In light of he increased attention now being paid to New York Harbor as a result of Hurricane Sandy, it is indeed a timely coincidence that a revised and updated edition of John Waldman’s Heartbeats in the Muck; the History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor has been published by Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press and distributed by Oxford University Press. Originally published in 2000 to extensive acclaim, this new edition brings Professor Waldman’s portrait of the ecological status of New York’s once heavily polluted harbor up to date with new information that is both heartening as well as cautionary.
