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Feed the Fauna

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Get up close with the Ed Center animals as they're fed lunch!

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© Sarah Ryan Hudson

June 21 @ 2:00 pm 3:00 pm

What do turtles eat? What about mud snails? And seahorses? Join us at the Environmental Education Center to get up close with our animals as they’re fed their lunches, while you learn about our amazing animals’ habitats, characteristics, and diets.

Family audiences recommend but all ages welcomed.

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The building at 99 Plymouth Street, now home to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s Environmental Education Center, public restrooms, and a community space, was formally a NYC Department of Environmental Protection building

Construction of the park began in January 2009.

The most common fish caught in our seine net is the Atlantic Silverside

The most common marine invertebrate caught in our seine net are comb jellies.

Empire Stores and the Tobacco warehouse are both Civil War Era buildings

Long Leaf Yellow Pine from the demolished Cold Storage Buildings is reused as cladding on park structures and custom-designed park benches.

One of the most unique organisms living in the East River is the lined seahorse.

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