From the Daily News:Years before surfers and foodies rediscovered Rockaway and made it a hip place to visit, a group of homeowners took a chance.
They purchased homes at Arverne by the Sea, a suburban-styled subdivision built on an urban renewal tract.
But now residents of that growing community say they feel betrayed by the city, which plans to place public comfort stations near the beach for the first time in the area.
Residents complain the modernistic, modular structures would block their oceanfront views and lure day-trippers to an area with scant street parking.
While beaches in Rockaway are owned and operated by the city, public access has always been an issue.
Beaches in some neighborhoods, including the more upscale sections of Belle Harbor and Neponsit, are not easily reached by non-residents. There are no real amenities for visitors and street parking is heavily restricted. The closest subway stop is miles away. Most visitors rely on Jacob Riis Park, which is run by the National Park Service.
In Arverne, however, the subway is just up the street.
So basically, they want a private beach. You live between the water and a subway. People are gonna come. Personally, I would rather have tons of beachgoers and a bit of a blight on the horizon than the ghetto that's there now. But I didn't buy a house there.
10 comments:
So let them piss in the ocean?
Anyone who bought in Arverne By The Sea got screwed the day they put down a deposit on their new homes.
Uh,
history tells us that there was an original Arverne by the sea that got washed away in a big storm about 100 years ago.
Good luck, homeowners!
This would make for a crappy beach experience.
In Long Beach there's toilets, but we just pee in the sea.
Of course they want a private beach. These are the same people who decided to buy a home on the water and get all the benefits of the 'beach life', then look to others to help pay for them to rebuild after, shockingly(!), the water becomes a problem.
Publicize the risk, privatize the profit.
In other parks of the city, people are practically begging for toilets. Would Arverne rather have people pissing in their peonies? They don't own the beach, they don't pay to maintain them, and they knew what the deal was before they moved in.
Buying in Arverne was a bad choice from the get go.
Now it's residents will have to live with their mistakes.
True dat!
The buyers believed all the BS that the real estate agents where handing them about the good life in Arverne.
Now they're stuck waiting for the next tidal surge.
That's because their beach is a toilet. Fight redundancy!
As it gets busier and busier they'll be begging the city to put up toilets. I could understand that they may not want them directly in front of their development but not at all is just nuts. When they start seeing crap on their doorsteps they'll beg the city to put in bathrooms, but by then the FEMA money will dry up and the budget won't allow it. Very short sighted from a property value perspective.
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