Video The Bottom of the Harbor. Arthur Kill, Staten Island
The Bottom of the Harbor. Arthur Kill, Staten Island
In order to retain its newfound commercially competitive edge, the port of NY must continually dredge deeper and wider passage ways for the worlds' ever larger freight ships, thereby compromising the breeding grounds of winter flounder, the estuary's already delicate ecological balance in general, with the additional risk of stirring up old pollutants such as PCB's, Nickel and Mercury form the bottom of the Harbor. Here, a close up of what it looks like to dredge NY, at water level. Confer the upcoming dredging of the Hudson River's PCB's by General Electric.
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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.