Harbor current issue 6

Vol. 3, Issue 1

December 21, 2013

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Founded 2011

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The Marine Affairs, Science and Technology Center

Privateer New York Harbor-- Privateer, a recent addition to Harbor School’s fleet, is a former U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender. The Harbor School received Privateer on a long-term lease from the New York City Department of Transportation about two years ago, thanks to the help of Staten Island Ferry Chief Operating Officer James DeSimone. She had been stranded at the Navy Yard rotting for about a year.

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Inside Fort Jay page 2

Yet More Harbor Access for Students

by Melanie Smith

by Cullen Palicka

Inside:

MAST Center Opens

houses the important space and equipment needed to support many Career and Technology Education programs, including SCUBA (Scientific Diving,) Vessel Operations, Marine Systems Technology, and Aquaculture.

Murray Fisher, founder of the Harbor School, and currently the President of the New York Harbor Foundation, says that the idea behind creating the MAST center was to fill in the “gap” separating students from the water. The MAST center brings together land and water education, helping students fully understand the harbor community. "The thing that's exciting about the MAST Center is that this is where the school's vision can be most fully realized, where theoretical learning is applied," he said. "And, we want it to be a community resource for all people.

There will be public access. We really want the students to have a lot of responsibility, and exposure to and interaction with the public. That's a very good learning environment."

It took $4.5 million to complete this goal.

This took the partnership and support of many donors, including New York City Councilmembers Hon. Christine Quinn, Hon. Margaret Chin, and Hon. James Gennaro, as well as the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), the Beirne Carter Foundation, Cabaniss, Matthew and Delia Dillon, the Fisher family, Clay Maitland, the Melville Foundation, Mitra and Danny O’Neill, the Schwab Foundation, the Swett family, and the TK Foundation. Several of Harbor School’s boats now dock at the building, and eventually more will as well-- it may even be a docking facility for water taxis. The building allows students to have direct Harbor contact, improving teachers’ ability to use class time efficiently, so that less time is spent on travel, and more time is dedicated to the experiences and teaching that help students to really understand the Harbor.

The MAST center is a major Harbor School accomplishment. It helps bring our school curriculum together, helps form the Harbor School community, and helps make Harbor School what it is meant to be.

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Governors Island-- The Harbor School is constantly trying to find new ways to engage students with learning on the water, and helping them to study, understand, and experience the Harbor. That’s the whole idea behind the new MAST (Marine Affairs, Science and Technology) center located at Pier 101.

This new building was opened at the beginning of this year, and it is a unique facility. Built right out into the Harbor, it includes a number of very unusual features.

For example, it includes a pumping system that allows Harbor water to circulate through tanks in the Aquaculture room, and docking facilities that are directly accessible from the classrooms.

It also

SAIL Training page 5

Earth Matter page 6

Privateer Running

Freshman Voices page 7

DIY Recycling Center

by Casey Fogarty Governors Island-- Normally at the Harbor school it seems like the only things being made from scratch are boats. Not this year! The Harbor School’s 2013-14 compost team is designing and putting together a compost, recycling and dump center for the school.

It all started with basic blueprints, then the compost team laid out an area of where the center will be, and leveled the land. Currently it is a work in progress.

The compost team is working every week to make it better. Soon they will paint the compost station green and blue with white lettering. “The green is to show the recycling part of it, while the blue and white are the school colors,” explained Grace Carter of the ninth grade.

The project is nearly finished, and the compost team is still thinking of new and innovative ways to make composting fun and to promote the community’s participation in composting efforts.

Privateer, continued from Page 1-- After Privateer spent a harsh year sitting at a pier, tied up and riding the tides, all day, every day, we received a grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation to renovate it, update it and transform it into a training vessel.

I personally started working on Privateer at the end of February 2013. Since then I have done many varied, much needed jobs on Privateer. I was involved with the whole gutting/demolition process. I worked on ripping out rot on the cabin house structure and replacing it with new materials including fiber glassing so that it would be structurally safe and waterproof. I’ve worked on some of the electrical systems on board, and on some of the plumbing systems, running pipes from tanks to sinks. As you can see from this list, I’ve worked on a lot of things on Privateer-- so many that I’m having a hard time remembering all of the tasks. I’ve also worked on cosmetic improvements, such as trim and painting, and of course cleaning... Lots and lots of cleaning.

The most interesting/anticipated/stressful thing that happened on board as we were renovating was wondering whether or not the Z-Drive unit (the thing that makes the boat move) would be ready on time. The repairs done on the Z-Drive unit were completely out of our hands. They were done by the Department of Transportation in Staten Island. To make a long story short the deadline for the project was Friday, June 21st. By late Thursday night, June 20th, we still did not have the Z Drive unit put in.

Work for the Privateer to be done on time was so down to the wire that we actually towed Privateer very early in the morning all the way to Staten Island to have the drive put it. While the boat was being towed, there was a crew of us working on final touches, and cleaning the vessel. After the Z Drive was put it, on the way back to the Island for the big unveiling, we still had people painting, cleaning, installing, organizing. I remember that on the ride back to the Island I was on top of the cabin top with Elliot Loving, working on the mast installing cable supports, flag halyards, and putting the finishing touches up there-- all while trying to balance for

Editor-in-Chief: Melanie Smith Contributing Writers and Collaborators: Kennington Hall, Joy Junious, Cullen Palicka, Rachel Anderson, Laurel Selch, Casey Fogarty, Special thanks to Matthew Haiken, Murray Fisher, Jessica Champness, Jen Primosch, Sam Janis and Cate Hagarty.

Adviser: Susannah Black Principal: Edward Biedermann

Fort Jay Confidential

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by Joy Junious Governors Island-- A park ranger is a person who has mastered knowledge of an environment, and has the ability to show others how to explore that environment. A Harbor School student is someone who is learning about several types of environments and ecosystems and how they coexist: he or she is a future steward of the environment. So naturally the two organizations, the National Parks Service and the New York Harbor School, should share that knowledge and those values with one another to help train students, creating the ultimate Park Ranger and environmental steward.

Along with sharing a passion for preserving and restoring the environment, both built and natural, the Harbor School and National Parks service also share something else: something big, shaped like an

Navigating Privateer up the East River

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every swell/wake that hit us. That was the most exciting part for me, towing Privateer to Staten Island early Friday morning on the deadline to Install the Z-Drive, still not knowing whether or not it would be ready for us to pick up.

The plans for Privateer include using it as a training vessel for both Vessel Ops and Marine Systems Technology, and a platform for marine science and oyster restoration.

And since the beginning of the year, we’ve started to use it for all these things. Since there are key features such as a main engine, a generator, a full head, a full galley, water tanks, air compressor tanks, hydraulics and a ton of electronics, the Privateer will be a great vessel for MST students to learn how to troubleshoot, keep up, and repair these systems. When it comes to Vessel Ops, the Privateer is a perfect vessel for learning how to navigate due to its state of the art

Cullen working on Privateer’s wiring.

New York Harbor School Battery Maritime Building 10 South Street, Slip 7 New York City, NY 10004 We always welcome opinions, feedback, letters to the editor, and news tips.

Reach us at newspaper@newyorkharborschool.org The Harbor Current is an open forum for the expression of student views.

The opinions expressed herein should not be taken to represent those of the administration or faculty, or of the student body as a whole.

radar/GPS display system, and chart plotting tables.

The Privateer will serve as a great cruising vessel able to go long distances-- really putting Harbor School students in the heart of how the maritime world really is. And in renovating it, we’ve set it up to be used as a Marine Science research station, and an Aquaculture/Oyster Restoration platform. Besides all these things, students who work on Privateer learn how to live in close quarters with each other for long periods of time and how to manage resources such as water, food, and fuel.

Halcyon piloting Privateer in New York Harbor

It is the policy of the New York City Department of Education to provide equal educational opportunities without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, creed, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, disability, sexual orientation, gender (sex) or weight and to maintain an environment free of harassment on the basis of any of these grounds, including sexual harassment or retaliation.

Harbor Up!

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Spirit Week 2013

by Melanie Smith and Laurel Selch Governors Island-- From Monday, October 28, 2013, to Friday, November 1, 2013, Spirit Week was held at New York Harbor School.

During this week, students were allowed and encouraged to dress up in accordance with the day’s theme, without having to wear their usual “Harbor outer layer” of Harbor School t-shirt or sweatshirt. Students were excited to show off their creativity throughout the week, going back in time for Back in the Day, and dressing in corresponding clothing for Twin Day. Spirit Week started on Monday with Pajama Day. Students came to school dressed in hoodies and sweatpants, and carried bedtime props through the hallways all day, like teddy bears and pillows. On Tuesday, a.k.a. Back in the Day, students journeyed through the past, walking through the halls dressed as 1960s hippies, 1980s partiers, and 1990s grunge look people.

Twin Day followed on Wednesday: groups of friends mirrored each others’ looks, dressing to match.

Thursday was Wacky-Tacky Day, when students and teachers dressed as different characters. Rob, the ninth grade Global History teacher, for example, came to school dressed as Waldo from the Where’s Waldo? books. (Did you spot him in the halls?) Ninth grader Grace Carter dressed as Mad Alice for the day, tenth grader Jessie Floyd dressed as Imagine Dragons, and Casey Fogarty, memorably, was a taco. On Friday, Jersey Day, students sported (pun intended!) team jerseys.

Many people had a great time participating, and those who didn’t, enjoyed watching the spectacle.

“It was nice being able to not wear my uniform,” said one student who wishes to remain anonymous.

Chelsea Powers, another student, observed that “it was fun seeing people actually being themselves.”

Everyone got to show a part of their individuality that the uniform hides. It was a lot of fun to experience everyone as they showed us how they are unique.

A uniform hides a piece of us, as Spirit Week showed, but it also helps define us. This of course may sound odd, but a school can be part of what creates a person’s future, and that is certainly the case with Harbor School.

A lot of people can’t wait to see what’s in store for next year’s Spirit Week. People get to see a part of each other that we don’t normally see. Every person is different, and Harbor School is a place that is very accepting of these differences! People had a lot of fun, participating in this tradition that the school has created.

Sail on, Harbor School!

All the best,

SUTO Productions

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In the Garden

by Rachel Anderson Governors Island-- The Harbor School’s garden is a place where one could get lost. The garden offers a variety of different plants-- edible, non-edible, perennial, annual and ornamental. Due to the season not much is growing in the garden right now, but over the summer and in early Fall there were tomato plants, golden raspberries, pumpkin plants and even enormous sunflowers that you could go up to by the end of the season and pull seeds right out of to eat raw if you got the munchies. The garden has so much to offer and teach. All you have to do is go out and learn. All students are always welcome to come out to garden club and help get the garden ready for the coming seasons.

Even late in the year, there’s work that needs to be done in the garden, as long as it’s not too cold: before the frost sets in, mulch and fertilizer need to be spread throughout the beds, and plants need to be trimmed back before their new season starts, to make room for new growth. Being in the garden during this time of year is an amazing feeling in itself. Fall’s gentle breeze nips at your nose, you can see the leaves changing every week you attend, and the fresh crisp scent of fall in the Harbor school garden is one you can (and will never) forget.

I have to say from my experiences in garden club, it is a lot of work and you go home tired from a hard day of work, but I have enjoyed every moment of the hard work and every day I pass the garden or walk through it I feel a swell of pride that every Harbor student should experience. Helping our school look good and go green and having a say in what we grow is an amazing experience and I encourage you all to go out and spend an hour every Tuesday after school in the garden.

SAIL On

by Cullen Palicka Just before school began this year, several students took part in the SAIL retreat. This was a trip for all of the SAIL team students. SAIL stands for Student Advisers Instilling Leadership, and the SAIL team works with the incoming freshman, helping them to orient themselves to Harbor School life, and just generally being there for them whenever they need help or guidance. We’ll be meeting with the freshmen periodically throughout the year, acting as mentors.

Getting trained for this responsibility was the purpose of the retreat. We went to Becket, Massachusetts, to a camp called the Berkshire Outdoor Center, where we learned team building activities and how to run and manage these kinds of activities. With this knowledge, we came back to school for freshman orientation, and lead the new ninth graders in the games that we learned, so they started to become familiar and comfortable with the school and their peers.

The best thing about the trip was being able to come together with friends after summer vacation and being able to spend time and have fun while learning from each other during each team building/ trust activity we did.

CALLING ALL STUDENTS! Be a Correspondent for the Harbor Current!

What are you doing outside of school? A job, an internship, an afterschool program: We want to

Photograph: Rachel Anderson Harbor School’s garden

hear your stories! Write us a letter or article about your adventures, and send it to: newspaper@ newyorkharborschool.edu. The best pieces will be chosen for inclusion in the next issue!

Photograph: Andrew Moore, NPS Fort Jay, named for then-New York Governor John Jay, was first constructed shortly after the U.S. took control of Governors Island from the British, who had held it during the Revolutionary War. It was rebuilt starting in 1806; as a starshaped fort, using defensive building techniques pioneered in Renaissance Italy.

The design of the fort was already considered old-fashioned when it was made, but it was perfect for the particular geographic situation of Fort Jay.

Photograph: Susannah Black Into the Fort: Chains would allow the drawbridge to be raised in an attack

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Photograph: Susannah Black Photograph: Susannah Black

Entrance to Fort Jay: The Sally Port, complete with a drawbridge over the moat.

Fort Jay-- Continued from Page 1 ice cream cone with a single scoop, but instead of being topped with sprinkles, it is topped (and even surrounded by) New York Harbor. They share Governors Island.

Now Governors Island, a small yet beautiful island about seven minutes from the Financial District in Manhattan, can only be reached by ferry.

The island is broken into two parts: the area owned by the City, which includes an historic district; and the National Park, owned by the federal government.

In the National Park is Fort Jay, an old fort designed according to Renaissance-era principles (it even has a moat and a drawbridge!) Fort Jay was used to defend New York Harbor and the City itself during several wars, since control of the Harbor was (and still is) key to the protection of the City, and Governors Island is at such a strategically important point in the middle of the Harbor. The rangers’ job on the Island is “to interpret to the public the structures and stories” in the National Park area of the Island, which includes Castle William and Fort Jay. When the federal government sold the island to New York City for a dollar, the part of the island on which these historic structures were located was kept back from that sale, and turned over to the NPS, which has done a wonderful job with the preservation of these historic structures.

This reporter, along with Susannah Black, got to go on tour of Fort Jay. Our tour guides were two current Park Rangers, Kevin Credo and Collin Bell; and Robert Markuske, who now teaches Social Studies at the Harbor School, but who used to be a Park Ranger. We started our walking tour from the Harbor School building, and walked over into Fort Jay. First stop was the entrance gate to the fort, where our guides pointed out the structure above our heads. We had to crane our necks to see it: a complicated stone figure, which the Park Rangers refer to as the Eagle Sculpture.

“This sculpture dates to the 1790s, and it’s one of the oldest, if not the oldest, stone monument in America,” explains one of our guides. Hurricane Sandy had recently came through and broken off a piece of the statue, but luckily, just before that had happened, the Rangers had been investigating the

One of the Remaining Cannons: Fort Jay, along with Castle Williams on Governors Island, the Battery on the tip of Manhattan, and several other forts, kept the harbor so well-defended that they were never fired in time of war. Neither the British in the War of 1812 nor the Confederates in the Civil War attempted to attack New York City.

sculpture in order to be able to preserve it, and as part of this project, the sculpture had just had an xray to see which parts of the sculpture were original and which parts had been added on over the years to try and replace parts that were broken. So the Rangers had a record of what the sculpture had looked like just before Sandy, and from this, they will be able to repair it. One of the Rangers notes, looking up at it, that “It’s seen better days.” But if I were 223 years old I think the same would be true of me.

A little story on the Eagle Sculpture (its official name is the Trophee d’Armes): the symbolism of the statue is very interesting. The main figure is, of course, an eagle. Behind it, there’s a bundle of sticks called a fasces-- thirteen sticks for the thirteen colonies, gathered together. It’s an ancient Roman symbol of unity, which was later used by Mussolini’s Fascist movement in Italy.

There’s also a liberty cap, which was a symbol of revolution that originated in the American Revolution, but at the time when the statue was made, it was being used in the French Revolution.

There’s a rising sun, a symbol of New York State, which is still on our state’s Great Seal.

Moving right along (because Fort Jay is no small place), we visited the roof of the Fort to see the gun emplacement. I could see why the military chose the center of the island as the place to put a fort.

Imagine standing aloft on a tall ship: that is how it felt to stand on the roof of Fort Jay with the entire city visible. Also, it was quiet: you would never guess that you were surrounded by several large guns.

While we were still mesmerized by the view and the size of the cannons, Colin (one of the Rangers) told us about the history and use of this location in reference to protection. “At the time when the statue was made, all that was on the island was wooden barracks-- there were no trees or anything, just open land, because they’d cut down the trees so that the soldiers in the forts could look out at the Harbor and fire on all the bad guys. There were mortars and field pieces and cannon balls-- but none of them was ever fired...There were a whole lot of other forts around the Harbor as well, all working together to really lock this place down. There’s no other city anywhere in America as well defended as

this,” he said. It was important to protect the Harbor because it was a vital center of trade.

The guns on top of the Fort are called Rodman guns, and originally there were fifty cannons up there. Each one of them took twelve men to fire, four of whom were needed to pick up the 400 pound cannon balls and put them into the mouth of the cannon.

It takes a 50 pound charge of gunpowder, and it’s accurate to up to four miles. The Rodman guns are the second largest traditional cannons built by the US Army. The huge cannons rotate 360 degrees on circular tracks embedded in the roof of the Fort. Now you may wonder (I sure was wondering), how in the world did they get the guns up there? If the cannon balls alone were 400 pounds, each how much could the actual gun weigh? Well, they got them up there the same way that boat crews raise the sails on boats: manpower and simple machines: mostly block and tackle systems.

We then moved on to a part of Fort Jay that was, if you ask me, the most interesting. We went down a long, dark, creepy passageway to a circular dark room. It was cold and had a damp feeling in the air. We were in the belly of the fort: the powder magazine. The powder magazine is where the gun powder was stored in barrels, and any soldiers that came into the room would have had to take off any metal they were wearing: belt buckles, rings, and even their shoes because during the early days of the fort’s history, shoes were made with nails. Those nails might strike sparks off the stone floor, and if one of those sparks landed in one of the barrels of black powder-- kaboom! There goes Fort Jay. Speaking of kabooms, as we were heading back to the School, I asked the Rangers one last question: if New York City and the United States were to go under attack right now, where would be the best place to go?

Colin thought about it. “Well, I’d probably retreat into the wilderness somewhere, but aside from that, Governors Island isn’t bad.”

Kevin agreed “We have our garden, our own little farm...We could make it.”

If the opportunity to tour Fort Jay presents itself to you, take advantage. It is an adventurous place that hides many quirks. We just began to scratch the surface, maybe a more in-depth tour would reveal even more secrets.

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Earth Matter Chickens and Oysters and Volunteers: Composting Rules!

Earth Matter, a nonprofit group headed by Marisa DeDominicis and Charlie Bayrer, is one of Harbor School’s major collaborators. Harbor School students participate in various kinds of resource recovery activities. As after-school and summer interns, they collect and process food scraps, which they spread out as chicken feed, and then compost. Students also process oyster shells from various restaurants throughout the city, washing them and spreading them out to “cure,” over the course of several months. Once all the meat has been removed by

exposure to the sun and rain, the shells are used as substrate for oyster gardening, as part of the Billion Oyster Project, Harbor’s oyster restoration effort, headed by Sam Janis. With two different locations on Governors Island and several public collection stations, Earth Matter, part of NYC Compost Project, is a vital partner for Harbor School. With excellent teachers and willing students, what is too often regarded simply as trash can be seen, and used, as a crucial part of the City’s ecosystem.

Freshman Voices

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Harbor School 101 Getting Our Feet (and Hands) Wet

by Melanie Smith Governors Island--After multiple weeks of learning about being in the field in Harbor Class, it was finally time to go outside. We grabbed our equipment-- a line of buckets, clipboards, pH balance kits, and waste bottles-- and headed outside. As the sunshine warmed our faces, two line of students headed toward the seawall.

Jeremy Lynch, the Harbor Class teacher, led the class. He led a group of smiling faces, and broke the class into four watches. Once the class was broken up, we were ready to begin. Four students grabbed the buckets, threw them over the fence, and then hauled them up, heading back to the group with sea water. Second, a student from each group read the temperature, while another recorded the level of dissolved oxygen. After this step, the pH balance is taken and recorded, followed by the salinity and turbidity.

The data we collect is sent to various organizations which use these numbers to better understand New York Harbor. The data benefits our understanding of the environment in general, as well as benefiting the Harbor community directly.

Being out in the field is an experience many students enjoy. Instead of remaining inside of a classroom learning about something in theory, students are outside, conducing experiments and learning about their environment in a productive way.

For forty-five minutes, they become actual scientists.

Being in the field changes a student’s view of a subject, as well as his or her view of the world outside the classroom door.

A Taste of InDock

by Melanie Smith Governors Island-- Coming off of the Governors Island Ferry and stepping onto the island for the first time. Seeing the New York Harbor School. Your new home, to make friendships, grow bonds, and learn for the future. These are the first thoughts of most incoming freshman participating in the summer InDock program.

The New York Harbor School offers a large variety of programs. During the one-week In-Dock program, new students were fed a small taste of what their new “home away from home” is all about. In the morning, students began with Physical Training exercises such as running, jogging, and calisthenics.

After PT, students practiced drills and participated in new and exciting activities.

One activity the students participated in was kayaking. Kayaking was a new experience for many incomers, as well as sailing. The Pioneer, a 126 year old gaff-rigged schooner, sailed once again with the students, where they learned man overboard drills, how to tie knots, and how to steer a sailboat, along with several other skills.

The incoming freshmen also went on a trip to SUNY Maritime College where they were taken on a campus tour, worked on motorboats, kayaked, and swam in the swimming pool. When they returned to Governors Island, they were greeted with a barbecue, and the students played games, went on a tour of Castle Williams, and settled in for the night under tarps outside.

The In-Dock week was exciting and fun, as well as challenging and tiring. After the week, Freshmen were excited for the start of the school year and ready to get to work. September was approaching rapidly. Not only was it the start of a new school, it’s the start of a new chapter in everyone’s life.

Field Class: Rowing

by Casey Fogarty New York Harbor-- In mid-October of this year, the ninth grade went on the first field class for Introduction to CTE (Career and Technical Education.) During the field class, all the Freshmen got a chance to row at the Pier 40 Community Boathouse. We also did nautical charting exercises.

Every student in this school has taken part in field classes, and in previous years they were every two weeks , but now there have been budget cuts and that is why the ninth grade has only been on one field class so far. It was a great experience, and many ninth graders enjoyed it and are grateful and hope for more field classes soon.

“The rowing was a lot of work, but I enjoyed getting out of the classroom for the day and still being able to get work done. I hope we have more field classes,” says ninth grader Kaila Scott.

Many faculty members and students wonder when and how many field classes there will be for the rest of the school year. “We expect and hope to have at least 6 fields, one for each CTE, because the class after all is Introduction to CTEs,” said Jeremy Lynch, a Harbor Class teacher.

Overall, Field is a big part of Harbor and many are working to keep it a big part.

Photograph: Marisa DeDominicis Students have averaged 1100 pounds of oyster shells processed per week. Above right: Students participate in every aspect of the Billion Oyster Project; here, two students are building one of the oyster curing beds.

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