This is another Harbor School building. Here students learn and research how to help keep the land and marine environment safe, including Governors Island and the NY Harbor.
It sits over the Buttermilk Channel and is slowly sinking into the water because of climate change causing irregular intense weather and rising water levels. Rising water levels and increasing wake & wave erosion is damaging the building's pilings, making the MAST Center slowly fall into the harbor As the building deteriorates more quickly, it may harm the sea life both in and outside the building. If it ends up collapsing, it will cause damage to the ecosystem by littering potentially.
