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Tiny Forests With Big Benefits » Native plants crowded onto postage-stamp-size plots have been delivering environmental benefits around the world — and, increasingly, in the U.S. Nytimes.com

Alarms and Order to Drop Anchor Recorded Before Ship Hit Bridge » Investigators were reviewing the vessel’s data recorder for clues about what went wrong. Two bodies were recovered from the water on Wednesday, with four construction workers still missing. Nytimes.com

Mary Previte, Grateful Survivor of a Concentration Camp, Dies at 87 (Published 2019) » Rescued in Japanese-occupied China, she sought out her saviors a half-century later. In New Jersey, she turned a youth detention center into a national model. Nytimes.com

How to Find New York City’s Cherry Blossoms » Some cherry trees have already begun to bloom, but there are still weeks of pink and white flowers ahead. Nytimes.com

Earthquake Rattles Northeast, but Little Damage Is Reported » A magnitude-4.8 earthquake sent tremors from Philadelphia to Boston and jolted buildings in New York City. An apparent aftershock was widely felt around 6 p.m. Nytimes.com

Patton to Visit Tokyo in Effort To Keep Ship Terminal Here (Published 1971) » NYC Econ Development Admr D K Patton to visit Tokyo in effort to persuade Japanese ship lines to use new container port facilities being built in Bklyn and SI instead of Elizabeth (NJ) containerport, which is being actively promoted by NY Port Auth; repts that Bklyn handles 95% of Japanese cargo shipped to NY Port; notes '70 cargo totaled 1,084,639 tons and represented at least $30-million in jobs and services Nytimes.com

NEW YORK PORT CHANGES WITH SHIFTING ECONOMY (Published 1986) » Jun 1, 1986… But while the shipping business struggles, the economics of the harbor, which includes the waterfronts of New York City and northern New Jersey, … Nytimes.com

Coast Guard Ends Search for 6 Missing in Bridge Disaster » Officials said the construction workers had been missing too long to hope for rescue. They were on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore when a cargo ship rammed into it after losing power. Nytimes.com

A City in Transition; Waterfront Housing for Perth Amboy (Published 1990) » LEAD: Like other New Jersey port cities, Perth Amboy, which is on the Arthur Kill and the Raritan River opposite Staten Island, watched its waterfront crumble in the 1950's as businesses shut down or moved away. Today, Raritan Steel is the only major smokestack company left on the river's edge. Nytimes.com