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    Discovery Channel Filming Oyster Project on Governors Island

    Governors Island is playing itself in a new documentary film for the Discovery Channel, it was announced this week. Billion Oyster Project is a film set at the award-winning high school on the island, Urban Assembly Harbor School. The Hollywood Reporter said the doc is currently in production and will air under the Discovery Impact banner sometime in 2018. While Governors Island has been used for countless movie and television shoots during the past 30 years, this will be the first documentary set and filmed on the Island. The team behind it has a superb track record. According to THR, they are Roger Ross Williams and Kristi Jacobson. The first…

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    The Billion Oyster Project

    Students at Harbor School, a public high school on Governors Island, are in the process of seeding our harbor with a billion oysters.  Rachel Nuwer details their efforts in a recent Edible Brooklyn post: Now, a team of determined New Yorkers wants to bring those bivalves back, albeit for something other than eating. Last April they launched an initiative called the Billion Oyster Project, which largely relies on the efforts of students at the New York Harbor School on Governors Island, within casting distance of the Statue of Liberty. As its name implies, that public school sits smack dab on the NYC harbor, a boon for its water-heavy curriculum whose topics…

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    Bill Clinton Visits Harbor School on Island

    One of President Bill Clinton’s last acts in office was to add Governors Island to the list of national monuments, which paved the way for the island to be returned to the people of New York. Thirteen years later, the former president came back to the island and delivered a stirring speech to students of the island’s Harbor School. “There is no place in America that better exemplifies the world I want to leave to our children and grandchildren than this school and its partner,” said Clinton, as reported in the Daily News: “If you pick up the paper any day, or you watch the evening news, you know all…