New Documentary Explores the Natural Wonders of NYC’s Jamaica Bay Through One of Its Most-Beloved Characters

Inside Climate News · By Erin Schulte · last updated April 5, 2025 – 1:08 AM

Don Riepe, the guardian of Jamaica Bay in Queens, is the charming subject of a film exploring the impacts of climate change on one of New York’s most flood-vulnerable neighborhoods—and the city itself.

By Erin Schulte

Broad Channel is one of the lesser known of New York City’s 350 or so neighborhoods, a community of a few thousand residents on the only populated island in Jamaica Bay, directly across from JFK airport.

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