A multimillion-dollar request for a dune system and other coastal protections for Breezy Point, Queens is moving forward, New York State officials announced Monday.
Breezy Point lost 355 homes to fire and flooding during Superstorm Sandy two years ago.
The $58.2 million request submitted to the Federal Emergency Management Agency entails building a double dune on the side of Breezy Point that faces the ocean, as well as potentially constructing a seawall and groins along the bay in both Breezy Point and nearby Roxbury to prevent flooding and erosion.
The state said $1.2 million was awarded to support technical, feasibility and permitting needs for the project. Another $57 million in funds for design, engineering and construction could follow, according to the governor’s office.
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Disgusting. These people want their own private community they can pay to protect it themselves. If they want the city to pay for this they must open their beach and roads to the public.
what happened with the LIPA lawsuit?
In two years, it will all be gone again.
dunes are being built to protect private homes all over the coast. This is no different. The folks in Breezy just happen to have a little more land than the average homeowner.
I hate when people hate on other people who can afford to live in a nice area.
It's just stupid to build on sand no matter how much money you have. This is just common sense.
The city, state, and federal government have no business subsidizing these people's private summer community. If they want to be a part of society, and benefit from society's largess, funding a dune system to protect them, then they must open their gates to the public. 50 million dollars would go a long way towards cutting down the homeless population in the city, giving them housing vouchers and job training to rehabilitate them. But people inland don't deserve help do they anon? Only the already well off in their private gated community.
It might be stupid to build on sand, but if someone can afford it let them go ahead. These people can't, so we get stuck with the bill to support their private gated community. Disgusting waste of limited resources.
Well I'm pretty sure they pay high property taxes and the homes are pricey too. The poor people or low middle class can get affordable housing, but someone who worked their butts off and brought a nice house in a nice beach area its a problem getting help.
Nature wants Breezy Point back. I say let her have it.
Yes it is a problem helping them. Nobody deserves a beach house. Everybody deserves a safe place to live. Giving more people the latter is good. Giving a few people the former is an unjustifiable waste of resources for the benefit of a few well off. It's like the bloated union payrolls, keeps a few extra people in the upper middle class when many of their jobs isn't needed. Unjustifiably immoral while so many have so much less.
Then people should just get a better education and make more money. Sorry for being so hard working and making a good living for me and my family.
But not enough that you don't need an unjustifiable and immoral subsidy.
the residents of breezy has now lost any sympathy that you can give them after all that devastation.
this and all the other bizarro shit going on in rockaway,from the mestatizing of hipster interest to the laying of pipeline in the water is making the beach a shithole.they better hope they don't get a category 2 storm next time,because karma is now against them.
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