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YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER VOL. XXXVI
NO. 33
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2013
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A NATURAL LABORAT LABORATOORY THE MISSING LINK The A train station at Resorts World finally opens
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DIGGIN’ THE BEACH Rockaway’s shoreline is diminished, but the fun isn’t
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CUNY to establish environmental institute at Jamaica Bay
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, at podium, joined National Parks Director Jonathan Jarvis, left, Mayor Bloomberg and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan on Monday in the Rockaways, to announce the creation of the CUNY Science and Resilience Institute, which will be housed in a campus that is likely to be built on the peninsula and will focus its research on Jamaica Bay.
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