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Skate Park
Season 1, Summer 2006
Parks designers collaborated with local teens to create Staten Island's first skate Park.
Piping Plovers at Rockaway Beach
Season 2, Summer 2006
in order to protect this threatened species, native to the New York area, sections of Rockaway Beach are closed to pedestrians during the spring and summer when the birds are nesting.
Kayaking on Jamaica Bay
Season 3, Summer 2007
Members of the Sebago Canoe Club guide first-time kayakers out on the bay, free of charge.
Beekeeping at the Salt Marsh Nature Center
Season 1, Summer 2006
Entomology is one of the courses offered in the Urban Park Rangers' Natural Classroom series. At the Marine Park Nature Center in Brooklyn, the program incorporates the center's beehives.
It's My Park Minute: Rockaway Beach Tennis
A sport debuts at Rockaway Beach for the opening of 2011 beach season.
Produced by Adrian Sas
It's My Park: Piping Plovers at Rockaway Beach
Piping Plovers, an endangered species of shorebird, lay their eggs, hatch and fledge at a section of Rockaway Beach reserved just for them which is protected by the Urban Park Rangers.
Produced by Adrian Sas
Directions to Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways
Know Before You Go
Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk
Beach access is currently closed from Beach 38 Street to Beach 57 Street to protect the sensitive nesting areas of threatened and endangered shorebirds. Beach access in these areas will open again in late August. To learn more, please visit our Rockaway Beach Endangered Species Nesting Area page.
Paerdegat Basin Park
Ecology Park hours are 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Fridays-Sundays, through September 5.
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