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Whale populations in New York Harbor are booming—here's why

“There’s a spout!” naturalist Celia Ackerman calls excitedly to the captain. “Behind the green buoy!” It’s half an hour into a whale-watching cruise aboard the 95-foot American Princess, and we’re not in Hawaii or Alaska—we’re in New York Harbor, within sight of Coney Island and the Brooklyn shoreline.

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