Jamaica Bay

He has 42 years in the company, and I have 25.

But some of the best ones, like Fountain Avenue is this giant landfill on Jamaica Bay.

that Bob and Dawson did restoration over many, many years for the NJDEP.

It is now Shirley Chisholm State Park.

And the neighborhood is now high and dry during storms.

So really, there's been a great portfolio of work and all the work in the Meadowlands that all of a sudden we're planting Spartina for the wetland banks.

All the work in the Meadowlands, all easily 45 projects all around Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn and Queens that were all restored.

And Bob was a pioneer of this.

So Honeywell says that it improves the accuracy by 89% compared to other systems used to back up GPS.

Ah, so like the inertial way to, basically the pre-ADS-B, pre-GPS way to tell where the aircraft is, is, what do we call the IRU? A very sensitive positional tool to figure out where you are or where you have been, where you are now compared to where you have been, and that's, those increasingly get more and more-- They drift basically, and that's how you end up with an Emirates A380 that looks like it's taxiing out in Jamaica Bay at JFK, where it's actually on the runway.

Exactly.

So Kyle Norman, who I think has one of the most interesting job titles, he's the deputy director of the Defense Innovation Unit's Kill Web portfolio.

And I started going out on Long Island and up to Connecticut and eventually started fishing in New York Harbor and the East River because of striper fishing and the bluefish fishing could be so good there.

And then Jamaica Bay.

I

mean, it's amazing.

As the vessel hurls through the atmosphere, she fights to maintain control despite being bombarded by unimaginable levels of cosmic radiation.

Barely holding the ship together, Jean manages to crash land it into Jamaica Bay, shattering the spacecraft among impact.

The X-Men survive, but there is one question on everyone's mind.

Where is Jean? When Cyclops regains consciousness and realizes what has happened, he immediately rushes from the wreckage in a panic.

Ignoring his own injuries, Scott desperately searches the water for the woman he loves, fearing the worst Then, in one of the most iconic moments in X-Men history, the water erupts.

Boosh.

Jean Grey rises from Jamaica Bay, transformed.

Gone is her familiar Marvel Girl uniform.

As they run around, climbing and sliding down the fire pole, they talk about Grandpa Kevin as if they knew him.

Recently, the youngest grandchild, Carly, sat with Rosellen, looking across Jamaica Bay.

"I see Grandpa Kevin's building," she said.

"What happened to him?" Rosellen explained again about the bad guys who flew planes into the buildings and made them fall.

Departure was at 8.02 in the evening.

They rolled on runway 22R, lifted off normally, climbed out over Jamaica Bay, and turned east over the Atlantic.

Air traffic control worked them through the altitudes, routing them offshore for the ocean crossing.

12 minutes after takeoff at 8.31 and 50 seconds, New York Center received a routine radio call from the crew.

So you go to Brooklyn between Island Rockway and along Jamaica.

Yeah, it's Jamaica Bay.

Dead Horse Bay.

And it used to be...

He was cleared and waved off.

Floyd Bennettfield sat on a spit of land on Jamaica Bay at the southern end of Brooklyn.

In the morning fog of that July day, mechanics and onlookers watched Corrigan load sunshine with supplies.

He had two chocolate bars, two boxes of Fig Newtons, a small canteen of water, and a compass, an older-style magnetic compass that had developed its own opinions about magnetic north over the years.

But Benny didn't want to wait.

He trusted Rocco and was already pounding bass on this boat over in Jamaica Bay in his mind.

Rocco came down, Benny went up, and after handing over a $3,000 check, Benny pulled his new baby home.

The very next day, Benny's friend Eddie came over to check out the new sled.