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Description: "Billion Oyster Project is restoring oyster reefs to New York Harbor in collaboration with New York City communities. Oyster reefs provide habitat for hundreds of species, and can protect our city from storm damage — softening the blow of large waves, reducing flooding, and preventing erosion along the shorelines."
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Subject: Oysters, Resilience (Ecology), Reefs, Flood damage prevention
Group: Sustainable and resilient design
Creator: Billion Oyster Project (Organization)
Coverage: New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Waterfront Museum, founded in 1985, is located in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It is housed aboard the 1914 Lehigh Valley Barge #79, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its mission is to: provide free and low-cost opportunities for education, exhibition, and the performance arts; promote historic preservation and our maritime heritage and an understanding of the importance of our water highway for commerce, carrying commuters, culture, and recreation; provide public access to waterfront piers, their unparalleled vistas and recreational opportunities; be an active voice for public waterfront access issues up and down the river."
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Subject: Maritime museums, Waterfronts
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Waterfront Museum
Coverage: New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance is an alliance of over 800 organizations with ties to our regional waterways. Together we are working to transform the waters of New York and New Jersey Harbor into clean and accessible places to learn, work and play, with inviting parks, dependable jobs and reliable, eco-friendly transportation for all."
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Subject: Waterfronts, Planning
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
Borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Our goal is to create a new kind of maritime destination in NYC, one that sets a new standard for how to bring urban waterways to life. A place bustling with boats where PortSide grows synergies between the community ashore and the community afloat. Here authentic maritime and creative Brooklyn meet. PortSide NewYork produces and hosts WaterStories programs in arts, education, preservation, resiliency, workforce and harbor advocacy on and off our flagship, the historic tanker MARY A. WHALEN. PortSide brings the communities ashore and afloat together, for the benefit of all."
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Subject: New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.), Waterfronts, Historic ships, Mary A. Whalen (Tanker)
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: PortSide NewYork (Organization)
Coverage: New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
Borough: Brooklyn
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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