Signs posted at the entrance:
Posted on 07/20/2012 4:13:40 PM PDT by varyouga
Hello FRiends
I visited Cedar Grove Beach in the Staten Island borough of NYC a few weekends ago and saw this ridiculous display of police-statism. There are 3 lifeguards and a NYC parks ‘ranger’ with a dedicated ATV at all times. The beach is open 10-6 and is chained after hours with multiple cameras. Keep in mind this beach is maybe 500ft long and maximum number of people I saw on the beach was maybe 10. This was a 90+ degree sunny weekend day.
Also, to add insult to injury, this was a private bungalow beach village until last year. The last historic village of this type in NYC. The city did not renew their 99 year permit for the beach and will be tearing down most of the bungalows. One of the bungalows has already been taken over by the NYC parks department and the ‘ranger’ seems to hang out inside under the AC most of the time. Sometimes he sees someone smoking a cigarette and promptly drives his ATV to ticket the offender. They also placed a giant American Flag on this occupied bungalow, essentially thumbing their nose at us remaining patriots.
If our government places such ridiculous, pointless controls on our recreational areas, what the hell are they planning for everything else…
Signs posted at the entrance:
Another sign with “Ranger” ATV in the background:
Shot of entire beach:
One of the funniest posts ever.
Are we in trouble,or what?
That wall of signs is visual pollution and adversely impacts the experience - maybe it violates some ordinance and two different governmental departments can go after each other...
No sodas allowed over 16oz.
Violators will be prosecuted.
Training to run the Food Stamp President’s FEMA camps.
In contrast, there’s Outer Banks NC: nearly 60 miles of awesome beaches, no lifeguards, and a few small regulatory signs nearly encouraging visitors to build fires, drink alcohol, drive cars, and bring dogs.
Can everyone read the signs? The pictures previewed big and readable but now look tiny after I posted...
It’s like this at many beach parks in Hawaii. Sad.
“In contrast, there’s Outer Banks NC: nearly 60 miles of awesome beaches, no lifeguards, and a few small regulatory signs nearly encouraging visitors to build fires, drink alcohol, drive cars, and bring dogs”
There’s another 60 miles of the OBX below the section you describe that have no roads, no houses except for for two fish camps and a couple of historic villages.
I can read the signs perfectly. Great report.
Good thing they have the taxpayers’ money as keeping this beach open looks like it’s costing about $200,000/yr for 10 people a day. What a deal.
Before they were MAKING money on the property, now they’re spending money on it. Sounds like government to me.
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