Video Oyster History, Staten Island
Oyster History, Staten Island
Looking south from the southernmost tip of NYC, on the southern coast of Staten Island, towards the mouth of the Raritan Bay and South Amboy, New Jersey. You are standing on the remains of huge deposits of oyster shells - called oyster middens - deposited there by pre-Columbian Lenni Lenapes who once lived in the area. Mostly hunter-gatherers, the Lenape survived on an abundance of seafood unparalleled in the world today. There are no more oyster beds in New York City harbor.
Looking south from the southernmost tip of NYC, on the southern coast of Staten Island, towards the mouth of the Raritan Bay and South Amboy, New Jersey. You are standing on the remains of huge deposits of oyster shells - called oyster middens - deposited there by pre-Columbian Lenni Lenapes who once lived in the area. Mostly hunter-gatherers, the Lenape survived on an abundance of seafood unparalleled in the world today. There are no more oyster beds in New York City harbor.
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Signed art prints donated by three extraordinary artists are available for purchase in our art prints store, to support the programs we are engaged in. The prints include, among others, "Last Turn Your Turn" created by Robert Rauschenberg for the Earth Summit, Christo sketches of "The Gates,” a public art event by Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude that drew millions to Central Park, and "Manifest Destiny," by Alexis Rockman, showing New York City underwater in the future as a result of climate change.