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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Gateway National Recreation AreaThe dunes in flower in spring at Gateway.
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Distance Learning Opportunities with Jamaica Bay
 
The National Park Service Teaching With Historic Places program uses properties listed in the NPS National Register of Historic Places to support and enliven the teaching of history, social studies, geography, civics and related subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.  Current lesson plans include Gateway's Floyd Bennett Field: Naval Aviation's Home in Brooklyn. 
Jacob Riis  

Did You Know?
Journalist Jacob Riis was called "New York's most useful citizen," by Theodore Roosevelt. As police commissioner, Roosevelt often accompanied Riis in raids exposing the hardship of life for New York City's poor and immigrant populations.

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