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New York Restoration Project (NYRP) is a non-profit organization that has planted trees, renovated gardens, restored parks, and transformed open space for communities throughout New York City's five boroughs. It is the only citywide conservancy in New York City that brings private resources to spaces that lack adequate municipal support, with ...
New York Restoration Project (NYRP) was founded in 1995 by Bette Midler when the organization transformed a vacant lot into Highbridge Park in Upper Manhattan. In 1999, NYRP raised $1.2 million to purchase 50 gardens that would have otherwise been auctioned off by the Giuliani administration. [29]
The project is slated to take up to thirty years to complete, with the end goal of combining ecological restoration with recreational activities. [77] While planning for Fresh Kills Park, New York State initiated an even more ambitious program focused on protecting the broader ecosystem around Staten Island by restoring the Hudson River.
Lower East Side Ecology Center; M. Materials for the Arts; N. ... New York Restoration Project; New York Sun Works; North Brooklyn Community Boathouse; NYC Bird ...
Billion Oyster Project is a New York City-based nonprofit organization with the goal of engaging one million people in the effort to restore one billion oysters to New York Harbor by 2035. Because oysters are filter feeders , they serve as a natural water filter, with a number of beneficial effects for the ecosystem. [ 1 ]
A 1973 Green Guerillas flyer with instructions on how to create "seed grenades" Amid a financial crisis in the 1970s, several areas of New York City, like the Lower East Side of Manhattan, were particularly affected by disinvestment and saw an associated increase in abandoned buildings, some of which attracted crime.
The Mannahatta Project is a Wildlife Conservation Society research project in historical ecology led by landscape ecologist Eric W. Sanderson [1] that principally ran for 10 years from 1999-2009, reconstructing the island at the point of first contact between the Dutch ship Halve Maen and the Lenape in 1609.
Ecological restoration, despite being focused on plants, may also have "umbrella species" for individual ecosystems and restoration projects. [109] For example, the Monarch butterfly is an umbrella species for conserving and restoring milkweed plant habitat, because Monarch butterflies require milkweed plants to reproduce.