175 bottle-nosed dolphins swimming in NYC waters!!

[Thunder]

http://gothamist.com/2009/06/28/dolphins_spotted_off_city_island.php

they are chasing herring...in NYC!!

and who says NYC water is dirty?

[technoextreme]

http://gothamist.com/2009/06/28/dolphins_spotted_off_city_island.php

they are chasing herring...in NYC!!

and who says NYC water is dirty?
Wow they are defiantly lost.

[Donal]

City Island has always had the best seafood.

[Thunder]

Wow they are defiantly lost.

maybe they are italian dolphins. :D

maybe they wanna see the Statue of Liberty.

there are plenty of reasons for dolphins to come to NYC.

[NYCEMT86]

That would be a sight worth seeing.

[technoextreme]

maybe they are italian dolphins. :D

maybe they wanna see the Statue of Liberty.

there are plenty of reasons for dolphins to come to NYC.
Well I read the article and saw Long Island Sound. I didn't realize that it meant next to the city.

[JoeTheJuggler]

Wow they are defiantly lost.

Defiantly lost. . . .that must mean they stubbornly refuse to ask directions. ;)

[Thunder]

Well I read the article and saw Long Island Sound. I didn't realize that it meant next to the city.

NY1 says they were in Little Neck Bay.

[Donal]

Defiantly lost. . . .that must mean they stubbornly refuse to ask directions. ;)


"We're fine. We ain't lost. There's the Verrazano bridge right there."

"That's the Throgg's Neck, Joey."

"MARONE!"

[HistoryGal]

Defiantly lost. . . .that must mean they stubbornly refuse to ask directions. ;)

So, pretty much male dolphins, right? :D

[Thunder]

"We're fine. We ain't lost. There's the Verrazano bridge right there."

"That's the Throgg's Neck, Joey."

"MARONE!"

"holy moley!!! doze two bridgez look alike!! which is which Tommy??

fuggetabout it, just head for da Triboro!!! we'll make believe we're in distress any my paizon in da NYPD harbor patrol will give us free tuna!!!"

[ImaginalDisc]

http://gothamist.com/2009/06/28/dolphins_spotted_off_city_island.php

they are chasing herring...in NYC!!

and who says NYC water is dirty?

Dolhpins are mammals. They should be less sensetive than fish to particlate matter and other pollution because. . .

Am I suffering from humor fail?

[shemp]

Defiantly lost. . . .that must mean they stubbornly refuse to ask directions. ;)

They're all male.

Edited to add: Damn, beaten to it, never mind.

[casebro]

http://gothamist.com/2009/06/28/dolphins_spotted_off_city_island.php

they are chasing herring...in NYC!!

and who says NYC water is dirty?

Anti-Pollution laws made big changes elsewhere, I suppose the NYC waters ought to be a lot cleaner too. Or are the local EPA as corruptible as the law enforcement officers are perceived to be?

[ElMondoHummus]

http://gothamist.com/2009/06/28/dolphins_spotted_off_city_island.php

they are chasing herring...in NYC!!

and who says NYC water is dirty?

From what I understand, the cleanup of the harbor has been successful enough to where wildlife is returning in spades. From 1993, there's a funny NYTimes story (http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/27/nyregion/in-cleaner-harbor-creatures-eat-the-waterfront.html?pagewanted=all) where the piers and bulkheads, once protected against mollusks and other timber-devouring creatures by the polluted nature of the NY harbor waters, are once again vulnerable. I've also read that sport fishing is making a comeback in the harbor.

That's a positive. New York harbor has long had a rep for being dirty. While still needing work - I think there's still significant contamination of the harbor seafloor - it's come a long way.

ETA: Oh, wait... the story isn't talking about New York harbor (http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=city+island&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=XKJHSubCFJSVtge9utiMCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1), is it? :o Whoops.

[Damien Evans]

http://gothamist.com/2009/06/28/dolphins_spotted_off_city_island.php

they are chasing herring...in NYC!!

and who says NYC water is dirty?

This is news? Wow.

We have a permanent population of both Dolphins and Penguins in Port Phillip Bay.

I thought Dolphins would be, if not common, at least a permanent presence there.

[Psiload]

My brother got some pictures of a basking shark swimming off Long Island a coupla days ago.

http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=219531&town=Hampton%20Bays

Matt Murphy snapped these photos of a basking shark among surfers at Ponquogue beach at 4:30 pm on Sunday June 28.

[Harpyja]

There's an update. Apparently, they are still lost.

[Wildy]

We have dolphins in the Port River.

Why they stay there I'll never know.