The area is still largely industrial and many streets are desolate, but the Hunters Point section is visibly changing.

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As a native New Yorker, I grew up seeing the iconic Long Island City Pepsi-Cola sign whenever I looked out over the East River at the Hunters Point Pepsi Bottling Plant.

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At that point hunters hunker down and wait, using turkey calls to lure them back.

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Reports by hunters of a specific turning point in weather predictability since the 1990s coincide with recent meteorological analyses.

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Until little more than a century ago, hunters from these valleys would make a point of refusing to kill marmots, and shepherds were said to shelter these creatures beneath their huts.

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But the point isn't to help hunters.

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