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City Taxpayers To Shoulder $2.5 Million Loss On Brighton Boardwalk Bathrooms

A diagram for the revised comfort station shows it at boardwalk level, as opposed to all other replacement comfort stations that tower above beachgoers’ heads. (Source: NYC Parks)EXCLUSIVE: Approximately $2.5 million in taxpayer dollars is being flushed down the drain, as the city caves to the demands of

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Feds Give Nearly $1 Million For Brighton Beach Greenstreets As Coastal Resiliency Measure

Example of a greenstreet on a median. Source: NYC ParksThe Department of Interior is sending $990,000 to the New York City Parks Department to create approximately 14 greenstreets throughout Brighton Beach, intended to help dry out the streets in a future flood, as part of the Sandy Coastal Resiliency

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Cymbrowitz “Pissed Off” By Allegations He’s Pushing To Privatize Brighton Beach

Oceana complex (Source: Google Maps)Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz responded to anonymous allegations published today in a local newspaper, which claim he is in cahoots with Oceana condominium developers to privatize a portion of Brighton Beach, by saying it “pisses me off” and is “totally inaccurate.” The response is to a

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Brighton Beach Bathroom Plans Revised, Community To Weigh In Thursday

Design of the new elevated comfort stations. The ramps and stairs are designed to detach in the case of an extreme weather event. (Source: NYC Parks)The New York City Parks Department will present revised plans this Thursday for the controversial bathroom and comfort station slated for the Brighton Beach

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Brighton Residents: City Needs To Reconsider All Elevated Comfort Stations, Not Just New Brighton Site

Design of the new elevated comfort stations. The ramps and stairs are designed to detach in the case of an extreme weather event. (Source: NYC Parks)A group of long-time Brighton Beach advocates seized the opportunity of Monday night’s hearing about the Oceana comfort stations, telling the Parks Department

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Feds To Fund Restoration Of Private Seagate Beaches, Spurring Neighbors To Demand Public Access

Seagate. (Source: Google Maps)The US Army Corps of Engineers will shell out $30 million to restore the beaches of the gated community Seagate, after their private beaches were battered by Superstorm Sandy. The Brooklyn Paper is reporting [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/36/23/bn_seagatebeach_2013_06_07_

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Brighton’s M&I International Plans To Expand, But Community Demands More Parking

M & I International, the “mecca of Eastern European food [http://www.yelp.com/biz/m-and-i-international-foods-brooklyn#hrid:o-nMNxIokKylxjj2Aom68g] ” at 249 Brighton Beach Avenue, shuttered its doors in September with plans to renovate and enlarge the building, but neighbors are threatening to oppose the construction if the landlord fails to add

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Activists Blast Jamaica Bay Natural Gas Pipeline, Say Government Kept Them In The Dark

The approximate location of the proposed natural gas pipeline.After the House of Representatives passed a bill last week approving the construction of a three-mile gas pipeline, running underneath Jamaica Bay through Brooklyn and Queens, environmentalists and local leaders are outraged, claiming they were kept in the dark about it.

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ACTION ALERT: Demand Dredging Of Sheepshead Bay!

Army Corps of Engineers officials presented the plans for restoring Plumb Beach and solving long-term erosion issues [/plumb-beach-restoration-plans-outlined-construction-could-begin-as-early-as-december/] at a hearing last Thursday, and the good news is that everyone appears to be on the same page: residents want the most extreme steps taken – including the construction of groins and