Bayswater Point State Park

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Our programming at Bayswater State Park in Jamaica Bay will be a comprehensive place-based restoration science curriculum and community partnership model, which can be adapted for any community in New York City. Billion Oyster Project will create an integrated environmental science experience for youth, consisting of classroom and field-based curriculum and on-site reef monitoring.

INSTALLED

2020

NYC BOROUGH

Queens

WATERWAY

Jamaica Bay

FUNDING

Simons Foundation, Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy

PARTNERS

Bayswater State Park, local schools

PRESS COVERAGE

NY Times
City of New York

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Bayswater Point State Park reef is our first community reef location in Queens! BOP’s work at this site is just one of the restoration efforts happening within Jamaica Bay. With support from the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy and New York State Parks, we are working with local schools to use the park as an educational resource.

— Tanasia Swift, Community Reefs Regional Manager