Flushing Bay
Flushing Bay is a tidal
History
Flushing Bay was an important source of food for the
On September 21, 1776, the Colonial patriot
The Williamsburgh Yacht Club is located on the east side of Flushing Bay in College Point. It was established in Brooklyn in 1865, but then the yacht club moved to North Beach (now part of the LaGuardia Airport) in 1896.[4]
The New York City Department of Sanitation's North Shore Marine Transfer Station is located in College Point on the eastern shore of Flushing Bay. From 1954 to 2001, this site was used to transfer garbage from trucks to barges. A new transfer station at the site opened in 2015.[5]
Incidents
On March 22, 1992, USAir Flight 405 crashed in the bay shortly after takeoff, and 27 out of the 51 people on board were killed.[6]
On March 5, 2015, Delta Air Lines Flight 1086 skidded off the runway at LaGuardia Airport and stopped a few feet away from Flushing Bay. 24 people were injured and the aircraft was damaged.[7]
Proximity to LaGuardia Airport
The present shoreline of Flushing Bay has been largely altered by the development of LaGuardia Airport. Before the airport opened in December 1939, millions of cubic yards of landfill were added to the western shoreline of the bay to create space for runways.[8] In 1966, the Port Authority extended the northern end of Runway 4 (or 22) by 2,000 feet (610 m) and the western end of Runway 13 (or 31) by 1,500 feet (460 m) by constructing a 50-acre (20 ha), pile-supported concrete deck over parts of Flushing Bay, including the Rikers Island Channel.[9] In the 1990s, about 20 acres (8 ha) of Flushing Bay were filled in to create an overrun at the eastern end of Runway 13 (or 31). To offset the loss of wetlands, new wetlands were constructed adjacent to the airport in Flushing Bay and in Little Neck Bay.[10]
Concerns have arisen given the proximity to a flight path into LaGuardia Airport,[11] although the government of New York City has stated that the design includes adequate safeguards to prevent the facility from attracting flocks of birds that might be harmful to airliners.[12]
Pollution
In 1964, a 2,800 ft (850 m)-long dike, commonly known as “the Finger,” was built to protect boats docked at the
Plans for a 1.7-mile (2.7 km) promenade on Flushing Bay were approved by
Following repeated complaints about Flushing Bay's "rotten egg smell", a $47 million cleanup of the bay was announced in 2015.
References
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- ^ "Flushing Bay Promenade - Historical Sign". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ Dwyer, Jim (June 29, 2010). "New York Spycraft, From Nathan Hale to the Cold War, and Beyond". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ^ "Williamsburgh Yacht Club History". Williamsburgh Yacht Club. Retrieved 2009-08-09.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Rosengren, Cole (May 18, 2015). "New York's Garbage System Faces Mounting Challenges of Cost, Carbon and Equity". City Limits. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ^ "Accident description at the ASN". Aviation Safety Network. March 11, 2008. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
- ^ Botelho, Greg (March 5, 2015). "LaGuardia runway reopens after flight skids off it". CNN. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ^ "LaGuardia Field - predecessor to bigger and better things in the air". Daily News. New York. April 29, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-05-02. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ "Air Cargo". Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Archived from the original on April 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ "Birds and Fish Return to Park on Little Neck Bay" (Press release). Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. May 5, 1999. Archived from the original on 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ Hall, James E. (June 27, 2011). "No Trash, No Crash". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
- ^ "Statement by Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty on the North Shore Marine Transfer Station Project in College Point, Queens" (Press release). New York City Department of Sanitation. June 9, 2009. Archived from the original on August 7, 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-19.
- ^ a b Woodberry Jr., Warren (October 29, 2000). "Big Stink Over Flushing Bay: To Many It Smells of Garbage". Daily News. New York. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
- Queens Library. New York.
- ^ a b Bertrand, Donald (February 4, 1999). "Flushing Bay walkway set to become reality". Daily News. New York. p. 645. Retrieved January 9, 2020 – via newspapers.com .
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- ^ a b "A NEW PARK FOR WALKERS, TALKERS, AND PEOPLE WATCHERS : NYC Parks". Flushing Meadows Corona Park News. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. June 21, 2001. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
- ^ Martinez, Jose (August 14, 2002). "A foul smell grows in city". Daily News. New York. p. 2. Retrieved January 9, 2020 – via newspapers.com .
- ^ Plitt, Amy (August 26, 2015). "$47M Cleanup Will Rid Flushing Bay of Its Horrible Stench". Curbed NY. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ^ Honan, Katie (August 26, 2015). "City Launching $47M Clean-Up To End Rotten Egg Smell Near LaGuardia". DNAinfo New York. Archived from the original on 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ^ Colangelo, Lisa L. (June 29, 2018). "Bid farewell to Flushing Bay's infamous stench". am New York. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ^ a b Mohamed, Carlotta (July 16, 2018). "Ecological upgrades clean up polluted Flushing Bay". QNS.com. Retrieved 2019-06-03.