US government collectively manage 10,000 acres of federal and city-owned parks at and near Jamaica Bay. According to the press release, The Institute will be a top-tier research center promoting an understanding of resilience in urban ecosystems and their adjacent communities through an intensive research program focused on the restoration of Jamaica Bay. The institute, which will be formally established in the fall in a temporary space at Brooklyn College, will be a consortium of research organizations and non-profits which will work with the community and public agencies involved with Jamaica Bay. Its first event will be a symposium on October 17th entitled “Urban Resilience in an Era… Read More

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