Staten Island Shore Walk

After Hurricane Sandy, members of three communities on the eastern coast of Staten Island—Oakwood Beach, Ocean Breeze, and Graham Beach— decided to sell their homes to the state and not rebuild. Participants opted in to a program that allows them to sell their homes at pre-Sandy value, to the State of New York, which is now returning hundreds of parcels of land to nature. I spent late summer/early fall exploring the area, and a small group joined me on Saturday, October 20, 2018 for a walk around this new buffer zone with me; we talked about the ecology of salt marshes, managed retreat from the shore, adaptation, rewilding, and the natural history of Staten Island.