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Gateway National Recreation Area
People

people includes:

Herbert Johnson
 

 

The personal stories of many generations of both everyday and important figures in history exist with in the park. From artillery soldiers, to famous aviators and military pilots, to lighthouse keepers and lifesavers, to social activists these people lived and worked within what is now Gateway NRA.

Jamaica Bay People

Sandy Hook People
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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