Jamaica Bay: A Wild Landscape Beside a Megacity

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Gateway National Recreation Area connects beaches, wetlands, forests and historic sites around New York Harbor.

Its story is unusual: a national park inside one of the world's largest metropolitan areas.

It shows that nature, infrastructure and human history can exist in the same landscape.

Synthetic narration. Sources are linked below.

Sources

• National Park Service — Gateway National Recreation Area
• National Park Service — Fort Hancock Historic Area
• National Park Service — Sandy Hook Lighthouse