Trump Administration Is Said to Target Park Service Grants
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Trump Administration Is Said to Target Park Service Grants

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration has earmarked dozens of National Park Service grants for elimination, including several that aim to protect public lands from the effects of climate change, according to an internal agency document detailing the plans. A spreadsheet of grants likely to be…

The Secret, Decaying Beauty of an Abandoned Railway in Queens
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The Secret, Decaying Beauty of an Abandoned Railway in Queens

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines This railroad track hasn’t carried a train across central Queens in 63 years, and it is more strange and more beautiful for it. The Long Island Rail Road’s Rockaway Beach Branch once offered a 30-minute trip from Manhattan to New York City’s ocean…

A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds
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A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For more than a century and a half, Central Park has been a leafy barometer of New York’s shifting fortunes. Projecting the city’s vast ambitions and ideals in the 19th century, it morphed into a Hooverville during the Depression, becoming a beehive of…