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		<title>Blog returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Going Coastal Blog returns at coastalcommons.net. We welcome contributors. Send us your maritime or marine stories. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=5014&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Coasties</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Coast Guard is an odd duck, a multi-mission maritime agency that is both a military and a law enforcement service. It saves far more lives than it takes &#8212; about one million since its founding 220 years ago. Maybe that difference is why it&#8217;s getting the prop screw in President Obama&#8217;s 2011 budget [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=5009&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clash Over Plans for a Brooklyn Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way Marty Markowitz sees it, the rundown nine-acre park where Coney Island and Brighton Beach meet is ripe for a sparkling transformation. Residents fear a planned 5,000-seat amphitheater would draw too many visitors and change the quiet character of the park.  (NY Times)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=5007&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Trash to Trophies: A New Golf Course Grows in the Bronx</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of last fall&#8217;s PGA Tour FedEx Playoffs, the Barclays Classic was contested at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey amid great fanfare. Television coverage kept panning to the spectacular views of the New York skyline and also covered the conversion of the former industrial waste site to tournament golf venue. In 2011 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=5003&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Broad Channel Marina site development sought</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite recent reports that the old Schmitt’s Marina at West 19th Road in Broad Channel “will one day become a waterfront park,” the New York City Department of Parks &#38; Recreation has issued a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) for the improvement of the parcel. According to the Parks Department, “This RFEI is intended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=5001&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EPA notes higher PCB levels in Hudson dredging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal environmental officials say they believe the amount of contaminated sediment that will need to be dredged from the Hudson River will be &#8220;significantly higher&#8221; than initially expected. The federal Environmental Protection Agency has released a preliminary evaluation of last year&#8217;s dredging of PCB &#8220;hot spots&#8221; north of Albany. The dredging was a test run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4998&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coney Island will be alive with new rides this summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zamperla USA, which operates Victorian Gardens, the popular kiddie park at Wollman Rink in Central Park, has won the bid to set up shop on a 7-acre chunk of land that includes the site of the now-shuttered Astroland. The company is keeping mum on what it plans to bring in, but some of the flashiest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4995&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trial by Ferry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with holding the trial of the man who has described himself as the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, in federal court in New York. But there is something wrong with spending upward of $200 million per year on security for a multiyear trial and disrupting the lives of people who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4993&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Developer face lawsuit charging they reneged on contract to buy land along Gowanus Canal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developer Toll Brothers has been hit with a multimillion- dollar lawsuit charging it reneged on a contract to buy land along the polluted Gowanus Canal after the feds moved to make the waterway a Superfund site. Toll Brothers inked a $21.5 million contract in 2004 to buy the Bond St. property from owner Joseph Phillips, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4990&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Novel proposal eyes cleaner Gowanus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Park Slope man thinks he knows how to take the stink out of the Gowanus — and he’s aiming to teach the city just how to do it. Retired engineer Bart Chezar is submitting an application to the city’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) that he hopes will not only prevent raw sewage from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4987&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MISSION ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE LONGEST SEA VOYAGE IN HISTORY, BUT IT?S NOT OVER YET</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 16, 2010, New York City artist, adventurer and sailor Reid Stowe, on his 70 ft. gaff-rigged schooner Anne, will finally have accomplished his goal of remaining at sea for 1,000 days (2 years, 7 months and 4 days) without re-supply or touching land, in the process setting or breaking 4 world records. Stowe, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4985&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cleanup To Begin On Site Of Stalled Brooklyn Supermarket</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn was supposed to get its first Whole Foods store back in 2008, but the site chosen was so contaminated the supermarket was never built. Now, some plans are moving forward for the location, although not exactly the one first proposed. NY1&#8242;s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Nearly four years after it was announced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4983&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State allots $1.6M in grants for development of Fresh Kills, High Rock Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staten Island has received $1.6 million in state grant money for revitalization and development projects at the former Fresh Kills landfill and High Rock Park. Fresh Kills received $1.25 million, which will go toward continuing the former dump’s transformation into a city park. A two-story bird observation tower will be built overlooking Maine Creek, with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4981&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing bolts, faulty planks mar new Coney Island Boardwalk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New boardwalk, same as the old Boardwalk. Newly rebuilt chunks of the famed Coney Island Boardwalk are already starting to fall apart, advocates said. On the stretch of the Boardwalk fronting Coney&#8217;s amusement area, where the Parks Department finished installing new planks last spring, there are now screws popping out of their holes and planks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4978&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Architects Plan &#8216;Amphibious Landscape&#8217; for New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would New York&#8217;s waterfront look like after a sea level rise of 2 feet or more? Most officials paint a nightmare scenario &#8212; huge swaths of expensive real estate permanently flooded, with frequent storms and the resultant storm surge routinely forcing mass evacuations every few years. But several architects are now painting a more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4976&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plan to develop NYC waterfront clears final step</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A plan to revitalize a bleak stretch of land along Manhattan&#8217;s west side waterfront was approved Monday by the New York City Council, but the project remains without financing and it will likely be many years before any buildings go up. The City Council approved a rezoning plan for half of the 26-acre rail yards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4975&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Push to Bring the S.S. United States Back Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The S.S. United States, which carried immigrants to America and vacationers to Europe faster than any other ocean liner, has not sailed into New York harbor in 40 years. But some fans of the giant ship are telling city officials that it should come home to Manhattan. Stripped of its interior appointments, streaked with rust, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4973&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Plans for Old Sugar Refinery Face Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In 2004, the Domino Sugar refinery that occupied five blocks along the Brooklyn waterfront in Williamsburg for more than 150 years shut down, joining the neighboring brick factories as remnants of the area’s industrial past. Now a developer is beginning a public review of a proposal to turn the vacant 11-acre industrial site into a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4970&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federal dollars flowing into Fort Hamilton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal defense-spending bill that passed Congress earlier this month contains good news for Fort Hamilton. The Bay Ridge installation, the only Army base in New York City,will benefit to the tune of $3.5 million, with $700,000 in funding going toward the new Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team that will be headquartered there, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4967&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frigid tradition of Coney Island Polar Bear Club takes breath away</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It sounds crazy, but these guys say the best beach weather on Coney Island comes in January. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club meets every Sunday at the aquarium on the Boardwalk. There, in a makeshift clubhouse, they change into swimsuits &#8211; even bikinis &#8211; and make their way toward the frigid waters of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goingcoastal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=366147&amp;post=4964&amp;subd=goingcoastal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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