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Fragile Persistence. Kieran's nature walks have centered on Van Cortlandt Park and the Hudson's shore near Spuyten Duyvil, but he did not stick to the man-made nature spots of parks and reserves. Through the asphalt of a parking lot, Kieran has seen emerge the fragile but persistent mustard plant. The most merciless predator of Wall Street is neither bull nor bear, but the peregrine falcon; the swift diving bird of medieval romance roosts in the towers of office buildings and, with pigeons as prey, makes many a killing in the street. Once, covering a football...
...recognized and what it means in the complicated economy of nature. Winter visitors to New York regularly include the bald eagle, who rides the ice floes down the Hudson as far as Dyckman Street. Muskrat houses can be found in the lower end of the Van Cortlandt swamp; the eastern cottontail is common in the fields and thickets of Staten Island; the northern brown snake inhabits Central Park...
...York, in the shadow of the el," he says. "I was thrown out of school several times, and in junior high school I was voted the least likely to succeed. Mostly I was thrown out of school because I liked to cut class and turn over rocks in Van Cortlandt Park. The craziest things crawled...
Varsity cross-country captain Dyke Benjamin finished 31st in the IC4A cross-country championships at Van Cortlandt Park, New York, yesterday, with a time of 25 min., 48 sec. However, as a unit the Crimson was not qualified for a team finish position, as only four varsity runners entered the race instead of the usual five required for a full team score...
Benjamin registered a 25:12 time and a victory at Van Cortlandt...