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It’s huge. With about 18,000 acres of wetland estuary, it’s larger than Central Park, Prospect Park and Van Cortland Park combined. It’s beautiful. Numerous islands and a labyrinth of waterways, meadowlands and freshwater ponds host more than 330 species of birds, 60 species of butterflies, and one of the largest horseshoe crab populations in the Northeast. It’s historic. Over the past two centuries, the area has been used for fish-oil and horse-rendering factories, landfills, sewage treatment plants, harvesting oysters, and of course, various forms of recreation.

And now Jamaica Bay is on display at Resorts World Casino New York City. More information and photos informing on Hidden in Plain Sight: The Wonders of Jamaica Bay, a multi-media exhibition that was unveiled this morning, appear on the jump page.

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The exhibit features stunning images of everything from birds to planes to people by award-winning nature photographer François Portmann and Don Riepe, who serves as the New York Chapter Director of the American Littoral Society and co-chairs the Jamaica Bay Task Force. Also on view are moving images from Jamaica Bay Lives, an upcoming documentary produced by Dan Hendrick, who wrote the book Jamaica Bay.

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Details: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Wonders of Jamaica Bay, Resorts World Casino New York City, Times Square Casino Level Atrium, 110-00 Rockaway Boulevard, South Jamaica. 

The exhibit will unfold in three parts: Life On, Above and in the Bay, which opened today; The Birds of Jamaica Bay, which opens in December 2014; and Finding Balance—The Interplay of Nature and the City, which opens in January 2015.

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Photos: Don Riepe


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