We want gardeners to be able to wade out and monitor their own oysters. The project has many partners and builds on the efforts of many others groups including the Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers. When Risë Wilson founded the Laundromat Project in 2006, she wanted to exercise communities’ existing beauty and creativity to challenge a wide range of social inequities — with regard to race, class, gender, and environmental justice — in the service of community development. The Trust for Governors Island, The New York If the current times are precarious for designers, that insecurity starts with the way their labor is organized. The program stems from a major planning document released in 2008: the Comprehensive Restoration Plan (CRP) for the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary. It was the work with the sea turltes that inspired her to work for the conservation and restoration of marine/estuarine habitats. Moving to a new storefront home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, The Laundromat Project is working to build a shared long-term vision with its neighbors. Oyster reefs wouldn’t be in competition with other waterway uses. It’s a strange name for what it is. 20. She is originally from South Africa and has been living in New York since November 2008. Mappers unite! Professor Bagchee along NY/NJ Baykeeper The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Ben Pardee is an urbanist, hip-hop enthusiast, and yogi. Partners range from not-for-profit groups like the Hudson River Foundation, Rocking The Boat (a Bronx River-based group) and the Bronx River Alliance; to city departments, like the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation’s Natural Resources Group; to federal government agencies, such as EPA Region Two, the Harbor Estuary Program and the US Army Corps of Engineers; to student groups, including the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School — ORRP is, at its heart, a research project, so we have a lot of academic institutions and partners on the project, including Stonybrook University and University of New Hampshire — and then, of course, NY/NJ Baykeeper. Even 5,000 acres is a very small footprint within the estuary. "2�a�Q They were the prime movers for Oyster restoration projects in Jamaica Bay for the last 5 to 7 years ? Cancel reply. Kate Boicourt began the position of Restoration Coordinator of the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program in September 2010. We don’t know if that’s realistic or feasible or not. There has always been a disconnect between restoration and planning efforts and the people on the ground. as Mariel Villere pointed out last year on UO, yoga class inside a Jackson Heights laundromat, Recap | American Dream: A Tour of the Meadowlands, Recap | Women as City Builders: Jane Jacobs Forum 2013. New York Harbor Foundation The word we’d like to get out is that it’s not about bringing back a lost fishery, but lost habitat value. 28. IDB Housing and Urban Development Project Assistant Consultant. _\]���լ릭3X���t�Yl�����-.>�E(���re�/U�uqa����'*�o��oꞷ�F�4����D�����& As we donned our waders and headed towards the water, the team offered some insight into their collaborative process, the educational aim of their program and the unique challenges of bringing oysters back to New York Harbor. What do they mean for residents, building owners, and birds? All rights reserved. Check out some UO-handpicked Field Day highlights below, and come join us over the next two weekends in celebration of three of New York’s finest neighborhoods. How come The Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers are not mentioned. Artist Project: StoryBlock, by Alison Kibbe and Sasha Phyars-Burgess
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