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"Living Shoreline" Being Installed At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge In Gateway National Recreation Area

More than eight years after Superstorm Sandy drenched and rearranged parts of Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge at Gateway National Recreation Area work is underway to create a resilient "living shoreline" that should better stand up to future storms.

Tiny Shorebird Forces Cancellation Of Concert Series At Gateway National Recreation Area

The arrival of a tiny shorebird that has decided to nest on a beach at Sandy Hook inside Gateway National Recreation Area in New Jersey is great news for the species, but not-so-great news for the Sandy Hook Foundation's summer beach concert series. Because the noise from the concert would disturb the nesting piping plovers, the series has been canceled for this summer.

Alcohol Ban In Place At Sandy Hook In Gateway National Recreation Area

A man fell four feet off a loading dock because he thought it was a short cut between the snack area and the bathroom. A motor vehicle accident resulted in the injury of all four occupants, two of whom had to be medevacked to the hospital. Another man passed out in the sand with waves breaking over his head. These were three of the 328 alcohol related incidents at the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in the greater New York-New Jersey metro area between 2016 and 2018.

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