From the Daily News:The city told Water Taxi Beach last month to make way for the development of Hunters Point South, a massive residential and retail complex.
The city rejected the company's proposal for an alternate location, said Tom Fox, owner of Water Taxi Beach.
Petitioners took to the Web to throw their support behind the scrapped beach.
"Greatest view ever. Favorite spot of many. Please reconsider," one petitioner, Amanda Nocito, wrote on the website.
Joe Conley, chairman of Community Board 2, said the club atmosphere is exactly what turned locals against the beach.
"It's still a great idea, but introducing the concept of sun, sand and alcohol didn't work out. We'd welcome the beach, but without alcohol," he said.
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Dear god now what will the tower people do to get that healthy orange snooki color?
Hard cheese!
Let those yuppies pour some sand on their condo balconies and pretend they're on the French Riviera!
What a whimpering bunch of spoiled brats!
This should be a public park and - like the rest of the waterfront - its going to be closed down for private development.
I do not understand how people in Queens let themselves be pushed around - or worse, don't look elsewhere like Chicago or even across the river in Manhattan where vast stretches of waterfront are reserved for public use.
Why don't the waterfront groups try to push for parks - instead of being stooges for the city's cut back on services by doing cleanups and the like - tasks that used to be done by the unionized city workers.
Fuck the tower people! Maybe they should move the hell out of Queens with their cavior kids. They buy shit property and want, want, want. They sound like a bunch of whinners. Let the beach bar stay and let's get rid of those tower people. Those POS people need to go back where they came from. God forbid some adult would want to have a drink on a private beach. Let's keep the booze and get rid of them. And this is comming from someone who doesn't drink.
A beach? Imagine how the hard-working native New Yorkers felt when they were forced out, harrassed out, and/or even BURNED out of their HOMES for the "Towers of WASP" to be built.
Aw. The poor yuppies.
Beach closed and relocation due to necessary infrastructure work by the Department of Environmental Protection. No big scandal here; no one getting "pushed around." Indeed the beach was a project of the EDC, another organization often dumped on by this blog.
Criticize wisely.
"no one getting "pushed around."
You seem to not get the point the commenter was making. In most progressive cities (and even in some not-so-progressive ones), the waterfront is for the public; in Queens, it's for developers and yuppies.
They knew it had to happen !
Lobbyist Shulman,
maybe you can convince your group to clean up the Flushing River and build a public beach for sun worshipers along its banks.
Just when Queens had something really great and unique......
More Beach pics PLEASE!
To the person that said "Just when Queens had something really great and unique......", you really don't know Queens. We are favorably unique in many ways compared to any other borough. Much of that uniqueness isn't advertised, which make it even better in my humble opinion.
The Water Taxi Beach is a novel idea, but I couldnt see it lasting that long. Why not go to the closest real beach, Jones, via the LIRR. Someone can correct me on closest beach via public transporation.
ahh, Coney, Rockaway, Orchard.....
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