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Article: New York's Jamaica Bay Salt Marshes Get Closer Look at Hearing.

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November 25, 2003
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By Joyce Shelby, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 25--With the salt marshes of Jamaica Bay disappearing, the chairman of the state Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee made a special trip to Kingsborough College in Manhattan Beach to hear more about the problem.

Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli (D-Great Neck) conducted a special session late last week in the college's Marine and Academic Center rotunda, which overlooks Jamaica Bay.

Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz (D-Sheepshead Bay), a member of the committee, said he requested the Brooklyn session.

"We need to have these hearings to determine what is ...

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