Join us for our monthly meeting on Wednesday, August 8th. We’ll be holding our meeting at a special penthouse and rooftop terrace, kindly hosted by Vizzuality.
148 Lafayette Street (between Howard and Grand)
Meeting will begin at 7pm.
Please arrive between 6:30 and 7PM.
We’ll be discussing upcoming events and important campaign updates, as well as the proposed dredging at Rockaway Beach.
Due to size constraints, if you are planning to attend, please kindly REGISTER WITH US and check in with the lobby security upon arrival.
See you there!
Any questions, please contact Ashley at secretary@nyc.surfrider.org
my note to the New Yorkers For Parks Foundations this morning. t/y…PJS
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Katie Denny
Director of Development
New Yorkers For Parks
Good Morning, Ms. Denny…always appreciate your support and that of your great advocacy for New York’s Parks. As a renowned and heavily touristed world capital, New York City is an organic conglomeration of industrial, creative and natural wonders.
Three hidden natural wonders are Rockaway’s seven mile ocean-beach, 5-mile boardwalk, and 9,000 acre wildlife refuge. How many global major metropolitan areas are blessed with such natural resources?
Robert Moses knew, but he and his enormous vision are long gone! One hundred years ago Rockaway had been a destination for Manhattan’s well-to-do with ferries and passenger steamboats, but Moses opened up our coastline – Rockaway & Riis Park – to the everyday residents of Brooklyn and Queens with bridges, beach restoration, boardwalks and public beach-houses.
The beach has been washed away.
If this were North Carolina, Rhode Island or Massachusetts, the army corps of engineers and the appropriate state-city agencies would have remediated immediately. But here, the army corps has been studying our erosion problems for 40 years, and now that Irene struck last year, they are finally (after dozens of meetings to do the obvious) replenishing sand from the East Rockaway Inlet to the beach for a quick short-term solution; BUT un-resolved the obvious needs to stabilize the beach long-term.
With Robert Moses in mind, can i convince New Yorkers for Parks to advocate and encourage the New York District’s Army Corps of Engineers to move with some sense of urgency or maybe i should say with all due haste to stabilize NYC’s 7-mile ocean beach (see below).
Thanks so much Katie and hope you have a great week!…PJS
cc James Yolles, Communications & Outreach
note to Demand The Sand’s Ed Pastore…PJS
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t/y Eddy!
I don’t know what’s going on. for 20 years all I read in the papers re. The Rockaways was about the latest murders, slashings, street-brawls, school riots (with girls, as well as boys), and total and complete dysfunctionalism in the projects. then in the ’90′s – Astoundingly – somebody decides to invest a billion dollars in a real-estate deal…Arverne-by-the-Sea…and Audrey Pheffer gets a surfing-beach exemption from Albany, and now The Times and The News write beautiful pieces about The Rockaways.
An absolutely amazing transformation, no?…PJS
CC: Anne Bernard, NY Times
Jill Weber, Rockaway Administrator, NY Parks
Nadia Murphy & Glenn DiResto
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After Sunset, a Whole New Beach as Rockaway Gets Its Second Wind
By COREY KILGANNON
Rockaway Beach in Queens seems to catch its breath after the lifeguards leave, and a new shift arrives to savor the stars, sounds and space.