Wow, look at the comments section below the story. Some of them are harsh.
makes me wonder if there are any good beaches north of deleware. i've been to atlantic city beach and it was a shithole, and that NY beach there looks like a shit hole as well.
this is why we can't have nice public beaches in NYC.
yutes get a day off and cause mayhem.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/shot_in_brooklyn_near_manhattan_pkqNSOLaIf4HmZUX83hfsN
Based on my conversations with friends and neighbors, citizens of Chicago feel lied-to by Acting Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy. On Memorial Day, North Avenue beach, in one of Chicago's more affluent areas, was closed after gang violence. This is unprecedented. McCarthy repeatedly told the media it was due to people succumbing to the hot weather. Not true. Violence was out of control as beach-goers were harassed by mobs and cyclists were pulled off their bikes and beaten.
Mainstream media now contradicts McCarthy's feeble spin. One police officer told the media that 500 youths exited public transportation for the lakefront and while they were there, citizens were harassed.
CBS reported wilding incidents at this beach earlier in May, and police patrols had already been stepped-up. Two bike riders on the North Avenue Beach path had been mobbed by about 100 teens. They were knocked off their bikes and then thrown into Lake Michigan. Yet Near North District commander Kenneth Angarone said police responding at the scene did not find a "bona fide incident."
Glad no one can own guns in NYC.
Public beaches are crap everywhere, whether due to ghetto trash in the Northeast, trailer trash along the Gulf of Mexico, or ginormous Hispanic families along Southern California's.
Alright, I'm going to open the can of worms. This probably could have been prevented if as little as 10% of the people on the beach were lawfully armed. And yes, I'm pulling that number straight out of my ass.
I've never had any trouble with Hispanic families at the beaches around here. There are a great many good, hard working, hispanic families here.
Gang bangers, on the other hand, should be rounded up, tied together with cement shoes and tossed into the ocean.