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Urban Ornithologyis the first quantitative historical analysis of any New York City natural area's birdlife and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan's Central and Brooklyn's Prospect Parks have preliminary species lists, not revised since 1967, and the last book examining the birdlife of the entire New York City area is now more than fifty years old. This book updates the avifaunas of those two parks, the Bronx, and other New York City boroughs. It treats the 301 bird species known to have occurred within its study area-Van Cortlandt Park and the adjacent Northwest Bronx-plus 70 potential additions. Its 123 breeding species are tracked from 1872 and supplemented by quantitative breeding bird censuses from 1937 to 2015. Gains and losses of breeding species are discussed in light of an expanding New York City inexorably extinguishing unique habitats.

Three boys used their flags to imitate the four-gun salute fired by Continental Unit 1424 of the American...

After the usual \"don't wink, don't wave\" admonitions, Mr. [Mel Giller], who said he \"used to sell cattle,\" introduced his assistant auctioneers. Mr. Giller said the assistants, Ron Kirby Sr. and Ron Kirby Jr., were \"the greatest sheep auctioneers around.\" After the first rounds of bidding, no one disputed that. Groups of 50 or so people were ushered into a small room to sit on folding chairs and look at a seven-minute movie of what life could be like if the Pinnacle was home: swimming in the lap pool; socializing at the Pinnacle Club; shopping in Forest Hills, \"an English village\"; storing wine in a cellar, \"like a cave in the hills of France\"; breakfast in bed or brunch on a balcony, and at dusk, watching Queens Boulevard turn \"into a river of electricity.\" \"Why these Manhattan prices when this is just Queens?\" asked Rosalie Fenakel. She added, \"Manhattan is the center of the world, after all.\" But Sara Gooch, a Manhattanite who sells cars, had stars and a furniture plan in her eyes. \"I see my sofa here, my rug there,\" she said, walking around 12C, decorated traditionally with mahogany and chintz.

In the early 1970's, angry Forest Hills residents turned out in droves to protest a low-income cooperative housing project...

In the early 1970's, angry Forest Hills residents turned out in droves to protest a low-income cooperative housing project...

A survey of private landowners owning ≥20 ha in upstate New York was conducted to assess likely enrollment in various forest conservation program types. Based on conjoint analysis, part-worth utilities were estimated for various levels of five program attributes: rights conveyed, timber harvest required, payment mode, payment value, and time commitment. Part-worth utilities were then used to estimate total utility scores for four simulated program types: forest banking, working forest conservation easement, conservation payments, and traditional conservation easement programs, at three levels of time commitment (30, 50, and 99 years), and at three levels of payment value ($4,940/ha, $3,458/ha, and $2,421/ha). Results indicate that payment value and program type significantly affected likely enrollment, whereas time commitment did not. Programs requiring timber harvests and/or the conveyance of timber rights resulted in lower likely enrollment. Overall, high-value traditional conservation easement programs encouraged the highest enrollment rates (between 12 and 15%), whereas low-value, forest banking programs achieved the lowest enrollment rates (<1%). The results from this study illustrate the effects of program attributes on expected enrollment rates and will inform policy decisions regarding the establishment of various forest conservation programs.

The precontact geology, surface hydrology, and forests of the Northwest Bronx are placed in the context of landuse by Lenni-Lenape Indians. In the colonial era the expansion of a nascent New York City reached the study area, with extensive forest loss during the Revolution. In the 1800s came railroad trackbeds, arterial roads, and the first residential construction. Van Cortlandt Park was gazetted in 1888, but its 2 golf courses removed large natural areas. The early 20th century brought loss of Kingsbridge Meadows and its unique saltmarsh habitat, offset by construction of 2 reservoirs. Parkways in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s concluded the major environmental insults to the study area. These changes are illustrated by 21 historical maps and images, and set the stage for description of the study area and its 7 subareas.