"Good morning,
My name is Joshua Jakob, and I am from New Dorp Beach, in Staten Island.
Cedar Grove Beach Club has been a member of my community for 99 years, but Parks wants to evict everyone off of the land they took via eminent domain for a highway that will never be built. They tore down over 200 homes in the 1960's and then left the land vacant and overgrown so that car thieves and drug addicts could have a place to hide, while allowing the beach to be covered in trash and the broken concrete remains of the buildings they tore down. I am trying to help the members save their beach and save my beach. Please help in any way you can. They have to leave on September 30th.
Save Cedar Grove Beach Club
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Joshua Jakob"
I think before the end of his term, Bloomberg will have used eminent domain on all of the middle class. He wants us out in a bad way. The rest of the sordid story is here.
24 comments:
Is not Bloomberg's dictatorship grand?
How come Breezy Point got a 99 year lease? Wasn't that parkland?
Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Benepe have gone way to far with parks. They want to build them but they have no money to maintain them. How many parks look like crap all over the city. Leave these residents of the beach club alone. They take care of the property and the community doesn't want them to leave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciNhss3pxU4
I comment on Bloomberg and the people's Burden being behind what may be a record number of displacement of New Yorkers.
Thanks Queens Crap,
Suzannah B. Troy
eminent domain!? great headline, you're about 40 years too late with it though.
the beach club residents had a generous lease, its up now, c'est la vie!
they've had a sweet deal on that land all these years, it's long overdue to be turned over to the public. the city shouldn't be in the vacation home rental business.
Agreed. IF its a lease.... not their property.
NOBODY can be upset with what happens to you when you DONT OWN YOUR OWN PROPERTY.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
The tenants own the bungalows. So yes, they will have their property seized. And the City has no money so I don't see how they will be creating a "park" here. At least renting out the land generates revenue.
stop the insanity!
The former owners were compensated for both land and buildings when the property was condemned.
That's not what the article says.
what article?
all i see is frantic letter and links which never mentions who owns the bungalows, just the land.
these folks have been paying peanuts. annual rent of $140,000! some revenue generator, the city makes more off the guy who sells hot dogs on the corner.
The link at the end, that says the whole sordid story is HERE.
Thanks, I missed that link.
The article is grossly mistaken.
Amazing how you know so much about Staten Island beaches considering this is generally a Queens blog, read mainly by Queensfolk.
Park troll in the house...
It's funny how Parks looted the funds earmarked for another park in order to cover everyday expenses, yet claim they have money to do this, despite the fact that all the local electeds plus the council parks committee chair want the people to be left alone.
Amazing what the priorities of this city are, especially when it's broke.
Staten Island overwhelmingly voted for the troll, they deserve what they get.
looted funds for what park?! earmarked?!
this was suppose to be another grand central parkway 40 years ago. nothing got looted, Moses got his vision shot down.
It's amazing how no one actually bothers to get any facts before ranting about anything anymore.
No one said the tenants can't go back and spend the day at the beach. if they bring a plastic bag and clean up some of the mess that washes up, like they use to, I'm sure there won't be a problem either.
I guess you failed to read the ENTIRE article. Parks looted the funds for the Goodhue center last year. $9M down to $1.5M.
Please stop ranting on here until you know what you're talking about.
Christ, how stupid is this park troll? This is the caliber of worker they have these days.
SI Advance has been following the looting of the Goodhue funds by the Parks Dept for months.
They don't have money to fix the rec center that collapsed either. But they have money to push forward with this.
i think you've been schooled.
If they can build condos in Brooklyn Bridge Park to pay for it, they can allow these people to stay as they have for a century.
This city sucks. It's all for developers, not the working class. There was a time when both could co-exist.
Parks acts as though the land was not taken over by eminent domain. Like it belogned to them all along. It was "taken" from these people....key word is taken.
If the land was not used for the purpose intended, they should get their land and houses back. (And at the price the city took them for). The city shouldn't make a profit.
Imagine if this happened to you!
Bloomberg and Benepe are dangerous people. They are rewriting NYC in THEIR image for the sake of private lobbying and private gain. Quinn and Sadik-Khan are close seconds. I can see the 40 story towers here already.
Don't believe their initial plans. These people are liars. They are sick, deluded, megalomaniacs that must be put in jail.
This is NOT a democracy anymore. This city has become a dictatorship fueled by the disgusting greed of a few and overwhelming wealth STOLEN from and at the expense of everyone else.
Now there will be a watchful eye on what happens to this land if the club is evicted.
I am hopeful that the beach club gets to stay on the land that was so wrongfully taken from them years ago for a purpose that never came to light. Maybe Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Benepe will show that they have a heart.
This whole thing makes no sense!
In contrast to the ultra-private Breezy Point, the Cedar Grove enclave is friendly and allows strangers to swim on its beach.
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