JAMAICABAYWHITE ISLAND
Named for Alfred T. White, a
Brooklyn philanthropist and
developer who, along with Standard
Oil heir Frederick B. Pratt, donated
the marsh to the city. It served
as a dump until the Parks Department
turned it into a model of
migratory-bird-habitat restoration.end of Victory Boulevard, we pass a plastic chair, the universal
marker of a secret water-viewing sanctuary, and the Pratt Indus-
tries paper mill, recycling New York City paper into boxes for
Home Depot. On the port side, we see rows of oil re neries, along
with an Amazon ful llment center. The landscape is that of
nature bathed in the smog of highway, re nery, and Newark