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Feds Plan Huge Campground - in Brooklyn (camp at old airport)
NBC New York ^ | Jun 14, 2011 | Greg Wilson

Posted on 06/14/2011 8:04:17 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

Old airfield could host 600 sites, says National Park Service

Roasting marshmallows, telling ghost stories and sleeping under the stars - in New York City?

The National Park Service is planning a 600-site campground in Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, a onetime airport used by Amelia Earhart. The campground would be the largest urban tent-pitching site in the nation, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

"We want to make New York the leading example of what we can do around the country with urban parks," Salazar said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: New York
KEYWORDS: airport; brooklyn; campground; gangs; obama; rapes; robberies; thugs
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To: smokingfrog

Late 50’s pic??


41 posted on 06/14/2011 9:13:29 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Texas Fossil

Winning The Future


42 posted on 06/14/2011 9:17:08 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Tigerized

And they STILL owe us for Meigs!!

I won’t forget, either!


43 posted on 06/14/2011 9:17:27 PM PDT by Tigerized
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To: Texas Fossil

1940’s (WW II)


44 posted on 06/14/2011 9:17:27 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

OK it looked more recent than that. Should have figured it out from previous posts.


45 posted on 06/14/2011 9:19:30 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Texas Fossil

Is this really camping or is this really for the homeless that Obama has creatted?


46 posted on 06/14/2011 9:20:48 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Texas Fossil

It’ll smell like pee within 48 hours after opening.


47 posted on 06/14/2011 9:20:48 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: cherry

Hell, it might create some jobs, TVA-style.


48 posted on 06/14/2011 9:25:13 PM PDT by OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings
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To: Texas Fossil

What a riot...litteraly! We are going to be collecting candidates for the Darwin award from this adventure.


49 posted on 06/14/2011 9:28:30 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: GlockThe Vote

Future concentration camp.


50 posted on 06/14/2011 9:30:59 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: chris_bdba

Did it ever occur to you to camp in Brooklyn?

Or Anybody?


51 posted on 06/14/2011 9:34:02 PM PDT by txhurl (Did you want to talk or fish?)
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To: Jack Hammer

52 posted on 06/14/2011 9:51:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: cherry

In New York Ciy, with no guns allowed, out in the open, no thanks.

I lived there for 4 years and trust me, it will NOT look like an episode of My Three Sons.

Get ready for a giant, urban debacle.

New York (and CA) continue their great Central Planning that failed in the USSR.


53 posted on 06/14/2011 10:23:50 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Texas Fossil

Yet they have no money for national parks.

Obamavilles.


54 posted on 06/14/2011 10:37:33 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray. For all the latest, check out: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/)
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To: cherry

You’re not from Brooklyn... right?


55 posted on 06/14/2011 11:00:02 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray. For all the latest, check out: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/)
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To: SaraJohnson

Wonder if the fences around the airport are still intact?

I have never been to Brooklyn (or NY) but it does not sound like a reasonable idea.

We have lots of free camping sites here. In fact the town I live in keeps 3 motorhome/travel trailer spaces that they allow staying for free with AC power furnished for several days at a time. And the natives are friendly.


56 posted on 06/14/2011 11:12:52 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Texas Fossil
The National Park Service is planning a 600-site campground in Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, a onetime airport used by Amelia Earhart. The campground would be the largest urban tent-pitching site in the nation, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

I ask you now, what could possibly go wrong with this scenario?

57 posted on 06/14/2011 11:46:07 PM PDT by Sea Parrot
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To: Texas Fossil

Floyd Bennett Field is just across the Rockaways; I’ve been there many times. Being on Jamaica Bay it’s a great place for fishing or launching a boat.

It was New York City's first municipal airport and opened in 1931. Throughout the 1930's, it was the site of many important first and record breaking flights. Some of the more famous pilots to originate their flights from the field were Wiley Post (pictured below), Howard Hughes, Amelia Earhart, Roscoe Turner, Laura Ingalls, Jimmy Doolittle, Jacqueline Cochran, and Douglas "Wrongway" Corrigan.

In 1941, the U. S. Navy leased Floyd Bennett Field from the City of New York. It became Naval Air Station-New York. It remained busy during the World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. During these times, the Navy and Marine Corps used the field for their Reserve Squadrons. In 1971, the Naval Air Station was decommissioned. Today the Coast Guard and NYC Police Department Aviation Units are based there.

In 1974 it became part of Gateway National Recreation Area. Being off the beaten track, at the end of Brooklyn, and with limited public transportation (only the Q35 bus) it doesn’t get many visitors. I’d have no qualms about camping there.


58 posted on 06/15/2011 12:54:54 AM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
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To: newheart

“Campgrounds? In Brooklyn?”

Detention center. :)


59 posted on 06/15/2011 5:02:57 AM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: Alice in Wonderland
Correction: Floyd Bennett Field became part of Gateway National Recreation Area in 1972, not 1974.

This is a view of "the city" from there:

Photos of the current camping area:


60 posted on 06/15/2011 8:07:55 AM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
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