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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.
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
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Know Before You Go
Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk
Rockaway Beach is closed between Beach 38th Street and Beach 57th Street to accommodate the nesting areas of several endangered and threatened shorebird species. To learn more, please visit our Rockaway Beach Endangered Species Nesting Area page.
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