Day in the Life of the Hudson River, Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Participating classes continue to represent the full diversity of the region’s school
population. Of the more than 60 sites, approximately 25 will be in New York City, 12 in
Westchester/Rockland and Bergen County in New Jersey, 15 in the Mid-Hudson Valley,
and 10 in the upper reaches of the estuary from Catskill to Troy
A list with details of the 61 sites holding activities on Oct. 8 is below. “RM” refers to
River Miles up the river as measured from the Battery at Manhattan. “NY Hbr” refers to
New York Harbor, “ER” is East River, and “HRL” is Harlem River. For additional
information on teachers and partner organizations, and to schedule visits to a site, please
email or call: Chris Bowser (chbowser@gw.dec.state.ny.us; 845-264-5041)
Day in the Life of the Hudson River, Thursday, October 8th, 2009
RM
River Site
Time
Partner Organization
School
Teacher
NY
Hbr
NY Hbr
Jamaica Bay
Breezy Pt.
Canarsie Park/
Jamaica Bay
Brighton Beach
Verrazano
Bridge/ See Bee
Park
Staten Is NP
Schooner
Pioneer
South Street
Seaport
Brooklyn Manhattan
Bridge NYC
Stuyvesant
Cove, NYC
Newtown Creek
Nature Walk
1012:30
10-1
National Park Service
Greg Grambo
Tony Yaskulski
Ragini Singhal
10-1
9:30-1
NYSDEC Region 2 SCA
Nat Parks of NY Harbor
Education Center,
National Park Service;
Louis Armstrong
Middle School
Robert Van Wyck MS
217
International HS
IS 27 Staten Island
10-12
South Street Seaport
Museum
South Street Seaport
Museum
Lower East Side Ecology
Center;
Ethical Culture
School
PS 3 District 2
Louise Mattingly
University
Neighborhood HS
Jaclyn Hoahing
9-3
Solar One
City-as-School
Noima Freitas
10-3
Brooklyn College
Susannah Ceraldi
ER
Gantry Plaza
9-1
New York City DEP
ER
9:30-1
Bronx River Alliance
10-1
Bronx River Alliance
HRL
Hunts Point
Riverside Park
Barretto Point
Park
Highbridge Park
Academy of Urban
Planning, Brooklyn
College
PS 78 Q
Baruch College
Campus High School
Booker T.
Washington MS
PS 382
Swindler Cove
HRL
Sherman Creek
3:30-6
MS 319
Obed Fulcar
HRL
Inwood Park
10-2
New York Restoration
Project
Friends of Sherman
Creek
New York City Parks
Frederick Douglass
Academy
PS 5
Mauricio Gonzales
HRL
10:3012
9-2
Susan Vincent
2
Pier 40, NYC
10-12
River Project
Young Women’s
Leadership School,
Bronx Science
Trevor Day School
NY Hbr
NY Hbr
ER
ER
ER
ER
ER
ER
1011:30
12-2
NYSDEC Region 2 SCA
Carol Ma
Maureen Bridgman
Elizabeth Barbaro
Walter Ditman
Uzma Shah
Anne Marie Nowak
Michael Dong
Jordan Davidson
Karen Johnson
2
Pier 40, NYC
11-3
3
Christopher St
Pier, NYC
9-2:30
4
Pier 84, NYC
9:30-1
4
5
Intrepid
Pier 95
10:15-1
9-12:30
Village Community
Boathouse
New York City Soil and
Water Conservation
District & New York
University
Hudson River Park Trust,
New York City Soil and
Water Conservation
District
Intrepid Museum
Hudson River Park Trust
New York Harbor
School
PS 3
MS 142
MS51
Roy Arezzo & Ann
Fraoli
PS 51
Dana Goldberg,
Shelley Grant
Mark Soobyiah
Amy Withers
Penina Steinberg
NYSDEC Region 2
PS 311 Amistad
Midtown West, PS
212
M225 Ella Baker
School
Thurgood Marshall
Academy
PS 125
5
Pier 96
10:30-1
Hudson River Park Trust
11
Ft. Washington
Park
Ft. Washington
Park
Englewood, NJ
9-1
NYSDEC Region 2
1-3
9-1
Meadowlands
Environmental Center
West New York
School
Habirshaw Park,
Yonkers
Alpine Boat
Basin, NJ
Alpine Boat
basin, NJ
Alpine Boat
Basin
Piermont Pier,
Piermont
9:30-1
Beczak Environmental
Center
Saunders HS
Judi Bettancourt,
Pat Flynn, Michelle
Dorian
Harry Hall
9-12 &
1-4
9-2
Clearwater
9:30-12
Ben Kwiatkowski,
Irvington HS
Main Street School
Nyack HS
30.5
Mathiessen
Park, Irvington
Memorial Park,
Nyack
Summit Beach
EPA
Diana Cutt
31
31
Nyack Beach
Nyack Beach
8:30-11
9-12
Upper Nyack
Elementary School
Nyack MS
Blue Rock School
32
Ossining
10-2
Ossining HS
36
Croton Point
Park, Croton-onHudson
Steamboat
Dock, Verplanck
Garrison
Landing
9-2
Westchester County
Parks
Bridget Baumann,
Artic Carlucci
Donna-Light
Donovan
10-1
Teatown Lake
Reservation
Constitution Marsh
Audubon, Hudson
Highlands Land Trust
11
13
18
19
19
19
25W
25E
30
41
53
9:30-1
The Elizabeth
Morrow School
Alpine School
9-1
Lamont Doherty Earth
Observatory
9:30-1
9-10:15
10-12
Strawtown Art & Garden
Studio
Dwight Englewood
School
Pearl River HS,
Tappan Zee HS,
Clarkstown South HS
Carrie E. Tompkins
School,
Croton Harmon HS
Mahopac High
School
Garrison free School
Michele Weintraub
Mitchell Porcelan
Michael Paoli
Dinorah Hudson
Carol Behe
Gary Lyon
Leslie Day
Rivka Rosenstein
Lisa Wolfelsperger
Diane Langmuir
Tom Mullane
Sheryl Turk
Brian Newbuger
Ellen Pollina
Jen Mazza
Raina Kor
Joan Snell
Tom Perry
Randy Barbarash
Lorraine Marden
Bob Connick
Cathy Bakker
55
57
59
60
61
61
76
76
78
85
87
92
97
103
115
124
127
133
138
144
153
Lock 5
Little Stony
Point, Cold
Spring
Donahue
Memorial Park,
Cornwall
Kowawesie,
Cornwall-onHudson
Dennings Point,
Beacon
Newburgh
Landing
Long Dock,
Beacon
Waryas park,
Poughkeespie
Waryas Park,
Poughkeepsie
Quiet Cove,
Poughkeepsie
Norrie Point,
Staatsburgh
Esopus
Meadows, Ulster
Park
Kingston Point
Park, Kingston
Ulster Landing
Park, Kingston
Saugerties
Lighthouse
Cohotate
Preserve,
Greene Co.
Nutten Hook,
Stuyvesant
Stuyvesant
Landing,
Stuyvesant
Schodack Island
State Park
Henry Hudson
Park, Bethlehem
Rensselaer Boat
Launch
Green Island,
Troy
Riverside Park,
Schylerville
10-1
Constitution Marsh
Audubon, Hudson
Highlands Land Trust
Bear Mountain State Park
Haldane HS
Lisa Mechaley,
Mark Patinella
Willow Ave. School
Debbie Gilson
8-1
Museum of Hudson
Highlands
Bishop Dunn
Memorial School
Bernadette Kleister
10-1
Beacon Institute for
Rivers and Estuaries
City of Newburgh, DEC
Stony Kill
Scenic Hudson, NYSDEC
Sleepy Hollow HS
Jason Choi
Horizons on Hudson
Matt Barbero
South Avenue ES,
J. V. Forrestal ES,
Arlington HS
Linda Houlihan
Terry Udell
Jacob Lawrence
Mid-Hudson Children’s
Museum
Cornell Cooperative
Extension
Hudson River Research
Reserve
Clearwater
Sheafe Road ES
Jon Sokol
Krieger Elem. School
Gayhead School
Van Wyck JHS
Skip Hoover
Tracy Zeoli
Barbara Procario
George Washington
ES
Donna Nageli
1011:30,
12:30-2
9-1
Forsyth Nature Center
Crosby Elementary
School
Lisa McDermott
Cary IES
Kingston HS
Dixon Onderdonk
10-1
Hudson River Research
Reserve
Cornell Cooperative
Extension
Woodstock Day
School
Coxsackie-Athens
HS, Catskill Central
School
Hudson HS
Peter Seekamp
Alternative Learning
Center, Darrow
School
School 12, Troy
Claudia Kenney,
Zooey Salazar,
Sarah Williams
Ron West
Delaware Community
School
Tech Valley HS
Susan Schizvoni
Robert C. Parker
School
Kate Perry, Lynn
Shatsoff
4H Home School
Deborah Albrecht
9:30-2
9:302:30
9:302:30
8-12:30
10-1
9-2
9-1
9-1
9-1
9-12
3-5
10-12
9-12
8:30-10
10-12
9:452:45
Clearwater
Columbia Land
Conservancy,
Columbia County Soil
and Water Conservation
District
Children’s Museum of
Science and Tech.
College of Saint Rose
NYSDEC Region 3,
HRECOS
NYSDEC Region 3,
HRECOS
Hudson Basin River
Watch
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Tony Loughran
Kathy Durkin
Jim McDarby
Leah Penniman