Gateway National Recreation Area News

Gateway National Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service, has awarded a $600,000 design/build contract to the Cutting Edge Group, LLC, of Lake George, NY to complete improvements to the historic landscape at Jacob Riis Park, Queens, New York.

Looking for something creative to do with the kids? Join us on Sunday, December 13 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

Bored with cable TV? Check out an exciting documentary that follows a civic engagement project produced in partnership with Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Gateway National Recreation Area.

Congress has provided $800,000 for the National Park Service to have repairs and restoration done to the historic gun batteries in the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, according to U.S. Rep.

The National Park Service's release of the findings of an independent review of the financial submission for a private developer's plan to renovate a series of buildings at the historic Fort Hancock gives a glimpse into the developer's plans and apparent lack of funding commitments.

On November 11 and 18, guest presenters will share their insights concerning the science and natural history of Jamaica Bay.

Parks and Open Spaces refers to those areas set aside by the city, state, or federal government for public access and protection of natural resources.

An independent arbitrator has upheld a decision by the National Park Service to end its contract with a failed developer who proposed a massive renovation of nearly three dozen historic buildings on Sandy Hook.

Visit History House at Sandy Hook and learn about the 1940s life of Fort Hancock.

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge at Gateway National Recreation Area draws a variety of bird life to its salt marshes.

The GMP Newsletter is available in four languages. Date: September 28, 2009 Contact: Jane Ahern , 718-354-4607 Gateway National Recreation Area is pleased to announce that its 2009 General Management Plan Newsletter is now available in four languages.

Howard Beach resident Frank Gulluscio, the Democratic candidate for the 32 nd Council District, attended Gateway National Recreation Area's meeting Sunday, September 27 th at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

The National Park Service is asking area residents and visitors for suggestions on how to improve the Gateway National Recreation Area, which includes Sandy Hook and parks in New York.

If you leave your house, if you take the subway, if you watch TV, if you do anything other than sit in a dark bunker closed off from the world - then you know Ken Burnsa TMs new documentary The National Parks: Americaa TMs Best Idea isA premiering on PBS on Sunday, September 27.

CHM Government Services reports trend in growing reliance on private sector practices, particularly asset management , by government and public agencies with responsibility for hospitality and recreational assets.

A major external renovation and restoration project has finally moved forward on Building #22 in the Fort Hancock section of the Gateway National Recreation Area .

Fort Wadsworth, overlooking New York Harbor, Staten Island Unit, Gateway NRA. WHAT: Informal, open house meetings to give the public the opportunity to contribute their ideas as the National Park Service builds the new Gateway General Management Plan.

From the NY Times : The Silver Gull is one of the few private beach clubs left in New York, a 46-year-old throwback in the Breezy Point section of Queens that, despite the state of the economy and the plethora of free beaches in the region, continues to serve as a summer getaway for a few thousand New Yorkers.

I read recently that federal officials are creating a new management plan for Gateway National Recreation Area, a National Park Service area located mostly at scattered locations in New York City.

"That's the Hudson?" Everyone who took a peek at the photos of the shallow, snaking river creek might be more accurate splashing over rocks or sedately flowing beneath a glassy surface under the bridge in some little Adirondack town had the same reaction.