New York Harbor's oyster populations thrived for thousands of years, but were decimated by the early 1900s due to polluted waters and overharvesting. Since 2014, the Billion Oyster Project has been slowly but surely working to bring them back. Read more:
just offshore Hudson River Park in Chelsea eventually opens to the public as a brand new 5.5 acre park with green space, a salt marsh and a boat launch next spring, perhaps the coolest part will be lying just below the surface of the river.
Millions of oyster larvae have already latched onto the discarded shells, with the help of the Billion Oyster Project, and once placed in their new Hudson River home, they’ll begin feeding — naturally filtering toxins and pollutants from the water and growing as they build out their own shells. New York Harbor's oyster populations thrived for thousands of years, but were decimated by the early 1900s due to polluted waters and overharvesting. Since 2014, thehas been slowly but surely working to bring them back. With the completion of the Gansevoort installation, they’ll have seeded 100 million oysters in New York Harbor, the group said.
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