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• Save Ridgewood Reservoir: Ridgewood Reservoir video

  Published: October 9, 2007, 2:38 pm

  Tags: Birding, Nature, Queens, Ridgewood, Ridgewood Reservoir, Environment, Wildlife

  Save Ridgewood Reservoir: Ridgewood Reservoir video I believe the Ridgewood Reservoir should be maintained as a nature area in perpetuity...I urge you to watch the video and lend your support...it's a good cause for our kids, their kids and future generations...

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• Times Newsweekly: Coalition is Fighting for Boro's Trees - Group Demands End To Arborcide by Ralph Mancini...

  Published: November 14, 2007, 10:38 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn, Parks, Birding, Cb5, Nature, Queens, Ridgewood, Glendale, Ridgewood Reservoir, Environment

  Read original... story and captioned photos by Ralph Mancini Saving the borough's trees from destruction by careless developers brought a broad spectrum of residents together to support initiatives planned by the Queens Coalition for Parks and Green Spaces (QCPGS). On Thursday, Oct. 25, QCPGS president Frederick Kress announced that

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• BushwickBK.com Blog Archive City Plans to Bulldoze Ridgewood Reservoir

  Published: November 15, 2007, 2:13 am

  Tags: Brooklyn, Parks, Nature, Trees, Ridgewood, Ridgewood Reservoir, Environment

  City Plans to Bulldoze Ridgewood Reservoir The Ridgewood Reservoir was a main water source for Brooklyn in the 1800s, built by entrepreneurs to keep the then-City's booming population from dying of thirst. After consolidation with New York City, Brooklyn's water system was mostly relegated to a back up for Brooklyn in emergencies. After

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• Queens Gazette - Letters to the Editor - Leave Reservoir Alone by Henry Euler

  Published: November 15, 2007, 1:42 am

  Tags: Parks, Nature, Queens, Planyc, Trees, Queens Coalition For Parks And Green Spaces, Ridgewood Reservoir, Queens Gazette, Queens Civic Congress

  <!-- ImageEnd -->The Ridgewood Reservoir is an area on the Queens- Brooklyn border by Highland Park that the Parks Department and the city would like to develop into recreational space. The problem, however, is that it would mean that acres of trees would have to be cut down. How ironic that would be! The city in conjunction with the

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• Queens Civic Congress - Joint Statement Queens Civic Congress and Queens Coalition for Parks & Green Spaces

  Published: November 15, 2007, 12:43 am

  Tags: Parks, Nature, Queens, Planyc, Trees, Queens Coalition For Parks And Green Spaces, Ridgewood Reservoir, Queens Civic Congress

  Queens Civic Congress Read original statement... Joint Statement - Queens Civic Congress and Queens Coalition for Parks & Green Spaces New York City must work to preserve its historic natural areas; these historic settings must receive much the same treatment as historical landmarks. The destruction or loss of any natural areas negatively

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• As Old Reservoir Becomes a Park, a Camper Gets an Eviction Notice - New York Times

  Published: November 24, 2007, 11:53 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn, Parks, Nature, Education, Queens, Ridgewood, Mayor Bloomberg, Ridgewood Reservoir, Environment

  tent in Basin No. 1 of the Ridgewood Reservoir on the Brooklyn-Queens border. For 45 years, most of the reservoir has been dry and it is usually a quiet place, enjoyed primarily by joggers and cyclists on the paved pathway encircling three overgrown basins. But yesterday morning, the old reservoir was buzzing with city workers preparing the

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• Amid the Willows and Chickadees, Bird-Watchers Spot a Red Flag by Emily Brady - New York Times

  Published: November 24, 2007, 11:35 pm

  Tags: Parks, Birding, Nature, Ridgewood, Mayor Bloomberg, Ridgewood Reservoir, Environment

  Park and incorporate the Ridgewood Reservoir into it, construction and design plans are not final. The bulldozers aren't warming up, he said. But Mr. Benepe did say that some small portion of the Ridgewood Reservoir area, probably about 30 percent, will be used for recreation. Any time you build a park, especially in an area

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• Ridgewood Reservoir Meeting on November 16th...

  Published: December 14, 2007, 3:27 am

  Tags: Brooklyn, Cb5, Queens, Ridgewood, Ridgewood Reservoir

  a few photos from a Save Ridgewood Reservoir Meeting on November 16th...Charles Monaco, Sam and Anna FranquiJill, Gallina, Erin, Heidi and Steve SteinerRob Jett, Charles, Heidi and Jill

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• Ridgewood Reservoir Walk with Councilman Tony Avella on October 28, 2007

  Published: December 14, 2007, 3:09 am

  Tags: Brooklyn, Tony Avella, Cb5, Queens, Jamaica Avenue, Ridgewood, Ridgewood Reservoir

  All of these photos were taken on October 28th during a Walking Tour of the Ridgewood Reservoir Basin # 2 with City Councilman Tony Avella...The Ridgewood Reservoir is truly a natural gem amongst the concrete of New York City...Councilman Tony AvellaCharles MonacoHeidi Steiner

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• Queens Chronicle - City Mulls Three Options For Ridgewood Reservoir by Colin Gustafson

  Published: December 24, 2007, 1:41 am

  Tags: Brooklyn, Parks, Birding, Cb5, Nature, Queens, Ridgewood, Ridgewood Reservoir, Environment

  have sprouted in the Ridgewood Reservoir, creating a lush habitat for migratory birds and some endangered plant species.City officials say they're still mulling the possibility of axing acres of lush vegetation in the Ridgewood Reservoir in order to clear space for new athletic facilities.But preservationists continue to object to the

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• Searching for Green in Gotham - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

  Published: December 29, 2007, 2:08 pm

  Tags: Central Park, Planyc, Wetlands, Ridgewood Reservoir, Wildlife, Tree Survey, Brooklyn, Global Warming, Nyc, Parks, Nature, Queens, History, Environment, Endangered Species

  Read original....New York City is my laboratory. When spring peepers begin chorusing in March, I am transformed from sleepy bookworm into mad scientist, keen to identify every plant and animal I find in my travels through Gotham. On starry summer nights, I creep through Central Park, in search of owls that flit from tree to tree in the shadow of

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• Times Ledger - Ridgewood reservoir plans unveiled

  Published: December 27, 2007, 6:28 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn, Cb5, Nature, Water Supply, Queens, Ridgewood, Ridgewood Reservoir, Environment, Water Pollution

  original... Ridgewood and Brooklyn activists are concerned that the city Parks Department will upset the natural habitat at the Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park as the agency mulls over three options to redevelop the site. The department posted an online survey last summer which asked residents what they would like to see included in the

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• NY Daily News - Parks Dept. Floats $50M Restoration Proposal, but Critics Want it Left Alone by John Lauinger

  Published: January 30, 2008, 4:19 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn, Parks, Queens, Daily News, Ridgewood, Ridgewood Reservoir, Joseph Addabbo

  the biotic integrity of the Ridgewood Reservoir is preventing any major disturbances of the otherwise intact forest and other ecosystems," concluded a draft environmental report prepared for the Parks Department by Round Mountain Ecological LLC of New Jersey. The report - a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News - calls the reservoir

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• Walking Tour of Ridgewood Reservoir with NYC Comptroller William Thompson on January 28 and an article fom Times-Newsweekly by Robert Pozarycki

  Published: February 1, 2008, 10:54 am

  Tags: Parks, Comptroller William Thompson, Ridgewood Reservoir, Nyc Department Of Education

  Community Board 5 and the Ridgewood Reservoir Preservation Project as well as local residents on a tour of the site on Monday, January 28.A walk around and through the grounds revealed a wide variety of plants including various vines and trees that have grown in two of the three reservoir chambers as well as along the pathway circling the

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• Thompson walks Ridgewood Reservoir

  Published: February 5, 2008, 6:08 am

  Tags: Brooklyn, Tony Avella, Parks, Queens, Ridgewood, Comptroller William Thompson, Ridgewood Reservoir

  battle being waged over the Ridgewood Reservoir. Thompson, a Democrat long rumored to be running for mayor next year, joined locals last week on a 2-mile hike through the densely wooded reservoir on the Queens-Brooklyn border. His bodyguard in tow, Thompson emerged with a newfound appreciation for the 50-acre woodland slated for a $50 million

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