What makes Gateway National Recreation Area (NRA) different is that we are readily accessible by 16 million people who live in the metropolitan area. Gateway was created to bring the National Park Service 'experience' to these people and some 9 million of them visited the park in 2008.
The challenges are great, the opportunites many.
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Did You Know?
The first transatlantic flight departed from the Rockaway Naval Air Station on Jamaica Bay in 1919. Today, it is the site of Gateway NRA's Jacob Riis Park.