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Excerpt from Your Visit to Sandy Hook: Gateway National Recreation Area That these parklands have been preserved in the midst of the largest urban area in the work is the result of both technological change and people's determination to preserve green open space. New weapons technol ogy has made it possible for former military bases to be closed and turned into part of Gateway's parkland. Other areas that became part of the park were preserved because citizens decided they did not want scarce recreation space to be taken up by development. Large areas of the park were offered for donation by the City of New York and the states of New York and New Jersey. Responding to these facts. Congress in 1972 created Gateway as one of the first large urban parks to be managed by the National Park Service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.