With hundreds of parks and over 500 miles of waterfront, New York City is an excellent place for bird watching. The five boroughs serve as a temporary and permanent home to over 400 species of bird, thanks to both habitat diversity and location on the Atlantic Flyway, the route birds follow during migrations. From Pelham Bay Park in the northeast Bronx down to Great Kills Park on the South Shore of Staten Island, there is no shortage of birding activities in New York. With spring migration underway, we’ve rounded up the best places to find feathered friends throughout the city, most of which are accessible via public transportation. For guided bird watching tours and walks, check out events from NYC Parks, NYC Audubon, and the Linnaean Society of New York.
Woman, 31, identified as victim in deadly Todt Hill car crash
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
Posted Mar 05, 2021
Officials respond to a car crash on Todt Hill Road near Four Corners Road on Todt Hill on Friday, March 5, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Maura Grunlund)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Police have identified the woman killed in a Friday morning car crash that occurred in Todt Hill.
Nasreen Goondall, 31, was the driver of the white Nissan sedan that lost control and struck a tree about 150 feet south of the intersection of Todt Hill Road and Four Corners Road, according to an NYPD press release.
The white sedan suffered significant front-end damage and its airbags were deployed.
Don’t call this a snow job | From the editor
Updated Feb 07, 2021;
Posted Feb 07, 2021
It was 1963 and sleigh riding was OK at the Richmond County Country Club. But then . . . well, you ll see below.
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Hi Neighbor,
Wow. That was a good, old fashioned nor’easter the other day. Brutal cold. Punishing wind. Blowing snow. The whole winter package.
Reminded me of storms we wax nostalgic about when we were kids. The storms that get a little more ferocious in every telling.
Funny thing . . . no matter how old we are, no matter how young, the storms always were more severe, the temperature always much colder, the snow always much deeper when we were kids.