Tidal Wetlands

The tidal wetlands act of 1973 was put through by the DEC (Dept of Environmental Conservation), and was meant to protect them from landscaping, or any building along those shorelines.

They run around the southern tip of Staten Island, the entire coast of Long Island, which includes Shelter and Gardiner's Island, the lower Hudson River, all the way up to Troy Dam.

Shelter's, and Gardiner's Island are at the end of Long Island, in between there and Rhode Island.

Staten Island is in between New Jersey and Brooklyn.

Lower Hudson starts between those three, and Troy Dam is in Albany.

Permits are required by the Tidal Wetlands Permit Program, which regulates any activities between these areas.

12 Tidal Wetlands include:

Old Place Creek - Northern Staten Island, 20+ miles away from me, 2 hrs by mta.

Lemon Creek - Southern Staten Island, 30+ miles away from me, 2 hrs by mta.

Titus Mill Pond State - New Rochelle, near Mt Vernon and Yonkers,  20+ miles from me, around 2 hrs by mta.

Inwood Bay - Inwood, near John F. Kennedy Airport, closest to me probably, 2 hrs by mta.

Piermont Marsh - Orange Town, NY, like 40+ miles away from me, 2 hrs by mta.

Petteanger Island State - Is near Jones Beach Island, 40 miles away from me, no mta.

Ludlows Creek State - Oakdale, way in Long Island, hella like 50+ miles away from me, 2 hrs by mta.

Babylon Marsh State - Babylon, near Jones Beach Island, between Hempstead and Bayshore, 35+ miles away from me, no mta.

Stillman Creek - Bluepoint, 50+ miles away from me, no mta.

Baiting Hollow - Baiting Hollow, near the Wildwood State Park in Long Island, 70+ miles away from me, no mta.

Fireplace Neck - Brookhaven, next to the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Long Island, 60+ miles away from me, no mta.

Mount Sinai - Mt Sinai, in Long Island, 60+ miles away from me, no mta.

Long Island encompasses two counties and two boroughs; boroughs include queens and kings, and counties include suffolk and nassau.

Boroughs are technically Long Island but they're more so their own thing, while the counties are more encompassed by Long Island's geography.

Nassau is more established than Suffolk.

Nassau is to Suffolk what Livermore is to Castro Valley, in the East Bay.

And Nassau and Suffolk is to Queens and Kings what like Oakland and Hayward is to the Central Valley, essentially what the East Bay is to the Central Valley.

You might disagree, but that's the best I could come up w, being from Hayward and Oakland. 

Bc like the Central Valley isn't like branching off into a peninsula the same way. 

I just realized I live on an island, technically.

Brooklyn is a part of the ninth region 

Hella notes from the blizzard 02/01-02 (785 wds)

02/01

1149am

We’re supposed to get eighteen inches. 

It’s really not a good idea to go outside, pretty much. You can get hypothermia. 

De Blasio banned all cars except emergency, or state sanctioned vehicles, so ubers are hella expensive, and they take like two hrs.

I had to be dropped off down the way last night, bc a domestic dispute outside of my house. 

According to my roommates someone got hit w a broom, a janitors broom, so something like 13 cops flooded the block to interrogate the victim, and their family as the perpetrator kept going in and out of the apt they occupied, unnoticed. They didn’t catch him 

This is a full on blizzard. I see ppl out there w umbrellas, and shit. I’ve never seen anything like it. 

615pm

I thought they were gonna restrict the stimulus to only ppl that make over fifty thousand a year, but it’s under. Thank god, I was gonna say that doesn’t make any sense. 

619

Roommate wants to go to the park to take pics, and Idk. 

I’m afraid I won’t make it back if I go out there. Is that rain or snow, maybe both? That’s all bad. I’ve never seen anything like this. I took a couple of vids from my window. 

It honestly looks like it could go up to your knees. Landlord's goin in w the shovel. I almost wanna help him. 

Maybe if it stops tomorrow night, but it might not, who knows. I kinda don’t want our roommate to go. As a friend and roommate, I think it’d be dangerous. 

You heard of Jenny Odell, How to do nothing: Resisting the attention economy. It’s okay, kinda gets into a green agenda, but she’s hella tight 

I just wanna see a bruno mars show before I die.

631

Roommate just had de ja vu, something about our roommate going out in the snow. 

If you went out there in something like we’re wearing rn, you’d freeze to death, in like twenty min. Naw, Idk, it wouldn’t take that long though.

Haven’t gone to the deli yet, or anywhere for that matter. Roommate, and I are gonna go after he’s done eating. Hopefully we don’t drown in snow, or slip and fall.

He said shoveling isn’t a town effort, but you’re responsible for whatever’s in front of your property, so if anyone slips and falls in front of your shit you could get sued. That’s crazy, so our landlord could get sued if anyone slips in front of our house. 

That's at least what his dad always told him, so that could’ve been just to get him to help shovel. 

Holy shit, the plows lent a little assistance. I wonder if anyone’s ever gotten ran over. 

My friend posted a picture of their car covered in snow, and was like I’m pretty sure there’s a ticket under there somewhere. She’s from Nashville, but I read w her in Chicago. I think she drove out here last weekend for some reason. That’s a ways, probably cheaper than flying though. 

These kids better be coo, hella trying to play out there. 

Friend thinks it’s cool I've never seen snow before. Should I go out there, and make a snow angel and a snow man? Friend was like just a snow angel. 

I wonder if these shoes would be any good. He said I would def have to tuck my pants into my socks, snows higher than that, unless i wanna walk in the streets. But then what if a snow plow comes? I guess I'll just move.

02/02

109pm

The only trip we made yesterday was to the store. 

We had to walk in the street, bc snow was high on either side. On our way back when we were around twenty feet, or so from our house I was like this is hella fucking tight.

It came down pretty hard yesterday, most snow we had since 2016, but I’ve heard ppl say this is nothing. It’s nothing unless it's like two feet or less. There’s a thirty percent chance of more around nine pm, and then that’s it. 

Then it’s about to get real nasty, when it starts melting, and going away. 

Snow only looks good when it's snowing.

Afterwards it just looks like shit.

It's awful.

147

Snows - I was gonna say snows hella crazy, but I’ve already said that hella times, and it’s not anymore. Well it is a little. 

157

No grub hub rn. I mean you could, you just gotta tip heavy. 

549

I have to go to Billy’s. I have to get food. 

I might just order a turkey club, naw. 

Be brave, go to Billy’s. 

Things I learned about snow since I moved to NY

As a former resident of the Bay Area, I've never experienced snow, so whenever I see it out here in Brooklyn, it's crazy, and I get hella fired up. Now this is a post sorta commemorating that by going over a few things I've learned about it since I moved out here, but for the sake of flow I would recommend rereading the title, then skipping this intro, straight unto the list:

1. It is objectively cute if you’ve never seen it before. 

From my experience, I’ve witnessed ppl marveling at me marveling at my first snow. It's weird, like are they looking at me? They are. You're like an encino man to them.

2. Nonetheless, whether or not you’ve experienced snow, ppl from all over still get excited over it.

They still wanna know when, and wherever it's happening. I think it's bc of global warming, and how rare it is. I know because I saw ppl posting about my posts about it. And it was an honor, truly. I felt like the news.

3. The shit I said in the last bit about global warming is real.

That should've actually been the first note. Yesterday's was the only other snow I've seen stick since I moved out here in January. A lot of standup open mic guys addressed it as a bit. And one of my last dates said it used to start snowing out here by Halloween.

In any case, here are a few videos to hold you over until then, then being the next one: