Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition

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139 Index Page numbers in boldface type refer to illustrations or photographs.Those in italic type refer to maps. Able, Kenneth, 96, 97 Acid Grounds, chemical pollution and, 64 Acme Fertilizer Company, 73 Adler, Cyrus, 48 Advanced Identification Process (AVID), 96 Africa, cattle egrets and, 48 Agent Orange, 15 air pressure, waterways and, 11 albacore, false, 18 Albany, 18, 55 alewives, 17, 124 algae, 50, 59, 76, 105 Ali,Abu Moulta, 75 alien species, 120, 122, 123 Alosa sapidissima (shad), 38 “Amboys” (oysters), 28 Ambrose, John Wolfe, 83 Ambrose Channel, 83 American eel, 38–40 American Heritage rivers, 109 American Museum of Natural History, 8, 17 American redstart warbler, 44 American shad, 17, 19 ammonia waste, 56 amphipods, 18, 85, 103 anchovies, 18, 71 anemones, ghost, rock walls and, 103 anglerfish, 18 anoxia, birds and, 42 Apalachicolas (Florida) oysters, 106 “Aquapatio” party barge, 86 “aquarium cars,” 19 Army Corps of Engineers, 44, 71, 72, 75, 91, 94, 95, 130 arsenic (as contaminant), 54 Arthur Kill, 6, 11, 28, 42, 44, 47, 54, 56, 63, 64, 66, 102, 103 Asian carps, 123 Asian seaweed (Codium fragile), 49 Asian shore crabs, 120, 121 Astoria, Hell Gate and, 82 Atlantic City (New Jersey), garbage and, 65 Atlantic lobsters, 19 Atlantic Ocean, 13, 18, 39, 49 Atlantic salmon, 19, 124 Atlantic sturgeon, 17, 94, 100 Atlantic tomcod, 60, 125, 126 AtlanticTwin, 92 Audubon Society, NewYork City, 42, 44 AVID (Advanced Identification Process), 96 Avrin, David, 46 bacteria, 51, 113 bald eagles, 115, 133 Baltimore (Maryland), bedrock and, 10 F5943.indb 139 F5943.indb 139 8/23/12 12:39:11 PM 8/23/12 12:39:11 PM 140 Index Barlow, Elizabeth (The Forests andWetlands of NewYork City), 101 barnacles, rock walls and, 103 Barnegat Bay, butterflyfish and, 17 Barnett Starch Works, 73 barn swallows, 88 Barren Island, 80 basking sharks, 18 bass. See specific types of bass bathhouse, 53 the Battery, 6, 11, 13, 16, 18, 28, 67, 114 Battery Park, 110, 111, 133 Battery Park City, 79, 103 bay anchovies, electric-generating station and, 71 bay-breasted warbler, 45 Bay of Fundy, striped bass and, 23 Bay Ridge, 74 Baykeeper Auxiliary, 87, 107 Bayonne Bridge, 64, 115 Bayonne peninsula (New Jersey), chemical pollution and, 54 Beacon, Hudson River and, 6 Beaver Street, 79 Bedloes Island. See Liberty Island bedrock, 10 Belford, commercial fishing and, 41–42 “Belford pirates,” 41 Belmont Island, harbor seals and, 114 Benstock, Marcy, 96 benzene (as contaminant), 54 “biological oxygen demand,” 54 Blackburnian warbler, 45 black-crowned night-herons, 42, 48 black drum, 18 Black Tom Channel, oysters and, 107 blackpoll warbler, 45 “blop-blops,” 73 blowout tide, 12 blue claw crabs, 15, 18, 41, 43, 48, 71, 104, 113, 121, 122 bluebacks, 17 bluefish, 15, 18, 26, 27, 28, 60, 103, 128 “bog people,” 38 bonefish, 18 “boners” (of shad) and boning, 38 borers, marine, 61, 62, 63 borrow pits, 85 bottle-nosed dolphins, 114 Boyle, Robert H., 23, 86, 87, 124 Bradley Beach (New Jersey), garbage and, 65 Bread and Cheese, 32 Breezy Point, 81, 115, 119 Bristol (Maine) oysters, 106 British soldier (lichen), 48 Broad Street, 79 broad-billed sandpiper, 45 the Bronx, 23, 56, 80 brook trout, 78 Brooklyn, 8, 12, 13, 56, 74–76, 124, 128, 129 Brooklyn Battery Tunnel,Westway project and, 90 Brooklyn Bridge, 105, 110, 115 Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment , 74, 75 Brown,Adam, 23, 59 brown trout, 49 bryozoans, 70 Brzorad, John, 48 BT Nautilus, 64 buccaneers, 87 burrfish, 18 Bush, Irving T., 104 butterfish, 15 butterflyfish, 17 Buttermilk Channel, 74, 77 Butzel,Albert, 96, 98 cadmium (as contaminant), 76 Cahotateda (Native American name for Hudson River), 6 Cameron’s Line, 10 Canada geese, 47 Canada warbler, 45 Canadian Cove oysters, 106 canals, 79 Canal Street, 79 “Canal Street Plan,” 21 Canarsee Indians, 74 Cape May (New Jersey), 6, 43, 46, 106 carbonic acid, 56 Carmer, Carl, 52 the Carolinas, oysters and, 28, 127 CARP (Contamination and Assessment Reduction Project), 85 Carroll Gardens, 128 Carroll Street Bridge, 77 Carson, Rachel (Silent Spring), 54 Carwitham Map, 20 Cary Institute, 122 catbird, 44 Category Three storm, 12 catfish, 11. See also marine catfish Catskill, zebra mussels and, 50 F5943.indb 140 F5943.indb 140 8/23/12 12:39:11 PM 8/23/12 12:39:11 PM Index 141 Catskill Mountains, 6, 82 cattle egrets, 42, 43, 48 Cedar Creek, 79 cedar waxwings, 87 Central America...